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- Facebook inks partnership with Opower, looks to socially compare home energy usage
- US Army grants HP $249 million contract to deploy private cloud services
- Western Digital intros My Passport Studio 2TB portable HDD, twin FireWire 800 po...
- Porsche Offers Up a Diesel Cayenne
- Best Passenger Cars Per Dollar
- Volvo CEO challenges EU, says it's "far too early" to dismiss fossil fuels
- AT&T lighting up three LTE markets on April 8th, Indiana and Texas feel the glow
- No LTE, No Problem: Sprint’s $100 LG Viper Goes Up For Pre-Order On April 12
- Yamaha RX-V573 and RX-V473 receivers include AirPlay integration, 4K passthrough
- Best Passenger Cars Per Dollar
- Windows 8 Metro-style Firefox comes out of hiding, still a diamond in the rough
- GM to Stop Volt Production – Again
- Toyota pickups set records on Antarctic trek
- MetroPCS raises unlimited LTE data plan to $70, starts throttling others
- A Brave New Push: Urban Airship Brings Location, Context Targeting To Mobile Not...
- Motorola Xoom WiFi now seeing Android 4.0.4 update over-the-air
- Facebook fights back, countersues Yahoo
- Shazam 5.0 update identifies audio in a split second, helps tortoise hands becom...
- ComScore: Android's US market share passes 50 percent, BlackBerry OS and WP7 slide
- Buick Unveils 2013 Enclave
- TRUSTe Announces An Opt-Out System for Mobile Ads
- ViaSat Exede review
- Opera Software Launches Yet Another UDID Alternative For Anonymous Mobile Ad-Tra...
- Four HUBOs 'Come Together' for a Drexel Engineering MET-lab demo
- Gas-Free Breathing, a Car at a Time
- Ford to offer Auto Start-Stop feature on 2013 Fusion for $295
- Sprint LG Viper 4G goes on pre-order April 12 for $100, release date still TBA
- Amazon Instant Video app for the PS3 brings both Prime subscriptions and VOD along
- Burger King's new menu looks a lot like McDonald's
- BMW X1 Updated for US Introduction
| Facebook inks partnership with Opower, looks to socially compare home energy usage Posted: 03 Apr 2012 03:03 PM PDT Facebook inks partnership with Opower, looks to socially compare home energy usage  Facebook inks partnership with Opower, looks to socially compare home energy usage Google passed, and Microsoft reckoned it had better things to do, but Zuckerberg's Castle is seemingly willing to pick up where those two left off. In what may go down as the strangest Facebook decision since the rejection of Valentina Monetta's video as best in the whole wide world, the company is launching a new social energy app that'll tap into technology from the National Resources Defense Council and Opower.... |
| US Army grants HP $249 million contract to deploy private cloud services Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT US Army grants HP $249 million contract to deploy private cloud services  US Army grants HP $249 million contract to deploy private cloud services HP is in the Army now. Today, the Palo Alto company announced that it has received a $249 million contract to provide the Department of Defense and other federal agencies with enterprise level cloud computing services. The new initiative will allow the military to consolidate its existing data centers, and the services will be deployed to a number of commercial and government-owned buildings.... |
| Western Digital intros My Passport Studio 2TB portable HDD, twin FireWire 800 po... Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT Western Digital intros My Passport Studio 2TB portable HDD, twin FireWire 800 ports included  Western Digital intros My Passport Studio 2TB portable HDD, twin FireWire 800 ports included Just days after WD revealed new 2TB My Passport drives for the USB 3.0-respecting world, along comes an option for those running OS X. Aside from the conventional USB 2.0 socket on the My Passport Studio, the Mac-friendly unit also packs a pair of FireWire 800 sockets. Not surprisingly, it ships with hardware-based encryption and password protection software, and while it'll probably come formatted for an Apple, there's nothing at all... |
| Porsche Offers Up a Diesel Cayenne Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:16 PM PDT Porsche Offers Up a Diesel Cayenne Porsche Offers Up a Diesel Cayenne Porsche debuts its first diesel at the NY Auto Show. |
| Best Passenger Cars Per Dollar Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:16 PM PDT Best Passenger Cars Per Dollar Best Passenger Cars Per Dollar 10 everyday cars that offer exceptional value and performance per dollar. |
