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Monster Gratitude earbuds are endorsed by Earth, Wind &... 7:58 PM	SlashGear
Monster Gratitude earbuds are endorsed by Earth, Wind & Fire The Beats by Dr. Dre line of headphones are durable, well-built headphones that stand up to their hype. But they also prove that tying in a celebrity endorsement to an audio product can create tremendous brand value, so Monster has decided to team up with a more old-school music sensation to promote its new product, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple iMessage bug allows others to spy on your convos 7:35 PM	SlashGear
Apple iMessage bug allows others to spy on your convos For iPhone users, the iMessage platform is quite a popular alternative to traditional SMS text messaging. But did you know there’s a glitch that allows a third party to sneak in, view, and even participate in your iMessage conversations? It doesn’t matter if you reset your password, disable your iMessages app, or even perform a [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Why Microsoft’s Kinect Is the Next Big Thing In Gaming Feb 04 2012 20:30:37	SlashGear
Why Microsoft’s Kinect Is the Next Big Thing In Gaming As I’ve said numerous times on these pages before, I’m deeply concerned by motion gaming. I think it’s holding the gaming business back and helps to make the space seem “gimmicky” — something I thought we were trying to move away from. My issues with motion gaming have prompted me to turn my back on [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
US officials say cyber crimes will overtake terrorism a... Feb 04 2012 19:49:50	SlashGear
US officials say cyber crimes will overtake terrorism as top threat Just as authentication service VeriSign admitted it has been hit by very strong hacking attacks a couple years ago, US officials have revealed that computer crimes will be more of a threat to the country than terrorism. VeriSign is an example of how cyber attacks can affect tens of millions of civilians, but government offices [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Chevrolet’s Sonic Youth replaces Aveo in subcompact line Feb 04 2012 19:47:00	SlashGear
Chevrolet’s Sonic Youth replaces Aveo in subcompact line When it comes to subcompact cars, there is an always growing market but there is always a sense that they’re not cool or hip. That is, when you hear of the Chevrolet Aveo, you probably think, “Oh yeah, that’s the ‘cheapest car’ option at the rental car place.” So it’s time to put an end [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Netflix partners with eyeIO to reduce bandwidth pressure Feb 04 2012 19:31:26	SlashGear
Netflix partners with eyeIO to reduce bandwidth pressure Netflix has become the first client of a new, ambitious startup that promises to offer streaming video content with a significantly reduced bandwidth requirement. In fact, eyeIO says it will cut the amount of bandwidth needed by Netflix streams by more than 50%. With this, the company could potentially further expand its scope on an [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Microsoft’s ‘Xbox Live cop’ has resigned Feb 04 2012 19:10:10	SlashGear
Microsoft’s ‘Xbox Live cop’ has resigned The man who was in charge of deciding who should live and who should die (in the world of Xbox Live gamertags, that is) has stepped down from his position after nearly 18 years at Microsoft. Stephen Toulouse will no longer be the Xbox Live policy and enforcement director. Toulouse was responsible for making sure [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Motorola Droid 4 will launch February 10: report Feb 04 2012 18:50:26	SlashGear
Motorola Droid 4 will launch February 10: report According to recent leaks, the latest iteration of Motorola’s Droid brand will be priced at $200 for those who sign a new two-year service agreement. And now, we’re hearing that the device will be available really soon; in fact, it’ll be here in less than a week. According to the latest report, it will be [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Motorola demanded 2.25% of Apple sales for 3G patent use Feb 04 2012 14:39:28	SlashGear
Motorola demanded 2.25% of Apple sales for 3G patent use Motorola demanded 2.25-percent of Apple‘s sales in royalty fees, in return for licensing the FRAND 3G/UMTS patent at the heart of a 2011 German infringement suit, court documentation has revealed. The offer, which Motorola was obliged to make “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory”, could amount to almost $15 on the unsubsidized price of each entry-level iPhone [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Bankrupt Kodak to remove name from iconic LA theater Feb 04 2012 02:57:25	SlashGear
Bankrupt Kodak to remove name from iconic LA theater For years, if you tuned in to watch the Academy Awards at some point you would hear the phrase “from the Kodak Theatre.” Now, the once dominant film behemoth says it’s no longer worth paying $75 million a year to put its name on the door. That’s probably a smart move considering the company has [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
KISS frontman Gene Simmons eyes Angry Birds deal Feb 04 2012 02:40:10	SlashGear
KISS frontman Gene Simmons eyes Angry Birds deal When you think of colorful, odd-shaped birds flinging into a group of circular green pigs, does a man who dresses up in gaudy black-and-white makeup and gothic black outfits come to mind? Well, maybe. But then again, with the number of different promotions and partnerships Rovio has managed to milk out of Angry Birds, pretty [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Microsoft loses key Windows Phone employee to Amazon Feb 04 2012 02:23:23	SlashGear
Microsoft loses key Windows Phone employee to Amazon The man who was in charge of getting new apps and content on the Windows Phone Marketplace has left Microsoft to pursure a similar occupation at Amazon. Brandon Watson apparently feels that the online bookseller-turned-behemoth has a brighter future. Or they offered him more money. Or both. Either way, it’s definitely a setback for Microsoft. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
LEGO-sponsored study: Kids think robots are cooler than... Feb 04 2012 02:07:44	SlashGear
