T-Mobile HTC One S Android 4.1.1 update now available

The Android 4.1.1 update for the HTC One S is finally being pushed out by T-Mobile. We're not sure if it's a coincidence that the update has been released 24 hours after T-Mobile's HTC One retail launch, but it does look a little suspicious. If you have not received a notification on your HTC One S to download the Jelly Bean update, you can manually ping T-Mobile's update servers by going to Settings > About > Software updates > Check now.
With HTC One S Android 4.1.1 update weighs in at 675.49 MB. Due to the size of the update, T-Mobile has made the decision that the update can only be downloaded over Wi-Fi.

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Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock Now Available For $299

We caught a glimpse of the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock at CES 2012, and since then, the company has run the product through a redesign to make it appear a lot slimmer while also adding USB 3.0 ports to it. After much waiting, it looks like Belkin is finally ready to set its Thunderbolt Express Dock into the world as it's now available to purchase. As you probably already know, the Thunderbolt Express Dock comes with dual Thunderbolt ports with support of up to five Thunderbolt-supported devices, FireWire 800, Ethernet, a 3.5mm audio input and output and three USB 3.0 ports.

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Rockstar Giving Fans A Chance To Be Part Of GTA 5

We know that Rockstar has officially announced GTA 5, and if you've ever wanted to be part of a video game, the developer is giving gamers the opportunity to have their likeness incorporated into the upcoming game. Rockstar has recently announced their Epsilonism website where gamers will be able to enter their details as well as upload a photo of themselves to be given the chance to be in the running to be part of GTA 5. Unfortunately only 5 people out of everyone will be chosen to be put into the game, meaning that considering the huge fan base that the GTA franchise has, your chances of getting picked could be very slim.

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Piquet Jr. spins Scott, post-race altercation leads to kick in the jewels, arrests (video)

It seems as if NASCAR drivers are hellbent on blurring the line between their sport and pro wrestling. Nelson Piquet Jr. and Brian Scott got into a little scuffle after a Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway recently. The two drivers have had a running rivalry for some time now, and when Piquet spun Scott in a bid for 15th place, Scott stopped by Piquet's car post-race. Some shoving ensued, and Piquet decided to kick for Scott's groin in an attempt to put an end to the argument.

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Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Achieves 1st Rocket-Powered Flight

Virgin Galactic has certainly come a long way since it announced its intention to the world a few years ago, where even Sir Richard Branson himself would fly into space to conduct a wedding ceremony for a couple who would want a truly unique wedding, and here we are in 2013 with the SpaceShipTwo that has managed to achieve its first rocket-powered flight, dripped in success, of course. The test flight that happened on April 12, 2013 proved to be a key milestone in advancing the SpaceShipTwo's first rocket powered flight, having arrived at supersonic speeds to ensure a smooth journey toward commercial flights sometime down the road.

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Google Now for iOS hands-on

While there are few data sources missing, in our brief time with the app, we didn't discover any that we'd consider dealbreakers. (Honestly, the nearby events card has never actually resulted in us running out to buy tickets to something.) Where Google Now for iOS falls short, though, is in its convenience. On Android, Now is just a swipe or a long-press away; on an iOS device, you need to first launch the Google search app, then swipe up from where your cards are peeking out at the bottom of the screen. You also can't simply say "Google" to launch a voice search from within Now. Worst of all, there are no alerts or notifications.

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Paranoid Android shows off their implementation of mutli-windows

Over the past few months, I have fallen head over heels in love with Paranoid Android. While I certainly hold the work of each ROM developer in very, very high regard (let's face it, Android would be a very frustrating platform without them) I love the creativity and functionality that PA adds. Their latest goody. Multi-window support for apps. The team behind Paranoid Android have shared a post giving some early details regarding their implementation on Google+, along with a video demoing it.

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LG Optimus F5 Makes its Global Debut

Following its successful unveiling at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, the Optimus F5 - the first device from LG's newest Optimus F Series - will make its world debut starting in Europe on April 29. Launching initially in France, LG will roll out the Optimus F5 in South and Central America, Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) over the next several weeks. The Optimus F Series is a new family of Android smartphones for consumers who are ready to experience the blazing speeds of 4G LTE without the high costs that normally go with such a device.



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Asus Padfone Infinity Goes On Sale In The US

We first spotted the Asus Padfone Infinity at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this year, and late last month, pre-orders for the Asus Padfone Infinity was opened last month with an April release date confirmed. Good to know that Asus has kept their side of the bargain, where they have started to ship the first batch of the Padfone Infinity stock.

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Blizzard Signs On Life Of Pi Visual Arts Supervisor For Warcraft Movie

We've been hearing news of Blizzard's Warcraft movie for quite a while now, although so far it does not seem to be making any progress, especially with director Sam Raimi pulling out of the project alleging mismanagement on Blizzard's part. However according to Blizzard's Nick Carpenter, it looks like the movie might finally be progressing as he has announced that Bill Westenhofer has signed on to be the visual effects director for the movie.

