March 9th 2010
A new video released by Adobe shows HP’s upcoming Slate device running all the juicy Flash content thrown at its feet, including videos, games, and resource-hungry AIR applications.
HP has been unusually quiet following the CES 2010 keynote where Steve Ballmer showed off several tablet PC concepts powered by Windows 7. At the time, Ballmer described [...]
March 8th 2010
At the moment, when a game is released on multiple platforms you expect to buy one of those games and have an experience limited to that hardware. Microsoft is attempting to change that by allowing you to play the same game across different devices.
This isn’t a case of some data from a game on Xbox [...]
March 8th 2010
Though they could’ve fooled me, Barnes & Noble apparently isn’t content to let ebooks and digital mags be a two-horse race between Amazon and Apple. They just made a big hire in Jonathan Shar, from Time, who’s going to be running their “Digital Newsstand and Emerging Content, Barnes & Noble.com” division. Though that division name [...]
March 6th 2010
Tags: Car Lovers, Cars, Coffee Beans, Coffee Drinkers, Coffee Lovers, Counterpoint, Mo Bile, Pun, Running, Utter Disgrace
March 4th 2010
In a new national campaign that just kicked off this week (pun intended), in which T-Mobile is giving fans who are crazy about the sport of soccer a chance to win some awesome prizes. It’s part of a new promotion called, El Llamado del Futbol (The Call of Soccer).
Starting on March 3 and running until [...]
March 3rd 2010
Tags: Contacts, Find Music, Gesture, Gestures, Google, Google Search, Running, Search Google, Search Music, Search Phone, Typing, Voice Devices
March 2nd 2010
The Nvidia Optimus seamlessly switches between GPUs based on need. And based on this fellow being able to yank out a GPU while the rest of a system is running, it works rather well too. More »
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Tags: Fellow, Gpu, Nvidia, Optimus, Running, Switches
March 1st 2010
The mobile OS running on this old Toshiba TG01 looks like Windows Phone 7 and it mostly acts like Windows Phone 7. But in reality it’s a clever user interface skin covering up Windows Mobile 6.5. More »
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Tags: Mobile Os, Nbsp, Phones Mobile, Running, Skin Windows, Toshiba, User Interface, Windows Mobile, Windows [...]
February 26th 2010
Forget the debate over desiring Adobe Flash on Apple’s mobile platform — Flash isn’t landing on existing Windows Mobile handsets, either. The news is an about-face on Adobe’s part, as it originally planned to deliver Flash 10.1 to Windows Mobile 6.5 devices. Adobe’s Open Screen Project kicked off last October and promised multiplatform mobile Flash support [...]
February 26th 2010
Forget the debate on desiring Adobe Flash on Apple’s mobile platform — Flash isn’t landing on existing Windows Mobile handsets either. The news is an about face on Adobe’s part, as it originally planned to deliver Flash 10.1 to Windows Mobile 6.5 devices. Adobe’s Open Screen Project kicked off last October and promised multi-platform mobile Flash [...]
February 25th 2010
Take a Linksys running custom firmware, tap into the hardware to power a circuit controlling the locks, and SSH into the router with custom iPhone and Android apps to flip the circuit. Easy, right? [Sunlight via Make via Engadget] More »
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Tags: Apps, Firmware, Hacks, Hardware, Iphone, Linksys, Locks, Router, Running, Ssh, [...]
February 25th 2010
The Olympic Games is all about the sport, and millions of people being able to watch it live with as few issues as possible. Therefore, the companies providing the tech behind the scenes err on the side of caution and select hardware and software they know can be relied upon and fixed quickly if something [...]
February 24th 2010
The sexy little laptop you see above is South Korean manufacturer LG’s latest tantalizing notebook on offer: the XNote Ultralight. It looks gorgeous.
What we’re looking at is an 11.6-inch ultraportable, running on a CULV battery but with the upgrade to go full Core2 Duo available. Otherwise, it ships with 2GB of RAM, a 320GB or [...]
February 23rd 2010
With Unreal Engine 3, Epic Games managed to sign up a lot of new developers as clients, as well as being sued one of them. The main reason for the interest was the complexity of developing for consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3. Developers needed to hit the ground running, spending time on art [...]
February 22nd 2010
Last week we got to see the first footage of Flash 10.1 running on the Nexus One. It was a solid demo showing games and video running on the device. This week we have an even better example of the Nexus One playing 2D and 3D content, as well as video playback.
The video is recorded [...]
February 22nd 2010
Anyone who operates or contributes a blog running on Wordpress hosting could not access their site for 110 minutes on Friday. Wordpress had disappeared from the Internet along with its 10.2 million hosted blogs and all its VIP customer’s sites.
The downtime was the biggest Wordpress had experienced for more than four years and it left [...]
February 19th 2010
Looks like our hunches about what’s inside the next MacBook Pros are panning out: AppleInsider hears that Apple’s got new MacBook Pros running that can switch between integrated and discrete graphics…
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Tags: Apple, Graphics, Hunches, Nvidia, Power Saving, Running
February 18th 2010
According to Steve Jobs, running Flash video on the iPad would cut its battery life from 10 hours to a measly 1.5. At least, that was his pitch to Wall Street Journal execs recently. But could it…
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Tags: Battery Life, Execs, Flash Video, Ipad, Pitch, Running, Steve Jobs, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal
February 18th 2010
Adobe is being forced to defend the use of Flash for web content, and in particular on mobile devices. Apple refuses to use it and there is talk of HTML 5 one day replacing it. What better way to show Flash is both relevant and a worthwhile addition to a mobile device than by demonstrating [...]
February 15th 2010
Details were shed on the open source Symbian^3 platform just a week ago, but at Mobile World Congress the friendly guys at The Symbian Foundation got reckless with details on HDMI support, and both…
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Tags: Mobile World, Open Platform, Open Source, Running, Shed, World Congress