Month: November 2013
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Severe SMS Vulnerability In Nexus Phones Revealed
Details were revealed about a potentially serious SMS vulnerability found in all current Nexus phones at the DefCamp Security Conference in Bucharest, Romania. The person responsible for the discovery is Bogdan Alecu, a system administrator at Levi9 and independent security researcher in Romania. When exploited, the attack can force the…
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OCZ Files For Bankruptcy While Toshiba Readies Its Offer For Buying The Company
OCZ has issued a press release announcing their filing for bankruptcy, which was expected since Nasdaq had halted the trading of OCZ stock. They have had financial issues for quite a long time and it was just a matter of time before the inevitable happened. While OCZ did try to…
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MediaTek To Shift Its Focus To Tablet SoC and LTE Enabled Chips In 2014
MediaTek is planning to shift its target to the tablet SoCs and LTE enabled chipsets for smartphones next year. According to TelecomTiger(via Fudzilla), MediaTek general manager of international sales and marketing Finbarr Moynihan said the company wants to “democratize” smartphones and bring them to new markets. He noted that five…
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NVIDIA States That PC Is Far Superior To Next-Gen Consoles
According to Nvidia, the PC platform is the perfect gaming machine ever made. According to Matt Wright, consumer sales manager at Nvidia, “The PC platform is far superior to any console when it comes to gaming.” and this isn’t the first time that Nvidia has compared PCs to consoles. What…
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AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K Kaveri A-Series APU Specs Revealed
A little over a month now until AMD would release the Kaveri A10 series, and specs for them have been revealed. The A10-7850K has four Steamroller cores and 512 GCN stream processors, with a max compute of 856 GFLops compared to 779 GFlops on the Richland A10-6800K APU. The clock…
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Asustek and Toshiba To Enter the Chromebook Market with Intel Chips
While Chromebooks are on a roll with Acer and Hewlett-Packard already releasing their models on the market, it’s time for Asustek Computer and Toshiba to take a bite out of the pie and introduce their own Chromebooks with Intel’s Haswell processors next year. Acer will hurry things up a little…
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MSI Reveals Radeon R9 290X Lightning PCB
When it comes to Lightning, you know it’s all about performance, and MSI’s Lightning series just got a new addition to the family. They have just revealed the R9 290X Lightning PCB and rumor has it that we can also expect to see the MSI R9 290X Graphic Cards on…
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Chillblast @ Insonia i50
Chillblast are out in force, not only do they have some of the latest and greatest games on display, but they’ve got their epic looking custom rigs on display and why wouldn’t they, they are one of the best system integrators in the business! Laptops and desktops on display are…
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CCL & MSI @ Insomnia i50
One of the most popular booths here at the show is a combined booth, MSI have joined forces with CCL Computers, MSI are out in force to give out prizes, free games such as Crysis 3 and Bioshock: Infinte, while CCL are running a retail unit and offering some incredible…
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NVIDIA Defences Down With $249 Black Friday Shield Offer
Black Friday is in full swing across the globe and there is almost no stone that has been left unturned in the market. NVIDIA have joined in with the festive season price drop frenzy on the Shield hand hand console by not only slashing a $50 chunk off the selling…
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Release Could Be As Early As Q1 2014
With the launch of Apple’s iPhone 5S now behind us, there are a number of rumors circulation around that their old friends and enemies over at Samsung could have their latest phone out as early as Q1 next year. Samsung’s Galaxy S5, which is as one would expect the successor…
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Battlefield 4 Graphics Performance Overview With Current Generation GPUs
Introduction Battlefield 4 has been one of the biggest game releases so far this year for gamers on all gaming platforms. The FPS title from EA and DICE has got off to a relatively shaky start with numerous audio, graphical and gameplay problems across the various platforms it was released…
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Raspberry Pi Linux Computer Sales Reach Two Million At The End of October
The co-creator of the Linux computer, the Raspberry Pi, expected to sell about 1,000 of the boards, an estimate that turned out to be rather conservative. At the end of October around two millionth Raspberry Pi boards were sold, having an estimate value of $35 million. Liz Upton, head of…
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Shorter .UK Web Address To Replace Some Sites Next Year
New .uk web addresses are looking to be introduced next summer as an alternative to .co.uk and .org.uk domains. Nominet, the non-profit organisation in charge of the naming system, said bringing in the shorter suffix was the biggest change for years. The domain name can be used in addition to…
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Apple Spends $578 Million On Rushing iPhone 6 Sapphire Display Development Process
Apple has reportedly spent $578 million to speed up the development of sapphire glass displays destined for the iPhone 6. Apple is eager to use sapphire glass for the display of its next generation iPhone due to its exceptional durability and so the company is said to have paid more…
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