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- Motorola Milestone Finally Gets Android 2.2
- Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack Now Available
- Cubitek Announces Tank Series PC Gaming Cases
- Batman: Arkham City First Gameplay Footage
- Samsung Offers Robot Vacuum Cleaner with Camera in Korea
- Throw Away That Mouse! Here Comes The EPOC Neuroheadset
- Bender From Futurama Becomes Wearable
- OCZ Gobbles Up Indilinx
- iPad 2 Infinity Blade Connected To 50 Inch HDTV With Great Results (video)
- Harman AKG GHS-1 Gaming Headset Announced
- Stereolizer Transforms Your iPad Into a Retro Stereo
- 3D Kinect Modelling Hack (video)
- Awesome Star Wars Home Theater
- djay App Arrives On iPhone And iPod
- Buffalo Announces The LinkStation 8TB Pro Quad NAS Drive
- Hanfree iPad Stand Is Possibly The Worlds Largest iPad Stand
- VUDU 2D-3D Streaming Lands On Sony Blu-ray Devices
- HP TouchPad webOS Tablet Coming In June
- Qik Launches Video Connect iPhone App
- MSI N550GTX-TI Graphics Cards Announced
- Amplify Your Earbuds With Tembo Trunks
- Junaio Augmented Reality iPad 2 App (Video)
- Is Apple Restricting Web App Speeds From iPhone iPad Home Screens?
- Verizon Makes HTC Thunderbolt Official, Coming March 17th
- Bioware Release Dragon Age 2 PC Patch to Correct Save Issues
- Pioneer DreamBook ePad H10 HD Android Honeycomb Tablet
- Toshiba Launches Satellite C670 Intel Core i3 Notebook
- Roxio Unveils New Video Game Capture For Consoles
- Portal 2 Gameplay Video
- No Nokia Windows Phone 7 Devices Until 2012
- Transformers MMO Launching In 2012
- Bioware Posts First Screenshot of Mass Effect 2 DLC ‘The Arrival’
- Google Revamps Its Street View Website
- HTC Thunderbolt Coming 17th March
- LOVEFilm Arrivies On Onyx Browser Connected TVs
- Time Warner Cable Unveils New iPad App With Live TV (video)
- Apple Applies For Apple Logo Trademark Used By The Beatles
- Google Preparing NFC Payment Trials In New York And San Francisco?
- Activision Release Short Prototype 2 Teaser
- Microsoft To Kill Off The Zune
- Adobe Discovers Critical Vulnerability In Flash Player
- Kyocera Echo Dual Screen Android Smartphone Coming April 17th
- iPad 2 Now Shipping In 4 To 5 Weeks
- Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9
- Apple’s iPad 2 A5 Processor Produced By Samsung
- T-Mobile Announces Android Sidekick 4G
| Motorola Milestone Finally Gets Android 2.2 Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:47 AM PDT Motorola Milestone owners here in the UK will be pleased to know that Motorola has finally released the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the Milestone, the update comes almost a year after the Milestone received Android 2.1, which was made available in May of 2010. Android 2.2 will bring a range of new features to the Motorola Milestone, which include support for Adobe’s flash 10.1, plus 3G mobile hotspot connecivity.
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| Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack Now Available Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:17 AM PDT The highly anticipated Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack has now arrived and is ready to download and is available exclusively on Xbox LIVE for 800 Microsoft Points. The new Defiant Map Pack features three majestic battlefields: Condemned, Highlands and Unearthed set on the besieged planet, together with the first ever downloadable Firefight map! The new Halo : Reach Defiant Map Pack brings with it some awesome new environments for Firefight matches and all competitive multiplayer modes. Watch the video after the jump to get a taste of the new maps and multiplayer gameplay.
