The iPad 3 display should help kick off a dramatic improvement in the quality of tablet displays early next year, DisplaySearch said. Based on its own shipment forecast data, it expected the typical pixels per inch (PPI) of a tablet to jump from 147 at the end of 2011 to 191 in early 2012. It […]
Seagate started off Tuesday by shipping its second-generation Momentus XT hybrid drive for notebooks. The upgrade is estimated to be about 70 percent faster than the earlier Momentus even as it goes to 750GB of internal storage. As before, the key is the inclusion of a 8GB solid-state drive, which here is twice as fast […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced six new dates beginning in January for the North American leg of their “I’m With You” world tour. Concerts in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee have been added to the tour, according to a posting on the band’s website. The tour kicked off in Bogota, Columbia in […]
Tom Hanks and his producing partner Gary Goetzman have plans to adapt Erik Larson’s non-fiction novel In the Garden of the Beasts for the screen. The Hollywood Reporter has word that Universal has secured the rights to the book. Plot Journey to Berlin during Hitler’s first year in power, 1933, in the company of a […]
Verizon has now made public some details of its Xbox 360 Live TV service first mentioned back at the start of October. Through their Xbox 360, Xbox Live Gold members will have the ability to access up to 26 live FiOS TV channels, depending on their subscription. They also need to be FiOS TV and […]
Columbia Pictures has released two posters for Men in Black 3 featuring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. At the bottom of the posters, you’ll also find the link TheMenInBlackSuitsAreReal.com, which takes you to a viral Facebook account that’s run by ‘BugEyes126’, who left the following message: “I’ve uncovered that there’s these Men in Black […]
Seagate in an update warned that hard drive shortages relating to Thai flooding would last for the long term. It anticipated that shortages would go on for “several quarters.” Although supply would improve in 2012, some PC builders would “optimize” by using fewer drives or models with lower capacity. Pricing wouldn’t see steep increases or […]
The launch of key Mario and Zelda games helped catapult Nintendo 3DS sales, the company’s US President Reggie Fils-Aime declared Monday to USA Today. The week of November 6, just before Super Mario 3D Land arrived, the handheld saw its sales jump 325 percent. The launch of the game itself saw sales jump 49 percent […]
Ford Sync system gained a new choice for AppLink direct control through Slacker. Those with updated versions of Slacker for iOS (App Store), Android Market), or BlackBerry (App World) can both stream radio from 3G or 4G to the car stereo system as well as use voice commands to start playback, skip, ban, or favorite […]
Verbatim is launching a new peripheral, the Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard. Like many such keyboards the device is intended mostly for tablets, including iPads, Galaxy Tabs, Xooms, and anything else with HID keyboard compatibility. Also supported is the iPhone. Special keys control iTunes music playback, or cut, copy, paste, and undo functions. Power stems from a […]
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