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Kia Optima and Kia Rondo recalled amid faulty airbags
There’s another recall on the books, auto owners, this time for 146,000 Kia vehicles on the road due to faulty airbag systems. The models you’ve got to look out for at the 2006-08 Kia Optima as well as the 2007-08 Kia Rondo, and the situation is that the spring system in the drivers side of [...]
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AntiCrop for iPhone, iPad 2 expands photos beyond their borders
When you take a photo at the wrong angle on a camera, you’ve got no choice but to either cut off all the edges and get a smaller photo or just take it again altogether – but with AntiCrop for iPhone and iPad 2, that process has been automated and magically moved forward. What this [...]
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LG X3 quad-core ICS smartphone teased in detail
This week it’s time to get serious about quad-cores, be it in the tablets that defined CES 2012, the HTC Edge or Endeavor, whatever it ends up being called, and now the LG X3, the device you see in the image here in this post. This device has been tipped to PocketNow as having the [...]
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Samsunged ad continues Samsung Galaxy S II iPhone war
In another advertisement released by Samsung to attest to the power of the Galaxy S II in the face of what they would call the clearly inferior iPhone, the new term “Samsunged” pops up to dice the love felt between Apple lovers in line for The Next Big Thing. Of course Samsung lets us know [...]
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Why Sony Won’t Launch A New PlayStation This Year (Or Next)
I’m often asked when Sony will launch its next PlayStation. Just about everyone is interested in finding out if the next console the consumer electronics giant offers up can be as appealing and popular as its predecessors. The push for Sony to launch a new PlayStation is also born out of the fact that Nintendo [...]
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SOPA and PIPA delayed indefinitely, Internet Wins
In what can only be described as seeming to be a Flawless Victory, not a few hours after Senator Harry Reid announced he’d be delaying the vote on PIPA, representative Lamar Smith, better known now as the sponsor of SOPA, has announced he would delay consideration on that bill as well. Both teams have been [...]
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Samsung Galaxy Note White hits the UK today
The folks at Samsung have dropped the white bomb on the United Kingdom today with an almost surprise release of the Samsung Galaxy Note in white. This device has been released in black back in November, but as you know, everyone likes to get their devices in pearl these days to match their winter hats [...]
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Raspberry Pi $35 PC gets unofficial Apple AirPlay support
$35 computer project Raspberry Pi continues to amaze, with a new demonstration showing the education-focussed palmsized desktop using Apple’s AirPlay to stream video from an iPad to a TV. The side-project of one of the developers working at Raspberry Pi, the setup consists of a specially coded AirPlay app for the tiny PC itself and an unmodified [...]
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Nissan Leaf electric car hits 10k sales in USA
In what must be a positive sign for those of you out there hoping for a much more electric future for vehicles, smashing out the smoke that our combustable engines now pollute the world with at some point in the future, Nissan has announced that their 2011 sales of the all-electric Leaf vehicle have fallen [...]
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Samsung: 1-in-10 South Koreans have GSII, but no HD model for UK
Samsung‘s Galaxy S II series goes from strength to strength, with the company now claiming that one in ten of all people in South Korea now own the smartphone. Around 5m of the handsets have apparently been sold in the company’s home country, making the device one of Samsung’s most popular ever. However, Samsung has also [...]
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Apple headed to Harrods
Luxury London retailer Harrods is reportedly next in line to get an Apple Store in among its regular shelves, with sources at the famous toff shop saying Apple’s pale wooden benches will soon be nestling in among the 1m square foot showfloor. The new section is set to be larger than the oasis of Apple [...]
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Protect IP Act vote postponed as Senate ponders revision
The US Senate vote on the Protect IP Act (PIPA) set to go ahead on January 24 2012 has been postponed, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has confirmed. ”In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the PROTECT IP Act” Senator Reid tweeted, while TPM posted a full memo distributed by his office [...]
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Motorola challenges Apple with tablets in the classroom
Apple isn’t the only company with its sights on the schoolroom; just as the company revealed iBooks 2 with new interactive textbook functionality, Motorola has been talking about its own pilot scheme putting Android tablets into students’ and teachers’ hands. The project began in November last year, using Motorola’s XOOM at a San Diego high school in [...]
