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New iPad gets benchmarked: 1GB RAM confirmed, no boost in CPU speed
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Not only did some lucky gents in Vietnam get their hands on the new iPad while most people are still refreshing their delivery status page, they were also kind enough to run some benchmark tests. The results confirm that the RAM has been upped to 1GB, with the Geekbench...
Nokia begins rolling out Nokia Belle updates to handsets
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Nokia has announced it has officially started rolling out updates for its Symbian-powered handsets, delivering the new Nokia Belle update to bring an fresh new look, added features and improved performance. The update will roll out to the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7 today,...
New iPad spotted in the wild, unboxing photos and video in tow
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Did Apple actually release a new iPad with LTE and a Retina Display last week? Or did it waft hallucinogens at us while we liveblogged, making us see only what we wanted to see? These doubts should be quashed when the third-gen tablet starts reaching consumers who are too...
Apple launches iTunes Store in 12 countries across Asia
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Just a few days after expanding its App Store to 32 additional territories, Apple this week launched its iTunes Store in 12 new Asian locales, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. In addition to these regions, the iTunes Store is now available in Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines,...
First unboxing video of Apple's new iPad surfaces from Vietnam
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A first look at the new iPad being unpackaged and handled has surfaced from Vietnam, where users got their hands on an LTE-capable model days ahead of Friday's official launch....
New iPad to hit 30 more countries this weekend, work on its tan
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The corners of the Earth that don't have a new iPad have been quickly shrinking, and Apple's tablet is about to get nigh-on inescapable as of this weekend. A round of 23 more countries is getting the 2012 refresh on May 11, most of it being South American countries...
BlackBerry Curve 9310 / 9320 turns up at FCC, fails to keep a low profile
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FCC docs can, from time to time, turn up some welcome device surprises. Not so in this recent RIM filing, as we're treated to yet another in a long line of leaks for the company's Curve 9310 / 9320. The BB OS 7.1 handset, bearing the FCC IDs L6AREY20CW...
New iPad unboxed: looks the same as the last one (video)
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While some of those with orders for Apple's new iPad are facing delays, one lucky man in Vietnam going by the name Sonlazio is already enjoying his new 16GB LTE tablet. Along with a dozen or so high-res photos, his unboxing video (below) shows the device in detail, drawing...
Video: New iPad in Vietnam
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An unauthorized preview, three days before Apple-sanctioned sales begin Side by side: iPad 2 and new iPad Despite Apple's (AAPL) best efforts to keep a lid on the thing, a pair of Vietnamese bloggers managed to get their hands on a new iPad and post a 4-minute unboxing video on...
Nokia flips internet sharing switch on for Lumia 710 and 800c in Tango update
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Looks like Espoo's finally ready to do the Tango with Lumia owners. According to a report on Nokiapoweruser, updates for localized variants of the 710 and the China-only 800c have been spotted on NaviFirm, indicating a planned firmware rollout for those WP 7.5 devices is underway. Users in Belgium,...
Purported Samsung Galaxy S III photo leaks, draws parallels with leaked manual diagrams
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Samsung’s new Galaxy S III smartphone has cropped up a number of times in the past month, but a new leak today has revealed what the device will look like when it is finally unveiled on May 3 at London’s Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre In previous leaks — including this...
New iPad shows up in Hong Kong, teases with sample photos and video clip
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Looks like Vietnam ain't the only place that got an early taste of the new iPad, which is due out this Friday. Hong Kong magazine PCM just informed us that it got hold of a 4G flavor of Apple's latest tablet, courtesy of a very mysterious person (especailly considering...
Challenge to China on rare earths
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Vietnam and Japan have opened a centre for research into rare earth minerals to challenge China's monopoly of supply....
BlackBerry Curve 9320 spotted in Vietnam, leaves nothing to the imagination
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Indeed, the Curve 9320's been anything but shy in these past couple of months. First, it was spotted while on a purported trip to India and shortly after that posing for T-Mobile's UK site. Now, the BlackBerry handset has been pampered by a full hands-on treatment from the Vietnamese...
Apple launches iTunes Store , iTunes Match and iTunes in the Cloud in 12 new countries in Asia
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Apple has announced that it is launching the iTunes Store in 12 additional countries in Asia today. These countries include Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The iTunes Store is Apple’s media outlet, which distributes music and movies to Mac, Windows and iOS...
