Acer has today announced that a new Acer C7 Chromebook in the form of the Acer C710-2856, is now available at 2,800 Walmart stores across the US for $199.
The Acer C7 Chromebook C710-2856 is equipped with a 16GB solid state disk (SSD) which allows it to boot up in just 8 seconds and resume nearly instantly from sleep mode.
Yesterday we heard details about a new Nokia Lumia smartphone with a quad core processor, the device was rumored to feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, and now details of another Nokia Lumia with a Snapdragon 800 processor have been revealed.
References to a Nokia Lumia handset with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor have been discovered on a number of developer pages over at Nokia, you can see the reference to the MSM8974 in the screenshot below.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is rumored to be made official this week, Samsung are holding a press conference in London this Thursday, the 20th of June. If the handset is announced this week then we would expect it to go on sale in the US and Europe next month.
According to a recent report, US mobile carrier AT&T will get an exclusive version of the device, which they have done with the Samsung Galaxy S4, the handset will also be headed to the other major carriers, so AT&T will probably get a 32GB Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as an exclusive device.
Last week Samsung introduced their new camera focus smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom, now it would appear that we have some details on the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom price, one online retailer has the device listed for 499 Euros.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom features a 16 megapixel CMOS sensor with 10x optical Zoom, enhanced Smart Modes, optical image stabilization and a 24-240mm F3.1-F6.3 lens, it also comes with a front facing 1.9 megapixel camera.
It’s been a great year for smartphones. In 2013 so far, we can pick and choose from some really great phones. But they can’t all be on top. So who comes in behind the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S4? According to analyst William Power of R.W. Baird, based on store checks of the four largest U.S. carriers, the HTC One is the third best selling smartphone in the country.
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Spotify has announced that they’ll be moving forward with the full Pink Floyd collection. That is every track from every album the band has ever released. Can you say Hell yeah?! This service is part of Spotify’s streaming music service and the tracks are officially “unlocked” this week.
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Let’s face it, if you didn’t know what a smartphone was, you probably wouldn’t be on this site right now. We all know what a smartphone is, but have you ever heard of a smartwatch? I’m not talking about a GPS watch. I’m talking about a watch that can do pretty much everything your smartphone can do, and possibly more.
GEAK, a subsidiary of Shanda, has developed what they call a GEAK Watch, and it could possibly be the first true smart watch to ever exist.
Cyber-theft is becoming an ever real and dangerous concern for banks around the world. We recently reported on a cyber heist conducted by a ring of hackers all across the globe that walked away with millions. To help prepare for potential cyber attacks, banks are turning to a simulation program called “Quantum Dawn 2”.
The program simulates cyber attacks and their symptoms within a controlled, sandbox situation and tasks banking executives with fending off or at least slowing down the attack in order to minimize losses. It doesn’t just attack one company either. The program simulates an attack across multiple financial institutions at the same time. Each company is forced to work with each other to try to neutralize the issue.
The iPhone has a ton of apps, but it never had Microsoft Office until now. Prior to today’s news, Microsoft Office was only officially available for Windows phone users, but now it’ll be available for free on the iPhone!
The app is called Office Mobile, but there’s a catch. Only Office 365 subscribers will be able to use it.
When I thought of the future as a kid, I had two things in mind. Hoverboards and virtual reality gaming. As 2015 draws ever closer, I’ve yet to see hoverboards on the horizon, but virtual reality gaming could be right around the corner. Oculus, the virtual reality company behind the Oculus Rift (feature in the picture below), received $16 million from investors to turn the Oculus Rift into a purchasable mass consumer product.
As of right now, only major developers and those who forked over $300+ during Oculus’ Kickstarter campaign have access to the Oculus Rift. However, Oculus has started selling the Rift development kit outside of the Kickstarter campaign.
NASA, and various other space-based associations, have tried sending all kinds of things through space in order to communicate with alien life – one of the most recent examples being the Beetles’ “Across the Universe” track that was sent in 2008. This year, a project called Lone Signal will attempt to communicate with alien life via GIF.
The GIF is going to be sent to Gliese 526, a solar system that many believe could be habitable, via a large radio dish in California on June 18th. The solar system is more than 17 light years away, meaning it won’t arrive at its destination until 2018.
Fans of the indie game Antichamber are sure to enjoy this 8 minute footage of the game being played using the awesome Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Watch the video after the jump to the Oculus Rift headset in action playing Antichamber.