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Alesis outs USB Q61, QX61, and QX25 MIDI keyboard controllers
A company called Alesis has unveiled three new MIDI keyboard controllers for people that like to make music with their computers. The controllers were all unveiled at NAMM going on in California right now. Surprisingly, unlike most of the gear, we have talked about from the show, these don’t integrate the iPad. All the USB [...]
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Anonymous speaks on #OpMegaUpload as CEO Dotcom faces extradition
The FBI’s surprise takedown of Megaupload continues to send shockwaves, with increasingly vocal complaints from legitimate users of the online locker service that their files and backups are being held hostage. The unexpected downtime has left many surprised and angry that Megaupload – which the US Department of Justice described as “an international organized criminal [...]
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Cooler Master unveils new vapor chamber cooling tech for CPUs
There is always a battle in the computer world to get faster processors and to be able to dissipate the heat that the processors produce. When you get into an enthusiast class machine where a geek is overclocking you end up with even more heat to deal with. Some folks don’t like to go to [...]
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New iPad Retina Display looking more likely from iBooks 2 icons
Further evidence of a next-gen iPad with a 2048 x 1536 “Retina Display” has been unearthed, this time from iconography and graphics included in Apple’s new iBooks 2 app released yesterday. A new bookmark icon in the refreshed app – labeled “iPadx2″ – was spotted after some judicious digging by MacRumors and devs Steve Troughton-Smith and Grant Paul, [...]
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NASA decides to let Richard Garriott’s Apogee of Fear film air
Over the last few months, NASA folks have been real hard asses. It started off with NASA coming in and scaring the little old lady into wetting herself over a chunk of moon rock given to her late husband she wanted to sell. Then NASA starting coming after astronauts from the Apollo era that were [...]
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BASF and Philips working car roof made from transparent OLED lighting
BASF and Philips are working together on a really cool project that uses OLED lighting for the roof of a car. The OLED light can be a light source to illuminate the interior of the car at night. When turned off the light source can also be a transparent solar cell that allows passengers to [...]
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NASA debunks triangular “UFO” spotted in recent Stereo-B spacecraft video
Some photos and footage that a NASA spacecraft shot have been latched onto as proof that the space agency is covering up UFOs. The photos and video in question were captured by the NASA Stereo-B spacecraft, which is one of the probe duo that sit near the sun and are able to offer a nearly [...]
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Ultrabook makers Acer, Asus, and Lenovo to add Thunderbolt in Q2
With the ultrabook being looked at as the next big thing in the notebook market most of the major companies will be offering up new ultrabooks. Many of the major computer firms out there were showing off their ultrabook wares at CES not long ago and we spent hands on time with several at the [...]
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Sony unveils small B170 Walkman audio player
Sony has added a new device to its Walkman range called the B170. This new Walkman is small and compact with a fast charging battery for playback on the go. The device has an integrated USB connector under a cap on the player and looks a bit like a flash drive. The USB connector can [...]
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Military weapon source code to be tested by casual gamers
The Pentagon has a new plan for testing the software and code that is used in weapons systems. The plan is to integrate that code into some video games that are released to gamers and let the crowd sourced testing of the code begin. The code won’t be used in shooters like America’s Army though, [...]
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Samsung’s first 3G anti-Apple patent suit rejected in Germany
The first of Samsung‘s seven patent infringement claims against Apple in Germany has been rejected by the courts, though it’s unclear at present what impact the decision could have on the Korean company’s remaining cases. Centered around 3G/UMTS wireless standards patents Samsung holds, the case alleges Apple has released products such as the iPhone without [...]
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Apple is worth more than Greece with $400B market cap
Apple is certainly one of the biggest tech firms in the world. Apple is riding high on the back of some of the most successful products in the world thanks to the booming popularity of things like the iPad, iPhone, and Mac computers. With the success of the Apple offerings, the company has, or at [...]