LEGO-sponsored study: Kids think robots are cooler than parents, teachers If your parents were robots, you wouldn’t have to do chores. If your teachers were robots, learning would be fun. At least, that’s the response that kids provided in a study conducted by a research company called Latitude, in tandem with a group called the LEGO Learning Institude and Project Synthesis. The experiment looked at [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady admits he illegally stre... Feb 04 2012 02:00:22	SlashGear
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady admits he illegally streamed Super Bowl last year At Super Bowl XLVI, Tom Brady will pretty much have the best seat in the house. But last year was a bit different – he was in Costa Rica and couldn’t exactly tune in to watch the game on TV. So he did what any good football fan would have done. He watched it on [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Marriott hacker gets 30 months in prison Feb 04 2012 01:43:49	SlashGear
Marriott hacker gets 30 months in prison Attila Nemeth’s accommodations for the next 2.5 years won’t exactly be like a Marriott. The Hungarian man was convicted on charges that he hacked into the computer system of the giant hospitality chain and threatened company executives that he would leak sensitive data unless they met his demands. And you know what his demands were? [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Taiwanese gamer lies dead in LAN cafe for 9 hours befor... Feb 04 2012 01:12:40	SlashGear
Taiwanese gamer lies dead in LAN cafe for 9 hours before anyone notices The unconscious body of a 23-year-old sat slumped over at a Taiwanese Internet cafe for several hours before anyone noticed or said anything. The man was playing the online game League of Legends. When he passed out, there were as many as 30 other players surrounding him in the crowded space. It is unclear how [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Bioware’s Mass Effect 3 demo includes Xbox Live Gold trial Feb 04 2012 00:48:23	SlashGear
Bioware’s Mass Effect 3 demo includes Xbox Live Gold trial If you download the Mass Effect 3 demo for Xbox 360 on its Valentine’s Day launch day, you’ll get a free month of Xbox Live Gold. That isn’t because Microsoft and Bioware are feeling generous; it’s because of the somewhat ridiculous restriction that prevents non-Gold members from playing online games. And as anyone who knows [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nokia reveals NFC-powered “Hello” communication platform Feb 04 2012 00:28:35	SlashGear
Nokia reveals NFC-powered “Hello” communication platform You can say a lot of things about Nokia, but you can’t really say that it ever runs out of ceative ideas. Enter Nokia Hello, which strives to make it easier if you’re trying to talk to someone who speaks a different language than you. Powered by Near Field Communication (NFC), Nokia Hello lets one [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 3, 2012 Feb 03 2012 23:59:52	SlashGear
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 3, 2012 Another week has come to a close, but not before we had a chance to catch up on the big news of the day, like this one – the Android@Home prototype as an entertainment device for the home. In addition, the Windows Phone Marketplace has just launched in five new countries. Featured: Check out our [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Android CDMA support changed slightly, Nexus may stoppe... Feb 03 2012 23:57:14	SlashGear
Android CDMA support changed slightly, Nexus may stopper updates Today there’s been a bit of a scare out there in the Android world as Google changed its official support pages to stop support for some CDMA features on devices. This seemed to include the Verizon Galaxy Nexus at first along with all CDMA devices in all ways. In fact the situation is simply this: [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
thinksound ms01 Monitor Series earbuds Review Feb 03 2012 23:21:01	SlashGear
thinksound ms01 Monitor Series earbuds Review When you think of earbuds for listening to music and working with audio, you generally don’t expect the kind of quality that thinksound presents here. What we’ve got here is a wooden pair of earbuds by the name of ms01, an entry into thinksound’s monitor series. These in-ear earbuds each feature an acoustically enhanced 8mm [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Windows Phone Marketplace launches in five new countries Feb 03 2012 23:12:55	SlashGear
Windows Phone Marketplace launches in five new countries Microsoft announced today that its Windows Phone Marketplace is opening up in five new countries. Those countries include Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines. Users in these regions will have to make sure their devices are updated to Windows Phone 7.5 in order to access the Marketplace. The Marketplace may take a few hours [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple updates iBooks Author EULA terms to address conte... Feb 03 2012 22:31:36	SlashGear
Apple updates iBooks Author EULA terms to address content ownership concerns Apple today updated its new e-book publishing app, iBooks Author, to version 1.0.1, but the only change was in the End User License Agreement. The update clarifies a controversial portion of the EULA that suggested any content created by the app could only be sold and distributed through Apple’s iBookstore if it were to be [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple iTV pushed back as IGZO panels unready for shipment Feb 03 2012 22:03:54	SlashGear
Apple iTV pushed back as IGZO panels unready for shipment It appears that both Samsung and LG are both keeping their panels to themselves this season as the Smart TV market fires up and Apple sets its sights on IGZO. Sources are speaking to the tune of Sharp being the next on the list for Apple to be looking to for Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Smartphones outpace PCs for the first time in Q4 2011 Feb 03 2012 21:52:47	SlashGear
Smartphones outpace PCs for the first time in Q4 2011 According to detailed Q4 2011 shipment estimates released by research firm Canalys, global smartphone shipments have surpassed that of PCs for the very first time. Vendors shipped 488 million smartphones in 2011 compared to 415 million PCs. During the fourth quarter last year, vendors shipped 158.5 million smartphones, which is a 57% boost from the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Google Testing prototype Entertainment Device for the home Feb 03 2012 21:48:31	SlashGear
