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China Lifts a 13 Years Old Interdiction

China have approved a plan to lift selling restrictions for consoles. The decision to restrict consoles in their country was made 13 years ago, the Chinese being afraid that western games could have a negative impact on ...

11 years ago

Samsung to Release Gold Edition Galaxy S4

The champagne-coloured iPhone 5s, which made its début a couple of weeks ago, is outselling any other iPhone model by far. Samsung also has announced its competition, a Gold Edition of its latest Galaxy S4. The new devices will ...

11 years ago

Will Rhino Shield Screen Protectors Make the iPhone Devices Indestructible?

Corning Gorilla Glass protects iPhone displays from scratches, but when it comes to dropping the iPhone or impacts with the device's screen, cracks will appear. Two students from the Cambridge University however have developed a ...

11 years ago

Samsung to Launch Curved OLED Smartphone in October

Samsung is preparing to launch a revolutionary curved OLED screen device, codenamed "Youm" this October. This news comes after Samsung announcing the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note 3 model with curved display. According to The ...

11 years ago

Co-op Action RPG “Legends of Aethereus” Now Available On Steam

We don't normally cover too much news about PC role playing games, but the latest release from the team at ThreeGates has grabbed my attention. Legends of Aethereus uses physics-based combat that is said to offer a unique playstyle ...

11 years ago

AMD’s Radeon R9 290X Expected To Cost Around $599

According to a Softpedia report AMD's next generation flagship graphics card, the Radeon R9 290X, will cost around $600/€500/£400 pre-taxes. The aim of AMD's pricing strategy is to put some serious competition behind Nvidia's ...

11 years ago

XFX Radeon R9 280X Double Dissipation Graphics Card Spotted

While AMD's new R9 280X is pretty much based on the HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD is still expecting its AIB partners to come up with fresh looking designs so that consumers feel they are getting something new and different. The XFX R9 ...

11 years ago

Android Tablets Overtook iPad Sales In Q2 2013

Statistics from ABI Research suggest that Android tablets have overtaken the iPad for the first time. Apparently Android tablets overtook the sales numbers for the iPad in the second quarter of this year though revenue was still ...

11 years ago

Nokia Asha 502 Smartphone Pictured

EVLeaks have released some fresh new images of a phone believed to be the Nokia Asha 502. The Nokia smartphone, pictured above, will be the latest to join their Asha range of budget smartphones. The picture itself reveals very ...

11 years ago

Microsoft Will Let Windows 7 Die Quicker Than XP

WindowsITPro report that Microsoft is planning to avoid the same "problems" encountered with Windows XP with Windows 7. Those problems are essentially that Microsoft failed to get its Windows XP user-base to upgrade to a newer OS. ...

11 years ago

MSI Z87-G43 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review

Introduction Since the launch of Haswell LGA 1150 processors and the Z87 Intel chipset back in June we've seen a tonne of motherboards come through eTeknix for review. In fact, we've still got quite a few more to come and ...

11 years ago

HTC One Max To Launch On October 15th

We first caught a wiff of the HTC One Max about two weeks ago and new rumours suggest that the 5.9 inch Android smartphone is going to make an appearance on October 15th. The new handset from HTC has been caught going through the ...

11 years ago

Samsung Sneakily Add Region Locking To “Unlocked” Galaxy Note 3 Handsets

Bright Side of News reports that Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 has sneakily added in a region locking feature, this applies even if the handset is an "unlocked" version. This begs the question how can it be an unlocked handset if it is ...

11 years ago

Need To Charge On The Go? Voltaic Release New “Solar Powered Bag” For Exactly That

  Voltaic has released a brand new "solar powered" bag to join its existing portfolio of solar powered products. This particular bag, named the Switch, is optimised for smaller form factor tablets and is ideal for ...

11 years ago

Microsoft Is Apparently Close To Unifying Its App Stores

[caption id="attachment_90653" align="aligncenter" width="619"] The Windows Store[/caption] Microsoft is rumoured to be close to completing the unification of its two separate app stores. Currently Microsoft's Windows Store and ...