| Volvo CEO challenges EU, says it's "far too early" to dismiss fossil fuels Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT Volvo CEO challenges EU, says it's "far too early" to dismiss fossil fuels  Volvo CEO challenges EU, says it's "far too early" to dismiss fossil fuels Filed under: Volvo, Legislation and Policy, Europe/EU Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby may be steering a company that is working on plug-in vehicles like the XDC60 plug-in hybrid and the C30 Electric, but he recently told an industry seminar in Brussels that an all-of-the-above approach is the right one. To wit, "It is far too early to dismiss the conventional diesel and petrol power trains," he said. Jacoby has long been lukewarm about plug-in... |
| AT&T lighting up three LTE markets on April 8th, Indiana and Texas feel the glow Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT AT&T lighting up three LTE markets on April 8th, Indiana and Texas feel the glow  AT&T lighting up three LTE markets on April 8th, Indiana and Texas feel the glow Muncie. Bloomington. Bryan-College Station. If you're in one of these three markets, get ready to party hard, because AT&T LTE is officially lighting up in your neck of the woods on April 8th. If you recall, there are nine previously announced markets still on deck waiting for their turn to bathe in the faster network, but AT&T is holding strong to its promise of an arrival "by early summer." For all... |
| No LTE, No Problem: Sprint’s $100 LG Viper Goes Up For Pre-Order On April 12 Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT No LTE, No Problem: Sprint's $100 LG Viper Goes Up For Pre-Order On April 12  No LTE, No Problem: Sprint's $100 LG Viper Goes Up For Pre-Order On April 12 Sprint still hasn't launched their new LTE network yet, but that hasn't stopped them from fast tracking some new LTE-capable hardware. Though the existence of a Sprint-bound Galaxy Nexus probably overshadowed it a bit, Sprint has announced that LG's eco-friendly Viper handset will be available for pre-order beginning on April 12 with a release soon to follow. There's no word yet on when the Viper will actually hit Sprint's sale's channels, though... |
| Yamaha RX-V573 and RX-V473 receivers include AirPlay integration, 4K passthrough Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT Yamaha RX-V573 and RX-V473 receivers include AirPlay integration, 4K passthrough  Yamaha RX-V573 and RX-V473 receivers include AirPlay integration, 4K passthrough We don't spend a whole lot of time focusing on home theater receivers 'round these parts, but we do like AirPlay, and we're especially fond of audio devices that boast compatibility with the iOS wireless streaming tool out of the box. Yamaha's RX-V573 and RX-V473 are two of the latest mid-range audio mixers to ship with AirPlay integration -- a feature lacking from the company's past offerings -- along with compatibility... |
| Best Passenger Cars Per Dollar Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT Best Passenger Cars Per Dollar Best Passenger Cars Per Dollar 10 everyday cars that offer exceptional value and performance per dollar. |
| Windows 8 Metro-style Firefox comes out of hiding, still a diamond in the rough Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT Windows 8 Metro-style Firefox comes out of hiding, still a diamond in the rough  Windows 8 Metro-style Firefox comes out of hiding, still a diamond in the rough Defaults are king in the realm of tech. So forgive Mozilla for its naked ambition to be users' go-to browser of choice. The company, fully aware of Windows 8's slow, looming approach to market, has set its sights on that unclaimed slice of market pie, hunkering down into development of a Metro-style Firefox, announced just this past February.... |
| GM to Stop Volt Production – Again Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT GM to Stop Volt Production – Again GM to Stop Volt Production – Again Volt's currently idle assembly plant will shut down for a week in July. |
| Toyota pickups set records on Antarctic trek Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT Toyota pickups set records on Antarctic trek Toyota pickups set records on Antarctic trek But could they conquer America? |
