Intel CEO says Windows 8 is not fully ready

Uh oh. This is certainly news Microsoft does not want to hear about one month before the official release of its Windows 8 operating system. At a company meeting, Paul Otellini reportedly told employees that Windows 8 is released before it is “fully ready”, according to an article published by Bloomberg. However, getting Windows 8 ready now is the right decision and Microsoft can release updates afterwards to fix bugs.
It is not unusual that software ships with some bugs as many companies typically resort to an 80x20 strategy in which 80 percent is good enough and the remaining 20 percent too expensive to achieve.

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Slickdeals' best in tech for September 19th: an ASUS wireless router, keyboards and more

Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases. Of course you are. In this round-up, we'll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You'll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won't stick around long. Everyone loves to save some hard-earned cash when it comes to those tech spending sprees. In today's batch of discounted tech links, Slickdeals offers up a bit of a gadget sampler. There's a duo of keyboards, a wireless router, a VoIP phone system and a gigabit networking switch that are ready to get cozy at your place if you're in the market.






Engadget , Slickdeals' best in tech for September 19th: an ASUS wireless router, keyboards and more, Slickdeals' best in tech for September 19th: an ASUS wireless router, keyboards and more

Genius Traveler 9010LS Wireless Laser Mouse

The computer mouse is still an essential peripheral for those who use the computer. Even with the arrival of laptops or tablets that may have made the mouse a redundant device, still people's old habits die hard. Many still long for the experience of using the mouse for navigating on the screen. The way to make them relevant for today's portable trend is by making the mouse mobile and handy to travel with. That is why they now have become wireless like the new Genius Traveler 9010LS Wireless Laser Mouse.

The Genius Traveler 9010LS Wireless Laser Mouse is a new computer mouse designed for travel and mobile use.

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RadioShack's epic PR win (iPhone giveaway!)

. Public relations is a tough gig, and tech PR may be among the toughest due to the sheer volume of companies constantly fighting for coverage. Tech writers can get a hundred or more emails each day from PR companies hoping to get their clients publicity, so it is no easy task to concoct a pitch that draws interest. There isn't a magic recipe for standing out in the crowd of PR flacks vying for coverage, but the best way to separate yourself from the pack and avoid wasting writers' time and your clients' money is often to simply pay attention.



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Tokyoflash Japan Introduces the Kisai Logo Watch

Tokyoflash Japan is famous around these parts for their unusual watches, and they've just introduced a new one.  The Kisai Logo is a stainless steel watch with acetate accents in your choice of black, white, or the very limited-edition blue woodgrain.  The watch has mirrored LCD face with EL backlighting.  In addition to the time, the watch also has date and alarm functions.  And if the normal display just isn't geeky enough for you, there's a binary time display, shown in the third image.  As always, Tokyoflash is offering these watches at a special price for a limited time.

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Apocalypse Max: Better Dead Than Undead

Even when it comes to game apps on the iPhone, there are some gamers who always yearn games that are fashioned after those classic games of old. It does not matter if it comes with a  relatively new controls or type of gameplay. Some would just prefer game app that enables them to revisit some of those classic games just by the feel and experience that a new game app is able to provide. Apocalypse Max: Better Dead Than Undead game app for iOS has that touch of a classic game that many are familiar with.

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Watch David Coulthard pilot the SLS AMG GT around the 'Ring

The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT, replacement for the already-bonkers SLS AMG, adds 20 horsepower, stiffer springs and dampers, retunes the adaptive suspension and throws 20-inch wheels at the back end. It's a revamp that allowed the SLS AMG GT to snip five seconds off of a lap around the Nürburgring compared to the "snail-like" SLS AMG. In this video, Mercedes DTM team driver David Coulthard takes the new gullwing out on that very same ring, talks us through its increased performance and then gives us a walkaround to show off the cosmetic changes. Not surprisingly, he's a fan.



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Deal of the Day – 15.6″ Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition 1080p Core i7 Laptop

Saturday's LogicBUY Deal is a rare discount on the 15.6″ Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition Core i7 laptop, with prices starting at $849.99.  Features:. Core i7-3612QM 2.3GHz Quad-core CPU8GB 1600MHz RAM750GB 7200RPM Hard Drive8X DVD Burner2GB Radeon HD 7730M discrete graphics1080p displayWaves MaxxAudio 4 and Skullcandy speakersAdobe Photoshop Elements 9 and Premier Elements 9 bundleEligible for the $14.99 upgrade to Windows 8.
$1138.99 – $139 instant savings – $150 coupon code = $849.99 with free shipping.

This deal expires October 1, 2012 or sooner.

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Gigabyte shirt carries data around

You would have heard of the expression "wearing your heart on your sleeve", but in the future, someone might actually ask you to wear your data. That puzzled look would soon make way for an acknowledgement in the future, as NASA scientists has discovered a method to transform fabrics into voluminous storage arrays. To put it in plain English, we are looking at a simple shirt being turned into a potential storage medium. As for the amount of memory that can be stored, it really depends, although terabytes would not be out of the question.

