, a co-founder and musician for the folk rock band America, famous for the No. 1 hit “A Horse with No Name,” has died. He was 60. Peek, who died on Sunday, founded the band in the late 1960s with bandmates Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell while they attended high school together in London, where […]
Olympus brought its attention back to point-and-shoot today with its answer to the rapidly escalating fight among ultrazoom cameras. The SP-810UZ reaches an extremely long 36X (24-864mm) optical zoom, supposedly the longest for a non-interchangeable camera, even as the body itself gets smaller. The lens still musters an f2.9-5.7 aperture range and, along with better […]
Electronic Arts announced today that NCAA Football 12 generated its largest first two weeks at retail (July 12 – July 26) on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms in franchise history. Based on internal estimates, after two weeks of sales NCAA Football 12 is up 17 percent year-on-year with more than 700,000 units sold through. […]
ROK Global PLC, the mobile applications and web technologies company, has today announced ROK TV, its streamed Mobile TV service available to UK residents on BlackBerry App World, has now been downloaded by more than 100,000 people in the UK. Commenting, Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK said “To have exceeded 100,000 downloads of […]
Intuit has announced QuickBooks Mobile for Android, providing mobile access to QuickBooks data for the more than 4 million small businesses using QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Online. The QuickBooks Mobile application releases data from the desktop and provides solutions designed specifically for a small business owner’s on-the-go needs. Users have the ability to create estimates, […]
Applications have dominated the news in the smartphone and tablet worlds for some time but with the advent of “smart TVs” consumers are now rapidly adopting online TV applications that are integrated into their connected TVs with . A new In-Stat research survey estimates that over 60% of these connected households will use a TV app […]
Comcast and NBC have announced a new initiative that will bring advertisements into on-demand television programming. The companies have partnered to develop dynamic ad injections, enabling advertisers to change between different advertisements or engage local markets. Most of the existing advertisements in on-demand programs are said to be permanently placed for the entire duration of […]
Ustream has released a new version of its iOS app, v2.1. The title is now a universal binary, sporting a new iPad-native interface with more simultaneous on-screen options, as well as a larger video playback area. Although the iPad 1 is supported, the app’s full functions are only available on the iPad 2, which has […]
JVC’s UX-VJ3 simultaneous iPad and iPhone dock introduced in Japan earlier this month is now available in the US. Along with having enough space for Apple’s tablet, the iPhone/iPod touch mount is rotatable and allows use of the device in either portrait or landscape depending on the app. The speaker system has 30W of power, […]
Kobo on Tuesday set out a plan for an HTML5 e-reading app to circumvent Apple’s app purchasing rules. The app won’t be a direct replacement but will let iPad and iPhone users buy directly from the same interface they use to read books. Kobo made clear it felt Apple was artificially limiting competition and hurting […]
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