Archive for October, 2011 - Page 2

U.S. Galaxy Nexus Release Date Now Rumored to Follow European Launch

Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Board May Not Ship Before November 17, New Report Says
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is one of the hottest Android phones expected in stores right now. Yesterday we saw the official image of the Verizon version get leaked and while we’ve been expecting to see the first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone in Big Red stores in the following weeks they [...]

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Xperia Ray Gets Pricing & Release Dates On Telus

Pricing & Release Dates Are Secret No Longer On The Xperia Ray On Canada's Telus Network
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

Earlier this month, our own Robert Nelson brought us word of Telus’ plans for the Xperia Ray, but at the time, word about pricing and release dates was being kept to a minimum. Thus, now that we have word on pricing and release dates for Telus’s Xperia Ray, it was [...]

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Kinect Celebrates First Anniversary With Expanded SDK & More To Come

Microsoft's Kinect Controller Set To Work With Paid Apps Starting In 2012, Several Other Expansions To Follow
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

It’s hard to believe that it’s only been a year since the Kinect first emerged onto the gaming scene, and what a difference that year has made. And perhaps the strangest thing of all is the discovery that many people made about the Kinect: that it’s really not just for [...]

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Two iPads And A Little Ingenuity Make One Great Halloween Costume

Two iPads Back To Back Create A Clever Illusion That Lets You See Through A Hole In A Human Torso
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

Being as today is Halloween, and there are probably plenty of last-minute partygoers out there (or even some trick-or-treaters) planning something for the evening, you might well be frantically searching for something to do in terms of a Halloween costume. But as one NASA employee showed, sometimes, all you need [...]

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime To Launch November 9th, Followed By "Hero Products"

Asus Strategy Slides At Investor Conference Spill The Beans On The Transformer Prime's Launch Date, Also Hint At "Hero" Products To Come Next Year
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

The folks at Asus have tipped their hand in regards to just when the Transformer Prime tablet is getting its release date, and as it turns out, it’s a lot sooner than you might have expected. The current word says the Transformer Prime tablet will launch November 9th, but it’s [...]

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Galaxy S II Skyrocket & HTC Vivid To Offer 4G LTE Access

AT&T Customers With Galaxy S II Skyrocket & HTC Vivid Phones To Get 4G LTE Access November 6th
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

November 6th may be a bit late for trick or treating, but AT&T’s going to have one absolutely killer treat for its users that day. They’ll be offering up the Galaxy S II Skyrocket and the HTC Vivid with a little extra edge, namely, 4G LTE access capability.

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Netflix & Amazon Both Land Deals With ABC / Disney

ABC / Disney Augments Its Online Presence With Deals With Amazon & Netflix Alike, No Exclusives & Catalog Access Hallmark The Deals
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

Netflix and Amazon Instant Video (not to mention Prime) users alike are going to get a pretty substantial shot in the arm as regards to content available, as ABC and its parent company Disney have signed deals with both of the streaming video suppliers alike for content. The deals are [...]

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Mac OS X 10.8 Currently Being Tested, Say Reports

Newest Version Of Apple's Hotly Popular OS Is Currently Undergoing Testing At Apple's Main Facility, Current Name Not Yet Known
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

Seems like only yesterday we were talking about Mac OS X Lion (turns out it was only just July), or 10.7 if you’d rather have the decimal equivalent. And while Lion was an impressive download that kept a lot of people interested, not to mention overtaxed a lot of download [...]

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Apple Store iOS App to Let Users Self-Checkout at Apple Retail Stores

Want to Buy Computers & Accessories From an Apple Store But Don't Want to Line Up to Pay? There's An App For That!
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

There’s an app for everything, apparently. For buying accessories for your iDevice at the local Apple retail store, you can use Apple’s own Apple Store App to checkout even without falling in line.

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Smartphones, Tablets, E-Readers Become Physically Heavier With More Data

The More Apps, Ebooks, Information You Add to Your Kindle, Android or iOS Device, the Heavier it Gets
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

The gadget genius in most of us will argue that data in our smartphones, tablets and e-readers will not take up weight. But, boy were we wrong.

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