Microsoft officially presents Xbox One gaming console

Microsoft officially presents Xbox One gaming console

23 May 2013

Microsoft has officially announced the company’s next generation gaming console known as Xbox One along with a list of specs. As expected the new gaming console comes with an 8-core AMD 64-bit processor that packs 5 billion transistors and seve...

Microsoft confirms Windows Blue add-on

Microsoft confirms Windows Blue add-on

16 May 2013

An executive working for Microsoft Corporation has officially confirmed that the company’s flagship products – Windows 8 and Windows RT – will soon receive a major update in the form of Windows Blue. The upcoming update will be distributed ...

Nokia announces high-end Lumia 928 smartphone

Nokia announces high-end Lumia 928 smartphone

15 May 2013

At an event held in London the Finnish Nokia announced its latest high-end smartphone - the Lumia 928. The Lumia 928 measures 133 x 68.9 x 10.2 mm and weighs 162 grams. The device has a 4.5-inch OLED display at 1280 x 768 pixels wit...

Samsung unleashes 7-inch Galaxy Tab 3

Samsung unleashes 7-inch Galaxy Tab 3

30 April 2013

Despite announcing plans for 10.1-inch and 8-inch versions of the Galaxy Tab 3 tablet Samsung has released a brand new 7-inch version of the device. It strongly resembles the Galaxy S4 smartphone and on the inside it packs a few improvements when...

Google Glass specs leaked online

Google Glass specs leaked online

17 April 2013

The first comprehensive list of tech specs of the upcoming Google Glass gadget, which combines PC and smartphone functions in a single device, has become available on the Internet thanks to the efforts of an unknown source. Acco...

Microsoft works on Surface 2 tablet

Microsoft works on Surface 2 tablet

11 April 2013

Following the release of the Microsoft Surface media tablet the US corporation has started work on its successor - the Surface 2. The new generation will, for the first time, include a 7-inch Surface tablet that will address the growing market segmen...

Daily News

How will 4G change the modern world?

How will 4G change the modern world? 25 May 2013

If you really wanted to find out what film that actor had been in you’d have to ask your friends and look in a magazine. If you wanted to research a topic for homework, you’d have to go down to the library, physically look for a book, read the book and extract the information you needed. Encyclopedias were the Google of the 80s - and your copy was almost guaranteed to not have the exact information you needed or be booked out for the next 3 months! All those trivial questions that crop up on a daily basis - who sang that song that you lo...

LG releases Optimus GJ smartphone

LG releases Optimus GJ smartphone 23 May 2013

The Korean smartphone maker LG has released the water-resistant Optimus GJ smartphone. The device comes with a water-resistant chassis that allows it to survive at depths of up to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes, measures 136.9 x 68.9 x 9.39 mm and weighs 141 grams. The Optimus GJ does come with some nice hardware – it offers a 4.7-inch True HD IPS Plus display at 720p resolution (1280 x 720 pixels), a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with four cores at 1.5 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage, a microSD card slo...

HTC debuts Desire 600 smartphone

HTC debuts Desire 600 smartphone 23 May 2013

The Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has exhibited the new Desire 600 smartphone – a new company product that is based on a quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor at 1.2 GHz. The Desire 600 sports a 4.5-inch display at 960 x 540 pixels, 1 GB DDR2 memory, 8 GB of internal memory, support for 3G, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and 802.11n Wi-Fi. The rest of the specs include support for two SIM cards, an 8 MP rear camera, a 1.6 MP front camera, a 1860 mAh battery and Beats Audio. The HTC Desire 600 measures 134.8 x 67 x 9.26 mm and weighs 1...

AMD launches Temash, Kabini and Richland APUs

AMD launches Temash, Kabini and Richland APUs 23 May 2013

AMD has officially launched a new breed of accelerated processing units (APU) that includes the Temash, Kabini and Richland APU families. The official names are as follows – AMD Elite Mobility APU series (Temash), AMD Mainstream APU collection (Kabini) and low-power AMD Elite Performance APUs (Richland) that are designed to power ultra-thin notebooks. The newcomers promise a number of improvements - for example the mainstream Kabini APUs are the "first and only quad-core x86 SoC solution for entry-level and small-form fa...

MSI works on Haswell-powered gaming laptop

MSI works on Haswell-powered gaming laptop 23 May 2013

The Taiwanese MSI has talked about the first next generation gaming laptop that packs Intel’s Haswell processor and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M graphics card. The device will be called GT70 Dragon Edition 2 and will come with a 17.3-inch display next to the aforementioned advanced hardware. The upcoming gaming laptop will reportedly be very powerful as it has been said to deliver a score of 36 000 points in the 3DMark Vantage test, which is equal to a desktop Core i5 chip coupled with a GeForce GTX 670 graphics card. The...

HGST releases 1.5 TB mobile 2.5-inch hard drive

HGST releases 1.5 TB mobile 2.5-inch hard drive 22 May 2013

Hitachi Global Storage Technology (HGST), now owned by Western Digital, has released a new 1.5 TB mobile 2.5-inch hard drive that is just 9 mm thick. The drive comes with three magnetic platters yet keeps the 9 mm thickness. Until this moment other mobile hard drives have been limited to two platters only and of course lower capacities. The drive is known as Travelstar 5K1500 and offers 32 MB of cache, support for SATA 3.0, low noise of just 2.5 dBa and platters that spin at 5400 rpm. Market debut is expected next month bu...

LG prepares Optimus F3 budget smartphone

LG prepares Optimus F3 budget smartphone 22 May 2013

LG has been working on a new Optimus F-series smartphone that will be known as Optimus F3. The new company product will offer some interesting technologies such as LTE for a budget price. Specs-wise the Optimus F3 comes with a 4-inch sensor WVGA LCD display at 480 x 800 pixels. On the inside it has a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot, front and rear cameras, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a microUSB 2.0 port and a 2460 mAh battery. The Optimus F3 will run Android 4.1....

MSI demonstrates world’s first AMD Richland A10 APU gaming laptops

MSI demonstrates world’s first AMD Richland A10 APU gaming laptops 22 May 2013

Micro-Star International has unveiled the first ever AMD A10-5750M APU powered gaming laptops - the refreshed GX70 and GX60. The new gaming laptops now offer 40 per cent better gaming performance when compared to previous generation laptops in addition to longer battery life and better CPU performance for much better overall gaming experience. The machines share some of the hardware specs - 8 GB of DDR3-1600 memory, a 750 GB hard drive at 7200 rpm, a Blu-Ray disc reader, 802.11n Wi-Fi, a SD card reader, a 720p web camera, ...

Gaming

CyberPowerPC unleashes LAN III gaming PCs

CyberPowerPC unleashes LAN III gaming PCs

CyberPowerPC has released a new line of gaming PCs known as LAN III. There is a total of four models all housed in box-sized chassis and despite the more than decent hardware all models come at unusually low prices a...

Reviews

iUi Design BeLong iPad Speaker – Review

iUi Design BeLong iPad Speaker – Review

If you are of those iPad owners, who often use the tablet to watch movies or listen to music, you have already realized the need of external speakers, instead of build-in mono audio of the iPad. You might also want to sh...