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| Cubitek Announces Tank Series PC Gaming Cases Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:14 AM PDT Cubitek has launched a new range of gaming PC cases, called the ‘Tank Series’, there are three different models in the range, the XL Tank, the HPTX Tank and the Mini Tank. All of these new PC gaming cases are made from black hairline-brushed anodized aluminum, and each one is capable of using high end graphics cards, and all three cases come with USB 3.0 ports, e-SATA and HD+AC97 Audio.
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| Batman: Arkham City First Gameplay Footage Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:02 AM PDT Looking forward to the new Batman: Arkham City game due out October 21st, 2011? If you are new footage has been released with a quick trailer including some nice new Batman moves in the This Ain’t No Place for a Hero trailer. Check it out after the jump. Batman: Arkham City is the upcoming sequel to the action-adventure, stealth video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on DC Comics’ Batman which was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, back in 2009.
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| Samsung Offers Robot Vacuum Cleaner with Camera in Korea Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:52 AM PDT I like the idea of those robotic vacuum cleaners that you can have just zip around and vacuum your floors for you. I also like the idea of a remote controlled vacuum cleaner that I can use to chase the kids and pets around the house. Samsung has a new vacuum cleaner in Korea that combines a video robot with a cleaning bot.
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| Throw Away That Mouse! Here Comes The EPOC Neuroheadset Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:50 AM PDT The very name evokes a sense of awesome and wonder. Neuroheadset—meaning it harnesses the power of your brain. What was once a common staple in various sci fi universes (Mechwarrior kinda comes to mind) is now available for limited pre-order in the U.S.A. (A bit of a downer, that.)
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| Bender From Futurama Becomes Wearable Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:45 AM PDT Thanks to serious knitting enthusiast and Flickr devotee cheewawamomma (yes, that’s her username) the irreverent robot from Futurama gets the toque treatment. It can be worn, for sure. But it can't be bought. Though we’re sure an eventual purchase is sort of negotiable.
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| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:42 AM PDT OCZ is booming in the SSD market right now and the company has shed some of its other product categories to allow it to focus more on the SSD market. One of the last SSDs that we saw from OCZ was the Vertex 3 that you see pictured below.
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| iPad 2 Infinity Blade Connected To 50 Inch HDTV With Great Results (video) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:32 AM PDT Find the iPad 2′s screen a little restrictive when hacking and slashing on Infinity Blade ? Why not connect it to your HDTV using Apple’s HDMI adapter for the iPad 2, for some fantastic full size gaming action? Infinity Blade is the perfect game for this as its graphics were optimised for the iPad 2 at launch and the results look very impressive. View the video with gameplay from Infinity Blade on the iPad 2 and a massive 50 Inch HDTV. I’ve already ordered my Apple HDMI adapter.
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| Harman AKG GHS-1 Gaming Headset Announced Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:13 AM PDT Harman Audio has just launched a new pair of gaming headphones, the Harman AKG GHS-1, which are designed to be a portable gaming headset with a range of features. The Harman AKG GHS-1 headphones recently won a Red Dot award for design, and according to the manufacturers they are designed to be lightweight and conformable, and they come with a boom microphone which is designed to filter out background noise.
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| Stereolizer Transforms Your iPad Into a Retro Stereo Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:02 AM PDT If you are looking for more of a retro look for your iPad music player, Stereolizer can help. The new iPad app that was released this week allows you to give your iPad a 1980′s retro makeover and provides some handy features which were definitely not on any 1980′s stereos I can remember seeing. The Stereolizer iPad app includes access to more than 10,000 streaming web radio stations worldwide and allows you to arrange your favorite stations into 3 presets of 10 radios each. When listening to your radio, just like back in the 80′s you can then record audio to virtual tapes direct from the radio or audio messages via the built in mic.
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| 3D Kinect Modelling Hack (video) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:46 AM PDT If you like the way Tony Stark creates his Ironman suit using virtual 3D models in his workshop. This 3D modelling hack created using a Microsoft Kinect game controller brings the concept a little closer to reality. Sebastian Pirch at 3rD-EYE, a media production company has been able to use a Kinect, and a set of homemade Arduino-powered gloves to create a 3D environment to create objects. His first development prototypes used arm extension to mimic mouse clicks for the system, but this method proved to be too exhausting for the user. Watch the video after the jump to see the system an how it was constructed.
