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January, 2012
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30 January
Samsung Galaxy S Advance moving forward ahead of the S3
Samsung may not have made up its mind about when we’ll see the Samsung Galaxy S3, but in the meantime it’s preparing to advance with the Samsung Galaxy S Advance. Philipino tech blog Hardwarezone says it’s got its hands on the Advance, a dual-core Android smart phone with the model number GT-i9070. It’s likely to take a bow at the …
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30 January
Samsung may have a 2GHz Galaxy Tab 11.6 for Mobile World Congress
Though new rumors are suggesting that we won’t see a Samsung Galaxy S II sucessor at next month’s Mobile World Congress, it’s pretty much guaranteed that Samsung will introduce something in Barcelona, Spain. Yes, according to new rumors currently spreading across the Internet, Sammy instead will unveil a 2GHz dual-core Galaxy Tab instead. Word of the device first surfaced in …
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30 January
Sony TVs 2012: Ten is enough
This year at CES 2012 Sony announced just ten total televisions–a pittance compared with last year or any of its Korean of Japanese competitors. Maybe the company is holding out and will announce more models, perhaps including an XBR, later this year, but for now the chart below, with its seven lonely models, is it. Moreover the TVs detailed below …
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30 January
BBC iPlayer now on Sky, with Anytime+ open to all
iPlayer is coming to Sky for the first time. To make sure everyone can catch up on BBC shows such as Doctor Who and Sherlock, Sky is opening up Sky Anytime+ — its on-demand service you watch via your Sky box — to any Sky viewer, not just those on its broadband package. ITV Player also arrives on Anytime+ this …
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30 January
Gesture control won’t wave TV remotes goodbye yet
There were a few new buzzwords floating around at this year’s CES, and among “OLED” and “4K resolution” came another: “gesture control.” What is it? Why, it’s the new touch, according to its inventor, PrimeSense. But instead of touching the screen you wave at it. But the technology isn’t brand new; if you’ve seen an Xbox Kinect you’ve seen gesture …
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30 January
Sharp TVs 2012: 60 is the new small
Sharp is hawking sub-$2000 70-inch LCDs for the big game, and in 2012, its TV lineup will only get bigger and, I’ll wager, more affordable. Last year Sharp switched marketing gears from Quattron’s wacky yellow pixel (have a nice day, lab-coated Takei) to a new focus on the “meganormous” (howdy, fat-head dudes). Its lineup emphasized models 60 inches and larger, …
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29 January
NEC to cut 10,000 jobs as iPhone continues assault on Japan
Japan’s NEC will cut nearly one in ten of its workers as the iPhone continues to gobble up the market for smartphones. The company said this week that recent poor performance stemmed from the popularity of the Apple iPhone in Japan, an increase in the number of foreign rivals it faces in the IT infrastructure market, and trouble expanding beyond …
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29 January
Report: New Nook coming this spring
The New York Times today published a long piece about Barnes & Noble taking on Amazon in the “fight of its life.” Buried in the middle of the two-page article is a small mention of engineers “putting the final touches on their [Barnes & Noble’s] fifth e-reading device, a product that executives said would be released sometime this spring.” No …
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29 January
Nokia Lumia 800 to hit Aussie stores in March
Nokia Australia today announced its “return to the Australian smartphone market”, with plans to start selling the Nokia Lumia 800 in Australia in March. (Credit: Nokia) The new handset will be for sale through “Optus, Telstra, Vodafone and all major retailers”, according to Nokia’s press release, though pricing wasn’t mentioned. The handset will be released in four colour variants: black, …
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