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We have just taken a look at the UEBO M400 Wireless Media Player.  This device is a lot more than an HDMI-outputting, Network connected media player.  UEBO has also thrown in some great features such as BitTorrent, UPnP support and USB 3.0 connections for transferring files to the device and for external storage purposes as well.  Check our review for all the details.

This media player looks to be a radical transformation of most normal media players by adding many new features that most media players don’t have.  The M400 does support USB 3.0 and 2.0 connections, a 3 TB HDD (sold separately), support for all media files, and True 1080p resolution and HD surround sound.  The new and radical features that have been added are; Bit Torrent for torrent downloads, FTP, NAS for network storage ability, and DLNA support.

iXBT Labs has put together a rather large 71 CPU roundup and gives us the scoop on how today's current CPUs stack up.  They start with the AMD E-350 APU and go all the way up to the Intel Core i7-3960X CPU.  They cover a whole lot of gear and put together a pretty decent database and results.  Take a look and see how they all scale.

This time we'd like to offer you the summarized test results of as many as 71 processors. This generally marks the end of the year, not the end of another test method's life cycle (like the last time). We believe this summary contains all important processors, and we expect the novelties to differ quantitatively, not qualitatively.

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As we finish up some hardware bits for the weekend we've got a nice variety to share.

• Enermax briskie Wireless Keyboard & Mouse - HardwareHeaven
• Epic Gear Hybrid Pad Mouse Mat - TechPowerUp 
• CM Storm QuickFire Rapid Gaming Keyboard - Techgage 
• Thermaltake Tt eSports Battle Dragon LAN Bag - eTeknix 
• Cyborg M.M.O. 7 Gaming Mouse - HardwareHeaven 
• Antec SoundScience Halo 6 LED BIAS Lighting Kit - TweakNews

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We have just posted up our 16th App Pick of the Week and this time we have a look at a Google App and see how handy Google Docs is to have on your mobile.  I've grown to love this handy app and it makes a great companion to Google Apps for your desktop.

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If you have been waiting for the next-generation console from Nintendo your wait will be over by the end of the year. Nintendo has announced they will be releasing the successor to the Wii by the holiday season of 2012. There is still quite a bit of time left before the Wii U launches but there are still a ton of questions surrounding it (as well as a ton of rumors). GamesBeat has the full (and short) announcement over here.

Nintendo will launch its Wii U video game console — the successor to the wildly successful but aging Nintendo Wii — in the U.S. and other key markets in time for the holiday shopping season later this year.

Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata told reporters in Japan that the Wii U would be launched by the end of the year in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Japan, according to Reuters.

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Warner Bros. announced this month that they will be adding a 56 day delay from when their new DVDs are available in stores to when you can rent them from Netflix (or other movie rental sites). Basically this means that for 56 days you will be able to go buy the DVD at your favorite store before you can actually watch it online through Netflix. Its kinda funny to see companies doing things like this to "boost DVD sales" when chances are good its just going to make people mad and they'll just find alternative ways to get the product for free. MediaBeat has all the details on Warner Bros. announcement over here.

Earlier this month, Warner Brothers decided to delay all new DVD movie releases from becoming available through video rental services, like Blockbuster and Netflix. This means the rental services must wait 56 days after a new Warner Brothers DVD hits retail store shelves before it’s able to begin renting it out to customers. Of  course, the video rental companies do have the option of buying the new DVD releases at full retail price, but this would raise over all operating costs for the rental service and ultimately dip into its profits.

I am interested to see if there is anyone out there that is now going to go buy the DVD instead of having to wait? Realistically if you were going to wait for it to come out on DVD (so you could rent it instead of buying it) will having to wait an extra month change your mind and make you go buy the DVD instead from a store? Use the forum link below and let us know what you think.

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Users who were using MegaUpload for legitimate purposes are understandably a little bit mad thanks to the recent FBI shutdown of MegaUpload. some of these users are now forming groups which are going to try to sue the FBI to get their lost files back (or more likely just get a few bucks out of them). As expected the whole MegaUpload saga is getting messier and chances are good this is not the last we've heard about this. TorrentFreak has the full story.

In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven.

However, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections.

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By now you have probably heard about the $25 dollar Raspberry Pi PC that is slated to be launched shortly. Basically the Raspberry Pi systems is an all-in-one system that is not much bigger than the size of a deck of playing card, but the interesting part of this whole system is the amount of performance they are showing off now which is double the GPU performance of the iPhone 4S and more than the current Tegra 2 GPUs. Geek.com has more info on the Raspberry Pi project as well as a bunch of new performance numbers.

Anticipation for the launch of the Raspberry Pi $25 PC continues to grow as its launch window gets ever closer. Over the past few months it has been surprising to see what the tiny machine is capable of. Videos of it running Quake III, playing back 1080p video, and handling graphics-intensive particle and sprite demos have all impressed, but until now we haven’t really been able to gauge how the device compares to other gadgets.

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During the summer when Netflix introduced a price hike people started to ditch Netflix in droves, however, it appears like in Q4 of 2011 that trend stopped and they almost gained enough new customers to offset all of the people who left earlier in the year. Netflix ended 2011 with 24.4 million subscribers in the US and if they can continue to gain new subscribers or bring some of their old customers back they might be able to have a decent year (which wasn't expected). The Huffington Post has the full story.

Netflix has regained almost as many customers as it lost following an unpopular price increase, signaling that the video subscription service is healing from its self-inflicted wounds.

Fourth-quarter figures released Wednesday show Netflix Inc. ended December with 24.4 million subscribers in the U.S., up from 23.8 million at the end of September. That gain of about 600,000 customers compares with the loss of 800,000 subscribers last summer after it raised its U.S. prices as much as 60 percent.

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Bad news coming from Symantec this week as they've publicly admitted that a group of hackers has stolen their code for pcAnywhere and users of that software are now exposed to a higher risk of attack. The "theft" of this code actually happened 6 years ago apparently but they've just realized it now.... Ars Technica has the full story that users of pcAnywhere might want to check out.

Although Symantec says the theft actually occurred in 2006, the issue did not come to light until this month when hackers related to Anonymous said they had the source code and would release it publicly. Users of the Norton products in question are not at any increased risk of attack because of the age of the source code and security improvements made in the years since the breach, but the vendor acknowledged on Tuesday night that "Customers of Symantec's pcAnywhere have increased risk as a result of this incident."

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