Galaxy S4 Benchmark 'Optimization' Drama Hits Samsung

There's a new wave of drama hitting the Samsung Galaxy S4 today. After running some tests tech site Anandtech has noticed that Samsung was allowing at least a version of the S4 to run its graphics processor (GPU) at higher frequency (533MHz) in some benchmarks, while games yielded a lower frequency of 480MHz. In other words, Samsung would be inflating its graphics horsepower by 11.04%. The reviewers were able to get accurate frequency numbers thanks to a built-in command available to anyone who can log as an administrator (root) in Android.

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T-Mobile announces its most affordable 4G LTE device, the LG Optimus F3

T-Mobile's new JUMP plan is allowing users to stay on the edge of technology with early upgrades. Many users may still want to keep things less complicated with an affordable smartphone, though. This is why T-Mobile has just announced its most affordable 4G LTE device – the LG Optimus F3. This little guy takes advantage of Magenta's new LTE network while keeping your pockets full of cash. Not only that, but it's a very good little smartphone for its price.


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Das Keyboard Introduces Radio Frequency Blocking Bags

RFID technology has certainly come in handy during some point in time, including helping hotels cut down the theft levels of their towels, while paranoid androids out there can always settle for a RFID door lock to ensure that losing your physical key need not give you sleepless nights. However, thieves too, have a penchant for technology, and this is where Das Keyboard's HackShield bags come in handy – this is truly a one-of-a-kind backpack and messenger bag that enables professionals who are always on the move to remain protected against physical and digital intrusion.

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Canon VIXIA Mini Compact Personal Camcorder Announced

While most of us do use our smartphones as a digital camera as well as camcorder most of the time, there are still others out there who do not mind forking out a little bit extra to tote around a device that is dedicated to do just one thing, casting the word "multi-tasking" out of its vocabulary. The Canon VIXIA Mini compact personal camcorder is one such device, and if previous VIXIA models were anything to go by, this is all set to be one device that packs quite a punch.

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NVIDIA Shield review

NVIDIA Shield is a truly strange device. It combines an eight-button console-size gamepad with dual analog sticks, and a 5-inch "multi-touch, retinal" screen. It runs stock Android 4.2.1. It touts wireless PC game streaming as its main selling point. It plays Android games, it plays PC games, it does the Twitter and the Gmail, et cetera. With Shield, NVIDIA is aiming to be the Swiss Army Knife of handheld game consoles. It slices! It dices! ShamWOW!

It also costs $300, weighs nearly 1.5 pounds and takes up quite a bit of bag space.










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3D Printed Car Looks Impressive Even When Incomplete

We have had our fair share of run-ins with 3D printers in the past where news is concerned, and most recently, it is said that 3D printers could pose as a hazardous health risk in the home. I suppose that is not going to stop a certain Ivan Sentch of New Zealand who owns a second generation 3D printer known as Solidoodle, where he will use the Solidoodle to print a 3D car as you can see above. Of course, this does not mean that Ivan is on to the world's first 3D printed car as that has been done before in the form of the Urbee, although not from the home.

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Honda thumbs nose at fleet sales, claims it leads in key vehicle segments

Fleet sales are a way of life in the automotive industry. There are many non-retail customers that need vehicles, but going too far can reduce brand image and vehicle resale value. While some of its competitors have fleet sale that account for up to 20 or 30 of overall sales, Honda is bragging that it has the lowest fleet sales of all mainstream automakers for the first five months of 2013.

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AdminStudio 2013 Adds Application Readiness Support for Mobile Applications, Extends Capabilities for Virtualisation & Windows 7 Migrations

Enhancements help organisations manage cost, complexity and control when implementing consumerisation of IT and BYODMaidenhead, UK – July 30, 2013 - Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced the release of AdminStudio Suite 2013, the market-leading Application Readiness solution.  New enhancements help organisations manage their consumerisation of IT and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives by streamlining their ability to test, fix, prepare, package, migrate and manage applications in mobile, Windows 7 and virtualised environmen

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LG BTS1 Bluetooth Headset

Bluetooth headsets are plentiful in the market, and it is not too often that you see a smartphone manufacturer take the time and effort to allocate some resources for a niche market, working on something that is not their forte. LG, however, has just introduced the LG BTS1 Bluetooth Headset in South Korea, where it is relatively tiny with measurements that would rival that of a matchbox (we are talking about 35.9mm x 50.2mm x 19.2mm) here.

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Windows Phone Instance App Fix

Instagram has not made its way to the Windows Phone platform (despite rumors in the past that stated it would be so), so if one is unable to have lobster, shrimp will have to do. In the case of not having Instagram on Windows Phone, there is a workaround through a third party app that is known as Windows Phone Instance. Unfortunately, Instance seemed to have run into its fair share of issues, showing users a message that reads, “Your username or password has changed.”.

