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Qualcomm acquires Pixtronix for future Mirasol display ... Jan 26 2012 16:18:41	SlashGear
Qualcomm acquires Pixtronix for future Mirasol display tech There’s been a purchase, according to reports, by Qualcomm of a group by the name of Pixtronix, known for their PerfectLight displays using MEMS-based digital micro shutters for modulation of RGB LED backlight. What that means in slightly less wordy terms is that the displays we saw at CES with the name Mirasol attached to [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple will blitz Windows in business say researchers Jan 26 2012 16:09:32	SlashGear
Apple will blitz Windows in business say researchers Apple device adoption in the enterprise is surging, research suggests, with one in five information workers now using at least one Apple gadget for work, even if they have to buy it themselves. Forrester Research surveyed 10,000 people and found 11-percent use iPhones and 9-percent use iPads in their daily business, concluding that 81-percent of companies [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
T-Mobile USA demands FCC rein in spectrum auction rivals Jan 26 2012 15:39:06	SlashGear
T-Mobile USA demands FCC rein in spectrum auction rivals T-Mobile USA has come out swinging in its hunt for spectrum, preemptively challenging the FCC and the US Congress over potential spectrum auction rules that might see the carrier squeezed out by its bigger rivals. “Legislation pending in Congress would effectively preclude the FCC from considering existing spectrum holdings in determining the qualifications for participation [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Intel buys RealNetworks patents and next-gen video codec Jan 26 2012 15:11:42	SlashGear
Intel buys RealNetworks patents and next-gen video codec Intel has snapped up around 190 patents and 170 patent applications from RealNetworks, along with the company’s next-gen video codec software, with the two firms pledging to work together on future multimedia codecs. The deal, worth around $120m, will see Intel acquire RealNetworks’ “foundational streaming media patents” though the company will be licensed to use the patented [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime say hackers over DMCA changes Jan 26 2012 14:43:43	SlashGear
Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime say hackers over DMCA changes An incoming end to exemptions for jailbreaking in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has prompted protests from influential gadget-hack enthusiasts, asking the Library of Congress to make permanent the right to modify devices you own. Andrew “bunnie” Huang - who wrote Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering after identifying the encryption key on the original Microsoft console in [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple at vanguard of consumer electronics labor accusat... Jan 26 2012 14:19:47	SlashGear
Apple at vanguard of consumer electronics labor accusations Apple‘s production practices have come under renewed scrutiny this week, amid claims that the company knowingly overlooked continued labor abuses in Chinese factories as it benefited from low manufacturing costs. A controversial piece by the NYTimes cites several sources at Foxconn and from Apple itself, with suggestions that the Cupertino firm “never cared about anything other [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
US refuses to participate in Russian Phobos-grunt crash... Jan 26 2012 14:10:31	SlashGear
US refuses to participate in Russian Phobos-grunt crash investigation It seems some in Russia aren’t ready to give up on the notion that the US had part in the failure of its Phobos-grunt probe. There have been some scientists in Russia that call the idea that a US radar station could have caused damage to the Phobos-grunt spacecraft unlikely. Despite Russia’s own scientists doubting [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
DROID RAZR MAXX on sale now Jan 26 2012 13:58:30	SlashGear
DROID RAZR MAXX on sale now The Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX is on sale now, as expected, with Verizon asking $299.99 for the battery-bloated Android smartphone. Announced officially at CES earlier this month, the RAZR MAXX swaps the original DROID RAZR’s slimline battery for a larger, 3,300 mAh pack that Motorola reckons is good for up to 21.5hrs talktime. Alternatively you [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Scientists show off 3-D cloaking from all angles in mic... Jan 26 2012 13:45:30	SlashGear
Scientists show off 3-D cloaking from all angles in microwave spectrum We are a long way off from creating a cloak of invisibility that a person can wear or being able to turn a vehicle of some sort invisible. Scientists are working on cloaking things in certain spectrums of light. A team of researchers has demonstrated the ability to cloak a 3-D object from all angles. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple tablet marketshare dips as Android accelerates Jan 26 2012 13:40:38	SlashGear
Apple tablet marketshare dips as Android accelerates Apple still dominates the consumer tablet market but is seeing the iPad’s lead gradually eroded by Android models, according to new research, with slates running the Google OS grabbing almost 40-percent of the worldwide market share in Q4 2011. 26.8m tablets were shipped in Q4 2011, Strategy Analytics claims, contributing a greater-than-average amount to whole-year shipments of 66.9m [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
AT&T Q4 2011: 7.6m iPhones activated, revenue hits $32.5bn Jan 26 2012 13:28:40	SlashGear
AT&T Q4 2011: 7.6m iPhones activated, revenue hits $32.5bn AT&T has revealed its Q4 2011 financial results, with incredibly strong iPhone activations – contributing 7.6m to 9.4m smartphone sales – helping boost revenue by $1.1bn year-on-year to $32.5bn. Smartphones and mobile broadband were the stand-outs for the carrier, with 82-percent of postpaid device sales being smartphones and postpaid ARPU (average revenue per user) up [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
X-ray laser produces temperatures hotter than the sun’s... Jan 26 2012 13:14:12	SlashGear
X-ray laser produces temperatures hotter than the sun’s corona There is lots of research around the globe that focuses on lasers and their application. The laser is being investigated for all sorts of uses, including weapons. Some of the research that involves lasers aims to recreate conditions of all sorts that involve high temperatures and exotic matter. Scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nokia silent on N9 sales as MeeGo kept out of spotlight Jan 26 2012 12:22:22	SlashGear
