Archive for February, 2011 - Page 22

Electric vehicles and plugin hybrids offer one inherent advantage: you can drive your car without consuming a drop of gasoline, as long as the battery has charge. But you still spend on electricity costs, right? AeroVironment wants to minimize that, too.

The folks over at Polyphonal Digital recently released a new patch for Gran Turismo 5, bringing the game to version 1.06. Patch 1.06 brings its share of gameplay changes, AI adjustments and issue corrections with it, but it adds a couple of features that Gran Turismo 5 enthusiasts will likely [...]

The “Apple will make HDTVs” rumors and speculation are starting up again after Apple fan blog 9to5Mac found an Apple job posting that hints at possibly TV and display products coming from Apple. The call is for electrical engineer to work on power supplies on Apple products. And it mentions “standalone displays [...]

Twitter is growing ever larger as a means of social interaction and finding exactly what you’re looking for. Now a new free app will allow you to easily follow your favorite bands even when you don’t have the wherewithal to search for each and every one of them.

While the idea of Mozilla’s F1 browsing extension was arguably one of the best since they released Firefox there were certain problems that made the service not quite as perfect as it could be. The original purpose of the F1 browser was to make it easier to share links that [...]

Verizon home connect has only been active in a couple of trial cities since December but the company has already decided that the service will go nationwide as soon as possible. Verizon originally launched the trial in New York and Connecticut only but the company apparently thinks it has already [...]

It was a downright doozy of a Mobile World Congress, make no mistake–we saw a whole lot of different things, and missed a few others. But there were some clear winners to come out of the Mobile World Congress, and as is generally the case on Fridays, I’ve got a [...]

I’m straining to remember my high school physics classes, but energy having density doesn’t ring a bell. However, that’s what Apple’s looking to improve, according to a recently found patent detailing the concept.

Activision has been cutting jobs and projects across all their brands, despite the company reporting profits in their latest earnings filing with the SEC. Gaming blog Kotaku Australia printed some reports from folks were allegedly contractors for Bungie, and they said that they were fired from Bungie due to “budgetary [...]

If you haven’t already seen the trailer for the upcoming first person shooter zombie romp Dead Island, well, you’re missing out, to be perfectly honest. And sure, with all the Mobile World Congress news flying around you could have missed this one pretty handily. But now, Techland–the guys who brought [...]