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Megaupload: Seven charged, Anti-piracy stance a sham say Feds
Seven have been charged in the Megaupload copyright shutdown case, including site founder Kim “Dr. Evil” Dotcom, as more details on the $500m suit emerge. At least four of the seven have been arrested so far, the NYTimes reports, though the company’s legal team has said in a statement that “Megaupload believes the government is wrong on [...]
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iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak incoming with Corona A5 tool
A jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is almost ready for release, arch-iOS hackers the iPhone Dev Team have announced, with only streamlining the user-experience of the “Corona A5 jailbreak” left to complete. Until now, the Apple A5-based products have been stubbornly resistant to hacking attempts, Apple changing its approach in the iPad [...]
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Apple Education Event video now online
Apple put the cat among the publishing pigeons yesterday at its education-themed event, with the launch of iBooks 2 with textbooks, iBooks Author to create interactive digital books, and iTunes U for full, free university and K-12 courses. Almost a million of you joined SlashGear yesterday for our Apple event liveblog; now the whole thing [...]
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Akai MPC Fly turns iPad 2 into portable beats center
Akai has launched a new Music Production Controller that turns an iPad 2 into a full track producer, the Akai MPC Fly, the latest in a series of docking multimedia add-ons for Apple’s best-selling slate. Officially launched at the NAMM this week, the MPC Fly docks with the second-gen iPad with a double-hinge, allowing it [...]
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Verizon Voice-over LTE in two city trials, full 2013 US launch tipped
Verizon is trialling Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) in two cities, with plans for a national roll-out of the 4G voice call support in early 2013, according to industry insiders. Northland Capital Markets analyst Catharine Trebnick spilled the roadmap in a note to investors, Lightreading reports, with the suggestion that a second, anonymous source had confirmed the timescale. Previously, Verizon had said [...]
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Haier presents 55-inch “completely wireless” 3D TV
Chinese brand Haier recently presented a large 55-inch 3DTV that’s truly wireless. It uses the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology to stream content and magnetic resonance to power the TV. A prototype of the Haier Completely Wireless TV was on display at CES 2012, but the company doesn’t have plans for commercial release just [...]
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OZAKI O!photo Lens Case for iPhone 4S hands-on
It’s not the easiest thing in the world to differentiate yourself from the ultra-large mass of companies trying to get a piece of the iPhone case cake, so when we find a group that appears to be up to the job, we take that opportunity – and that opportunity has presented itself in the form [...]
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Numark IDJ PRO DJ Controller for iPad revealed
There’s been no lack of musical instruments being announced this week at the 2012 edition of NAMM pops up on the circuit, Numark bringing one fantastically amazing looking DJ station to the scene complete with iPad integration. This device was showed off at the Media Preview Day for NAMM and features a gigantic slot right [...]
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Capcom officially announces Resident Evil 6, reveals trailer and artwork
Following several leaks and a strange viral ad campaign, Capcom has finally confirmed its much anticipated Resident Evil 6. The company not only announced the game, but also revealed the release date along with a trailer and new artwork. The game will launch for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 20, 2012, with [...]
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Sales Silence Speaks Volumes
Microsoft’s quarterly financial results today make for great reading if you’re a shareholder, with a record $20.9bn in revenue, but are less reassuring if you’re a Windows Phone fan. The big software company broke down Windows 7 licensing numbers, spilled its Bing search share and gleefully detailed Xbox 360 and Kinect sensor sales, but Microsoft’s [...]
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Anonymous take down Department of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, Universal Music
Earlier today the sites Megaupload and Megavideo were shut down by ICE, a federal group responsible for working with and shutting down groups that pirate media illegally – in retaliation the hacker collective known as Anonymous have shut down the RIAA, the MPAA, Universal Music, and the United States Government site Justice.org, belonging to the [...]
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Apple’s education revolution roundup
Apple’s education-driven press event took place earlier today in NYC and unveiled the company’s plans to revolutionize textbooks and the entire learning experience. The news announced almost made us want to go back to school. In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the magic that was unleashed. Starting today students will be able [...]
