
The most hotly anticipated smart phone of the year goes head-to-head with Motorola’s labour of love in Newspakistan’s review of the two. Motorola churned out the Droid Razr last year and it captured the imagination of the public, with it’s beautiful design and intelligent use of Google’s Android operating system. The phone itself has a […]
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The latest in a line of broadcast and media resolutions, 4K is due to replace 1080i/p (1,920×1,080 pixels) as the highest-resolution signal available for movies and, perhaps, television. Though there are several different standards, “4K” in general refers to a resolution of roughly 4,000 pixels wide and about 2,000 pixels high. That makes it the […]
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The industry needed a standard that works on the proposition that you’ll be sitting one-and-a-half times the screen height from the screen, and this required a higher resolution than 1080p. Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) was formed in 2002 with the goal of setting a digital standard. Based on these efforts, two new resolutions came about: […]
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James Cameron’s movie, Avatar (2011), about “the giant blue dudes” helped drive high-resolution 4K Sony projectors into theaters around the world, and made a lot of money in the process. Movie studios keen to maintain that momentum have released a slew of 3D films–mostly converted from 2D–and continued the expansion of 3D cinemas. However, this […]
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In the absence of 4K content, players and displays will need to upscale 1080p or even standard-definition content. To this end, Sony announced a new Blu-ray player at CES 2012, the BDP 5790, which will upscale to 4K. Looking to the future, Sony is reportedly keen to have the forthcoming “Spider-Man” reboot become one of […]
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A 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site has been unearth during an excavation at a site in South Africa. The nesting site is of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus and has revealed major clues about the evolution of the reproductive behaviours in early dinosaurs. This latest nesting ground predates all previously unearthed nesting sites by almost 100 million […]
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Apple release its iPad 2 in the summers and iPhone 4S at the start of the winter. The couple of gadgets are Apple’s flagship products make most of the bread and butter these days. The holiday season including Black Friday, Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday and Christmas, is famous and optimal for huge sales of electronic products […]
Jan 25 2012 | Posted in
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I’m not sure what Apple will actually do here, but you can bet that Apple’s fairly brief comments on the matter on the call are going to trigger a whole new round of speculation on what to do with the money. AAPL in late trading is up $33.15, or 7.9%, to $453.56. Many experts expect […]
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Researchers found world’s smallest vertebrate, a tiny frog Researchers have found a tiny frog in Papua New Guinea what they claim is the smallest vertebrate of the world. The discovery of the frog was published in the journal PLoS One and the researchers proclaimed the frog, Paedophryne amanuensis, as the world’s smallest spinal animal. The […]
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Ogra burdening the consumers with new tariffs – Pakistan oil and gas sector update ISLAMABAD – Succumbing to the pressure of the federal government, Ogra has granted permission to rub salt on the injuries of gas consumers in a bid to pay the cost of reinstated employees, it is reliably learned. Sources privy to the […]
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Scientists discovered oldest dinosaur nests in South Africa Scientists have made a new discovery of the oldest dinosaur nests in South Africa. Fossilised eggs and tiny footprints were found at Massospondylus nesting site which is 100m years older than any previously discovered. The findings suggest that the creatures were caring mothers early in their evolution. […]
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Sales of Apple’s products including the iPad and iPhone saw profits reach record figures in a very successful quarter for the consumer electronics company. There were concerns when the visionary leader of Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, passed away after a long battle with cancer. However, any concerns will have been dampened by what has been […]
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