Legendary but controversial former Pakistani pacer Shoaib Akhtar offered to become bowling coach of the national team. It is vital to mention here the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is hunting for a bowling coach since appointing Australian Dav Whatmore as head coach in March, with former Essex paceman Ian Pont the leading contender. The cricket […]
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The judge in the dispute between the companies Apple and Samsung in the U.S. for its various patents has asked the two companies seeking to reach a settlement before the jury begins its deliberations on Monday. Lawyers for both sides tried for months to agree before the trial, but negotiations remained unsuccessful. For 15 months, the American company Apple […]
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The Supreme Court while expressing dissatisfaction rejected the interim report presented by Director Legal of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in the National Insurance Company Ltd (NICL) scandal case. A three-judge bench of the apex court with Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the chair resumed hearing of the NICL scam. Over the directives of the […]
The Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone is the talk of the town after she made her successful Bollywood debut via Mahesh Bhatt’s ‘Jism 2’ earlier this month. The adult sensation has now been signed for by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms for the sequel to the hit 2011 horror flick ‘Ragini MMS’. “I’ll be doing […]
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Expressing its confidence over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear assets, the US State Department has offered condolence over the Kamra Airbase attack. In quite a sensitive operation, the Pakistani security forces killed nine militants after heavily equipped militants stormed a PAF Airbase in Kamra, Attock. Expressing condolence, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the US […]
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Ultrabooks are losing their oomph of being the thin laptops with no nonsense and safer electronic gadgetry. And the main reason is the ever growing market and its capitalization. More and more laptops are bringing SATA hard drives and optical drives to bring down the prices and et cetera, skirting on the fringe of being […]
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The Acer Timeline U M5-481TG, while being thinner than previous Acer Timeline laptops, is not exactly thin or light compared with its ultrabook brethren: at 4.2 pounds and 0.8 inch thick, it’ll feel heavier and thicker than most competitors. However, compared with your regular everyday laptop, the Timeline U will feel, with apologies to Mr. […]
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Amazingly, the Timeline U M5 manages to fit a tray-loading DVD drive into the left side, a feat that makers of similarly thick ultrabooks like the Sony Vaio T seemingly found impossible or undesirable. Most regular folks would probably prefer to have a DVD drive if price and size weren’t an issue. They’re not, in […]
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Stereo speakers, seated below the front edge of the laptop, are shockingly loud. Cranked all the way up, they’ll turn heads at an office. On the other hand, they’re crass and lack quality sound definition. They will, however, blast audio quite nicely in a busy room. A brief note on preinstalled bloatware: Acer’s one of […]
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Stereo speakers, seated below the front edge of the laptop, are shockingly loud. Cranked all the way up, they’ll turn heads at an office. On the other hand, they’re crass and lack quality sound definition. They will, however, blast audio quite nicely in a busy room. A brief note on preinstalled bloatware: Acer’s one of […]
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This Acer’s 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 640M LE graphics are quite impressive too, and a significant step up in power from the integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics in most ultrabooks. Dirt 3 ran its benchmark at 67.6 frames per second at 1,366×768-pixel resolution and medium graphics settings, and 52.9fps at high graphics settings, while our […]
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Toshiba will join Hewlett-Packard in passing on the first round of tablets based on the RT versions of Windows 8. This follows the confirmation Monday from Microsoft that Dell, Samsung, and Lenovo will debut tablets and/or convertibles (Asus has already announced theirs) based on the version of the Windows 8 that runs on ARM chips. […]
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