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AT&T Gloats Over On-Time Galaxy S4 Release

They say never kick your opponent when he or she is down, but I suppose all's fair when it comes to business rivalry. We do know that the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S4 from Sprint has been delayed, and the smartphone itself is running into constrained supplies with the reason of high demand behind it. This is a good problem to have, as folks would see it that way, but the good people over at AT&T are more than happy to announce via Twitter that they will keep to their word and ensure that AT&T-bound Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones will arrive in-store at the announced date.

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Next Generation Xbox Games Line-up Will Be Shown Off At E3

Yesterday Microsoft announced that it will be unveiling the next generation Xbox on 21st of May. It mentioned in the invite that they will “continue the conversation” at E3 conference which takes place in June. The company has confirmed that it will be showing off next generation Xbox games line-up at this conference, saying that they have a “full line-up of blockbuster gaming experiences” for their next generation console. The E3 conference takes place at Galen Center in Los Angeles, California on the 10th of June, 2013. Apart from the games line-up, Microsoft will showcase the next Xbox's software line-up as well.

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Jay Leno's Garage features funnyman's 1963 Jaguar E-Type

Jay Leno looks inward on this episode of his eponymous garage, checking out a 1963 Jaguar XKE that he bought earlier this year. It is an example of his favorite kind of car, that being original and unrestored. He bought the E-Type from its first owner, a woman who purchased it new, held on to it for 50 years and took excellent care of it. Having never been in an accident, Leno says even the paint is 85- to 90-percent original.



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Morgan 3 Wheeler and driving fun, with Charles Morgan

Charles Morgan has a pretty great job. The scion of Morgan's founder, and current managing director of the company clearly enjoys himself while driving the fruits of his enterprise. In another brief interview with Mr. Morgan, we get to hear and see a the tantalizing 3 Wheeler and Plus 8 on the road, overlaid with the man himself telling us just why his cars are so different, and so good.
When your priorities are brand history, great design, and, above all, building riotously fun-to-drive machines, you can be sure your cars will develop a following. So says Morgan, and so we believe.



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McAfee Patented Technology Will Detect And Block All Pirated Content

McAfee's newly patented technology can not only detect but also block all pirated content. This technology will expand McAfee's SiteAdvisor tool through will it will detect pirated material available on any website. Such content will be blocked and users will be given legal alternatives. For example if someone's trying to download a movie's pirated copy, they'd be given the option to purchase it instead, and won't be allowed to download it. The system is quite advanced, it can be configured to only warn those who are accessing pirated content and offer purchase options or it can be configured to totally block access to pirated materials.

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Wii U Used To Power A $16,000 Japanese Karaoke System

The Nintendo Wii U may not have had the best quarter, but that hasn't stopped Japan from making this already expensive video game console into an even more expensive karaoke machine. The JoySound Festa from Xing is an on-demand karaoke system that uses the Wii U's software, GamePad and a copy of a Wii U karaoke game called Nintendo x JoySound Wii Karaoke U. The Festa has a monitor that can tilt, a stand that looks to be around 5-feet tall, microphones, and additional content. In total, the Festa offers 90,000 songs to choose from as well as offering exercise videos, vocal exercises, clips of yoga exercises and dance instructional clips.

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NOOK Color Gets CyanogenMod 10.1 Nightlies

When Barnes & Noble first announced the NOOK Color, that was all the way back in October of 2010, which frankly, is a pretty long way back to the past via the time machine – at least in terms of technology, 3 years is a pretty long time ago. The NOOK Color held the distinction of being the first popular 7" Android-powered tablet that was specially priced to move without breaking the $250 price point, where it ran on a highly customized version of the Android operating system that was specially designed to play nice with B&N's app and book stores.

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Forget styluses! Use a Sharpie on your capacitive touchscreen tablet!

Here's a stylus that will turn heads.  Instead of those short, skinny styluses that cause your fingers to cramp up, add a Stylus Cap from More/Real to your Sharpie.  Sharpies are a good size to hold comfortably, and the added stylus cap means you'll be able to use it with your tablet or smart phone for hours without cramping.  The cap comes with a firm stylus tip and a Sharpie pen, too.  Extra stylus tips are available for $6.00 for two.  The Stylus Cap is $25.00 in your choice of silver or black, as shown.

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2013 Kia Soul Test Drive

It's been almost a year since my last test drive, so I've really been missing that new car smell. Lucky for me, I was offered an opportunity to do another test drive a couple weeks ago. This time it was for a fully loaded 2013 Kia Soul. It was delivered to me with a full tank of gas, a quick demo of the important features and then the key fob was handed to me and I was on my own to drive it for a week. I've been curious about this vehicle ever since seeing those cute hamster commercials on TV.










