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- Sprint says the iPhone 4S, 4 add up to its best 'device family' launch ever (Upd...
- Toyota to return to Le Mans with LMP1 hybrid in 2012
- iPhone 4S welcomed by AT&T activation delays, iCloud stumbles out of the gate
- Discover The World Around You With New Mobile App Roamz
- 2012 BMW ActiveHybrid 3 Series should offer around 36 mpg
- RIM, Get Ready To Pay Up For That Massive Outage
- iPhone 4S review
- Loss Of California HOV-Lane 'Prius Perk' Slows All Traffic
- Flight sim bubble offers 360-degree view, makes earth seem round
- Microsoft doles out the dough to Nokia and Samsung, plans Mango marketing bonanz...
- Volkswagen expands car-sharing project with Quicar Plus option
- Google finally pulls the plug on Buzz amid 'fall sweep'
- IEE brings glasses-free 3D to the battlefield
- 2014 BMW i3 to feature range-extending motorcycle engine?
- Teamlab's hangers use RFID to take shopping into the 21st century (video)
- The iPhone 4S Is Siriously Smarter
- Panoramic ball camera gives a full 360-view of you nervously throwing it in the...
- Fossil fuel subsidies on the rise across the globe
- Boxee Box adds music streaming from Spotify, just press play
- The Galaxy Nexus Pops Up In Verizon’s Device Management System
- 2012 BMW 3-Series Revealed
- Google to launch MP3 store in coming weeks?
- Paralyzed Driver Races for the Win
- Developer does the math: only 3.4 million Honeycomb tablets in the wild?
- 2012 Coda Sedan
- Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook review
- Huawei blocked from first responder network contract, US cites 'national securit...
- 2012 BMW 3-Series Revealed
- monolith: iPhone 4 Case + Pocket Projector +Battery Rolled Into One
- Paralyzed Driver Races for the Win
| Sprint says the iPhone 4S, 4 add up to its best 'device family' launch ever (Upd... Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT Sprint says the iPhone 4S, 4 add up to its best 'device family' launch ever (Update: AT&T too)  Sprint says the iPhone 4S, 4 add up to its best 'device family' launch ever (Update: AT&T too) After ignoring and teasing the iPhone, Sprint has its own Apple handsets to sell and apparently its customers have responded to the iPhone 4 and 4S. A press release just went out calling this Sprint's "best ever day of sales in retail, web and telesales for a device family" -- hopefully the double checked the numbers this time -- in the company's history, as of 1PM ET.... |
| Toyota to return to Le Mans with LMP1 hybrid in 2012 Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:48 PM PDT Toyota to return to Le Mans with LMP1 hybrid in 2012  Toyota to return to Le Mans with LMP1 hybrid in 2012 Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Racing Toyota will reportedly challenge diesel-burning entries from Audi and Peugeot at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans by fielding a hybrid prototype LMP1 racer of its own. The Japanese automaker is expected to participate in a handful of 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship races, but its main focus will be on winning the grueling 24-hour event in France. The LMP1 prototype is a custom-built racer with Toyota... |
| iPhone 4S welcomed by AT&T activation delays, iCloud stumbles out of the gate Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:48 PM PDT iPhone 4S welcomed by AT&T activation delays, iCloud stumbles out of the gate  iPhone 4S welcomed by AT&T activation delays, iCloud stumbles out of the gate If you've unboxed a shiny new iPhone 4S from AT&T today, you've most likely had an experience similar to many others who made the same purchase: frustration. It seems that the surge in activity from the release of Apple's new handset has reduced activation traffic on Ma Bell's network to a crawl.... |
| Discover The World Around You With New Mobile App Roamz Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:48 PM PDT Discover The World Around You With New Mobile App Roamz  Discover The World Around You With New Mobile App Roamz Just in time to be one of the first app installs on my freshly arrived iPhone 4S, there comes a new location-based mobile app called Roamz (iTunes link), which will have its official debut on Monday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. As hinted at by the name, the app wants to help you discover the world around you as you "roam" around town. To do so, Roamz digs into social signals... |
