Archive for: May, 2013

NBC Announces Crisis, Believe and About a Boy for this Fall

After rolling out drama Revolution to become the No. 1 new series of the 2012-13 season, NBC is looking to established creators and concepts for the upccoming fall season. Here’s a look at what’s joining the previously renewed Grimm, Law & Order: SVU, Parenthood, Chicago Fire and Revolution next season: Crisis When Washington’s most powerful […]

Newer Technology Adds Optical Drive Option to MiniStack Max

Newer Technology has updated its MiniStack Max external storage device to include another option for optical media. The revised version of the compact four-in-one device is now available with CD and DVD read-only and writable drives, adding to the already-available Blu-ray versions customers can purchase. The rest of the MiniStack Max remains the same as […]

Facebook Rumored To Be in Talks to Acquire Waze

Crowdsourced traffic and navigation app service Waze may be acquired by Facebook, according to a report. The discussions between Waze and Facebook come months after a possible acquisition offer from Apple and appears to be reaching the same financial levels as the billion-dollar Instagram deal in April last year. The report by Calcalist claims the […]

Huawei’s First Windows Phone Copming to Walmart this Month

Huawei today announced that the W1, its first Windows Phone 8 smartphone, will be available at Walmart stores in the U.S. beginning later this month. The W1 is known as the Ascend W1 in other markets. It features a 4-inch LCD screen with 800 x 480 pixels, a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel camera […]

Google Translate Adds 16 New Languages

Google today pushed out an update to its Google Translate product for Android devices. The most significant new feature in the app is support for 16 more languages, including Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Swedish. Android device owners can use the Google Translate app […]

Google Earth for Android Adds Street View

Google today provided an update for the Android version of Google Earth. Google Earth 7.1 adds several new features, chief among them the ability to view locations at ground level through Street View. Other new features include improved search capabilities and directions that let users see 3D views of transit, walking, biking, and driving directions. […]

Samsung Dishes on the Galaxy Centura for Straight Talk

Samsung today released details about an unannounced Android smartphone for Straight Talk called the Galaxy Centura. The Centura is a bar-style phone that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and has a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 display. It is powered by an 800MHz processor and includes a 3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, GPS, 4GB of […]

Hohokum Comes to PS3 in 2014

Sony has revealed that an all-new game, Hohokum, will be coming to PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2014. The game is a collaboration between Sony’s first-party studio Sony Santa Monica (the guys behind God of War and a bunch of other indie games, including projects from thatgamecompany and Giant Sparrow), artist Richard Hogg […]

Apple Wants Android Source Code

Apple has asked the judge overseeing one of its patent-related lawsuits against Samsung to provide it with access to the Android source code from Google. According to Apple, Android “provides much of the accused functionality” in Samsung’s infringing products. Apple believes it should have access to that data in order to separate which company’s software […]

Michael Shannon and Jeff Nichols Reunite for Sci-Fi Project

Actor Michael Shannon and writer-director Jeff Nichols are gearing up for a fourth feature film project together. Variety reports that Shannon will headline Nichols’ next, an untitled science fiction project said to involve a present-day chase. Shannon and Nichols previously teamed for Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter with their latest, Mud, in theaters now. Coming […]

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