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August, 2013
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4 August
How many speakers does a home theater need?
Up until recently the classic, five-speaker home theater setup, with three front speakers — left, center, and right, plus two surround speakers, and a subwoofer — was the de facto home theater standard. According to Dolby, surround speakers should be placed to the sides and slightly behind your couch or main listening position. If you want to step up to …
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3 August
The lows and highs of small Android tablets
The 2013 edition of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet. Josh Miller/CNET At the Google press breakfast where the company unveiled the new Nexus 7 — Google’s first product franchise with “the new” Apple-esque branding — the company made sure to highlight the many benefits of the 2013 product compared with its earlier foray into the tablet space. The successor is faster, …
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3 August
Android Device Manager will help you find your lost phone
Lost your Android handset again? Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us. And help will soon be at hand. Later this month, Google will release Android Device Manager, which will help you find your phone. If you can’t remember which pub/bar/drinking hole you left it in, Android Device Manager will show your phone’s location on a map in …
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3 August
Android Jelly Bean now on 40% of devices, Google says
Android Jelly Bean keeps jumping up. It accounted for 40 per cent of all active Android devices in July, according to Google. The company’s Android developer dashboard page shows Jelly Bean is now on 40.5 per cent of devices, compared to 37.9 per cent in June. Gingerbread, meanwhile, is on the wane, making up 33.1 per cent, down from 34.1 …
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3 August
Magico Ultimate: The ultimate $600,000 speaker for the .001 percent
The Magico Ultimate is now in its third revision, and runs close to $600,000 a pair, too bad you didn’t jump on the originals back in 2004, when they were just $229,000! The original and current Ultimate speakers share the same “horns,” the megaphone-like pieces that sit in front of the drivers, but the new speaker has redesigned drivers, crossover …
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2 August
Manage to
For a long time, Astrid was considered a go-to task management app for Android users. But with its recent acquisition by Yahoo and the news that it will officially be going away on August 5, fans of the app are likely looking for alternatives. With that in mind, I’ve put together a list of four of my favorite to-do managers …
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2 August
Could the future of Glass and wearables be hidden in Moto X?
Motorola’s long-anticipated Moto X phone was unveiled yesterday amid much anticipation: would Google’s ownership craft a new direction for Motorola? Would the phone be able to stand out from the crowd? And would it be sold with a Moto watch? The watch rumor, born out of Motorola’s previous history in smartwatches and, perhaps, the recent mania in watch tech, didn’t …
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2 August
Many UK smart phone owners still not sold on 4G, says Ofcom
More than one in five UK smart phone users are dead against 4G, according to new research from industry regulator Ofcom. In a survey of British phone fans, Ofcom found 22 per cent strongly disagreed with the idea of ever paying for 4G — despite already owning an Internet-connected blower. Those might just be refuseniks who never use their smart …
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2 August
BBM app on Android and iPhone in testing now
BlackBerry Messenger is in testing for the iPhone and Android phones, with the first members of the public trying out the Android app to chat to BBM buddies without a BlackBerry. It’s still early days, as this first beta test of the Android app only involves BlackBerry employees and some of their friends and family. Meanwhile, the iOS app for Apple …
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