"Apple Testing Three iPhone 5 Prototypes?"

The latest iPhone 5 rumor is that Apple is currently testing three prototype models of the iPhone 5, and the rumor comes from a Taiwan based website which has in the past published information about new Apple devices that have been true.

According to the rumor one prototype iPhone 5 is identical to the existing iPhone 4, except for a larger battery and a more powerful camera, although this doesn’t tie in with the earlier

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" (video) Skyrim Kinect Xbox 360 Support Detailed"

Bethesda have this week released a new video detailing a few of the Kinect moves you can expect once its rolled out to Xbox360 consoles equipped with Kinect motion controllers.

The new Skyrim Kinect update will be available for free, and is expected to arrive later this month. As we mentioned in a previous article the Skyrim Kinect integration will come with

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"Raspberry PI Hits 350,000 Orders"

The Raspberry PI has been very popular with the pre-orders of the device selling out almost instantly and the device has only recently started to be shipped out to customers, and now we get some actual numbers on how many of these tiny $35 computers have been sold.

According to the two companies who are handling sales of the device in behalf of the Raspberry PI foundation, they have received a total of 350,000 orders for the Raspberry PI

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"Chromium OS Builds For New Raspberry Pi Computer"

This week Chromium OS tweaker Hexxeh has announced plans to develop and release builds of Chromium OS Vanilla for the new $35 Raspberry Pi computer very soon. The new Chromium OS will be able to be loaded onto an SD card, inserted into the new Raspberry Pi computer (when you can get your hands on one) and boot directly into the Google Chromium operating system.

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"Google Enables Google+ SMS Posting Support In 41 Extra Countries"

Today Google has rolled out a new update to its Google+ social network which brings with its support for an additional 41 countries to now be able to update their Google+ streams via SMS messages from their mobile phones.

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"Dead Space Narrative Producer Calls Gears of War Worst Writing In Games"

In what seemed to have started as a crash course in narrative for the interactive medium which took a left turn into full-on Gears of War bashing to finally end up as self-deprecating recrimination, Dead Space narrative producer Chuck Beaver calls the narrative of Epic’s flagship title “literally the worst writing in games.”

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"The Banner Saga Coming to XBLA / PSN, Bringing Player-Owned Cities"

There is a possibility that you might not know about the Banner Saga yet. It’s a certainty that you’re worse off for it if that is the case. The Banner Saga is a Kickstarter-funded turn-based strategy adventure which seems like the reason Kickstarter was invented. How else would a 2D turn-based game about a Viking diaspora relying on a custom built motion-capture animation system  been built?

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"DOTA 2 Adding “Twist” To Free To Play"

With free to play taking off the way it has, it won’t be long before developers will have difficulty getting someone to play a game that they are giving away. It’s inconceivable for Valve to ever be in that position, especially with such a high profile property as DOTA 2, but it hasn’t gotten to this point by relying on its brand or IP. Gabe Newellweighs in on the ways in which Valve is ready to change free to play.

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"Valve: EA’s Origin Has Work To Do To Catch Up To Steam"

No one expected EA’s Origin to overtake Steam in a matter of months. Indeed, given Valve’ and EA’s vastly different histories within the industry, not a lot of people wanted it to. And it hasn’t.  But although it’s doing a decent job by all accounts, Valve’s Gabe Newell, a man who

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"Halo 4: Get ready for a leaner, meaner Master Chief"

The excitement of millions of Xbox 360 owners
around the world now has a tangible focus:
November 6, 2012 is when Halo 4 will be
released, marking the start of the new
‘Reclaimer Trilogy’. Screengrab

New Delhi: Everybody knew that Microsoft wasn’t going to be done with the incredibly successful Halo franchise anytime soon, and they were right. The excitement of millions of Xbox 360 owners around the world now has a tangible focus: November 6, 2012 is when Halo 4 will be released, marking the start of the new ‘Reclaimer Trilogy’.

This time around it’s being developed by 343 Industries (or 343i), not by Bungie, which developed all the previous Halo games except Halo Wars. Gamers can expect to take command of a leaner, meaner looking Master Chief to once again fight the zombie-like creatures known as The Flood, along with whatever new threats to humanity

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"BlackBerry maker RIM seeks help to restructure company"

The struggling phone maker is looking at outside
help to save itself: AP

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has hired law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP to work out a restructuring plan that could include selling assets, seeking joint ventures or licensing patents, people briefed on the matter said.

As part of the struggling Canadian smartphone maker’s strategic review, the RIM board is discussing ways to boost revenue from its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and possibly opening up its proprietary

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"Aakash maker Datawind accuses ICA of defamation"

Datawind is being prickly about Aakash: Reuters

Datawind, the manufacturers of the low cost Aakash tablet have filed a defamation suit against the India Cellular Association for allegedly issuing statements harming the commercial interests of the company.

“We have sent a legal notice to them for spreading false reports against us in the media and in government meetings including places such as the department of IT,” Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli told the Economic Times.The Economic Times added that Indian Cellular Association president Pankaj Mohindroo

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"Facebook revises terms of use over privacy concerns ‎"

Based on the feedback from users, Facebook
released a new set of proposed changes on Friday
and offered more detailed explanation of its revisions.Reuters

Social networking site Facebook has unveiled changes to its new terms of service, tweaking earlier drafts in an apparent effort to ease users’ concerns about privacy and how their information is used.

Based on the feedback from users, Facebook released a new set of proposed changes on Friday and offered more detailed explanation of its revisions.

Since 2009 the social

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"Per second-billing compulsory for all: TRAI"

Reuters

New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Friday asked all service providers to ensure that they offer their customers per second billing plan along with other offerings.

“… it has become mandatory for service providers to offer in each service area at least one tariff plan each for both postpaid and prepaid subscriber with a uniform pulse rate of ‘one second’,” the regulator said in its order.

“The service providers will be at liberty to offer alternative tariff plans with any pulse rate within the overall ceiling of 25 tariff plans,” TRAI said in the Telecommunication Tariff (51st

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"Google’s Eric Schmidt received $125 million in 2011"

Schmidt received a bump in his salary after
completing a decade in Google's top role: Reuters

Google’s Eric Schmidt received a bump in his annual salary to $1.25 million from the $1 he received in the previous year, after he became the executive chairman of the company in April 2011.

Schmidt’s total compensation last year swelled to $101 million thanks to a previously announced equity award granted when he ended a 10-year stint in the top job at Google, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.

Schmidt ranked as the most highly compensated Google executive in 2011 by a long shot, earning more than four times the compensation of Google’s next highest-paid executive.

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"Will Intel’s Lava XOLO smartphone be a winner in India?"

The smartphone race in India is not coming to an end anytime soon. RIM, recently launched it’s ‘new afforable’ BlackBerry curve 9220 in the hope of boosting sales in one of the few

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