Nokia silent on N9 sales as MeeGo kept out of spotlight Nokia has confirmed that its smartphone sales included in this morning’s financial results reveal were buoyed by the MeeGo-powered Nokia N9, though the company has declined to specify exactly how many of the niche-appeal handsets were sold. ”Our ASP in the fourth quarter 2011 benefited from the sales of the higher priced Nokia N9 and Nokia Lumia [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Motorola talks Smart Actions for new smartphones Jan 26 2012 12:21:52	SlashGear
Motorola talks Smart Actions for new smartphones If you have handed your parents, kids, or significant other a smartphone for the first time and watched them, the devices can be confusing for beginner if they need to wade through settings menus. Motorola has announced plans for bringing new ease of use to its smartphones this year with easy to use Smart Actions [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
NVIDIA blames HDD shortage for lower earnings Jan 26 2012 11:46:01	SlashGear
NVIDIA blames HDD shortage for lower earnings The massive flooding in Thailand put the HDD market in a very rough spot late last year. The flooding meant that plants in Thailand that make HDDs were unable to produce HDDs and production in some instances had to be shifted to other countries. The reduced output meant shortages and increasing prices for computer makers. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nokia: Microsoft paid us $250m in Q4 to use Windows Phone Jan 26 2012 11:43:44	SlashGear
Nokia: Microsoft paid us $250m in Q4 to use Windows Phone Microsoft paid Nokia $250m in Q4 2011 for adopting Windows Phone, the Finnish company’s financial results today have revealed, the first of a “platform support payments” scheme expected to eventually account for billions of dollars. The two companies have always declined to put an exact figure on the “significant investments” Nokia would receive, though this [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nokia sells “well over” 1m Windows Phones, still makes ... Jan 26 2012 11:23:16	SlashGear
Nokia sells “well over” 1m Windows Phones, still makes €1bn loss Nokia has announced its Q4 2011 financial results, and the big news is Windows Phone sales: “well over 1 million Lumia devices to date” the Finnish company claims. Still, strong out-the-gate demand for the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 weren’t enough to turn Nokia’s ailing books around: the company recorded a €954m ($1.25bn) profit loss in Q4 [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Foxconn lands Brazilian tax breaks for iPad construction Jan 26 2012 11:22:54	SlashGear
Foxconn lands Brazilian tax breaks for iPad construction Foxconn’s plans to open a production facility in Brazil for the iPad surfaced last year. Foxconn intended to build iPads for Apple in Brazil, but the negotiations with the government over tax incentives stalled. Those negations have now taken a turn for the better as far as Foxconn is concerned and the plan for iPads [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
I’ll build a Lunar Base if you vote for me says Newt Gi... Jan 26 2012 11:10:12	SlashGear
I’ll build a Lunar Base if you vote for me says Newt Gingrich Republican presidential candidate hopeful Newt Gingrich doesn’t just have his head in the clouds, it’s all the way to the moon: or, more accurately, a permanent moon base in less than eight years, if the American public see fit to put him in the White House. ”By the end of my second term we will have [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
2013 Shelby GT500 racetrack durability car sells for $350k Jan 26 2012 10:51:41	SlashGear
2013 Shelby GT500 racetrack durability car sells for $350k When it comes to Ford Mustangs, Carol Shelby is closely tied to the muscle car. Shelby has been hopping up the already fast and powerful Mustang line since the 60s to provide even more power. Shelby was also a racing driver who was very successful with his own car, the Cobra in the 60s as [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple rewards staff with $500 Mac cut, $250 iPad saving Jan 26 2012 10:47:55	SlashGear
Apple rewards staff with $500 Mac cut, $250 iPad saving Apple employees may have to put up with migraine-inducing levels of secrecy and the overspill of “magical” product dust getting in their eyes, but up to $500 discounts off new hardware may go some way to alleviating any discomfort. Announced by Apple CEO Tim Cook at a Town Hall session with employees post-financial results this week, 9to5Mac reports, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Next-gen Xbox may not play used games, will play Blu-ray Jan 26 2012 10:31:36	SlashGear
Next-gen Xbox may not play used games, will play Blu-ray The rumors of the next-generation Xbox game console won’t die; they just keep coming and coming. The next console is certainly in the works, and all gamers are optimistic about what the system will offer. There is at least one rumor that is floating around about a feature of the next Xbox that isn’t good [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Samsung Galaxy S III to skip MWC 2012 claim insiders Jan 26 2012 10:31:35	SlashGear
Samsung Galaxy S III to skip MWC 2012 claim insiders Samsung’s Galaxy S III, the much-anticipated successor to the flagship Galaxy S II, won’t be making a Mobile World Congress debut according to new rumors, with the Korean company holding off until later in 2012 to reveal the smartphone. Both BestBoyz and The Verge are reporting that Samsung will not bring the GSIII to Barcelona next month, with suggestions [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Qmadix boostpac quick shot and eclipse battery packs hi... Jan 26 2012 10:14:34	SlashGear
Qmadix boostpac quick shot and eclipse battery packs hit MacWorld 2012 Qmadix is on hand at MacWorld 2012 and the company is showing off some cool accessories, including a couple new accessory battery packs called the boostpac eclipse desktop battery and the boostpac quick shot. Both are auxiliary battery packs that can connect to the iPhone for charging on the go. Both devices also have USB [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Rhapsody buys Napster’s Euro streaming business Jan 26 2012 10:03:53	SlashGear
