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Latest News - September 2012
- Maker Faire 2012 New York - Attack of The 3D Printer Bots
- Maingear Intro's New 17" Nomad 17 Gaming Notebook
- Google Shutting Down And Tweaking Even More Services In "Spring Cleaning"
- Microsoft Faces Lawsuit Over Kinect Motion Sensor Technology
- iPhone 4 and 4S Users Report Excessive Battery Drain with iOS 6
- Google Chalks Up Strongest Quarterly Rally in 7 Years
- Gangnam Style Goes Viral, Even Infects Intel
- Apparently No One is Watching 3D TV, Viewership Insignificant
- Modbook Pro Stuffs A Mac In A Tablet Form Factor
- Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With The Computer History Museum
- Survey Says Americans Read News Online More So Than Any Other Source
- Sugar Batteries Could Offer 20 Percent More Capacity than Lithium Ion
- Microsoft Details Windows 8 And IE10 Internal Testing
- Sony Adds Loads Of New Features To Tablet S In Android 4.0.3 Update
- Minecraft Developer Refuses To Certify Game For Windows 8
- It's Finally Here: HP Outs webOS 1.0
- AT&T Beefs Up 4G LTE Portfolio with Quartet of Samsung Galaxy Devices
- In a Jam, Kodak Stops Selling Inkjet Printers
- X7A and Xi3 Modular Computer Come To Kickstarter, Looking HOT
- North Korea Rolls Out Android Tablet of Their Own
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All News for September 2012
We headed down to Maker Faire 2012 in New York this weekend to check out the expo's massive spread of engineering awesomeness and creativity in the fields of robotics, electronics, computing and much more. When you arrive at the fair, the first thing that strikes you is how completely organic the whole scene is. Inventors, creators,...
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Intel's got new hardware, which means that OEMs have new machines. Maingear is no exception, offering up the new Nomad 17 gaming laptop with the latest 3rd-generation Core i7 mobile processor. Users will get a quad-core chip capable of hitting 3.8GHz, up to 32GB of DDR3-1600 RAM, a wide array of HDD choices (including SSD and RAID arrays),...
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Google has been giving up on a lot of its dreams over the past few years. While the company once prided itself on doing a zillion different things at once, it's aiming to prioritize, focus and kill off projects that just aren't up to snuff. While that's probably great for employees, it's oftentimes upsetting for...
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While gamers move and gyrate in front of Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor for the Xbox 360, the Redmond outfit will have to do some maneuvering of its own...in court. A company called Intelligent Verification Systems claims in federal court that the Kinect infringes on a 2006 patent for an "Animated Toy Utilizing...
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Apple iPhone 4 and 4S owners haven't much time to celebrate the release of iOS 6, which introduces a bazillion new features, along with a nifty panoramic picture mode. Unfortunately, for some users, all the goodness of iOS 6 has come at the expense of battery life. Yep, here we go again. It seems like shortened...
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Apple had some brilliant days on the stock market in recent months, but Google has been gaining ground, too; in fact, according to Fox Business News, the search giant is headed for its biggest quarterly rally in 7 years. This quarter, the company’s stock price is up 30%, which torched analyst expectations. Over the summer, there was...
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Just because you're the largest, most dominant chip maker in the world doesn't mean you can't cut loose and have a little fun in every once awhile. And hey, nobody ever accused Intel of not having a sense of humor. The Santa Clara chip maker also isn't immune to the occasional Internet craze, the latest being the "Gangnam Style" video that's...
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When Avatar and Clash of the Titans hit theaters in 2009, 3D was heralded as the next big thing. Standard movies were released with 3D versions and 3D TV channels were expected to change the way people watched TV. But today, the momentum for 3D TV has split from the momentum for 3D movies and 3D TV viewership...
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What if there were an iPad, but it ran OS X instead of iOS? Apple hasn't made one just yet, but the third-party market is alive and well making dreams like that come true. The Modbook Pro is a highly unique machine, offering a 13.3" Mac experience inside of a pen-tablet form factor. The new model is doing away with the HDD in favor of an SSD,...
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There aren’t a lot of museums where most of the main attractions were created by (or actually are) people who are still alive and kicking, outside of modern art. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, is one of those places, and although some visitors will simply want to find their own first...
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In the past 15 years, newspapers have watched readers gradually (and then rapidly) shift their news consumption from the printed word to the digital one. What started as nearly imperceptible readership losses rapidly snowballed as the world realized it could get fresher content free online. Now, it looks as though...
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Lithium-ion batteries have been powering our gadgets for more than 20 years and aren’t going away anytime soon, but serious competition may be emerging in the form of sodium and…sugar. Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science believe that sodium-sucrose-based batteries could deliver a 20%...
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A product is only as good as its creators say it is, and in the case of Windows 8, it looks as if it's not going to hit store shelves until those within Microsoft's walls test the heck out of it. A new blog post today over at the company's site details the story of deploying Windows 8 within Microsoft, which it fondly refers to as "dogfooding."...
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With the iPad grabbing the lion's share of the tablet market in the States, it's easy to forget that there's an entire other tablet market out there. But the Android tablet universe is growing, and Sony's hoping to not get left behind. The company's Tablet S is seeing a big update today, bringing the software to...
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The backlash against Windows 8 from various developers continues, but this time the creator in question isn't just expressing discontent. Notch, the developer behind smash hit Minecraft, a game that's torn up sales charts on both the Xbox and PC, has declared that he won't be working with Microsoft to certify Mincraft for Windows 8. Yesterday,...
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It’s been a long road back from the brink for webOS, but today HP kept its promise about reviving the mobile operating system and unveiled webOS 1.0 just weeks after debuting a beta version. “Our combined efforts with the community and hard work have paid off, and we are now ready to move on to the next phase together,” the...
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The 4G LTE options on AT&T’s network just got a little deeper and more diverse with the addition of four new Samsung Galaxy devices, and each of the four offer something for specific market segments. The Galaxy Express is a solid entry-level smartphone with a 4.5-inch AMOLED display, 1.5GHz dual-core...
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You knew this was coming sooner or later. Kodak has been winding down its businesses and has finally gotten around to its consumer inkjet printers, which were popular (but not popular enough) for using long-lasting ink cartridges. Kodak plans to continue selling those ink cartridges long after it officially shuts down the inkjet printer...
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Apple and PC doomsayers like to talk an awful lot about the so-called post-PC era, but you know what? Desktops are far from dead, "they've just been boring," claims the developers of the Xi3 Modular Computer project. They want to change the way computers are built, serviced, and upgraded, but first they need to raise...
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It would appear that North Korea wants a piece of the Android tablet action and has developed an open-source slate of its own. Based on pictures floating around in the press, North Korea's Android tablet is well beyond the early stages and, if not a finished product, looks to be a very advanced prototype. A picture was taken of the country's...
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Remember the old days, when your phone would vibrate and you’d practically jump out of your seat? Those days are back if you have an iPhone 5. Users are reporting that the iPhone 5 has an especially jarring vibration feature, so The Next Web dug into the smartphone and found out that it has an old vibration motor. You want...
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Windows 8 is still weeks away from release, but the preview versions have given many users a chance to form opinions. And, of course, there are always people who have opinions before they take an OS for a spin. To find out what people are thinking about the upcoming operating system, Windows 8 Forums recently...
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