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The latest innovation from Samsung is the ATIV Q tablet, a streamlined 13-inch tablet that is extremely powerful and not that chunky for a tight competitor to the likes of Microsoft Surface Pro. It is thin, extremely powerful, and has a large brilliant QHD resolution screen, which is higher than Full HD. QHD is 3200x1800 pixels, while FHD is 1920x1280 pixels. Let’s take a brief look at this device. Technical Specifications The tablet-laptop mash-up is not yet in the market. We may update this post as it is made available in the market. Here are the brief technical specifications of the tablet. Display 13.3 inch; 3200x1800 px (the highest in the market); 16 million colors Processor Intel Haswell Core i5 processor (details unknown) RAM 4 GB Graphics Intel HD 4000 Storage 128 GB SSD Battery life 9 hours of usage Operating system(s) Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean; Windows 8 ...

Search one of these strings in Google. Chances are that you will find the live feed of an unsecured webcam. inurl:/view.shtml inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode= inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh inurl:axis-cgi/jpg inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG) intitle:”Live View / - AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^ A webcam, your webcam, may be secured unlike any of the public ones you may find. However, there are hackers out there who can easily get access to your webcam and feed it to the world. It is not at all difficult for them. With a bit of code, hackers can access any piece of hardware on your computer, and a webcam is no different. How serious are the consequences of exposing your webcam? Well, if you have children at home and you want to protect their privacy, you cannot be serious enough about this. Your webcam should be yours and you should have complete control over it. There was a recent investigation by BBC, about a Finnish hacker who hacks and sells people’s webcams for money. Here is th...

In the last few hours, I was engrossed in all kinds of thoughts and skepticisms about the latest tablet PC from Acer, Aspire R7. The tablet computer runs Windows 8 and comes with what most people call a ‘weird design’. However, is that really the case? How good or bad this new product really is? Let’s find out through this article. The First Impressions on the Design I looked through almost all of the first look reviews I could lay my hands on. Most of them talk about one most important aspect of this tablet PC—its design. Acer Aspire R7 as you can see here in this image is a weirdly designed tablet PC. It is neither a tablet, nor a laptop, nor a PC. Still, it works as all of them. R7 comes with an aluminum unibody design that has a hinge known as ‘Ezel hinge’. With the help of the hinge, this computer can take four different shapes, you know kind of like Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga. Aspire R7 has one of the best design innovations that we got to see in Windows 8 computers . The four...

Here we are back with the whether-or-not-to-buy series. Today’s topic is Google’s new Chromebook Pixel. This is the first ever touch-enabled Chromebook. We have already looked at Samsung’s Google Chromebooks . Google’s Chromebook Pixel is the latest addition to the Chromebook line. We will check out the details of it here. Tech Specs Google Chromebook Pixel has some awesome technical features. We have a comparison here with another Chromebook, Samsung Chromebook 550. Feature Google Chromebook Pixel Samsung Chromebook 550 Notes Display 12.85 inch 2560x1700 px at 239 ppi (multi-touch) protected with Gorilla Glass 12.1 inch (1280x800) Chromebook has better than Retina display  (Apple MacBook Pro with Retina is 227 ppi) Processor Intel Core i5 3427U dual-core 1.8 GHz Dual-core Intel Celeron 1.3 GHz Graphics Intel HD 4000 Intel HD 4000 RAM 4 GB DDR3 4 GB DDR3 ...

In the last two days, Microsoft Surface Pro reviews have come up everywhere in the Web, and most of them have been about how bulky the tablet is and how bad its battery is. Only a few people have actually taken time to analyze the good things about Surface Pro tablet. AnandTech has already done quite a bit of speed benchmarks  for Surface Pro, and the results are quite charming. Let’s take a look at how fast Microsoft’s new tablet really is. Surface Pro Vs. Other Tablets This is the most exciting part of the benchmarks. On all of the tests, Surface Pro performed faster than all those known tablets—iPad, Google Nexus 7, Google Nexus 10, etc., and those smartphones— Motorola Razr i , HTC One X, Google Nexus 4 , etc. Most of the reviews that appeared compared Surface Pro with other tablets and mentioned how bulky it is and how low its battery life is. They forgot to mention how extremely ‘performant’ (borrowed from ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, who also gave thumbs-down to Surface P...

There are basically two tablets that Microsoft releases. Surface with Windows RT and Microsoft Surface Pro. In CES, the Surface Pro has made an appearance, and this is the first time that anybody got a good look at the Windows ‘Tablet PC’. Here in, we will look at the specs and know why Surface costs a lot more than the regular Surface RT tablet. Tech Specs Comparison Feature Microsoft Surface RT Microsoft Surface Pro Display 10.6 inch LCD HD 1366x768 px resolution 5-point multi-touch 10.6 inch LCD FHD (Full HD); 1920x1080px; 10-point multi-touch Processor NVidia Tegra 3 quad-core Intel Core i5 dual core RAM 2GB 4GB (dual channel) Storage 32 GB, 64 GB 64 GB, 128 GB OS Windows RT Windows 8 (Pro) Battery 31.5 W-h 42 Wh Cameras 720p HD front & rear 1MP cameras 1MP cameras, 720p HD Other features USB 2.0 port Micro ...

Worldwide gaming systems provider, Razer has come up with the new edition of its popular gaming laptop, Razer Blade. The laptop is thin and extremely powerful. The technical specifications are as follows: Processor 3rd Gen Intel Core i7 (2.2GHz-3.2 GHz) RAM 8 GB dual-channel DDR3 (1600 MHz) Storage 500 GB 7200 rpm SATA & 64 GB SATA III Solid State Drive for faster data transfer Display 17.3 inch Full HD 1920x1080 px resolution Graphics Intel GMA HD (mobile mode) and NVidia GeForce GTX 660 M with 2 GB GDDR5 video RAM Operating System Windows 8 64 bit or Windows 7 HP 64 bit Dimensions Width 42.7 cm Height 27.7 cm Thickness 2.24 cm Weight 2.99 kg Other features Razer Switchblade UI Anti-ghosting keyboard HD Webcam (2MP) Digital 7.1 surround sound support (through HDMI) Three USB 3.0 ports Kensington l...