Archive for February, 2011 - Page 22

AeroVironment Smart Charging Dock [Charging Dock for EVs & Plugin Hybrids Will Help Save on Electricity Costs]

By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

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, [...]

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Gran Turismo 5 Patch 1.06 Released, Adds Remote Racing [Gran Turismo 5 Patch 1.06 Will Allow You To Race From Work, Adds Support For Multi-Monitor Display]

By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

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 [...]

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Apple Job Posting Leads To Speculation On Apple-Designed HDTVs [Will Apple Make TVs? Speculation And Rumors Head Up - Will We See A HDTV With Integrated Apple TV?]

By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

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 [...]

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TweetLouder Finds Your Favorite Bands On Twitter [TweetLouder Mines Pandora, Other Music Accounts For Your Favorite Bands]

By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

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 [...]

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Mozilla Issues Revamped F1 Browsing Extension [Mozilla's F1 Browser Extension Gets Much Needed New Look]

By on Saturday, 19. February 2011

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 [...]

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Verizon Making Home Phone Connect A Nationwide Service [Verizon Home Phone Connect Goes Coast To Coast]

By on Friday, 18. February 2011

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 [...]

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The Top Six Winners Of The Mobile World Congress Show [Following The Mobile World Congress Show, We've Got A List Of The Six Corporate High Points To Emerge From The Show]

By on Friday, 18. February 2011

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 [...]

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New Found Apple Patent Looks To Boost Battery Life [Your iOS Hardware Might Get New Life Thanks To a Recently Discovered Apple Patent Geared Toward Boosting "Energy Density"]

By on Friday, 18. February 2011

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.

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Bungie Not Hit With Activision Layoffs [Despite Rumors That Activision Forced Bungie To Layoff Employees, Bungie Denies The Story]

By on Friday, 18. February 2011

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 [...]

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Dead Island Trailer Taking Flack Over Graphic Violence [Fire Axes To The Head, Long Drops For Small Children Put Dead Island Trailer In A Controversy Role]

By on Friday, 18. February 2011

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 [...]

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