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Google Earnings show lowest quarter of 2011
The fourth quarter earnings for the 2011 season for Google have been reported this week, results showing up as a slightly less impressive jump than analysts suspected. Google’s fourth quarter earnings rose by 6.3%, but as this did end up being the slowest revenue increase of all four quarters of 2011, estimates jumped the gun [...]
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Google+ passes 90,000,000 users
Google‘s social network, Google+, may only have been operational for little over a year, but it has already accrued over 90,000,000 users according to CEO Larry Page. Announced as part of Google’s Q4 2011 financial results today, the milestone comes just four months after Google+ was opened up to general public registrations. However, it’s still [...]
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Microsoft reports Q2 2012 earnings, light on Windows sales
Microsoft released its fiscal second quarter 2012 earnings report today, exceeding analyst expectations of earnings per share but saw a slight dent on revenue due to slowing Windows sales. Revenue came in at $20.89 billion, up 5 percent from the same quarter last year. However, earnings dipped to $6.62 billion or about $0.77 per share. [...]
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iPad 2S up next, iPad 3 pushed back
When it comes to Apple, there’s only one thing you can guess on releases: you never ever quite know what you’re going to get or what it’ll be called – thats why when the name iPad 2S popped up on the airwaves this afternoon, the wheels in our minds started spinning furiously. This is not [...]
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DIY Paper Monster Truck constructed, destroyed for They Might Be Giants tour
There’s nothing better than a gigantic pink monster truck / hearse hybrid made out of cardboard and paper to get your rock and roll concert tour underway, and They Might Be Giants have done us one better: they’ve taught us how to make our own! We love gadgets, and they’ve got a gigantic person-sized cardboard [...]
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Google-Motorola deal approval deadline set for February 13 in Europe
The European Commission has set a February 13 deadline to decide whether or not to approve Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola. The new date comes after the commission suspended the January 10 deadline to wait for additional documents from Google. The merger was first announced last August as a move to help defend Android [...]
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Megaupload is down, Piracy indictment to blame
One of the most notoriously popular media uploading and downloading sites in the world has been shut down today amid allegations of piracy and charges amounting to $500 million in lost revenue for pirated content. These charges come from federal prosecutors in Virginia and are being leveled against the founder and others involved with the [...]
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PlayStation Network down for Scheduled Maintenance on January 19th
For those of you wondering why the PlayStation Network is down today, they’re currently letting the world know that they’re going to be down until 9PM PST for maintenance. And just like a fleet of Vogons, they remind us all that it was posted yesterday in a place where everyone could very easily have seen [...]
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Siri’s next move is online store purchases, so says Apple patent
This week the inevitable appears to be revealing itself, that being Apple’s plan for Siri, currently on the iPhone 4S exclusively, to be updated to work with online stores for completely voice-only purchases. This would be a gigantic step forward for the futuristic interface that the iPhone 4S currently holds above the heads of the [...]
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Korg Kaossilator 2 Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer revealed
Like its very close relative, the Kaoss Pad 2, this Kaossilator 2 Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer is an electronically attuned piece of musical monstrosity – of the most awesome variety. Korg presents this little beast, an X-Y touchpad which allows you to create and save your own music with the touch of a finger. With its [...]
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Twitter acquires Summify for social aggregation
The folks at Twitter have picked up a startup by the name of Summify, a group whose main goal it is to aggregate the social media users around the world deal with on a daily bases. As Twitter scoops up this company, so too does the Summify team move over to San Francisco and their [...]
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AT&T gets the tail end of this mobile price change, not consumers
Since yesterday when news broke that AT&T would be changing both their prices and their data allowances on new users accounts for the 2012 season, there’s been one whole heck of a lot of dissent out there on why people “hate AT&T even more”, and so forth. What’s not showing up nearly enough is the [...]
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Korg Mini Kaoss Pad 2 Dynamic Effect Processor revealed
There’s a tiny audio distorting monster on the block, and it’s name is Kaoss, Kork Mini Kaoss Pad 2 Dynamic Effect Processor for short, and it comes complete with the features you need to turn your DJ station into a massive fingertip express. What this device does it takes your finger tapping, pressing, pushing, and [...]