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ZTE marketing guy goes crazy with unknown WP8 handset and Gaussian blur

Who needs a marketing department when you have a personal Sina Weibo account. So reasoned ZTE's marketing strategy manager, Dennis Lui, as he posted the above photo of three ZTE Windows Phones to the internet. The right-hand device is just a regular ZTE Tania and, although it looks like it's running Windows Phone 8, the screen is actually a dead ringer for a certain "WP8 simulator" app available for WP7 phones.


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TI says it's not giving up on OMAP chipsets, OMAP 5 on track

Texas Instruments is revamping its strategy regarding its OMAP chipsets and announced that it considers the smartphone and tablet market less attractive and will focus on bringing OMAP to more platforms than wireless gadgets. Reuters, citing various analysts, reported that it's quite likely that TI will be quitting the smartphone and tablet business altogether. Today, a TI media relations manager contacted us to clarify the company's position.

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Colors! Samsung's Galaxy Camera pops at Photokina with vibrant orange and magenta paint jobs

Another Photokina star is Samsung's Galaxy Camera, which launched to much fanfare several weeks ago at IFA, but dominates the company's photo-themed booth at the biennial photography show in Cologne, Germany. There's not much more to report on the hardware side, apart from confirmation that certain versions of the Android snapper will pack LTE, but there are indeed some very shiny new finishes to gawk at. First up is a bright orange flavor - if you feared that the Galaxy point-and-shoot's rather large footprint wouldn't attract enough attention on its own in the field, you shouldn't have any such concerns with an orange model.










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World of Warcraft may secretly include your account name and server IP in screenshots

Repeating patterns embedded in screenshots taken with WoW's game client application can be decrypted to identify you, a report on Slashdot suggests. Posters on the OwnedCore forum claim that the watermark can be decoded to reveal user IDs, the time the screenshot was captured and the IP address of the server. "A few days ago I noticed some weird artifacts covering the screenshots I captured using the WoW game client application," says Slashdot poster kgkoutzis. "I sharpened the images and found a repeating pattern secretly embedded inside.

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Toshiba Hybrid Drive (MQ01ABDH) announced

Toshiba has a spanking new 'poster boy' when it comes to media storage on your computers, and we are talking about the Toshiba Hybrid Drive. Also known as the MQ01ABDH series, it is said to deliver a careful balance of performance which you can find in solid state disks (SSDs) with the advantage of capacity and cost-effectiveness of hard disk drives (HDDs), sporting capacities up to 1TB. The new SATA Toshiba Hybrid Drive measures 2.5" in size, and is a mere 9.5mm in height, where it boasts of "self-learning" caching algorithms which will learn the system user's data access patterns in order to optimize performance.

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New quad-core Pantech Vega R3 with Android ICS comes to take on Samsung Galaxy Note II

Only two months after launching the 5 inch Vega S5, Pantech has now introduced another extra-large smartphone: the Vega R3. The new Pantech Vega R3 is slightly larger than the S5, coming with a 5.3 inch display (HD, of course). It runs Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich - almost certainly upgradeable to Jelly Bean - and features a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 processor, LTE, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, 13MP rear camera, 2MP front-facing camera, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, and a 2,600 mAh battery.
With such specs, the Vega R3 can be certainly seen as a direct competitor to Samsung's new Galaxy Note II.

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Cygnett Glam Red Case for iPad Review

Lately, I've been going with a minimal approach to casing my iPad, using only a sleeve.  However, I'm always looking for my next favorite case, and I was very interested when Cygnett offered The Gadgeteer their Glam Red case for iPad 2 and the new iPad.  It was red, after all.  How could I refuse.  Let's give it a closer look.

Click any image in this review for a larger view.

The Glam Red case is made of patent leather, although I believe it is a faux leather.  The cover is shiny and very smooth.  The stitching is even and straight.










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European regulators set to file antitrust suit against Microsoft

. Regulators in Europe are reportedly set to file an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft (MSFT) related to the company's failure to comply with a three-year-old ruling ordering it to offer users a choice of Web browsers on Windows PCs. An investigation into Microsoft's breach of the order was opened this past July, and the company had previously acknowledged the violation last year. “The next step is to open a formal proceeding into the company's breach of an agreement. We are working on this,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Thursday.

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Microsoft gifts full-time employees with Surface tablets, Windows 8 phones and PCs

Reprising a Windows Phone 7 giveaway from back in 2010, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer announced at the company's annual event that all 90,000 or so full-time employees are getting a taste of its latest hardware. That's one Surface for Windows RT tablet and Windows Phone 8 phone (we're told that last time around these came with two year contracts) in late December, along with a new touch compatible office computer running Windows 8, presumably arriving sooner.







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