The sets are apparently targeting consumers who use their TV primarily for gaming or multimedia activities, or to customers who prefer to use a set-top-box to receive digital and HD content.

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While men seem to prefer to gather information, women use their devices more for personalised entertainment activities like gaming and socialising via Facebook or Twitter.

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We added many convenient features to provide Chinese users with one-click access to popular online activities such as gaming, shopping, banking, and microblogging, etc.

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In addition to sustained speeds, the FCC analyzed consumer connections' latency and the effect of ISP speed boost tech on activities like VoIP, gaming, and video streaming.

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The vast majority of the research did not directly compare gaming with hours of other intense, mental activities such as solving math equations.

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However, as the price and availability improves, the addition of touch which makes gaming, searching the web, and many other activities easier and more fun to do, will cause the popularity of Windows 8 to go up rapidly.

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"Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.

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