Is LG's flexible phone about to get an international launch?

The LG G Flex is currently only available in South Korea but its makers have just announced a special Hong Kong event on December 3 where a global launch is expected to be announced.

The phone, which features a curved screen -- a feature which is already leading some in the tech world to dub it the banana phone -- also features a self-healing coating on its casing that magically repairs scratches.

Launched in LG's native South Korea in November, Orange has since confirmed that the handset will be going on sale in France before the end of the year and more recent reports suggest that at least three network operators will be selling the phone in the US in 2014.

However, until now, LG itself has remained quiet on the subject of wider availability, yet has gone to great lengths to demonstrate why the phone's unusual shape is not simply a gimmick.

There's little doubt that as battery and processor technology catches up with flexible screen capabilities, bendable, foldable phones and tablets will become must-have items -- who wouldn't want a 21-inch tablet that could be rolled up and dropped into a handbag?

But for now, they're little more than a curiosity and a glimpse of what a flexible future may hold. Samsung has also launched a flexible phone, which is also restricted to South Korea. Called the Galaxy Round, it curves from side to side, like a half-finished cylinder, rather than from end to end, and while both phones have similar internal specifications, it's LG's device that seems to have captured the public's imagination.

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Apple unhappy with e-books monitor pay and power

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Apple wants to rein in the pay and power of a monitor hired to watch over the company as punishment for conviction in an e-book price-fixing case.

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The biggest laptop from the New 2013 Dell Inspiron 7000

This MacBook-inspired laptop form Dell has a forged aluminum design with diamond-cut beveled edges give you a solid, sturdy feel while handling. The Inspiron 14 measures just over half and inch thickness which is 27% thinner than the previous-generation Inspiron laptop 14z.
With the latest Fall-2013 lineup, Dell is (thankfully) introducing a simple three tier concept: good (3000 series), better (5000 series) and best (7000 series). Today, we’ll look at the new 7000 series from across the different sizes and give you the best coupon and cost breakdown.

Flipping the cover of the Inspiron 7000 you’ll see the aluminum keys which are backlit and also spill-proof, a spacious palm rest, and a generous-sized trackpad. Running on Windows 8, the Inspiron 7000 sports Intel’s 4th generation Core i5 or i7 processors which are more powerful, have significantly improved Intel HD graphics, and at the same time energy-efficient. A 6GB RAM comes standard with 500GB HDD + 32GB SSD hybrid storage.

If you EVER try to buy a computer from Dell’s newly redesigned website, you’ll probably be confused right off the bat by the multitude of products and models offered. Dell has so many different variations just for the Inspirion series laptops alone… There’s the Inspirion R, Inspirion Z, etc. 

 There’s a site-wide Dell $50 off coupon which was released on Black Friday, and it currently works on all Inspiron 7000 series laptops. Use coupon number: HF08ZLDCXJM19W (expires this weekend)

Dell Inspiron 14 7000 Specs:
14-inch touchscreen display, 1366×768 @112ppi
2.6GHz 4th Gen Intel Core i5-4200U processor
Intel HD Graphics 4400
Windows 8
6GB RAM (expandable up to 8GB)
500GB HDD + 32GB SSD
Spill-resistant backlit keyboard
HD webcam
2x USB 3.0 and 1x USB 2.0
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0
RJ-45 port, 2-in-1 card reader, HDMI out
58WHr battery
SRP: Php48,990 (14-inch) | Php58,990 (15.6-inch)

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Canada competition bureau approves Telus bid for Public Mobile

                                                             

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Competition Bureau said on Friday it would allow Canadian telecom company Telus Corp to buy all of struggling startup Public Mobile.

Industry Minister James Moore had approved the sale last month, saying it would not hurt consumers. The Conservative government is eager to boost competition in the wireless sector.

"The Bureau will continue to closely monitor the evolution of competition in Canada's wireless telecommunications industry and take action where appropriate," Commissioner of Competition John Pecman said in a statement.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

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Consumers prefer tablets for online shopping

Smartphones are great for browsing and finding deals but when it comes to making transactions, the tablet takes over.