Google Testing prototype Entertainment Device for the home Approximately 252 homes are in a trial run this month with a brand new Google Entertainment Device which very well may be the project thus far known as Android@Home. This project has been tipped by the FCC where a collection of pre-run devices have been OK’d for testing, each of them working with Wi-fi and/or [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Yahoo launches search engine for iOS, Android apps Feb 03 2012 21:22:36	SlashGear
Yahoo launches search engine for iOS, Android apps Yahoo launched a new category for its search engine this week that makes it easy to browse and find either iOS or Android apps. You’ll notice the addition of an “Apps” filter option above Yahoo’s search bar and a new portal that makes it easy to sift through apps by various categories and ratings lists. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Anonymous hits Police websites in Boston and SLC Feb 03 2012 21:15:16	SlashGear
Anonymous hits Police websites in Boston and SLC Attacks this week by hacker collective Anonymous appear to have taken the Boston and Salt Lake City police by surprise once more as they retaliate for police brutality at Occupy Wall Street weeks ago. Though it’s not been immediately apparent why this second attack has come when it has, Anonymous does appear to have left [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Micron CEO dies in experimental airplane crash Feb 03 2012 20:45:57	SlashGear
Micron CEO dies in experimental airplane crash Micron Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton died from a small airplane crash this morning. Appleton has long been a stunt plane pilot and was flying a single-engine experimental aircraft solo before it crashed at the Boise airport. This wasn’t the first time Appleton had crashed but it is his last. He was 51 years old. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
HVAC stalwart Honeywell could’ve bested Nest decades ago Feb 03 2012 20:41:15	SlashGear
HVAC stalwart Honeywell could’ve bested Nest decades ago It seems that one of the world’s largest thermostat makers, Honeywell, had a learning unit quite a few years before the now-popular “Nest” did, and nixed it soon after its conception. Speaking with Honeywell’s President of Environmental and Combustion Controls division miss Beth Wozniak, GigaOM’s Katie Fehrenbacher found that Honeywell decided to drop the program [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Corning Day Made of Glass 2 video released with making-... Feb 03 2012 19:59:13	SlashGear
Corning Day Made of Glass 2 video released with making-of add-on Technology is advancing slightly slower than the minds at Corning would have it, it seems, as the creators of Gorilla Glass present a second video in a series that brings the future to us now, glass based. The video moves from one technology to the next, starting with Handheld Display Glass, this essentially stemming off [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Jawbone Jambox BIG details leaked Feb 03 2012 19:29:54	SlashGear
Jawbone Jambox BIG details leaked A brand new Jambox may be on the horizon, this time twice the size of its predecessor and just as bright for mobile devices. This device is a massively impressive speaker for smartphones in its first iteration, last seen here on SlashGear in a demonstration of Qualcomm technology at CES 2012, of all places. This [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Woot-sold XOOM refurb-tablets contain previous owners data Feb 03 2012 19:02:31	SlashGear
Woot-sold XOOM refurb-tablets contain previous owners data Motorola has announced this week that XOOM units sold through Woot.com’s refurbish and sell program in the past few months may have previous users data aboard. This mishap stems from improperly reformatted devices being brought in to various dealers in the last year, the groups leading up to Woot’s resale having not taken measures necessary [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Artist David Choe celebrates massive Facebook cash wind... Feb 03 2012 18:43:17	SlashGear
Artist David Choe celebrates massive Facebook cash windfall One of the biggest cash winners in the IPO for Facebook here early in 2012 is an artist by the name of David Choe, and without a doubt he’ll be the one enjoying it the most. As he writes in his humble blogspot blog today “I get up and see my picture of the New [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
LTE DASH standard promises perfect mobile streaming vid... Feb 03 2012 18:10:59	SlashGear
LTE DASH standard promises perfect mobile streaming video soon Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut HHI in Berlin are working on optimizing data managers with DASH, this soon allowing LTE to bring citizens across the earth perfect streaming video. Streaming video will no longer judder or stop entirely, but will instead rise or lower in picture quality as the device’s signal gains [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Android updates in 2 weeks says U.S. Government Feb 03 2012 17:43:38	SlashGear
Android updates in 2 weeks says U.S. Government The United States government has agreed to use Google’s mobile operating system Android this week for future secure phones and has promised updates inside 2 weeks. Each time Google updates the most basic build of Android, it can take upwards of a half a year before legacy devices will be brought up to speed – [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
ACTA signee Slovenia ambassador now calls for mass protest Feb 03 2012 17:16:37	SlashGear
ACTA signee Slovenia ambassador now calls for mass protest One of the most recent leaders to sign the secretive and wide-spread internet censorship-minded Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has now apologized and called for mass demonstrations to protest what she’s done. It’s Slovenia’s ambassador to Japan, miss Helena Drnovsek Zorko, who signed the ACTA and was immediately drown in emails and calls from Slovenians criticizing her [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge app pairs sports and socia... Feb 03 2012 17:07:35	SlashGear
RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge app pairs sports and social: Hands-on Rugby-loving couch potatoes beware: RBS expects you to flex your brain, if not your muscles, during the Six Nations tournament this year. The sports-sponsoring bank has created an interactive quiz, fixtures and social app for 2012, with game-related questions, score tables and Facebook integration for those particularly competitive. Available in versions for iPad, iPhone, Android [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Facebook mobile ads incoming: Video and coupons tipped ... Feb 03 2012 16:57:56	SlashGear
