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Alienware M17x Review

Alienware M17x Review

Model: Alienware M17x

Manufacturer: Dell
Price: ~£2,000.00
Available: Out now
Alienware have done it again with their most powerful portable gaming machine, the M17x. We recently got our hands on this gargantuan gaming machine and put it through its paces. Hit the jump and check out what we thought of the M17x.

Android coders get high-speed graphics ability

Android coders get high-speed graphics ability

Image via CrunchBase

All those whining and complaining about lack of
good  graphics and high quality gaming experience
in Android phones will soon become history.
Google has paved the way for  iPhone-like 3D games on  Android handsets running 1.5 or higher, offering support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard through its latest Android Native Development Kit r3.
It is offered a companion …

Video calling not coming to the iPhone… yet

Video calling not coming to the iPhone… yet

If you were one of those in UK who got excited and happy when  O2 updated their iPhone pricing lists for video calling, your excitement is short lived as a spokesperson for O2 clarified that “the UK video calls that appear in their key features table is actually a regrettable mistake” according to a technology website which was …

Sky’s 3D Channel Comes to Westfield

Sky’s 3D Channel Comes to Westfield

Sky Television kicked off UK’s first 3D channel with a live Premier League football match between Arsenal and Manchester United which was broadcasted in nine pubs around the UK few weeks back and was well received and appreciated.

YouTube adds automatic captioning to videos

YouTube adds automatic captioning to videos

Google owned YouTube which pioneered online streaming videos has started providing automatic captions to videos to make the site more accessible to the deaf and people with hearing difficulties.
At present the feature is only available for videos recorded in English and Google says that more languages will be added in the coming months.
Even though the idea and intentions are honorable, …

Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet

Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet

Twitter, the immensely popular social networking service which has made tweet synonymous with a short message posted online rather than of a bird chirping , has reached the milestone of 10 billion “tweets”, as announced by the tweets tracking service GigaTweet, which tracks tweets in real time. All this in less than 4 years of inception, it reached 1 billion …

Microsoft’s dual-screen booklet shows ‘face’ on web

Microsoft’s dual-screen booklet shows ‘face’ on web

Microsoft may not have got it all right with some – or most, depending on once perspective – of its product and software launches over the past few years and Apple’s iPod may be way ahead of Microsoft Zune in portable media players, you could bet your iPhone on Microsoft not sitting idle  and letting Apple’s  much hyped and awaited …

YouTube ‘under threat’ from Digital Economy Bill changes

YouTube ‘under threat’ from Digital Economy Bill changes

The Digital Economy Bill which was first announced  in  2009 and reportedly is designed to curtail copyright   infringement by users sharing files and media online has been criticized and condemned severely by many people, as its complicated and extremely stringent laws including the one which allows Internet Service Providers to give customer information to copyright holders who could sue customers …

Vodafone Planning to Axe 500 Jobs at Newbury Headquarters

Vodafone Planning to Axe 500 Jobs at Newbury Headquarters

I often hear from industry analysts that the worst
 global recession is now over and it’s a matter of time
before  all big companies start hiring people again.
However, the story at Vodafone seems to be a little different and it is planning to axe nearly 500 jobs at its Newbury headquarters.
The Newbury headquarters currently has 3,000 Vodafone employees. 500 jobs were axed from …

No iPhone To iPad Tethering, Says Steve Jobs

No iPhone To iPad Tethering, Says Steve Jobs

 
 
Steve Jobs has ruled out any possibilities of iPhone-to-iPad tethering which would allow the iPad users to access the internet using iPhone’s 3G capabilities. In fact, the reply from Apple’s top boss was a point blank ‘No’ in an email reply to a query from a Swedish tech blog Slashat.se.

While there are speculations if the email reply was indeed from …


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