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Published 09/05/2012 14:04:48 by ANDYW
Computing manufacturer Lenovo is set to move further towards the smartphone and tablet after the company had invested £495 million into a new manufacturing plant in China. The new plant will provide a further 10,000 jobs for the company with it expected to produce tablet devices.
Regarding the move towards the tablet and smartphone market, Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo Group Chairman and CEO said, "As an industry leader, we are aggressively moving forward into the PC Plus era, and with our Mobile Internet Digital Home group actively engaged, we are accelerating development in smart phones, tablets, and other mobile Internet terminal markets."
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Published 08/05/2012 14:29:40 by ANDYW
 Rumours continue to swirl about the Xbox 720 and now the gaming site IGN has claimed the new console has enter production. IGN have said to have obtained this information from an Austin, Texas-based company called Flextronics. The company already manufacture the current generation console (Xbox 360) and it is believed they have now begun production on the Xbox 360 successor, the Xbox 720.
IGN said, "Prior to reaching the manufacturing stage, Flextronics created a new testing group separate from the rest of the company. This team was solely dedicated to comprehensive marketing, software, and hardware tests of the next Xbox. With that activity concluded, Flextronics started building the hardware -- but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll see the Durango soon."
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Published 04/05/2012 15:19:43 by ANDYW
 The new operating system from Microsoft, Windows 8 will not have the ability to playback DVDs unless users purchase the Media Center or use third-party software. It was on the official Building Windows 8 blog that there would be no DVD player as they said this was because they had been a “sharp decline” in the number of people who use their computer to watch DVDs.
Windows 8 will focus on the codecs instead including H.264, VC-1, MP4, AAC, WMA, MP3, PCM and Dolby Digital Plus. If you are one of those users who plays a lot DVDs via their computer, then you can either buy the Media Center through an add-on pack or alternatively you download third party software like VLC.
Microsoft will release a second preview of Windows 8 in June.
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Published 03/05/2012 10:09:20 by ANDYW
 We have a new competition over on the Box.co.uk Facebook page where you have the chance to win a Coolermaster CM Storm Gaming Bundle, which includes a Sentinel Zero G Mouse and Sirus Headset.
The Sentinel Zero G Mouse is the most customisable mouse ever as you can adjust the weight of it by adding and removing the five 4.5 gram weights. The twin laser engine makes sure you have stability and exact tracking performance. With the onboard 128Kb memory you will be able to store 5 gaming profiles and your mouse settings. The Storm Tactics macro support allows the Sentinel’s intelligent firmware to record, replay and schedule keyboard and mouse actions.
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Published 02/05/2012 10:27:16 by ANDYW
Activision has announced the first details for the latest game in the Call of Duty franchise. The game goes under the moniker of Black Ops 2 and will be set in the year 2025. It will see players compete against computer operated drones and humans as the game’s focus will see the US army’s weapon systems being taken under the control of the enemy.
The key feature of the game will be its branching storyline as players will have to make tactical and moral decisions that will lead to different outcomes in the games.
The game will see futuristic weapons, 3D hologram maps and computerised displays. Weapons such as hand grenades will now cover a much greater distance due to hand-cannons. The gaming levels in Black Ops will see you playing through the character of David Mason, who is the son of Alex - the lead operative from the original Black Ops game.
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Published 27/04/2012 14:53:02 by ANDYW
 Calling all you gamers out there - over on the Box.co.uk Facebook page, we are running a competition where you can win a Cyborg MMO 7 Gaming Mouse worth £80. This gaming mouse will have you tearing up the competition as it features the latest technology from the world's most adjustable gaming mouse. This MMO 7 mouse has superior controls and ergonomics creating the perfect weapon for MMO gamers.
The mouse has 78 different user commands and 13 programmable buttons with MMO mode switch and two-position MMO shift button. It has ‘twin eye’ laser sensors that can read each axis one by one and can track up to an incredible 6 meters per second with pinpoint accuracy.
To be within a chance to win the Cyborg MMO 7 Gaming Mouse, all you need to do is like and share the Box.co.uk Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/BoxLimited. Once we reach 4500 likes, we will announce the winner of the competition.
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Published 25/04/2012 14:03:40 by ANDYW
Microsoft has revealed it will release a second preview version of its upcoming operating system Windows 8, which will be available in June. The new operating system has had a design overhaul as it now incorporates the Metro user interface as the company aim to grab more of the tablet market as well as the traditional PC market.
The president of Windows, Steven Sinofsky said that this second preview version would be as close to the final version of the OS. Microsoft have yet to reveal when Windows 8 will be released but is expected to be around October.
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Published 24/04/2012 12:54:30 by JONATHAN
 The HP ProBook 5330M is a device, which carries the Intel i3 Dual Core processor and an integrated Intel graphics card, this means that you have both the processing power and graphics capability to do anything that you could require from a laptop. This laptop also has Windows 7 64-bit Professional edition meaning the device is easy to use for anyone purchasing this laptop.
This laptop has a large amount of memory with 4GB of RAM and a SSD hard drive of 128GB, meaning you will have all the memory you should need for “normal” computing tasks. The HP ProBook also has impressive power usage stats with the battery life being between 5 and 6 hours (6 hours plus when using power management) plus with a charge time of only 2 and a half hours it won’t be long before your using the device again.
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Published 23/04/2012 14:14:20 by ANDYW
 The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 graphics systems are now several years old with some seem to be suggested they have peaked and can no longer improve until the next generation of consoles come along. However, the video game graphics that are seen on a mobile continue to get better and better.
Best known for producing some of the world’s best graphics cards, Nvidia has claimed that mobile graphics will overtake those seen on gaming consoles. The company has released a chart showing how mobile graphics will advance on consoles, which can be viewed here at: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5762/nvidia-plots-mobile-soc-gpu-performance-surpassing-xbox-360-by-2014
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Published 20/04/2012 09:10:14 by JONATHAN
 Box Limited are stocking the highly popular Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2DH, a laptop that not only comes with an extremely good price but it is also one of the best laptops to buy on the market full stop.
This laptop comes with Intel’s powerful Celeron Dual Core Processor and Integrated Intel graphics card meaning the laptop isn’t short of power or picture quality. This device is sold with Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium Edition, which gives the laptop a simple working mode if you are new to the device or a more complicated one if you are not.
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