Nexus 7 Review

. Google has made it official: the search giant launched the Nexus 7, a powerful and affordable 7-inch tablet running the new Android Jelly Bean 4.1 operating system, powered by NVIDIA Tegra 3 SoC (system-on-chip) and made by ASUS. The highly rumored device lived up to our expectations, for a starting price of $199 (8 GB version) the quality is awesome. The 1280×800 IPS display enhanced by the new ASUS TruVivid engine delivers a great viewing experience, with well contrasted colors.












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GameStop now offering pre-orders for Nexus 7 tablet

Google took the wraps of its Nexus 7 tablet two days ago at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. If you've been planning to get the device, there's good news because GameStop, considered as the world's largest multichannel retailer of video games, is now taking pre-orders for the tablet. GameStop said via press release that the tablet will be available for $249 in mid-July. Additionally, the video game retailer is also offering instant cash or in-store credit for Android tablets from a variety of top brands, ranging up to $250 in-store credit or $200 cash.

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NPD: Ultrabooks are saving the high-end notebook market

. For people who want super-thin computers and who don't feel like paying more than $2,000 for a Retina MacBook Pro, ultrabooks are a blessing. And according to the NPD Group, ultrabooks are helping to keep the U.S. notebook market afloat as they “are off to a fast start capturing nearly 11 percent of all $700+ Windows notebooks sales at U.S. retail through the first five months of 2012.” What's more, ultrabooks' share of Windows notebooks costing at least $700 has steadily climbed month by month this year, going from just over 6% in January to more than 15% in May.

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webOS hacked, offers swiping gesture to switch apps

HP recently made available the source code for webOS Community Edition, and you can say that developers have dived into the operating system with a buzz, modifying it according to their whim, fancy and ability. Well, what are the results of their labor. One of the initial hacks hail from from Dave Freeman, who was a developer at HP Palm. He successfully enabled the user to switch between currently running apps by swiping from the side of the screen. Normally, this move is done by swiping up from the bottom of the screen so that a set of "cards” are brought up, and then you make the switch through scrolling it.

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Samsung Galaxy Note II to feature a 5.5-inch display, narrower body

. Previous reports suggested that Samsung was working on a sequel for its wildly successful Galaxy Note smartphone. The follow-up “phablet” was said to feature a larger unbreakable plane display and a quad-core processor. According to an anonymous source speaking with GSM Arena, the Note II will be equipped with a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display and a design inspired by Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone. Despite the larger screen, the width of the device has reportedly been reduced.

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Chrysler adding jobs at Toledo Jeep plant to boost Wrangler production

New car sales have been on the upswing, and few vehicles have experienced more success than the Jeep Wrangler. The iconic off-roader set an all-time May sales record with 14,454 units sold, and its total sales are up 34 percent on the year. That's good news for Chrysler, and it could lead to more high-wage manufacturing jobs in northern Ohio. Automotive News reports that Team Pentastar plans to add an unspecified number of jobs to its Toledo Jeep plant in the fourth quarter of 2012. The move should help Chrysler satiate demand for the perpetually hot Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited, and it could help international sales, as well.

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BMW and Toyota sign deal to collaborate on sports car and EV technology

There's not a lot of specifics to be had on this one just yet, but BMW and Toyota have inked a new deal that will see them collaborate on far more than the batteries they've already agreed to work on together. According to the automakers, the new arrangement will see them focus on four key areas: a fuel cell system, powertrain electrification, lightweight technologies and, last but not least, joint development of the "architecture and components for a future sports vehicle." Unfortunately, neither party is offering much indication about the types of vehicles we might see as a result.

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Audi R8 E-Tron laps 'Ring in record-setting 8:09, celebrates silently

Two months ago, the Audi R8 E-Tron was caught at the Nürburgring, getting its gumption up for what everyone has come to consider The Obligatory Timed Lap of Destiny. The lap has been completed with Markus Winkelhock at the wheel, and the result is a world record for a series production electric car: eight minutes and 9.099 seconds. If you believe in Wikipedia's list of 'Ring lap times, that puts the R8 E-Tron with its 375 horsepower and stupefying torque 25 seconds behind the R8 V10, five seconds adrift of the eight-cylinder R8, and in the same company as the Audi RS4 and previous generation BMW M6.