IBM has been monitoring web traffic for US online retailers over Thanksgiving and found that when it comes for searching for products or finding the best deals, smartphones account for 26.6 percent of site visits, compared with 15.3 percent for tablets.

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Nokia's first tablet to hit shelves December 4

Consumers will finally get a chance to buy the Lumia 2520, Nokia's first tablet, on December 4, a tech site reported Friday.

T3.com said the tablet, which will cost £399.99, will initially be exclusive to John Lewis.

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Lenovo Launches its Multi-mode Yoga Tablet in the Philippines

Tablets have proven themselves worthy of being an alternative to notebooks thanks to their immense portability and ever increasing features and capabilities. Lenovo, the current leader in the PC space, is expanding its reaches to smartphones and tablets with its recent products such as the A3000 tablet and S820 smartphone. Today, Lenovo marks another milestone as it launches the first multi-mode Yoga Tablet in the Philippines. This new tablet brings in a new way to get the most out of people's tablet experience.

The game-changing Yoga Tablet features three usage modes – hold, tilt, and stand modes – to better cater to the different ways on how a tablet is used. With these three modes, the tablet is capable of adapting to the way consumers use it instead of forcing them to adapt to the technology.

One size certainly does not fit all, especially when it comes to tablets. Even though tablets today have different sizes, specs, and what not, all of them have the same look and feel which is in theory a rectangular piece of metal or plastic that has a display and is capable of running applications for either productivity or entertainment. Lenovo breaks the mold on the "sea of sameness" design with the Yoga Tablet's unique modes.

With its exclusive cylindrical handle, hold mode is designed to fit an individual’s hand, so the Yoga Tablet is easier to hold and offers more control over the device whereas other tablets require two hands. Hold mode makes reading, checking social media and browsing the web easy and parallels how people hold magazines when reading.

To convert the Yoga Tablet into stand mode, simply rotate the side cylinder 90° so that the tablet stand deploys, allowing the tablet to stand by itself on a desk or table. Users can change the viewing angle to fit what’s comfortable for them from 110° to 135°. Stand mode makes it easy for users to comfortably watch movies, place video calls and interact with the ten-finger touchscreen without having to rely on add-on accessories.

Users can lay the Yoga Tablet down in tilt mode to type directly on the tablet, play games and just surf the Internet with a better viewing angle. To further enhance the rich content and multi-mode tablet experience, users can enable the tablet’s auto-detection software that automatically brings up frequently used apps in hold and stand modes.

Vinson Chua, 4P Manager for Consumer at Lenovo Philippines, holding the Yoga Tablet using only one hand.

The Yoga Tablet’s multimode design not only provides a better usability experience, it offers dramatically longer battery life of up to 18 hours, which is significantly more than the amount of typical tablets. Its cylindrical handle packs in powerful, dual batteries and unlike most tablets, it uses batteries typically found in laptops. The Yoga Tablet can even charge other devices such as smartphones via its USB OTG. The 10-inch and 8-inch models run on MT8389 Quad Core processors and feature Android 4.2. Also equipped with Dolby audio, Yoga Tablet’s front-facing speakers create a powerful surround sound experience through the device speakers and with headphones.

Extremely mobile, both models are featherweights weighing in at 1.35 lbs for the 10-inch model and 0.88 lbs for the 8-inch model. They feature high definition 1280 x 800 displays, a 5MP AF rear camera, a 1.6MP front camera, 16GB of storage, and Bluetooth 4.0. The 8-in model has WCDMA with phone features, and allows users to make calls and send SMS/MMS. The 10-in Yoga Tablet features WCDMA without phone capabilities.

Lenovo offers an optional Bluetooth keyboard for the 10-in model that functions as a cover and even wakes up the tablet when it’s removed and puts the tablet to sleep when it’s attached.

The 8 inch Yoga Tablet will be available in both black and silver colors, while the 10 inch Yoga Tablet will be available in silver.

Pricing and Availability

SRP is PhP14,999 and PhP16,999, for the 8-inch and 10-inch respectively. Starting December 2013, both models will be available at select Lenovo Exclusive Stores (LES) and Lenovo Mobile Exclusive Store in Gaisano Mall, Davao City.

