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AT&T and Asus announced the entry-level PadFone X mini smartphone with tablet docking station. The LTE device will be available later this month, on October 24 for $199.99 with no contract on AT&T’s GoPhone prepaid plans.

Breathometer has unveiled the Breeze today. This is a new breathalyzer that the company claims is the industry’s first such device to be “truly wearable”. It’s small, has a built-in mouthpiece, and it comes with a wearable clip, keychain, and a mouthpiece cover.

The Breathometer Breeze will allegedly last for an incredible 16 months of daily use before needing battery replacement. It’s available to buy for $99.99, and will start shipping on October 22.






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Vodafone is expanding its Android tablet roster with one of the cheapest 4G LTE tablets around. Dubbed Vodafone Smart Tab 4G it will launch tomorrow at £125 on Pay as you go and £30 on a 1GB/£17 a month plan.
     The tablet will be available in Vodafone stores tomorrow.


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Soon after announcing the launch details of the Samsung Gear S in the UK, the company also shed light on its availability in India. The smartwatch launches this week in India in black and white color options and will cost $470 (INR 28,900).


We don’t yet know whether the watch will be available in its Swarovski edition. The IP67-certified smartwatch sports a 2″ 360 x 480 curved Super AMOLED display and features a dual-core 1GHz CPU running the Tizen-based wearable platform.

It can play music to your Bluetooth headset and make calls even without one. Internal storage is 4GB and RAM is 512MB, which does the job well. The battery is 300mAh and is promised to last a full day of moderate usage.

Be sure to check out our first encounter with the smartwatch at the IFA 2014 showroom floor.

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At this week’s HKTDC tech show in Hong Kong, an interesting Windows tablet made an appearance sporting the hard-to-believe price tag of $65 (CNY 399). The tablet is called the Emdoor EM-I8170 and sports a 7″ 1024 x 600 pixel display.
Under the hood, there’s an Intel Z3735G quad-core Bay Trail processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. It boots Windows 8.1 and the company boasts it has received over 50,000 orders for the tablet already.

Microsoft is seeing healthy competition in its ecosystem when it comes to low-end tablets. HP launched the $99 Stream 7 Windows 8.1 tablet sporting thr dsmr Atom Z3735G SoC with quad-core processor and a gig of RAM.

The availability of the tablet outside China isn’t known yet, but Emdoor doesn’t seem to know at this point if it’s going to reach outside the boundaries of its home market.

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Multiple Dropbox accounts got compromised today when an anonymous user posted hundreds of Dropbox ID and password in a text file on reddit. The ID and password were in four text files that were posted on pastebin.
reddit users confirmed that many of the accounts listed with their passwords were legit. However, Dropbox later said that it wasn’t hacked, and that the account details were obtained from third party sources.

Dropbox also said that it has measures in place to detect suspicious login attempt and reset the passwords automatically. Dropbox also claimed that the list of usernames and passwords are not associated with Dropbox, which is the exact opposite of what the reddit users confirmed.

Although Dropbox is clearly shrugging responsibility here, in the end the users are going to suffer. This is why it is of utmost importance to have two-step authentication enabled for your every account and have a strong password as well, just in case. If you can’t take all the available precautions for your online accounts in this day and age, you only have yourself to blame.

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Microsoft has added a new ability to Windows Phone’s virtual assistant skill set. Cortana is now capable of looking for song lyrics for you so you can sing along with your favorite artists.