Oculus Rift And Kinect Used To Create A Paperboy Game

We've seen the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset used in a variety of manners, such as for seeing through the eyes of a drone, or the more novel where it is used as added stimulant for an erotic video game. Well now if you've always wanted to experience what it's like to be a paper boy on their route, Toronto company Globacore has decided to make a simple game that combines the Oculus Rift, a Kinect sensor, and a stationary bicycle that resulted in the revisitation of an Atari classic - Paperboy. Through the use of a widget called Kickr, it will allow the game to track the pedaling speed of the bicycle.

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Verizon HTC One Release Slated For August 15th

Verizon has still not revealed to its current and prospective customers when it plans on finally releasing the HTC One. Other major carriers in the U.S. have already been carrying the device for quite a few months now, Verizon is yet to launch yet. We had heard a lot of rumors recently that pegged the release of this smartphone on August 1st, but apparently that's not going to happen. Droid-Life has reportedly received a document in which the Verizon HTC One release date has been slated for August 15th.

One might argue that the delay in launching this smartphone on Verizon would result in lackluster customer interest.

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Isis Mobile Payment Solution National Rollout Commences In 2013

Isis is a mobile payments solution that is backed by three of the biggest mobile carriers in the U.S., Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile to be precise. It basically lets people make payments by tapping their phones, NFC technology plays a vital part in this. Isis has been testing the technology at over 4,000 locations in Salt Lake City and Austin, the company said today that it is finally ready to commence national rollout of the service this year. The service is capable of working with Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone smartphones. Isis says that iPhone support is coming as well.

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HTC One for Verizon launch set for August 15th?

The Verizon HTC One is still nowhere to be found, but new rumors suggest that'll change in just over two weeks' time. According to documents received by Droid-Life, the Verizon HTC One launch date has been set to August 15th. The original date was apparently set for August 1st, but some suggest Verizon pushed it back a couple more weeks. We're not sure of the company's reasoning, but everyone has their own guesses.
The easiest guess to make is that the carrier wants to give more time to push the HTC DROID DNA before it brings in the superior HTC handset.

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Developer Modifies Game To Propose To Girlfriend

Earlier this year you might have heard of how this developer hacked Donkey Kong so that his daughter could play as a female character, a pretty cool move as far as we're concerned, but it seems that Mike Mika has hacked and modified more than one game during his time and in a recent interview with Wired, Mika recounted how he modified the code in a video game he helped develop to propose to his then-girlfriend, now-Wife. Mika found out that his girlfriend loved puzzle games and because he was developing one himself, he thought it would be cool to put in the proposal in the game.

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Apple Introduces Spam Reporting For iMessage

With the launch of iOS 7 which is expected to take place later this year, one of the features Apple will be introducing is the ability to block Apple IDs from iMessage or FaceTime. While the messages can still be sent as regular text, it can help block spammers or maybe that stalker ex of yours. In any case in the meantime it looks like Apple has already begun offering iMessage spam reporting, thanks to a new knowledge base article found on Apple's website.

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Nokia RX-114 Tablet Spotted On Benchmark Site

Hmmm, now this is something interesting – Nokia might be jumping aboard the tablet bandwagon after all, after rumors concerning a possible Nokia Zoom with an image of an alleged expunged Nokia tablet hitting the headlines earlier this month. It is said that Nokia could very well be testing out a Snapdragon 800-powered device that runs on the Windows operating system, assuming the data that was spotted in a recent benchmark result could be trusted. After all, it is pretty easy to fake stuff online these days. Taking on the RX-114 name, it was allegedly spotted in a GFXbench app.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 found to use benchmark boosting app to increase performance scores

In recent times, we have all lay witnessed to a sort of spec arms race, sparked by smartphone OEM's doing whatever they can to trump the other, and gain valuable market share. As consumers, we've helped feed into this, demanding our devices add more cores with every iterations, and even higher ppi's than the last. If you needed further proof that this has gotten out of hand, take a look at what was just uncovered.


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Lack of 35mm film, replacement parts putting hurt on America's drive-ins

Drive-in movie theaters turn 80 years old this summer, and, soon, they might die of old age. There are only 360 drive-in theaters left in the US – down from 4,000 at their peak in 1958 – and the 35-millimeter film projectors that they use to screen movies are quickly losing support from studios, which have switched to digital methods of capturing pictures. Remember the four-foot poles with speakers built in. You'd pull your car up to it, park, and open your windows to listen to the movie. Well, there's only one company left that makes parts for those speakers, and they don't support surround sound.

