A fire at a factory in China could make all your gadgets more expensive this year

Everything from smartphones to laptops to tablets could get a little more costly due to a fire this week at a Korean firm’s factory in Wuxi, China, where a substantial portion of the world’s memory chips are made. The Sept. 4 inferno at SK Hynix’s fabrication facility sent the price of benchmark 2-gigabyte Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) up 19% to a three-year high. High demand from Chinese tablet and smartphone manufacturers has already caused a spike in DRAM prices this year, with prices nearly doubling from...

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Samsung Officially Announced Galaxy Note 3

Samsung finally unveiled the much-awaited phablet of the year, the Galaxy Note 3 at the IFA 2013 trade show in Berlin. It is the successor of the extremely popular Galaxy Note II and also the first phablet to ship with the latest Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) Operating System. The new Group Play on Galaxy Note 3 not only allows you to play the same music, games and share documents, but also share videos and play content together with their friends...

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How The Gambling Industry Is Betting On Big Data

Banks, retailers, Google, the NSA, they all lover their data. But one of the more intriguing use cases for Big Data involves the gambling industry, a sector that’s so reliant on number crunching and intelligent prediction that it’s been left with little choice to grab a hold of its masses of data and exploit it to the max. The first adopters of Big Data in the betting game were, unsurprisingly, the bookies themselves. UK bookmaker Paddy Power‘s ...

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Android KitKat Unveiled By Google And Nestle

Google has named the latest version of its Android mobile operating system after the KitKat chocolate bar. The company has a history of naming software after confectionery and desserts - previous versions include Ice Cream Sandwich, Gingerbread and Jelly Bean. Android software is the world's biggest mobile operating system, driving...

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Sony Confirms Xperia Z1 Flagship Phone: 5-Inch 1080p Display, 21MP Camera & A Photo Apps Focus

Sony has named a new flagship in its Android-powered Xperia smartphone line up which focuses on beefing up camera capabilities.  The 4G Xperia Z1, roundly leaked under the moniker ‘Honami’ but officially confirmed today at Sony’s IFA press conference in Berlin, is a follow up to the 5-inch, quad-core Xperia Z unboxed at the start of the year at CES. The Xperia Z1 has a 20.7MP camera on its rump (vs the 13.1MP on the Xperia Z)...

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