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Korg Monotron DUO and DELAY tiny synthesizers available now
The folks at Korg have released a bit of info on a couple more tiny keyboards, synthesizers to add to the already awesome hero original Korg Monotron with the Monotron DUO and the Monotron DELAY, both of them an unbelievably inexpensive way to get unique custom-tweaked musical notes to your fingertips. We’ve already reviewed the [...]
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BioShock Infinite 1999 mode detailed, made for retro lovers
Your super mass killing and loving of the scenery in Columbia is about to get a whole lot more difficult as BioShock Infinite’s 1999 Mode is detailed in part, complete with the assurance that yes, there will be game saves, and yes, you will need them. This mode was created after the developers of the [...]
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Toyota hybrid Le Mans race car teased in photos
Though we’ve seen some lovely Toyota hybrids earlier this month already, the auto company is never satisfied to bring you just what you were expecting – that’s why this week they’ve teased a fabulous new Le Mans-class racing car complete with TOYOYA HYBRID emblazoned across its gigantic shark fin. This vehicle currently comes in a [...]
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iBooks Author Hands-on
It’s taken a special kind of ebook to make headlines over the past year or so: anyone can throw together a basic document, but a rarified breed of immersive, interactive app/ebook hybrids has also developed. Often seen targeting children or delivering iPad versions of print magazines, they’ve invariably taken big money and plenty of time. [...]
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Nike+ FuelBand provides all-day exercise info
Apple wasn’t the only company with a New York City announcement today: Nike stopped off in the Big apple to announce the Nike+ Fuel Band, with help from minor sports icons like Lance Armstrong, Kevin Durant and Carmelita Jeter. The FuelBand takes the Nike+ data collection engine and expands it to a full day’s worth [...]
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iTunes U Hands-On
iTunes U isn’t new – Apple first revealed its educational download store back in 2007 – but the new iTunes U app and companion service revealed today is. A suite of not just individual lessons but entire classes and curriculum, iTunes U opens the door to content from high profile schools like Duke, Yale, The [...]
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PS Vita originally set for on-screen controls, full metal casing, larger display
There’s a new personal video game system in town, and it goes by the name PlayStation Vita – and what you’re about to learn from no less than Tokashi Sogabe of the Sony Corporate Design Center is that it originally looked just a bit different than it exists in the wild today. In an interview [...]
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iBooks 2 Hands-On
Apple’s original iBooks app tried to do to ebooks what iTunes has done for music; now, with iBooks 2, Apple is throwing textbooks into the mix. We’ve just headed out from the Apple keynote in NYC this morning to spend some time with the new ebook app, and on one level it’s more of the [...]
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Doom for graphing calculators gets color upgrade
Those of you running nDoom 2, the TI-Nspire CX-based graphing calculator port of doom know – when it comes to playing games in math class, there’s nothing better than fragging some toxically mutated beasts in full gigantic pixel glory. What’s happened here in early 2012 is that this game specifically on this calculator has taken [...]
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Dreamcast classic Soul Calibur slices in to the iOS App Store
“A tale of souls and swords, eternally retold” is getting another go-round, thanks to an updated iPhone, iPad and iPod version from Namco. Soul Calibur hit the App Store today for all current iOS models, and it seems to have kept its smooth and gorgeous 3D fighting engine intact. The classic brawler has been reformatted for the mobile platform [...]
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iBooks Author is here
Apple has only just finished announcing iBooks Author, its ultra-simple drag & drop interactive book creation tool, and already it’s up for download. A 136MB OS X application, you can download iBooks Author through the Mac App Store [iTunes link] and be creating ebooks in minutes. Although Apple’s focus today was on education, the scope [...]
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iTunes U app released for iPad, teachers rejoice
Teacher will soon be able to “do everything on their iPad” as Apple announced this week at their education-based event this week, as iTunes U brings forth a fully interactive set of tools that any teacher, professor, or otherwise leader can use. The user interface is very similar to what iBooks has to offer, this [...]
