Samsung Galaxy S Duos goes official: launches in Europe next month

Aside from that minor labeling at the top, the Galaxy S Duos appears to be trading heavily on the looks of Samsung's latest flagship. That said, it does have its own trick; space for two SIMs. The phone will be able to keep both SIMs running concurrently, with the ability to chat on Carrier A while stillfielding incoming calls on Carrier B. The rest of the hardware is less likely to wow, with a now pretty humble 1GHz processor, 1,500mAh battery, 4GB of built-in storage and a five-megapixel camera on the back. The screen seems big enough, with a 4-inch 480 x 800 TFT housed within the 120g frame, happily running Android 4.0.

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Soup-urb opens in Brighton with 2 for 1 meal deal

Delicious, nutritious café brand begins expansion phase with premium Brighton locationDelicious and nutritious… these are the watchwords of fresh food café Soup-urb, now launching in Brighton as the second outlet for this venture from catering visionary Claire Wood and serial entrepreneur Yolanda Noble.Soup-urb’s menu ranges from the eponymous soup range, to fabulous taste treats from fresh ingredients, such as the café’s signature apple, melon and mint drink, or its home-made lemonade.

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Samsung Releases Premium Smart Camera EX2F in Korea too.

Announced in the US early July, the Samsung's new compact camera, the EX2F, is finally available in Korea as well. The EX2F comes with a nice 12.4" Mpix 1x1.7" BSI (Back Side Illuminated) CMOS sensor capable to reach up to ISO 12,800 and fitted with a nice f/1.4-2.7, 24-79mm lens. The EX2F also comes with with a 3" AMLOED VGA display and a nice Full HD 1080x30p video mode.






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LG Optimus Vu global availability gets announced

LG announced global availability of its unorthodox screen ratio sporting Optimus Vu phoneblet. The device will hit select markets in Europe, Asia, Middle East/Africa and Latin America in September. The most important change about the globally available LG Optimus Vu will be the new CPU and chipset which it will feature. The dual-core Qualcomm silicon of the Korean and Japanese market specific devices will be replaced by a much speedier NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core CPU.

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Best Buy names Hubert Joly as new CEO, will take on leadership in September

It's been a rough year for Best Buy - it's shuttered dozens of stores, seen its founder step down and even lost its CEO, Brian Dunn. Still, the big box retailer hasn't given up hope, and today chose a new chief executive, one Hubert Joly. Until Sunday afternoon, Joly was responsible for Carlson, a hospitality and travel outfit that operates hotels and restaurants in over 150 countries. If you've eaten at a TGI Friday's, you've patronized Joly's old firm. Best Buy seems optimistic, according to the Wall Street Journal, noting that Joly has a knack for turning around companies in trouble.

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NASA maps out proposed travel plans for Curiosity, decides to head for the hills

As the vista on Mars gradually gets ever clearer, and the system checks continue to show that the rover is in good stead, the team behind Curiosity will be increasingly eager to stretch its legs wheels. The first trip might be just a cautious few meters, but plans for a more adventurous jaunt have just been revealed. The first location in Curiosity's sights is an area referred to as Glenelg, which, based on initial pictures, offers three different geological characteristics, as well as potentially being an area where water used to be present.

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Facebook to backup its servers with low-power storage devices at 'Sub-Zero' data center

Data backups come in all shapes and sizes. For some, they take the form of external hard drives or a slice of the amorphous cloud. As for Facebook, its upcoming solution is low-power deep-storage hardware contained within a 62,000 square-foot building in Prineville, Oregon near its existing Beaver State data center. Unofficially referred to as "Sub-Zero," the facility will store a copy of the social network's data in case its primary servers need to be restored in an emergency. Rather than continuously power HDDs that are only occasionally used, the new setup can conserve energy by lighting-up drives just when they're needed.

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