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Philippines gets lag-free video streaming with new 4G tech

In the Philippines, telcos equipped their consumers with LTE connectivity more than a year ago. Now upping the ante against its sole competitor, telco Smart is testing its video multicast on LTE connectivity.

What does this mean? When fully developed, the technology will allow people to watch clear, lag-free live videos on their LTE-capable smartphones and tablets.

It’s also suitable for distributing pre-loaded content like news, music, software, ads, and other data to a mass audience.

Market research firm Effective Measure reports 844 million people viewed YouTube in January 2012. And that was in the early days of LTE. By looking at this number, and given that smartphone penetration is ramping up, such a technology makes good sense for Philippine mobile users.

The technology is called the evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS), which taps the functionality and speed of LTE to deliver multimedia content, such as live videos, to a large number of consumers.

This capability will be provided to the telco by China’s Huawei, and is touted as a first for Southeast Asia.

Apart from Smart in the Philippines, major telecoms in Korea also expressed interest in eMBMS technology earlier this year, according to Huawei.

While there is no news yet as to when this will be rolled out for consumers, the testing phase seems like a sign that something good will come to LTE subscribers in the Philippines.

(Editing by Paul Bischoff)

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Google pulls the plug on CyanogenMod Installer

It hasn’t even been a month since CyanogenMod Installer exited Beta and went live on Play Store, but the developers were already asked by Google for the app to be taken down either voluntarily or “administratively”.

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Gionee Elife E7: 5.5″ FHD, 3GB RAM, Snapdragon 800 launched.

Gionee has recently announced their latest flagship phone and successor to the Elife E6 which was locally launched more than a month ago – the Gionee Elife E7.

The Elife E7 is a massive upgrade from the Elife E6. i love this phone.

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Nokia Lumia 525 Unveiled, Now with 1GB RAM

The successor to the most popular Nokia Windows Phone is now here.  The Nokia Lumia 525 is a follow up to the hit device, the Lumia 520.  The Lumia 520 combined the prowess

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HTC Desire 700 and Desire 501 Announced

HTC may be bleeding cash but it’s still alive and kicking.  The Taiwanese manufacturer recently announced new Android handsets, the HTC Desire 700 and the HTC Desire 501.  The Desire 700 is

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Jolla smartphone with Sailfish OS officially launched

Jolla (pronounced Yol-la), the first smartphone to run the Sailfish OS has been officially launched in Finland.

The Jolla smartphone sports a 4.5-inch IPS display with qHD resolution or equal to 245ppi, Gorilla Glass 2, an 8 megapixel rear camera, 16GB of internal storage, and LTE connectivity.

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Google Releases Chrome Extension for Automatic Voice Search

Google recently released a Chrome extension that will make voice search automatic, just like how it is in the browser’s mobile version. Previously, using the audio search feature on Chrome for desktop requires clicking on a button before one can start speaking.  With the new Chrome extension, audio search is now automatic, and can in fact be triggered with the words “Okay, Google”.

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LG 55EA9800 Curved OLED TV lands locally

Today marks the local debut of the LG 55EA9800 or more commonly known in the tech circuit as LG’s very own Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) TV with a curved display panel.

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Nokia Lumia 525 officially released

The Finnish company has silently unveiled the Nokia Lumia 525, the successor to their entry-level Windows Phone 8 smartphone Lumia 520 which was announced back in February of this year.

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LG G Flex in the flesh!

Announced just last month, the LG G Flex curved smartphone is already released in Korea with partner telcos. One unit found its way to the Philippines.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas coming to iOS, Android and WP8

We probably saw this coming. Another Grand Theft Auto game will be ported to your smartphones and tablets. Rockstar just announced the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for various mobile operating system.

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HTC releases gold-colored One

The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer has just unveiled a new color for its aluminum-clad Android flagship, the gold-colored HTC One.

Just to be clear, this isn’t the 24-carat gold-plated HTC One from GoldGenie. This model is a straight new color

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SMC plans to break telco duopoly in 2014

Despite of a few futile attempts by other companies in the past, Ramon Ang of San Miguel Corporation seems unfazed and tells Philippine Daily Inquirer that “there’s still room for a formidable third player” in the local telco industry.