Facebook mobile ads incoming: Video and coupons tipped [Update: Denied] Facebook‘s mobile advertising push is incoming, marketing agencies suggest, as the social network attempts to close off one of its weak spots ahead of the much-anticipated IPO. The dramatic rise in mobile users who, currently, don’t see any adverts whatsoever was cited in Facebook’s IPO documentation as one of the company’s key weaknesses, meaning paradoxically that even [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 3, 2012 Feb 03 2012 16:31:32	SlashGear
SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 3, 2012 The Super Bowl is drawing nearer and nearer by the day, just one week left until the biggest American Football game of the year, and the apps are pouring in: the Official NFL Guide, Verizon’s own official stream, and PlayUp with real NFL stars chatting amongst them. There’s a bit of a tip on the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
PlayUp Super Bowl XLVI real-time chat to host real NFL ... Feb 03 2012 16:13:33	SlashGear
PlayUp Super Bowl XLVI real-time chat to host real NFL stars In the race to grab the greatest application to work with fans hoping to get the closest to the Super Bowl XLVI action here in 2012, PlayUp has come correct with two real NFL stars aiming to chat with fans. Through the PlayUp live group-chat platform working in all web browsers and on the iPhone [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple sales injunction suspended: German iPad/iPhone sa... Feb 03 2012 15:39:50	SlashGear
Apple sales injunction suspended: German iPad/iPhone sales resume Apple has been granted a suspension of the German injunction against 3G-enabled iOS devices, with the iPad WiFi + 3G, iPhone 4 and other gadgets back on sale through the company’s online store. ”All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple’s online store in Germany shortly” the company told us in a [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Anonymous intercepts FBI call, claims insider access Feb 03 2012 15:16:44	SlashGear
Anonymous intercepts FBI call, claims insider access Anonymous has intercepted a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard investigators, it’s been confirmed, authenticating a 15 minute audio clip released by the hacker collective. The group reportedly accessed the call using a dial-in code and password from an email sent by an FBI member, allowing Anonymous to listen in and record the security discussion; that [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
RIM to abandon multi-platform BBM and BB10 licensing sa... Feb 03 2012 14:55:08	SlashGear
RIM to abandon multi-platform BBM and BB10 licensing says analyst RIM is likely to abandon any ambitions of licensing BlackBerry 10 to rivals and ditch the possibility of a BlackBerry Messenger client for iOS and Android, it’s suggested, as the company attempts to leverage its “integrated solution” instead. Jefferies analyst Peter Misek says his company’s checks found RIM “will delay and possibly abandon its OS licensing plans,” Forbes reports, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Windows Phone Skype app tipped for late-Feb launch Feb 03 2012 14:45:41	SlashGear
Windows Phone Skype app tipped for late-Feb launch Microsoft is dogfooding its Windows Phone Skype app, it’s suggested, with employees supposedly able to download a test version of the VoIP software to their smartphones ahead of a potential MWC 2012 debut. The much-anticipated app has been brought up to speed with Windows Phone’s Metro UI, insiders tell The Verge, with a dual-column contacts grid, though no [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Facebook founder’s iron-grip IPO could sink or save site Feb 03 2012 14:24:37	SlashGear
Facebook founder’s iron-grip IPO could sink or save site Weighting of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s shares in the social network to ensure he keeps majority control after the IPO could present accountability issues, experts warn, and could prove a turnoff to investors. Zuckerberg will hold over 28-percent of Facebook once it floats, but thanks to a double tiered stock structure his shares will be [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Olympus OM-D interchangeable lens camera leaks again Feb 03 2012 13:49:53	SlashGear
Olympus OM-D interchangeable lens camera leaks again More details and a clearer image of the Olympus OM-D interchangeable lens camera have leaked, with the retro-styled mirrorless compact promising to revolutionize the DSLR world. Following on from the first leaks last month, the new image shows a clearer view of the top panel of the OM-D, 43 Rumors, reports, with plenty of knurled dials and [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Russian Soyuz space capsule fails during testing ahead ... Feb 03 2012 13:37:34	SlashGear
Russian Soyuz space capsule fails during testing ahead of ISS mission Lately, it doesn’t seem like such a good idea that American astronauts are hitching a ride to the ISS aboard Russian Soyuz vehicles. Russia has lost a resupply vehicle in the past, not to mention the recent failure of the Phobos-grunt probe. Astronauts were set to go to the ISS on March 29 as part [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Google faces European privacy policy revolt Feb 03 2012 13:36:27	SlashGear
Google faces European privacy policy revolt A European privacy watchdog has demanded Google halt its privacy policy changes, while it looks into “the possible consequences for the protection of the personal data” of users in Europe. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party requested the delay in a letter to Google [pdf link] this week, claiming that a French data protection authority had [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Oklahoma State Representative calls for tax on violent ... Feb 03 2012 13:00:18	SlashGear
Oklahoma State Representative calls for tax on violent video games It seems like the claims against video games for things like promoting violence and obesity never end. If you live in Oklahoma and you’re gamer that likes shooters, you need to pay attention to a State Representative ironically named Will Fourkiller. According to Fourkiller, who once worked as a teacher and a coach, he has [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
