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Voyager Mobile shakes off network issues, launches a few days behind schedule
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 2:00 pm
It’s tough being the new kid in town — ask Voyager Mobile, an up and coming MVNO that had its launch delayed by a “malicious network attack” last week. The tenacious firm may have missed its planned May 15th launch, but managed to pull things together in time for the weekend, piggybacking unlimited talk, text [...]
Read More >>Customs slowly letting HTC handsets into the US, can’t say which ones
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 1:40 pm
Still waiting for your HTC handset to make its way through customs? Ratchet your hopes just a smidge higher, because the company says it’s making progress. “Some models have gone through inspection and been released to our carriers customers,” the firm stated in an investor statement today. HTC explained that each of the contested models [...]
Read More >>Turning Soap Film Into a Projector Screen
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 1:20 pm
An anonymous reader writes “3 graduate students from University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Tsukuba have developed a colloidal display — a clear projector screen that can control its transparency. Normally soap film will allow light to pass through, but the colloidal display does not. It mixes colloid into the solution [...]
Read More >>NVIDIA outs budget GeForce GT 610, GT 620 and GT 630, no Kepler in any of ‘em
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 12:20 pm
Look out, savvy graphics card buyer: just because it’s labelled ‘GeForce’ and starts with a ’6′ doesn’t necessarily mean it benefits from NVIDIA’s premium 28nm Kepler architecture. We’ve already seen rebadged mobile chips with last-gen 40nm silicon, and now entry-level desktop cards are arriving on shelves that will stretch Fermi’s expiry date even further. There [...]
Read More >>Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 12:00 pm
the agent man writes “The idea of getting kids interested in programming in spite of their common perception of programming to be ‘hard and boring’ is an ongoing Slashdot discussion. With support of the National Science Foundation, the Scalable Game Design project has explored how to bring computer science education into the curriculum of middle [...]
Read More >>Assange Stands ‘Real Chance’ of Election In Australia
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 11:00 am
Okian Warrior writes “Various new sources are reporting the results of a recent Labor Party poll, indicating that Julian Assange would be elected to the Australian senate, should he choose to run. From the Sun Daily article: ‘Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands a real chance of winning an upper house seat in his native [...]
Read More >>Samsung chief: we’re open to a cross-licensing deal with Apple, but 4G chip shortage might last until the fall
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 10:20 am
The at times very heated legal battle between Apple and Samsung might be softening just a bit ahead of truce talks on May 21st. Samsung’s mobile head JK Shin just left Seoul for the mediated discussions saying there were still “several negotiation options” on tap, including the possibility of cross-licensing patents. He warned that there [...]
Read More >>Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak"
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 9:40 am
Gunkerty Jeb writes “After banning the word ‘jailbreak’ from its app store and music library, Apple [Friday] reversed course and again permits the term — slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content — to appear on iTunes and its App Store. On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the [...]
Read More >>Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over ‘Blasphemous’ Images
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 8:40 am
Diggester writes with this news from the Times of India: “Pakistani authorities on Friday further widened the crackdown on websites with blasphemous contents by restricting access to popular social networking website Twitter. Pakistani users were unable to log into Twitter after internet service providers blocked access to the site.” The block was prompted by Twitter’s [...]
Read More >>Kudo Tsunoda: ‘Waiting for the next big thing isn’t about waiting for the Kinect 2′
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 8:00 am
Last summer, try as we might, we couldn’t get too much out of Microsoft’s creative director for Kinect Games, Kudo Tsunoda, about what’s next from the interactive peripheral. More recently, in an interview with Venture Beat, Tsunoda was a little more verbose about what he thinks the next big thing in Kinect is — and [...]
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