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| Awesome Star Wars Home Theater Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:45 AM PDT We have seen a few geeky home theaters here at Geeky Gadget, but I think this is probably the geekiest and the coolest we have seen so far, and will definitely appeal to all the Star Wars fans out there. This awesome Star Wars home theater is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and features a 107 inch screen and even comes with life a life sized talking R2-D2 and C3PO.
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| djay App Arrives On iPhone And iPod Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:00 AM PDT djay is one of my favourite apps on my iPad and today Algoriddim have announced that their djay app has now made the jump to the iPhone and iPod, following on from the launch of their djay app for the iPad back in February. The new djay iPhone and iPod app includes all the same features of the bigger iPad version and now allows you to mix tracks from your iTunes library on your pocket device. Allowing you to play, create and record mixes on the move at any time.
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| Buffalo Announces The LinkStation 8TB Pro Quad NAS Drive Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:58 AM PDT Buffalo has launched a new NAS drive which is designed for home users, the Buffalo LinkStation Pro Quad, and it comes with 4 drive bays and is available in 4TB and 8TB capacities. The Buffalo Linkstation Pro Quad is compatible with both PCs and Mac’s, and it comes with the Buffalo WebAccess i app which is compatible with both the iPhone and Android smartphones.
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| Hanfree iPad Stand Is Possibly The Worlds Largest iPad Stand Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:45 AM PDT We have featured quite a few different stands and docks for the iPad here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is called the Hanfree and it could quite possibly be the worlds largest iPad stand. As you can see from the photos below, the Hanfree iPad stand is pretty big, although according to the designers it is ‘lightweight, and easy to move around the house’
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| VUDU 2D-3D Streaming Lands On Sony Blu-ray Devices Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:38 AM PDT VUDU has today announced that its streaming video service will now be available on Sony’s Blu-ray devices, allowing owners to benefit from both 2D and 3D VUDU movie streaming. The VUDU streaming services will offer both 2 and 3D title on a pay-per-view tariff and will stream the content at 1080p complete with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. Sony is looking to roll out support for the new feature acros its whole range of Blu-ray players.
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| HP TouchPad webOS Tablet Coming In June Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:32 AM PDT HP officially announced their new webOS tablet, the HP TouchPad last month, and now HP’s CEO Leo Apotheker has announced that the HP TouchPad will be available in June of 2011. He also mentioned something more about webOS on HP PCs, which we know is coming next year, but now it looks like there will be a beta of webOS running on Windows out by the end of this year.
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| Qik Launches Video Connect iPhone App Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:21 AM PDT Qik the mobile video conferencing software company that was acquired by Skype in january 2011.Has today launched a new iPhone app called Qik Video Connect. The new app has been designed to allow you to stream live video footage directly to your Qik.com user page. It also allows you to make live video calls over either 3G or Wi-Fi connections as well and if both those methods fail to get the footage to its desired target audience. You can always post a live video link to your Facebook and Twitter accounts to allow friends to watch the moment as it is being recorded or even use the mail feature to create a video and then email in the footage to them.
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| MSI N550GTX-TI Graphics Cards Announced Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:09 AM PDT MSI has just announced a new range of graphics cards based on NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 550 TI GPU, the MSI N550GTX-Ti Cyclone II 1GD5/OC and N550GTX-Ti-M2D1GD5/OC. Both of these new GeForce 550 GPU based graphics cards from MSI come with 1GB of GDDR5 RAM, one model comes with MSI’s Cyclone II cooler.
