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- 11 October 2013
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News: Qualcomm's brain chip could turn your phone into a robot butler
If a cell phone can essentially see, hear, and detect movement like a person, shouldn't it start to think like a person, too? That's the basis of Qualcomm's Zeroth processor, designed to emulate millions of the billions of neurons within the human brain.
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News: MIT's 'Kinect of the future' looks through walls with X-ray like vision
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a device that can see through walls and pinpoint a person with incredible accuracy. They call it the "Kinect of the future," after Microsoft's Xbox 360 motion sensing camera.
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News: Hadoop, Web 2.0 get a path to tape for cheap long-term storage
An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage.
- 10 October 2013
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News: Microsoft may expand Australian reseller Surface access
Microsoft is potentially looking into broadening reseller access to its Surface tablet devices in Australia.
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News: Virident builds up Asia Pacific presence
Server-side flash storage vendor, Virident, is building up its presence in the Asia Pacific market hiring Lincoln Goldsmith as its director of channel sales for Asia Pacific and Japan.
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News: Valve: AMD-based Steam Machines are also en route
Valve Software finally confirmed that the Steam Machine game consoles built by its hardware partners will include AMD graphics chips.
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News: Razer releases Blade and Blade Pro notebooks (+5 photos)
Performance PC vendor, Razer, is bringing its Blade range of ultra portable notebooks to Australia.
- 09 October 2013
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News: Intel changes mind, ships Haswell-based Pentium, Celeron processors
Aiming at budget laptops, Intel has started shipping new Pentium and Celeron processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture.
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News: Apple rules, Android drools for responsive tablet touchscreens
The results are in and gamers and musicians take heed: if you want a responsive tablet for data intensive gaming or music apps like Garage Band, then your best bet is the iPad. For everyone else, there's Android, but tablets running Google's open-source operating system aren't as finger-friendly as Microsoft's own Surface RT.
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News: Nice curves! Samsung introduces the Galaxy Round, a phone with a curved screen
Today, the barrier between smartphone and Pringles chip has become slightly thinner. Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Round, a 5.7-inch AMOLED display'd handset with a slight lengthwise curve. The phone will go on sale in South Korea beginning next week. There's no official word on availability for any other markets.
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News: Belkin continues to make a strong channel play, sets strong targets
As the home automation, wireless networking and mobile accessories markets continue to heat up, hardware accessories vendor, Belkin, expects to grow its local channel business by 40 per cent this financial year, according to managing director, Ian McLean.
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News: Seagate redeems shares held by Samsung
Storage hardware vendor, Seagate, has announced a private share redemption transaction with electronics manufacturer, Samsung, in the amount of 32.7 million ordinary shares, representing around nine per cent of the former's shares outstanding as of the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2014.
- 08 October 2013
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News: Intel chases Internet of things with new chips, software
Intel, whose chips have long gone into PCs, servers and mobile devices, has begun chasing the market for the so-called "Internet of things" with new low-power chips and software for connected devices and data-gathering instruments.
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News: VM-based storage platform scales out to multiple sites
Enterprises that want their storage organized around virtual machines will get more hardware options and greater scalability later this year from Tintri, a startup that specializes in VM-based storage.
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News: Qualcomm backtracks from Apple A7 marketing gimmick comments
Qualcomm has backtracked from an earlier statement in which a company executive said Apple's A7 64-bit chip in the iPhone 5s is a marketing gimmick, and that the technical advance had limited benefits in mobile devices.
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News: New chip said to boost thumb drive performance up to 50%
Silicon Motion today announced it is sending samples of a new USB 3.0 controller chip that will boost performance in flash drives by up to 50%.
- 07 October 2013
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News: Backupify opens up its cloud-to-cloud backup to more SaaS vendors
Backupify, a cloud-based backup service offered for SaaS platforms including Salesforce and Google Apps, may expand to many other SaaS platforms through a developer kit designed for quick and easy integration.
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News: LG's making curved, 'bendable and unbreakable' smartphone displays
Not to be outdone by Samsung, LG says it's ready to mass produce its first flexible OLED display panel for smartphones.
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News: Big data storage doesn't have to break the bank
Big data is nothing new to Quicken Loans. The nation's largest online retail mortgage lender is accustomed to storing and analyzing data from more than 1.5 million clients and home loans valued at $70 billion in 2012.
- 05 October 2013
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News: Valve's prototype Steam Machines dump AMD for Nvidia
Valve Software said Friday that it will ship its prototype Steam Machines to 300 lucky beta testers, ranging from premium boxes based on Nvidia Titan cards down to low-end Intel Core i3 machines.
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iPad mini vs Tesco Hudl tablet comparison review: should you buy a Tesco Hudl tablet or an iPad mini?
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14 best smartphones: The best phone you can buy in 2013
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Apple iPad 5 release date, price and specs rumours
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How to close running apps in iOS 7: iPhone now works like Android
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Apple iPhone 5C vs iPhone 5 comparison review: What’s the difference between the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5?
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iPhone 6 release date: When will the iPhone 6 be launched?
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iPad mini 2 release date, specs and price in the UK 2013
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Google Nexus 5 release date, price, photos and specs rumours
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PS4 release date, specs and its backwards compatibility issues: What you need to know about the PlayStation 4
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Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 to launch in September
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iPad mini vs Tesco Hudl tablet comparison review: should you buy a Tesco Hudl tablet or an iPad mini?
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Apple iPhone 5C vs iPhone 5 comparison review: What’s the difference between the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5?
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Kindle Fire HD vs Tesco Hudl vs Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet comparison review
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LG G2 review: The best smartphone you can buy
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HTC One review: great high-end Android matches, but can't beat the best. A good deal
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How to close running apps in iOS 7: iPhone now works like Android
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How to set a song on your iPhone as a ringtone
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How to format a write-protected USB flash drive or memory card
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How to transfer photos from computer to iPhone the easy way: use Photo Stream
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How to transfer files and apps from Android phone, Android tablet to SD card
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