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Man beats ticket on dashcam evidence, takes town to court [w/videos]

Rod MacIver wanted justice after being wronged by his local police department. He was pulled over and cited for running a red light, despite the officer's dashcam video clearly shown that he hadn't. When the matter went to court, the judge, after viewing the footage, threw the case out and dressed down the officer, Jason Lawton. MacIver isn't through, though, taking the matter to small claims court over the time and effort involved in beating his original ticket.

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Helikite Balloons Could Form Emergency LTE Network

Now here is an idea – should a kaiju suddenly appear off the Gulf of Mexico, or just like in the movies, giant monsters from the depths of the sea decide to make short work of humanity's abodes by the beach, surely there will be areas where cellphone reception is down due to the phone's network being dragged down alongside the wanton destruction that was wrought. Well, what can be done in such a situation then. How about Helikites. Helikites are actually small load-bearing balloon-kite hybrids that can be launched in a jiffy in order to form a network of LTE or WLAN masts that are up to an altitude of 2.5 miles.

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M-Edge Stealth Pro Universal Keyboard Folio

When it comes to keyboard cases for the seemingly ubiquitous tablet, these are dime a dozen. Are there any other models out there which could change the way we look at this particular hardware genre. M-Edge might have the answer in the form of the Stealth Pro Universal Keyboard Folio, which happens to be an extremely slim as well as versatile universal keyboard case. The case itself will play nice with a slew of 7" as well as 10" tablets, where these will include (but are not limited to) the iPad, iPad mini, Google Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Kindle Fire HD 7 & 8.9.

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Android 4.3 to breathe new life in last year's Nexus 7 (2012) by speeding up I/O performance

With the all new Nexus 7 (2013) model now readily available for purchase across the US, many of you who purchase the last year's model might be looking at your old device with discontent. There have been countless reports from users that, while the device performed snappily enough at first, it soon became bogged down over time, sluggish to the point of where it was completely unusable. Before you throw that old device in the bin, you might wanna wait for the incoming Android 4.3 update. As discovered by AnandTech, some new lines of code found inside Android 4.3 could vastly improve performance, making the device feel like new again.

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2013 Chevrolet Camaro SS Hot Wheels Edition

Pairing your car, truck or SUV with another brand is a tried-and-true method to create the sort of positive association that sells vehicles, or at least gives them an attractive new look and higher margins. Ford knows this, having paired the Explorer and rugged apparel brand Eddie Bauer in the '90s with great success, and the F-150 with iconic motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson since 2000 (that partnership, however, has ended with the 2012 model year). Not every partnership is geared towards making a vehicle appear more macho, though.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 With Snapdragon 600 Announced In China

Earlier this month, we did mention about how a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phablet was spotted (at least screenshots of it shown off in an AnTuTu benchmark) to feature a Snapdragon 600 processor, and while that remained pretty much on the brink between rumor and reality, it looks like said phablet is very, very real. So real, in fact, that it has showed up in China with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 processor in tow. Now, if we were to turn back the clock a tad, the Galaxy Note 2 that has been available in the US since August last year did come with a 5.5" touchscreen display, 2GB RAM and running on a quad-core Samsung Exynos 4 processor.

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Smart Cargo for iPad review

I have completely replaced a laptop in my life with my iPad. I discovered this about a year into having my first iPad, when I realized the only time I had moved my MacBook Pro from the desk was when I presented, using both it and my iPad at a few meetings. But, when I'm out for the day, I still want to carry along a few things: a charger and cable – just in case; a portable battery pack; a screen cleaning cloth; a portable speaker; and my Square dongle. So, I usually wind up taking a bag along, just as I did with my MacBook Pro, but it's just a much smaller bag.






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Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4 now just $99.99 with contract. 7″ Asus MeMO Pad down to $99.98

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is arguably one of the best smartphones currently on the market. And ever since its release not that long ago, it's been sold by Sprint for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Recently the Now Network started offering this superphone on a BOGO deal – you buy one, you get one free (provided of course that you sign a new two-year contract for each device). So in that case you'd effectively pay just around $100 for a Galaxy S4. But that means buying two. What if you only need one Galaxy S4, but don't want to shell out $199.99 to get it?

You're in luck.


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Nokia Thinks Microsoft Should Step Up Their Game To Make Windows Phone A Success

In Finland, home to Nokia, Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system was reported to own about 20% of the market, numbers which are pretty impressive compared to the UK where they are at around 8.1% (impressive but not as big a number compared to 20%). However with these recent figures and despite the numbers lagging behind operating systems like iOS and Android, Nokia has remained largely positive about the Windows Phone operating system, as shared by Nokia's vice president, Bryan Biniak.