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| Amplify Your Earbuds With Tembo Trunks Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:53 AM PDT An innovative new product called Tembo Trunks has started its campaign to become a real word product on Kickstarter. Tembo Trunks are a amplifiers designed to be used with your Apple earbud headphones. Simply insert each earbud into the back of the Tembo Trunks and your audio is amplified without the need for any extra power and can be collapsed and even stacked for easy storage when not in use. The campaign is already off to an impressive started with the design passing it initial pledge of $10,000 and currently raised $21,230 at the time of writing this article.
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| Junaio Augmented Reality iPad 2 App (Video) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:46 AM PDT Yesterday we showed you one of the first augmented reality applications for the new iPad 2, the AR Magic Mirror iPad 2 App, today we have another one the Junaio augmented reality browser app. We have seen the Junaio augmented reality app before here at Geeky Gadgets, and this new version has been updated to support the iPad 2, have a look at the video of it in action below.
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| Is Apple Restricting Web App Speeds From iPhone iPad Home Screens? Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:27 AM PDT Apple is being accused of running web apps, launched from iOS device home screens much slower than if they were run from within Apple Safari browser, reports The Register website. A number of developers have noticed that the iPhone,iPod and iPad OS seems to hamper the performance of web apps launched from the home screen and have run test on the Apple devices to highlight the issues. However its still not clear as to whether these issues are bugs within the iOS operating system or have been introduced by Apple.
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| Verizon Makes HTC Thunderbolt Official, Coming March 17th Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:55 AM PDT Earlier today we told you that online retailer Wirefly has announced that they would be selling the HTC Thunderbolt from the 17th of March, and now Verizon Wireless has officially announced the HTC Thunderbolt. The HTC Thunderbolt will be available on Verizon Wireless from Thursday the 17th of March, and it will retail for $249.99 when you sign up to a new two year contract with Verizon.
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| Bioware Release Dragon Age 2 PC Patch to Correct Save Issues Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:52 AM PDT Bioware has released a patch for its new Dragon Age 2 game which has been designed to fix a few issues PC users have been experiencing with the game. The issues include not being able to save the game on single core PC’s and random pop messages from Windows relating to drives that don’t exist. The new patch 1.01 does come with a warning from Bioware and is untested and comes strictly as a beta release, so be aware. Bioware is still working on the patch and hopes to release the fixes on to Steam shortly, possibly early next week.
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| Pioneer DreamBook ePad H10 HD Android Honeycomb Tablet Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:47 AM PDT We have featured quite a few different tablets from Australian computer make Pioneer Computers here at Geeky Gadgets, the last one was the DreamBook ePad F10 Windows 7 tablet, and the company has just announced their first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, the DreamBook ePad H10 HD. The Pioneer DreamBook ePad H10 HD features a 10.1 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, processing comes in the form of a dual core 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and there is also 1GB of RAM, and it comes with a five megapixel camera on the back and a two megapixel camera on the front for video chat.
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| Toshiba Launches Satellite C670 Intel Core i3 Notebook Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:28 AM PDT Toshiba has added a new notebook to their Satellite range with the launch of the new Toshiba C670 and C670D notebooks. The main difference between the two models is the processor with the C670 featuring an Intel Core i3 processor and the 670D featuring an AMD E-series processor. The Toshiba C670 Satellite Notebooks comes with a 17.3 inc TruBrite LED HD display, there is also up 8GB of DDR3 RAm, and a choice of integrated Intel GMA HD graphics for NVIDIA GeForce 315M graphics.
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| Roxio Unveils New Video Game Capture For Consoles Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:28 AM PDT Roxio has unveiled a new addition to its range called Game Capture that allows you to record direct-feed gameplay from either your Xbox or PS3 console with ease. Allowing you bragging rights when you need to show what really happened during the game. Roxio Game Capture provides real-time capture of game play from either a Xbox 360, PS3 consoles and record it on your PC. Recording game play in 480p and outputting to AVI, WMV, DivX, and MP4 with the ability to take still image screen shots and save them as JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP or GIF.
