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US-based carrier T-Mobile and Nokia have teamed up to offer customers the new Lumia 810 Windows Phone 8 device.The smartphone will be available for purchase “in the coming weeks” for prices that will be announced closer to launch date. According to Nokia,...

One of the first mapping and navigation apps launched on mobile phones, ROUTE 66 has just achieved 1 million downloads in the Google Play store. These estimates are based on AppBrain Starts and puts ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation application in the top 1% of all Google Play downloads by volume. According to developers, the application...

Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile is reportedly preparing the launch of a new series of affordable smartphones for the next year, and model numbers of these devices have emerged online. Two such handsets from the company are rumored to come to shelves...

The Nobel Prize season is underway, several of the prizes will be awarded this week, starting with the prize for physiology medicine later today. The prizes for physics and chemistry will also be announced this week. There was no clear frontrunner for the medicine prize, speculation hinted at Japan's Shinya Yamanaka and Britain's...

Only recently, scientists investigating the biodiversity found on the ocean floor along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge stumbled upon three new species of deep-sea worms, and decided to name one of them after Yoda, one of “Star Wars'” most well-known characters. Apparently, the Yoda purpurata has some very big lips which extend to...

Guess what? With two weeks ahead of the final release of Ubuntu 12.10, Canonical decided to open up their shop with DVDs for the next major release of Ubuntu. Both Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop Edition and Ubuntu 12.10 Server Edition are now available for pre-order...

“Skyfall,” the 23rd James Bond installment, is merely weeks from theatrical release. As the slick, handsome and dangerous 007 spy turns 50 (that’s years of on-screen activity), it’s time to have a look at all the actors who played it. The Daily Mail has set out to the not at all easy task of comprising the above infographic,...

A new star has been officially attached to the much anticipated female “Expendables” film, which is now in the works at production company 1984 Private Defense Contractors: Katee Sackhoff, whom fans will recognize from “Battlestar Galactica.”Sackhoff plays Starbuck on the recent version of “Battlestar,” but she’s also been seen...

David Tavares has announced a few days ago that the fourth Alpha version of the upcoming Pear Linux 6 operating system is now available for download and testing. A lot of things have happened since the first Alpha version of Pear Linux 6, which was released...

Large screens on smartphones mean that more information is delivered to the user at one time, and handset vendors could decide to widely adopt such displays in future devices. We already have handsets that pack 5-inch or bigger panels, yet they are considered...

This week, wireless carrier AT&T officially announced plans to add to its offering the Windows Phone 8-based Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone. Available exclusively on the carrier’s network starting with November (some suggest that November 4th might be the lucky day), the new handset has a lot to offer to its users. AT&T...

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively were married almost a month ago but his ex, Scarlett Johansson, still can’t come to terms with it. In fact, she can hardly believe the two are still together and considers it a “slap in the face” that he would move on so fast...

The LTE version of Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon Wireless is now receiving the long-awaited Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update.Released several months ago, Verizon's Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 was still stuck on Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system until...

Researchers from Panda Labs have identified a malicious piece of software that poses as Panda Cloud Antivirus. The shady application’s icon almost perfectly replicates the genuine one, but that’s the only similarity between them. The fake Panda Cloud Antivirus...

The Vivo Tab RT was one of the products that ASUS had at its booth at IFA 2012 in Berlin, Germany, but only now has the item been officially adopted by carriers. Even that is a bit of a stretch really. Though AT&T was quite verbose in its press release, it isn't about to start shipping the tablet. Instead, it will launch...

The development team at Sony Online Entertainment has introduced a second continent, called Esamir, to the beta stage of Planetside 2, their MMO with shooter elements. There are significant differences between Indar, which players have been fighting over since the beta stage of the game was introduced, and Esamir, which has...

Consumers who think six or 8 cores are many in a processor probably never had a reason to look up parallel chips and digital signal processors (DSP), but French company Kalray may change that. What they've announced is a DSP chip which, thanks to its...

Next month, we’ll have the chance to have a better look at the future of MeeGo, the Linux-based operating system that Nokia dropped from its plans not too long ago. The company has just confirmed plans to showcase the Jolla user interface for the platform...

Samsung’s Galaxy S III was made available for purchase in the United States on the networks of various wireless carriers, yet some of its features were exclusively available only on specific models, such as Google Wallet that was supported on Sprint alone....

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the new multiplayer-only first-person shooter from Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment, has just received a brand new update on Steam that solves a variety of smaller issues, from problems with the warmup mechanic, to bugs...

Highly-acclaimed “Defense Grid” title has just been updated with new features and bug fixes. In addition, all Kickstarter links and buttons referring to Hidden Path Entertainment's Defense Grid 2 campaign.Keep in mind that the Kickstarter button in the main menu has now been replaced with a Community button. Video settings now...

When made available in the first quarter of the next year, Research In Motion’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system is set to arrive on devices with a nice range of enhancements over current flavors of the mobile platform. To ensure that developers...

Samsung has already confirmed the upcoming availability of its Galaxy Note II smartphone in the United States on the airwaves of no less than five wireless carriers, and the Federal Communication Commission appears to have approved all models. We have already seen the AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon flavors of the phablet passing...

Microsoft’s Surface street ads have been around for a while, but as we get closer to the public launch of the tablet, the company places more and more ads across America. This photo was taken in a Chicago public transportation station by Surface Evangelist and published on Facebook, but as always, Microsoft remains tight-lipped...

On a curios note, one Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti video card from Galaxy was spotted being listed at newegg.com and, just before the administration took down the page, the information was copied by curious users and some strange information has surfaced. The new card is apparently rumored to have 768 CUDA cores although this...

The KDE Project has announced earlier today, October 2nd, the immediate availability for download of the second maintenance release of KDE Software Compilation 4.9. KDE SC 4.9.2 is the second of four point releases for the KDE 4.9 desktop environment,...

Japanese carmaker Toyota today announced that 200,000 employees around the world will use Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services for the next two years, as part of the company’s efforts to enhance communication and collaboration between its workers. ...

Well-known motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte has just launched its most powerful AMD FM2 motherboard implementation to date. The new motherboard is a departure from Gigabyte’s classic blue PCB color and it is now painted in cool and gloomy...

We’ve discussed half a year ago about the benefits of using ultra processed FD-SOI wafers and how this could lead to huge reductions in power consumption reaching 550% according to research done by STMicro. The French-Italian semiconductor company has...

Viewpoints has released the results of a recent poll of iPhone 5 reviewers, noting that Apple’s latest smartphone is getting accolades from regular users for its speed, call clarity, battery life, and even the Maps application. Viewpoints, a consumer reviews...

Adele is back! Or at least her hand is. The multi-Grammy winning singer has just posted a photo on Twitter to tease all James Bond fans on the soon to be released “Skyfall” theme song. Check it out above. It shows Adele’s well manicured hand and the music sheet, but it doesn’t offer any other important details – such as,...

OS X developers selling software through the Mac App Store are satisfied with the inclusion of Gatekeeper in OS X 10.8. The security-centric feature determines which software gets installed on a Mac, and which programs don’t. Allowing three types of program...

Scythe has just launched a new Compact Flash card reader that comes with a protective rubber case and a handy ring for using it as a key chain trinket. The fast USB 3.0 interface comes is very useful considering just how fast CF cards have become these days.The company claims that the new gadget works with Microsoft’s Windows...

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to install the latest Beta release of the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email and RSS client on their systems. Following our “How to Install Firefox Beta on Ubuntu Linux” guide, we have decided to make...