Autoblog , Audi R8 E-Tron laps 'Ring in record-setting 8:09, celebrates silently, Audi R8 E-Tron laps 'Ring in record-setting 8:09, celebrates silently

HTC One V heads to Virgin Mobile USA

Virgin Mobile USA, one of the smaller mobile carriers here in the USA, has just announced that they will finally roll out the HTC One V to the masses in this part of the world. Back in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, HTC announced a trio of smartphones from the HTC One Series, and they are the high end HTC One X, the HTC One S, and the HTC One V. The HTC One X is the flagship device, while the HTC One S delivers performance and style in a single device, with the HTC One V being a working man's phone – without sacrificing on decent performance and looks, of course.

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Danish Bunkering And Oil Derivatives Trading Company Monjasa Selects Aspect Enterprise Solutions For CTRM In The Cloud

Danish bunkering and derivatives trading company Monjasa is the latest trading house to go live with the AspectCTRM trade and risk management solution from Cloud vendor Aspect Enterprise Solutions.AspectCTRM is the company’s multi-commodity trading and risk management solution based on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architecture and delivered in the Cloud.

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Rumor: Apple moves up iPhone 5 launch to late August/early September

iPhone 5 may arrive earlier then expected this year. Late August or early September, just in time for back to school season. This rumor comes from China's Sina.com, who cites sources at a bunch of Apple suppliers in Taiwan.

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NewVoiceMedia gets personal with customer experience patent

New intelligent routing patent gives customers the answers they need through personalised messaging systemThe customer experience is about to change for the better and this time it’s personalised, following NewVoiceMedia’s latest patent award. The new technology enables organisations to deliver personal recorded messages to customers the moment they phone the business, based on the customer’s previous engagement with the business.

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Google+ has 250 million users, more mobile than desktop

Google wasn't going to leave its budding social layer (don't call it a network) out of today's IO fun. It gave itself a bit of a pat on the back for (probably) exceeding people's expectations. For all the jokes that have been made (some of them on this very site) at Google+'s expense, it's racked up more than 250 million users. Sure, only 150 million actually active, but simply getting people signed up is a victory in itself. And, hey, about 50 percent of them sign on every day. More interestingly, Vic Gundotra says that more users are signing in with the mobile app than visiting the desktop site.

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One in five financial firms ‘don’t know’ whether they have suffered data breaches

Study from PwC and Iron Mountain shows worrying level of complacency among Europe’s financial services firmsLondon June 29, 2012 - Sensitive and confidential information held by financial firms across Europe is at risk of exposure because many are failing to check the effectiveness of their data protection and document management strategies, according to research from PwC and information management company Iron Mountain.

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Google Releases Chrome Browser for iOS

After Mozilla, it is Google's turn to unveil a web browser for the iPad and iPhone. The Chrome for iOS features synchronization of tabs, web history, and passwords with Chrome's desktop version. It has its setbacks, though. Chrome for iOS will not have access to technology that Apple devices use for their own, built-in Safari browser. You can also would not be able to set the Chrome as your default web browser.

The web browser app runs smoothly on iOS 4.3 and higher.

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Microsoft Set to Provide Windows 8 Updates Even to XP-Powered PCs

While Microsoft promised an inexpensive upgrade plan to Windows 8 to consumers purchasing new Windows PCs, ZDNet reported with certainty that the upgrades will go further way, way back. Mary Jo Foley, who has been historically accurate in rumors like these, wrote that PCs running as old as Windows Vista SP1 can upgrade to Windows 8 with its settings remain intact. Meanwhile, really old PCs with OS as old as Windows XP SP3–which we see a lot in penny-pinching corporations–can upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Windows 8, carrying their personal files along in the process.
Some details on the upgrade plan seems dated, though.

