Rumors of the iPod touch’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated. When the iOS 5 betas hit, the absence of any mention of a new iPod touch product identifier in the usual configuration files led to speculation (TUAW, MacRumors) that there would not be a next-generation iPod touch.
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Ok, this one's odd. In fact, we didn't believe the images until a video just surfaced showing Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, foolishly asking a crowd of people to "put away their cameras" for the unveiling of something "super confidential," codenamed "Sea Ray."
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Telstra Corporation Ltd has confirmed it has reached agreement with the federal government to progressively disconnect its copper network and participate in the roll out of the national broadband network (NBN).
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Amazon is poised to step into tablet PCs and will launch models as son as August-September, with targeted global sales of four million units for 2011, according to Taiwan-based component makers.
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Future iPhone users could temporarily lose their iSight if they're caught filming at concerts or taking photos of museum exhibits. On June 2 the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that detailed a sophisticated infra-red camera capable of receiving instructions as to when and where the iPhone can snap pictures and record videos. Other features include applying watermarks automatically to images and an "Auto Tour Guide". Since the announcement was made, there has been speculation that the technology could be used by the police to prevent people from filming sensitive situations.
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DICE staff have been answering a slew of questions from fans via Twitter over the weekend, with the latest bombshell being the fact that Battlefield 3 will not support 1080p, or even 1080i on consoles -- the maximum resolution the upcoming FPS will support on PS3 and Xbox 360 will be 720p.
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Microsoft just earned itself a boatload of geek-cred and made Apple and Sony look pretty bad in the process. We knew the Windows Phone team was playing nice with the jailbreakers from ChevronWP7, but we didn't realize just how cozy the two were going to get. Today the devs announced that ChevronWP7 Labs would open up soon, with the approval of Redmond, allowing users to load homebrew apps on their handsets.
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News of Garmin's plans to acquire Navigon leaked out earlier this month, but we now have official word that the GPS giant will bring the smaller German company under its wing beginning in late July.
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AMD's Llano platform has been on our radar for more thantwo years, and finally, the company has come clean with its latest class of hybrid CPU / GPU chips, officially dubbed the Fusion A-Series.
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Microsoft has promised it will release a major edition of Windows Phone every year.
The promise was revealed in a Microsoft job posting on Monday. Engadget notes that the timeline shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that iOS and Android both push out major releases months apart.
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Re: Stuff I watched recently...
I also watched the first two episodes of "The Veil" recently... as for most miniseries thrillers... So far so good!
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