Category: Miscellaneous

Luxottica Group, the company behind Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglass brands has partnered with Google to make connected eyewear similar to Google Glass. This is a massive milestone for Glass program that been exclusive to members of Explorer program and have paid USD 1500 for the eyewear.

Most probably the Ray-Ban and Oakley will add style to the technology and make it more friendly to the consumers. Also this way the search engine giant will have access to Luxottica’s 5,000 retail locations to distribute the new eyewear.

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Microsoft gave white Xbox One to its employees when it launched the console but some of them are already selling on it on Ebay. The Redmond giant will only be selling black variant to the normal public. Only ten units of this employee-exclusive Xbox One are available on Ebay.

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Sony launched the PlayStation 4 back in November 2013 and since then, it has sold like hotcakes. In fact according to the official sales figures, Sony has been able to sell 6 million PS4 consoles so far. Andrew House, Playstation’s current president and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment told WSJ

We’re struggling to keep up with demand. Conservatively, as we get into the early summer months, we’ll be closer to a full supply situation.

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Sprint which is under stiff competition from the likes of T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon is struggling to get new subscribers and to keep the ones it already has. So it is now turning to layoffs and closing stores in order to keep its profits up.

The network provider announced today that it has laid off 330 techs and closed 55 stores to reduce overall running costs. The staff in the stores were dedicated for repairing phones for the Sprint current customers.

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Sony has announced that they will be enabling pre-loading feature on its Playstation 4 soon. The developer behind the game “infamous” was asked if there was a way to pre-download his game and this was the reply he got.

No preload on PS4 until April and for North America, the PS Store will update at midnight PST. So 3am EST

However it is not clear if pre-loading will be available for only his game or for the PlayStaiton 4 as whole. This is what that is unclear right now. This feature was spotted on a game called Titanfall for Xbox One but Microsoft quickly removed it and claimed it was an error.

Developers have started to allow gamers to pre-load games before even they officially release the game. This will allow the gamers to download and install most of the game so that when the game is released, they have the game already installed on their consoles.

The high end smartwatch from Samsung will be just as expensive as the first one. The Gear 2 will set you back 299 dollars just like the first-generation model. Fortunately, Samsung has cheaper models this time around.

The Samsung Gear 2 neo and Gear Fit will sell for $199 each. AT&T has already started taking pre-orders for all three starting March 21.

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