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- Perpetual motion "regenerative acceleration" returns as ReGenX in an NMG
- Play With Microsoft’s Lousy Old Mobile OS From Inside Their Great New One
- Sprint may have dug itself a $65 million hole with LightSquared partnership
- Most, Least Expensive Cars to Insure
- Valentine’s Day Procrastination Fuels Mobile Usage On Google
- 2011 BMW 1-Series M: Review
- The electric self-starter turns 100
- NVIDIA reports Q4 2012 earnings: annual revenue up 12.8 percent, net income doubles
- HTC to give sneak peek of Sense-coated ICS to a few lucky Europeans
- The Lighter Car News
- Ford Fusion Hybrid boosts company's hybrid patents from 30 to 500 in the past de...
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0N starts shipping in Germany
- Google+ iOS app updated, instant image upload in tow
- Universal robot gripper sinks shots, throws darts, makes us feel inadequate (video)
- Obama's proposed budget calls for upping plug-in vehicle tax credit to $10,000
- Gigabyte GSmart G1355 leaked ahead of MWC, offers dual-SIM goodness for small wa...
- 32GB GSM Galaxy Nexus canceled, Google hopes you really like streaming
- Vehicle Dependability Surges
- iPhone address book issue prompts response Apple, access to contact data will re...
- AT&T, Stop Blaming Your Horrible Network And Leave Your Best Customers Alone
- India’s Times Internet Launches Tablet App With Genwi
- NASA scales back Mars exploration, Marvin the Martian thinks it's just lovely
- Motorola outs Android 4.0 upgrade schedule, adds Atrix 4G, Photon 4G and others...
- Motorola Outlines Further Ice Cream Sandwich Update Plans
- CERN crew takes to Google+ for live Hangout
- AT&T Galaxy Note review
- New Chevy Volt ad focuses on "Just The Facts"
- With Localmind 2.0, It’s About Expert Local Answers, Not Just Immediate Ones
- Buck (Formerly Billing Revolution) Launches Single-Click Mobile Payments Service...
- NPR Music iPad app puts Tiny Desk Concerts a few swipes away
| Perpetual motion "regenerative acceleration" returns as ReGenX in an NMG Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:56 PM PST Perpetual motion "regenerative acceleration" returns as ReGenX in an NMG  Perpetual motion "regenerative acceleration" returns as ReGenX in an NMG Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Videos We first encountered the "regenerative acceleration" system from Thane Heins years ago. You might think that seemingly impossible ideas like this would go off somewhere and never be heard from again, especially in this age of honest-to-goodness EV from major OEMs. But you'd be wrong. Thus, we present, without too much comment, a new video that purports to show Heins' ReGenX tech applied to a Myers Motors... |
| Play With Microsoft’s Lousy Old Mobile OS From Inside Their Great New One Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:56 PM PST Play With Microsoft's Lousy Old Mobile OS From Inside Their Great New One  Play With Microsoft's Lousy Old Mobile OS From Inside Their Great New One Windows Phone is great. Really, if you're a phone geek and you haven't played with it before, you owe it yourself to give it a shot. Windows Mobile on the other hand… wasn't. It was arguably good enough for the time, but despite Microsoft's efforts to breathe new life into it, Windows Mobile ultimately fell into disuse while more robust mobile operating systems took over.... |
| Sprint may have dug itself a $65 million hole with LightSquared partnership Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:56 PM PST Sprint may have dug itself a $65 million hole with LightSquared partnership  Sprint may have dug itself a $65 million hole with LightSquared partnership Well, if there's a silver lining for LightSquared in the debacle that has been its attempt to launch a nationwide LTE network, it's that it should be getting a $65 million check from Sprint if everything collapses. The former WiMAX champion and LTE convert may have to return the cash it received as part of a 15 year agreement if the FCC doesn't approve the 4G venture by a March deadline.... |
| Most, Least Expensive Cars to Insure Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:15 PM PST Most, Least Expensive Cars to Insure Most, Least Expensive Cars to Insure A driving record isn't the only thing that affects insurance rates. |
| Valentine’s Day Procrastination Fuels Mobile Usage On Google Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:15 PM PST Valentine's Day Procrastination Fuels Mobile Usage On Google  Valentine's Day Procrastination Fuels Mobile Usage On Google Not surprisingly, Valentine's Day spurred lots of last-minute Web searches and phone calls — and the Google mobile ads team just published a blog post highlighting how much of that activity happened on smartphones and tablets. For one thing, last-minute searches for national restaurant chains grew across-the-board, but they grew the most on smartphones — between February 7 and February 14, these searches increased 359 percent on mobile, compared to 142 percent from... |