SMC’s current COO adds that such endeavor is already in the company’s pipeline for quite some time already, but has been pushed to the back seat in favor of other acquisition opportunities.

Following that statement, SMC has formally issued a letter to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) confirming the company’s plan of launching a mobile

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Samsung Galaxy Grand 2: 5.2-inch LCD, 1.2GHz quad-core CPU, 8MP rear camera, Android 4.3, 1.5GB RAM

Samsung has once more gone big with its latest smartphone announcement. Introducing several improvements over its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 comes with the elegance of the Note 3 phablet in a less expensive package.

Whereas the original Galaxy Grand bore resemblance with last year’s Samsung flagship, the Galaxy S3, this second-gen smartphone seems like a hybrid between the Galaxy S4 and Note 3. The display now comes with 720p resolution, up from the lowly 800×480 WVGA. Sadly, only TFT-LCD is employed here, instead of the enhanced Super AMOLED. Among the innards is a quad-core mobile CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, the exact model/brand of which has not been specified.

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HAIR TODAY, GADGET TOMORROW I Sony reportedly developing ‘smart wig’

Japanese multinational electronics firm Sony is reportedly working on a wearable computer device in the form of a wig.

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Three BlackBerry execs leaving smartphone maker

MONTREAL — BlackBerry’s management shakeup continued Monday with the exit of three senior executives, three weeks after boss Thorsten Heins stepped down and a deal to save the smartphone maker collapsed.
Chief Operating Officer Kristian Tear and Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben, both hired by Heins, are leaving the company, according to a statement.
Brian Bidulka also is being replaced as chief financial officer by former controller James Yersh, but will

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Starmobile Navi: 4-inch display, quad-core CPU, 1GB RAM, 5MP main camera, dual-SIM, Php4,690

While a lot of attention was mainly focused on Starmobile’s flagship Muse smartphone, the company also unveiled other Android devices to target different markets. The Starmobile Navi, for instance, is more budget-friendly at Php4,690, offering a quad-core CPU, 4-inch display, and 1GB RAM.

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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2013 in the Philippines

Microsoft recently launched the newest version of its flagship integrated development platform, the Visual Studio 2013. Aside from an improved IDE, Microsoft also presented an advanced collection of developer cloud tools and services.

Tracey Trewin, Corporate Director for Visual Studio ALM 

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Moto G Offers Great Specs at Cheap $179 Price

Google is really making it hard for people not to switch to Android. Its Nexus line of devices are considered the best in their respective class and but are priced very competitively, so you really have a lot to thank Google about.  To make things better for consumers, Google, through its other company Motorola, recently launched the Moto G handset.  This is a variant of the more sophisticated Moto X flagship but it has specs and features that would still make every Android fan lust for the device.  The ultra cheap $179 price tag makes it all the more attractive.

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The MyPhone Iceberg Mini Feature Gets Teased with a Release Date!

Well, that was sudden. MyPhone just teased one of their upcoming smartphones, and if previous leaks are to be believed, it should turn out to be the MyPhone Iceberg Mini that’s said to be even more powerful than the original 5.7″ Iceberg.

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Xbox One console breaks sales record

More than 1m Microsoft Xbox One games consoles bought in the first 24 hours of being on sale in UK and 13 other countries

A man stands over a Xbox One at a shop in Evanston, Illinois, on Friday. Microsoft says its games console is 'now sold out at most retailers'. Photograph: Nam Y Huh/AP

Rubber is burning on the race circuits and enemy armies are crumbling on the battlefields. Microsoft has sold more than 1m Xbox One consoles in 24 hours, smashing previous records, and enthusiastic gamers are already putting their machines to the test.

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The Budget tablet offerings from Cherry Mobile | Fusion Breeze, Storm, and Superion Explorer..

If you’re looking for an Android tablet that won’t put a dent on your 13th month pay, check out these new affordable Jelly Bean tablet offerings from Cherry Mobile.

First up is the Fusion Breeze for only Php1,999. It’s a basic 7-inch WiFi only tablet with a single core processor that is ideal for casual browsing, e-mails, and reading e-books.

