Archive for May, 2011 - Page 18

Sony Hacked A Tenth Time, This Time In Canada [Sony Ericsson's Canadian eShop For Mobile Phones Joins The Roster of Hacked Sony Sites, Including Qriocity And The Much-Followed Playstation Network]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

It has been a terrible, terrible month to be Sony. Between the disaster in Japan doing huge amounts of damage to their physical plant and property, to the repeated and ongoing outages and hackings of their various network properties, it’s [...]

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Cray’s New Supercomputer, The XK6, Destroys Previous Records [Cray's XK6, A So-Called "General Purpose Supercomputer", Runs At 50 Petaflops, Destroying Any Previous Record That Came Before]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

Remember when we in the United States were all sad when the Chinese announced they’d eaten our lunch and stuck us with the check in terms of supercomputers with their Tianhe-1A? Well, with the release of the Cray XK6, we [...]

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Samsung Joins The All In One PC Race With The Samsung AF315 [Samsung's AF315 Brings All In One Functionality And 3D Capability In One Package]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

I’m really growing to enjoy the all in one PC concept. While previously I was skeptical of this relatively new form factor, it’s beginning to grow on me; the thought of saving space by putting all the guts of a [...]

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UK School Plans To Outfit Every Student With An iPad 2 [At Essex's Honywood Comprehensive School, Every Student Will Get An iPad 2 For Schoolwork]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

A move sure to cause controversy and division of opinion has landed at the Honywood Comprehensive School in Coggleshire, Essex: the school has announced plans to offer up an iPad 2 for every student. And while some are, not surprisingly, [...]

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MacBooks Seize All Available Top Slots From Consumer Reports [Widely Respected Consumer Magazine Hands Out Top Rankings To MacBooks In Every Category They Qualify For]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

One thing is clear: for years, Consumer Reports has long been the journal of record whenever you want information and product testing done on most everything under the sun. So when Consumer Reports hands most of your product line top [...]

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Twitter Confirms TweetDeck Purchase, States That It Will Remain Available For “Power-Users” [TweetDeck Users Can Breath A Sigh Of Relief, Twitter Will Not Be Killing It Off]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

While many of the TweetDeck users have already heard the news that the app was purchased by Twitter, there is a bit of good news coming this morning. It seems that the crew at both Twitter and TweetDeck have officially [...]

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Droid X Android 2.3 Gingerbread Update To Begin Friday May 27th [Verizon Confirmed: Android 2.3 Update For The Droid X Will Kick Off On May 27th]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

While we are still not entirely sure what that “confidential project” for the Droid X was all about, we can tell you this — the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update will begin rolling out for Verizon users on May 27.

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Aircel Bringing The iPhone 4 To India This Friday With Unique Subsidy Agreement [Buy An iPhone 4 With A Postpaid Plan From Aircell & Get The iPhone "Practically For Free"]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

It looks like the iPhone 4 is finally going to launch in India, and while those outside of the country may not find that interesting enough — the launch does come with a rather interesting subsidy. Almost like a reverse [...]

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Best Buy Employees In Charlotte Receive Free HP Veer Smartphone [HP Getting webOS Into The Hands Of Users, Give Free Veer To Charlotte Best Buy Employees Following Training Session]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

While there still seem to be some missing details, it looks like HP has given a free phone and free printer to at least some Best Buy employees. That being said, the part that has us scratching our head is [...]

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AT&T LTE Network Plans Revealed, Roll-Out To Begin This Summer [AT&T Further Details LTE Network Plans, Coming To Five Markets This Summer]

By on Wednesday, 25. May 2011

We had known that AT&T was planning to begin the LTE network roll out sometime around the middle of this year. And well, it looks like they are planning to go live in five markets this summer.

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