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NES Controller And Laptop Control A Car

Remember James Bond who used a Sony Ericsson handset to control his BMW 750iL in Tomorrow Never Dies. Well, that was clearly something only the MI6 is capable of coming up with in the movies, but what about real life. I guess life is not all that glamorous, where a couple of security experts who happen to work for DARPA have managed to find a way to control a vehicle – and this "hack" is done thanks to the assistance of a laptop as well as an old school NES controller. Yes sir, who would have thought that an controller of an 8-bit video game console would come in handy so many years down the road.

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Android 4.3 to breathe new life in last year's Nexus 7 (2012) by speeding up I/O performance

With the all new Nexus 7 (2013) model now readily available for purchase across the US, many of you who purchase the last year's model might be looking at your old device with discontent. There have been countless reports from users that, while the device performed snappily enough at first, it soon became bogged down over time, sluggish to the point of where it was completely unusable. Before you throw that old device in the bin, you might wanna wait for the incoming Android 4.3 update. As discovered by AnandTech, some new lines of code found inside Android 4.3 could vastly improve performance, making the device feel like new again.

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Toyota recounts past Supra glories

It could just be a slow start to the news week around the Toyota offices, but its UK blog has posted a brief history on its legendary Supra sports car.

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And Vinyly Transforms Ashes Of Bodies Into Vinyl Records

Since land is getting more and more scarce these days in certain countries, it makes more sense to send a body for cremation after death than to settle for burial. Apart from your ashes after you've left this life, your worldly possessions, in addition to photos and videos, will be some of the things that your loved ones are able to remember you by. How about experiencing a paradigm shift even after cremation by using your ashes to be turned into custom vinyl records that can be played on a record player. This is what British company And Vinyly is promoting.

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AT&T HTC One Mini Press Render Spotted

Close to a fortnight ago, we got word that the HTC One mini has already received approval from the good people over at the FCC, and here we are two weeks down the road with press renders of the AT&T-bound HTC One mini spotted. How do we know that this shrunken version of the flagship HTC One (with some changes in the hardware too, of course, as it is not only cosmetic alterations on the outside) is headed towards AT&T. The answer is simple, really, as the press render leak did show off the AT&T name where the carrier name is normally displayed.

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MediaTek announces first true octa-core processor

MediaTek has officially announced the world's first true octa-core processor. The latest SoCs allows all the eight cores to run simultaneously, unlike the Samsung implementation, which can activate up to half of its CPU cores at once. The true octa-core processors offer you enhanced performance, power efficiency and improved user experience. The MediaTek true octa-core processor allocates processing power to different cores on per-application and per-task basis that gives the ultimate multi-tasking experience.

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Deal of the Day - 23.6″ HP Spectre ONE 23-e010se Core i5 Slim all-in-one PC with trackpad

Sunday's LogicBUY Deal is the configurable 23.6″ HP Spectre ONE 23-e010se all-in-one PC, starting at $834.99. Features: Core i5-3470T 2.9GHz Dual-core Ivy Bridge; 1GB GeForce GT 610M; 6GB RAM; 1TB hard drive, 3-in-1 card reader; Wireless-N, Bluetooth; two USB 3.0 ports; wireless keyboard and mouse; Windows 8 (64-bit). $1299.99 – $400 instant savings – 5% coupon code = $834.99 with free shipping.
This deal expires August 3, 2013 or sooner.

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Hot lap the Hungaroring with Codemasters' F1 2013 and Anthony Davidson

Au courant with the Hungarian Grand Prix running this weekend, Codemasters has released in-game footage from F1 2013 of a hot lap video of the Hungaroring driven by Scuderia Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo and narrated by ex-Formula One driver and current Sky F1 commentator and sportscar racer Anthony Davidson. The graphics have improved over F1 2012, Davidson's commentary is just as good as it was last year, and the rear-view mirrors are still huge. There are also hot lap vids of the Nürburgring driven by Kimi Räikkönen in his Lotus and Silverstone piloted by Jenson Button in his McLaren.

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New iPhones And iPad To Arrive This September 6 (Rumor)

If you are an iPhone watcher (someone who is always on the lookout as to when the next generation iPhone is going to be released or unveiled), then you might want to mark this particular date down on your calendar – September 6th. Now that we are already coming to the end of July, there is a chance that September is when the new iPhone, as well as the purported iPhone Lite (a budget-oriented iPhone), is tipped to be revealed to the masses. Why September.