| MetroPCS raises unlimited LTE data plan to $70, starts throttling others Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:38 PM PDT MetroPCS raises unlimited LTE data plan to $70, starts throttling others  MetroPCS raises unlimited LTE data plan to $70, starts throttling others Enjoying those quick, all-you-can-browse speeds on your LG Connect 4G? Well, it looks like soon you'll have to shell out a bit more cash to hold onto that beloved unlimited service. Earlier today, MetroPCS laid out the scheme to hike the pricing on its no-limits LTE offering, adding an extra $10 to the monthly fee.... |
| A Brave New Push: Urban Airship Brings Location, Context Targeting To Mobile Not... Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:38 PM PDT A Brave New Push: Urban Airship Brings Location, Context Targeting To Mobile Notifications  A Brave New Push: Urban Airship Brings Location, Context Targeting To Mobile Notifications At the end of October, Urban Airship, the startup that gives developers a simple way to build in-app purchases and push notifications into their mobile apps, acquired SimpleGeo for a reported $3.5 million. At the time, it was unclear what Urban Airship would be doing with the terabyte-plus of SimpleGeo location data, but in January, Urban Airship announced that it would be shutting down the startup's Places, Context, and Storage services... |
| Motorola Xoom WiFi now seeing Android 4.0.4 update over-the-air Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:38 PM PDT Motorola Xoom WiFi now seeing Android 4.0.4 update over-the-air  Motorola Xoom WiFi now seeing Android 4.0.4 update over-the-air We'd been told it was incoming, and come it has. Those still in possession of Motorola's Xoom WiFi tablet can now look forward to another bragging right: Android 4.0.4. According to Droid-Life, the new Ice Cream Sandwich update is rolling out right now to select owners over-the-air, with the new code bringing quicker screen rotation, a new setting to "immediately lock the screen," improvements on the camera and a few other... |
| Facebook fights back, countersues Yahoo Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:38 PM PDT Facebook fights back, countersues Yahoo  Facebook fights back, countersues Yahoo Surprise, surprise, Facebook has decided to sling a lawsuit Yahoo's way after the latter first filed a patent infringement action against Zuckerberg's crew a few weeks ago. According to Florian Mueller over at FOSSPatents, the social network's alleging some IP infringement of its own -- claiming that Yahoo has run afoul of ten of its patents.... |
| Shazam 5.0 update identifies audio in a split second, helps tortoise hands becom... Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:49 AM PDT Shazam 5.0 update identifies audio in a split second, helps tortoise hands become the hare  Shazam 5.0 update identifies audio in a split second, helps tortoise hands become the hare Fits of inspiration are usually inopportune -- like when you realized eight years too late that it might've been wise to invest in Google. The same goes for that panicked impulse that strikes somewhere between rocking out to the last dregs of a song as it spills out of the radio and the time it takes for you to locate your phone, unlock it and launch Shazam.... |
| ComScore: Android's US market share passes 50 percent, BlackBerry OS and WP7 slide Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:49 AM PDT ComScore: Android's US market share passes 50 percent, BlackBerry OS and WP7 slide  ComScore: Android's US market share passes 50 percent, BlackBerry OS and WP7 slide Another month, another round of ComScore's US mobile studies. For the three-month average period ending in February 2012, 234 million Americans age 13 and older were found to be using mobile devices, with Samsung having its products in the hands of 25.6 percent of the American mobile market. Behind it came LG (19.4 percent, dropping from 20.5 percent), Apple (13.5 percent, a 2.3 percentage point increase), Motorola (12.8 percent, down from... |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:49 AM PDT Buick Unveils 2013 Enclave Buick Unveils 2013 Enclave The refreshed SUV is revealed ahead of the NY Auto Show. |
