Month: February 2012
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Exent’s GameTanium Mobile Launches For Android Tablets
OnLive users may have been enjoying unlimited game access since December, but now Game provider Exent has brought its subscription platform to Android tablets and offers unlimited access to titles such as Fruit Ninja, Baseball Superstars and T-Racer HD. The service rolls in at a cent under six dollars a month, and there’s a three-day…
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Envia’s GM-Backed Battery Delivers Huge Energy Density, Lower Costs
For those who worried about the battery life of your expensive EV, Envia has revealed a new cell that boasts a record breaking energy density of 400Wh/kg (most currently offer between 100 and 150). It’s estimated that when commercialized, this could bring the cost of a 300-mile range EV down to as little as $20,000.…
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Samsung Brings “Premium HD Video Content” On Galaxy Note Media Hub, Pairs With Qualcomm’s StudioAccess And ARM’s TrustZone DRM
Samsung is about to launch “premium HD video content” to Media Hub after pairing up Qualcomm’s StudioAccess and ARM’s TrustZone DRM systems. The first device that will benefit from the rollout is the Galaxy Note thanks to its enormous 1280 x 800 HD display.
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‘4G’ Sony Tablet P Coming To AT&T On March 4th For $400
Sony’s odd, dual-screened, folding Tablet P is finally getting a “4G” version for the US market with courtesy of AT&T. In this case, those 4G speeds are being “delivered” by an HSPA+ radio, a fact that carrier managed to bury in the PR. The Honeycomb device will be bringing its unique set of 5.5-inch screens…
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Google Aids Accessibility With ChromeVox Reader, Better YouTube Captions And More
Google engineers got hold of a booth at this year’s CSUN accessibility conference and they’re keen to talk up their latest efforts. For starters they decided to help the visually impaired with a Chrome screen reader called ChromeVox (now a beta version) plus improved shortcuts and screen reader support in Google Docs, Sites and Calendar.…
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Radio Shack Drops iPad 2 Prices $20-50, Swears It Has Nothing To Do With The iPad 3
There’s a lot of signs pointing to the release of a brand new iPad floating around these days: myriad rumors, retina displays, and even Apple event invites. Now, a freshly taken picture from an anonymous tipster has given us a little more insight for the iPad 3 rumor mill. As you can see in the…
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Tap Tricks For Your iPhone
Tap the Status bar at the top of the screen (where the clock usually is) to return instantly to the top of long pages.Hold a finger on a link in Safari to get a pop-up saying where the link goes.Tap the bottom left or right corner to scroll left or right.Tap with two fingers to…
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Social Networking – Taming The “Essential” Beast!
We all spend several hours on it, but do we really know how to make the most of it? Love it or hate it, there really isn’t a way to ignore it.
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Some Refurbished Motorola Xoom Tablets Were Sold Without Deleting Previous Owners Data
Motorola Mobility says about 100 Xoom tablet computers that it refurbished for sale on Woot.com may not have been properly wiped of the previous owners’ data.
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Dropbox Offers 5GB Of Free Space For Beta Testers. Hurry Up And Signin
Here is a good news for Dropbox uses. Dropbox is offering 5GB of free storage space to anyone who tries the beta version of its new Experimental software. All you need is to just download the test program and upload a photo or video and magically 500MB of storage space will be added to your…
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New Potentially Life Bearing Super Earth GJ 667Cc Discovered
An international team of scientists led by Carnegie’s Guillem Anglada-Escud and Paul Butler has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a relatively nearby star. Described as the “best candidate” for supporting liquid water, and therefore life. The planet (GJ 667Cc) is believed to be about 4.5 times the size of Earth.
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Yahoo App Search Page For Android And iOS Revealed
This week, Yahoo has added a new “Apps” tab to its search page, giving users a new portal into both the Android Market and iTunes App Store. Allows users to filter Apps by both price and category.
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WebOS Internals Releases Enyo 1.0 For WebOS Smartphones. Now Available For All International Users
WebOS Internals have taken the newly open source Enyo 1.0 app framework and created a nice little Preware install package that anyone can install. At this point adding Enyo will grant you can access to few extra apps formatted for phones available in the App Catalog.
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Check The Strength Of Your Password
A good password can mean the difference between identity safety and identify theft. I you are not certain about the strength of your passwords,
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PS Vita Games Cheaper Than Boxed In US
Sony offers a discount for game-starved shut-ins with PlayStation Vitas, Shack News has confirmed. It is not coming as surprise, since Sony is talking about doing such a thing for months now, and has followed a similar pricing scheme favoring downloads in Japan. A Sony representative has confirmed the discount, “I can confirm that there…
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Mac OS X 10.7.3 Hits Software Update
Apple just unleashed a 700MB update of Lion, bumps its feline all the way to 10.7.3. Those braving the rather portly can look forward to bevy new languages, a new version of Safari (5.1.3) and a fix for a nasty WiFi reconnection bug upon waking from sleep. Also buried in the release notes are RAW…
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Next-Gen iPod Nano With Camera Equipped Photos Leaked
The Apple.pro claimed to show the photos of seventh-generation iPod Nano chassis with the room for camera. The site posted a second leak of the device, hints the omission of Nanos famous chip in optics. Like prior Nano camera efforts, this device loaded with less than a whopping 1.3MP of resolution, which MIC Gadget claims…
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Prevent Adware And Malware Download
Cyber world is the ultimate source of information and it is also a source of viruses and malicious software, infected from viruses or Trojans