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Nissan is now (kinda) selling its Versa Note cars on Amazon. Fortunately 1-click purchasing doesn’t work, but you can snag $1,000 off the price if you’re one of the first make a purchase.

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Samsung has long adopted the strategy of offering a little bit of something for everyone, and the same applies to tablets as well as smartphones. Frankly, I have more or less lost track on the number of tablets that Samsung has released so far, but we do know that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 range might just be on the receiving end of a new 10” successor. How did we figure that out? Well, apparently a couple of variants of a yet unnamed tablet which came with the model numbers SM-N601 and SM-N605, were recently sent over to India for testing purposes.

Each of these tablets were listed to carry the value of Rs. 25,008 (which when converted, would be approximately $400 a pop), clearly placing it under the mid-range scheme of things, as it is more affordable than the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition (SM-P600) as well as the possible 12.2-inch Note (SM-P900) which Samsung is allegedly working on. While we await additional word on the possible tablet specs, chances are the upgrades will be minor in nature over its predecessor, such as a more recent Android version and perhaps a better camera. Would you want to take your chances with this new tablet from Samsung when it finally arrives as the polished article?

Samsung SM-N601 And SM-N605 Seen In Shipping Manifest original content from Ubergizmo.

Google’s Gmail email service has not been in the pink of health lately, so much so that there were email delivery delay issues reported this week. Having said that, there is another thing for Gmail users to look out for, and that is, if one were to insert images into the body of an email message, the simple act of doing so might actually see you receive a temporary ban from the account.

This is a rather disturbing bug which has already affected some unsuspecting Gmail users over the course of the past few months, and chances are it will have something to do with Gmail’s revamped “New Message” compose interface. That particular interface rolled out to the masses sometime at the latter part of last year, and since then it has become the default setting for Gmail users this year as Google claims it is faster, simpler and better compared to the previous basic HTML interface. So far, Google has already acknowledged the issue, but has not yet arrived at a solution to help users out.

Needless to say, affected users are not too happy with the situation. One of them even mentioned, “I’m scared to continue to rely on Gmail now. I use it for a lot of time-sensitive messages, both personal and for a not-for-profit organization that I work closely with. I cannot afford to be arbitrarily locked out of my account through no fault of my own due to a bug that Google has acknowledged but has left unresolved for months.”

Inserting Images Into Gmail Email Body Could Result In A Temporary Ban original content from Ubergizmo.

It was just yesterday when we brought you word that EA allegedly touted that Apple actually paid them a ‘truckload of money’ in order to delay the release of Plants vs Zombies 2 on the Android platform so that it will remain as an iOS exclusive for some time. That was a little hard to swallow actually, and even if it were to be true, what does EA gain from such an admission? Well, in under 24 hours, games publisher EA has stepped forward to deny such claims, and in an official statement they mentioned that “A comment from an internal meeting taken out of context has created an unfortunate misunderstanding. Reports of a paid relationship between Apple and EA are factually inaccurate, and we apologise for any confusion.”

Not only that, Apple also did issue a denial on the situation, and that nary a single cent has exchanged hands throughout the episode. Apparently, this particular misunderstanding came about after Frank Gibeau, head of EA Labels, was quoted to have said, “Apple gave us a truckload of money to delay the Android version [of Plants vs Zombies 2].” Taken out of context or otherwise? You be the judge. This just goes to show how important one’s words are regardless of the setting.

EA Denies Apple Paid Them ‘Truckload Of Money’ For Temporary Plants vs Zombies 2 iOS Exclusivity original content from Ubergizmo.

“Honey, I shrunk the kids” might be a statement from the world of science fiction, but in reality, we do seem to be making the move towards smaller and smaller devices. Computers have seen their processors shrink by leaps and bounds over the years, so much so that the smartphone in your hand could very well be a state of the art computer a decade or two back. Researchers at Stanford University unveiled on Wednesday what they claim to be the first working computer that was built entirely from carbon nanotube transistors.

Using seamless cylinders of ultrapure carbon, these are accompanied by a slew of other exotic materials researchers, allowing the researchers to further investigate the possibilities of smaller computers since electronics developers happen to be arriving at the theoretical limits of conventional silicon transistors. Of course, this particular invention is still primitive in nature, but it does show the possibility of transistors that are made using such unusual carbon fibers, all fitted into a general purpose computer.

Stanford University electrical engineer Max Shulaker, said, “It really is a computer in every sense of the word. This shows that you can build working, useful circuits out of carbon nanotubes and they can be manufactured reliably.”

First Nanotube Computer Constructed original content from Ubergizmo.