| TRUSTe Announces An Opt-Out System for Mobile Ads Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:49 AM PDT TRUSTe Announces An Opt-Out System for Mobile Ads  TRUSTe Announces An Opt-Out System for Mobile Ads There are some big challenges ahead for mobile advertising, as the industry faces increasing scrutiny from the federal regulators, and as Apple phases out the UDIDs used by advertisers and publishers to identify users. Now privacy company TRUSTe is offering a new way for advertisers to address some of these concerns. The program is called TRUSTe Mobile Ads, and it allows consumers to opt-out of both targeted advertising and data collection.... |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:49 AM PDT ViaSat Exede review  ViaSat Exede review Broadband in the boonies has long been an unreasonable ask. As slack-jawed farmers are fond of telling lost tourists "Ya can't get there from here," broadband-starved country bumpkins have heard from cable companies, "We don't offer service in that location." Options have been few, like paying said cable company thousands to run some copper a few miles down the road, or making a second mortgage payment for a dedicated T3 line.Over... |
| Opera Software Launches Yet Another UDID Alternative For Anonymous Mobile Ad-Tra... Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Opera Software Launches Yet Another UDID Alternative For Anonymous Mobile Ad-Tracking  Opera Software Launches Yet Another UDID Alternative For Anonymous Mobile Ad-Tracking Just when iOS developers had thought they had heard of every UDID replacement mechanism out there, Opera Software had to go and launch its own, too. Today, the company, best known as the maker of the Opera web browser, is introducing something it's calling "App-Tribute" – and yes, it's yet another system providing an alternative to the now deprecated UDID. The UDID, an identification number that's unique to every mobile Apple device, had been... |
| Four HUBOs 'Come Together' for a Drexel Engineering MET-lab demo Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Four HUBOs 'Come Together' for a Drexel Engineering MET-lab demo  Four HUBOs 'Come Together' for a Drexel Engineering MET-lab demo Robot Beatles cover band? Check. Students at Drexel University's Music and Entertainment Technology Lab (MET-lab) have developed software that allows HUBO robots to create tunes following a musical score. The Roboband plays the song without human control during the performance -- a demo that combines humanoid tech and creative expression research.... |
| Gas-Free Breathing, a Car at a Time Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Gas-Free Breathing, a Car at a Time Gas-Free Breathing, a Car at a Time With auto start/stop systems, city dwellers can reclaim the air. |
| Ford to offer Auto Start-Stop feature on 2013 Fusion for $295 Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Ford to offer Auto Start-Stop feature on 2013 Fusion for $295 Ford to offer Auto Start-Stop feature on 2013 Fusion for $295 Think of it as the automotive equivalent of the futures market. |
| Sprint LG Viper 4G goes on pre-order April 12 for $100, release date still TBA Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Sprint LG Viper 4G goes on pre-order April 12 for $100, release date still TBA  Sprint LG Viper 4G goes on pre-order April 12 for $100, release date still TBA Sprint's finally starting to get the ball rolling with its first LTE devices, announcing this morning that it's ready to begin pre-orders of the LG Viper 4G on April 12, and the next-gen goodness can be yours for $100 (after $50 mail-in rebate). The actual release date wasn't specified, but at least we know this means it's coming up much sooner rather than later.... |
| Amazon Instant Video app for the PS3 brings both Prime subscriptions and VOD along Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Amazon Instant Video app for the PS3 brings both Prime subscriptions and VOD along  Amazon Instant Video app for the PS3 brings both Prime subscriptions and VOD along While Amazon has continued to grow both its video on-demand and all you can eat Prime Instant Video services content-wise, playback on the TV is still limited to relatively few devices. You can add a major one to the list however, since the app has just started popping up on the PlayStation 3, as pointed out above by Joystiq.... |
| Burger King's new menu looks a lot like McDonald's Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Burger King's new menu looks a lot like McDonald's Burger King's new menu looks a lot like McDonald's Burger King is trying to revive its ailing empire with a rival's recipe for success. |
| BMW X1 Updated for US Introduction Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT BMW X1 Updated for US Introduction BMW X1 Updated for US Introduction A freshened X1 wil be unveiled at the NY Auto Show. |
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