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Rumor: Samsung Galaxy S4 Waterproof Edition Coming Your Way

We have just come out with a mammoth review of the Samsung Galaxy S4, but here is a rumor going around that there could very well be a new and rugged Samsung Galaxy device, which would so happen to take on the guise of the upcoming flagship Samsung Galaxy S4, sporting waterproof and dustproof capabilities. It would be interesting to see just how the rugged version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 will fare when it finally hits the market (assuming this rumor is true in the first place) compared to other rugged smartphones that are currently available, just like the Sony Xperia Z.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-LF1 Digital Camera

Panasonic has once again expanded its line of digital cameras by unveiling the Lumix DMC-LF1. This compact camera sports a 12.1MP MOS sensor, a 28-200mm wide-angle lens, a 7.1x optical zoom lens, an integrated 0.2-inch electronic viewfinder, a 3.0-inch LCD display, NFC and WiFi capability, and 1920×1080x50i Full HD video capture in both AVCHD Progressive and MP4 outputs. The Lumix DMC-LF1 will go on sale from mid-June at an RRP 379 GBP (about $577).

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AT&T Added 1.2 Million Smartphone Subscribers Last Quarter

Last week Verizon Wireless, AT&T's main rival in the country, announced that it had added 677,000 new subscribers in Q1, 2013 and that it sold roughly 7.2 million smartphones, out of which 4 million were iPhones. Today AT&T released its financial report for the previous quarter and revealed that it added 1.2 million new smartphone subscribers. It also reported adding 296,000 new postpaid customers on its network. Revenues are up 3.4% as compared to the Q1, 2012. Almost 72% of AT&T's on contract subscribers are using smartphones, this translates in to around 48 million smartphone using subscribers in the U.S.

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Hands-on: 9 Tegra 4 enhanced games running on NVIDIA Project SHIELD [VIDEO]

With the NVIDIA Project SHIELD's loose “June” release date fast approaching, we're getting moist (or maybe just me?) thinking about all the high-def gaming the portable gaming the handheld system will bring to Android. To give you a better idea of what to expect, we found 9 NVIDIA Tegra 4 enhanced titles and threw them together in a mashup video, showcasing each and every one. These games specifically leverage the raw horse power of the Tegra 4 processor's 72-core GeForce GPU to push out enhanced graphics above and beyond what you're normally used to seeing in mobile gaming. As a “gamer” myself, I loved what I saw.



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AT&T adds another 291,000 customers in Q1

AT&T has finally dialed in its performance results for the first quarter in 2013. The biggest highlight for the company is that it added 291,000 net customers in wireless. The company also got 1.2 million more subscribers onto smartphones, something that's sure to help their bottom line in future quarters. Even better for Ma Bell was the company's ability to meet Wall Street's expectations almost digit for digit. The carrier was able to do that with $31.40 billion on $.64 per share in revenue on the quarter. About half of that $31.4 billion was brought in by AT&T's wireless division.

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Purported iPhone 5S SIM Tray Suggests Gold And Gray Color Options [Rumor]

With the launch of the latest iPod touch, there have been rumors suggesting that the next-gen iPhone could also come in a multitude of color options as well. We're not sure if having color options will make or break a customer's decision, especially since the iPhone is an incredibly popular device to begin with, but who knows, right. In any case thanks to a photo of a purported iPhone 5S leaked component, it seems that at the very least we can expect the iPhone 5S to come in additional gold or gray finishes. The photo above is that of the SIM card tray slot which shows it off in two new colors that aren't black or white.

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ZTE V72A Is A New 7-Inch Tablet

It goes without saying that not a week or two passes by without a whiff of a possible new tablet, and ZTE steps up to the occasion this time around, with word that they are currently working on a new 7" tablet that will run on a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor. Greek site Techblog.gr (it's all Greek to us, literally, but thank the heavens for the wonders of machine translation) has mentioned that the ZTE V72A will be powered by Android Jelly Bean right out of the box, in addition to offering support for 3G/HSPA networks.

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ASUS Cube Google TV review

Hardware Obviously, when you name your device after its shape, your intent is to draw attention to what you believe is a unique differentiator, so let's start there. The ASUS Cube is of course a cube, with every edge measuring just under five inches. Judging by the fact that it is bottom-heavy, we suspect the top half of the device is empty and wonder why the extra space wasn't used to house an internal power supply - but we do appreciate the decision to go with a power-brick style over a wall wart.






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Race Recap: 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix follows the template of this year and last [spoilers]

Nico Rosberg made it two pole positions in a row for Mercedes-AMG Petronas, taking the lead spot after Lewis Hamilton did the same in China three weeks ago. Sebastian Vettel put his Infiniti Red Bull right behind, but more than a quarter of a second off the pace, followed by Fernando Alonso in the first Ferrari. Then came the teammates, Hamilton in the second Mercedes in fourth, the second Red Bull of Mark Webber fifth and Massa in sixth.










Autoblog , Race Recap: 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix follows the template of this year and last [spoilers], Race Recap: 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix follows the template of this year and last [spoilers]