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The Nokia X, another leak of Nokia’s alleged Android phone.

Most of the Android fanatics can’t wait for the official announcement of the phone, so for now we will just have to be contented with the little glimpses that we get whenever there is a leak such as this one. However, this Android Nokia dream could become a reality in ...

20 Feb
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NEWS

The US army welcomes autonomous vehicles into its fleet.

Last year, the US army expressed its desire to have autonomous drones, and with good reasons too. You see, drones of this kind will act according to programming, that is, even to the point of selecting a target and firing at will, with no supervision. The other more obvious benefit ...

2 Feb
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MICROSOFT NEWS

Steve Ballmer to replace Bill Gates as top independent shareholder at Microsoft by mid-2014

Steve Ballmer has been tipped to overtake Microsoft’s Chairman, Bill Gates, as top independent shareholder at Microsoft if the current trend is to go by. According to Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer, Bill Gates has been selling off his shares at the rate of 20 million shares per quarter and with the ...

11 Jan
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NEWS SAMSUNG

Samsung posts first decline in profits since 2011

The South Korean tech giant has for the first time posted a decline in profits since 2011, making it a record of nine quarters without a single decline only until now. Samsung posted a profit of 8.3 trillion won which is equivalent to $7.8 billion, a drop from 9 trillion ...

10 Jan
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ECULTURE NEWS

2014 will see a $13 Billion drop in Technology spending

At the annual Consumer Electronics Show, the trade group that organizes the annual event indicated that 2013 will see a drop in spending on technology products. According to Steve Koenig, the director of industry analysis at the Consumer Electronics Association, there will be a significant drop in 2014 to $1.06 trillion, ...

10 Jan
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NEWS SAMSUNG

Samsung Galaxy S5 to feature Quad HD, another spec war Samsung set to win

Samsung, for the longest time has been known as the inventor and winner in matters of phone display, and to put this into perspective, Samsung is still the best in when it comes to smartphone displays. In 2014, Samsung are expected to take the game a notch higher, a place ...

25 Dec
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GADGETS NEWS SAMSUNG

Samsung announces Galaxy Core Advanced, yet another budget smartphone

Samsung has announced another smartphone, a budget phone predicted to cost around $245, Samsung Galaxy Core Advance. It’s supposedly a marginal improvement to the earlier released Galaxy Core. The Samsung Galaxy Core Advanced has an 8GB basic storage, and a 5 MP camera. The front camera is VGA, meaning its ...

20 Dec
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GOOGLE NEWS

GOOGLE GLASS WILL NOT BE SOLD UNTIL 2014

The latest reports indicate that the Google Glass will not be available for purchase until 2014. Several fans of the Google Glass had initially anticipated that the Google Glass will be available for purchase by the end of 2013, but new indications have it that the high-tech glass will not ...