Tag: Read
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Android L Encryption Slows Disk Reading
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Reports are coming in that the much requested and much hyped Androd 5.0 Lollipop encryption feature, which protects the user’s data from snooping, apparently slows the read and write speed to and from a phone’s storage unit by a whopping 80%, at least that’s the figure on the Google Nexus 6. According to the in-depth…
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Samsung Starts Manufacturing Speedy UHS-1 MicroSD Card
Over the last few years, we’ve seen big improvements in terms of storage size when it comes to the popular tiny microSD card. However, something that’s been lacking is transfer speeds. Well, that was until Samsung announced their latest microSD product, the UHS-1 (Ultra High Speed) card has now started to go into production. The…
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Queen’s Christmas Speech to Appear for First Time as Transcript on Amazon Kindle eReader
For the first time in the history of the annual Queen’s Speech, her Maj will address the nation on Christmas Day both on the telly and radio – also in text form on Amazon’s popular eReader, the Kindle. The basic £89 eReader is a top tip as one of this year’s must have gadgets, delivering…
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Amazon Kindle 3 software update: version 3.3 adds new features
Amazon keeps its best-selling ereader up to date with the new kids
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Facebook set for Read, Listened and Watched buttons at f8 event
Yet more changes are coming to Facebook as the company holds its f8 annual conference this week from the 22nd Sept in San Francisco, and already little bits of news are coming out about what to expect. This biggest change that is set to be announced is a new News Feed option which is a…
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Android Market: Apps hub gets a makeover with new features
Movie streaming and book buying come to the dressed-up Market
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Virgin’s Project iPad magazine to become free
Virgin’s iPad-only digital magazine, Project, is set to become a free subscription app thanks to a sponsorship deal with American Express. Project was first launched back in November of last year, with the first edition being offered for free shortly after going on sale. Two further editions were published in January and February, priced at…