Vizio Announces The Co-Star, A $99 Google TV Box With OnLive Gaming Built In

Watch out, Sony, Vizio is chasing your tail. Just yesterday Sony revealed its latest Google TV hardware, a $199 remake of the company’s first GTV products. And now today, Vizio took to the wires and announced its first player in the Google TV game, the $99 Co-Star. The Co-Star is a serious contender in this game, too. The product boasts all the Google TV functionality along with additional baked-in apps such as Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, iHeartRadio, and for the first time on a Google TV box, OnLive. With OnLive gamers can demo, watch and actually play games through the cloud gaming service. Plus, all this is available for $100 less than...

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Firefox 14 For Android Graduates From Beta, We Go Hands-On

When Mozilla first pushed their latest beta version of Firefox into the Google Play Store last month, it raised a few eyebrows thanks to its dramatic redesign and its claims of “significant” performance enhancements. Now that new version of Firefox (version 14, if you’re keeping track) has cast off its beta trappings, but is it worth your time? Read on to find out. The name of Mozilla’s game with their latest mobile version of Firefox is performance. Users who took the plunge with Firefox for Android in the early days (and even the not-so-early days) were left with a novel browsing experience that could often be marred by downright slow performance. “It...

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Hong Kong, Singapore have highest number of tablet and smartphone users

According to a new report from wireless equipment and telecom infrastructure vendor Ericsson, Hong Kong and Singapore have the highest percentage of tablet and smartphone users on the planet, and will most likely continue on the same path until 2017. The Swedish firm interviewed 47,500 internet users aged between 16 and 60 in 58 countries in the first quarter of 2012, Chinese news service Xinhua said. Hong Kong came out on top of the tablets with 34 percent of web users saying they owned one, while in Singapore the market penetration rate was a fraction less at 31 percent. But the Lion City could be about to storm ahead of its old rival, according...

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Windows 8 Phone to feature an electronic wallet with NFC fonctionality

According to Microsoft, its new Windows 8 Phone will feature an electronic wallet with NFC functionality, but one that is similar to Google Wallet and Apple's Passbook, and will still be compatible to U.S. wireless carriers as well. Demonstrating the Near Field Communications (NFC) capabilities of Microsoft's new phone operating system, Joe Belfiore couldn't demonstrate pay-by-tap, as he didn't have a suitable SIM handy, but that issue may be what pushes Windows Phone 8 to the front when it comes to paying for items with a mobile phone. Belfiore did demonstrate NFC-enabled business cards, picking up a URL from an NFC chip embedded in a copy...

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The World’s Most Social Places

Facebook has close to a billion members, or about 14% of the world’s population, and thus they probably know a thing or two about what the world likes to do, the places we frequent and so on.The social networking site today released a list of the most “social” landmarks in the world or places where the maximum number of Facebook check-ins have happened so far (since August 2010).Sports stadium and public areas like parks were found to be the most “social” places as per the data. Amusement parks like Johannesburg’s Gold Reef City, Moscow’s Gorky Park, Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens and Seoul’s Lotte World were among the top 10 places to check-in....

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Chevrolet The Heartbeat Of America

History Of Chevrolet The Chevrolet cars began with the auto designs of Louis Chevrolet, a Swiss race car driver. The original founder of General Motors was forced from his position in management, and due to his determined effort to restore his reputation he started to use Louis deigns and creating his own models in 1911. His car models were really successful that he was able to buy a major share of the GM’s stock. In 1916 he became the president of the General Motors Company. Although Chevrolet began as an independent company, it became a part of the General Motors Company. At first, the Chevrolet cars were being identified and determined by model numbers. However, after the occurrence of World War II, the company finally decided that it will be great for their interest to begin giving their...

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$700 Million Google Data Centers To Open In China

Google data centers are known all over the world for their eco friendliness, so the word of three brand new data centers to open in China is a welcome piece of news in the industry. Despite political tension between US and China, and some uncomfortable past experiences regarding search censorship and the infamous hacking incident, Google is bringing its ethical data center practices to Asia with $700 million total investment, said Google’s Asian-Pacific President Daniel Alegre. If past experience of eco-friendly data centers is anything to go by the new center will be built according to the green standards Google has embraced in all of its data...

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Top 10 Low Cost Tablets in India

If you are searching for low cost tablets in India, you must be aware of the fact that most of these products come along with some truly great features, such as GPS, Wi-Fi and 3G. Therefore, the low price tags do not relate to low quality. On the contrary, these tablets are able to support different applications, just as any other types of tablets. The below given paragraphs present the most affordable tablets that are available in India these days.  Top 10 Budget Tablets In India : 1) MSI WindPad 100A: This is a very slim device that comes equipped with 1280 x 800 IPS. It provides different ports, including 3.5mm audio jack, HDMI and USB. It...

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