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MSI GT783 gaming notebook announced

January 4, 2012
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MSI GT783 gaming notebook announced

MSI has just announced the launch of its latest gaming notebook the GT783. Featuring Intel’s second generation Core i7 processors and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M GPUs, these notebooks were designed first and foremost to run all the latest games on the market today. Other specs include 4 DDR3 memory slots which can be fitted...

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Bracketron GreenZero mobile chargers eliminate vampire power

January 3, 2012
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Bracketron GreenZero mobile chargers eliminate vampire power

If you’re looking for ways to lighten your electricity bill each month, you might want to watch out for appliances that consume standby power. In case you didn’t know, there are some appliances that consume power as long as they are plugged in – even if the switch is off. This is known as...

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Samsung DV300F Dualview Camera

January 2, 2012
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Samsung DV300F Dualview Camera

The Samsung DV300F camera is an update to Samsung’s DualView line of cameras. Obviously, its main differentiation is the front LCD display that lets users capture shots that would otherwise be more difficult, like self-portraits.  The front LCD also has a cool feature that displays an animation to keep young children focused on the camera: that’s...

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Verizon new fee abandoned

January 1, 2012
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Verizon new fee abandoned

Yesterday there was news about Verizon planning to charge its customers a $2 convenience fee if they didn’t pay their bills over the counter or through auto-billing. Today it looks like those charges won’t ever come into play. According to reports online – Verizon has announced that it will not be charging its customers...

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Verizon takes back convenience fee

December 30, 2011
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Verizon takes back convenience fee

Yesterday there was news about Verizon planning to charge its customers a $2 convenience fee if they didn’t pay their bills over the counter or through auto-billing. Today it looks like those charges won’t ever come into play. According to reports online – Verizon has announced that it will not be charging its customers...

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Verizon to start charging “convenience fees”?

December 29, 2011
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Verizon to start charging “convenience fees”?

After the nationwide outage yesterday, it looks like Verizon is going to give its customers another reason to be mad at it: the folks over at Droid-Life have gotten their hands on snapshots showing off certain internal Verizon documents stating that it will be implementing a new “convenience fee” in the near future. According...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 4G LTE receives major update

December 29, 2011
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 4G LTE receives major update

Awhile ago the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi received a major update that brings TouchWiz and a whole bunch of improvements to the tablet. However, folks who owned the 4G LTE version of the tablet were left out – until today. Verizon has announced the arrival of the EL01 update for the 4G LTE...

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Quad-core Meizu MX expected in May 2012?

December 27, 2011
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Quad-core Meizu MX expected in May 2012?

The Meizu MX smartphone may never reach our shores, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be improved. According to rumors online, the there is a new Meizu MX phone in the works, and it is touted to pack a quad-core processor. Doesn’t seem strange or too surprising since quad-core devices are a natural...

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Drone Station: Parrot AR Drone controlled by classic game controllers

December 26, 2011
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Drone Station: Parrot AR Drone controlled by classic game controllers

The Parrot AR Drone was originally a stable flying drone built around the idea that it would be piloted from an iPhone. However, some users found that it was an expensive and not always accurate way to pilot a flying object. But what if you could now pilot the drone using a PlayStation, Xbox,...

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iMAME pulled from the Apple App Store

December 23, 2011
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iMAME pulled from the Apple App Store

It only took a couple of days, but it looks like the iMAME app which allowed gamers to play classic games on their iOS devices has finally been pulled out from the Apple App Store. Can’t say we didn’t see this coming, since Apple forbids apps on its store from running emulated code. However,...

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