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Samsung Universe Samsung’s Galaxy S III Available on Amazon, Comes With a Catch
If you’re itching to get your hands on Samsung’s new Galaxy S III, you may not have to wait much longer. Amazon put the phone up for pre-order on its website, with a delivery date of June 1. Priced at $800 the handset isn’t exactly something you’re going to pick up on a whim, and comes with a few compromises beyond the hefty price. The $800 model for sale on Amazon is the unlocked international version on the phone. Samsung has yet to announce a version of the phone for the U.S (although that...
Mashable!Berkeley Police Chief’s Son Lost iPhone, Drug Cops Went in Pursuit
Losing your iPhone is worse than losing your wallet these days, considering all the information we store on it. But does it require a 10-man police hunt? Berkeley, Calif. Police Chief Michael Meehan and a crew of 10 police officers searched for his son’s missing cellphone on taxpayer dollars this January after it went missing from the boy’s unlocked locker at school. After that, eight members of the department’s drug task force worked on overtime to track down the cellphone, which was...
Inside Dyson’s Dynamic Engineering and Designs
The Leaders in Design Series is presented by Volvo. Dyson is a company that embodies the word “disruptive.” Before it arrived on the scene, the world of vacuum cleaners was boring and stagnant, and the machines themselves were essentially commodities. Dyson — with its novel solution of getting rid of irritating disposable bags by using different suction technology — shook up the industry and became a household name along the way. A fair bit of that disruption came from the design of Dyson’s...
Green Spaces Is a Coworking Hub for Social Startups [VIDEO]
Name: Green Spaces Big Idea: Green Spaces provides coworking office space in New York City and Denver to social entrepreneurs and non-profits. Why It’s Working: Green Spaces does more than provide social companies a place to work. Networking opportunities, an intern program and a referral network are available to companies that call Green Spaces home. For Green Spaces co-founder Marissa Feinberg, the inspiration for the New York and Colorado-based green coworking network appeared simply by...
Tutorial: How to control a PC with your Android phone
Control your PC with your phoneThere's something deeply liberating about being able to get one over on those huge, faceless and cold-hearted corporations, and nothing does that better than building your own recordable TV powerhouse in your living room - especially as companies like Virgin Media have announced package price hikes for those customers stuck in a contract. You can achieve this snub by installing a media centre PC next to your big screen. Unfortunately, no matter how good you make...
Techradar - Al...Meet Apple's Secret Feline App Tester
UPDATE 3:22 PM: Is this for real? Well, she disappeared as soon as this article was posted, so what do you think? What goes on in Apple's app testing lab? Just ask Dive Apple. She may be a cat. She lives in San Francisco. She takes lots of photos of Apple products. And her Facebook posts are publicly visible were publicly visible (until we outed her). Let's take a look at what she has to say. Is Dive Apple Legit? We were introduced to Dive by a reputable developer,...
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Siri changes her tune on which smartphone is best
Siri's penchant for making jokes is well known, but sometimes it goes a little too far. Such was the case last week when Siri decided to start telling users that the Nokia Lumia 900 phone was the best smartphone ever.Siri's answer came from Wolfram Alpha, one of the search services Siri uses to find the answers for inquisitive iPhone users. When asked about the "best cell phone ever" the search service simply looked for the one with the highest customer review average, which happened to be one...
MacBook Pro rumor: thinner 15-inch coming with retina display
Apple has yet to introduce a single new MacBook Pro in 2012, so it's not much of a stretch to assume that updated models are on the way, particularly with OS X Mountain Lion already scheduled for this summer. Thanks to sources in Apple's supply chain, we may have some idea of what to expect.Numerous reports are circulating about a forthcoming 15-inch model that's not only thinner but also borrows a Retina Display screen from its iOS cousins, with USB 3.0 as the icing on the cake.Although recent...
In Depth: Apple WWDC 2012: what to expect
It's nearly time for WWDC 2012, Apple's sold-out World Wide Developers Conference, and that means the Apple rumour factory is in full flow. There's a difference between a wish list and rock-solid predictions, however, and the internet has more of the former than the latter. So what can we really expect from this year's WWDC?OS X Mountain Lion at WWDCWe know about this already: Gatekeeper security, iCloud integration, the new notification and game centres, AirPlay mirroring... OS X Mountain Lion...