MegaUpload founder Dotcom denied bail, alleges police b... Feb 03 2012 12:40:39	SlashGear
MegaUpload founder Dotcom denied bail, alleges police brutality MegaUpload founder and CEO Kim Dotcom has again been denied bail by a New Zealand court, after his appeal to the High Court was rejected over fears he might abscond to avoid extradition. The appeals judge agreed with a lower court decision in late January that Dotcom – who has a track record of avoiding arrest, as [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
BMW highly automated prototype drives itself with assis... Feb 03 2012 12:33:07	SlashGear
BMW highly automated prototype drives itself with assistance I have long said that there is no legislation for drivers that will make them pay attention while behind the wheel. No amount of laws against texting and driving or using a hand-held mobile phone while driving will stop those acts from happening. If you look at the number prototype vehicles that have been surfacing [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Kelihos botnet claws its way out of the grave Feb 03 2012 12:08:01	SlashGear
Kelihos botnet claws its way out of the grave We have some bad news today for haters of spam everywhere. Apparently, the Kelihos botnet that Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab shutdown in September 2011 is making a comeback. The botnet is spamming once again. The botnet was able to infect 45,000 computers before being shutdown and was sending out 4 billion spam messages a day. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Skype for Windows hits version 5.8 with new features Feb 03 2012 11:41:30	SlashGear
Skype for Windows hits version 5.8 with new features If you use Skype a lot for business or play, Skype has announced that it has updated the Windows version of the software to 5.8. The new version has some interesting features, including a new group screen sharing feature. That screen sharing feature may be perfect for businesses that have employees scattered around the country [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple eyes fitness tech with real-time sharing for comp... Feb 03 2012 11:25:19	SlashGear
Apple eyes fitness tech with real-time sharing for competitive types I know many people are competitive in everything they do from work to play. Some people are always looking forward to competing with others to see who’s better or just claim a win. If you’re this sort of person, and you like to exercise, Apple is researching some social fitness technology that would allow you [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Compal Trinity APU reference design surfaces looking th... Feb 03 2012 11:07:08	SlashGear
Compal Trinity APU reference design surfaces looking thin and sexy AMD held a financial analyst day this week, and it had a slick and sexy little notebook in a demo area for the geeks to check out while they were there. The thin, glossy little notebook packs in the new AMD Trinity APU the little beastie looks as thin as a MacBook Air in photos. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple pulls 3G iPads, iPhone 4, more from German online... Feb 03 2012 10:50:51	SlashGear
Apple pulls 3G iPads, iPhone 4, more from German online store Apple has yanked the majority of its 3G-enabled devices from its German online store, including the iPhone 4 and the iPad 2 WiFi + 3G, after Motorola Mobility secured a sales injunction over 3G/UMTS patents. The move, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports, is a response to a court win back in December 2011, rather than Motorola’s permanent injunction [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple’s Tim Cook talks charitable contributions at inte... Feb 03 2012 10:45:21	SlashGear
Apple’s Tim Cook talks charitable contributions at internal meeting It’s clear that Apple CEO Tim Cook, who replaced the late Steve Jobs, is a different kind of leader than Jobs was. While Jobs was not known for philanthropic efforts during his life and his time with Apple, Cook is focusing heavily on talking up Apple’s charitable contributions. In fact, Cook recently told employees at [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Windows Phone 8: Win8 Kernel and deep-hook Skype confirmed Feb 03 2012 10:31:13	SlashGear
Windows Phone 8: Win8 Kernel and deep-hook Skype confirmed Spilled details on Windows Phone 8 “Apollo” have opened the floodgates on Microsoft’s next significant update to its smartphone software, with more tidbits on the Windows 8 kernel based platform slipping out. Paul Thurrott confirms the shared kernel, along with the  multi-core processor support, sensor fusion, security model, network, and video and graphics technologies from Windows 8, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Facebook’s IPO filing sends Zynga stock soaring Feb 03 2012 10:23:20	SlashGear
Facebook’s IPO filing sends Zynga stock soaring The big story this week has been the Facebook IPO filing that is set to make a bunch of early employees at the social network millionaires. The Facebook IPO filing also showed how important game developer Zynga was to the money Facebook earns. The filing showed that Zynga accounted for 12% of Facebook’s 2011 revenue. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
OnStar invites tech, utility, and energy companies to u... Feb 03 2012 09:55:35	SlashGear
OnStar invites tech, utility, and energy companies to use Smart Grid APIs OnStar is pushing major utility companies, energy companies, and technology firms to develop Smart Grid solutions that will allow the Chevy Volt to interface with utility grid for various tasks. The goal is to allow the driver of the Volt to have granular control over how and when their vehicles charge, and the sort of [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Google privacy protests fail to convince US Congress Feb 03 2012 09:40:41	SlashGear
Google privacy protests fail to convince US Congress “Won’t somebody think of the children” US lawmakers have pleaded, after an unsatisfactory two hour face-to-face with Google‘s execs over privacy changes left them unconvinced that the search giant is doing enough to offer data tracking opt-outs. “At the end of the day, I don’t think their answers to us were very forthcoming necessarily in [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Motorola wins German iCloud ban: Must post €100m bond t... Feb 03 2012 09:07:43	SlashGear