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Sonos Playbar review

Sonos is a brand you would associate with wireless HiFi systems. It’s a popular choice if you want a clean, great-sounding wireless speaker system for your entertainment room. The Sonos Playbar is the first step to that wireless HiFi system and is itself, the wired component of the lot. It situates itself at the base of your TV and will replace the audio output with a better one.

This soundbar is minimalist in design but solidly built giving you that feeling of money well spent. The exterior is covered with a matte cloth which easily attracts dust, on a mostly aluminum finish that should span the whole length of a 40″ TV nicely.

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Western Digital warns against data loss on Mac OS X Maverick

If you just recently upgraded your Mac OS to the free Maverick update, you might want to postpone connecting your external Western Digital hard drive to it. A lot of Mavericks users have reported over at various Apple threads about data loss after connecting their WD drive to computers that underwent the Mavericks upgrade.

The main culprit are the WD software that come with the hard drives and Western Digital has issued a warning against its use until a fix or update has been released.

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List of standard Twitter Hashtags for Typhoon Yolanda updates and efforts

Filipino netizens agreed on standard Twitter hashtags to coordinate news, updates, rescue and relief efforts relating to Typhoon Yolanda. This will be of help for people using or heavily relying on social media for information as hashtags now cut across different online social networks.

For a quick reference of the standard hashtags, please refer below:

• #ReliefPH – Rescue Coordination
• #RescuePH – Urgent Rescue Needed
• #SafeNow – Resolved #RescuePH
• #FloodPH – Damage Reporting
• #TracingPH – Report Missing People
• #YolandaPH – Media storm coverage

The hashtags, if used properly, can help facilitate exchange of information relevant and significant to those who seek information about this tragedy. As a courtesy, do refrain from using the hashtags out of their supposed functions so messages and updates are effectively tracked.

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Hands-on with the Samsung DA-F61 portable NFC speaker

With portable wireless speakers getting more popular these days, especially NFC-capable ones, Samsung recently launched their own DA-F61 NFC speakers. This speaker was actually introduced early this year and was made available around April but in case people missed it and looking for a good portable speaker for Christmas, here is the Samsung DA-F61 again.

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The DA-F61 speakers not only look good but sounded really good when we tested it using various types of music. This speaker is crafted with a stylish aluminum chassis that gives you a breathe of old school and atthe same time deliver great acoustics.

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Urbanears Humlan, the washable headphone

Urbanears has come up with a new concept in headphones. Their new Urbanears Humlan is the world’s first headphone with washable parts. If you’re the type of person who likes to keep their headphones clean and gaudy, specially with the colors you could get from Urbanears, the Humlan should fit your needs well.

With the Humlan, you can remove its headband and ear cushions and throw them into your laundry to be washed. Really handy when you chose the white Humlan.

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LINE strengthens presence in PH through partnerships with local brands

LINE, one of the popular mobile messaging app we have in the country right now, is gaining traction by initiating deeper interaction with the local market through various partnerships and tailored services.

Alicia Lee Roh, Senior Manager for LINE Business Development Division and Greg Kim, Senior Manager of LINE Plus Corp.

LINE has experienced a rapid growth in users locally and has become not only a tool for communication but also an interactive avenue for users to meet their favorite brands and celebrities. LINE’s service localization is made possible with recent partnerships with Smart Communications, Bench, Megaworld, and Jollibee.

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Epson launches the world's first large format ink tank printers in the Philippines

Epson large format ink tank printers

Epson has launched the world’s first large format sign printers that feature high-capacity ink tanks: The 44-inch Epson SureColor SC-B6070 and the 64-inch Epson SureColor SC-B7070. Designed for high quality indoor signage printing, the high capacity ink tanks of these printers use original Epson dye-based inks and can be refilled even while the printers are in operation.

These printers represent a far superior solution to third-party ink tanks that are not made by the original printer manufacturer where refilling requires one to stop the printer, and there is no warranty coverage for their installation or else when non-original inks cause damage.

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Official Instagram app now available on Windows Phone 8

Instagram, one of the app long-time users of Windows Phone are clamoring for is now available on the WP store.