Rhapsody buys Napster’s Euro streaming business Rhapsody has acquired Napster in Europe, grabbing an instant user-base boost in the UK and Germany, and continuing to ramp up the pressure on streaming darling Spotify. Current Napster subscribers in Europe will be shifted over to Rhapsody’s system in March 2012, gaining a new web-based client and mobile apps, but keeping their existing library of tracks [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
PRADA Phone by LG 3.0 on sale in UK on Friday Jan 26 2012 09:50:01	SlashGear
PRADA Phone by LG 3.0 on sale in UK on Friday The PRADA Phone by LG 3.0 will hit UK shelves tomorrow, Friday January 27, retailer Phones 4U has confirmed, with the designer-branded Android smartphone priced from free with a new agreement. Packing a 4.3-inch LG NOVA IPS display – albeit running only at WVGA resolution – along with an 8-megapixel camera and NFC, the PRADA Phone [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nintendo reveals 61% profit dive; Wii U on sale by holi... Jan 26 2012 09:25:23	SlashGear
Nintendo reveals 61% profit dive; Wii U on sale by holiday 2012 Nintendo‘s fortunes go from bad to worse, with poor sales of the 3DS and Wii between October and December contributing to a 61-percent drop year-on-year of profits, and the Wii U not expected until the very tail-end of 2012. Nintendo announced 40.9 billion yen profit for the three month period, going on to predict full-year losses [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Google Maps now displays emergency alerts Jan 26 2012 04:16:13	SlashGear
Google Maps now displays emergency alerts Emergency alerts have now been subtly added to Google Maps, and are now live across the United States. Never again will you have to navigate from page to page looking for specific information on flood warnings, earthquakes, or even snowstorms. Maps will now show all the specifics: from the warning duration, to even how severe [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Acer Iconia Tab A700 priced and detailed Jan 26 2012 03:46:47	SlashGear
Acer Iconia Tab A700 priced and detailed We know that Acer’s impending Iconia Tab A700 will have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. We know it’ll have a quad-core 1.3 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 progressor. We know that HDMI, dual cameras, Wi-Fi, and a 9,800 mAh battery are all in its feature list. And we know that is should be out in the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Microsoft likely to bring Xbox Live to Android and iOS Jan 26 2012 03:34:12	SlashGear
Microsoft likely to bring Xbox Live to Android and iOS The Xbox 360 is well on its way to becoming an all-encompassing entertainment hub. From live TV to on-demand streaming, to social networking and music, Microsoft’s strategy is clearly to make Xbox a central part of your life. And now it’s looking to continue that mindset even when you’re not at home. Yep, it’s time [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
T-Mobile document: unlocked iPhones have poor network p... Jan 26 2012 03:21:52	SlashGear
T-Mobile document: unlocked iPhones have poor network performance A leaked internal document from T-Mobile shows that there’s a good reason it remains the only major carrier left out of the iPhone race. Although one million customers have still managed to take their unlocked iPhones on the T-Mobile network, the company seems far more interested in peddling its superior-performing Android products. That is, at [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Micorosft reportedly ditching Microsoft Points in favor... Jan 26 2012 03:10:45	SlashGear
Micorosft reportedly ditching Microsoft Points in favor of real currency If you still can’t figure how much that Zune download or Call of Duty map pack costs in actual US currency, there might be some hope for you. It’s being reported that Microsoft wants to nix its Microsoft Points platform and will start showing prices in local currency for digital content. That’s right; the days [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Mackie Designs DL1608 iPad-powered mixer revealed Jan 26 2012 02:11:34	SlashGear
Mackie Designs DL1608 iPad-powered mixer revealed Mackie Designs, a company that has for years been offering some of the highest-end audio mixers in the industry, has introduced a new 16-channel mixer that relies on the power of the iPad. If you believe the literature, it will “redefine” the mixing medium. The company is showing off this powerful audiophile dream at the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Toyota TS030 race cars revealed, prove hybrids aren’t b... Jan 26 2012 01:21:18	SlashGear
Toyota TS030 race cars revealed, prove hybrids aren’t boring Who says automotive ingenuity is dead? Toyota is planning on making its way back to world of Le Mans and is bringing with it a pair of brand new racers. But these aren’t your grandma’s sportscars. They’re fully decked-out and sexified hybrids. And what’s even more surprising is that they’ll be ready to hit the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple-PC divide worse than originally reported Jan 26 2012 01:02:48	SlashGear
Apple-PC divide worse than originally reported People didn’t buy nearly as many Windows computers in the fourth quarter of 2011 as they did the year before. We already knew that, but now there’s a footnote that presents an even worse picture for the PC market. It was originally presented that Apple computer sales grew by 20.7% from Q4 2010 to Q4 [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Pentax Optio VS20 features 20X optical zoom with extra ... Jan 25 2012 23:50:17	SlashGear
Pentax Optio VS20 features 20X optical zoom with extra shutter Pentax has announced a new pocket megazoom digital camera called the Pentax Optio VS20 that features 20X optical zoom plus a second shutter button. The camera may be the first pocketable high-zoom model to offer two shutter buttons placed so that it can be comfortably used in both landscape and portrait orientations. One shutter button [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Netflix Q4 earnings beat estimates, regains 610,000 US ... Jan 25 2012 23:14:12	SlashGear
Netflix Q4 earnings beat estimates, regains 610,000 US subscribers Despite stumbles last year over price hikes and a short-lived Qwikster spin-off, Netflix is bouncing back, releasing Q4 2011 earnings today that beat Wall Street estimates. The company reported $876 million in revenue or $0.73 per share, beating expectations of $857 million at $0.54 per share. It also managed to regain 610,000 subscribers after having [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Lytro iPhone impossible at the moment, stop asking Jan 25 2012 23:05:18	SlashGear