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| The electric self-starter turns 100 Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:15 PM PST The electric self-starter turns 100 The electric self-starter turns 100 Cadillac innovation paved the way for gasoline powered cars. |
| NVIDIA reports Q4 2012 earnings: annual revenue up 12.8 percent, net income doubles Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:15 PM PST NVIDIA reports Q4 2012 earnings: annual revenue up 12.8 percent, net income doubles  NVIDIA reports Q4 2012 earnings: annual revenue up 12.8 percent, net income doubles If you thought we were done with the numbers game, think again. NVIDIA has just pushed out its figures for Q4 of FY 2012 and things are looking good. Revenue for the quarter was $953 million, a 10.6 percent decline over Q3, but if you look over the entire year revenue increased 12.8 percent over fiscal 2011.... |
| HTC to give sneak peek of Sense-coated ICS to a few lucky Europeans Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:15 PM PST HTC to give sneak peek of Sense-coated ICS to a few lucky Europeans  HTC to give sneak peek of Sense-coated ICS to a few lucky Europeans HTC's already said it plans on handing out ICS treats in late March, but the Taiwanese mobile sensation wants to give a selected few the chance to join an early taste test. The Ice Cream Sandwich party is a fairly exclusive affair, with HTC restricting admission to those of you living in the EU and rockin' a Sensation or its Beats-sporting XE variant.... |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:31 PM PST The Lighter Car News The Lighter Car News An automatic Porsche; Alfa is still Alfa; driving priceless Ferraris |
| Ford Fusion Hybrid boosts company's hybrid patents from 30 to 500 in the past de... Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:31 PM PST Ford Fusion Hybrid boosts company's hybrid patents from 30 to 500 in the past decade  Ford Fusion Hybrid boosts company's hybrid patents from 30 to 500 in the past decade Filed under: Hybrid, Ford While Ford's new Fusion Hybrid is designed to put money back into the pockets of fuel-conscious consumers, some patent attorneys may also be a little more flush as well. The development of the model, set to debut later this year, helped Ford boost its number of patents related to hybrid powertrain technology to almost 500, reflecting the U.S.... |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0N starts shipping in Germany Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:31 PM PST Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0N starts shipping in Germany  Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0N starts shipping in Germany Just like the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, the 7.0N addresses the legal "issues" surrounding Samsung's slates. The tiny tablet was unveiled last month and now it's starting to hit shelves in Germany with its lawsuit-circumventing redesign in place. It's a little later than anticipated, but our friends in Deutschland can now pick up the tweaked Tabs starting at €499 for a 16GB WiFi version, while an HSPA+ model will set TouchWiz fans... |
| Google+ iOS app updated, instant image upload in tow Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:31 PM PST Google+ iOS app updated, instant image upload in tow  Google+ iOS app updated, instant image upload in tow This Valentine's Day, the gang over at Google showed iOS users some social-networking love by releasing an update to its Google+ application. Aside from providing "various bug fixes and performance improvements," G+ gave iOS Nation access to a feature that Android users have enjoyed for quite some time: instant photo upload.... |
| Universal robot gripper sinks shots, throws darts, makes us feel inadequate (video) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:48 PM PST Universal robot gripper sinks shots, throws darts, makes us feel inadequate (video)  Universal robot gripper sinks shots, throws darts, makes us feel inadequate (video) Soon there will be little left for us puny humans. Robots have long since replaced us at most menial tasks, now they're looking to claim our lucrative professional sports contracts. They've already proven their mettle at baseball, basketball and hockey. Now researchers at the University of Chicago and Cornell are getting their coffee-filled balloon bot in on the action -- albeit with slightly less ambitious prey in its sights.... |
