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How Real is a Gaming Console from Apple? There’s no Apple gaming console on the market and the Cupertino company seems to be suffering from that and may plan to remedy that. Is Apple planning to muscle its way into the game world? Well, it’s not actually a gaming console, per se. It’s more like a refocused old gadget with an extra improvement attached to it. Reliable sources from Cult of Mac claim that a new TV set will be launched during the year to come that will come packed with a new Apple Kinect-like video game console....

Where did the ZenFone branding go? The Asus 6Z was launched as ZenFone 6 globally in May this year. But in India, Asus had to let go of the ZenFone branding as Zen Mobiles, an Indian smartphone company got a restraining order from the Indian courts. The matter is sub judice, but for now, Asus has decided to go ahead with 6Z naming. What’s the USP of the Asus 6Z?...

The Asus ZenFone AR comes equipped with a front fingerprint sensor, which again is a first in the ZenFone series. The device sports a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED QHD display with a screen to body ratio of 79 percent. Powering the ZenFone AR is the Snapdragon 821 coupled with a choice of RAM ranging up to 8G. It also sets me wondering on why Asus didn’t opt for the newly released Snapdragon 835 instead of the 821 which frankly is a bit dated....

Given that the phone is designed for gamers, the exterior shows off some bold and flashy green accents to complement the Black Shark logo on a metal and polycarbonate build. As stated earlier, the logo also doubles up as a notification LED. On the front is a 6.4-inch 1080P AMOLED DC dimming-capable display without a notch or any of those fancy cut-outs, something that hardcore gamers will appreciate. On the inside is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 mobile platform with the Adreno 640 GPU with 6/12GB of RAM along with 128 or 256GB of onboard storage....

The technology behind Smart TV is constantly evolving and top manufacturers like Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Toshiba and others are investing heavily on it as it is surely the present and future of televisions. The core part of Smart TVs involves web enabled apps for streaming media, personalized communication and social networking. Usually, the operating systems of Smart TVs are based on linux, unix, android and other open source platforms....

More LeEco than Coolpad by design It might be called the Cool 1, but there is more of LeEco than Coolpad in its design. The phone is strikingly similar to the Le 1 and Le 2. It is a unibody metallic alloy that weighs 167 gms and comes with a thickness of 8.2 mm. The chamfered edges give it visual appeal and finish ensures it does not poke your palms....

And one of the apps that revels in this sort of situation is the aptly named Summly. Marketed as “pocket sized news for iPhone” (it works on the iPad too, but take our word for it, it works best on the iPhone or iPod touch) Summly specializes in serving up algorithmically generated summaries of news items to your handset. That in itself would be pretty handy – imagine having to go through 400 characters rather than 800 words to get to grips with a development – but what makes the app really stand out is the manner in which this has been implemented....

And as we’re nearing closer to the release date, Microsoft is busy behind the curtains tidying up and announcing new features that we’re going to see in the final version of Windows 10. One of these features is Device Guard, a new option which is aimed at enterprise customers who are looking to increase the security in their organizations. Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced Device Guard as a new Windows 10 security feature meant for enterprises who want to lock down their desktops....

If you want to increase charging times for your smartphone or tablet, you can have a look at a previous guide that we did on this subject, and you can also have a look at some of the most efficient wireless chargers around. But DouBBleTime believes it can be the easiest solution to help you overcome these annoyances. The concept behind the product is really simple and yet much needed....

Messenger Lite retains essential features of the primary app including sending text messages, photos, stickers, and links. Furthermore, the app sizes merely under 10 MB instead of a hefty 43 MB. The interface has been kept identical, however, the icon’s colors are inverted (the bolt is now blue with a white chat bubble background). Messenger Lite also drops advanced features such as bot integration, video chatting, and chat heads in favor of better performance....

The Pro plan will allow users to add view-only permissions to shared folders, passwords on shared content, and expiration dates for shared links. In addition, the service is now giving users the ability to wipe their data, as well as unlink a device from their Dropbox account. This feature will let users not worry about someone — with whom they have shared the file — delete or modify their content – at least without owner’s consent....

Apart from all the YouTube specific features, it also provides Twitter and Facebook support. You can view your Twitter stream and your replies, along with posting updates and replying to tweets. All these while you are still watching your favorite music video on Youtube. The Facebook services offers close to the same experience allowing you to view your home news feed and post status updates as well. You can post status updates on Faebook while you are watching a YouTube video....

The Messenger aims at becoming your one stop shop for messaging needs and will be showing the Messenger notifications in blue and the SMS ones in Purple. The whole idea behind this new feature seems to be the point that Facebook doesn’t want the users to move out of the app for any messaging needs. The caveat though lies in the fact that one should select Messenger as the default SMS app....

There are plenty of security engineers working at Facebook to ensure that its users are being protected and the company is also partnering with Kaspersky Lab to fight against malicious software. Thus, from now on, if it detects that an account is behaving suspiciously and appears to be infected, Facebook will recommend a free anti-malware scan, a technology provided by the Russian security company. Facebook is also a major target for phishers, with Kaspersky saying that 1 in 5 phishing scams target Facebook notifications....

The new approach is also expected to make the Facebook app work better on devices with smaller screen and will aim at better screen real estate management. Facebook has a huge audience of more than a 500-Million users hooked on mobile devices and this literally translates to about 78 percent of the total active users. Mobile users for Facebook are positively impacting on the revenue as 69 percent of Facebook’s $3....

Though the official release of the latest version of Firefox was supposed to happen tomorrow (Aug 16th 2011), the Register reports that the Mozilla’s FTP server has the downloadable for Windows, Linux & Mac, since August 13th. Mozilla has adapted the fast release cycles which has proved successful for Google’s Chrome. Firefox 5 was released just a couple of months back and we already have information about Firefox 7 which is due later this year....

Massive. There are no two words about this. Right from the box packaging to the first time you hold the phone, the Lenovo Phab 2 Plus feels massive even for my big palms. I was instantly reminded of the Xiaomi Mi Max which also carries a 6.44-inch display. But the Phab 2 Plus feels bigger and bulkier than the Max. At 173.9mm, it’s taller than the 173.1mm Max, has the same width of 88....

Rapidshare Plus ACC is a free Rapidshare premium account checker which lets you find out the working rapidshare premium account from the Rapidshare username and password list which you may have got from my site or other forums. What it does is, it automatically tests all the usernames in the list and validates if the corresponding passwords are correct. I had seen couple of online services which are supposed to do the same thing, but they didn’t....

Just like previous years, there’s a lot of speculation regarding the nomenclature of Android. Eventually, hours before the official launch tipster @evleaks spilled the beans and clarified that Google will be calling the last build as Android Oreo, after the famous biscuit from Cadbury. Apparently, the MountainView based giant has an affinity for the sweet tooth, as so far all of its Android iterations are named after sugar-based edibles. Android 8....

Breaking News! And it’s literally “Breaking”! Google has just announced that they have acquired Motorola Mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion, all in cash! Google Eyes Motorola’s Patent Portfolio This is for sure a game changer in the mobile industry. No one really expected such a big news and this must be a serious WTF moment for Apple and Microsoft. In his announcement blog post, Larry Page, the new Google CEO clarifies that the acquisition is aimed at growing threats to Android ecosystem through innumerable lawsuits from Apple, Microsoft and others....