Amazon to release new e-reader this July

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Amazon’s Kindle e-reader was a huge success in the tablet market. Though not as popular as the iPad, it has created its own niche.

A tipster informed Reuters that the company is about to release their latest version of the Kindle. The report said that the source has direct knowledge of the matter but asked not to be named.

This new Kindle now has a front light that enables users to be able to read in the dark. Previous versions of the device had to buy an external light to suffice their craving of reading while in the dark.

Vice President of Emerging Display Technologies at DisplaySearch Jennifer Colegrove said, “I do see demand for a front-lit Kindle.” She also added that this could pose as a problem to the Kindle as a Front-lit battery could consume additional power thus it’ll run out quicker.

Amazon is also expected to launch a new Kindle Fire later this year. Sources have said that this latest gadget boasts of an 8.9 inch display.

Reuters source also added that the Kindle e-reader will be launched in two versions: the Touch 3G and Touch WiFi.

The news agency pegged the price of the Kindle e-reader at the same price or will be slightly higher by $10.

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Startup makes sending out invites a breeze

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Ever had the problem of getting your friends to attend a party out for some drinks and have a good laugh? At this day and age of electronics, we sure don’t have a lot of reasons for someone not to be invited. Sending an SMS or an email invite is as easy as keying in a few buttons.

Still it remains a mystery as to why some individuals still can’t receive these said invites. Lost text messages or unseen Facebook invites? It could really be the reason behind that.

A start up mobile app is trying to change all these. Developers Elliot Goldwater and John Zurbach created an app that uses the contacts list in your phone and not those from your social networking accounts.

The mobile GiddyUp was created for these types of situations. According to Goldwater, “We pull directly from your contacts list, which we think is your truest social network. Those are the people you rely on, at the last minute, or on any given Friday to meet up with on a whim.”

GiddyUp’s interface is simple. It has three tabs – Home, Create and FAQ. On the home page, individuals can view events that they will attend and access the individual chat bar. The recipient of the invite need not have to download the GiddyUp app to access the details of the event.

The app was a result of more than a year of fine tuning the product and was launched about a couple of weeks ago.

Goldwater added, “Traditionally you think of Evite, Facebook events and Paperless Posts as the traditional medium for planning events – birthday parties, wedding showers and more formal things. What we want to capture is everything from what’s happening later tonight, leading up and including those events.”

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TNT Overtime brings basketball viewing to a whole new level

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The NBA Playoffs is heating up and the 8 teams that are left are battling it out for the much coveted championship. But one match up that is interesting to watch is the LA Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder debacle. Remember what happened between Ron Artest and James Harden a few weeks ago?

Unfortunately for some, some games are being shown in live television while some are not. Well, fear no more as the magic of streaming video enables NBA fans to watch any game they want in a way that they’ve never seen before.

Thanks to TNT, fans can now watch the games live using their computers. What’s good about this is that TNT Overtime brings you at-home action with multiple camera angles.

TNT Overtime splits the screen in four ways. One camera is focused on the home team, the other focuses on the away team. The third shoots aerial shots from a “Backboard Cam” and the fourth one gives a shaky, close up shots from the floor for a more visceral perspective.

You can opt to make just one screen your fullscreen view. You can also opt to choose to make the three other camera angles into smaller windows for you to still view whole action of the game from different perspectives.

The only thing that is not provided by TNT Overtime is a six pack and a bunch of ribs.

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British ISP makes surfing to porn optional

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This looks like a great start that could lead to a revolution when speaking about porn protection from your ISP.

One of Britain’s ISPs, TalkTalk, is switching on its porn filtering software for all new subscribers. To enable users to surf porn sites, they have to choose to switch on to access this by informing the company.

This serves as a great deterrent for your kids to avoid entering this scandalizing websites.

Customers will have to reconfirm their decisions after every year. Unless a subscriber says that he wants this turned off, then TalkTalk’s HomeSafe filter will automatically block websites that features violence, gambling and porn.

This is the company’s action towards promoting their resolve for the young ones and their decision to do this pre-empts the government’s plan to make ISPs use filter as a default.

Some individuals call this censorship. Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group criticized this move by the government and the ISPs by saying, “We welcome a consultation but default filternets are awful. They block a wide range of innocent material; and nobody should be advocating broader and simpler censorship.”

While chief executive of TalkTalk Dido Harding disagrees and said, “Dreadfully slow to wake up to the fact that society as a whole cares strongly about this.”

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iPad tips and tricks II

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Are you keen on maximizing the abilities of your iPad tablet? Well, a number of individuals out there would want to do just this. Unfortunately for some, this would seem difficult for them as “technophobia” would probably sink in due to the fact that they might tweak something and fail to revert to their previous settings.

This is the second part of iPad tips and tricks that is aimed to help you ease through your iPad tablet.

Have you experienced accidentally deleting an app on your tablet or have deleted an app but now you want it back –especially if you’ve paid something for it? Just proceed to the App Store and download the app again. Look at where the price is located, is should say “Install” instead of “Free” or the price of the app. You can also go to the Purchased icon at the bottom and select “Not On This iPad” and you’ll see app that is associated with your iTunes account.

