Nov 15
ASUS has showed off another one of its upcoming all-in-one desktop PC, the ET2701INTI. This space-saving machine will feature a 27-inch 1920 x 1080 multi-touch TFT LCD display, a 3.1GHz Intel Core i7-3770S processor, an Intel H61 Express Chipset, a GeForce GT 640M 2GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 2TB hard drive, a webcam, a BD drive, an SD card slot, WiFi, an HDMI port and run on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The ET2701INTI will start shipping from late November for around 169,800 Yen (about $2,115). [ASUS]
Microsoft Research could hit a potential goldmine with one of their forays, that is being able to convert spoken English into Mandarin, taking all but a few seconds’ delay, now how about that? The good news, in essence, does not just stop there, as it is also able to output Mandarin speech in the vocal style of the original speaker, now how about that? This technology certainly wowed the crowd when it was recently demonstrated by Microsoft’s research chief Rick Rashid in Tjianjin, China, on October 25th, meaning such an achievement took its own sweet time to hit the major newswires.
Google has decided to expand the reach of its new Google Shopping experience to countries such as Australia, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. This particularly new version will offer merchants additional transition time so that they are able to make full use of and optimize their campaigns. Expect cleaner results for shopping queries and sponsored results to happen just a day before Valentine’s next year, where these new queries will enable shoppers to refine a search by brand or price, while boasting larger product images. Google is keeping their fingers crossed that the rollout will be completed with all the changes intact by June 2013.
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It seemed that the CyanogenMod website has been transferred from a .com to a .org after the domain holder made a demand for money. This particular move comes across after the Android ROM community’s discovered that the domain holder wanted to make a quick buck on the domain and project, where the Cyanogen team was asked for $10,000 so that they can retain control of the domain. The domain owner was said to have impersonated Steve “Cyanogen” Kondik, hoping to form referral deals in the process and make a killing off the non-profit organization’s work.
Computers are repositories for important documents and personal files. That is why users ought to guard their computers with their life. Unfortunately for NASA, one of its laptops was stolen a few weeks ago. The stolen laptop was issued to an employee at the NASA headquarters in Washington. Two weeks ago, the laptop was stolen from a locked car, along with it personnel information such as the social security numbers of its employees. The stolen laptop was reportedly password-protected, however, the disk wasn’t fully-encrypted, which means that it is easier to hack.
Were you planning on getting your hands on Apple’s new iMacs? Word has it that these iMacs were supposed to arrive on the 27th of November, but according to the folks at 
Bugs in software are usually annoying and they range from being small annoyances to possibly rendering the software unusable entirely, but we guess once in a while a bug does pop up that we can’t help but smile at. It seems there are several reports on the internet about an OS X bug that will basically transform your Launchpad into an abstract looking piece of art. Apparently the way the bug works is that instead of applying the blur effect when opening up Launchpad, it instead applies the crystallize effect which results in the screenshot above. It’s weird, it’s sort of beautiful and it goes away after a while. We’re not sure what exactly causes it but it does not seem to be a widespread problem. If you own a Mac computer and come across the bug, be sure to capture a screenshot and send it to us! Anyone else experience this bug for themselves yet?
If you’e wondering what’s the hottest Windows 8 and Windows RT device right now, AdDuplex thinks it has the answer. AdDuplex, a cross-platform advertisement network for Windows developers, recently published a report detailing the stats of its ads on Windows 8/ RT and Windows Phone 8. The report shows that Microsoft’s Surface tablet is now the most popular “single” device on Windows RT, taking 11 percent of the overall market. HP’s Pavilion g6 notebook and Pavilion dv6 notebook came in at second place, and Samsung’s 700T took the third spot.
Google has introduced some minor updates on Google Drive, allowing you to have an easier time finding, organizing, and viewing stuff on Google Drive itself. You can search by person, which comes in handy should you be unable to remember the name of a file, although you know who was the person who shared it with you. Drive search will now auto-complete people’s names, so that it is easier to look up the kind of stuff that you’re searching for.