Lytro iPhone impossible at the moment, stop asking This week there’s been quite a bit of talk across the airwaves on how and when light field technology (via Lytro) would be integrated into smartphones – I’m here to tell you why its absolutely absurd to think that it’ll be here any time soon. When Steve Jobs met with Lytro CEO Ren Ng, they [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Suunto Ambit GPS watch touts heart rate monitor Jan 25 2012 22:29:02	SlashGear
Suunto Ambit GPS watch touts heart rate monitor Finnish watch maker Suunto recently announced its latest GPS-enabled watch called the Ambit. The Ambit is designed to help athletes with training and outdoor adventure. It provides a host of tools, including GPS navigation with 3D Compass, altimeter, barometric sensor, and a heart rate monitor. The Suunto Ambit offers almost everything you need to track [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
PSA: Disable your Symantec pcAnywhere software ASAP Jan 25 2012 22:19:19	SlashGear
PSA: Disable your Symantec pcAnywhere software ASAP Those of you out there still using the Symantec product pcAnywhere, an application which allowed you to access your computer remotely in a relatively early version of “cloud” computing, should immediately cut it out. Symantec has issued an announcement saying that the hacking and theft of several of their security products several years ago has [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Chemists create first envelopes for artificial life Jan 25 2012 21:51:22	SlashGear
Chemists create first envelopes for artificial life Through a rather simple chemical reaction, chemists at the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University have created self-assembling cell membranes, these pre-cursors to artificially creating life. Though it might not sit well with the god-fearing citizens of Earth, these chemists, Neal Devaraj and Itay Budin, have published a report in the Journal of [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
PS Vita sales continue free fall in wait for new games Jan 25 2012 21:41:47	SlashGear
PS Vita sales continue free fall in wait for new games Sony’s PlayStation Vita next-gen handheld gaming device is still struggling in Japan following a strong start that quickly fizzled. PS Vita sales dropped below 20,000 units two weeks ago, a more than 50% decline from the week before. And this past week, that number is on the verge of dipping below the 15,000 mark, as [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
World’s largest gamepad playable at Guinness Gamers Edi... Jan 25 2012 20:50:53	SlashGear
World’s largest gamepad playable at Guinness Gamers Edition 2012 event One big event deserves a big object to go along with it, that’s what the Guinness Book of World Records always says, and in no way is that not happening this month at the Gamer’s Edition 2012 release in London with the world’s largest game controller. This game controller takes on the form of the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
AT&T’s Q1 2012 roadmap leak reveals HTC Titan II date a... Jan 25 2012 20:48:44	SlashGear
AT&T’s Q1 2012 roadmap leak reveals HTC Titan II date and Sony Crystal tablet AT&T recently announced several new devices at CES 2012, and now more details have emerged on pricing and launch dates. According to BGR, the carrier will be releasing two Windows Phone handsets with the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II, which we’ve spent some hands-on time with before. The company will also be [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Open webOS announced as HP’s open source mobile OS powe... Jan 25 2012 20:24:06	SlashGear
Open webOS announced as HP’s open source mobile OS power move This year the artists formerly known as Palm had quite a rough few months with HP dumping the hardware side of their own webOS mobile computing platform – their most recent move, having been announced just last month, is live today: open sourced webOS for all. While the actual main product which will be known [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
ASUS Transformer Prime with Android 4.0 ICS review Jan 25 2012 19:57:39	SlashGear
ASUS Transformer Prime with Android 4.0 ICS review The first tablet on earth to be licensed by Google to officially be running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is the ASUS Transformer Prime, and we’ve got it running slick here in a full review for you. This tablet has been out for some weeks now, but has just been updated officially to Android 4.0 [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Droid RAZR MAXX is a slap in consumer faces Jan 25 2012 19:35:18	SlashGear
Droid RAZR MAXX is a slap in consumer faces When the original Droid RAZR was released, we were there at the launch event in New York City to see how serious both Motorola and Verizon were about bringing a new era to their combined forces for Droid – now that the next version is out not even a half a year later, I’ve got [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Moog MiniTaur analog bass synthesizer revealed Jan 25 2012 19:02:55	SlashGear
Moog MiniTaur analog bass synthesizer revealed If one small synthesizer with massive power wasn’t enough for you today, try on another with the Mood MiniTaur, fully ready to take on classic sounds with a brand new set of modern technology bits for an ultimate combination of beattastic evolution! This new analog bass synthesizer goes by the name Moog MiniTaur and is [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Blizzard’s BlizzCon benched for 2012 Jan 25 2012 18:25:18	SlashGear
Blizzard’s BlizzCon benched for 2012 Every year since 2007, a teeming Hoarde of gamers perform Zerg rush on the Anaheim Convention center to attend BlizzCon, the convention specifically for mega-developer Blizzard. The World of Warcraft creators use the venue as a place to make their biggest yearly announcements directly to their most ardent of fans, creating a spectacle that’s sort [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
iPhone 5 specs tipped by Foxconn worker Jan 25 2012 18:16:49	SlashGear