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Honda celebrates the life of Ayrton Senna the best way it knows how

Honda is returning to Formula One in 2015 with McLaren, and when that engine maker and that F1 constructor are mentioned together, two other words are never far behind: Ayrton Senna. There are engine suppliers, constructors and drivers that have bigger numbers, but those three form a triumvirate that came close to defining F1 in the eighties. Honda Japan has produced a commercial called Sound of Honda that celebrates Senna at a race that turned out to be one of the most momentous of his career for good and bad reasons: the 1989 grand prix at Suzuka where he won, then was stripped of, the driver's championship.

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Q2 2013: Samsung distances itself from Apple in the smartphone market share race

Global smartphone sales continue to surge in 2013, reaching a record high of 237.9 million units shipped in the second quarter (April - June). Samsung is the incontestable leader, itself breaking a new record by shipping 72.4 million smartphones in Q2 (30.4% market share), the vast majority of them running Android. It's a slight growth compared to Q1 2013 (when 70.7 million Samsung smartphones were shipped).
Meanwhile, Apple's iPhone shipments have reached 31.2 million units in Q2 (13.1% market share) - considerably less than the 37.4 million units shipped in Q1.

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BlackBerry 9720 smiles in leaked press renders

Oh look, what do we have here. Renders of an unannounced BlackBerry handset, of course. This in fact is apparently none other than the BlackBerry 9720. Unfortunately though, this won't be running BlackBerry OS 10, the Canadian company's new mobile operating system that came to the market early this year after many, many months of anticipation. No, the 9720 will get BlackBerry OS 7.x, the ‘old' version – the one that BlackBerry gave up on completely before creating something entirely new for v10.

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Apple Receives Harris Poll's 'Brand Of The Year' Award In Three Separate Categories

Considering how popular Android devices are becoming these days, especially with the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and some other upcoming devices of note, Apple is still a force to be reckoned with. Not only do they have quite the popular smartphone with its iPhone, but its tablets and computers are also highly sought after as well, which is why the company has just been awarded “Brand of the Year” for the second consecutive year in the mobile phone, tablet and computer categories. .

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Track your calorie burn with the SYNC Burn connected fitness device

. Most of the fitness trackers currently on the market have a burned calories display that has been calculated based on stats like weight, height and of course your activities. While this info is very helpful, it's using a formula that has not been created especially for you. If you're looking for more accuracy, you might want to check out the new SYNC Burn fitness band which uses an ECG accurate heart rate monitor along with an intensity of motion sensor to calculate and show your calories burned 24 hours a day. Even while you sleep. In addition to calories, the SYNC Burn also shows your steps taken and distance traveled.

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Callaway developing C7 Corvette for FIA GT3 (video)

Since 2006, Callaway Competition has been turning the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 into the Z06.R GT3 race car, and in seven years, it has become the most successful team in the series. It will strive to continue that streak, the firm having just announced that Chevrolet has approved it to develop and homologate the GT3 version of the C7 Corvette Stingray. Right now there are more than ten Callaway-built Z06.Rs contesting three different European championships, each car costing somewhere in the area of 235,000 euros ($310K US).

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LG And MediaTek Join Forces To Develop Triple-SIM Android Smartphones

The concept of carrying around dual SIM phones isn't that widespread in the West, many would just resort to carrying around two different devices. Though there are certain markets where users prefer phones that are capable of running multiple SIMs at once. We've seen dual SIM variants of premium devices as well, such as the HTC One, that particular variant is exclusive to China. It was announced today that MediaTek and LG are now joining forces to develop the world's first triple-SIM 3G smartphones.

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Ladies Love It: Ford Fiesta wins Womens World Car of the Year

It's official: A panel of female automotive writers has chosen the Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost as the Womens World Car of the Year, and it beat tough competition like the Mazda CX-5, Range Rover and Porsche Boxster S for the overall top spot. The CX-5 and Range Rover won the SUV and Luxury Car categories, respectively, and the Boxster S laid claim to the Sports Car category, beating the runner up Audi RS5 and third place Toyota GT86/Subaru BRZ (or Scion FR-S). The Audi Allroad was named the Family car of the year.

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CloudSigma Drops Prices to Reflect Increasing Performance Efficiencies of New 2.0 Cloud

CloudSigma Passes on Benefits of Recent CPU, SSD and SDN Innovations, Shown to Increase Customers’ Performance by 30-40 PercentZURICH, Switzerland — JULY 25, 2013 — CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it is dropping its compute pricing for customers to reflect the efficiency gains from its recent public cloud 2.0 upgrade.

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GTA 5 Limited Edition Strategy Guide Announced

Some gamers love completing every single mission in a game to get all the achievements, while others prefer rushing to the end just to find out what happens, but in any case sometimes a game might prove too hard for the novice gamer to complete and that's where strategy guides come in. Well if you'd like to get your GTA 5 experience off to a good start, BradyGames has announced a pair of strategy guides for Rockstar's upcoming game. There will be a standard edition, and a limited edition copy that we guess diehard fans will probably want to get their hands on.