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Apple iBooks Textbooks set at stunning $14.99 or less
The folks at Apple have this week shown off their new Textbooks category in their iPad and iPhone-based iBookstore, showing how interactive teaching can be done in a brand new way and for a much less expensive price: $14.99 or less. That’s the price the books in this new section of the store will cost, [...]
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iBooks Author revealed, free to download
A brand new application was revealed this week at the Apple education event by the name of iBooks Author, this app brought on aside the iBooks 2 app update and the addition of interactive Textbooks to the fold. This event has played host to a set of updates to the iPad-based world of books, the [...]
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iBooks 2 revealed with Textbooks
Building on the very central subject of the education event in NYC this week in the iPad, Apple spoke of the second generation of iBooks, that being iBooks 2. This application will tie Apple’s already portable, durable, interactive, searchable, and current iPad to the “great content” of the textbook, the textbook having none of the [...]
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iPad at the head of Apple’s Education event in NYC
Apple held an event this week promising no less than an education-heavy set of announcements, Phil Schiller starting the event off right with a series of affirmations that Apple has always been dedicated to helping students learn. Putting the same passion and energy into every product Apple makes is the same that they’ve done for [...]
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Google+ Record Video now live, looking rather familiar
If you didn’t know that Google also owns YouTube, you’d be a bit suspicious of the interface used by Google in a new feature added to their social network allowing users to record video from their share box and post it for the world to see. Your own webcam will be your weapon here, and [...]
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OPPO Find 3 Android smartphone official, looks to best China’s Meizu and Xiaomi
The lovely amalgamation of metal, glass, and silicon you’re about to witness is no less than the newest effort from a group you may never have heard of before if you live outside of China: this is the OPPO Find 3. This device is made to compete in the ever-expanding world of oddly enticing China [...]
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Chrome browser gets WebRTC baked in for Skype challenge
Google has released a dev-version of Chrome supporting WebRTC, the integrated real-time audio and video communications system that could see VoIP, video conferencing and even streaming gaming baked into the browser. “Instead of relying on custom, OS specific, proprietary plug-ins,” the Chromium blog says of developers, ”they can now easily build and maintain their apps using a few [...]
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Microsoft’s Dave Cutler now working on Xbox
We all know that Microsoft is hard at work on the next-generation Xbox game console. We also know that there are rumored to be two versions of the console with one aimed at gaming and the other aimed at gaming and entertainment. Microsoft has confirmed that it has moved Dave Cutler, the dude behind Windows [...]
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Microsoft gets about $27 for each Windows Phone ZTE makes
If you think about how much it costs a smartphone maker to build a phone we often think of the processor, memory, or the screen being the most expensive parts, or at least I do. The most costly aspect of building a smartphone may in fact be the licensing for the operating system. IntoMobile reports [...]
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Apple Education Event Liveblog Reminder!
Apple’s education-focused New York City event kicks off in just ninety minutes time, and SlashGear is warming up the liveblogging machine to bring you all the details. Expected to see Apple’s first interactive textbook creation app revealed, described by leaky tipsters as “GarageBand for eBooks“, the new tool is believed to mark the Cupertino company’s [...]
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Intel outs Performance Tuning Protection Plan
If you know a geek that is into overclocking with Intel processors, take the time and check on them now. It’s highly likely that upon hearing about Intel’s new insurance plans they could have nerdgasm and pass out. Historically, if you overclocked the processor you picked up at retail for a roll your own gaming [...]
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Lawmakers sway post-SOPA/PIPA protest but Acts still have venom
Wikipedia is back, Google has taken off its blindfold and US Representatives have danced, shuffled and snuck across the aisles as the whip counts waver, leaving the future of SOPA and PIPA uncertain. After online protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act saw multiple sites post call-to-arms messages or black-out altogether, at [...]
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Behringer outs three new iPad mixers for pro recording
Yesterday, I mentioned a new app that has landed for the iPad that turns it into a professional mixer and recorder. Today, we have three new offerings from Behringer that are more hardware intense. The new mixers are being unveiled at the NAMM Show and are all small format premium offerings with a direct iPad [...]
