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Dospara hits back by bringing you their latest gaming PC, the Galleria XGR-R. Specs-wise, the system is packed with a 3.50GHz Intel Core i7-4770K quad-core processor, an Intel Z87 Express Chipset, an AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB graphics card, a 16GB DDR3 RAM, a 2TB hard drive, a Blu-ray drive, a 700W 80PLUS BRONZE power supply and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The Galleria XGR-R is available now for 169,980 Yen (about $1,726). [Product Page]

Wi-Fi networks are definitely a hallmark of modern day cities and metropolises. After all, most of the time when we go to a cafe or coffee shop, we might look around not for the menu, but perhaps, for the Wi-Fi password of the local network there. Apart from public places, we have also seen in-flight Wi-Fi catching on, although it does add up after a while. Wi-Fi on trains and buses are also getting more and more common, so I guess the final frontier at this point in time would be to be able to enjoy Wi-Fi while you are underwater. Granted, most of us would not end up in such a situation since the percentage of folks in the Navy is quite low in comparison to other occupations among the general populace, but to be able to enjoy an “underwater Wi-Fi” network is still a cool idea, don’t you think so?

A team from the University of Buffalo, New York, claimed that this particular technology could eventually help to detect tsunamis, which would offer a whole lot more reliability when it comes to early warning systems. That would go some way to save human lives in the long run, too. The aim of this project is to come up with an agreed standard for underwater communications, allowing it easier to perform interaction and data-sharing. Underwater Wi-Fi will be different from the normal sense of the word, as it relies on sound waves instead of radio waves. When will we see the first underwater tweet or Facebook update?

Underwater Wi-Fi Could Be A Reality original content from Ubergizmo.

It has been over a year since Marissa Mayer became the CEO at Yahoo, but her dynamic leadership has not managed to bring a permanent boost to the company as its revenues and profits still remain down, never mind that Ms. Mayer has not stopped purchasing other start-ups that she figured out would be essential to make sure that Yahoo has a strong future ahead. In fact, during the previous quarter, Yahoo picked up a total of eight start-ups, including Xobni, an e-mail service, and Bignoggins, a programming house that does fantasy sports mobile apps, in addition to rolling out 15 new product updates.

Ms. Mayer claimed that the slew of products unveiled and acquired resulted in a 20 percent increase in Yahoo’s traffic, which actually touched the 800 million monthly user mark in September, which was the first reversal in Yahoo’s traffic decline in a couple of years. The growth, of course, did not take Tumblr into consideration, even though Yahoo picked up the service sometime last May.

Unfortunately, Yahoo, a company that used to be the biggest seller of display ads, has ceded its share of the display advertising market for years. This particular market share is tipped to drop to 7.7% from a 8.6% market share last year, whereas Google and Facebook’s share of the market is said to grow and touch 17.4% and 17%, respectively.

Yahoo Ad Share Slips original content from Ubergizmo.

Earlier this year during WWDC 2013, Apple took the wraps off their new Mac Pro which features brand new hardware along with a rather interesting design that is a pretty obvious departure from the previous generation Mac Pros. The next question we’re sure some of you guys are asking is when will the computer be released? Apple has given us a “fall” timeframe, and it looks like production could soon be kicking into gear as Flextronics is currently in the process of hiring 1,700 people to work on a “next-generation desktop computer” at their factory in Austin, Texas.

The company declined to reveal what they were working on, but given that the Mac Pro will see assembly in the US, and with Flextronics being Apple’s rumored US manufacturer and with the plant located pretty close to Apple’s local offices, many believe that this recent wave of hiring could be to help Apple begin the manufacturing process of the Mac Pro. In any case take it with a grain of salt for now and don’t get your hopes up just yet, but rumors have pegged the Mac Pro’s release for sometime in November, so to hear Apple and their partners getting ready to begin production and assembly would not be a stretch of the imagination.

Mac Pro Could Be Getting Ready For Production, According To Recent Flextronics Hirings original content from Ubergizmo.

From December 1st, 2013 onward, if you happen to be a student, you will be able to access Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 ProPlus without having to fork out a single cent for it, kind of anyways. The folks over at Microsoft has just announced the availability of a new Student Advantage program which would enable any academic institution which licenses Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for staff and faculty, in order for them to provide Office 365 ProPlus to its students as well – for free! This would mean that the entire suite of products, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, InfoPath, and Access, will be part of the equation.

At the moment, a ballpark figure of the number of people who use the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 Education happens to stand at somewhere in the region of 110 million students, faculty, and staff. With the introduction of Office 365 ProPlus, students will be able to enjoy “all the familiar and full Office applications — locally installed on up to five devices and available offline.” There are over 35,000 institutions which happen to be automatically eligible to participate in the Student Advantage service, and it will also play nice with different cloud services including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online, where all of them are free via Office 365 Education.

Free Office 365 ProPlus For Students From Microsoft, Kind Of original content from Ubergizmo.