| Obama's proposed budget calls for upping plug-in vehicle tax credit to $10,000 Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:04 PM PST Obama's proposed budget calls for upping plug-in vehicle tax credit to $10,000 Obama's proposed budget calls for upping plug-in vehicle tax credit to $10,000 Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy, USA As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to try and get a million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015. In his State of the Union address in 2011, he repeated that number and proposed turning the $7,500 tax credit into a point-of-purchase rebate. That hasn't yet happened, but in the President's proposed budget that was released this week, Obama took another stab at promoting plug-ins:... |
| Gigabyte GSmart G1355 leaked ahead of MWC, offers dual-SIM goodness for small wa... Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:04 PM PST Gigabyte GSmart G1355 leaked ahead of MWC, offers dual-SIM goodness for small wallets  Gigabyte GSmart G1355 leaked ahead of MWC, offers dual-SIM goodness for small wallets Gigabyte doesn't crank out handsets with the same frequency as, say, Samsung or HTC, so it's a momentous occasion to see a new addition to its lineup getting dressed up and ready to go. The outfit's latest model, the GSmart G1355, is getting some unofficial face time before Mobile World Congress and appears to keep things simple: it's said to bring dual-SIM capability to the table as well as a lightly-skinned... |
| 32GB GSM Galaxy Nexus canceled, Google hopes you really like streaming Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:04 PM PST 32GB GSM Galaxy Nexus canceled, Google hopes you really like streaming  32GB GSM Galaxy Nexus canceled, Google hopes you really like streaming This probably won't matter too much to our American readers, but the 32GB version of the GSM Galaxy Nexus has been canceled according to Expansys and Negri Electronics. Initially the latest Nexus device was supposed to be sold in both 32 and 16 gigabyte varieties. But, for whatever reason, the larger capacity model never made it to market.... |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:04 PM PST Vehicle Dependability Surges Vehicle Dependability Surges Lexus is back on top in J.D. Power's dependability study. |
| iPhone address book issue prompts response Apple, access to contact data will re... Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:20 AM PST iPhone address book issue prompts response Apple, access to contact data will require user permission  iPhone address book issue prompts response Apple, access to contact data will require user permission A week ago today, developer Arun Thampi detailed on his blog how the Path app for iOS accessed users' contact information and uploaded that data to Path's servers -- all without any explicit permission granted on the user's part. That sparked quite the firestorm, including investigations into which other apps behaved in a similar manner (quite a few, it turns out), and some responses from a number of app makers --... |
| AT&T, Stop Blaming Your Horrible Network And Leave Your Best Customers Alone Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:36 AM PST AT&T, Stop Blaming Your Horrible Network And Leave Your Best Customers Alone  AT&T, Stop Blaming Your Horrible Network And Leave Your Best Customers Alone Once upon a time wireless carriers offered unlimited data plans. Consumers signed the contracts, got their iPhone or Droids and went on to enjoy the smartphone revolution. Along the way streaming video and music hit it big and social media exploded into new demographics. All these things require data, but no worries — the carriers said we had unlimited data.... |
| India’s Times Internet Launches Tablet App With Genwi Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:36 AM PST India's Times Internet Launches Tablet App With Genwi  India's Times Internet Launches Tablet App With Genwi PJ Gurumohan, CEO of tablet publishing startup Genwi, likes to talk about creating unique experiences tablet, rather than just porting over an existing website. A good example of what he has in mind: Tweek, a new app that Genwi (pronounced "Gen Y") has created with Times Internet Limited. TIL is the Internet and mobile arm of Times Group, which publishes the Times of India.... |
| NASA scales back Mars exploration, Marvin the Martian thinks it's just lovely Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:36 AM PST NASA scales back Mars exploration, Marvin the Martian thinks it's just lovely  NASA scales back Mars exploration, Marvin the Martian thinks it's just lovely NASA recently showed flashes of its old bravado by announcing plans for a lunar waypoint near the far side of the moon. Cold, hard reality brought the agency back to Earth this week, however, as it just announced a scaling back of its Mars exploration program. Thanks to funding cuts, NASA is scuttling its "ambitious" (i.e.... |