Motorola wins German iCloud ban: Must post €100m bond to enforce Motorola has won a permanent injunction against Apple’s iCloud service and the devices that access it in Germany, though the company must risk a €100m bond and the threat of huge damages if Apple’s likely appeals if it actually wants to enact it today. Motorola Mobility’s case against Ireland-based Apple Sales International – Apple’s European sales [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
AT&T Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S get Google Wallet Feb 03 2012 08:50:33	SlashGear
AT&T Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S get Google Wallet Google has released Google Wallet for the AT&T Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S, bringing the NFC-enabled smartphones up to speed with contactless payments. However, the download requires that an AT&T SIM be loaded into the phone – though you can still download over WiFi – since with a T-Mobile USA SIM the app simply disappears [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nintendo brings Pokemon to Nintendo Zone Wi-Fi Feb 03 2012 03:03:29	SlashGear
Nintendo brings Pokemon to Nintendo Zone Wi-Fi If, like me, you have a Nintendo 3DS just collecting dust, there’s a new push to take your handheld device out into the world and gain access to exclusive content. There are 29,000 so-called “Nintendo Zone” locations throughout the US and Canada. These special hotspots give dedicated content to anyone who pulls out their 3DS, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
News Corp’s Times newspaper accused of computer hacking Feb 03 2012 02:47:12	SlashGear
News Corp’s Times newspaper accused of computer hacking Just when the world was beginning to forget about News Corp’s hacking scandals, a new investigation has been launched regarding the media giant’s UK newspaper the Times. The Metropolitan Police Service in England is looking into reports that a reporter may have hacked into e-mail accounts. This of course comes after News Corp faced a [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Google’s Blogger follows Twitter in country-by-country ... Feb 03 2012 02:30:43	SlashGear
Google’s Blogger follows Twitter in country-by-country censorship Last month, Twitter decided to refine its rules on what users can and cannot post. Instead of creating one massive set of rules that incorporated every single country’s individual laws on what kind of content is legal, it decided to restrict content on a regional basis. Now, Google has followed in those footsteps with its [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Sony PlayStation Vita’s GPS feature will be used in Dis... Feb 03 2012 02:14:43	SlashGear
Sony PlayStation Vita’s GPS feature will be used in Disgaea 3 Having GPS functionality in Sony’s impending handheld game device will be nice if you’re ever lost on the road or happen to wander off while being immersed in a game. Or, if you’re playing Nippon Ichi’s RPG Disgaea 3, it will allow you to earn discounts on in-game items, gain experience points, and increase your [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Singapore researchers design crab-shaped cancer-removin... Feb 03 2012 01:56:28	SlashGear
Singapore researchers design crab-shaped cancer-removing robot If you are diagnosed with stomach cancer in the early stages, getting back to full health may be as easy as swallowing a tiny crab. Well, not really a crab, and not really “swallowing,” either. But that is the general principle behind a new robotic device, developed in Singapore, that is able to grab cancerous [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple’s iPhone 5 may be revealed at WWDC in June Feb 03 2012 01:35:58	SlashGear
Apple’s iPhone 5 may be revealed at WWDC in June It’s not the most shocking suggestion that has surfaced about the iPhone 5, but there is new substantive info linking the latest and greatest Apple handset to the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June. In addition, new speculation has surfaced about what might make the new device worthy of a numerical upgrade that the iPhone [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
AOL’s Huffington Post to enter streaming video territory Feb 03 2012 01:11:45	SlashGear
AOL’s Huffington Post to enter streaming video territory The Huffington Post, which has blossomed into one of the biggest online news networks in the world, is planning to enter a space it hasn’t really delved into before – live streaming video. The site will essentially become a competitor not only to online news outlets but to the 24/7 cable news networks as well. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Verizon offers Super Bowl streaming live on smartphones Feb 03 2012 00:50:08	SlashGear
Verizon offers Super Bowl streaming live on smartphones For the first time, the Super Bowl will be available not only on TV, but also on your phone. That is, if you have a Verizon phone, and it’s powerful enough to run live streaming video. The carrier was given the honors after scoring points as a valuable partner of MobiTV, the company that will [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
CinemaNow joins Xbox 360 streaming options Feb 03 2012 00:23:28	SlashGear
CinemaNow joins Xbox 360 streaming options If Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, Crackle, live TV, and Microsoft’s own proprietary video download platform wasn’t enough for you, there is a new way to stream movies and TV shows from your Xbox 360. CinemaNow, which operates as a joint deal between Best Buy and Sonic Solutions, has launched an official app for the Microsoft platform, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Earth twin discovered 22 light-years away Feb 03 2012 00:13:24	SlashGear
Earth twin discovered 22 light-years away The Kepler mission initiated to find habitable Earth-like planets near our own has turned up another candidate for places we might visit in the future: GJ 667Cc. This planet has an orbital period of about 28 days regularly and has a mass that’s at least 4.5 larger than Earth. This planet is neither too hot [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 2, 2012 Feb 03 2012 00:01:46	SlashGear