iPhone 5 specs tipped by Foxconn worker The next generation iPhone, tentatively titled iPhone 5, has been tipped by a Foxconn China employee and is said to ready for production now with a summer launch in the wings. This newest iPhone is said to have several iterations being tested at the moment, with no one model being the clear victor before full [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Aturia MiniBrute analog synthesizer revealed Jan 25 2012 18:14:20	SlashGear
Aturia MiniBrute analog synthesizer revealed There’s a brand new Arturia synthesizer in town, and with it’s relatively small form factor and utterly gigantic amount of features built-in, it’ll be near impossible for those in the industry in a position to want one not to need one. This little beast is small enough to fit in your backpack, has enough dials [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
T-Mobile’s AT&T prize in Spectrum shown clearly on map Jan 25 2012 18:01:30	SlashGear
T-Mobile’s AT&T prize in Spectrum shown clearly on map This week it’s being shown clear as day the amount of spectrum AT&T will have to hand over to T-Mobile after their planned merger falls through entirely. What you’re going to see is a collection of areas and their associated MHz that AT&T currently has sway over but will be transferring to T-Mobile to amp [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple TV is an Embarrassment Jan 25 2012 17:41:37	SlashGear
Apple TV is an Embarrassment “Doing quite well” isn’t a phrase you associate with Apple, and yet that’s just how CEO Tim Cook described the Apple TV this week. The little-loved stepchild of the company’s hardware range, at $99 – with no need for a carrier agreement or subsidy – it had the smart TV price point right while Google [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
ZTE V9A Light Tab 2 Android tablet revealed Jan 25 2012 17:27:08	SlashGear
ZTE V9A Light Tab 2 Android tablet revealed The folks at Clove have revealed a brand new ZTE 7-inch tablet that’ll be hitting the market in February, not too many days away, and with it an inexpensive price tag you’ll all enjoy. Though this tab won’t quite match up with the undeniable value proposition of the upcoming ASUS MeMO, the Light Tab will [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Alienware 2012 lineup tipped, M17X R4, M14X R2, and M18... Jan 25 2012 17:07:45	SlashGear
Alienware 2012 lineup tipped, M17X R4, M14X R2, and M18X R2 This year’s lineup for the gaming side of Dell’s computing body has been revealed with three new Alienware laptop monsters, M17X R4, M14X R2, and M18X R2. The R2 units will both have the option for a black or RED exterior, while the R4 appears to only have the classic black coat with three options [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 to be $100 on March 18 tips insider Jan 25 2012 16:48:52	SlashGear
AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 to be $100 on March 18 tips insider Nokia and AT&T will offer the Lumia 900 for just $99.99 with a new, two-year agreement when the Windows Phone lands in mid-March, according to the latest roadmap leak, an ambitious price to get the device into as many consumers’ pockets as possible. The AT&T Lumia 900 will undercut most new Android devices – and indeed [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Flying Drones employed by Miami Police for standoff sit... Jan 25 2012 16:44:12	SlashGear
Flying Drones employed by Miami Police for standoff situations Though they’ve had approval to utilize such technology since July of 2011, the police force in Miami Florida have never actually utilized their drone technology, but it’s certainly there and ready for action. There aren’t any weapons attached to these T-Hawk Micro-Air Vehicles, and the drones aren’t really capable of destroying or saving any target [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
$25 Raspberry Pi packs 2x iPhone 4S GPU performance, ro... Jan 25 2012 15:44:28	SlashGear
$25 Raspberry Pi packs 2x iPhone 4S GPU performance, roasts Tegra 2 Forget teaching kids how to program; the $25 Raspberry Pi computer might just be the home entertainment STB and compact gaming console we’ve been waiting for. The low-cost computer – and its $35 sibling – should deliver double the graphical performance of the iPhone 4S, according to executive director (and Broadcom SoC architect) Eben Upton, telling Digital Foundry that not [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
O2 closes number leak loophole [Update: Official comment] Jan 25 2012 14:54:10	SlashGear
O2 closes number leak loophole [Update: Official comment] UK carrier O2 has apparently fixed the loophole that exposed subscribers’ mobile numbers to websites they visited using their handset’s data connection, though there’s still no official explanation as to how the issue arose. Controversy sparked earlier today, when one O2 subscriber realized browsing sites via his phone’s data connection transmitted his number in among [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple outpaced Android in Q4 US growth says research Jan 25 2012 14:39:19	SlashGear
Apple outpaced Android in Q4 US growth says research Apple has reclaimed the platform momentum crown with the iPhone, research suggests, with demand for the iPhone 4S contributing to faster growth than the market for Android devices in pre-holiday sales. In the twelve weeks until December 25, researchers Kantar Worldpanel ComTech say, Apple’s share in the US was at 44.9-percent, the merest smudge ahead of Android share [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Q-pot SH-04D looks like a bar of chocolate Jan 25 2012 14:10:02	SlashGear
Q-pot SH-04D looks like a bar of chocolate This is one of the weirdest phones I have seen in a very long time. Sharp has unveiled this smartphone in Japan where geeks are known to like some odd stuff. The phone is called the Q-pot SH-04D and it is designed to look like a bar of chocolate. If you love Android and candy, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nokia offloads feature-phone factory onto De’ Longhi Jan 25 2012 13:56:42	SlashGear
Nokia offloads feature-phone factory onto De’ Longhi Nokia has completed plans to shutter a cellphone factory in Romania, selling off the unwanted plant to De’ Longhi for an unspecified sum. The closure and sale of the factory was announced back in September, and originally expected to be completed by the end of 2011; Nokia has already shifted its remaining feature-phone production to Asia, where [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Anonymous targets Irish government over Piracy laws cla... Jan 25 2012 13:41:31	SlashGear
