Archive for August, 2012

Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 images leaked via Twitter

August 31, 2012 11:09 PM

Twitter user @evleaks has posted a photo supposedly showing the Nokia Lumia 820 and 920.  The main feature of the high-end 920 model that has everyone talking is PureView which will allow the phone to take pictures at 41-megapixels which has only been seen on one other Nokia device. Avid [...]

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Amazon not coming out with 10-inch Kindle Fire

10:59 PM

CNET is coming out with new information suggesting that Amazon will not be increasing the size of their Kindle Fire tablet to 10-inches which other reports had though to be the case.  Instead it looks like Amazon will be coming out with two different 7-inch models to compete with other tablets of [...]

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Microsoft co-founder to be helping sell Amazon headquarters

August 30, 2012 6:22 PM

The Co-Founder of Microsoft Paul Allen will be assisting Amazon in the sale of their previous Headquarters in the South Lake Union area of Seattle.  Paul Allen owns Vulcan Real Estate which will be in charge of selling the headquarters along with real estate firm CBRE now that Amazon has made the [...]

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Oracle updates Java 7 in light of vulnerability

6:05 PM

A new vulnerability was discovered around a week ago in Java 7 causing a lot of issues since then.  This vulnerability allowed hackers to hack a person’s computer very quickly by having a user simply visit a malicious website with a Java 7 applet.  Most attack complaints have been about [...]

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More than 900,000 Madden NFL 13 copies have been sold in 24 hours

4:40 PM

EA Sports is raking in some impressive profit already from their Madden NFL 13 video game.  After its release just 24 hours ago, over 900,000 copies have already been sold on the Xbox 360 and PS3.  This launch is now the best one during the current console generation with a [...]

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Sony talks about why there are so few PSOne Games

4:31 PM

Sony PS Vita owners have been unhappy especially in North American since the system was released with how few games there are to choose from.  Right now, there are only a total of  9 PSOne in the North American PS Vita store for download.  In Europe there is already more [...]

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Obama shows support for free internet

4:22 PM

During an AMA on Reddit, President Barack Obama showed his continued support for allowing the internet to stay free from laws that would put restrictions on the web.  Republicans have already addressed and taken the same stance on the Internet Freedom issue during the Republican Convention in Florida. Obama is [...]

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Sony shows off Xperia Tablet S with optional keyboard

August 29, 2012 7:49 PM

Much like the Microsoft Surface, Sony’s upcoming Xperia Tablet S is going to have an optional keyboard/cover for sale upon release.  The tablet was first shown off today at IFA in Berlin earlier today.  When the Xperia Tablet S is released it will cost $399, $499 and $599 for 16GB, [...]

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Review of the Razer Tiamat 2.2

7:26 PM

Rating - 8/10 For the last couple of days I have been extensively using the Razer Tiamat 2.2 in order to see whether or not this $99 headset could perform well enough to be worth the price.  By using the headset at all different levels of sound both for Gaming and [...]

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Xbox Live providing free-to-play games

August 28, 2012 7:50 PM

Xbox Live subscribers will soon be able to play all sorts of Free-to-play games previously unavailable through the service.  This new feature will come to Xbox Live Gold members in September with the first game, Ascend: New Gods coming in a few months. If you do not have Xbox Live [...]

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Trojan virus coming in form of fake Facebook email

7:44 PM

An email supposedly from Facebook saying that you have been tagged in a friend’s picture is actually delivering a Trojan virus.  The email comes from an address (@facebookmail) which immediately shows it is not a legit email from the social network.  If you do receive an email from this email [...]

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Iranian Gamers no longer able to play World of Warcraft

7:38 PM

Apparently trade sanctions even apple to video games, who knew?!?  Iranian World of Warcraft Gamers are no longer going to be able to play the game as Blizzard is being forced to shut off service to the country.  This ban will keep Iranians from playing the game as well as make it [...]

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