The Nike+ app for iOS devices has reached its fifth birthday, prompting the company to offer the app free for a limited time. The Nike+ GPS app not only maps a user’s runs, it offers socialization of results through Facebook and Twitter, encouraging messages from Nike’s top athletes, a log of all the user’s runs, […]
Microsoft in the same Japanese Developer Forum speech that revealed 500 Windows Phone feature adds also confirmed persistent beliefs that Windows 8 would ship next year. The “next generation of Windows systems” was coming out in 2012, the CEO said. He also referred to it as Windows 8 by name and made it clear that […]
Multiple sources Monday night confirmed that Twitter has bought TweetDeck. The deal is worth $40 million in a combination of cash and shares. Twitter had yet to confirm the move but is expected to do so on Tuesday. UberMedia, the owner of rival Twitter clients UberSocial, Echofon, and others, had tried to buy TweetDeck before […]
Taiwan-based Red Flag Software announced at the Meego conference in San Francisco today that it plans offer an OS for tablets based on the open source software platform Meego v1.2. Named Midinux Tablet Edition, Red Flag will show off a tablet running the new platform at the Computex Conference in Taipei at the end of […]
Kogeto has announced the Dot, a video accessory for the iPhone 4. Dot is actually a special optical device that fits over the iPhone’s existing lens to produce a 360-degree view. The resulting captured video can be uploaded to Facebook or Twitter, or shared with others using Kogeto’s web-based streaming service. A custom optic automatically aligns […]
A study called the Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading commissioned by the Book Industry Study Group found that e-books now make up nearly 11 percent of the total book market. The percentage of paper book buyers that downloaded e-books has also more than doubled between October 2010 and January 2011 from 5 percent to almost […]
While 3D at the theaters has been a big hit, it has been a long, hard and slow battle to get people to buy a 3D set for their home. The biggest hold back is often the glasses. Both the need for them and the cost. Only available in Japan, the BDL5231-3D2R doesn’t require glasses […]
NetGear has released the first dual-core wireless WNDR3700 router with an integrated N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit ADSL2+ modem. The so-called Ultimate Home DSL Gateway also sports two USB ports for sharing content from thumb and hard drives across a network. A Gigabit Ethernet input for connecting to cable or fiber networks is present, […]
AMD has announced the availability of two new APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) in its Fusion G-Series family of embedded processors. AMD claims that these APUs, with peak power ratings of only 5.5 and 6.4 watts and a small footprint of 361mm, make them well suited for fan-less operation when embedded in devices ranging from digital […]
Xi3 has adapted its modular PC to run on Chrome OS, becoming the first desktop system to do so. Called ChromiumPC, it sports a processor module and two I/O boards that are quickly and easily swapped. The dual-core computer uses just 20W of power and was in development since 2009, its maker said. Primary and […]
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