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Born 20 years too early. Curses sometimes. Thinks too much. Believes plug-and-play is the best invention ever. If asked what he wants for his birthday he will say a gadget, then money. So he can go buy a gadget.
Sweden's Pirate Party, after continued pressure from a domestic anti-piracy group, has decided to discontinue its hosting of The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most popular file sharing website that has been making copyrighted material freely available since 2001.Being internationally infamous does not help TPB, with many countries not willing to (or dissuaded by international pressure) to host the site. While no one knows for sure the exact location of the pirates, according to TorrentFreak, it has been traced ...
After several complaints, BlackBerry has decided to introduce a review process to re-assess some apps that were mistakenly rejected from its US$10k Developer Commitment and Port-Athon projects. Many apps were mistakenly classified as "single function" apps, while other well constructed apps were rejected outright.This is a key development plan for BlackBerry, as past devices have been slated for the lack of quality apps. BlackBerry currently has a little over 70 000 apps available in its BlackBerry World app store, a ...
Plug and Play has a new word added to it: washable. The Logitech k310 Washable Keyboard (WK) delivers the promise of a clean and washable waterproof keyboard that will keep OCD users safe from dust and dead bugs. Because for those of you who don't know, the humble keyboard can actually be a festering sump of nasty germs, and has even been rated as dirtier than a toilet seat.Anyone who knows me will know that, even though I can be ...
The smartphone personal assistant war is heating up, with Google Now for Android taking Siri for iOS head-on. During the Grammy awards on Sunday, Google aired an advertisement for Google Now on the Nexus 4, focusing particularly on the application.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpaLZOjqMew&w=650&h=366]Google Now has been rated highly by pundits, and has received praise with Popular Science naming it the "Innovation of the Year" for 2012. We could see this as the first case of an app selling a smartphone, not a ...
The word is still out on the future of PC desktops, as Memeburn has reported on extensively.The signs are ominous that mobile computing will (eventually but maybe not entirely) take over the traditional box-with-a-brain, and thus the announcement that Intel, the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, will set its production of desktop motherboards into idle is an unpleasant and stomach churning proclamation for a vast industry.What? Intel is changing its core reason for existence? It's not ...
It is no secret that RIM has been struggling lately. Apple and Samsung rule the roost, with various other smartphone manufacturers taking large cuts out of BlackBerry's previous market share. But until now we have been hearing mostly that it's just a quieter period for the Canadian company, that it is just building its new operating system for the future.In a recent interview with German newspaper Welt, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins spoke about that future. Reading it in a ...
There was one thing predominantly clear at CES 2013. Actually it's two things: 3D TV is dead/dying, and enormous living-room-dominating Ultra HD and OLED TVs are the next big thing. Ultra HD, also termed 4K, has been on everybody's lips with the three main competitors Samsung, Sony and LG displaying TV sets that almost defy logic, and making the oft-used phrase "world's first" into a cliché. And believe it or not, an 8K TV snuck in there too...Read more on ...
Yes, BlackBerry is having connection issues again -- but it's not the type of widespread outage we saw back in 2011 when BIS was down for days on end. In what seems to be a carrier problem, BlackBerry users on Vodafone networks are experiencing down time in large parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. RIM alerted its users and customers in the UK via twitter account, posting the following: "Vodafone service issues are impacting some BlackBerry customers in ...
