Archive for April, 2010 - Page 4

If you use Google search in languages either than English, you might have noticed a little keyboard icon next to the search bar in the past week. If you were game enough to click on it, a virtual keyboard would [...]

Google’s software engineer, Eric Zhang, announced on Google’s blog today that the experimental project, Living Stories, is now available as a plugin for WordPress. When published, the reader can gain an overview of an ongoing event on a single dynamic [...]

Earlier, we reported that U2 rock star Bono and some friends of his had lost over (an estimated) $200 million on the HP-Palm sale. Some other people might not be so happy regarding the deal, and that’s Microsoft. HP previously [...]

AdMob’s recent report on smartphone usage made news a few days ago when it was revealed that Android had surpassed iPhone OS in terms of mobile web usage. But, AdMob also has been tracking the most popular web phones – [...]

When you think of NASA and space exploration, James Cameron probably won’t come to your mind. After directing Avatar, the highest-grossing movie of all time, it looks like Cameron wants to put his 3-D camera to use for the next [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the odd choice of Polaroid tapping into the gaming accessories market. Today, it looks like Polaroid is utilizing what it knows in photography and has announced the Polaroid 300 instant camera. However, I’m puzzled as to [...]

Dr. Carl Koch has created the Acadalus CPS-H1 self-leveling tripod for those who are tired of wasting time in trying to self-adjust a tripod. Manually adjusting the tripod on very uneven ground means that by the time you’ve fiddled around [...]

California man Anthony Ventura has filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony Computer Entertainment-America regarding the OtherOS feature on the PS3 that allowed users to install Linux. The OtherOS feature was promptly taken away from Sony in a mandatory firmware update [...]

The seventh tentpole of iPhone OS 4.0, as it was described by Steve Jobs, is iAd, Apple’s first mobile advertising platform due to be unveiled later this year. It’s already clear that Apple will make a lot of cash off [...]

It was definitely fun while it lasted, tablet lovers! We had two interesting iPad rivals, at least on paper, and now it looks like none of them is coming anytime soon. The HP Slate will be probably delayed in order [...]