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Apple chalk up 40 billion app downloads

Apple customers have downloaded more than 40 billion applications since their App Store opened in July 2008. Half of those downloads happened in 2012. Jobs was initially reluctant to allow third party developers into the App Store. His style was always to ‘lock' everything down, a growth problem for the …

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Win a VTX3D HD7990 Graphics Card!

All of our Christmas competitions have ended, and the prizes are whinging their way to the 32 winners over the holidays. Today we have an incredible prize which one lucky winner will be slotting into their new system. What better way to start the New Year with the chance to …

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Qualcomm outs Snapdragon 600 and 800 SoCs

Qualcomm's system on chip solutions today find themselves at home in literally thousands of different products and in 2013 Qualcomm are looking to further establish their position. For 2013 Qualcomm is introducing new branding for its Snapdragon range. The new family consists of the Snapdragon 800, Snapdragon 600, Snapdragon 400 …

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Demonoid just blinked its dead eyes

Demonoid

Demonoid, one of the world's most well known torrent trackers and search sites, has begun to show signs of life again, even if it is the bare minimum. Now if you attempt to visit the Demonoid.me page, you're redirected to a new domain: Demonoid.hk, which shows a “403 forbidden” status. …

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X79 overclocking just became affordable

The most powerful chip that most of us will consider buying is the Intel Core i7 3770k. It's fast, powerful and lives at the top end of affordable. Similarly, the Z77 is a great chipset. But, between them, there is one area where that kind of combination needs to bow …

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USB 3.0 to get doubling speed boost

SuperSpeed

USB might be feeling a sting of jealousy due to Thunderbolt's transfer rates, but it isn't taking the development lying down. Sometime in the “middle of this year,” the USB 3.0 promoter group intends to make available a new standard of the platform, SuperSpeed USB, which will bring about a …

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Linux Steam Box coming this year

Steam box

We might already have heard from Nvidia about its new Shield console and we certainly know that the Ouya is up and running, but Valve has been relatively quiet about its own console offerings. Now though, according to an engineer at the company, we know it'll run Linux and that it'll …

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CES will have a weight loss fork

HAPIfork

While being a technology enthusiast doesn't usually garner a reputation for fitness and health, the two worlds are certainly merging through sites like Fitocracy, companies like Fitbit and through specific products. A new one is set to be debuted at CES in the coming week, the HAPIfork from Fitburg, which …

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Wii U sales are ‘steady’

The Wii U has been a ‘steady' seller according to the end of year reports. Sales however are not as strong as the previous generation of Nintendo console. The Wii U is very important to the Nintendo revenue stream over the coming years, and Nintendo President Satoru Iwata spoke to …

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Nvidia showcase new Shield handheld console

At a recent event Nvidia were expected to just announce Tegra 4, but instead the focus was placed on a new handheld console they are calling Project Shield. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that the Shield comes with its own controller and has a 5 inch ‘Retinal' display with 720p …

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Google’s Schmidt and former US governor in N.Korea visit

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson are due in North Korea on a visit which the US government has described as ‘unhelpful'. Mr Richardson said that the visit was ‘a private humanitarian mission'. The former governor has been to North Korea several times before, including …

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ASUS 10 inch tablet leaks ahead of CES

With the first CES related press conferences taking place this morning, details about other products to be shown off at the world's largest technology conference has begun to leak. One of the victims is a 10 inch Android tablet from ASUS. The ASUS ME301T Memo Pad 10 is said to …

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5 New Apple products coming in 2013

Love them, or loathe them – few tech companies can inspire enthusiast users to debate the worth of a product in the way that Apple can. 2013 looks set to hold a list of goodies for fans of the shiny technology fruit maker. According to Analysts Gene Munster and Douglas …

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Tesco continues to suffer purchasing problems

We all believe that supermarkets have the slickest, most amazing systems for processing products and delivering them to the public at competitive prices. Recently, the emphasis has been less on ‘price match before purchase' and more on ‘refunding the difference after'. But what if parts of the Tesco purchasing team …

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Panel makers fined for TFT price fixing – again!

How many times can a company get fined millions of dollars for acting illegally – yet still carry on with the same kind of practices? When it comes to LCD panels, there doesn't seem to be a limit. KitGuru gets word that the Chinese government themselves are now fining the …

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HTC CEO optimistic about the year ahead

HTC took the fast track to smartphone fame in 2010 but spent much of 2012 going nowhere. While we were relatively impressed by the One X flagship Android smartphone and its Windows Phone 8 devices are impressive, HTC went on to release many handsets for no apparent reason – an act …

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The War Z got hacked

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With all the hate its received and the lack of acceptance of Sergey Titov's apology over the whole War Z “saga,” we should have seen this one coming. Hackers managed to take down zombie survival MMO The War Z for a short period and at the time of writing, Steam …

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Google’s Eric Schmidt is going to North Korea

Kim Jong-Un

Eric Schmidt is set to visit North Korea as part of a humanitarian mission, along with Bill Richardson, a former democratic New Mexico governor who is known for his skill in sensitive negotiations. While there are a few reasons the pair are thought to be going, the US government has said they …

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