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NVIDIA outs GeForce 700M GPUs for notebooks, boasts inclusion by 'every leading manufacturer'

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In NVIDIA's ongoing efforts to monopolize the technical-sounding graphics card market, the California-based components manufacturer today announced a fresh mobile line of GPUs aimed at notebook computing. That's five new GPUs in total, with the GeForce GT 720M and 735M making up the "mainstream" segment, while the GT 740M, 745M, and 750M make up the "performance" portion of the lineup. All five cards include NVIDIA's "GPU Boost 2.0" tech, which allows the GPU to alter its clock speed on-the-fly for the sake of efficiency -- although this is mainly a software-level upgrade over the first iterat[…]
Estimated reading time: 2 min

Huawei adds home-grown K3V2 quad-core mobile CPU to its arsenal

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Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Samsung and Huawei? The Chinese company is hoping to add its name to the list of major players in the mobile CPU game with the K3V2. The processor is a quad-core part that comes clocked at either 1.2 or 1.5GHz. The four A9 cores are actually 64-bit parts, according to chairman Richard Yu, something of a surprise since ARM only ditched wold of 32-bits in October with v8.
Estimated reading time: 3 min

Facebook improves photo viewing with larger images, takes cues from Google+

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Facebook has offered photo sharing in one form another since shortly after the site's launch, but while certain features have been added over the years, such as tagging and downloads, image formatting has remained mostly unchanged. Until today. Facebook has announced that it will roll out a new tool for thumbing through galleries across the site, presenting photos in a new square format with the option to "highlight" certain shots to increase their footprint on the page.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

That's an affirmative on BlackBerry 10 security certification, sir

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has granted the BlackBerry 10 platform FIPS 140-2 certification, which basically means data security and encryption are top notch throughout. All you need to know is government agencies, and others with confidential info, can brandish BB10 handsets without worry when they launch early next year.
Estimated reading time: 3 min

Tim Cook confirms one line of Macs will be exclusively US-manufactured in 2013 (video)

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In a TV interview with Brian Williams, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said "we will do one of our existing Mac lines in the United States," vaguely confirming that production of either iMacs, Mac Minis or Mac Laptops will make a wholesale move to the US in 2013.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Sparrow mail app for iOS hits version 1.1, Push support to follow 'with or without Apple'

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Good news today for Sparrow iOS users. As expected, the company has updated its splendid lil' email app to version 1.1 and loaded it with a few hotly anticipated features. Among some bug fixes, you can now make use of a built-in browser, "Send and Archive" messages, filter specific folders and labels, clear your spam and trash bins and even set which accounts you'd like to show or hide dock badges for. While the app is still sorely lacking Push support, Sparrow believes that Apple may change the privacy guidelines for its Push API, which the company plans to include in version 1.2.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Sony's Xperia Ice Cream Sandwich rollout pushed to mid-April (and beyond)

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Beyond that, the Xperia Play, Xperia Neo, Xperia Mini, Xperia Mini Pro, Xperia Pro and Xperia Active will start seeing ICS "from the end of May / early June."
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Final Fantasy IV headed to iOS on December 20, Android version to follow in 2013

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That Nintendo DS re-make of Final Fantasy IV may add 3D graphics, a variety of bug fixes, and a fresh localization, but who wants to lug around their old Nintendo DS? Thankfully, it won't be much longer before the same version of FFIV ends up on iOS, as spotted by the folks at gaming forum NeoGAF.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Editorial: Does Windows Phone even have a chance without Google?

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But, as things have turned out, beauty that's only skin deep doesn't do much for market share
Estimated reading time: 9 min

Boss of the Year Entry Form

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We first saw [the Pocket] a year and a half ago and we thought, man, we've never seen something an aspect ratio like that before; we could see a youth-oriented person liking it, but we really had no idea. It's kinda cool, kinda different... we could be surprised.
Estimated reading time: 15 min

TiVo opens up Developer Channel, lets third parties create apps for your DVR

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The notes do reveal some interesting details like the fact that only one app can run at a time so when an app is launched the TiVo UI is suspended, and that apps are restricted to 720p resolution only, 32MB of system memory, 20MB graphics memory and 1MB hard drive space quota.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Twitter post-to-Facebook integration adds photos, tags and links, makes wild nights more regrettable

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Twitter has long had the option to send updates to Facebook, but most of what makes Twitter unique has been stripped out while cross-posting the night's escapades. That's been fixed just in time for the weekend. As of now, Twitter has confirmed to The Next Web that updates will automatically display the first photo as well as link Twitter users' names and any hashtags.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Apple EarPods review: A $29 revolution in earbuds or another set for the recycling bin?

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The EarPods are possibly the best-sounding set of $29 earbuds you'll be able to find, but at the end of the day, that's not saying much.
Estimated reading time: 7 min

Sony's 2013 HDTVs start shipping, quantum dots are on the way

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quantum dots
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Nexus 10 review

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So c'mon, go crazy and Beam yourself in either direction. This tablet won't miss a beat.
Estimated reading time: 15 min
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