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Windows 7 sells 100 million copies, becomes the fastest selling Microsoft OS ever

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Windows 7 sold more than 100 million licenses around the globe since its launch on 22 October last year. This sell ratio automatically turns the last Windows installment into the fastest selling Microsoft OS of all times.


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Cypress makes touchscreens track hovering fingers

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Have you ever wondered what would it be to have a touchscreen device that you don’t even need to touch. The concpet sound weird when I put it that way, I know. In reality it could feel quite natural. A touchscreen manufacturer Cypress are working on just that – their latest invention is a touchscreen module with hover support.


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Apple iPhone 4G – lost, found and dearly wanted back

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It seems Gizmodo managed to contact Gray Powell – the guy who lost the iPhone 4G prototype. Well, in short – Apple wants their lost baby back. But Mr. Powell also shed some light on the matter how the iPhone prototype found its way out in the hands of the press.

Here is the short version of a long adventure.
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HTC Droid Incredible announced exclusively for Verizon Wireless

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The latest member of the Android family comes from HTC – the new Droid Incredible. It’s a Verizon Wireless exclusive and will help them in the battle with the Sprint’s Evo 4G.


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The international Apple iPad premiere delayed for the end of May, sigh

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It seems the USA fellas grabbed all the manufactured iPads and the rest of the world must wait until the end of May to get their hands on some officially imported units.

I don’t know if Apple didn’t really hope for such hype or just did their calculations wrong. Either reasons, the iPad is out of stock almost everywhere in the USA and willing customers are eagerly waiting for the next shipment.

Unfortunately, the previously promised international iPad launch that was scheduled for late April is now delayed until the end of May. The new launch date and pricing will be unveiled on 10 May.

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HTC Desire pays us a visit, AMOLED and HTC Sense is what you’ve been looking for

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Our HTC Legend review is still warm, but here comes another anticipated Droid – the Desire. Its advantages over the Legend include an AMOLED screen half inch bigger, a snappier Snapdragon CPU and more RAM.

In case you are wondering what good that does bring in real life, check out the couple of videos that we have prepared for you. Read more »

Nokia N900 gets FTL speed, overclocked to 1GHz

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OK, it’s not the speed that will take you to Pegasus galaxy in an instant, but it’s still quite impressive given the standard 600 MHz processor clock of the Nokia N900. There is no voltage tweak involved in this overclock, only a precompiled system kernel.

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iPad is now selling – and it’s got touchable Gmail, remote wipe and external display mode

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Google rolled out iPad optimized versions of their services with tablet-oriented interface. In other news a new application allows you to use your iPad-ish or iPhone-ish device as an additional multi-touch monitor to your iMac/MacBook.

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iTunes 9.1 update is also available, jaibroken devices must stay away

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iTunes 9.1 upgrade is now up online and you can install it on both Mac OS and Windows. The new version adds sync and management support for iPad, which launches in three days.

It seems Apple decided to put an Easter egg within the upgrade preventing some jailbroken iPhones and iPods from syncing.

The iTunes update comes just a day after the official Mac OS one, which also raised some alarms.

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Mac OS X 10.6.3 update is now available, proceed with caution

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A new update for Mac OS is now available and all Leopard users are welcomed to download it. The latest patch fixes lots of bugs, compatibility, stability and reliability issues, betters the performance and brings some new improvements over the OS functionality.

The most notable changes include fixed issues, reliability or compatibility with OpenGL apps, QuickTime X, the wireless connections, sleep/wake process and the added Data Collection services.

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AMD announces Opteron 4000 & 6000 – the twelve-core beasts

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AMD has just unveiled their first twelve-core CPU chips. Whoa, impressive, isn’t it? Unfortunately, the new AMD Opteron 4000 and 6000 are CPUs with mainly server applications. They upgrade the current lineup of Opteron CPUs with more than twice the performance while keeping the same power consumption.


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Xbox 360 firmware update adds USB Flash support, coming on 6 April

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Microsoft announced they will release new firmware update for their Xbox 360 console, which will add USB flash drives support. You will be able to download it on 6 April.

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New trailer of Despicable Me just rocks

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if you haven’t seen not even a single movie trailer of Universal’s upcoming flick, Despicable Me, well… you’ve missed a lot. Just recently I stumbled upon a new trailer and here’s a chance of catching up. It’s totally hilarious and I can’t wait to see it this summer.


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Yahoo launches Sketch-a-Search and Yahoo Search apps for iPhone

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Starting today Yahoo offers two new free apps in the Apple US AppStore. The Sketch-a-Search is an interesting map app that doesn’t involve any typing at all. The standard Search app brings the regular Yahoo search engine to the iPhone and spices things up with features such as voice search, local shortcuts, etc.

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Nintendo announces new portable console – Nintendo 3DS

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Nintendo just announced the 3DS, the successor of the popular portable console Nintendo DS. The Nintendo 3DS will integrate completely new technology – 3D screen, which doesn’t even need 3D glasses.


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