Monthly Archives: February 2012

Microsoft Windows 8 on 82-inch touchscreen hands-on (video)

By doris | Published: February 29, 2012

Full Story at Engadget.com We don’t have 100 fingers — theoretically the supported limit of Windows 8 on the 82-inch capacitive touchscreen display we just had a chance to go hands-on with at the company’s latest OS demo at Mobile World Congress — but things looked pretty impressive even with just 10. The display we [...]

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Designing a $100 solar-powered tablet

By doris | Published: February 27, 2012

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — You may not have heard of Yves Behar, but chances are you’ve seen his designs. He’s the visionary behind the popular Jawbone Jambox sound system, Herman Miller’s Sayl chairs, Swarovski chandeliers, and even New York City’s free condoms. The Swiss designer, now based in San Francisco, has [...]

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Why your cell phone bill is going up

By doris | Published: February 23, 2012

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Has your mobile phone bill jumped this past year? Get used to it. Demand for wireless data services is soaring, forcing carriers to invest massively to keep up. They have two main options: Upgrade their network technology or acquire more wireless spectrum to give them more bandwidth. [...]

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Netflix gives new customers DVD-only option again

By doris | Published: February 22, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Despite its commitment to streaming movies and TV, Netflix is offering its DVD-only service option to new customers again, but will it tempt those who have converted to Redbox? When Netflix implemented in September its highly unpopular plan to separate its DVD and streaming plans and 60 percent price hike (which [...]

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Apple ‘determined’ to improve conditions at plants in China

By doris | Published: February 19, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com San Francisco (CNN) — Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday said that the world’s most valuable tech company is doing everything it can to address growing concerns over working conditions at its Chinese manufacturing plants. “We know people have a very high expectation of Apple,” he told hundreds of investment professionals [...]

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FCC bans LightSquared over GPS interference

By doris | Published: February 17, 2012

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — LightSquared’s plan to become a fifth major nationwide wireless carrier hit a major snag this week, after government regulators said they would continue to bar the company from launching its network. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said late Tuesday that LightSquared’s network could interfere with GPS [...]

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NY tickets 118,000 drivers under texting law

By doris | Published: February 14, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Police in New York state have ticketed more than 118,000 motorists for using cellphones behind the wheel since a strict new law took effect in July, the governor who signed the law said on Monday. Ticketing rates for texting while driving have more than doubled since then, Gov. [...]

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FaceTime bug lets locked iPhones make video calls

By doris | Published: February 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com An iPhone bug enables people to make FaceTime video calls on phones that are locked with a password and protected with the highest security settings, a researcher discovered. The flaw, which exists in the newest version of Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 smartphone software, can be exploited even if the iPhone owner has [...]

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Chrome Web browser comes to Android phones, tablets

By doris | Published: February 9, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Google launched a beta version of Chrome for Android smartphones and tablets Tuesday, delivering a mobile version of the popular desktop web browser after a very long wait. Indeed, both Android and Chrome launched more than three years ago, and users have demanded unification ever since. Why bemoan the long wait? [...]

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Motorola Droid 4 coming to Verizon on Feb. 10

By doris | Published: February 8, 2012

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com It’s official: The Motorola Droid 4, that slender beast of a smartphone, is headed to Verizon’s speedy 4G LTE network on Feb. 10. As you might already know, the gadget is skinny — it’s less than half-an-inch thick — and offers a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, a five-row QWERTY keyboard, a [...]

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Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox

By doris | Published: February 7, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Phone company Verizon Communications will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks. Verizon and Coinstar Inc., Redbox’s parent company, said Monday that the service will be national and available to non-Verizon customers as well. It adds another dimension [...]

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Amazon Kindle Fire surges ahead in Android tablet use:

By doris | Published: February 6, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com A new report analyzing app usage purports to show that, in just three months, Amazon’s Kindle Fire has dethroned the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the top Android tablet — at least when it comes to people actually spending time on their devices. Flurry Analytics compared application sessions among all Android tablets [...]

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