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| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:58 AM PDT If you are looking forward to the launched of Portal 2 on April 18th, you might like the humorous gameplay video that has been posted by a visitor to PAX East this weekend who viewed Valve’s Software private preview of the game. The Portal 2 gameplay clip includes a brief look at the start of the games introduction together with the games first examples of J.K. Simmons as Cave Johnson the founder of Aperture Science. Watch the humorous gameplay video after the jump.
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| No Nokia Windows Phone 7 Devices Until 2012 Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:49 AM PDT The last things we heard from Microsoft and Nokia about the new Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices, that we should expect to see some Nokia WP7 handsets launching some time in October of 2011. Now it seems that this may not happen and we may actually have to wait until next year to see the first Nokia Windows Phone 7 smartphone hit the stores.
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| Transformers MMO Launching In 2012 Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:23 AM PDT Hasbro has teamed up with UK games developer Jagex, and they will be launching a new MMO transformers game in 2012, although details of the game seem to be pretty scarce at the moment. According to Matt Martin from Game Industry, the new Transformers MMO is scheduled to be launched in 2012. Hasbro will be launching this new game in the US Europe and Latin America.
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| Bioware Posts First Screenshot of Mass Effect 2 DLC ‘The Arrival’ Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:22 AM PDT Bioware has posted a teaser screenshot on its Facebook page of whats thought to be from the new highly anticipated Mass Effect 2 DLC. Details about the new DLC content named ‘The Arrival’ are still very vague at the moment apart from a few basic plot indicators and Bioware has been keeping anything that would indicate how the ne DLC content fits into the Mass Effect storyline under wraps.
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| Google Revamps Its Street View Website Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:03 AM PDT Google has launched a new revamped website for its sometimes controversial Street View service. With the addition of new locations that are inaccessible by cars and have been recorded using Google Street Trike, Snowmobile and Trolley. The newly revamped Street View website also includes prominent places to view on all seven continents, together with information on where Google’s Street View vehicles are currently active and advice and instruction on how to use Street View's features.
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| HTC Thunderbolt Coming 17th March Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:57 AM PDT It looks like we may finally have an official launch date for the HTC Thunderbolt, we did expect it to go on sale last week, but now online retailer Wirefly has started taking pre-orders on the Thunderbolt and will start shipping it out to customers on the 17th of March. Verizon have yet to announce this as the official launch date of the HTC Thunderbolt, although we are hoping that this will be confirmed some time later today.
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| LOVEFilm Arrivies On Onyx Browser Connected TVs Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:49 AM PDT Amazon owned LOVEFilm has announced the release of its WatchNow video service on Oregan Networks’ Onyx media browser, used on a cross section of internet-connected televisions and set-top boxes. The new WatchNow application released by LOVEFilm for devices running the Onyx media browser is available both as a pre installed app for newly manufactured TVs and STBs, as well as a remote upgrade to existing devices in consumers’ homes.
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| Time Warner Cable Unveils New iPad App With Live TV (video) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:32 AM PDT Time Warner has announced its launching a new iPad application that will allow users of its Time Warner Cable TV service who subscribe to both video and Internet service, to be able to view live TV directly on their iPads, via their home Wi-Fi network. Once the new iPad app is opened a user will presented with a current programming list of their area with shows now playing. The programming list will also show what’s going to be shown later on, providing a comprehensive listing of all the show and TV content available on Time Warner Cable.
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| Apple Applies For Apple Logo Trademark Used By The Beatles Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:54 AM PDT Apple has filed two trademark applications in Europe for the Apple Corps logo that was used by the Beatles, the trademark filing covers 14 international classifications which include computer hardware, social networking, mobile phones, gaming and many more. Apple Inc and Apple Corps have been in court a number of times over the past 20 plus year and Apple corps won two previous trademark infringement cases against Apple inc in 1981 and 1991.
