Asia Leads In Fast Internet Connection (Study)

Asia Leads In Fast Internet Connection (Study)In this day and age, check out the behavior of youngsters in developing as well as developed countries and you would find that most of them would be hooked on a mobile device at one time or another. We are living in a connected age, and if you were to bring your kids or teens for a holiday at a place with no Wi-Fi connectivity, they would most probably groan and wonder what is there one can do in this place called “the great outdoors”. Research firm Akamai Technologies has done some bit of homework to study the fastest Internet connections in the world, and Hong Kong leads the way with a 65.4 Mbps connection, edging out on its nearest competitor, South Korea, by 1.8 Mbps.

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    Toshiba Chromebook Now Available In The US

    Toshiba Chromebook Now Available In The USToshiba and their first Chrome OS-powered laptop is now available in the U.S., where it will feature a 13.3-inch display, running on an Intel Celeron 2955U Haswell processor, carries 2GB RAM, and sports a 16GB solid state drive (SSD). You will be able to pick up this Toshiba Chromebook at a price point which resides somewhere in the region of $280 a pop, depending on the retailer that you decide to purchase it from. Adorama happens to sell the Toshiba Chromebook for $280, while those who prefer to do their online shopping from Amazon will have to fork out $288, and picking it up directly from Toshiba.com would cost you $300.

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    Sony’s VAIO Lineup Almost Ran OS X

    Sonys VAIO Lineup Almost Ran OS XAs we all know, Apple’s OS X operating system is an exclusive piece of software that is available on Apple’s Mac products, just like how iOS is only available on Apple made mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad. However it seems that back in the day, Apple did consider licensing out OS X and one of their potential partners was Sony. This is according Japanese writer, Nobuyuki Hayashi who has had two decades worth of experience covering Apple related news. He quotes ex-Sony president, Kunitake Ando, who claimed that back in 2001, Steve Jobs was so impressed by Sony’s VAIO lineup that he wanted OS X to be installed on it.

    “Steve Jobs and another Apple executive were waiting for us at the end of the golf course holding VAIO running Mac OS.” Apparently this was shortly after Apple decided to axe the Mac clone business, but were sufficiently impressed by the VAIO that they were willing to make an exception. However the timing was not right as the VAIO lineup had recently taken off and the discussions eventually amounted to nothing. It would have been interesting to see other manufacturers offer up OS X computers but what do you guys think? Do you think Apple’s decision to make it exclusive to their own products was the right one?

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    Microsoft To Invest $15 Million In Foursquare

    Microsoft To Invest $15 Million In FoursquareThere were whispers going around that Microsoft would be investing $15 million of their own money into Foursquare, which happens to be a location-based social networking service. According to the Wall Street Journal, this particular amount will also include a multi-year contract between the two corporate entities. Word on the Foursquare blog did mention that they will allow Microsoft to be able to access the company’s places database in their hardware and software products. Apart from that, Foursquare is also proud to announce that they have more than 45 million registered users (which is still a far cry from the 1 billion plus users on Facebook), and these 45 million folks have done their fair bit in assisting Foursquare to collect data from more than 60 million restaurants, stores and other locations.

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    Facebook Turns 10: What Does It Mean To You?

    Facebook Turns 10: What Does It Mean To You?So, the hugely popular social network known as Facebook has just turned 10, and in the past decade, it has been quite an adventure since Mark Zuckerberg and a bunch of his friends kicked off TheFacebook.com in a dorm room on February 4, 2004. In fact, Zuckerberg and his friends have become billionaires since then, and extremely young ones at that. Over the past 10 years, Facebook has managed to attract a whopping 1.1 billion users, and imagine the amount of time spent on the social network – posting up of food photos, plenty of selfies, a race between your group to get as many Likes as possible, holiday photos, the works. All of this would translate to a whole lot of time, and you can make use of TIME’s calculator in order to check out the number of days of your life you have spent on Facebook.

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    Woman Shoots Eating Videos On YouTube, Makes A Living From It

    As a YouTube user, are there ways for you to be able to monetize the amount of time that you spend there? If you are a certain Park Seo-yeon, then the answer is a resounding “Yes!” In fact, she is currently pulling in approximately $9,000 a month from fans who like nothing better to do other than to watch her eat for hours on end each day. This South Korean lady is known as “The Diva”, where every single night, she would cook elaborate meals and eat them in front of a camera, all the while chatting with fans. The money she gains is not from Google, but rather, from tips via an online currency which can be exchanged for cash later on.

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    Mouse Computer NEXTGEAR-MICRO im550BA2-777 Gaming PC

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    Mouse Computer has come out with another gaming PC namely the NEXTGEAR-MICRO im550BA2-777. As part of the G-Tune series, this PC pachinko online game certified (operated by 777TOWN.net) gaming PC is equipped with a 3.10GHz Intel Core i5-4440 processor, an Intel H81 Express Chipset, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a 500W 80PLUS SILVER power supply and runs on Windows 8.1 64-bit OS. The NEXTGEAR-MICRO im550BA2-777 sells for 69,930 Yen (about $690). [Product Page]

    Sony VAIO Brand Rumored To Be Sold To Japanese Investment Firm

    Sony VAIO Brand Rumored To Be Sold To Japanese Investment FirmAre they selling? Are they not selling? Well a couple of days ago we heard the rumors that Sony might be looking to sell off their VAIO PC division to Lenovo. This rumor has since been denied by Sony, but at the same time did not deny that they could still be on the lookout for potential buyers, although in this case not necessarily Lenovo. Well according to a recent report from Nikkei, it was suggested that Sony could be selling off their VAIO division to a Japanese investment fund instead, Japan Industrial Partners.

    The sale, estimated to be between $391 million to $489 million, will allow Sony to keep a small stake in the VAIO brand and continue to operate it in select markets where the VAIO brand is well-known. However as for Japan, it is said that the VAIO brand will turn its focus towards business users, rather than your average consumer. The deal is far from done and it is expected to become official by the end of March. Naturally Sony has not confirmed this deal yet so do take it with a grain of salt for now, but what do you guys think? Will you be sad to see the Sony VAIO brand disappear?

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    Toshiba Canvio Home 2TB and 3TB NAS

    Toshiba Canvio Home 2TB and 3TB NASThe Canvio Home Backup & Share is Toshiba’s new home network appliance (or home network attached storage/NAS) and will come with either 2TB or 3TB of disk storage. The device will be marketed as a personal cloud storage since it can server content both within the home and over the public internet as well. This has become a must-have feature since a big part of the appeal for customers is to control their own data, both in terms of hosting, but also in terms of recurring subscription fees – that’s particularly true for multi-terabytes users.

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    ASUS Chromebox Just launched

    ASUS Chromebox Just launchedGoogle’s Chrome OS has typically arrived in laptops known as Chromebooks, but it looks like ASUS will be going a different route with the announcement of their Chromebox. The device will be powered by Chrome OS, but the main different is that it does not come with a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. In fact one could almost liken the Chromebox to a small form factor PC. Just like Chromebooks, the Chromebox will offer the user access to Google’s wide variety of products and services, such as YouTube, Hulu Plus, and Netflix. (more…)

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