FreedomPop Revamps Free Data Plan For Their $99 WiMax iPhone Case, Puts It Up For Pre-Order
The last time TechCrunch heard from the internet-for-everyone proponents at FreedomPop, they revealed to us that they were working on an iPhone 4/4S case with a built-in WiMax radio that would give their users monthly access to free mobile broadband. Now, according to my high-level source, the company is very close to bringing these things into the real world. Ahead of their beta launch slated for the summer, the company has just quietly begun to take pre-orders for the nifty iPhone accessory,...
TechCrunch3D Printing App: Copy Objects Right From Your iPad
Got an iPad? You may not know it yet, but that means you have a portable object duplicator in your hands. The key to unlocking its abilities is an app that lets you capture and create 3D renderings of objects in the real world. Once you’ve captured the object, it’s super-simple to send the rendering to a 3D-printing service and have it made. From Autodesk, the free app is called 123D Catch and is part of the company’s suite of 3D graphics software. Autodesk previewed it before, but as of...
Here Are The Key Market Moving Events For Thursday, May 3, 2012 (CVC, VIAB, ANR, SNI, EP, ARG, NRG, BEAM, CI, CAH, AMT, SEE, PGN, APA, KFT, PSA, FSLR, AIG, CF)
Thursday is a busy day, both on the macro and earnings side. Companies including Kraft, Viacom, and Cigna are all scheduled to report quarterly results for the first three months of 2012. Macro data includes jobless claims in the U.S., homes prices in the U.K., and Chinese services PMI. Here's what you need to know. New Zealand starts things off at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday evening with a reading of unemployment. Economists forecast the jobless rate remained unchanged at 6.3 percent during the...
Business InsiderAchievement Unlocked: Apple Wins Applecom.com And Appleprinters.com After WIPO Complaint
Apple doesn’t own iPad.com, apple.co.uk or many other domains that contain its name or the names of its products, but it is now the proud owner of applecom.com and appleprinters.com — two domains that were the subject of a complaint Apple made to the World Intellectual Property Organization about a month ago. If you now visit those URLs, they automatically redirect to Apple’s main site. The site Domain Tools notes that Apple picked up both applecom.com and appleprinters.com from Mark Monitor,...
Foxconn Profit Down As Scrutiny Forces Corporate Changes
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn saw its profits fall to $509 million from $1.19 billion last quarter. Chairman Terry Gou said this quarter was particularly affected by Foxconn’s recent image problem. Improvements in wages, worker benefits, and education accounted for some of the loss, although new iPad and iPhone 4S manufacturing bolstered income last quarter. As a reaction to recent popular criticism on various fronts, the company increased wages by 25 percent this year and is...
HTC One S Review: I Give It A Fly
Short Version Despite the fact that there’s no real wow factor here, it would be entirely unfair to say that HTC’s One S isn’t a great phone. It is. The hardware is some of the best I’ve seen in a long time, Sense 4 is quite nice albeit a touch heavy for my taste, and the specs are right in line with what we’re seeing on the market today. Truth be told, anyone at T-Mobile would be lucky to have one. S. (Lawl.) Features: 4.3-inch 960×540 Super AMOLED display T-Mobile “4G” 42Mbps HSPA+ Android...
Dr. Roboto? Interactive Teddy Bear Helps Kids Manage Diabetes
The World at Work is powered by GE. This new series highlights the people, projects and startups that are driving innovation and making the world a better place. Name: Jerry the Bear Big Idea: Jerry the Bear is a robotic teddy bear that “has” diabetes. Children are able to take care of Jerry by checking his blood glucose levels, giving him “insulin shots” and “feeding” him a variety of foods. Why It’s Working: Targeted specifically to children living with type 1 diabetes, Jerry helps sick kids...
Rumor: WWDC could introduce iPhone 5 for June launch
Although leading speculation puts this year's iPhone in customer's hands come October, rumors continue to persist that Apple could introduce the iPhone 5 at this year's WWDC event in San Francisco.A Korean website speculates that Apple may introduce this year's iPhone 5 during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which kicks off June 11 in San Francisco. Apple broke from its early summer tradition for the current iPhone 4S, which was both announced and launched last October.While pundits...