Anonymous targets Irish government over Piracy laws claim reports Hack collective Anonymous has apparently targeted the Irish government in its latest DDoS attack wave, protesting proposals for its version of the US SOPA anti-piracy act. The Irish Department of Justice and Department of Finance sites were taken offline early on Wednesday morning this week, a government spokesperson confirmed to the Irish Times, the downtime on [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Star Wars slot car sets don’t use cars Jan 25 2012 13:28:16	SlashGear
Star Wars slot car sets don’t use cars This is so awesome. I had a bunch of slot car sets when I was a kid; I was never very good at racing them though. Mostly I concentrated on making the cars leave the track and hit the people racing against me in the gonads. That trick takes more skill than you might imagine. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
BMW and Tendril team on high-tech home to show off Acti... Jan 25 2012 13:05:48	SlashGear
BMW and Tendril team on high-tech home to show off ActiveE sedan and green power management BMW has teamed up with Tendril to build a high-tech demonstration home on the BMW tech office grounds in Mountain View, California. The two firms plan to use the demo home to show off and demonstrate their various platforms. The BMW platform that will be shown off is the ActiveE sedan. The ActiveE is based [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
MegaUpload’s Dotcom denied bail over flee fears Jan 25 2012 12:46:58	SlashGear
MegaUpload’s Dotcom denied bail over flee fears MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom has been denied bail by a New Zealand court, over concerns that the ostentatious exec could flee the company – and extradition to the US – using fake documentation. Dotcom, who was arrested last week as part of a huge raid on the file-sharing site, was described as a “real flight [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Space shuttle Discovery set for final voyage to Smithso... Jan 25 2012 12:35:56	SlashGear
Space shuttle Discovery set for final voyage to Smithsonian It’s more than a little sad to see the space shuttle fleet retired and Americans having to hitch a ride aboard Russian spacecraft to reach the ISS. The space shuttle Discovery landed after its final space mission in March of last year. We knew when the discovery touched down after that final mission that it [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Printable smart tags could link carrots to the internet... Jan 25 2012 12:29:49	SlashGear
Printable smart tags could link carrots to the internet of things Printable plastic labels could actively monitor food freshness, track vaccine efficacy and eventually warn you when your brakes need replacing, packing low-power intelligence into disposable computers. The culmination of several decades of R&D by ThinFilm Electronics, with some help from Xerox PARC’s printed transistors, the multilayer tags combine a year’s worth of battery power, sensors [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Fujitsu LIFEBOOK2013 concept docks tablet, phone & came... Jan 25 2012 11:56:31	SlashGear
Fujitsu LIFEBOOK2013 concept docks tablet, phone & camera in laptop A concept Fujitsu notebook could pull together your notebook, tablet, smartphone and digital camera, according to one designer’s convergence ambitions, with the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK2013 docking each mobile gadget into a core laptop chassis. Created by Prashant Kumar Chandra for Fujitsu’s “A Life With Future Computing” competition, the concept consists of a roughly 17-inch notebook that [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
JLab B-Flex X-Bass laptop speaker adds some boom Jan 25 2012 11:54:58	SlashGear
JLab B-Flex X-Bass laptop speaker adds some boom My single biggest pet peeve of laptop and integrated sound on computers in general is the lack of bass. Often, the sound is so low even at full blast you can forget watching a movie or listening from across the room. That leads many people to look for quality external speakers. JLab has a new [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Target asks vendors to help it fight “showrooming” Jan 25 2012 11:32:32	SlashGear
Target asks vendors to help it fight “showrooming” Online shopping is still nowhere near as big a moneymaker as shopping in the retail stores around the country, but online is growing very quickly. Some stores are already feeling the pinch and seeing the writing on the wall. Target is a perfect example. The national retailer sent out a letter to its vendors begging [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Qmadix Q-i-sound Bluetooth speakers for audio and hands... Jan 25 2012 11:11:57	SlashGear
Qmadix Q-i-sound Bluetooth speakers for audio and hands-free calling Wireless speakers are fantastic for hooking to your notebook or smartphone to improve the quality of your music and sound from your movies without cables. Bluetooth is especially helpful when on the road or outside too. Qmadix has a new set of Bluetooth speakers to make your audio sound better and to allow you to [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Giant Android wall display via Galaxy Nexus, Kinect and... Jan 25 2012 10:56:54	SlashGear
Giant Android wall display via Galaxy Nexus, Kinect and a projector This is a cool mashup of geek tech right here. I would bet that many of you have looked at the smallish screen on your smartphone before, and though it would be great to have the screen in a much larger size for gaming and watching movies. One modder has decided to take that wish [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Pandora handheld gaming system finally ships next month Jan 25 2012 10:40:44	SlashGear
Pandora handheld gaming system finally ships next month It has been a while since we talked about the Pandora handheld gaming system. The last mention of the device, which looks like a DS with a physical keyboard to me, was back in April of 2010. At the time, the shipments had been delayed by the massive volcano eruption in Iceland. If you still [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Google Privacy Policy changes outrage activists Jan 25 2012 10:38:15	SlashGear