How about those purchases like virtual icons that your kids buy, without them knowing that you have to pay for this of course. Can you turn them off? You can simply go to Settings>General>Restrictions and tap Enable Restrictions at the top screen. You can then choose to adjust whatever it is that you want to adjust. If in-app purchases is all you need to restrict, then slide the tab over “In-App Purchases”.

More to come in the coming days.

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Diablo III set to shake up the PC-gaming world

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Video game enthusiasts long wait is over as Activision Blizzard Inc. is set to release the latest version of its popular game Diablo. The world’s most popular game developer will likely receive a boost in sales since pre-orders for the third Diablo game has become a record in itself, being the most pre-ordered PC-based game in history.

One thing that will most likely become one of the most impressive improvements in the game is the auction house that enables players to trade their items such as sword, armor and potions for real-world currency with the developers of the game getting a cut on every deal.

According to Jennifer Martin, a member of the academe at the University of Western Ontario, “A lot of companies are realizing that it actually can be profitable. We’re seeing a much greater willingness in people to pay for stuff that doesn’t really exist, other than on internet servers. And if they’re willing to spend money to make their game play better, companies are definitely going to capitalize on it.”

The previous version of the game, Diablo II, is considered as one of the best-selling games of all time. Cowen Co. analysts say that they are projecting about 5 million units will be sold by Blizzard in Diablo III’s first year of release.

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Get rid of freeloaders that access your WiFi

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Freeloaders are a rampant problem in our society. From free giveaways to free internet, people will line up just to have a piece of it. A shop that offers free internet to its customers will be packed by patrons that only bought a single latte. And mind you, those individuals will stay for quite a while.

In your neighbor or community, once you have an unsecured WiFi to your home, you’d certainly see that a number of individuals will try to connect to your connection. Not placing a password to protect your network can mean free Internet to your neighbors. You’ll notice this because your connection might come out as slow and the problem with this is that they might even gain access to your computer or laptop.

But researchers from the Grenoble Institute of Technology and the Centre Technique du Papier in France has found a way to get rid of freeloaders even if you don’t password protect your WiFi network. They developed a wallpaper that shields your home from WiFi signals, may it be incoming or outgoing.

This said wallpaper blocks electromagnetic radiation in the frequencies used by WiFi but lets radio waves and cellphone signals go in and out without interference.

But before using this, you’d have to plan your interior design first. You’d have to place them in your exterior walls to prevent it from blocking signals within your house.

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Wrap your mic around your throat with the Black Ops 2

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If you’ve watched any SEAL themed movie, say the Tears of the Sun, then you’ve certainly come across the microphones that they use that is basically hands free.

See the thing that wraps around their neck enables them to communicate with their comrades without the need of clicking anything. It surely is a gadget that we mortals would love to have.

The Black ops 2 Professional Tactical Headset is designed to work with your iPhone to make you the perfect merc, spy or paintball hero. This device wraps around your neck and pickups nestle up against your vocal cords.

This will cancel out environmental noise such as strong gusts of wind and loud neighbors. According to the company, “Direct voice communication free from environmental noise.”

Another great thing about this product is that you can still be heard even while whispering. This makes you a threat in those war games that relieves your boyish fantasies.

This may not look trendy and fashionable, but it has its uses and could give you the extra lift.

The Black Ops 2 Professional Tactical headset was developed by iASUS. The company might have thought about men’s dream of becoming a James Bond like figure. Imagine being able to play a Bond like character?

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Siri calls the Nokia Lumia 900 the best smartphone ever

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This is an absolute marketing nightmare. The best smartphone in the market today isn’t Apple’s iPhone. Instead, it is Nokia Lumia 900. The best part about this story is that Apple digital assistant Siri was the one who crowned Lumia as the best phone over the iPhone.

According to PCWorld, this problem arose due to Siri’s complexity. The latter uses Wolfram Alpha to answer questions based on sets of data available. When it came to smartphones, somebody on the team failed to note about this glitch and Lumia 900’s high rating is based only on 5 reviews of the device. All of the reviews gave the Lumia five stars.

The list doesn’t involve any iPhone devices or any Samsung Galaxy S models. The article said that Wolfram Alpha’s data is coming from Best Buy.

The company’s reviews are the ones behind Wolfram Alpha’s answers to questions when it pertains to electronics. When you take a look at Best Buy’s review page of the Lumia 900, they really show 5 exceptional reviews.

Though this may not cause an alarm in Apple’s HQ, but this glitch is something that has to be addressed.

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Turn your Instagram photo into a work of art

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Instagram has been making waves since its inception. And with it being bought by Facebook, the future seems brighter and larger for this app.

If you are one of the shutter friendly individuals out there who seem to post every photo you take using Instagram, chances are you’d have a collection of picturesque photos that you’d want to hand in your living room wall. Well, this can now be done using the service called Instacanv.as.

Users can log in with their Instagram accounts and choose a photo from their profile or browse through the numerous number of selection from other individuals from the site. You can select prints ranging from three distinct sizes. You can opt to print the photo in either black or white canvas.

This service can also make you some serious money. If your photo gets chosen by an individual, you get 20% of the purchase price. The good thing about this is that you still keep the rights of the photos.

CEO of the company Matt Munson says the they are keen on keeping the sometimes fickle Instagram community happy.

The company is only one of the many to choose from and is one of the cheaper options in the market.

The site will be officially launched this Wednesday and photo prices start at $31.99.

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