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 2, 2012 Happy Thursday everyone. Here’s what made news today – it’s no surprise that Research in Motion’s Blackberry Playbook tablet isn’t doing well, but did you realize it was so bad, RIM now wants to give them away for free to developers? In other tablet news, Huawei’s Mediapad is heading to AT&T on February 3. Maybe [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
PlayStation Network down until midnight: it’s not just you Feb 02 2012 23:40:42	SlashGear
PlayStation Network down until midnight: it’s not just you Sony’s web-connected PlayStation Network has been taken down for maintenance today, a scheduled event ending at midnight PST. This event was planned well in advance and, unlike the break-downs and hacks of 2011, is nothing to worry about as far as gamers personal data and security on the whole goes. This maintenance began early this [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Official 2012 Super Bowl XLVI Guide app Hands-on Feb 02 2012 23:15:49	SlashGear
Official 2012 Super Bowl XLVI Guide app Hands-on Both iOS and Android devices will be ready and welcome to watch the Super Bowl live right here in 2012 – just so long as you’ve got a Verizon-based device. While the Super Bowl XLVI Live Feed does have one gigantic button sitting right at the top of all of the main screens here in [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 getting new DLC maps on ... Feb 02 2012 23:12:29	SlashGear
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 getting new DLC maps on February 28 Activision announced today that its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 game title for the PlayStation 3 will be getting new DLC maps later this month. The new content will be available to download by Premium Members on the PlayStation Network starting February 28. It will include two multiplayer maps called Liberation and Piazza. The [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Do You Still Need An iPod? Feb 02 2012 23:10:39	SlashGear
Do You Still Need An iPod? When Apple announced its fiscal first quarter earnings last week, which encompassed the three months ended December 2011, much of the attention went to the company’s exceedingly strong iPhone and iPad sales. There was also a lot of talk about its huge profit and exploding cash reserves. But lost amid all that talk was Apple’s [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Review Roundup Feb 02 2012 22:32:00	SlashGear
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Review Roundup The next great installment in the Final Fantasy series has dropped to the press, and the reviews are in. First, there’s no great update here, folks, or at least that’s what they’re saying. On the other hand, should a person jump in on the series from this point without having played such classics as Final [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Huawei MediaPad heading to AT&T on February 3 Feb 02 2012 22:15:39	SlashGear
Huawei MediaPad heading to AT&T on February 3 Huawei announced today that its 7-inch MediaPad tablet will be heading to AT&T. The tablet, which is already on T-Mobile as the Springboard, will be available for AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ network starting tomorrow, February 3. However, it will only be offered to enterprise users and the price will vary depending on your business account. The [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
PlayBook free per Android App says desperate RIM Feb 02 2012 22:02:51	SlashGear
PlayBook free per Android App says desperate RIM RIM’s VP of developer relations Alec Saunders has offered up free PlayBook tablets to Android developers today in exchange for their apps. All they’ve got to do is make sure they’re signed up and have submitted their Android app to BlackBerry’s BB AppWorld by the 13th of February. If your humble narrator didn’t know any [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Google outlines Bouncer service for Android malware, to... Feb 02 2012 21:36:25	SlashGear
Google outlines Bouncer service for Android malware, touts lack thereof Recent incidents in which the Android Market has been accused of hosting massive malware outbreaks have been responded to by Google today with a brand new system code-named Bouncer. With this new system, a completely non-invasive and potentially developer effort-free system will continue to build on Android’s security system blocking out all malicious software, especially [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nokia Lumia 900 ready for pre-orders now in Microsoft s... Feb 02 2012 21:36:25	SlashGear
Nokia Lumia 900 ready for pre-orders now in Microsoft stores The Nokia Lumia 900 is now ready for pre-orders from Microsoft’s retail stores in the US. The much anticipated Windows Phone will be an AT&T exclusive, resembling an over-sized version of the elegant Lumia 800. The device is expected to launch on March 18, although the date hasn’t been officially confirmed yet. According to WMPoweruser, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
AMD reveals 2012-2013 roadmap, tablet APUs and 28nm chi... Feb 02 2012 21:14:23	SlashGear
AMD reveals 2012-2013 roadmap, tablet APUs and 28nm chips en route During AMD’s 2012 financial analyst event today, the chip maker revealed its roadmap that promises a slew of next-gen chips to come in 2012 and 2013. The company is ready to dive into tablets with its first tablet-ready chip to arrive this year. It also plans to release next-gen accelerated processing units or APUs built [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Dropbox offering 4.5GB of cloud space to desktop bug te... Feb 02 2012 20:54:01	SlashGear
Dropbox offering 4.5GB of cloud space to desktop bug testers If you’re an avid user of Dropbox and love to test out new builds of software for your favorite cloud storage service, today’s your lucky day. Dropbox is showing off their version 1.3.12 beta release of their desktop software, offering up to 500MB of photos and video (or space for whatever you like) at a [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
AT&T takes top spot in mobile customer service Feb 02 2012 20:44:40	SlashGear
AT&T takes top spot in mobile customer service AT&T has managed to beat out all its rivals in the latest mobile phone customer service survey conducted by Vocalabs, despite being ranked worst by Consumer Reports. According to data collected from the firm’s survey, which involved telephone interviews immediately following a customer service call during the last three-month period in 2011, AT&T had the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Facebook IPO’s biggest winner may be artist David Choe Feb 02 2012 20:33:10	SlashGear