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Fun with $1,500 glasses: Project Glass skydive stunt captured on video

. Falling squarely in the don't try this at home category, Google on Wednesday took to the sky to demonstrate its Project Glass digital eyewear prototypes. Google's connected glasses - which may already have the company's rivals scrambling to launch similar products - merge eyewear and a smart device with a small display just above the user's field of vision to create a wearable computer.



Boy Genius Report , Fun with $1,500 glasses: Project Glass skydive stunt captured on video, Fun with $1,500 glasses: Project Glass skydive stunt captured on video

Orange France begins nationwide NFC SIM rollout in the name of 'Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité'

NFC's potential uses are numerous - contactless mobile payments, automated actions and content sharing to name a few - but aside from its scattered inclusion in a limited number of handsets in the US and overseas, we've yet to see it truly take off. Cue Orange France. The wireless carrier's taking a non-traditional route to spur adoption by sidestepping manufacturers and bringing the near field communication tech to all 27 million of its subscribers directly. To do this, the operator's implementing Gemalto's UpTeq SIM, a secure NFC solution the company claims is on par with existing chip-based implementations.

Engadget , Orange France begins nationwide NFC SIM rollout in the name of 'Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité', Orange France begins nationwide NFC SIM rollout in the name of 'Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité'

Google Glass Publicly Demonstrated

Apart from the Nexus 7, two other devices highlight today's Google's I/O conference, one of which is the enhanced eyewear we have heard about since February. Google Glass does not really aid your blurry vision, but acts as a heads-up display. It comes with a trackpad that serves as a navigation tool and a video camera that broadcasts everything the wearer sees in real time.

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Android Jelly Bean input options include updated keyboard, offline voice dictation

On stage at Google I/O, the company is showing off its newest features for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which include a new keyboard with SwiftKey-like word prediction, and voice typing that works even when you're offline. From the demo on stage it worked quickly without the annoying lag of waiting for the server to process your words we've experienced from voice control so far. There are 18 new input languages including Persian and Hindi, although offline voice dictation is US English only for now.

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Google Play hits 600,000 apps, 20 billion total installs

Google during its I/O keynote hit a symbolic milestone: it now has 600,000 apps in the Google Play Store. As well, the store is clearly hitting a brisk pace in adoption, with 1.5 billion downloads every month and 20 billion since Android began. Free apps are available in 190 countries, with paid apps in 132. The app and download counts stack up fairly well to Apple's own claims, although not universally: it's just short of the App Store's 650,000 apps, but Apple can still point to 30 billion total downloads. Google also hasn't said how many apps are explicitly tablet-friendly versus 225,000 iPad-oriented apps.

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Bullhorn streamlines application delivery and deployment in the Cloud with CloudBees Java Platform

CloudBees Platform as a Service (PaaS) Enables Bullhorn to Streamline the Develop-to-Deploy Process and Deliver Customised Applications More Quickly to its Customers Paris, France – June 28, 2012 – CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that Bullhorn®, a global leader in web-based software for staffing and recruiting agencies, has selected the CloudBees Platform to accelerate its customised application development. Bullhorn serves over 100,000 users in 126 countries.

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Google Chrome for Android hands-on: Asses kicked, names taken

. Google has effectively ended the debate over which mobile browser Android fans should use on their smartphones and tablets - the answer is Chrome. And it's not even close, either: the Android version of Chrome, re-released Wednesday on Google Play after having shed its beta label, chews up and spits out other mobile browsers. Why? Hit the jump for the answer.

First, the speed and performance that desktop Chrome users enjoy has translated well to the mobile version.

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Photos of Google's Vic Gundotra wearing the latest, blue-hued Glass prototype

Sergey Brin briefly pulled out a light blue prototype of Google Glass whilst on stage at Google I/O, and as it turns out, those are evidently the latest and greatest models that the company is willing to wear around. We ran into social exec Vic Gundotra after this morning's keynote, only to find him donning precisely the same set that was teased on stage. We asked if the blue was just part of Google's experimentation with coloring Glass, and he chuckled while confessing that he wasn't authorized to speak further about the project or its ambitions. Still, the man looks good in blue.









