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Google Play Makes Its Way To The Nook HD

Posted 05/05/2013 at 12:53pm | by Justin Kerr

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Barnes & Noble welcomes Google back into their version of Android.

Barnes & Noble knows that the Nook is in an awkward position these days. The company’s name has become synonymous with bad news, and getting users to buy into their ecosystem is becoming increasingly tricky. Nobody wants to buy a dedicated tablet from a company that might not be around this time next year. This could help explain the disappointing sales the company has experienced as of late, but at least they finally have a plan. In a free update, B&N is adding Google Play to the Nook HD and Nook HD+, instantly making them viable platforms.

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Windows 8 Blue Update Set to Address Issues With Ultra High Resolution Displays

Posted 05/05/2013 at 12:13pm | by Justin Kerr

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Windows Blue appears to be taking on some serious issues.

Windows display scaling is, and has always been a complete mess. Sure you can bump up the multiplier to make it look half decent if you’re using just one display, but Windows 8 tablet owners are seeing a completely different problem. The next generation of devices are shipping with ultra-high resolution panels that are 10 inches or less in size, but when you try to hook these up to a larger external monitor to get real work done, finding a setting that works with both is a bit of a nightmare. One is always too big, or too small, and you can’t set the scaling separately. Newer laptops are going to run into a similar problem, but the new Windows Blue update may finally be tackling this issue head on.

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Friday Giveaway: Grab One of Five Fenrir God Unlock Codes for the Smite Beta

Posted 05/03/2013 at 9:20am | by Paul Lilly

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We only have a limited number of codes for Fenrir, but Smite itself is free.

If you're looking for a new game to sink your teeth into this weekend, Hi-Rez Studios would be delighted if you checked out Smite, a third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title currently in open beta. Brand new to the Smite world this morning is Fenrir, The Unbound, a Norse god with high single target damage and high mobility. He isn't free, though we do have a small number of codes, courtesy of the developers, to give away on a first come, first serve basis. Hit the jump to claim yours.

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1,000 World of Warplanes Beta Keys Up for Grabs!

Posted 05/01/2013 at 10:17am | by Paul Lilly

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Come get your free game key (first come, first serve).

Looking for a new flight combat MMO action game? Hoping you can find one set in the Golden Age of military aviation? Are you reading this right now? Well you lucky dog, we just so happen to have a whopping 1,000 beta keys for World of Warplanes to give away courtesy of developers Ukraine Persha Sutdia and Belarus Wargaming.net. World of Warplanes is a free-to-play game, but it's currently in closed beta, meaning you need a key to have early access.

Hit the jump to learn more about this game and to claim your key!

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Microsoft Packs in Free T-Mobile Hotspots With Select US Forbes Magazines

Posted 04/28/2013 at 1:45pm | by Justin Kerr

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Nothing makes us think subscription based software quite like 15 days of free Wi-Fi. Wait what?

It’s not easy to get your ad noticed these days, but packing in a T-Mobile hotspot, complete with 15 days of complimentary access sure doesn’t hurt. Select US editions of Forbes are arriving on door steps today with built in routers, and its all part of a marketing campaign by Microsoft to draw attention to Office 365.

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Google Drive Update Enables Offline Support for Documents

Posted 04/28/2013 at 9:55am | by Justin Kerr

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Google takes another step in the right direction.

In terms of features, Microsoft Office has Google Doc’s beaten hands down. The bad news for Microsoft however, is that the vast majority of features a typical user cares about are quickly being addressed. Of those missing features, the most common complaint we hear is lack of offline support. The option to work without an active Internet connection has come and gone from Google Doc’s over the years, but its back again for Chrome users, and hopefully its here to stay this time.

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AMD Catalyst 13.4 Update Addresses Latency Performance in Several Games

Posted 04/26/2013 at 11:43am | by Paul Lilly

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AMD promises a significant reduction in latency in titles like Skyrim and Tomb Raider.

A new driver package is available for AMD Radeon, Mobility Radeon, and PowerXpress GPUs. It's AMD's Catalyst 13.4 update and it's supposed to "significantly" improve latency performance in Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider, and Hitman Absolution, according to the release notes. it also offers performance gains in several titles across the entire range of Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics cards.

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Intel Atom-based Android Notebooks to Cost $200

Posted 04/26/2013 at 7:21am | by Paul Lilly

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Android will attack the low cost notebook market.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently said that touchscreen PCs could start selling for as little as $200 sometime in the next few months, though it's tough to imagine a Windows 8-based machine carrying such a low price tag. That's because they probably won't. Instead of Windows 8, most of these affordable PCs will be laptop machines built around Google's open source Android platform.

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Smartphones, Tablets Will Account for 64 Billion Game Downloads by 2017

Posted 04/25/2013 at 12:36pm | by Paul Lilly

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Free-to-play games proving popular on mobile devices.

Mobile gaming is already popular, but if new data from Juniper Research proves accurate, the number of game app downloads will steadily rise to more than 64.1 billion over the next four years. That would mark a greater than three-fold increase over the 21 billion game downloads that occurred in 2012, and it's thanks to a combination of free-to-play games, more capable devices, and a growing number of smartphones around the world.

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Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Now Available to Download

Posted 04/25/2013 at 8:06am | by Paul Lilly

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The newest version of Ubuntu promises dramatic graphical performance enhancements.

Canonical's pretty good about keeping its Ubuntu Linux distro up to date with frequent releases, the latest of which is Ubuntu 13.04, otherwise known as Raring Ringtail. Now available to download to desktops and servers, version 13.04 is being billed as the "fastest and most visually polished" build to date. Canonical said it particularly focused its attention on fine tuning performance on lightweight systems as it gets ready to launch Ubuntu to a range of mobile devices.

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