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Sony has just rolled out a spanking new firmware update for their Xperia Tablet S, which has been a tablet that saw better days when it was first introduced before it more or less faded into obscurity. This is going to be a minor firmware update, where it has been called as the ‘release6a’ firmware, taking up just 17MB of your download bandwidth. As for the kind of fixes that it offers, it is said to squash a few bugs here and there in addition to making sure that the VPN connection error will no longer be “in operation”, so to speak.

As for the Android firmware version, it will remain firmly entrenched in Ice Cream Sandwich territory, except that it will cite the Android 4.0.3 version number this time around, with a version 2.6 of the kernel. I guess you would be all right without applying this particular update, unless of course, you have suffered from VPN issues all this while.

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The Nintendo Wii U just launched yesterday, and it already has a bevy of games available for purchase, including some big titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Madden 13, and a handful of Nintendo-developed titles. However, the latest Grand Theft Auto installment may be hitting the new console come next spring.

Currently, Grand Theft Auto V is planned to only release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but Rockstar’s Dan Houser says that versions for PC and Wii U are “up for consideration”. Houser mentions that Rockstar is “a third-party publisher”, meaning that they can do whatever they want “wherever there’s the appropriate business opportunity and chance to find a market.”

It seems Rockstar is confident in the Wii U, and Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime even told MTV in an interview that he had received positive comments from Rockstar about the Wii U gaming console. Plus, Fils-Aime seems excited at the prospect of having GTA V available on the Wii U. He says that Nintendo wants to “create an environment where teams like Rockstar can bring their very best content” to the Wii U platform.

Previously, Rockstar released several games on Nintendo’s last-generation Wii console. Bully, Manhunt 2, and Table Tennis were just some of the games that Rockstar released on the Wii. However, the developer has yet to announce any Wii U projects. Hopefully Grand Theft Auto V will be their first.

[via IGN]

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There are two factors that are of the utmost importance when it comes to choosing mobile hotspots: speed and battery life. Further down the list is portability, with hardware design ranking even lower. So the idea of a touchscreen MiFi struck us as a ridiculous luxury, the sort of thing we’d find in a SkyMall catalog. This is why we were intrigued by the MiFi Liberate, Novatel Wireless’s first-ever 4G LTE MiFi with a built-in touchscreen. While it might seem like a gimmick, the interface does, in fact, provide quick access to vital stats like data usage. Novatel wasn’t content to leave it at that, though: the Liberate has features we would never dream of adding to a MiFi, including media streaming, GPS and even a basic messaging app. Fortunately, the addition of such features don’t inflate the price: it’s available for $50 with a new two-year agreement with AT&T. How well does it all work? Join us after the break for our review.

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You know what they say about us humans – we are a truly creative tour de force on this side of the galaxy, and when passion and genius meets, we normally end up with something out of the ordinary. Case in point, a nostalgic modder decided that having a Macintosh Portable lying around is not going to do the machine any good, which is why he decided to turn Apple’s very first laptop to run on OS X, dubbing it as “a great café computer” in the same process. Of course, the software is not the only thing that has changed, since underneath the clean and sterile looking white plastic lies the innards of a Toshiba NB100 netbook which heroically “sacrificed” itself in the pursuit of perfection.

I’m just being a little bit dramatic here – no one in their right mind would want to shed a tear for the Toshiba NB100 netbook – after all, this is more or less a dead market despite looking all too promising just a few years ago (before the tablet world really took off, of course). Its keyboard has been rewired via a USB controller, while the ball mouse has been converted to an optical mouse. Wi-Fi and USB connectivity have also been thrown into the mix for your added portable computing pleasure.

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There were whispers going around earlier this month that Apple has already begun to test out early builds of Mac OS X 10.9, where it does seem as though Cupertino is pretty adamant on delivering iOS features onto the OS X platform. So far, it seems that early builds do point towards the integration of Siri and Maps, although we do wonder why would anyone want to use Apple Maps on their desktop when you can always fire up a browser and rely on the far more accurate Google Maps.

At this point in time, Apple does offer both Dictation and Text-to-Speech, but when you take into consideration Siri integration, chances are Mac users will then be able to take advantage of voice-command as well as search functionality to boot. Maps integration, on the other hand, would mean developers can incorporate it into their own Mac apps, and it remains to be seen whether Apple will put up on offer its own stand-alone mapping app for the Mac. We await with bated breath for the official release of Mac OS X 10.9, and will keep a keen eye out for it on the grapevine as well as official news channels.

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