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Archive for April, 2012
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Apple turned tech into a one-horse race
April 30th, 2012 
mrinal “Across the year you’re going to see a lot more of the kind of innovation that only Apple can deliver” Tim Cook said after today’s blockbuster financial results. If you’re a fan of Apple products – or indeed of innovation in the tech industry in general – then that bodes for interesting times in the [...]
How would you change the LG Nitro HD?
April 30th, 2012 mrinal AT&T’s LG Nitro HD is one of those rare devices your writer has actually used. We carried it as our daily driver during this year’s CES and were won over by that gorgeous screen, speedy LTE and its thin and light design. Unfortunately our experience matched those in the review: herky-jerky performance and battery life [...]
Apple spits out Android option from Chomp app navigator
April 30th, 2012 mrinal It’s taken a bit longer than we expected, but following Apple’s acquisition of app search engine Chomp, the Android option has now been cut out from its homepage. We’re now left with the choice between iPhone and iPad categories, alongside existing shortcuts for popular freebies and apps on sale, in a few efforts to cut [...]
NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k
April 30th, 2012 mrinal Would you look at that? NVIDIA hinted it would be coming today, and it looks like the tease is living up to the hype. The company stormed into the weekend at its Shanghai Game Festival by unleashing its latest offering, the GeForce GTX 690 — and oh yeah, it’s packing two 28nm Kepler GPUs! Trumping [...]
Sony’s Alpha A37 and NEX-F3 pose for the camera, reveal more angles, details
April 30th, 2012 mrinal Well, well, talk about déjà vu! It was just yesterday that a corner of Sony’s 16.1 megapixel NEX-F3 leaked onto the interwebs and now more photos have surfaced, along with a previously unannounced shooter, the Alpha A37 SLT. The pictures come courtesy of Yang Canggih, which says it had a chance to demo the two [...]
Is this RIM’s BlackBerry 10 development device?
April 30th, 2012 mrinal You know the drill — grab yourself a spoonful of Morton’s and get ready for another supposed leak of a gadget. This time around, you’re looking at what’s claimed as being one of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 “Development Alpha” devices that’ll be handed out during next week’s BlackBerry Jam — just like the company [...]
FAA writing rules for electric aircraft, to allow public to fly them in the next decade
April 28th, 2012 mrinal There are those in the general aviation community who think electric planes are the future for private aircraft, but regulatory hurdles are in place preventing them from proliferating in our skies. You see, current FAA requirements for light sport aircraft (LSA) — planes that can be flown by anyone with a pilot’s license — preclude [...]
Blackberry Foursquare app gets NFC support
April 28th, 2012 mrinal Here’s something we don’t get to say very often – the Blackberry version of a popular social app is trailblazing the way for new technology. Yes, the Foursquare app on Research in Motion’s dying smartphone platform has just been updated, bringing with it support for a whole portfolio of Near Field Communication (NFC) features. This [...]
Distro Issue 38: a peek at the Navy’s Robotics Laboratory and an interview with MSI’s Jeans Huang
April 28th, 2012 mrinal Ah, yes. The end of the week is upon us. Of course, this means that the latest installment of our tablet publication has arrived. Stepping up to the plate this time around, Brian Heater takes a look inside LASR, the Navy’s Robotics Lab, and Richard Lai chats with MSI co-founder Jeans Huang. After a strong [...]