Posts by: Anca Gagiuc

Apple’s October Keynote

New iPads, MacBooks and more

Apple’s Oct. 22 product update event in San Francisco introduced a few new devices and detailed information about recent soft-launched products. Some techfiends focused on the iPad models, for others the Mac Pro held the stage. Many Apple fans the announcement of the Mavericks OS X with joy, while a few received it with suspicion. […]

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2 New Surfaces

Updated Microsoft tablets

Microsoft’s latest tablets, Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, are now on the market with a number of new covers and other accessories (dock, mouse, and charger). Both tablets seem like iterations of the concept Microsoft first demonstrated last summer. They kept the same angular design with metallic finish, announcing upgrades to the processing power […]

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Bigger display for a big phone

Since the introduction of the first Samsung Galaxy Note in 2011, competitors have placed on the market many phones billed as “bigger than ever before.” But none could match Samsung’s success or give the users a compelling reason to own such a big smartphone. Samsung smartly created a sub-market for the device that’s primarily a […]

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Passwords Passé?

Biometrics are here

The password and its powers to secure our data is a topic that’s constantly on the minds of technology companies, and equally discussed by users. The central problem with the current form of data protection is what it needs to be most effective: passwords should be long, complicated, and changed regularly, thus increasing the possibility […]

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Double iPhone Launch Event

5C and 5S debut

Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, and Phil Schiller shared the stage presenting the much awaited updates from Apple earlier this month. The presentation started with news about what’s next for the iDevices (iOS 7 with now free built-in apps), but the stars of the event were the two iPhones that will be available starting today (Friday, […]

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Improving Reception

Improving cellular connectivity

Technology has known massive development in the last few decades. The newer technologies surpass the older ones when they’re created as their upgrades. The surround sound replaced stereo, the word processor superseded the typewriter, and high-definition television replaced standard-definition TV. But there is one technology that ejected another although it’s far worse than it: cellphone […]

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Ubuntu Phone OS

Over the Edge

Canonical’s Ubuntu Edge won’t happen after the company’s effort to raise $32 million via crowdsourced funding fell short with nearly $13 million raised in 31 days. However, the experiment proved that mass market phone companies can’t rest too easy – there are still ways to tackle the status quo, and room for innovation that many […]

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Found it on Findery

Tell a story with interactive maps

Some memories are so powerful that you’d want to mark them somehow more than just in your mind. Memories that you want to be able to access from miles away, simply displayed on a map, memories that describe themselves through photos, notes, and even videos. It can be a new place that you’ve visited, it […]

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Hard Drives

Keep Your Data Secure

Moments of our life materialize into memories; photos, movies, music, their number increases from one year to the next. In a world where the electronic format has gained supremacy, our devices need a secure, offsite replication spot where these electronic records of days gone by are backed up and secured. These days information has moved […]

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Charging in the Street

Making powering up portable

When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, widespread loss of power for significant periods of time – and the need to receive updated emergency information and communicate with colleagues and loved ones – created the perfect storm for smartphone users. Their limited ability to recharge phone power supplies was a major source of stress and […]

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Incentives to Upgrade

New Plans Encourage Changeouts

I’m always curious to discover what innovations manufacturers have brought to the market when they announce new smartphone devices. Fortunately for my budget, I can’t purchase all those that make my eyebrows rise. Like most, I am on a standard payment plan that limits me to upgrade every two years. However, smartphones have hit a […]

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The Newest in Notebooks

MacBook Air & Sony Vaio Pro

In a world where people are always on the road to somewhere, portability is key to ensure that technology doesn’t slow them down. The power of notebooks has been on the rise for quite some time now, and the leading product developers continue to improve their best-in-class work each year. Two notable new models caught […]

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End of an Era?

More like an equilibrium

According to Gartner, the worldwide PC shipments are expected to drop from 341 million units in 2012 to 305 million this year (-10.6 percent), and reduce to 289 million in 2014. Sales are on a downslide partly because of the competition from tablets, and even smartphones to some extent. At a first glance, this decrease […]

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WWDC 2013

Updates to Apple, big and small

“If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything?” That was the opening line of the 24th Apple World Wide Developers Conference that wrapped up last week. Tickets to this year’s event sold out in only 71 seconds. Over 1,000 engineers from more than 60 countries gathered for the first-look reveals of software, […]

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Asus Transformer Trio

Seeking multi-device solutions

Asus is at it again. Imagination and innovation are once more on display with the newly revealed Transformer Book Trio. A mind-blowing gadget, it’s a slick notebook, a dockable tablet and a veritable desktop PC, all in one. The world’s first three-in-one mobile device is designed to offer extreme flexibility, encompassing work, play, and social […]

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