admin | February 22, 2010
Habey’s no stranger to the diminutive PC arena, but the latest from the company just might be the one you’ve been scouting. If you’ve been scouting a mini PC that’s dead-silent, that is. The BIS-6620 is described as “an ultra-compact fanless and noiseless PC platform based on the Intel Atom Z510 processor,” measuring just 4.5- [...]
admin | February 21, 2010
Artificial schnozzes have been sniffing foreign objects for years now, but rarely are they engineered to sniff out specific things. A team of researchers from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign have done just that, though, with a new snout that acts as a coffee analyzer. Reportedly, the device can “distinguish between ten well-known commercial [...]
admin | February 21, 2010
Hey, students — pay attention. Not to us, mind you, but to the syllabus provided by your professor. Kieran Mullen, a physics professor at the University of Oklahoma, has a fairly strict rule about gadgets in class: there won’t be any, ever, under any circumstances. Balk all you want, but if you sign up for [...]
admin | February 20, 2010
Remember the Pennsylvania school district that was accused of remotely flipping on the webcams of students’ laptops? As if the civil suit filed on behalf of those students wasn’t going to be enough trouble for the Lower Merion representatives, now it seems the FBI wants to know just what’s going on, launching an investigation into [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
Fox has been slow to show its hand concerning the Avatar home video release schedule, but that didn’t stop director James Cameron from spilling assorted dates and SKUs in a Wall Street Journal interview. He’s pegged a standard DVD & Blu-ray release for April 22, with a special edition DVD and Blu-ray 3D version arriving [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
Hold onto your butts, kids, we’ve got a doozy of a story. Let’s take this one slow: a class-action lawsuit has been filed in Pennsylvania accusing the Lower Merion school district of “unauthorized, inappropriate and indiscriminate remote activation of a webcam contained within a laptop computer issued to students by the School District” — without [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
Visa has been working on contactless (a.k.a. NFC) payments for quite some time, and it’s now teamed up with DeviceFidelity in the hope of bringing them to even more cellphone users. That company makes (among other things) a contactless payment system contained on a microSD card which, when paired with Visa’s own payWave system, will [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
Mobbler, easily one of the first apps I install on any Symbian-powered smartphone, has finally gotten itself Symbian Signed, releasing as v1.9 (265). The new update will also be available through the Ovi Store shortly, which is awesome and will be a huge boon for the team involved.
Mobbler v1.9 also includes the ability to set [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
Aw, why don’t these CEOs say stuff like this in press conferences? Sony Ericsson’s head Bert Nordberg has shared with Swedish publication Sydsvenskan the rather salacious news that his company was asked to build the so-called Google phone before HTC… and it turned down the opportunity. Fearing brand dilution or something equally crazy, Nordberg states [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
Windows Phone what? Dell Mini who? Forget all that fancy nonsense, this is a proper mobile device. Running Windows Mobile 6.1, the AIS ultra-rugged PDA comes with a 3.7-inch QVGA (that’s a whopping 240 x 320 resolution, folks!) screen, a Marvell chip that might have been around when the wheel was invented, and the surprisingly [...]
