Introduction and specs The Patriot Ignite is the ideal compromise for anyone who’d like a solid-performing SSD without having to overspend. The Ignite comes in two models – 480GB ($179.99, £120.35, AU$231.45) and 960GB ($359.99, £240.67, AU$462.92). The drive is designed to boost your machine’s performance by performing 80K IOPs on 4K random reads and 75K IOPs on 4K random writes, all while packing this performance within a slim 0.27-inch
Bing Predicts reckons it can call who is going to finish where in the English Premier League table, and according to Microsoft’s search it’s bad news for Leicester, Burnley and QPR, but really, really, really astounding news for Newcastle United. Bing reckons that Newcastle will pick up every single remaining point from the remaining four fixtures, turning round a tough season at the death. We always knew Bing was secretly
If part of the point of smartwatches is to help you spend less time looking at screens then Bandai Namco must not have got the memo, because it’s unleashed its Tamagotchi Classic virtual pet on to the Apple Watch. The latest update to the most demanding pet imaginable will bring an alert to your wrist if your Tamagotchi calls for you, as well as letting you check its status and
Sony fans were surely left disappointed when the Xperia Z4 was only announced for Japan, even if it is almost exactly the same as the Xperia Z3, but all hope may not be lost, as there are signs that it could be released elsewhere, just possibly with a different name. While browsing the White Paper for the Style Cover Window on Sony’s website, juggly.cn spotted that the cover is listed
(Reuters) – Google Inc’s YouTube will directly invest in new shows to be launched in partnerships with its four top content creators, it said in a blog on Tuesday. The world’s No. 1 online video website also said it entered into an agreement with DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc unit AwesomenessTV to release feature films over the next two years. The partnerships would help YouTube, which completed 10 years last week,
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] launched on Tuesday the Honor 4C smartphone, the latest bid by the Chinese technology firm to gain market share in the highly competitive budget handset segment from domestic rivals such as Xiaomi Inc. The phone has a 5-inch display, slightly larger than the iPhone 6 and the same as Xiaomi’s Mi 4 smartphone, and starts at 799 yuan ($129). To cut on marketing costs, the
PayPal, eBay Inc’s electronic payments division, said on Tuesday it will extend its single-touch payment service from mobile devices to online transactions to try to reduce the $4 trillion in merchandise abandoned in retailers’ online shopping carts every year due to complicated checkout procedures. PayPal One Touch, which is widely used by shoppers on mobile phones, is designed to ease checkout flows that have users bouncing between screens and typing
(Reuters) – Apple Inc beat Wall Street’s revenue and profit forecasts on Monday as it sold more iPhones in China than the United States for the first time, but the company gave no sales figures for its new Apple Watch. Apple’s iPhone sales in China soared, increasing its revenue in the country 71 percent to $16.8 billion, although that was helped by gift-buying for Chinese New Year. Chief Executive Tim
By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – All cars and light vans in Europe will have to be fitted with automatic emergency calling devices from April 2018 under new rules approved by European Union lawmakers on Tuesday, which could cut road deaths by 10 percent a year. The so-called eCall device will automatically alert the nearest emergency centre in the event of a crash by calling the EU-wide emergency number 112,
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