Month: January 2013

Article Culture

7 Massive Ideas That Can Change the World

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As reported on Wired. BY WIRED STAFF Photo: Getty Images; Illustration: Carl Detorres Tesla. Prius. Volt. The auto industry is stocked with radical new designs that reduce the environmental impact of driving. The airplane industry has been incrementally improving fuel efficiency for decades, but it’s maxing out the potential of current designs and will soon need to come up with a similarly transformative rethink. And it has to move fast. Air travel is set to explode—more than…

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Application Games

Arma Tactics coming to Project Shield

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As reported on Polygon. By EMILY GERA Developer Bohemia Interactive is developing a new title in the Arma franchise, a turn-based strategy game called Arma Tactics, designed for Nvidia’s upcoming Project Shield handheld device. In Arma Tactics, players take control of a four-member Special Forces squad and work their way through story-driven and randomly generated missions. Players can either take a direct approach through the game or adopt a stealthier way of playing, while making use of both basic and…

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Entertainment Film

‘Sin City’ sequel adds Julia Garner and Eva Green to growing cast

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AS reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor New additions join Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, and Bruce Willis on the set of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited sequel Deadline is reporting that both Julia Garner and Eva Green have signed on to the cast ofSin City: A Dame to Kill For, joining Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, and Bruce Willis on the set of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s upcoming sequel. Green, who starred in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows and played a…

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Business Cloud

Ballmer dismisses Dropbox as a ‘little startup’ with 100 million users

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has dismissed Dropbox as a “fine little startup” in an interview with Bloomberg this week. Discussing the recent launch of Office 2013 and Microsoft’s late entry into the cloud with its SkyDrive service, Ballmer says that 100 million Dropbox users is a “pretty small number” in comparison to the number of Office users. “We’ve got a lot more Office users,” he says, while discussing Hotmail and SkyDrive users too.…

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Apple

Apple trademarks its retail store design

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek The US Patent and Trademark Office has approved Apple’s request to trademark the design and layout of its iconic retail stores — stores that other US companies have tried in recent years to imitate. Apple had to fight to get its store trademark, with the patent office rejecting Apple’s request twice. In the second rejection, the USPTO said that Apple’s design wasn’t “inherently distinctive,” prompting Apple to file…

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Application Google

Rave ‘Reviews’ For North Korean Gulags On Google Maps

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN It’s no secret that the Internet has a hard time taking things seriously. “Best. Gulag. Ever.’, raved Google user, C. Quinn, about Yodok North Korean prison. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt probably expected his recent high-profile visit to the isolated dictatorship to have a more sobering impact on online discourse. But, after Google asked users to help identify important roads and landmarks for the newly mapped country, it should have…

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Mobile

Music And Videos Go Live On BlackBerry World Web Store Ahead Of Today’s BB10 Launch

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As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS Today is D-Day for BlackBerry-maker RIM. Or rather BB10 day — as the company will finally do the big reveal of its rebooted mobile OS platform. With hours to go until the launch event kicks off, RIM has flicked the multimedia switch for its revamped BlackBerry World web store — putting the new music and video categories live. The arrival of the content was spotted earlier by CrackBerry.com. While both the…

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Mobile

Nexus 4 trots out in white, sets unicorn fans aflutter Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Myriam Joire We’re pretty fond of unicorns white phones here at Engadget, especially rare ones like the white Nokia N9. So you can imagine our excitement when we came across this photo of a white Nexus 4 over at Phone Arena. While rumors of a white Nexus 4have been swirling around the intertubes for some time, a picture speaks a thousand words, right? We took a long, eagle-eyed look at this image and didn’t see any…

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Business Tablet Tech

Three mystery Samsung Galaxy Tab profiles spotted: GT-P8200 model houses 2,560 x 1,600 display?

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith  While we know Samsung’s planning plenty for us to see in Barcelona in a few weeks, we’re still not certain on the specifics. Perhaps, then, it’s got a handful of tablets for us. That’s what these handful of User Agent profiles purport to show us. The model numbers GT-P3200, GT-P5200 and the GT-P8200 suggest that they’ll join theGalaxy Tab family, although these profiles only give us a little detail to work on.…

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Mobile OS

What we know about BlackBerry 10

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As reported on Engadget. By Sarah Silbert Despite — or rather thanks to — major delays in releasing BlackBerry 10, RIM has let quite a bit slip about its upcoming operating system and related BB10 devices. We’ve had more than a year to absorb leaks, rumors and official information, after all, so it’s no surprise that we have a very good idea of what to expect when Waterloo pulls back the curtain on January 30th. That doesn’t mean…

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