This week we've gotten our first opportunity to have a hands-on experience with the newest in gaming excellence from Mad Catz: the F.R.E.Q 7 gaming headset! These headphones will blast your eardrums into your brain with Dolby Headphone 7.1 surround sound, extra-larger 59mm speakers, and a fabulous 3.5mm audio cable that allows you to convert your experience to any and all tablets, smartphones, desktop devices, and more.
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Mad Catz F.R.E.Q 7 gaming headset hands-on: connectivity galore
Toshiba develops low-power technology for embedded SRAM for smartphones
Toshiba has announced a new breakthrough that has to do with embedded hardware for the smartphone and mobile product market. Toshiba has announced the development of a new low-power technology for embedded SRAM. The new technology promises to extend the battery life for smartphones and other devices.
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The Chromebook Pixel: beautiful vehicle, low-grade gasoline
With the Google-made Chromebook Pixel we’ve got several points that the company hopes will be made right from the start – the first being an erasure of the hardware from our experience. They say this in the “Chromebook Pixel: For What’s Next” presentation video provided today at the launch of the product – Andrew Bowers, Group Product Manager on the Chromebook project with Google literally says, “we basically wanted the hardware to disappear.” If that’s the case, does it really make sense to release the Pixel at all?
PlayStation 4 console: why the box doesn’t matter
This week Sony unveiled the essence of the PlayStation 4 with glimpses of both the controller you’ll be using and the new Eye camera that’ll come with it, skipping the part where you actually see the final hardware. But we know the specifications of the actual PlayStation 4 console unit, and we know how we’re going to use it – so what’s the big deal? The big deal is Sony’s complete dismissal of the modern eyes-on presentation that the public expects here in 2013 – without something I can literally hold in my hands, the PlayStation 4 may as well be vaporware.
PlayStation 4 detailed as gamer-centric system
It's official. The folks from Sony have just confirmed what we all were expecting, and that is the Playstation 4. Today we're live enjoying the event where Sony will be showing us what they've been brewing up for the past few years. It's been speculated for months and months, and we're about to get a look into their new creation.
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NVIDIA and Elemental team up to provide enhanced video processing solutions
Elemental has announced its latest video processing platform intended for on-demand video broadcasting to a variety of devices, including smartphones and PCs, utilizing NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs. Several major brands utilize Elemental's platform, including Comcast and HBO, for delivering multi-screen video content to their subscribers.
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Pyle Retro Belt-Drive Turntable brings USB-recharge mobile
This week the folks at Pyle have revealed another masterpiece in their ever-growing line of turntable devices - keeping the classic art of vinyl records on the minds of the public while the connect with next-wave technology. This newest iteration of the Pyle vision is the Retro Belt-Drive Turntable, made to be your fold-away solution for spinning your favorite vinyl-plated favorites on the go.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: February 14th, 2013
This week we're hearing several accounts on the iPhone Brazil case in which the group by the name of Gradiente trademarked the word way back in the year 2000. The team at Vimeo have acquired a gif app by the name of Echograph, likely to compete with the likes of Vine. Be sure to check out our feature interview with the makers of the new DIE HARD game for mobile devices - it's an Endless Shooter, a brand new genre for mobile games!
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State of the Union includes “making Macs in America” mention
This year's State of the Union address included no less than a shout out by President Obama to Apple for bringing manufacturing jobs back to the USA. In addition to speaking about several other big companies that will be doing similar things in the near future, Obama noted the positive influence Apple's move will have on the United States. Apple CEO Tim Cook sat in the First Lady's box for the speech, a traditional area in which guests mentioned in the address are invited to sit.
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Microsoft Surface Pro re-stock arriving Saturday
In the first several days of the Microsoft Surface Pro's life on the market, it was an extremely successful product, selling out in many locations across the United States and online. This week the head of the Microsoft Surface team Panos Panay spoke up about the stock shortage many areas have been experiencing, assuring them that more units are headed to stores this week, with delivery expected by Saturday. This comes shortly after a series of demands for more units to be placed in stores by customers hoping to get their own brand new Surface Pro in one of the first launch days here in the first half of February.
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Apple CEO: “if we don’t cannibalize, someone else will”
As Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference this week, a question of "cannibalization" came up, prompting the Apple CEO to speak about the first time he'd ever been asked such a question. Believe it or not, it wasn't when the iPad mini was introduced - it wasn't even when the iPhone or the iPod nano was introduced. In fact it was back when the iBook was revealed back in 1999.
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Tim Cook talks Apple product price chopping
This week Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference about the affordability of Apple products. Having been asked a question about prepaid customers working with smartphones and other smart products in emerging markets, the same commenter suggesting cheaper iPhones, Cook let it be known that Apple was already there – so to speak. Cook made it clear, “we lowered the price of iPhone 4, we lowered the price of iPhone 4S, [and] in the most recent quarter we didn’t have enough stock of iPhone 4 after we lowered the price. It surprised us … so we are making the move to make things more affordable.”
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