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| Google Preparing NFC Payment Trials In New York And San Francisco? Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:48 AM PDT Google is planning to step up its near-field-communication technology (NFC) with trials for payment system in both New York and San Francisco, according to a Bloomberg report. The report suggests that within the next four months Google plans to start testing its mobile-payment service at stores within the two cities. Paying for installation of thousands of special cash-register systems from VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) at merchant locations, explains one of Bloomberg’s anonymous sources.
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| Activision Release Short Prototype 2 Teaser Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:35 AM PDT Activision’s new Prototype 2 game is not expected to land until 2012, but that hasn’t stopped Activision releasing a quick teaser to show a few of the effects they hope to include in their new sequel. The original Prototype game launched in 2009 and the sequel is now under development by Radical Entertainment published by Activision. The new Prototype 2 game will be an open world environment allowing the player to roam freely around the game levels, causing havoc and destruction in their path. Watch the quick teaser video released by Activision after the jump, to wet your appetite.
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| Microsoft To Kill Off The Zune Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:31 AM PDT Microsoft launch its first Zune player about five years ago, in an attempt to take on Apple and the iPod, unfortunately the Zune wasn’t anywhere near as popular as Microsoft had hoped and they failed to make a dent in Apple’s dominance of the portable media player market. It seems that Microsoft may be about to kill off its range of Zune players, according to a recent report by Bloomberg, and instead Microsoft will concentrate on putting its Zune software onto mobile phones, which will include Windows Phone 7 devices.
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| Adobe Discovers Critical Vulnerability In Flash Player Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:14 AM PDT Adobe have issued a security announcement reporting they have discovered a critical vulnerability in their Flash Player 10.2.152.33 and earlier versions which affects Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems. The newly discovered vulnerability within Flash Player could cause crashes and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. With reports of the security hole being used in the wild via a Flash file (.swf) embedded within a Microsoft Excel file (.xls).
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| Kyocera Echo Dual Screen Android Smartphone Coming April 17th Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:13 AM PDT Some of our readers will remember the Kyocera Echo that was announced last month, it is a dual screened Android smartphone that will come with Android 2.2 Froyo and it will be available with mobile operator Sprint in the US. The Kyocera Echo features two 3.5 inch WVGA displays, which are connected with a pivot hinge that allows you to use the displays in a number of different ways including as one large display, or two independent displays.
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| iPad 2 Now Shipping In 4 To 5 Weeks Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:56 AM PDT It seems that the shipping date of the new iPad 2 has been extended even further, last week after the iPad 2 went on sale the shipping date changed from 3 to 4 days to 2 to 3 weeks. We just checked the Apple online store, and for many models the shipping date has now been changed from 4 to 5 weeks, this applies to the 64GB WiFi only model and also the 32GB and 64GB iPad 2 with WiFi and 3G.
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| Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:32 AM PDT Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 and according to Microsoft IE9 is the best experience of the web in Windows, and it comes with a range of new features over the previous version of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 9 is designed to be a lot faster than previous versions, with HTML 5 and also built in hardware acceleration, which means it can use your PCs processor and your graphics card.
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| Apple’s iPad 2 A5 Processor Produced By Samsung Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:18 AM PDT We recently heard a rumor that Apple was switching from Samsung to TSMC for production of the new A5 processor in the iPad 2, it turns out that Samsung are the actual manufacturers of the A5 processor. We just got an email from Chipworks, who have taken the A5 processor apart, and they have confirmed that the models they have tested were actually manufactured by Samsung.
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| T-Mobile Announces Android Sidekick 4G Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:25 AM PDT T-Mobile has announced a new version of the Sidekick, and this one is powered by Google’s Android OS, and T-mobile describes it as the ‘Sidekick reborn’. The new T-Mobile Sidekick is made by Samsung, and it shares many design features with the original Sidekick, it still has a slide out QWERTY keyboard, and there is also a 3.5 inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display, and it comes with Android 2.2 Froyo plus a custom TouchWiz interface.
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