Audi R8 e-tron not for production

Audi has confirmed that the launch of its all-electric R8 e-tron has been delayed indefinitely. Originally scheduled to arrive in showrooms last year, the Mercedes SLS Electric Drive rival is now being treated purely as a technical exercise to advance electric car technology for models lower down the range.

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Sony ships Xperia advance to the US, offers unlocked ruggedness for $300 or less

Americans who likes the Sony Xperia go's approach to lifeproof smartphone design won't have to live vicariously through their overseas friends anymore.

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U Transfer USB

U Transfer USB stick eliminates the need for using a computer as a medium to transfer information from one stick to another. It is equipped with a display that is hopefully a touchscreen, and has a slot at one end to hook up another stick. File transfers promise to be easy, and I can imagine myself using this stick at live blogging events.he U Transfer USB Stick also features an OLED display. It is a cool concept that will hopefully hit the light of production. Find out more pictures after the jump.

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Google Chrome 23 in finished form brings Do Not Track, graphics boosts for Windows users

By Jon Fingas  posted Nov 6th 2012 2:09PM

As cutting-edge as Google can be, its Chrome browser has trailed in supporting Do Not Track by default; all its major challengers already have the option to cut off tracking cookies.

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Sony announces new line of slim external batteries for smartphones and tablets

Sony announced on Monday that it will introduce a new line of external batteries for smartphones and tablets. Shipping in capacities of 3,500 to 7,000mAh, these external juice boxes weigh around 198 grams and measure 130.6mm by 12.9mm, making them about the size of a modern smartphone.

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The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

By The Associated Press | Associated Press 

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App Store Official Charts for the week ending Oct. 29, 2012:

Top Paid iPhone Apps:

1. Bad Piggies (Rovio Entertainment Ltd)

2. WhatsApp Messenger (WhatsApp Inc.)

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Sony Xperia V

Sony Xperia V priced at around €500 in Europe, release date still unknown

by Adrian Diaconescu on Oct 11, 2012 with 5 Comments

With the Xperia T (also known as the Bond Phone) stealing all the spotlight, most of you may have forgotten about another Sony high-end device scheduled to be released this year. The Xperia V is definitely not what you would call a run-of-the-mill phone, being an ever so slightly downsized version of the T.
Still, this has apparently been left to dust by Sony, which is hesitant to announce official pricing and availability even with more than a month after the device’s unveiling. We’re now finally starting to get a good picture of these details, which seem to fall into the usual good news/bad news scenario.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7-Inch Student Edition

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7-Inch Student Edition have 12.2 ounces weight comes with flash media player and Samsung Media Hub included. This app let us to pick many various new TV shows and movies instantly.
Samsung galaxy is the popular tablet brand for many users around the world. If you buy Samsung galaxy tab 2 student edition for this month, you will get 50GB file sharing from dropbox for free and other special hot offers.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Features

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Student Edition has Dual-Core Processor and powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as an operating system. It is the cool gadget to enjoy play games, music,browsing and explore more than 400,000 apps available in the Google Play Store where ever we go.

I think smart-remote app and Allshare is the another awesome feature of this tablet. We can turn the galaxy tablet to universal remote and streaming video content to television with one-click.
See more Galaxy Tab 2 features

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Student Edition Comparison

Customer who compare the gadget with Galaxy Nexus says that the Galaxy Nexus 7 performances are better than this galaxy 7-Inch tablet Student Edition. Additionally, Nexus 7 does not have an expandable memory slot and powered by Jellybean 4.1 OS.
If you need features and versatility, how you should to choose?
The Galaxy Tab 2 or Galaxy Nexus?
See the comparison details and customer review about the Samsung galaxy product, click here.

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Japan firm launches real-time telephone translation

A Model displays NTT Docomo's new smartphone. Japan's biggest mobile operator has said it will launch a translation service that lets people chat over the telephone in several different languages. Japan's biggest mobile operator said Monday it will launch a translation service that lets people chat over the telephone in several different languages. Ads by Google Outplay via Innovation - Outplay and win your market with a systematic innovation method - SITsite.com The application for NTT DoCoMo subscribers will give two-way voice and text readouts of conversations between Japanese speakers and those talking in English, Chinese or Korean with a several-second delay, the firm said. "Hanashite Honyaku" will be a free application that can be used on smartphones and tablet computers with the Android operating system, DoCoMo said. Customers will also be able to call landlines using the service, it said, adding that voice-to-text readouts will soon be available in French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai. "We hope that with this application, our subscribers will be able to widen the range of their communication," a company spokeswoman said. However, she conceded the service does not offer perfect translations and has trouble deciphering some dialects. DoCoMo also said it has launched a separate service that lets users translate menus and signage using the smartphone camera.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-japan-firm-real-time.html#jCp

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