Google Privacy Policy changes outrage activists Google has updated its privacy policy, replacing the individual agreements for each service like Gmail, Google+ and YouTube with a single policy that already has privacy advocates screaming. Although Google’s new terms of service – which will come into effect on March 1 – won’t involve collecting any more user information than is currently, it [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nokia sells 1.5 billionth Series 40 mobile phone Jan 25 2012 10:19:50	SlashGear
Nokia sells 1.5 billionth Series 40 mobile phone Nokia has passed a huge milestone with its Series 40 mobile phones. The mobile phone giant has announced that it has sold its 1.5 billionth 40 Series device. The magic 1.5 billionth device was a Nokia Asha 303 smartphone, and it was sold to a woman in São Paulo, Brazil. The Asha 303 is a [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Samsung S-Pen stylus could show up in tablets next Jan 25 2012 09:53:49	SlashGear
Samsung S-Pen stylus could show up in tablets next Samsung is considering adding S-Pen digital stylus functionality to future tablets, borrowing the pen-input option from the Galaxy Note for larger models as it boosts data-entry methods. Asked whether Samsung saw the Galaxy Tab line-up expanding beyond mere finger control, ”I think a pen interface continues to make a lot of sense across a number of screen sizes, [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
O2 sharing phone numbers for mobile surfers (but not ev... Jan 25 2012 09:36:30	SlashGear
O2 sharing phone numbers for mobile surfers (but not everyone) UK carrier O2 finds itself embroiled in data protection controversy today, with allegations that the operator is revealing mobile users cellphone number to each website they visit on their phone. According to Lewis Peckover, buried in among the header data from each O2 visitor is a line revealing their own mobile number; he set up a [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple planned poorly for iPhone 4S China launch Cook ad... Jan 25 2012 09:11:16	SlashGear
Apple planned poorly for iPhone 4S China launch Cook admits A window coated in raw egg wasn’t the only thing Apple got when it launched the iPhone 4S in China earlier this month; it also got a wake-up call about quite how high demand for the new iOS smartphone would be. Appetite for the iPhone 4S was both “staggering” and “off the charts” Apple CEO Tim [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
BlackBerry Porsche Design smartphone will set you back ... Jan 25 2012 05:42:47	SlashGear
BlackBerry Porsche Design smartphone will set you back $2,350 Something makes you feel justified of a Porsche’s hefty pricetag when window shopping at your local dealership. But does this same mentality persist when viewing their new Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry smartphone? The device is set at $2,350, just enough to make a few jaws drop. We had recently seen it clear the FCC earlier [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Xbox 720 tipped for fall 2013 with AMD 6000 series GPU Jan 25 2012 05:20:18	SlashGear
Xbox 720 tipped for fall 2013 with AMD 6000 series GPU The next generation Microsoft Xbox 720 has been tipped to be shipping in late October or early November complete with six times the power in an AMD 6000 series GPU under the hood. There’ve been reports from several sources saying the same set of details, the most recent confirmation coming from IGN’s source close to [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
NASA releases videos of Sun’s massive M8.7 solar flare Jan 25 2012 02:43:19	SlashGear
NASA releases videos of Sun’s massive M8.7 solar flare We’ve been following the terrifying sounding but mostly harmless solar flare as summoned up by the Sun’s most recent solar storm as it hits the Earth in a dazzling display across the Northern half of the hemisphere. What NASA has posted in regards to the situation is not one, but two views of not the [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple sold more iPads than HP sold PCs in Q1 2012 Jan 25 2012 01:00:50	SlashGear
Apple sold more iPads than HP sold PCs in Q1 2012 Apple reported record fiscal Q1 2012 earnings today with sales of its iPads and Macs well exceeding rivals’ sales of PCs. Specifically, the 15.4 million units sold of iPads alone already surpass HP’s worldwide PC sales of 14.7 million as well as Lenovo’s 12.9 million and Dell’s 11.6 million units. For the first time, Apple [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
2013 Ford Fusion aims to match NASCAR technology with p... Jan 25 2012 00:01:24	SlashGear
2013 Ford Fusion aims to match NASCAR technology with production model Over the past several decades, the change from stock car racing up to the massively powerful motor sports that include such gems as NASCAR has been drastic – but Ford and several other manufacturers are aiming to shrink that gap with their 2013 lineups. In the 2013 Ford Fusion, the main objective of Ford is [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple TV still a hobby, says Tim Cook Jan 24 2012 23:33:15	SlashGear
Apple TV still a hobby, says Tim Cook Apple TV has long been considered a hobby by the late Steve Jobs and it still is for the Cupertino company, which reported spectacular earnings today for fiscal Q1 2012. During the earnings call, CEO Tim Cook revealed that 1.4 million units of the Apple TV were sold in this past quarter, a record for [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Much Ado About Booth Babes Jan 24 2012 23:32:02	SlashGear
Much Ado About Booth Babes If you look up the term “objectification of women” in your college dictionary, you’ll probably see a definition illustrated by a photograph of a tall, slender, blond woman wearing skimpy shorts and a tight t-shirt, standing next to a table stacked with plastic cell phone carrying cases. Recently, there’s been a lot of hubbub over [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Legal front launched by ex-Megaupload users Jan 24 2012 23:22:38	SlashGear
Legal front launched by ex-Megaupload users This month’s complete and utter closure of the Megaupload file uploading and sharing site has created more than one ripple in the online world, the latest being with so-called “legitimate” users of the former file-sharing service launching a legal collective aiming to push the FBI into re-activating the site. What this front is basing its [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Nokia Lumia 910 with 12MP camera rumored for May Jan 24 2012 22:59:21	SlashGear