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Tablet shoppers outspend PC and smartphone users says research
Spend-friendly tableteers splash out significantly more on online purchases than their smartphone and desktop/notebook counterparts, according to new research, with those doing their holiday 2011 shopping on an iPad or other slate spending 21-percent more on average than those using a traditional computer. In fact, tablet shoppers spend 54-percent more than smartphone shoppers, according to [...]
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Instagram could hit Windows Phone before Android
If you are an iPhone user, you have probably heard of Instagram and many of you will have used it before. The app was named the top app of the year by Apple and has 15 million users right now. You can bet there are many users on to her smartphone brands that are looking [...]
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ZTE Tania hits UK in February: Windows Phone on a budget
The ZTE Tania, potentially the cheapest Windows Phone to-date, will go on sale this quarter in the UK, the company has confirmed, with carrier Virgin Media expected to offer the 4.3-inch smartphone between £10-20 on-contract. Meanwhile, various retailers are offering the Tania - which we previewed yesterday - for around £250 ($384) SIM-free and unlocked. Retailer Clove, for [...]
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GM interactive windows concept bring fun to road trips
The car technology world is growing rapidly with all sorts of cool new features inside cars to keep passengers entertained and drivers less distracted. We have a number of automakers today that are able to tie your smartphone to the car entertainment system for surfing the web and using apps. GM has something more ambitious [...]
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Skyrim gets My Little Pony mod
Skyrim has been one of the most popular games out there on the PC and game consoles since it launched late in 2011. The game has some of the best graphics and deepest game play of any title on the market. The popularity of the game also makes it ripe for mods and one of [...]
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Nokia takes second go at Lumia 800 battery fix
The battery woes of the Nokai Lumia 800 have been going on for a while. Nokia issued a software update in December that it hoped would fix the battery issues, and it didn’t fix the problem. Nokia is taking another stab at fixing the battery issue and is ready to release another update for the [...]
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Facebook bed pokes you by your pillow
If you are the sort who can’t stand being away from Facebook out of fear of missing a post or a poke from a pal, we found the bed for you. Sure, you could do what most people do and just charge your smartphone at the bedside, but this concept is better for the true [...]
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Zynga gobbles up four mobile gaming firms
When it comes to Facebook gaming, one of the largest developers is Zynga. Zynga games are offered on smartphones and on social networking sites like Facebook; this company was behind the crazy popular Farmville game on Facebook. Zynga has now confirmed the purchased four smaller mobile gaming to Reuters. The money that changed hands to [...]
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Sony Ericsson reveals $318m Q4 loss
Sony Ericsson has reported dismal Q4 2011 financial performance, with a pre-tax loss of €247m ($318m) amid “intense competition” along with the poor economic climate. The company – which will be rolled into Sony later this quarter – has plenty of blame to share around: as well as a strong showing from its rivals and the general [...]
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ASUS Transformer Prime gets GPS-fix update
ASUS has quietly released a new update for the Transformer Prime, intended to address the persistent GPS issues owners of the Tegra 3 tablet have reported. The update, which can be manually downloaded and installed from ASUS’ support site, bumps the firmware to v9.4.2.7, installing Ice Cream Sandwich in the process but also, according to [...]
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Facebook Timeline Apps spreads Open Graph to travel, food, more
Facebook has officially launched its Timeline Apps platform, broadening Open Graph from its existing multimedia integration into the social network to cover travel, food, shopping, fitness and more. Announced back at f8 2011, Timeline Apps currently consists of over 60 “lifestyle” apps, including TripAdvisor, Urbanspoon, eBay, Runkeeper and Rotten Tomatoes, allowing Facebook users to share [...]
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Kodak files for bankruptcy
Kodak has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, with the struggling camera company expecting it to be 2013 before it gets back on its feet again. The latest step as Kodak attempts to shift away from traditional film-based photography and get up to speed in the digital world, the company’s announcement suggests 75-percent of revenues in 2011 [...]
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Android 4.0 for Tablets shouldn’t be judged until it’s released
Last week it was announced that the Transformer Prime would be the first certified tablet to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, then today the XOOM ICS update began rolling out, but there’s one judgement article out there produced by a high-ranking set of names which has passed judgement on it for those who would [...]