Instagram, still in BETA, just went live for every WP8 users to try out. The app is similar to its iOS and Android versions where you can apply the usual sets of Instagram filters to your photos, do linear and radial tilt-shift blurs, do video recording, share your uploads on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, and Foursquare, and like and comment on your friends’ Instragrams.

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Nokia Asha 210, Dual-SIM QWERTY phone for only P3,390

Nokia recently announced the availability of yet another affordable and beautiful-looking Asha phone.

The Nokia Asha 210 will appeal to those who need a physical QWERTY keyboard as opposed to the typical touchscreens phones are having right now. It follows the current modern Nokia handset design and comes in various colors. Aside from the QWERTY keyboard, there’s also a dedicated Facebook button to give you easy access to your account.

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The Sony NeoTank is an NFC-capable party speaker

Want a serious speaker for your party that you can wirelessly stream your music from your smartphone? Check out the Sony NeoTank, a somewhat portable wireless speaker that can surely fill the room with your party beats.

The sony NeoTank GTK-N1BT can pair with your phone via NFC (or Bluetooth if you don’t have NFC) so you can

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LG Google Nexus 5 Official Price | 16GB $349 & 32GB $399

Nexus 5 comes with a 5-inch 1080p IPS display, powered by 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 Processor with Adreno 330 for graphics and systematize with Android 4.4 KitKat (as Google and LG just done it as they promise that Nexus 5 will equip better specifications, features and battery life compared to their low-end Nexus 4.)

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Dell Inspiron 11 3000, 11.6-inch touchscreen laptop for P24,990

Dell recently launched an ultra-portable and affordable touchscreen-enabled Windows 8 laptop in the form of the Inspiron 11 3000.

The Dell Inspiron 11 3000 is very portable with its 11.6-inch, 10-finger capacitive touch display, a starting weight of just over 3 lobs. and a body that’s only 21.2mm thin. To keep things interesting, it also has a spill-resistant keyboard and a gesture-supported multi-touchpad.

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Skype offers free credits for users affected by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda

In an effort to help people affected by Typhoon Haiyan get in touch with their loved ones to let them know they’re alright, Skype is pitching in to give aid in the form of free credits.

You might want to check the e-mail you used to register for your Skype account to get your voucher code. Head to the Skype website to redeem your $2 free credit. It may not seem enough but call rates to U.S.

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Introducing the new NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 with 384 CUDA cores

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 is a well-rounded, main stream graphics card capable of delivering greatperformance for its price. The New NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 now comes with 384 CUDA Cores, is built on the award winning NVIDIA Kepler Architecture, the same architecture found on the more expensive GeForce GTX 700 series.

The Kepler-based GK208 GPU is baked into the new NVIDIA GeForce GT series cards which mean the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 now features 384 CUDA cores, up from the previous model and its 96 cores. The new NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 also features a clock speed of 902 MHz. It also supports UltraHD 4K resolutions. Build on the 28nm Kepler GPU architecture, it is up to 40% more power efficient than the previous model, while boosting performance and runs up to 38% faster.

The New NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 takes the gaming to a new level thanks to the cutting edge Microsoft DirectX and NVIDIA PhysX® technology. These two features responsible for realistic effect with tessellation and help create more detailed characters and terrain in games, providing a crisper, lifelike images. With the Adaptive V-Sync and Kepler GPU architecture coupled with the FXAA Anti-Aliasing polishes the rough edges and produces beautiful smooth lines with minimal impact on the performance and allows the players to experience enjoyment without hindrances.

The new NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 with 384 CUDA Cores is targeted at HTPC, IPC, SFF and other applications that require quality visual display and dependable graphics computing in a small package.

Specifications:

Performance Comparison

To demonstrate the performance of the new GeForce GT630, we fire up some games and view them on multiple resolutions. We used the Intel HD4000 IGP for this benchmark.

All games are played in two resolutions for reference. The games are set in low settings with no AA. PhysX is enabled for those games that support it.

Battlefield 3 is one of the hottest titles of 2011 and continues to prove itself a worthy game. Based on DICE’s Frostbite Engine 2, this game’s lush details and visuals are just stunning but can really stress any modern GPU.

