If you ever wanted to have phone wallet and a smartphone pouch in one item, consider yourself lucky, as Golla made exactly that for you. The Willie Phone Wallet is essentially a soft wallet made of PU leather, with a slot for your smartphone. It looks nice and stylish, is easy to use, and offer good protection for your phone all the time. Flap is easily secured via two velcro straps, which is great as it host three slots which can be used for credit cards or IDs. On the back side there is a huge pocket with a zipper, allowing for safe keeping of money bills and change. It also hold slim belt loop if you are fond of carrying your smartphone this way.

Shortly after Futuremark released 3DMark on the Google Play store a couple of weeks ago, they were contacted by James Coote (@JamesACoote), developer of upcoming OUYA game Executive Star, who was keen to try 3DMark on his OUYA dev kit. You can see results in detail here, and check a video of James running 3DMark on his OUYA here.

ASUS announced the portable B1M Ultra-bright Wireless LED Projector with ASUS Wi-Fi Projection technology for presentations and media streaming without the need for cables. Designed for professional use, the B1M is a short-throw projector with a compact and lightweight design that makes it easy to carry in a briefcase or bag. The B1M features a bright 700 lumens Eco-LED light source with low operating temperatures for near-instant set-up and shut-down times, and a long lifespan that drastically reduces the total cost of ownership.

HP was selected by DreamWorks Animation to deliver the technology behind “The Croods,” pushing the boundaries of modern imagery for this prehistoric animated adventure that is anything but primitive.

“Cutting-edge digital manufacturing requires a huge amount of compute power and orchestrated collaboration across our studios,” said Derek Chan, head, Technology Global Operations, DreamWorks Animation. “HP Converged Infrastructure ensures that our filmmakers have the technical resources they require to bring their creative vision to life and deliver amazing films to our audiences.”

Stanford Engineering's Center for Turbulence Research has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem—the prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine. Joseph Nichols, a research associate in the center, worked on the newly installed Sequoia IBM Bluegene/Q system that once topped list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, boasting 1,572,864 compute cores (processors) and 1.6 petabytes of memory connected by a high-speed five-dimensional torus interconnect.

The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks. The H.265 standard, also informally known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is designed to provide high-quality streaming video, even on low-bandwidth networks. The new video format is the successor to the H.264 codec, which nearly every video publisher has standardized after the release of the iPad and several other connected devices.

The Google co-founder Sergey Brin was photographed on the New York City subway this weekend - wearing the Google Glass headgear, of course. Brin was spotted by Noah Zerkin, who describes himself as a wearable computing and augmented reality enthusiast.

"Yeeeah... I just had a brief conversation with the most powerful man in the world. On the downtown 3 train. Nice guy," Zerkin tweeted on Sunday, attaching a photo of Brin decked out in the Google glasses and a black ensemble.

Google Glass is the product of Google's Project Glass and are head-mounted, augmented reality glasses that offer a single, tiny view screen, voice recognition, and photo and video capture.

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Amazon announced that 2012 was its biggest holiday ever with over 26.5 million items ordered worldwide on its peak day, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. Also for the second year in a row, Amazon’s tablet was the most popular item for customers—Kindle Fire HD continued its run as the #1 best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for product. Amazon set another record on Christmas Day for digital downloads from the online retailer.
Also, for the eighth consecutive year, Amazon ranks #1 in customer satisfaction during the holiday shopping season according to the ForeSee annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index. ForeSee surveyed over 24,000 customers between Thanksgiving and Christmas, asking them to rate their satisfaction with the top 100 retailers.

LG Electronics today announced an all-new Magic Remote for its CINEMA 3D Smart TV lineup. “LG is committed to providing innovative home entertainment solutions and the Magic Remote is a key pillar of the CINEMA 3D Smart TV user experience,” said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of the LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company. “Building on an already impressive feature set, the latest version boasts accurate language recognition and its gesture, wheel and point control options makes the Magic Remote stand out amongst its competition as a truly intuitive device.”