Nokia Lumia 910 with 12MP camera rumored for May The AT&T exclusive Nokia Lumia 900 was rumored to be heading to the UK sans LTE sometime in June, but now a new claim by mobile insider Eldar Murtazin suggests that it could be replaced by a new model called the Nokia Lumia 910. Murtazin claims that this model has an upgraded camera and is [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Crystal Rocked takes your Beats and Street by 50 headph... Jan 24 2012 22:36:57	SlashGear
Crystal Rocked takes your Beats and Street by 50 headphones to a new shiny level There’s not a whole lot of devices out there at this point that the group known as Crystal Rocked have not bumped up an ultimate over-the-top level of glitz, and both Beats by Dre and Street by 50 have been caught on the radar and pushed through the crystal machine by the masters. What you’ll [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Microsoft details Windows 8 sensor support Jan 24 2012 22:26:44	SlashGear
Microsoft details Windows 8 sensor support Microsoft posted new details on its Building Windows 8 blog today, this time revealing the next-gen operating system’s improved sensor support. The company is introducing new hardware sensors, which include ambient light sensor, accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope. It also explains how developers can integrate the hardware sensors with apps developed for the Metro interface. At [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple Q1 2012 sales point to monster future for iPhone,... Jan 24 2012 22:12:50	SlashGear
Apple Q1 2012 sales point to monster future for iPhone, death of iPod There’s a lot to be said about the Q1 2012 sales report from Apple today, but one point stands out like a beacon: with 37,044,000 units and 24,417,000,000 (that’s $24 billion) in revenue from iPhone and related products and services. This is compared to the units and revenue from the same category during Q4 of [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple reports record Q1 2012 earnings, 37 million iPhon... Jan 24 2012 22:08:36	SlashGear
Apple reports record Q1 2012 earnings, 37 million iPhones sold Apple’s fiscal Q1 2012 earnings report has been released, revealing an amazing record breaking quarter, which includes both the iPhone 4S launch and the holiday shopping season. Revenue spiked to $46.3 billion from $23.8 billion in the previous quarter with a record profit of $13.06 bilion, which is more than double the $6 billion in [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Wooden iPhones all the rage with simple conversion kits Jan 24 2012 21:33:59	SlashGear
Wooden iPhones all the rage with simple conversion kits Third party iPhone accessory makers have taken the next step in iPhone personalization with solid wood back panels – not a case, not a skin, but an actual real replacement for the glass back you’ve grown tired of. There are two different groups I’d like to share with you here, one of them a bit [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Samsung Galaxy S III with HD screen, quad-core processo... Jan 24 2012 21:32:40	SlashGear
Samsung Galaxy S III with HD screen, quad-core processor, and ICS rumored for April Eldar Murtazin, a tech blogger with a notorious track record and inside sources, claims that a yet to be announced Samsung Galaxy S III will be arriving in April, following an announcement at Mobile World Congress in late February. Murtazin may even have possession of the device, so he teases via a series of tweets. [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Wikipedia to be first Data Free mobile website on Earth Jan 24 2012 20:57:00	SlashGear
Wikipedia to be first Data Free mobile website on Earth When the term Data Free comes up on your news readers and in the newspapers in the coming months, you’ll know that it started here, and with Wikipedia and Orange, who together will be offering free – that is, without data charges – use of Wikipedia’s vast knowledge archive. What this means for the future [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Apple’s secret packaging design and testing room revealed Jan 24 2012 20:52:25	SlashGear
Apple’s secret packaging design and testing room revealed Upcoming book “Inside Apple” by Adam Lashinsky reveals that Apple HQ has a secret room dedicated for product packaging design and testing. The revelation isn’t too surprising considering how elegantly packaged Apple products have been, but it confirms what lengths Apple goes to achieve that. The book reveals that the room is located in a [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Judge rules Fifth Amendment to no longer cover hard drives Jan 24 2012 20:30:58	SlashGear
Judge rules Fifth Amendment to no longer cover hard drives In a court case currently going on here in the United States including a Colorado woman who’s hard drive may well include incriminating evidence against her, it’s been ruled that her encrypted password on said hard drive must be bypassed by her, and is not protected under the Fifth Amendment. Before this case, a distinction [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Paramount’s UltraViolet cloud-based movies now available Jan 24 2012 20:08:25	SlashGear
Paramount’s UltraViolet cloud-based movies now available Though Paramount will not be the only group to have UltraViolet digital movies in the near future, they’re currently the first and only group to offer the service through their site. What UltraViolet offers is a copy of your movie “in the cloud” right after purchasing it in physical or digital form. In this way [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Tweet with Siri hack allows iPhone Twitter without typing Jan 24 2012 19:54:02	SlashGear
Tweet with Siri hack allows iPhone Twitter without typing When you think about Siri, it’s not something that before the iPhone 4S was released was really a big deal: speaking to your phone, your phone then doing what you told it to do. But now that Siri and iPhone 4S are married, everyone wants a piece of the action. Take for example the brand [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »
Megaupload CEO raid captures 18 luxurious cars and one ... Jan 24 2012 19:33:44	SlashGear
Megaupload CEO raid captures 18 luxurious cars and one motorcycle When you’re the kingpin of Megaupload and your name is Kim Dotcom, it’s not hard to think that it’s a good idea to purchase a lot of fancy electronics so you can look awesome when posting yourself sitting in your basement hacking away – but when you’ve gone beyond hackerdom, there’s something else you’ll end [...] Read the full article on SlashGear »

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