| Motorola outs Android 4.0 upgrade schedule, adds Atrix 4G, Photon 4G and others... Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:36 AM PST Motorola outs Android 4.0 upgrade schedule, adds Atrix 4G, Photon 4G and others to the ICS party list  Motorola outs Android 4.0 upgrade schedule, adds Atrix 4G, Photon 4G and others to the ICS party list Ever since the debut of Ice Cream Sandwich, the masses of Motorola owners have yearned to discover when (if?) their devices would receive Android's latest and greatest. Well, Moto's finally let the cat out of the bag, setting out domestic and global timelines for its tablets and phones to get Android 4.0.... |
| Motorola Outlines Further Ice Cream Sandwich Update Plans Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:50 AM PST Motorola Outlines Further Ice Cream Sandwich Update Plans  Motorola Outlines Further Ice Cream Sandwich Update Plans Motorola has already confirmed that the Xooms, Droid Bionic, Razr, Razr Maxx and the Droid 4 will get a hefty helping of Ice Cream Sandwich this year, but the company has added a few more devices to its ICS upgrade schedule. The Photon 4G, Atrix 4G, Atrix 2, and the Electrify will all see Android 4.0 at some point during the course of 2012.... |
| CERN crew takes to Google+ for live Hangout Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:50 AM PST CERN crew takes to Google+ for live Hangout  CERN crew takes to Google+ for live Hangout Got questions for CERN crew? We know we do. For instance, if a Higgs bosson falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still create a miniature black hole that swallows the Earth and destroys us all? Well if you've got queries for the folks working the LHC, attempting to unlock the secrets of the universe then hit up the source link for a live... |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:49 AM PST AT&T Galaxy Note review  AT&T Galaxy Note review It was once said that if a phone or tablet used a stylus its hardware designers had blown it. It was also said that if the software on that device contained a task manager that coders had similarly missed the mark. The Samsung Galaxy Note on AT&T contains what many would consider a stylus and, if you hold down the Home button, you're presented with what can only be described as... |
| New Chevy Volt ad focuses on "Just The Facts" Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST New Chevy Volt ad focuses on "Just The Facts"  New Chevy Volt ad focuses on "Just The Facts" Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, Videos Let's see, thus far, we've had aliens, drive thru fast food employees, "Morning in Hamtramck" and that guy who's got to urinate try to sell us the Chevrolet Volt. Now, apparently, it's time for "Just The Facts." That's the tag for Chevy's latest Volt commercial, which you can watch after the jump, and, well, it's pretty self-explanatory.... |
| With Localmind 2.0, It’s About Expert Local Answers, Not Just Immediate Ones Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST With Localmind 2.0, It's About Expert Local Answers, Not Just Immediate Ones  With Localmind 2.0, It's About Expert Local Answers, Not Just Immediate Ones Following five months of work, location-based Q&A platform Localmind is launching its biggest release today since its original debut with the arrival of Localmind 2.0. The newly revamped platform represents a shift for the company, which, as you may remember, sits on top of Foursquare, allowing you to pose questions in real-time to those checked in at local venues. Today, the company is expanding its focus by allowing users to ask questions... |
| Buck (Formerly Billing Revolution) Launches Single-Click Mobile Payments Service... Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:59 AM PST Buck (Formerly Billing Revolution) Launches Single-Click Mobile Payments Service, Adds New Partners  Buck (Formerly Billing Revolution) Launches Single-Click Mobile Payments Service, Adds New Partners Buck, the mobile payments company formerly known as Billing Revolution, is launching its new, single-click credit card checkout today, which allows shoppers to pay for goods or services without an account, username or password. Coinciding with the launch is news of where you can actually use the service: the company has lined up several new high-profile customers, including Glamour, SpyderLynk, Papaya Mobile and credit card processor Braintree. The way Buck works is that, at... |
| NPR Music iPad app puts Tiny Desk Concerts a few swipes away Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:59 AM PST NPR Music iPad app puts Tiny Desk Concerts a few swipes away  NPR Music iPad app puts Tiny Desk Concerts a few swipes away Feel like peeping a live performance from The Decemberists during your coffee shop work session? You can do just that via the new NPR Music app for your iPad. Once you download the free software onto your Apple slate, you're a few screen taps away from live performances, advance album listens and live streaming radio content.... |
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