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OTT Messaging blossoms but SMS still growing and delivering the big revenues

29th July, 2013 - A new report from Portio Research suggests that other forecasts about the revenue generated by mobile messaging are wrong.

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Darwin Private Equity Acquires Esendex For £11 Million

Growth strategy to double size of business through organic growth and acquisitionDarwin Private Equity has completed the management buyout of Esendex, a leading provider of mission-critical application-to-person SMS services to businesses, in a deal worth £11 million.Esendex’s services are used by more than 6,500 businesses around the world to improve customer service, communicate with employees, increase operational efficiency and generate sales. Clients include Ocado, BAA Gatwick, ASOS, Addison Lee, Dun & Bradstreet, ASDA, and Virgin Media.

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tyntec Receives Patent Approval For Distributed SMS-C In Global Key Markets

SMS messaging service specialist continues to ensure security and reliability in end-to-end message delivery across global carrier networks with Distributed SMS-CSan Francisco, Ca, July 29, 2013 — Mobile interaction specialist tyntec today announced it has been granted new patents for its Distributed SMS-C technology in the US, Europe and Asia. tyntec’s Distributed SMS-C provides the highest levels of security and quality for the transmission of A2P (Application-to-Person) and P2P (Person-to-Person) SMS sent via global communications networks.

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Moto X shown off in official press shots

By now we know almost there is to know about the upcoming Moto X, which would be officially announced three days from now on August 1. @evleaks, who have given us plenty of Moto X images until now, have these final set of press shots, in both black and white, that give a good clear look at the device. We assume these will be the default colors and on top of that you would be able to customize the look and feel from Motorola's website.

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Turn you iPhone 4x4s or 5 into a real pocket camcorder thanks to Donya

Ever wanted to turn your iPhone into a Camcorder look-alike. Well guess what. Shanghai Donya has just what you need with their latest product the DN-84841. Slide your iPhone into Donya's latest “Grip” and you will have a rather nice little grip that will turn your iPhone into a Camcorder with direct access to your iPhone camera operating buttons for a perfect experience.

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Chromecast review and full walkthrough [VIDEO]

In yesterday's post, we showed you guys the entire setup process involved in getting Chromecast up and running on your television. With that finally out of the day, we can now get to the fun stuff. Here is our walkthrough covering everything Chromecast does, and if it's really worth your $35. What Chromecast does

In the olden days, getting video from your Android device to your television was anything but user friendly. You can argue that plugging a micro HDMI cable into your device was easy, but was it convenient? Obviously not, because nobody ever did it. Ever.









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French court lifts registration ban on Mercedes with contested refrigerant

The brief alphanumerics R134a and R1234yf are codes for a growing battle between carmakers, states and the EU. The air-conditioning refrigerant R134a has been banned by the EU for being too damaging to the environment, with R1234yf mandated as its replacement. Daimler and Volkswagen say that in their own studies, though, R1234yf can be more dangerous in an accident, potentially starting fires and releasing poisonous hydrogen fluoride gas.

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Holovision Full Sized Hologram A Possibility

Holograms have always fascinated humankind ever since the idea of it was shown off in a science fiction movie. In fact, who would not want to have a holographic representation of the other person on the line appear in front of you whenever you take a call. It would be so cool, and even cooler when you have a human-sized hologram to play around with. HoloVision could pave the way to such a future, where this Kickstarter project claims to deliver a free-floating, life-sized image that will hover eight feet from its projector, clearly making good ol' R2-D2 obsolete with his rendition of Princess Leia.

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640,000 iPads Given To LA School Kids For Free

They do say that there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and a bunch of school going kids in Los Angeles will agree with you, but they would certainly dispute the statement that there is no such thing as a free iPad. After all, it seems that a whopping 640,000 iPads will be given away to eligible school kids in Los Angeles, and all of these without requiring those little ones to fork out a single cent for their iPad. The initial batch of 31,000 iPads will be handed out this year, while the remaining bunch of 609,000 iPads will be arriving next year.

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Best Stories Of The Week (22 To 26 July)

Here's a round up of what we think is the 5 most interesting stories for the week, and obviously, the new Nexus 7 takes top spot, followed closely by the Google Chromecast announcement. Moving on from all things Google, how about a mouse that could have false memories implanted. Those who have been hankering after all things Samsung Galaxy Note 3 will be pleased as punch to check out our overview on the upcoming device, and since the weekend is upon us, go out and paint the town red by knocking back a few pints with your friends, but do remember that even if you don't drink and drive, at least you can drink and play.

