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Xiaomi is not making an appearance at CES 2015 this week, so just a day before the event started in Las Vegas, the company took a moment to unveil its next-gen entry-level Redmi 2 handset.

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Also present at CES 2015 in Las Vegas, Acer came prepared with a few new products. The Taiwanese company has just pulled the veil off the Liquid Z410 smartphone, a handset which will be sold at a wallet-friendly price.

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The Adobe Flash Player 16 is lightweight software. The app requires little RAM power to run the software. The feature makes the latest version 16 of Adobe Flash Player offer high quality performance along with being highly communicative multimedia software app.

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New infections with Havex remote access Trojan (RAT) have been discovered by security researchers, who observed that malware authors attempt to bypass detection by signing the threat themselves. The files with the spoofed digital signature attempt to pass as components created by IBM’s software division.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 615 was announced back in February and represents the chip maker’s first octa-core SoC with integrated Cat.4 4G LTE. The chip is manufactured using a 28nm process and is made up by four 1.7GHz ARM Cortex A53 cores plus four 1GHz Cortex A53 cores working in concert with Adreno 405 GPU.

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The new buzz in the mobile marketplace is about Android 64-bit systems. In September 2013, Apple released the iPhone* 5 with a 64-bit A7 processor onboard. Thus began the mobile technology race.

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You might be aware that device maker Micromax managed to score an exclusive deal with Cyanogen in India, which now left previous partners like OnePlus out in the cold looking for alternate solutions, like building their own custom ROM.

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The rumor mill has been going crazy with the Xiaomi gossip, giving us reason enough to believe that up to two new, low-cost Xiaomi devices are on their way to market. The first one is a super cheap device (allegedly, as cheap as $80), while the other, which is the topic of today's discussion, is the successor to the Redmi 1S.

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Starting next year, Apple will require all new app submissions and all new updates to include support for 64-bit architectures (the A7 and A8 chips in the company's newest line of iDevices), as well as to support iOS 8 natively.

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Smart Projects has released ISOBuster 3.5, a major new version of its shareware data recovery tool. Although the program now supports recovery from a variety of different drives, it’s still renowned for its ability to recover data from optical drives including CD, DVD and Blu-ray.

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With Google's introduction of 64-bit ABIs for Android, we need to make some minor updates to Version Codes we use to publish and filter app on Google Play. The current suggestion make the 64-bit ABI 1 higher than the 32-bit code, making the 64-bit the preferred.

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At this point, it's a public secret that Qualcomm's upcoming 64-bit Snapdragon 810 octa-core processor will reign inside the biggest, baddest Android smartphones and tablets of 2015. If you aren't up to speed with what this beast is made of, you should have a quick look at its technological profile. No matter if you are from team NVIDIA, or team MediaTek, or team Intel, you are bound to end up impressed!

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor is the piece of 64-bit silicon we'll most likely encounter in the "almost flagship" smartphones that will appear on the market before the likes of Samsung, LG, HTC, and Sony are ready to present their most important offerings in the first half of 2015.

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Elephone’s upcoming P6000 model is shaping up to be quite an interesting little device. The phone, quite similar in design to the Xiaomi Mi2, is currently in development and will probably be launched soon.

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Samsung's 2014 flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S5, came out early in the year riding a veritable tidal wave of hype and anticipation - but it was not destined to deliver the goods. It seems a bit strange when you break it down, because on paper the Galaxy S5 ticked a lot of boxes for what makes a good smartphone; powerful processor, decent imaging, a nice display, and so on.

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