Updated: 50 best free iPad games
Best free iPad games 1 - 25So you've got an iPad and come to the dawning realisation that you've no cash left to buy any games for it. Have no fear, because the App Store offers plenty of iPad gaming goodness for the (unintentional or otherwise) skinflint. Our pick of the 50 best free iPad games is listed below.Note that apps marked 'universal' will also work on an iPhone or iPod touch, scaling down controls and graphics accordingly.iPad 2 reviewNew iPad 3 reviewiPad 4: what we want to seeYou...
Apple Could Buy T-Mobile With Its Q1 Earnings
Apple reported another very successful financial quarter this afternoon, exceeding expectations. In the quarter ending March 31, the company brought in a net profit of $11.6 billion on a grand total of $39.2 billion in revenue. As has been the case in recent quarters, the vast majority of Apple's revenue came from sales of iPads and iPhones. Together, the two devices made up nearly 75% of Apple's revenue last quarter, a percentage that continues to grow over time. ...
How Fast Is Your Cloud?
The French-based company Cedexis has come up with a Cloud Performance Index. It's an interesting way to measure the performance of your content delivery network or cloud-based provider, and a useful way to determine which provider you should use - or even which part of the planet you should locate your apps. Every day on its website, Cedexis will publish new country-by-country performance reports on various IT providers. The info is collected via a Javascript tag on its customers' sites. The...
5 Things to Look for During Apple's Earnings Today
Apple will report its March quarter earnings this afternoon, including the first few weeks of new iPad sales. Be sure to join us for coverage and analysis starting after 4 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. PT. It hasn't been the busiest of quarters for Apple, but there's at least five things we'll be paying attention to in Apple's report and earnings call. 1. The New iPad Apple's new iPad, launched in March, is excellent. Anecdotally, it seems to be selling well. And, in an apparent...
Review: Intel Core i7 3770K
Introduction and architectureIt's new CPU season at Intel with the launch of the Ivy Bridge family of CPUs and the new Intel Core i7-3770K. It's the quickest of the new breed and therefore likely to be the fastest CPU in the real world.That's because Intel's exotic six-core processors, like the Intel Core i7 3960X, are really only of interest to a small niche of money-no-object lunatics. They're just not good value. At the same time, the disappointing performance of the new AMD FX 8150 means...
Review: Intel Core i5 3570K
Introduction and architectureThis is it. The biggie. The replacement for our favourite CPU of the past year or so. The new quad-core Intel Core i5 3570K, one of two new processors from Intel's new 22nm Ivy Bridge family of CPUs, has plenty to prove.Our old favourite that sets the standard this new chip will be measured by is the Intel Core i5 2500K from the Sandy Bridge generation, the best all round gaming CPU ever and all the chip most people need. Or maybe that should be the Core i5 2550K...
In Depth: Intel Ivy Bridge: what you need to know
Intel 3rd Generation Core MicroarchitectureIntel doesn't make desktop processors and hasn't done for years. It makes mobile CPUs. And it makes server chips. But that's it.This, people of TechRadar, is the gospel truth. Of course, Intel certainly markets a full range of processors for desktop PCs, but every last one of them started out as something else. Mainstream favourites like the Core i5 2500K are high end laptop chips tweaked for the desktop. High end beasts, including the new Core i7...
News in Brief: One More Thing: Will Apple buy Twitter?
Facebook buying Instagram has officially sent everyone doolally as serious financial news outlet Forbes posits quite seriously that Apple will buy Twitter in retaliation. We're slowly backing away while vowing to eat our collective hat (we have one of those, you know) and considering suing 50 Cent and waiting and hoping and dreaming of an intergalactic video message from William Shatner of our very own.Will Apple buy Twitter? – Hahahahahahahahahahahaha no. [Forbes] Shatner update – Back from...
Buying Guide: Best compact camera 2012: 25 reviewed
Best compact camera: OverviewFinding the best compact camera for your needs is never going to be easy, because the compact camera market is a very crowded place. Buying GuideBest compact system camera 2012: 20 reviewed and ratedThere are hundreds of digital compact cameras out there, waiting for you to ogle them, to scratch your heads over them, and eventually hand over your hard-earned cash for them. Once the transaction is complete and you're unboxing your newest purchase, a nagging doubt...
Samsung Galaxy S3 benchmarks reveal impressive power
Benchmark results for the Samsung Galaxy S3 have temporarily appeared on online, revealing the next-generation handset could be a real power-house.Spotted on GLBenchmark, the results claim to show data for the Samsung GT-i9300, which is widely believed to be the model number for the Galaxy S3.The results are now no-longer live, but a screenshot was nabbed and sent to PhoneArena with the results likely to make the competition a little nervous.Best in classForward thinking...Samsung Galaxy S3...
