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Outlook.com Now Has 20 Million Active Users, Outlook For Android Launched
11/27/2012, Following the official launch of Outlook.com in July this year, Microsoft is announcing that the app now has over 25 million users. Microsoft says that nearly a third of its Outlook.com users are active Gmail users as well. To improve the app, [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch With Windows 8 Arriving Soon
11/20/2012, It was not too long ago when Lenovo introduced their ThinkPad X1 Carbon notebook, where this particular mobile computing device came with a lovely carbon fiber body which enabled it to carry a 14-inch display without compromising on portability, especially [...]
Printed Circuit Board Melts In Hot Water
11/19/2012, At the rate of smartphone and tablet adoption around the world, it goes without saying that we are faced with a very, very real issue – that our junkyards are about to be filled to the brim with electronic waste, [...]
Samsung La Fleur Brand Headed For Galaxy S3
11/19/2012, Samsung does have a fashionable name for one of its “brands”, where select devices that undergo the La Fleur treatment tend to be more fashion forward. In fact, the South Korean consumer electronics giant has been churning out a handful [...]
Black Ops 2 PS3 Patched, System Lockups Are No More
11/19/2012, For Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 players on the PS3 platform, you might be part of the unfortunate few who have experienced system freezes ever since the title launched not too long ago. Should you be one of those [...]
PS Vita Firmware 2.0 Update
11/19/2012, Sony will be rolling out the PS Vita firmware 2.0 update tomorrow (for folks living in Europe, you will have to hold out your patience for an extra day), where one of the biggest changes would be a drastically improved [...]
HTC Droid DNA Officially Announced!
11/13/2012, HTC has officially announced the long-rumored Droid DNA, the newest superphone to hit Verizon for the holiday season. The phablet-size Galaxy Note competitor was known as the HTC DLX (pronounced “deluxe”) and it will boast a 5″ 1080p display that [...]
HTC to pay $6 to $8 to Apple for every Android device it sells
11/12/2012, All patent disputes involving Apple doesn’t have to end up like Samsung paying over 1 billion dollars. Over the weekend, HTC and Apple proved this point by signing a 10-year licensing agreement for current and future patents. The details of [...]
Samsung to mass produce Full HD Super AMOLED HD displays in 2013
11/12/2012, Samsung is said to begin mass production of 1080p Super AMOLED HD displays some time in 2013, although there has been no exact date set just yet. I guess this can only mean one thing – you know that smartphones [...]
Droid RAZR M Getting OTA Update to Android Jelly Bean 4.1
11/09/2012, Here’s good news if you’re a Droid RAZR M owner: you’re about to get a nicer phone, courtesy of an update to Android 4.1. Motorola announced it this morning via Twitter, and Verizon confirmed with a support document, so it’s definitely happening, [...]
Starbucks now allowing Square Wallet payments
11/08/2012, Starbucks, the popular Italian-style coffeehouse chain, has announced today that it will begin accepting mobile payments through Square’s Square Wallet in around 7,000 Starbucks stores. The “aromatic” announcement follows after Starbucks and Square decided to team up in August this [...]
You Will Be Able To Change Your Genes To Fight Diseases Next Year
11/05/2012, Glybera is a drug meant to fight a very rare disorder: Lipoprotein lipase deficiency ,(LPLD) which prevents patients from metabolizing certain fat enzymes in the blood . It does this by modifying a patient’s DNA, and the European Commission has approved it for public use and [...]
Apple Eyeing Move Away From Intel Processors to ARM for Mac
11/05/2012, When Apple moved to Intel processors back in 2005, it was a coming-out of sorts for the Mac OS X operating system. No longer forced to run on PowerPC processors built by Motorola and IBM, software availability bloomed, and the [...]