Computing pioneer and Microsoft technical fellow Chuck Thacker was honored today with the Turing Award; widely considered as the highest distinction in the field of computing, and dubbed the “Nobel Prize of computing”.
Through a partnership with Microsoft, Motorola is set to deploy Bing services on Android-based devices currently available in China. The announcement marks a unique push for Microsoft apps on a platform typically dominated by Google's utilities for search and maps.
Filed under: iPad During CES 2010, HP gave the public a slight tease of its upcoming slate device. The touchscreen device, which runs Windows 7, sports a form factor similar to Apple's iPad, as well as similar uses; it supports eBooks, music, videos, and of course, the Internet.
Buffalo is about to release their newest portable hard drive ‘HD-PVRU2′ for the Japanese market. Adopting the Turbo USB technology, the drive features a rugged matte-finished exterior, a USB 2.0 interface and is bundled with eco Manager software for saving power.
I handle a lot of mice in this job (right now I’m using the Mionix Naos 5000) and I have to say that if a mouse were, like the Magic Mouse, shaped completely wrong for human hands, I would throw it away and never speak of it again.
LG Electronics release a new music phone called LG Cookie Music KM570 which is similar design like LG Clubby KM555E. It has 4GB internal memory (up to 32GB) with 5M pixel camera.
Man oh man. This is going to be like the netbooksplosion that happened after the EeePC hit. Roy Chen, a big man at ARM, said at a press meeting that they expect perhaps 50 tablet computers to be made available worldwide in 2010.
Well, here’s a good one. After coming off a not so life-changing announcement yesterday, Cisco is rumored to be preparing the new line of Flip videos cam (they purchased the company in 2009) for launch sometime in early April, which happens to be, oh, next month.
Well, what can we say, but it’s finally here. After almost 8 years of development and millions of lines of code, OnLive, the gaming equivalent of cloud-computing technology is set to take the gaming world by storm on June 17th, coming to both PCs and Macs in the contiguous 48 states at a...
New piece from Louis Moinet includes actual fossilized dinosaur bones Sure, put all the diamonds and rubies and sapphires and gold that you can onto a watch. It'll look nice and all that, but how about something a little more inventive? Maybe Louis Moinet can help us out, with the Time Explorator.
Watchmaker Urwerk showcases one of its final products as it prepares to shut down operations on one of its biggest watch lines One of the most creative watch designers in the industry, Urwerk, is going to stop production of its "103" collection at the end of the year.
This comes off as a touch too incredible to say the least, but Imagination Technologies, who makes the PowerVR chip powering smartphones like the iPhone, Droid, and Pre, states that smartphones will be able to have graphics performance on par with a PlayStation 3 console in about three years.
So I got a random delivery today, and I was quite surprised to see it was from Nintendo. Even more surprising was when I opened the box and saw they had sent me the two latest Pokemon games, HeartGold and SoulSilver.
The Audio-Technica Boogie Box is an active speaker with a street style. Available in red, black, or camouflage, this all-in-one speaker system features two 70mm full-range speakers, driven by an integrated 2W+2W amplifier. You can connect the Boogie Box with your iPod, MP3 player or PMP.
Thus ends the process that started with the horrifying attempt to use TurboTax. I ended up going with H&R Block at home online. Easy to use, free federal, $9.95 for my state, free e-filing for both, direct deposit. Best part: 40 minutes start to finish. Refund to hit my account in 8-10 days.
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, iPhone, App Store, MusicRecently I’ve been preparing to move home and finally did last weekend. Naturally I had to pack up all my musical gear, equipment and of course, my Mac. In the week leading up to the move, I’ve had my iPhone and nothing else.
Filed under: Gaming, Retail, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone.
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store As popular as Ngmoco and its games are, whenever we seem to post about them, the subject of their business model seems to rise to the top again.
Filed under: Hardware Same price, same features (mostly) but a sleek and slender new look: yesterday Elgato introduced the latest revamp of its EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner for high-definition digital television.
Google [GOOG] have launched Google Apps Marketplace that integrates third-part cloud apps with Google Apps.The Google Apps Marketplace offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps.
Hard drive manufacturers are about to change the format on new hard drive which will prevent older operating systems (such as Windows XP) from working.
Another day, another electronic book reader not called the nookor Kindlegets a content deal. The Entourage eDGe has signed a deal with Newspapers Direct, giving it access to papers like The Daily Mail, Marca(!), and The Washington Post.