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Honda celebrates the life of Ayrton Senna the best way it knows how

Honda is returning to Formula One in 2015 with McLaren, and when that engine maker and that F1 constructor are mentioned together, two other words are never far behind: Ayrton Senna. There are engine suppliers, constructors and drivers that have bigger numbers, but those three form a triumvirate that came close to defining F1 in the eighties. Honda Japan has produced a commercial called Sound of Honda that celebrates Senna at a race that turned out to be one of the most momentous of his career for good and bad reasons: the 1989 grand prix at Suzuka where he won, then was stripped of, the driver's championship.

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SanDisk introduces wireless flash storage drives

Flash drives aren't anything new, wireless storage devices aren't either, but SanDisk has managed to combine the two in a fun, ultra-portable, attractive USB drive.  SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drives include a 16GB or 32GB option, while the larger cube-shaped SanDisk Connect Media drives include 32GB or 64GB versions, both for sharing your stored photos, documents, movies and music wirelessly amongst your mobile devices.  You can even easily expand this storage space further.  The flash drive has a microSD slot, while the media drive includes a handy standard SDHC card slot.  Nice.

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Aston Martin signs Letter of Intent for technical partnership with AMG

A little over two months ago came reports that Daimler and Aston Martin were in talks, again, about "supply and technical-cooperation agreements." The next step has been taken with Aston Martin announcing that it has signed a Letter of Intent that looks "towards a technical partnership" with Mercedes-AMG GmbH, and the two companies aiming to have definitive agreements done by year's end.

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Four Million MacBook Sales Expected In Q4, 2013

There have been many reports recently that consumers are shifting away from conventional computers such as desktops and laptops towards tablets. The market is said to be in a steady decline. However, according to a new Digitimes report, Apple may end of moving four million MacBook units in this particular quarter. What's baffling about this report is that in the same quarter last year, Apple managed to move four million units of all Macs, not just the MacBook models.
If this does end up happening, it would mark a significant growth as compared to Q3, 2013 as well as last year's Q4.

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GTA 5 Limited Edition Strategy Guide Announced

Some gamers love completing every single mission in a game to get all the achievements, while others prefer rushing to the end just to find out what happens, but in any case sometimes a game might prove too hard for the novice gamer to complete and that's where strategy guides come in. Well if you'd like to get your GTA 5 experience off to a good start, BradyGames has announced a pair of strategy guides for Rockstar's upcoming game. There will be a standard edition, and a limited edition copy that we guess diehard fans will probably want to get their hands on.

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Google Translate Throws In Handwriting Input On Homepage

It was sometime last year when Google Translate for Android was introduced to the world of handwriting input, and earlier this year, Google Input Tools on desktop was updated through the inclusion of additional new virtual keyboards, input method editors, and transliteration input tools. It seems that progress is constant, and to remain behind would be folly, as the input tools have taken another step further today where handwriting input is now part and parcel of the Google Translate homepage. Basically, handwriting input would allow you to translate a written expression, never mind that you do not know how to type the characters.

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Samsung's Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy Tab 3 will get new colors soon

Samsung's recently-launched Galaxy S4 Mini is currently available in two color versions: black and white. If you don't fancy those, it looks like three new colors are coming soon: red, blue, and brown. According to SamMobile, the new colors will be released starting week 35 (August 26 - September 1). All Galaxy S4 Mini models are expected to get them: the regular S4 Mini, the S4 Mini LTE, and the dual SIM S4 Mini.

Here is what the blue S4 Mini will most probably look like (just a mock-up):

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 tablets are also going to be released in new colors: Garnet Red and Midnight Black.

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AT&T's LG G2 unveiled by the FCC as the D801?

Today the FCC has approved a new and mysterious LG D801 smartphone. Which might turn out to be the G2 flagship that the South Korean company will officially announce on August 7. The FCC doesn't usually reveal much about important devices while approving them, but now it posted a sketch of the D801. And this certainly looks like the G2 teased by LG in an official video yesterday. Check out the two images below.

The LG G2 has volume buttons on the back. And we can also see them on the D801, just under the rear camera.

According to the FCC, the D801 comes with AT&T-friendly LTE connectivity (bands 4 and 17).


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New Sony i1 Honami Photos Leaked, Resembles The Xperia Z

Over the past couple of weeks and months we've been hearing about a certain Sony i1 "Honami", an upcoming smartphone by Sony that will feature a larger camera sensor, a phone supposedly that will challenge Samsung's Galaxy S4 Zoom and Nokia's recently announced Lumia 1020. Now thanks to the folks at Gadget Helpline, they have managed to get their hands on leaked photos of the upcoming Sony i1 Honami, and if you thought that the images were that of the Sony Xperia Z, we can't blame you because upon first glance they certainly do look alike,.

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