As part of its promise to back away from Carrier IQ on its handsets, Sprint’s latest software update for its Samsung Epic 4G Touch removes it. The EL29 update is also said to bring with it a number of other changes, such as a security update, the activation of the Commercial Alert System, and dismissing […]
Pentax has slipped out the Optio VS20 camera with a second, vertical shutter. The new vertical shutter headlines the model’s list of features offering and users the ability to more easily take portrait oriented pictures when changing the camera orientation using its second shutter button. The camera also includes a night snap mode allowing the […]
Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have together acquired U.S. distribution rights to Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage. The announcement was made jointly by Steve Beeks, President and Co-COO of Lionsgate, and by Roadside Attractions’ Co-Presidents Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff. The acquisition was made following the well-received world premiere of the film at the Sundance International Film Festival. […]
A new photo from director Ridley Scott’s Prometheus has surfaced and can be viewed below. Opening on June 8th, the sci-fi film stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green and Charlize Theron. Prometheus takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental […]
AJA Video Systems is now shipping a professional I/O box called the Io XT with dual Thunderbolt ports, 10-bit up-, down- and cross-conversion in hardware, uncompressed capture, monitoring and mastering, eight-channel SDI audio I/O, analog component and composite output, HDMI input and output (including 3D) and 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 HD and SD formats among other […]
CBS will premiere Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt on Sunday, May 20 at 9 p.m., The Hollywood Reporter announced today/ Tom Selleck stars as the title character, who in the eighth installment of the franchise is forced to rely on his skills and intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden […]
The first app to take advantage of Spotify’s move to allow third-party app support to its mobile APIs has been made available on the iTunes store. SpotON Radio has been launched as a free app initially, although it may shift to a $2 asking price after its launch window. To access Spotify’s music library users […]
AT&T on Thursday marked very mixed results from its fall quarter that were partly self-inflicted. The season marked its best ever for smartphones, owed primarily to the iPhone 4S launch. About 7.6 million iPhones were activated out of the 9.4 million smartphones sold, making Apple’s platform 80 percent of AT&T’s customer base. A “majority” of […]
Western Digital gave a more formal debut to its first Thunderbolt-equipped drive at Macworld/iWorld on Thursday. The My Book Thunderbolt Duo uses the fast 10Gbps port to feed two 3.5-inch hard drives at speeds that would be impractical for FireWire 800. On a 6TB Thunderbolt Duo, peak transfer speeds can hit over 250MBps (2Gbps), making […]
Nokia has revealed some of the inside workings of its deal with Microsoft as well as its shift in design direction. The Finnish company acknowledged being paid a $250 million installment from Microsoft as a “platform support payment.” Neither side has fully disclosed how much the deal is worth, but the initial sum supports allusions […]
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