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PS Vita Slim coming to North America this Spring with Borderlands 2

  Well, it has finally happened: PS Vita Slim is coming to the U.S. this spring.  Yesterday, Sony held a meeting at Sony Santa Monica where they talked about the state of Playstation and released info that the Vita Slim would be coming with a bundle that would include Borderlands 2.  The price was announced at $199 only $10 more than the current Vita is selling at, and there is…

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Flappy Bird’s Goose is Cooked

This will be a rather short article, but the recently popular app, “Flappy Bird”, will be gone tomorrow (February 9th, 2014). The indie game developer Dong Nguyen who lives in Hanoi, Vietnam stated that 22 hours from now, he will take the game down. He went on to state that, “it’s not for legal reasons”, and, “I just can’t keep it anymore.” Multiple people have tried to get in touch with…

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GearPop Tech News Roundup: Apple looking to Make New Products

Gran Turismo Documentary Free on YouTube http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/07/recline-your-seat-and-watch-gran-turismo-doc-kaz-on-youtube-vim/ Anyone that is a fan of gaming, racing, development, and technology should watch the Kaz documentary released yesterday from Sony.  It is amazing to see what it takes to create the number one selling racing game in the history of video games.  The creator talks about how every piece of a track is scanned, how he wanted you to feel a part of…

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Apple Patents Orientation-Based Charging Dock

Inductive charging isn’t anything new, however Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 8,645,604 brings new information on their upcoming ventures, and how they can bring uniqueness to such revolutionary technology. Several wireless charging plates are already on the market such as the ‘Duracell powermat’ and ‘Nokia wireless charging plate’. Apple’s patent finalised this week, now brings something different which could possibly be available to Apple users very soon. Unlike conventional docking stations, the…

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GearPop Tech News Roundup: Amazon Prime Price Increase

Every day I will do a round up of three-five articles about the tech world where I will comment and hopefully receive feedback from you the reader.  I hope this catches on and can become a regular thing for Gear Pop. Facebook Paper App http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/30/tech/social-media/facebook-paper/index.html Looks like Facebook is at it again with another app to try and make things easier and more fluid.  My question is how does Flipboard feel…

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Facebook to Launch New Mobile App: Paper

On a Facebook Creative Industries conference call on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted at the production of new apps by Facebook. Thursday, Facebook continued this idea by unveiling a new app called Paper, which will launch Monday February 3rd 2014. They did so without any press events or meetings, just a video showing what the app is all about: As you can probably see from the video, Paper is…

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Google Sells Motorola for $2.9 Billion

Google has just closed a $2.9 billion dollar deal with Lenovo, giving up it’s rights to the Motorola brand, current and future Motorola products, over 2,000 patents, and Motorola’s trademark portfolio. The near $3 billion sale consists of $660 million in cash, $750 million of Lenovo stock, and $1.5 billion in a promissory note. This move to opt-out of the smartphone manufacturing business may have been Google’s plan all along…

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Samsung Silently Launches Galaxy Grand Neo

      Another phone has just joined the Samsung Galaxy line, but without any hype at all. First spotted by UnwiredView on Samsung’s site, there is a new phone called the Galaxy Grand Neo that has been listed with no previous word from the company. With HSPA+ 21Mbps radios, a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, a VGA front-facing camera, a 5-megapixel rear camera, a 5.01 inch display featuring an 800 x…

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Nintendo Planning A New Console Already?

The Wii U’s announcement at E3 2012 was undeniably a bit underwhelming. In fact, some people still don’t realize it’s not an add-on for the original Wii. This and a number of other reasons has caused Nintendo’s Wii U to not sell the way they wanted it to. With most people identifying the Wii U as a failure, it’s no surprise Nintendo would want to move on, and with new…

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Nuketown on GTA ONLINE?

   So, with Rockstar Games recently released the creation tools for Grand Theft Auto Online. This allows players to customize game modes, maps, and other features in the online mode of Grand Theft Auto V. It was only a matter of time before awesome creative players started getting really creative, and one cool mod that hit the Xbox 360 over the weekend was a recreation of the popular “Nuketown” map from Call of Duty: Black…

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