Facebook IPO’s biggest winner may be artist David Choe Back when Facebook was limited to its first couple of campuses here in the USA, artist David Choe was commissioned to paint their interiors in exchange for stock options instead of cash. As you can imagine, this was the correct choice made by the artist to choose the stocks and wait this long to cash [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 images leaked Feb 02 2012 20:00:02	SlashGear
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 images leaked A group certifying who-knows-what on devices all the way over the ocean by the name of Quietek have revealed a brand new tablet from ASUS. This tablet features many of the same qualities that the last couple of ASUS Eee Pad Transformer models have had in tact, but takes a wholly new form on the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Windows Phone 8 Apollo detailed by SVP Feb 02 2012 19:44:06	SlashGear
Windows Phone 8 Apollo detailed by SVP A video appears to have been leaked which depicts none other than Windows Phone manager and senior vice president Joe Blfiore, this video intended for Nokia’s eyes only and to show off Windows Phone 8. This newest update is what we’ve been calling Windows Phone Apollo thus far as a code-name, it coming after the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Facebook Premium Accounts coming says Telsyte Feb 02 2012 19:18:24	SlashGear
Facebook Premium Accounts coming says Telsyte A subscription service may be in Facebook’s cash-grabbing future if Australian analyst group Telsyte are to be believed. Speaking with News.com.au, the group via analyst Foad Fadaghi noted changes that may well be coming soon to the group that this week posted its Initial Public Offering looking for a bump in the money market in [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Intoxicase Plus for iPhone 4S Review Feb 02 2012 18:44:42	SlashGear
Intoxicase Plus for iPhone 4S Review Apple created a device called the iPhone so that the world could enjoy the world of smartphones with a single vision for greatness in this mobile world of ours – I don’t think they ever had it pegged as the back of a beer bottle opener. That’s what the folks at Spicebox have done, and [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Mac OS X 10.7.3 bug fix available for download now Feb 02 2012 18:23:38	SlashGear
Mac OS X 10.7.3 bug fix available for download now A select number of users updating to the newest version of Mac OS X on their Apple machines have encountered a bug of sorts, but some relief has some down the pipe in less than 24 hours after the original release. This fix does not come directly in response to the bug, but is an [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Facebook’s IPO, webOS and the Perfect Social Phone Feb 02 2012 18:04:05	SlashGear
Facebook’s IPO, webOS and the Perfect Social Phone Facebook’s IPO filing gave us an inkling of how much money the social network expects to make when it floats this year, but also a hint of what it could spend it on: the first true Facebook Phone. In among the lengthy IPO documentation were not only details of Facebook’s existing achievements in mobile but [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Verizon wins greatest customer care in USA says J.D. Power Feb 02 2012 17:52:43	SlashGear
Verizon wins greatest customer care in USA says J.D. Power Here in the second month of 2012, analysts at J.D. Power and Associates have announced Verizon Wireless to be the full service provider with the greatest customer care in the industry here in the United States. In a study based on feedback done with wireless customers who had recently contacted their wireless service providers via [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 2, 2012 Feb 02 2012 17:18:03	SlashGear
SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 2, 2012 Good morning to all of you and get ready for some accusations on the part of the citizens of our free society! First there’s the FBI, not Skype being blamed for Skype Megaupload video watching. Next it’s not entirely clear who to blame for Sony’s terrible Q3 2011 results. Then for a third and completely [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Samsung Galaxy ICS smartphone press photo leak faked Feb 02 2012 17:00:45	SlashGear
Samsung Galaxy ICS smartphone press photo leak faked Today a photo of a seemingly brand new smartphone from Samsung running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and teasing a Mobile World Congress 2012 release has been leaked. This photos is fake, and here’s why: the pixels simply do not line up. As our friend Michael Crider from Android Community makes clear, there’s not only [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Vizio’s 21:9 58-inch Widescreen due March; 50- and 71-i... Feb 02 2012 16:34:42	SlashGear
Vizio’s 21:9 58-inch Widescreen due March; 50- and 71-inchers in 2H 2012 Vizio‘s first CinemaWide 21:9 Smart TV will go on sale in March, it’s been confirmed, in time for the for the NCAA men’s and women’s March Madness basketball tournament. Priced earlier today at $3,499.99 for the 58-inch XVT 3D CinemaWide TrueLED XVT3D580CM, the new set will be the only model Vizio offers for several months, USA Today reports, with [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
ZTE Optik offers 7-inches of Android for under $100 Feb 02 2012 16:17:11	SlashGear
ZTE Optik offers 7-inches of Android for under $100 $99 for an Android tablet with 3G? The ZTE Optik demands a few compromises – and a two-year agreement – but the price is right: for your money you get 3G, a 7-inch 1280 x 800 multitouch display, Android 3.2 Honeycomb and full access to the Android Market. Inside is a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Google slaps Microsoft over “Gmail Man” privacy snark Feb 02 2012 16:04:38	SlashGear
Google slaps Microsoft over “Gmail Man” privacy snark Google has gone back on the offensive over criticisms of its updated privacy policy, taking on Microsoft’s “Putting People First” sniping campaign with a fresh round of myth debunking. The search company took to its Public Policy Blog to shoot down rivals’ claims, paying particular attention to suggestions that the policy tweaks are to make better advertising [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »

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