| 2012 BMW ActiveHybrid 3 Series should offer around 36 mpg Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:07 PM PDT 2012 BMW ActiveHybrid 3 Series should offer around 36 mpg  2012 BMW ActiveHybrid 3 Series should offer around 36 mpg Filed under: Hybrid, BMW As part of the big unveiling of the new BMW 3 Series today came word of the new ActiveHybrid 3, which is scheduled to bow next fall. You can get the full details on the 3 over on Autoblog, but here's the skinny on the gas-electric version. The freshly designed ActiveHybrid 3 sports sedan will be powered by a 225 kW/ 300 horsepower inline six-cylinder engine and an electric... |
| RIM, Get Ready To Pay Up For That Massive Outage Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:07 PM PDT RIM, Get Ready To Pay Up For That Massive Outage  RIM, Get Ready To Pay Up For That Massive Outage Now that RIM's global network is out of the woods, carriers are having to deal with the public relations nightmare that the outage has caused. Given the sheer number of vocal BlackBerry users gumming up Twitter with calls for compensation, we (and all of their customers) are left wondering how RIM is going to handle this. Today's is a drastically different picture than the one RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie painted in a recent... |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2011 01:26 PM PDT iPhone 4S review  iPhone 4S review This isn't the iPhone 5. No matter how badly you wanted something slim, sleek and wedge-shaped, this isn't it. If you went ahead and got your hopes up ahead of Apple's "Let's Talk iPhone" event, hopefully you've gotten over the pangs of discontent by now, because this device pictured front and center is the iPhone 4S.... |
| Loss Of California HOV-Lane 'Prius Perk' Slows All Traffic Posted: 14 Oct 2011 01:25 PM PDT Loss Of California HOV-Lane 'Prius Perk' Slows All Traffic Loss Of California HOV-Lane 'Prius Perk' Slows All Traffic Drivers cheered, but now they suffer. |
| Flight sim bubble offers 360-degree view, makes earth seem round Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:43 PM PDT Flight sim bubble offers 360-degree view, makes earth seem round  Flight sim bubble offers 360-degree view, makes earth seem round You've got the yoke, you've got the ridiculously over-priced gaming chair, so now all you need is Barco's 360-degree display dome. It uses 13 separate projectors to create a hi-def simulacrum of paradise inside a 3.4-meter acrylic sphere. The pilot sits in the middle, suddenly remembers why he took up aviation, and then connects with up to seven other bubbles to practice complicated squadron missions.... |
| Microsoft doles out the dough to Nokia and Samsung, plans Mango marketing bonanz... Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:43 PM PDT Microsoft doles out the dough to Nokia and Samsung, plans Mango marketing bonanza for year's end  Microsoft doles out the dough to Nokia and Samsung, plans Mango marketing bonanza for year's end Know who loves it when other OEMs call him big poppa? Ballmer, that's who. So much so that he's opened up the company's coffers to Nokia and Samsung for a holiday blitz of Mango marketing. Hold onto your hats though, it's no carte blanche access to Redmond's Gringotts. According to a report on Mobile Magazine, inside sources claim MS has set aside ₤28 million (about $44 million) for the endeavor, with... |
| Volkswagen expands car-sharing project with Quicar Plus option Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:02 PM PDT Volkswagen expands car-sharing project with Quicar Plus option  Volkswagen expands car-sharing project with Quicar Plus option Filed under: Transportation Alternatives, Volkswagen, Germany Volkswagen is adding an option called Quicar Plus to its Quicar car sharing project that will kick off in Hanover, Germany this November. Apart from longer usage times, Quicar Plus features additional VW vehicles such as the Up!, Beetle, Passat, and Golf cabriolet. When Quicar launches, a total of 200 Golf BlueMotions will be available for short-term rentals at 50 pick-up and drop-off locations scattered throughout the... |
| Google finally pulls the plug on Buzz amid 'fall sweep' Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:02 PM PDT Google finally pulls the plug on Buzz amid 'fall sweep'  Google finally pulls the plug on Buzz amid 'fall sweep' Before there was Google+ there was Google Buzz, the company's big effort to stake a claim in the social networking space. That, of course, didn't exactly work out for the search giant, and it even managed to spark some lawsuits and attract the eye of the FTC. Now Google has finally swept it under the rug in a bit of fall cleaning, stating in a blog post today that Google Buzz... |
