Android integration comes to your car’s mirror [w/video]

February 21st, 2012 | By admin

Just when you thought manufacturers couldn’t cram any more technology into a vehicle, CES rolls through Las Vegas to show off all-new levels of car-bound gadgetry. A company by the name of Rydeen hopes to produce a new range of stereo head units that run the Android operating system. (more…)

This is why you need a dash cam on at all times [Video]

February 21st, 2012 | By admin

We hate to break it to you, but the world is chock full of unscrupulous people, folk who don’t care one bit about screwing you to get ahead. Thankfully, unscrupulousness can be kept in check by vigilantly recording everything that happens to you. We know, the prospect sounds daunting, but a good dash cam will at least keep you covered while driving. (more…)

Limit On AT&T’s ‘Unlimited Data’ Plan Surprises Some Customers

February 13th, 2012 | By admin

NEW YORK — Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.

But in the past few weeks, there has been none of that, because AT&T Inc. put a virtual wheel clamp on his phone. Web pages wouldn’t load and maps wouldn’t render. Forget about YouTube videos – Trang’s data speeds were reduced to dial-up levels.

“It basically makes my phone useless,” said Trang, an Orange County, Calif. property manager. (more…)

Ulysse Nardin Chairman, ‘World’s Most Expensive Mobile Phone,’ Is Totally Decadent

February 13th, 2012 | By admin

 
There are certain times in every man’s life when he needs to prove to everyone in the room that he is richer, therefore better, than everyone else. Up till now, a man could do this with a certain set of flashy accessories — an Italian sports car, a designer tuxedo, a gleaming set of bejeweled tooth covers — but not with his cellphone. An iPhone is $200 on contract. The Galaxy Nexus is $300. Even the Constellation, an alligator-skin “luxury” phone by Vertu, is only, like, $5,000. A fine phone — for your butler, perhaps. (more…)

Anonymous Responds To Megaupload Takedown; Claims Credit For DOJ, RIAA, MPAA, Universal Music Outages

January 20th, 2012 | By admin

The hacktivist group Anonymous launched its “largest attack ever” Thursday, claiming credit for a coordinated takedown of websites managed by the Department of Justice and organizations supporting controversial antipiracy legislation. (more…)

Wikipedia Blackout: Jimmy Wales Announces Protest Of SOPA, PIPA On January 18

January 16th, 2012 | By admin

Wikipedia has apparently joined the ranks of several high-profile websites that are planning a “blackout” on Wednesday, January 18, in protest of Congress’ proposed anti-piracy legislation. During the blackout period, many web pages will become unavailable and will likely be replaced with information about the protest.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales took to Twitter on Monday to announce that the English-language version of Wikipedia will go dark on Wednesday for 24 hours — from midnight EST on January 18 until midnight EST January 19. He noted in a later tweet that “Final details [are] under consideration but consensus seems to be for ‘full’ rather than ‘soft’ blackout!” (more…)

Facebook Hit By Massive Spam Attack

November 16th, 2011 | By admin

A massive spam attack is wreaking havoc on Facebook users’ News Feeds.

ZDNET has covered the spamming for the last couple days and reports that the attack has flooded some feeds with graphic photographs, apparently distributed via hijacked accounts. (more…)

PaperPhone answer to flexible smartphones and slates of the future

November 3rd, 2011 | By admin

Did you know about this?  Well, we didn’t.  Here’s what we learned!

If Sony’s rollable OLEDdisplay had everyone gaping at its contortionist skills, that’s nothing to what this next flexible technology can do. A development team at Queen’s University has conjured asmartphone prototype dubbed PaperPhone.

It basically comprises a 9.5cm diagonal thin-film flexible E-ink display. It functions like a regular smartphone with the ability to store books, make calls or play music. The researchers seem to think that calling it a flexible iPhone is the best way of describing this technology which ought to usher in extremely lightweight, thin-film and flexible computers.

“This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years. This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen,” explains Roel Vertegaal, director of Queen’s University Human Media Lab.

“The paperless office is here. Everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other just like a stack of paper, or throw them around the desk,” continues Vertegaal.

The PaperPhone will be seen at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI2011 conference at Vancouver next week. Also lined up for display is a thin-film wristband computing gizmo christened ‘Snaplet’.

The developers at Queen’s envision a future of paper-free office environments with this kind of technology.

Source: TechShout

See Samsung’s Version at: http://youtu.be/kJEHp15Hoo0

Watch Out Google, It’s MC Hammer Time!

October 21st, 2011 | By admin

In the world of search engines, Google is a top dog, but there’s a new competitor in town and they’re ready to Hammer dance all over the Internet.

Rapper MC Hammer, who took over mainstream hip-hop in the ’90s, is putting out his own search engine that he hopes will outperform Google, Bing and other sites, according to CNN.

So what’s it going to be called?

“Yo man, I’m gonna WireDoo that,” could be a future phrase of yours.

The WireDoo project has been in the making for two years now and will have a “deep search” ability (as opposed to…?).

Hammer explained that the search would supply not just direct results, but also information on possibly related topics. Its tagline is, “Search once and see what’s related.”

“It’s about relationships beyond just the keywords,” Hammer said, according to Mashable.

WireDoo is currently still in pre-beta and letting people sign up to test the search engine when a beta release is ready, so there’s some time before it’s officially launched.

 
by BRUNA NESSIF

NBA 2K12 Michael Jordan and Drake Commercial

October 7th, 2011 | By admin

Miami, Chicago or Boston? Drake, Michael Jordan and Brian Wilson debate which NBA team is the greatest ever in a commercial for the video game NBA 2k12. (more…)

Apple Debuts New iPhone 4S

October 4th, 2011 | By admin

Tech geeks are definitely feeling some mixed emotions today. One the one hand, Apple did unveil a “new” iPhone to the public. But on the other, it’s not quite the version 5 that most fans were hoping for. The Apple iPhone 4S is basically an extension of the existing model, albeit with some interesting new features. (more…)

‘Angry Birds’ Dominate The Gaming World

September 30th, 2011 | By admin

Be honest, you know you’ve got a copy of Angry Birds floating around somewhere in your iPad. According to the latest stats, the high-flying video game app has been downloaded over 350 million times and is now “officially” more popular than Nintendo’s famed Mario series. (more…)

Why Google Is Spending $12.5 Billion to Acquire Motorola Mobility

August 17th, 2011 | By admin

NEW YORK – Google’s $12.5 billion agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility may not only make it a key mobile handset player and boost its Android mobile operating system, but could also benefit the Internet giant’s Google TV service.

The Google TV software platform allows TV sets and set-top boxes to access online video, but it has so far not taken off as much as Google would have liked. Given that Motorola is one of the biggest cable set-top-box makers, the deal could benefit the service. (more…)

The 7 Most Hackable Android Smartphones

May 2nd, 2011 | By admin

There are two types of people who want to buy an Android smartphone: those who simply don’t want an Apple product, and those who want to trick out their phones fancier than a Honda Civic from the set of The Fast and the Furious. (more…)

Apple Slammed Over iPhone, iPad Location Tracking

April 22nd, 2011 | By admin

Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users – records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge.

It’s not clear if other smartphones and tablet computers are logging such information on their users. And this week’s revelation that the Apple devices do wasn’t even new – some security experts began warning about the issue a year ago.

But the worry prompted by a report from researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden at a technology conference in Santa Clara, Calif., raises questions about how much privacy you implicitly surrender by carrying around a smartphone and the responsibility of the smartphone makers to protect sensitive data that flows through their devices.
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