Archive for: April, 2012

Apple Believed to Be in Talks with Epix Over Apple TV Streaming

AppleĀ has been discussing a possible deal to get Epix’ on-demand movies on its media devices, a pair of tipsters clamed late Friday. The talks were to both support the Apple TV as well as “upcoming devices that stream content,” which Reuters took to mean a future TV set. Any progress was early, one of the […]

Oracle Now Directly Supplying Java SE 7 for OS X

Oracle has announced that it will take the lead in supplying both Java SE 7 and its runtime environment to Mac users who need it. For developers, the Java SE 7 Update 4 and its JDK as well as JavaFX 2.1 are both available now for download, marking Oracle’s first direct delivery) for Mac OS […]

E Ink Reports First Loss After 10 Quarters

E Ink has reported its first loss in two years following ten quarters of consecutive profit. Revenues declined by a steep 63 percent to just $131 million, while its gross margin shrunk to a microscopic 0.8 percent from a much higher 28.5 percent in the previous quarter. The decline is said to be the result […]

Intel Buys $75 million Worth of Patents from Aware, Inc.

Biometrics company Aware, Inc. announced today the completion of an agreement for the sale of $75 million worth of patents to Intel. The patents involved in the sale relate largely to networking and wireless technologies. The Massachusetts-based Aware is in the midst of transitioning from selling technology to selling software, and as such no longer […]

YouTube App for Google TV Gets an Update

The Google TV development team has enhanced the YouTube app for users’ hardware. A new My YouTube tab organizes channels and videos of users. It also sports a new Recommendations feature that will help users watch more of what they like. Private playlists are featured as a grid of videos to allow users to quickly […]

LG Optimus True HD LTE Heads to Asia and Europe

LG on Friday grew the reach of the Optimus True HD LTE to more countries than just Germany. The 4G phone is now launching in Portugal and Sweden in a slightly larger European release as well as the headlining Asian cities of Hong Kong and Singapore. The device is an international edition of the Optimus […]

Sony Xperia ST21i Tapioca Leaked Specs and Photos

Images anonymously sent to Greek site Techblog have revealed an as yet unannounced addition to Sony’s Xperia lineup. Codenamed Tapioca, the Android 4.0 device appears to be a budget-level addition to Sony’s handset offerings. The photos reveal a design largely in keeping with recent Xperia models, with the display somewhat segmented from the rest of […]

Disney Pictures Gets the Rights to 2008 Newberry Medal Winner ‘The Graveyard’

Walt Disney Pictures has secured the rights to Neil Gaiman’s 2008 Newberry Medal winner The Graveyard Book, Deadline is reporting. Coincidentally, the news arrives just moments after a report that Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is up for a new adaptation at Warner Bros. That 1894 text was the inspiration for Gaiman’s tale of a […]

Rise of The Planet of The Apes Sequel In The Works

Fox CEO Tom Rothman spoke about the sequel at CinemaCon and stated that the studio is developing a script and is looking for a summer 2014 release. No word on if director Rupert Wyatt would be returning.

David Koepp May Write Snow White and the Huntsman Sequel

There’s still more than a month to go before Universal Pictures’ Snow White and the Huntsman hits theaters on June 1st, but Deadline is reporting that the studio is in talks with David Koepp, one of the more prolific screenwriters working today, to begin work on scripting a sequel. In the first part of the […]

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