| IEE brings glasses-free 3D to the battlefield Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:02 PM PDT IEE brings glasses-free 3D to the battlefield  IEE brings glasses-free 3D to the battlefield In a war zone, having the right data is as important as the right bomb sniffing laser. IEE has melded its 4.8-inch 800 x 400 military data display with 3Ms autostereoscopic film so soldiers can see mission-critical data in three dimensions. The Preliminary Advanced Information device is designed to show accurate terrain maps, relay the picture from a drone camera or bring up the occasional blast of Monday Night Football.Continue reading... |
| 2014 BMW i3 to feature range-extending motorcycle engine? Posted: 14 Oct 2011 11:21 AM PDT 2014 BMW i3 to feature range-extending motorcycle engine?  2014 BMW i3 to feature range-extending motorcycle engine? Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, BMW When BMW officially unveiled its i3 concept ahead of the car's on-stage debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, details on the car - and upcoming i8 - poured out. Click here for all of that initial info. As with any evolving advanced vehicle program, green car fans are hungry for more information, and so Consumer Reports' Eric Evarts recently spoke about the i3 with BMW chief engineer... |
| Teamlab's hangers use RFID to take shopping into the 21st century (video) Posted: 14 Oct 2011 11:21 AM PDT Teamlab's hangers use RFID to take shopping into the 21st century (video)  Teamlab's hangers use RFID to take shopping into the 21st century (video) Ever heard of an UltraTechnologist before? Yeah, neither have we, but a group of those imaginatively monikered folks have banded their engineering and design skills together to update the shopping experience. Issued from their Teamlab art collective, a batch of RFID-embedded hangers were put to the interactive test at Vanquish, a men's store in Japan's uber fashionable Shibuya district.... |
| The iPhone 4S Is Siriously Smarter Posted: 14 Oct 2011 11:21 AM PDT The iPhone 4S Is Siriously Smarter  The iPhone 4S Is Siriously Smarter Editor's note: The following guest post was written byMrinal Desai, an early employee of LinkedIn who is also co-founder of CrossLoop and addappt. You can follow him on Twitter. Like many, I am absolutely amazed by Siri, the talking assistant on the iPhone 4S. It was the one thing that really stood out for me during the launch event when Scott Forstall introduced it ten days ago.... |
| Panoramic ball camera gives a full 360-view of you nervously throwing it in the... Posted: 14 Oct 2011 11:21 AM PDT Panoramic ball camera gives a full 360-view of you nervously throwing it in the air (video)  Panoramic ball camera gives a full 360-view of you nervously throwing it in the air (video) Yes, it isn't the first ball camera we've seen, nor is it the first camera to hawk 360-degree panoramas. But, the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera marries these two concepts together, and packs them into a sturdy-looking sphere made mostly of foam. This shields the 36 fixed-focus phone camera modules, each capable of taking two megapixel snapshots.... |
| Fossil fuel subsidies on the rise across the globe Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:38 AM PDT Fossil fuel subsidies on the rise across the globe  Fossil fuel subsidies on the rise across the globe Filed under: Etc., Legislation and Policy Despite plenty of pledges to reduce them in the coming years, fossil fuel consumption subsidies rose all across the globe in 2010, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA estimates that subsidies that artificially lower the cost of fossil fuels - and also impede development of renewables - hit $409 billion in 2010, an increase of nearly $110 billion over 2009 levels.... |
| Boxee Box adds music streaming from Spotify, just press play Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:38 AM PDT Boxee Box adds music streaming from Spotify, just press play  Boxee Box adds music streaming from Spotify, just press play Today the Boxee Box becomes the next media streamer in the US (after the WDTV Live and Live Hub) to add support for Spotify's streaming music library. Assuming you have a premium subscription at the ready (free and unlimited passes won't cut it, consider this the same as access on a smartphone) all you need do is log in and your personally curated selections from the company's catalog of sounds is... |
| The Galaxy Nexus Pops Up In Verizon’s Device Management System Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:38 AM PDT The Galaxy Nexus Pops Up In Verizon's Device Management System  The Galaxy Nexus Pops Up In Verizon's Device Management System If legit, a freshly leaked document from the Verizon Device Management System confirms earlier rumors that the next official Google phone will indeed be called the Galaxy Nexus. An Ice Cream Sandwich announcement is already slated for October 19, where Samsung and Google are expected to announce the next Nexus.... |
