Sunday, May 4, 2014

XBMC 13 "Gotham" media center is ready to rise

After months of development, the team behind popular media center software XBMC have released XBMC 13 “Gotham.” The software provides a full-screen experience for navigating media on a Windows, Linux, Mac. or Android system. Key new features in version 13 include support for hardware-accelerated video decoding on Android, improved support for the Raspberry Pi, stereoscopic […]

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WIMBoot frees up space for Windows tablets with 32GB of storage or less

As part of an effort to enable Windows software to run on inexpensive tablets with as little as 16GB of storage, Microsoft added a new feature to Windows 8.1 that allows installations to take up as little as 3GB of disk space — or less than half of what the software would usually require. The […]

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HP Slate 8 Plus tablet in the works

HP’s tablet lineup includes a few 8 inch models including the $170 HP 8 budget model and the $330 HP Slate 8 Pro with a faster CPU and higher-resolution display. But it looks like there’s room for at least one more: an unannounced device called the HP Slate 8 Plus received WiFi certification recently.   […]

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LeapFrog LeapBand fitness tracker aims to kids moving

LeapFrog offers a range of educational tablets, game systems, and other electronic devices for kids. Now the company’s launching its first wearable product: The LeapBand activity tracker. It’s a $40 device that kids can wear like a wristwatch, and it doesn’t just track movement, it also includes game activities that encourage kids to exercise by […]

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Deals of the Day (5-01-2014)

Now that Apple is selling brand new MacBook Air notebooks with refreshed Intel Haswell processors for as little as $899, retailers are clearing out their 2013 model inventory with prices starting at $799. Right now you can pick up an 11.6 inch Core i5 Haswell model for under 800 from stores including B&H and Best […]

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Saturday, May 3, 2014

This could be Amazon's first smartphone (pictures)

Amazon’s been working on a smartphone in secret, and the company’s expected to unveil it sometime this year. But just because Amazon hasn’t announced the phone yet doesn’t mean we haven’t already got a good idea of what features it will have and how it will stand out in a crowded smartphone market. Now the […]

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Report: Google Glass has about $80 in parts, sells for $1500 (for now)

Want to be part of the Google Glass Explorer program? You’ll need an invite (usually) and $1500. But according to TechInsights, Google’s wearable computer only has about $80 worth of parts. Google tells the Wall Street Journal that the price estimate is “absolutely wrong,” and there are likely at least a few good reasons for […]

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Baidu launches Shadow Stick 3 TV box

Chinese internet company Baidu has a new TV box powered by Google Android and an Amlogic S802 quad-core processor. It’s called the Baidu Shadow Stick 3, and it’s scheduled to ship in China starting May 9th at JD.com, where it’ll sell for about $65. The Shadow Sitck 3 features 2GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, […]

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Asus PF-06 keyboard dock hints at a netbook-sized PadFone

An unannounced Asus Mobile Keyboard Dock called the PF-06 showed up at the FCC this week, and it could point to a new Asus Padfone model that lets your phone transform into a tablet… or a notebook. The original Asus Padfone was a smartphone that you could slide into a 10 inch tablet dock when […]

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Lilbits (4-30-2013): NVIDIA Tegra K1 is coming

NVIDIA’s new Tegra K1 processor is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15, 32-bit chip with 192 graphics cores. It’s the company’s most powerful mobile chip to date, and the first to feature the same Kepler graphics technology as NVIDIA’s desktop and notebook products. We should start to see the first Tegra K1-powered devices this year… and eventually […]

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