Why Mr. Sato Took on the 1,050-Piece Bacon Burger [VIDEO]
A man walks into a Japanese Burger King and orders a bacon burger laden with 1,050 pieces of swine… No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke — it actually happened, and there’s a viral YouTube video to prove it. In the video (above), we a see a guy sit down at a table and unwrap a mountain of bacon loosely held together by two buns and some nominal garnishment. He measures the mound of pork against his iPhone. He bows his head in a short prayer and starts stuffing his face. Eventually he...
iPhone now on sale at 5 regional carriers in US
While AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint duke it out over who's got the most coverage nationwide, Apple is sealing up some cracks in its iPhone domination strategy by offering the iconic handset with five new regional carriers.Most Americans living in urban or suburban settings are used to choosing between four major carriers: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile. While Apple unleashed the iPhone at three of the four - with only T-Mobile left to go - there are plenty of areas...
Rumour: iPhone 5 set for liquid metal casing and June launch
Rumours from South Korea claim the next generation Apple iPhone 5 will showcase a redesigned liquid metal casing.The report, which also says the device will launch in June at WWDC, expects Apple to employ liquid metal alloys in place of the glass featured on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.iPhone 5Apple iPhone 5 rumoursiPhone 5 set for unibody redesign?iPhone 5 release dateThis technology would, apparently, make the device thinner and lighter than those previous models.Not that far-fetchedThe report...
Review: Panasonic HC-V700
IntroductionThe relentless march of technology inside smartphone cameras means that dedicated camcorders have started to seem less and less necessary as time goes on.As with so many similar gadget types crushed under the boots of the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S II and the like, the trick to carving out a useful spot in the market is to offer something the competition can't.With an RRP of around £500 (though you can get it for less than £450 online), the Panasonic HC-V700 really needs to find a way...
In Depth: Best of the best: 10 top PC upgrades on test
IntroductionThe high performance PC is dead. If you're a gamer, that certainly seemed like one of the take home facts from last issue's astonishing performance comparison exposé. An exotic PC with £3,000 worth of top-end components took on a gaming-focused £300 system and a quartet of keen gamers couldn't tell the difference. Sobering stuff, but actually very good news for those of us living in the real world and subject to financial realities. Building a PC on a limited budget is the reality...
We're About To Learn A Lot About China's Appetite For Fried Chicken (YUM)
Tomorrow Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, will report quarterly results, with analysts eagerly anticipating what the company will have to report on the Chinese market. Last year the fast-food operator saw 44.1 percent of sales driven by its Chinese division, topping the U.S.'s 30.0 percent contribution. For 2012, Yum reported revenue of $12.6 billion and net income of $1.8 billion. Analysts forecast Yum will earn $0.73 a share this quarter on revenue of $2.7 billion, a...
THE APPLE INVESTOR: There May Be An Issue With iPad Supply (AAPL)
The Apple Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email. AAPL Down With Markets The markets are down to end the week as consumer confidence misses and Europe remains weak. Shares of AAPL are off ~1%. This comes after yesterday's break with the S&P. Apple will report calendar first quarter earnings on Tuesday, April 24 at 5:00pm ET. Additionally, Tim Cook will be the keynote speaker at the D10 Conference on May 29. Investors are looking for the new iPad adoption;...
iPhone Arrogance Be Damned - Android Is a Good Thing for Instagram
When Instagram launched on Android earlier this week, it was a pretty big story. That much was to be expected. After all, the world's trendiest photo-sharing app had only existed on a single platform for the first 16 months of its existence. Despite this, it grew into one of the most popular apps of its kind, amassing 30 million users in that time. As a satisfied user of numerous Apple products, I've been lucky to be a part of the Instagram community all this time. Yet I couldn't help but...
Revealing a New Ford in a New Way
Ford Motor Company has been at the forefront of social media for some time. The Fiesta Movement, the Explorer reveal on Facebook, Doug the Spokespuppet, Ford Social (formerly known as The Ford Story) and being the first brand on Google+ all stand as examples of Ford's success that spans from clever campaigns to a daily commitment to engage.Ford played a significant part in how the automotive industry thinks about social media (and in some cases how large companies think about social media) and...
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