Archive for February, 2011 - Page 19

Facebook Censors Art School Nudes [Facebook Takes Down Nude Paintings & Drawings, But Returns Them Online After Clarification; Has Facebook Established Itself as Curator of Online Culture?]

By on Monday, 21. February 2011

Facebook is certainly a force to contend with. Recently the New York Academy of Art found itself on Facebook’s naughty list when the social network banned its photos for ToS violations. Is Facebook gearing itself to be curator of online [...]

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Nissan ESFLOW Photos Leaked [Nissan Concept Electric Sportscar ESFLOW Leaked Ahead of 2011 Geneva Auto Show]

By on Monday, 21. February 2011

You don’t have to be a conservative, tree-hugging environmentalist driving a small, puny Nissan LEAF EV in order to help save the Earth. Rather, you can be a cool tree-hugging environmentalist driving a sexy, fast sports car like the Nissan [...]

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Apple MacBook Pro Upgrade Coming Soon, With Intel Light Peak? [Apple To Introduce Latest MacBook Pro Models With High-Speed Universal Connection]

By on Monday, 21. February 2011

It’s that time of year again, folks. Apple will soon be announcing new products, new upgrades, and this time, perhaps new technologies. An upcoming MacBook Pro update will likely include high-speed connection Light Peak.

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Toyota Yaris HSD Concept to Come in Hybrid [Toyota Planning to Manufacture Hybrid Subcompacts; Yaris Hybrid Will Debut at the 2011 Geneva Auto Show]

By on Sunday, 20. February 2011

The Prius is undoubdtedly one of Toyota’s more popular eco-friendly cars, but it’s not Toyota’s only fuel-saver. It’s also planning to upgrade its other smaller models, like the Yaris, with a hybrid system.

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Android Market URLs Suggest New Services [Google Ready to Compete With Other Major App & Media Stores With Android Market Music, Books & Movies?]

By on Sunday, 20. February 2011

We’ve previously read and reported about Google getting ready to compete with other major media providers through Android Market. New URLs suggest that Google is getting ready to load up Android Market with new content.

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Toshiba Android Tablet to be Named Antares? [Android Settings Show "Antares" as the Model Code & Possible Name of 10-Inch Toshiba Android Tablet]

By on Sunday, 20. February 2011

CES and MWC brought us a lot of gadgets, and some of those had been unnamed prototypes. Since tablets are one of our favorite devices, we’ve been on the lookout for models from various manufacturers, such as Toshiba. It seems [...]

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6-inch iPad 2 / iPad 3 / iPod touch 5G Coming This Fall? [Apple Rumored to Launch Smaller Tablet or Bigger PMP in Fall 2011; Will a 6-inch iPad nano Ship with Sandpaper in the Box?]

By on Sunday, 20. February 2011

A few months ago we were listening in live on an Apple quarterly earnings call which also featured Steve Jobs. We all remember how he basically bashed Google’s available tablets at the time and how he essentially advised us to [...]

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Motorola Xoom Now Available to Pre-order at Best Buy [Motorola Xoom Tablet Ready to Ship? Prices Zoom on $799.99, Release Date Expected to be February 24; Verizon Wi-Fi Activation Still in the Picture]

By on Sunday, 20. February 2011

The other hot upcoming Android device right now, besides the HTC Thunderbolt is, of course, the Motorola Xoom tablet, the first tablet in the world to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, that special mobile OS perfected by Google to fight Apple’s [...]

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HTC Thunderbolt Price Tag Revealed, Release Date Not So Much [HTC Thunderbolt to Cost $299.99 On Contract According to Best Buy’s Buyer Guide, But That Launch Date Is Still Delayed]

By on Sunday, 20. February 2011

We last saw the HTC Thunderbolt in person at MWC 2011 and we hoped to see it in stores really soon. But the phone is still missing in action and there are no clear release dates yet. Best Buy has [...]

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Billy Mitchell Opens King of Kong Arcade In Florida Airport [Billy Mitchell & Steve Wiebe's Rivalry Immortalized In Arcade That Lacks A Donkey Kong Machine]

By on Sunday, 20. February 2011

Maybe it’s the gamer in me, but I think King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is one of the best documentaries in the past decade. The innocent, clean cut up-and-comer Steve Wiebe matched against (rightly) proud and cocky ego [...]

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