11 years ago

American FAA Approves Use Of Smartphones/Tablets During Takeoff And Landing

Up until now if you were using a tablet, smartphone, notebook/laptop or any other electrical device during the takeoff or landing procedure on a flight then you'd of been asked to turn those electrical devices off - irrespective of ...

11 years ago

Kid Attacks Mother For Unplugging His PS3, Judge Bans Him From Gaming

Racine County in Wisconsin has just had a very unique court ruling. The local judge has banned 17 year old Jeffrey Ehlers from playing video games after he launched an attack on his mother. Jeffrey is said to have been raging ...

11 years ago

Dan Greenawalt And Major Nelson Discuss Xbox One Controllers Impulse Triggers

Xbox One is bringing a new controller to the market and while this will bring new advancements for console gamers, keep in mind that this new controller will also be functional on PC after Microsoft release official drivers ...

11 years ago

Another Win For Technology As Curiosity Finds Water On Mars!

The red planet is ever full of surprises recently, now Curiosity has found that the planet actually contains 2% water by weight, which I'll have you know is a lot! So much so that you could extract roughly 2 pints (1 liter) of water ...

11 years ago

New Screenshots Show Xbox One’s DVR Feature And UI

Xbox One is just around the corner, but Microsoft have been pretty quiet about the UI for some time. This has been said to be due to scheduling issues with their public announcements, but there have been plenty of leaked videos and ...

11 years ago

Galaxy Gear Support For Galaxy S4 Coming Next Month Says Samsung Executive

Samsung's new "smartwatch", the Galaxy Gear, is currently only compatible with two Samsung devices - the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 (2014 Edition). The reason only those two devices support it is because only those two ...

11 years ago

Humble Mobile Bundle 2 Now Available – Android Only

The Humble Bundle team have unveiled their latest mobile bundle, the Humble Mobile Bundle 2. The new bundle from the Humble Bundle is for Android only and includes: Star Command (new to Android) Time Surfer (new to ...

11 years ago

British Gas Are Introducing Remote Thermostat Control Package – Costs £199

British Gas have just launched a nifty innovation in central heating control for their customers. The Hive Active Heating system that British Gas offers to its customers for £199 includes a wireless thermostat with receiver and a ...

11 years ago

White-Box Tablet Manufacturers Aggressively Price Cutting To Stay Competitive

Digitimes reports that Chinese-based "white-box" tablet vendors are really stepping up their game with price cutting in order to stay competitive. With Amazon, Google, Samsung and Acer all pushing aggressively in the 7 inch form ...

11 years ago

ZTE Geek Tegra 4 Smartphone Unveiled In China

GizChina report that the Chinese smartphone vendor ZTE have unveiled their latest smartphone powered by Nvidia's Tegra 4 - the ZTE Geek. The ZTE Geek features a quad core 1.8GHz Tegra 4 chipset design paired up with 2GB of RAM and ...

11 years ago

Texting Zones Coming To New York State, Giving You Somewhere To Stop Use Your Phone

Using your phone while driving is illegal in many parts of the world, yet texting or Facebooking (is that even a word now?) on your phone while driving is proving to be a bigger issue than calling prior to the use of hands free ...

11 years ago

‘BitTorrent’ Removed From Google Piracy Search Filter

Over the years we have seen many different steps being taken to help reduce piracy and Google have been central to much of it since it all began, which makes sense given their the biggest search provider and when people pirate ...

11 years ago

Google Begins Barring Browser Plug-Ins On Chrome

  Java, Silverlight and more have been given their call to pack up and move out, or at the very least change how they work with Google Chrome. From January next year Google will be banning many widely used browser plug-ins ...

11 years ago

Asus RP-N53 Wireless N600 Range Extender Review

Introduction Imagine a scenario that I'm sure many of you already encounter. You've just got a lovely new high speed internet connection and as part of the package you've received a new ISP branded router that promises to offer the ...

11 years ago

4K Resolution Gaming Really Brings Out The Details In Batman Origins

A 4K gaming revolution might not exactly be widespread at the moment, it is certainly only within the reach of the enthusiast or wealthy, but that doesn't meant to say that it isn't happening. 4K is a damn expensive investment at the ...

11 years ago

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