Apple finishes converting 4G branding to ‘WiFi + Cellular’ for iPads across European stores
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Apple has apparently completed converting the wording of all of its European stores from the old iPad ’4G’ branding, which landed it in hot water with consumer advocacy groups, to the new WiFi + Cellular branding. This includes Italy and Sweden, two countries which had not made the switch as...
Drug resistant malaria takes new ground, raising fears of global spread
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In Southeast Asia, drug-resistant malaria may have evolved resistance to another frontline therapy and established itself in new territory in western Thailand, according to the World Health Organization. The new area in Thailand joins previous hot spots in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar, with the latter being badly equipped to...
The saola 'Asian unicorn' in pictures
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This antelope-like reclusive species lives in remote regions of the Annamite mountains on the border of Vietnam and Laos - but under 100 may now be left...
The THOR database: a military record of every US bomb deployed since World War I
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Six years ago, Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson began tracking down data about every bomb dropped by the armed forces since World War I. After processing thousands of pages of written records and sprawling datasets, Robertson's endeavor has resulted in the THOR database, or the Theater History of Operations Reports,...
Nokia begins construction on Vietnamese production facility
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In keeping with Elop's focus on Asia-based production, Nokia's just broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Vietnam. The site, located in the country's Bac Ninh province, spans over 17 hectacres and is slated to begin production of mobile devices when it's completed in early 2013. The move...
New iPad unboxed in Vietnam, shows 4G toggle and benchmarks
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Well-known for its pre-release Apple access, Vietnam's Tinhte in a pair of posts has gotten early access to the third-generation iPad and answered some of its core questions. Apart from proving that the box will be very familiar, the site confirmed that the new iPad has an LTE toggle to...
Internet tethering update rolling out to Nokia Lumia 710 and 800C devices
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Nokia promised last month that it was planning to issue an update for its Lumia 710 and 800 devices to enable the Internet Sharing feature of Windows Phone "soon." It appears that a firmware update is now available for some Lumia 710 and 800C (Chinese variant) users. Nokiapoweruser claims...
Vietnam's new technology entrepreneurs
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The pioneers shaking up the country's tech industry...
Foxconn plans $1 billion factory in Indonesia to churn out more Apple gear
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Apple (AAPL) manufacturing partner Foxconn (2354) is planning a billion-dollar factory located in Indonesia, Games Industry International reported on Wednesday. The company said it was drawn to the country over Malaysia and Vietnam due to its high rate of economic growth. Foxconn also noted that the region is “sorely in...
Apple releases movies for iTunes in the Cloud in 37 countries
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Movies have been added to iTunes in the Cloud in 37 new countries today, including the UK, Canada, and Australia. This roll out is the first time movies have been available on iTunes in the Cloud outside of the US. Several other countries in which the feature has been...
Nokia Lumia 610 launching in Asian markets at the end of April
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Although we had been expecting Windows Phone "Tango" handsets to arrive this month, Nokia officially revealed today that it will launch its new Lumia 610 Windows Phone in the Philippines in the last week of April. Additional markets such as China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam...
Apple's iTunes Store Goes Live in Hong Kong, Singapore and Ten Other Asian Countries
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Apple debuted its iTunes Store to a dozen new markets in Asia today, bringing it to Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. This is the company’s first big iTunes push into Asia since it launched the store in Japan back in...
Nokia to announce its first manufacturing plant in Vietnam on April 23rd
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Over the last few months, Nokia has closed scaled back several of its Western factories and shed over 3,000 employees in a recent effort to cut costs. The Finnish handset maker will shift its manufacturing business to Asia and is planning to build a plant in Vietnam, a move that is...
A 10-Inch BlackBerry PlayBook Turns Up In Vietnam (RIMM)
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An unusual development on the other side of the world -- a 10-inch PlayBook tablet has turned up in Vietnam and pictures of it surfaced on Vietnamese site Tinhte, reports Electronista. The PlayBook is normally a 7-inch tablet, but a teardown of the 10-inch mystery device reveals genuine internals. The...
First extensive third-gen iPad camera samples pop online
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Fresh from a very early unboxing, Vietnam's Tinhte has posted the first substantial batch of camera samples from the 2012 iPad. While not difficult, they prove that the five-megapixel camera is dramatically better than the one-megapixel example of the iPad 2. The output appears color-neutral and both sharper and visibly...
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