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iPhone 4S to be released in Singapore without cameras

This surely comes as a shock to most readers, and I’m sure Singapore-based iPhone lovers are going to just hate this. But this is the rumor on the blogosphere today. The iPhone 4S will be made available in Singapore in the very near future, but with a very big compromise. According to reports, the latest and the greatest yet iPhone, the iPhone 4S, will be stripped down of both the rear and the front-facing cameras and then released in Singapore.

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The Pirate Bay will soon stop serving Torrent files

This may come in as a shock to many .torrent file users. Torrents are the easiest way to download almost anything you need, may it be movies, games, software, music, or anything else. And there is no need to tell how popular The Pirate Bay is when it comes to torrents. But now, the rumor has it that The Pirate Bay (TPB) will soon stop offering .torrent files to its users. Does this mean you will have to look somewhere else for all your files? Not necessarily.

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Will there be an Ubuntu tablet?

There is one rumor making the rounds on the blogosphere about Ubuntu releasing a tablet. The Unity interface, which most Ubuntu fans have started hating, was supposedly a test run of the interface which is going to be used on Ubuntu tablets. It is also said that this was just the Alpha version of the Ubuntu that is being made for tablets.

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Transformer Prime HD Coming Soon

Asus have decided to upgrade their tablet into the Asus Transformer Prime HD with a similar 1920 x 1200 pixel screen.

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Amazon to start programming ebooks

Amazon’s Kindle is one of the best selling ebook readers in the world. And when it comes to electronic books, there is a lot more than just text and pictures to it, you can put in more data into it. And Amazon has started proving this fact with its new Kindle Format 8 or KF8. Amazon has released web technology tools yesterday which can be used to write your ebooks, or program your ebooks.

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Next gen iPhone and iPad may have 20 times increased performance

Imagination Technologies, manufacturer of the PowerVR Series6 GPU, announced at CES that the new generation of the PowerVR Series6 GPU core family that will be out soon will provide up to 20 times improved performance. Apple is one of the major share holders at Imagination Technologies and has used the PowerVR GPU chips in its iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and the Apple TV.

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Toshiba to showcase a cheap 7-inch tablet and world’s thinnest 10.1-inch tablet at CES next week

Toshiba’s tablets never did well, at least not as well as the company expected them to do. But nevertheless, the company has not lost hopes. Toshiba is working hard to make the company’s presence felt in the tablet market. Next week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a great platform to showcase of your electronics products, and Toshiba seems to be ready to try its luck at the event. Toshiba is working on announcing two new tablets at the event next week.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus Announced

Samsung have announced the latest member of the Galaxy family – the upgrade Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus, which will take the place of the existing handset.

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What is the first thing people do when they buy new iPhone or Android phone?

You might have heard of the massive sales of iPhone and Android phones during and after Christmas. Even when its not the holiday season, people do buy a lot of smartphone, there are hundreds of thousands of Android phones activated each and every day. Even the iPhone is making really awesome sales figures on a daily basis. So when people are buying these smartphones, what is the first thing they do when they unbox their phones and connect to the network? Well, they download the Facebook app of course.

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Is this Samsung Galaxy Tab ad something like the Apple iPad ad?

Apple has always complained that Samsung has copied its products, the iPhone and the iPad, and designed its own Galaxy S series of phones and the Galaxy Tab. Many people do believe this allegation, and I guess they have a pretty good reason. But I’m not taking sides here. Now though, Samsung has tried to do something will for sure stir the anger in Apple and its fans.