Archive for May, 2010
Samsung Transparent LCD Screen Shown at SID 2010
May 27 by Ransler Dier | 1 commentOLED Screens have proven not to be the best type of screens to try and make transparent due to backlighting issues, but Samsung may have beat this with some cleverly hidden backlighting at the SID International Symposium. The company emphasized the transparency of their 46″ LCD Display panel by placing wine bottles behind more »
The Open Web: A Trashy Ghetto You'd Never Want To Visit? Or Something Else?
May 27 by James Mowery | 5 commentsImagine a city with stores that look like jail cells, dark alleys with no end in sight, graffiti written all over the walls, and thugs on every street corner. This city is the open web, containing Google, Yahoo, Craigslist, eBay, Paypal, and others. Now imagine a city with multi-million dollar more »
Apple Controls 70% of Digital Music Sold; 28 Percent of All Music Sales
May 27 by Ransler Dier | add commentApple’s iTunes music store controls a dominant share of the US digital music market with a 28 percent share of all music sold and 70 percent of all digital downloads. The NDP Group, a New York based market research firm, released its findings that iTunes’ share of retail digital download business more »
Steve Ballmer to Speak During WWDC Keynote?
May 27 by Ransler Dier | add commentSteve Ballmer, the sweaty chief executive for Microsoft, may surprise us by playing a part in Apple’s keynote presentation at this year’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. This, of course, is still all a rumor. But Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with Global Equities Research, insists more »
Firefox Comes to the iPhone
May 27 by Ransler Dier | 2 commentsMozilla is attempting to make inputting URLs on your iPhone a thing of the past with its new application, Firefox Home. The app was confirmed this morning on Mozilla’s Official blog. The group has confirmed that they have been working on an application for the iPhone, basing it on the Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology. Firefox Home will more »
New Facebook Privacy Rules Roll Out, We Break Them Down
May 26 by Angela West | 2 commentsWhat do these new privacy rules mean for your Facebook account? Are there any holes that have been left open by the Facebook team? Here is our breakdown that will tell you exactly what you need to know about the new rules. One Control to Rule Them All Facebook has announced that there will now be only one privacy setting more »
Apple PWNS Microsoft in Total Market Value for the First Time
May 26 by Angela West | 4 commentsTHAT JUST HAPPENED. No really, it did. In trading today, Apple eclipsed Microsoft’s total market capitalization value for the first time ever. Apple stock was trading earlier today for $247.62, giving Apple a total value of $225.57 billion. Its rival, Microsoft, was trading at $25.38 with a more »
Apple Has Two 4G iPhone Prototypes for June Launch
May 26 by Ransler Dier | add commentThere have been many rumors and leaks surfacing over the past few months leading up to the launch of the iPhone 4G. Well, there is another little snippet of info for fanboys, and this time it comes straight from the source. In an interview with Digitimes, Apple’s senior analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed that Apple has two next more »
Apple to Ship iPhone 4G in Early June
May 26 by Ransler Dier | 2 commentsWe have lift-off. After months of drooling over leaked prototype photos and speculating on what the new features will be, Boy Genius Report reported today that the new iPhone 4G will launch and be ready for purchase in early June. July was its expected arrival date prior to the announcement. Many iPhone hopefuls more »
Sony Debuts OLED Screen That Can Wrap Around a Pencil
May 26 by Ransler Dier | 2 commentsSony has announced today that it has just developed a hyper-flexible color OLED display that can be wrapped around a cylinder as thin as a pencil. The display is thinner than a strand of hair at 80 μm-thick with a 4.1 inch, 121 ppi, and Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) full color OLED display. To create more »
Gadget or Furniture? Either Way It's a Bad-Ass Mirror
May 26 by Ransler Dier | 1 commentHave you ever wanted to check the weather while doing your makeup or, for us men, shaving? What about having the time displayed so you can keep track of how long it takes to do your hair? Roca’s new high tech mirror may be just what you are looking for. It features an FM radio, allowing you to listen more »
5 Ways The Web is Making TV Better
May 26 by Navneet Alang | add commentOver the past couple of days, it feels like half the web is chatting about the finale of Lost. But whether you think the surprising ending or the show itself was worthy of all the hype, one thing is clear: people are heading to the internet to talk about it. But giving people a chance to talk about TV isn’t more »
LOST Gets Found On Torrent Sites
May 26 by Toby Leftly | add commentThe series finale of the hit show LOST has achieved a dubious honor. It is officially the most pirated torrent file of all time. Because the show aired in the US up to 72 hours before airing in other countries, a record number of torrent site users opted to download the file online rather than wait for more »
Boogie Board Beats Pen And Paper
May 26 by Toby Leftly | 2 commentsTrees are our friends these days, but we still have to chop down a whole bunch of our good buddies so we can write notes to our significant others to remind them that they should pick up milk if they’re at the store, and don’t forget to pick up the kids. The paperless office was largely a bust, due to the more »
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