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| Google to launch MP3 store in coming weeks? Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:38 AM PDT Google to launch MP3 store in coming weeks?  Google to launch MP3 store in coming weeks? Details are still scarce here, but the New York Times is reporting that Google is about to launch a new MP3 store, as part of its ongoing foray into the music business. According to sources within the industry, the platform, not surprisingly, would be directly linked to Google Music Beta and may launch within the next few weeks -- perhaps even before Apple unveils iTunes Match, at the end of this... |
| Paralyzed Driver Races for the Win Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:38 AM PDT Paralyzed Driver Races for the Win Paralyzed Driver Races for the Win In spite of disability, 19-year-old Michael Johnson is chasing his dream of driving in the Indy 500. |
| Developer does the math: only 3.4 million Honeycomb tablets in the wild? Posted: 14 Oct 2011 09:55 AM PDT Developer does the math: only 3.4 million Honeycomb tablets in the wild?  Developer does the math: only 3.4 million Honeycomb tablets in the wild? Google's rolling in the dough in no small part due to Android's success in the smartphone market. When it comes to tablets? Eh, not so much. Intrepid developer Al Sutton figures that only 3.4 million Honeycomb devices are currently in use, which pales in comparison to the number of slates sold by the competition in Cupertino.... |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT 2012 Coda Sedan  2012 Coda Sedan Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Miles EV, Coda AutomotiveA Chinese EV From California's Newest Automaker "Simple." The word floated around the room and landed gently on our notepad during the morning press conference. Initially, it seemed like a perfect fit. But the more we learned about the new all-electric 2012 Coda sedan, the more we realized that "simple" was nothing but a misunderstood first impression. Strictly discussing physical appearances, the Coda four-door is easily the least... |
| Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook review Posted: 14 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook review  Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook review Until now, Windows fans have had precious few alternatives to the MacBook Air. Sure, there's Samsung's Series 9, but just like the original Air, it's far from cheap. Since then, of course, Apple has cut the Air's starting price to $999, while the Windows options -- now marketed as Ultrabooks -- are about to mushroom in number.... |
| Huawei blocked from first responder network contract, US cites 'national securit... Posted: 14 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT Huawei blocked from first responder network contract, US cites 'national security concerns'  Huawei blocked from first responder network contract, US cites 'national security concerns' The inability to win US government approval isn't exactly an unfamiliar issue for Huawei, which by now must be conditioned not to expect a nod from major US telecom companies. But now, The Daily Beast reports that the U.S. Commerce Department has made it very clear that the Chinese company won't have a role in building the country's new dedicated first responder wireless network.... |
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| monolith: iPhone 4 Case + Pocket Projector +Battery Rolled Into One Posted: 14 Oct 2011 09:12 AM PDT monolith: iPhone 4 Case + Pocket Projector +Battery Rolled Into One  monolith: iPhone 4 Case + Pocket Projector +Battery Rolled Into One A Japanese accessory maker called Century started selling the "monolith" [JP] today, a case for the iPhone 4, a 1,900mAh battery, and a mini projector rolled into one (it's still unclear if the device works with the iPhone 4S as well). The monolith is sized at 63.5×126.6×22mm and weighs 97g. Century says that users can expect images sized at up to 60cm (in 16:9 format), in 640×360 resolution, with a 1,000:1 contrast ratio,... |
| Paralyzed Driver Races for the Win Posted: 14 Oct 2011 09:12 AM PDT Paralyzed Driver Races for the Win Paralyzed Driver Races for the Win In spite of disability, 19-year-old Michael Johnson is chasing his dream of driving in the Indy 500. |
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