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  • North Korea: The new outsourcing capital?

    North Korea: The new outsourcing capital?

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Is North Korea the next Silicon Valley? PC World seems to think so, with a story that explains how the country is the new hotspot for outsourcing (among other IT initiatives). Apparently North Korea is the pound-for-pound best place for IT talent in the world. That is, you won't find a country with a better, more educated collection of computer programmers and engineers, software designers and the like in such close quarters.

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  • Aava Mobile’s Intel Moorestown prototype plays World of Warcraft beautifully (video)

    Aava Mobile’s Intel Moorestown prototype plays World of Warcraft beautifully (video)

    Posted on June 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Intel has managed to make Moorestown-based phones do an awful lot of things on stage. Multitask, scale photos sans lag, and automatically correct your grammar before it comes out of your mouth. But believe it or not, one thing we haven't seen the Aava Mobile-built reference design do is play the full PC version of World of Warcraft and / or Quake III (from within Moblin) for over an hour on a full charge. Well, until this week's Computex event. Peek a couple of videos just past the break if you're in disbelief, and trust us when we say that it had no issues keep the frames flowing at a comfortable clip. The future is bright, people.

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    Aava Mobile's Intel Moorestown prototype plays World of Warcraft beautifully (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • iPhone 3G’s Android port is ready to download

    iPhone 3G’s Android port is ready to download

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Had enough Android excitement yet? Of course not. Following up on the Froyo release yesterday, we've got the no less vital news that the iPhone 3G port of Android is now ready to download and install. Having shown off Google's OS running on a 3G two weeks ago, author David Wang has clearly had to iron out a few kinks before serving up the necessary binaries, but here they are now, replete with a handy install guide he's penned over at PC World. Time to get yourself on the dual-booting bandwagon, no?

    iPhone 3G's Android port is ready to download originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 03:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • London planning on citywide wifi before Olympics

    London planning on citywide wifi before Olympics

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Mayor of London and Top Gear slowpoke Boris Johnson is trying to make London one of the most wired cities, just in time for the Olympics. During a recent conference, Johnson announced a plan to install wifi hotspots in "every lampost and bus stop."

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  • Video: Android running on the iPhone… 3G!

    Video: Android running on the iPhone… 3G!

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    You may recall a video last month that showed an iPhone 2G running Android. If not, let me refresh your memory. Needless to say, all of us here at McCrunchables thought it was pretty freakin awesome. Well, you know what's awesomer? Android running on an iPhone 3G! That's right, the buy-that-man-a-beer hacker responsible for the 2G Android port, David Wang, has managed to get Android running on the iPhone 3G.

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  • Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii

    Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Technology analyst firm Strategy Analytics just announced their latest forecast: Sony's Playstation 3 will will outsell the Wii and Xbox 360 by the time they all end their product cycle. Say what?

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  • iPad Hysteria: Which site has the most instances of ‘iPad’ on the front page?

    iPad Hysteria: Which site has the most instances of ‘iPad’ on the front page?

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's a fun activity to pass the time at work. Well, maybe "fun" is stretching it a little bit but it's an activity nonetheless. As you're perusing your favorite tech websites today, hit CTRL-F to bring up your browser's search function and type in "iPad." Now try to find which site has gone the most gaga over iPad news by the total number of times "iPad" appears on the front page. A few front runners, as of around noon Eastern:

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  • Wal-Mart starts video game price war, cuts prices of games by $10

    Wal-Mart starts video game price war, cuts prices of games by $10

    Posted on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
    It's so, so easy to hate on Wal-Mart, what with destroying this country's mom and pop culture, importing cheap junk from China, and freaking out whenever employees mention the word “union.” But if you're a gamer, you really ought to cast aside your prejudices, brave the crowds, and find the games you've always wanted for a good $10 less than what you'll find elsewhere. That's right: we're having ourselves a good old fashioned price war.

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  • The Google Phone May Be Data Only, VoIP Driven Device

    The Google Phone May Be Data Only, VoIP Driven Device

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Yesterday we wrote about the soon to launch Google Phone, a Google branded Android phone that we believe will hit the market in early 2010. Lots of people are saying there's no way Google will enter the phone market directly and compete with all these handset manufacturers who have bet on Android. Daring Fireball, PC World and InfoMobile are among the doubters. And a lot of people are pointing to a Tom Krazit/CNET article last month that quoted Google's Andy Rubin: "We're not making hardware...We're enabling other people to build hardware," and "Rubin, vice president of engineering for Android at Google, scoffed at the notion that the company would "compete with its customers" by releasing its own phone."

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  • Android Market Now Over 10,000 Applications Strong

    Android Market Now Over 10,000 Applications Strong

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | No Comments
    In the mobile OS world, Google's Android is still a challenger but with the amount of devices that will be running the system that are due to come out in the coming months alone in combination with its open approach it is definitely a contestant to watch closely. The success of Apple's App Store for the iPhone / iPod Touch is often measured by how many apps have already been developed for the platform (around 70,000), but since Google doesn't disclose exactly how many apps are available through Android Market it was difficult to compare the two on that particular level. But thanks to AndroLib, which provides a useful website where you can browse Android apps from your computer (unlike the Android Market website), we can conclude that there are currently at least 10,000 applications and games available on the platform today.

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  • Sony VAIO W netbook reviewed

    Sony VAIO W netbook reviewed

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    vaio Sony's first official netbook, the VAIO W, has been poked and prodded by Darren Gladstone over at PC World. You'll recall that the $499 machine features pretty standard netbook components, with the added bonus of the slightly-faster 1.66GHz Atom N280 CPU and a 10-inch 1366x768 resolution screen. Let's check out the highlights and lowlights, shall we?

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  • ASUS doesn’t see a clear market for smartbooks

    ASUS doesn’t see a clear market for smartbooks

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    smartbookDespite being one of the first companies to bring the idea of small, cheap, no-frills computers to market, ASUS doesn't think the whole smartbook idea is going to take off. As such, we'll see no smartbooks from ASUS anytime soon.

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  • Twitter now being used to direct botnets

    Twitter now being used to direct botnets

    Posted on August 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Twitter. Twitter? Twitter! TWITTER! Yes, the world's most important Web site has been co-opted by evildoers, being used to control personal information-stealing botnets.

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  • Amazon also leaks Zune HD pricing

    Amazon also leaks Zune HD pricing

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Now that Amazon is showing the same exact pricing structure for the Zune HD as Best Buy, it’s a pretty safe bet that these are the correct prices. Let’s just go ahead and call the prices unofficial official, m’kay? [Amazon via PC World]

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  • Microsoft admits that it feels threatened by Linux

    Microsoft admits that it feels threatened by Linux

    Posted on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
    desktop linuxMicrosoft stated publicly in their IRS 10-K filing that they face "strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market." It's important to note that this is the "PC market", not the server market. Microsoft is explicitly stating that their desktop operating system is threatened by Linux. "Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat." I suppose a couple years ago this announcement might have gotten me worked up a bit, but it's 2009 and I'm just like "Yeah, and you're just figuring this out?"

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