Out of the gates we see some great performance out of the new NVIDIA GeForce GT 630. A solid 41% improvement on average against the HD4000 for the new GeForce GT 630. The card averages at 50fps nicely and a playable 30fps on 1080p.

The most visually intense game to ever been made. Prophet is back to take on the Ceph and Cell after a long sleep and the world isn’t what it was when before he got frozen. Cry Engine 3 is behind this beautiful beast that will put a lot of systems to their knees.

Oh Crysis 3 is a monster game and this test shows. The game taxes the system to unplayable level in 1080p but the new GT630 still manages to edge out the Intel HD4000 IGP solution by a hair in the low-resolution play through.

One of the greatest stories to have ever been told. Bioshock Infinite puts players in the shoes of Booker DeWitt as he takes on the world in this critically-acclaimed title delivered via Unreal Engine 3.

The game averages 42fps in 1360×768 resolutions and manages to squeeze up to 23.31fps in 1080p.

The reboot of the gaming phenomenon Tomb Raider puts players in Lara Croft’s hiking boots as she explores the ruin of Yamatai in this origins game. Powered by a modified Crystal Engine, the game features TressFX which creates beautifully rendered hair animation.

The new NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 flexes its muscle with this game showing an impressive 65fps in our low-resolution test and a good 35fps at 1080p gaming.

Torchlight II is an action-RPG with LAN and online multiplayer support. Represents a very similar load to that of MOBA games and similar titles. This game is set to MAXIMUM details in-game.

Last up is Torchlight II which should be the same as DOTA 2 and other MMO games in terms of load in the system. The new NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 delivers an incredible 78fps for low-resolution gaming and a solid 42fps average for 1080p at maximum detail settings with anti-aliasing turned on.

The New GeForce GT 630 Line-up

New Palit GeForce GT 630

Palit’s GeForce GT 630 is everything that NVIDIA envisioned the card to be. Featuring passive cooling and a dark PCB, this little powerhouse is designed to blend in with your system and is priced aggressively. Active cooling system with a fan on Palit GeForce GT 630 really helps the graphic card to operate on the lowest set of temperature, without having too much noise. With 2 GB memory capacity that Palit enforce on their GeForce GT 630, this graphic card is able to handle a highest resolution and the best quality setting on the latest video game on PC.

New Inno3D GeForce GT 630

Inno3D’s take on the new GeForce GT 630 puts the card on a light PCB and uses a custom-designed passive heat sink with a lower profile. If you’re looking for something more slim and compact, this is the card for you. The passive cooling system push Inno3D GeForce GT 630 to operate without any noise, which provide a more comfortable experience for any PC gamer who rely on this graphic card. On the other side, the fact that Inno3D use the half size from the normal PCB really bring a more compact and competent powerhouse, which you can push into any kind of casing without losing too much space.

New ASUS GeForce GT 630

ASUS has always been synonymous with top quality and they bring their touch to the new GT 630. Featuring a custom-design low-profile heat sink, this card is another top choice for simple applications looking for a low-profile solution. Every gamer will notice the high quality build from Asus GeForce GT 630, thanks to the “Super Alloy Power” component that unique to ASUS. This kind of component provide a better durability, a lower work temperature, and of course, stability to make sure an optimal performance. With the passive cooling system inside, this graphic card offer a cooler environment without forcing annoying noise from the PC. ASUS GeForce GT 630 is also powered by ASUS GPU Tweak Utility to achieve a higher performance.

Conclusion

The new NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 with 384 CUDA cores is truly a worthy new addition to NVIDIA’s mainstream line-up. NVIDIA has created a solid performer that should cater well with all customers. From those who prefer power efficiency, silent but yet capable all-rounded system that they can play games, watch movies, and also do a bit of visual computing. All of which for around $75USD.

During our test, we found that the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 is amazingly power efficient which also translate to cooler operating temperature. The new NVIDIA GeForce GT630 will help users run their graphics intensive application faster,  consume less power, and gamers can also use it as a dedicated NVIDIA PhysX® card to improve their gaming experience without taxing the CPU and adding more energy load. The new NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 consumes only 25w.

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