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Bing Maps gets another 165TB of satellite images, Google Earth seen sulking in a corner

Thought that Google had cornered the market on free, overhead-view photo mapping solutions. You clearly don't reside in Redmond, because Bing Maps' aerial image library just got another 165TB worth of hi-res data that covers an additional 38 million square kilometers of the globe. To put that in perspective, Microsoft's mapping solution previously had but 129TB worth of such eye-in-the-sky imagery, so this new batch of satellite shots more than doubles your viewing pleasure.

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Wii U games priced at $100 are “fictitious prices”, according to Nintendo

The Nintendo Wii U has yet to get priced, but it seems that some online retailers such as Amazon and GameStop have taken it upon themselves to start predicting how much the Wii U's games will cost and have pegged games like Pikmin 3, New Super Mario Bros. U, Just Dance 4 and Lego City Undercover at a price of $100. Yikes. Given that the Nintendo Wii is priced at the $200+ range, it is kind of shocking to think that Wii U games could cost half the price of the previous gen console itself.

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Android Jelly Bean input options include updated keyboard, offline voice dictation

On stage at Google I/O, the company is showing off its newest features for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which include a new keyboard with SwiftKey-like word prediction, and voice typing that works even when you're offline. From the demo on stage it worked quickly without the annoying lag of waiting for the server to process your words we've experienced from voice control so far. There's 18 new input languages including Persian and Hindi, although offline voice dictation is US English only for now. Also mentioned on stage are new audio cues for blind users, and support for Braille.

Engadget , Android Jelly Bean input options include updated keyboard, offline voice dictation, Android Jelly Bean input options include updated keyboard, offline voice dictation

Google I/O keynote speech is underway, watch it live here

After Apple unveiled iOS 6 at its WWDC 2012 conference and Microsoft previewed WP8 at the Windows Phone Summit, it's now Google's turn to announce latest release of its Android platform. The Google I/O event has just started and you can follow the keynote speech right here. Google is set to officially announce the next iteration of Android - 4.1 Jelly Bean as well as its first tablet, the ASUS-built Nexus 7.



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Nissan Leaf aims to take world record in reverse at Goodwood

When Nissan wants to set a speed record, you'd expect it to use the GT-R to get there. Or maybe one of its myriad racing cars – it does, after all, power the bulk of the LMP2 racers on the grid at Le Mans, not to mention the experimental DeltaWing. But the Leaf. Sure, maybe for emissions-free motoring, but not for speed.
Yet it's the Leaf in which Nissan will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record at the upcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed. And not the Nismo RC version, either, though that will be on hand for the festival as well. No, Nissan will attempt a world record in a bone-stock electric Leaf...

Autoblog , Nissan Leaf aims to take world record in reverse at Goodwood, Nissan Leaf aims to take world record in reverse at Goodwood

Cody is a virtual assistant that helps you achieve your fitness goals

Exercise can be considered by many to be quite a chore. After all not many people are thrilled by the idea of being sweaty and out of breath for a good hour, right. That being said, if you're in need of some good old exercise, a virtual assistant by the name of Cody wants to help you do that. While Cody will not help you exercise, Cody will instead help motivate you and keep you on track.

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Nexus 7 tablet hands-on (video)

We had a pretty good idea that this little guy was going to be making an appearance at Google I/O this morning and, sure enough, it's here. Not only is it here, it's in our hands. Meet the Google Nexus 7, an ASUS-designed device with minimal branding and a clean version of the latest flavor of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Join us after the break for a rundown of what this $199 Fire-fighter feels like to use.
First, the specs. It's a 7-inch device, with a 1280 x 800 IPS LCD that clocks in at 400 nits of brightness. That's powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30L quad-core processor running at 1.2GHz.









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