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Microsoft System Center 2012 hits the private cloud running
For those of you looking to create a private cloud in a very real way over the past few years and have done your research on what making a professional effort of doing so have likely heard of VMware, the biggest name in the business thus far – but as Microsoft has shown this week, [...]
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iPad has the least issues, says FixYa tech Q&A site
Tech Q&A site FixYa has released the number of support issues logged on its site for popular devices over the holiday season, revealing that the iPad is the least problematic in the tablets category. The data also revealed which issues were most prominent with each device, such as screen or connectivity problems. According to FixYa’s [...]
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HP Folio 13 Review
Everyone has an laptop based on Intel’s Ultrabook spec these days, and if they don’t already, they showed it off at CES last week. Just being thin and light isn’t enough to stand out in the crowd now, and HP knows that. To that end, they’ve produced the Folio 13, an Ultrabook that they’re aiming [...]
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iConvert turns your iPad into a portable scanner
Here’s a new gadget that iPad-toting road warriors will appreciate. It’s a portable scanner dock called the iConvert and it’s ready to tackle your receipts and other business documents without the need to connect to a PC or Mac. Simply dock your iPad on the iConvert and it scans documents directly onto your iPad via [...]
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Alienware’s X51 puts Games Consoles on Notice
The Alienware X51 isn’t the biggest gaming PC the Dell-owned company has ever unveiled, nor the fastest, but it’s arguably the biggest challenge to traditional consoles to-date. Packing a full PC into a Xbox-scale chassis, the X51 promises to turn its hand to everything from the latest FPS, high-def multimedia playback and even mundane Office [...]
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AT&T data plans ramp to $20, $30, and $50
There’s a bit of a change going on in the world of mobile on the network with the world as its icon: AT&T will be flipping up its data plans to include a three-tier system, each one with a $10 bump over the last. The change here between this set of prices and sizes of [...]
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Kodak sues Samsung over digital imaging patents
Kodak has announced that it is suing Samsung over five digital imaging patents. The complaint was filed against Samsung in the US District Court for the Western District of New York and follows similar allegations filed against Apple and HTC earlier this month. The five patents named in the lawsuit include US Patent No. 6,292,218, [...]
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TED talk video on SOPA and PIPA makes it all crystal clear
The result of groups across the web making an effort to bring the damaging effects of SOPA and PIPA to light has been a nice cross-section of explanatory posts made to educate the masses, and what we’ve got here is a TED talk video of Clay Shirky taking all of that and making it so [...]
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Apple e-textbook project code-named “Bliss,” inspired by Al Gore’s “Our Choice”
We’ve heard plenty of speculation surrounding Apple’s upcoming event in New York City, where the company is expected to unveil an educational product. It’s believed to be a digital textbook publishing tool or a “GarageBand for eBooks,” a project that Steve Jobs himself worked on for several years before his death. And now, tips from [...]
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Capcom tied to No Hope Left graffiti campaign, Resident Evil 6 in the wings
Tomorrow is the day we’ll find out if it’s all true, or if what’s true ends up being that Capcom is revealing a new game after their rather strange viral ad campaign “No Hope Left” complete with graffiti, a nameless blog, and video of a woman freaking out. While some of you have been following [...]
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1811 Fourier Technique improved upon, video, images, audio set to improve
Back in 1811 there was a mathematical technique proposed, it now known to us as Joseph Fourier’s Fourier Technique, a technique which eventually translated itself into one of the most basic ways we now encode and de-code images, music, and many other kinds of media – what’s being proposed by MIT now is that there’s [...]
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PS Vita sales continue to plummet
Sony’s PlayStation Vita portable gaming console debuted in Japan last December with a strong opening week, but sales quickly took a nose dive. Sales have now plummeted to 18,361 units in week five, a drastic 95 percent drop from the 324,859 units sold in the first week and a more than 50 percent drop from [...]
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Kia Optima and Kia Rondo recalled amid faulty airbags