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Shadow-Planner drives more effective Business Continuity Planning in a complex local government setting

With an annual budget of £2.14 billion and 1.4m citizens, Essex County Council is one of England’s largest local authorities. This is an extremely complex organisation to manage – including dealing with myriad business continuity risks and their potential impact. To protect its operations, the Council has used Shadow-Planner software for business continuity planning and management since 2010.Prior to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, senior managers identified business continuity as a potential weakness, so the council responded with a more formalised approach.

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Take a visual walk through the history of Vespa

Vespa, Italy's legendary scooter manufacturer, might just be the boot-shaped country's most significant, transport-focused cultural export. With respect to Ferrari, it's the diminutive and funky scooter manufacturer that put Italy back on wheels after World War II, with its line of user-friendly miniature motorcycles. Even today, Rome, Milan, and Turin are filled with Vespas, while the tiny scooters can be found in major cities all over the world. Devour has posted a video that was put together by Nomoon, befitting of the brand's off-beat heritage that recaps Vespa's 70-year history.

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Watch how hackers can take control of your car

When meeting a duo of computer hackers for the very first time, we imagine hearing the words "We want to convince you that we can hurt you – without hurting you," is bound to release the hounds of anxiety upon your mental makeup. At least, it would ours. And it's those words, uttered by Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek to Forbes staff reporter Andy Greenberg, that introduce us to the reality that modern-day cars can indeed be hacked.



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Unboxing and hands-on with the New Nexus 7 [VIDEO]

After hearing everything there was to hear about the Nexus 7, Chris couldn't be more excited to get his unit and go hands on with it. The 7-inch tablet was unboxed and fondled as possibly no other tablet has been unboxed and fondled before. This 7-inch device comes with Qualcomm's 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 2GB of RAM, 1920 x 1200 resolution, 16 or 32GB of internal storage, NFC, wireless charging, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, and more. Here's just a quick video to show  what you can look forward to once the device lands on your doorstep soon.



Android Phone , Unboxing and hands-on with the New Nexus 7 [VIDEO], Unboxing and hands-on with the New Nexus 7 [VIDEO]

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update for LG Nexus 4, Samsung Nexus 10, Galaxy Nexus and original Nexus 7 arrives today

Alongside the new Nexus 7 tablet, today Google has also introduced Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Obviously, this will be on the new Nexus 7 once it hits the shelves in the US (staring July 30). But it will also be available to other devices - surprisingly starting today. The devices that can get Android 4.3 as of today are all Nexus-branded: the original Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Nexus (HSPA), Samsung Nexus 10, and LG Nexus 4. The Android 4.3 update is about to be rolled-out globally, so if you have any of the devices listed above, expect to get it any minute now.

Non-Nexus devices will start receiving Android 4.3 pretty soon, too.

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HTC esablished 'Emerging Devices' unit as Jason Mackenzie appointed to lead HTC America

In an internal HTC email,  CEO Peter Chou announced: ”Effective immediately, in addition to his current duties in supporting me with global corporate strategy, Jason Mackenzie will lead HTC America.” Jason Mackenzie previously led HTC's American operations from 2010-2011 but has since been working as the company's global marketing sales lead.

HTC Source , HTC esablished 'Emerging Devices' unit as Jason Mackenzie appointed to lead HTC America, HTC esablished 'Emerging Devices' unit as Jason Mackenzie appointed to lead HTC America

Voice Plus allows Google Voice users to send SMS through any app, now available in latest CyanogenMod nightlies

Google Voice has always been a great service (even if no one outside of America has had the chance to use it yet), but it's been held back by a couple of shortcomings. One of the biggest shortcomings was its inability to facilitate SMS through other apps. Whereas Google Voice enjoyed seamless integration with the core operating system for making and receiving calls, SMS required you to use the Google Voice app (and MMS is still a bit of a mess). If you're a CyanogenMod user, that is no longer the case.

Android Phone , Voice Plus allows Google Voice users to send SMS through any app, now available in latest CyanogenMod nightlies, Voice Plus allows Google Voice users to send SMS through any app, now available in latest CyanogenMod nightlies

Elecom - PC GLASSES - Cut blue light by 65% and reduce your eye strain

Elecom is going to release eyeglasses called “PC GLASSES”, which cuts blue light by 65% and reduces your eye strain caused by staring at smartphone, tablet, PC etc. All parts of “PC GLASSES” are produced in Japan, and “TR-90″ developed by Swiss EMS is used for the material of the glasses frame. “PC GLASSES” is light so that you won't feel uncomfortable after wearing them for a long time.








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