Daily Archives: August 16, 2011

THE BEST GADGET DESIGNERS ALIVE: They Created iPhone, RAZR, Wii, And More

August 16, 2011
THE BEST GADGET DESIGNERS ALIVE: They Created iPhone, RAZR, Wii, And More

See Also: These Young Troublemakers Got Hired For Hacking Apple, Facebook, And Microsoft The Best Gmail Labs Features That Will Help You Get More Done The Ugliest New Tablet OS That You Have To See Ever wonder who’s behind your favorite gadgets like the iPhone, Motorola RAZR, and Nintendo Wii? We’ve gathered all...

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Hey You, Come Hang Out On Google+*

August 16, 2011
Hey You, Come Hang Out On Google+*

Image: Screenshot See Also: Google+ Gets Games, Including Zynga Google Will Take Only 5% Of In-Game Sales — Facebook Takes 30% Facebook Strikes Back Against Google Games Update: OK, whew! That was fun, but we are worn out! Catch you next time. Earlier: We’re hosting a Google+ hangout right now. Topic: whatever you want....

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Microsoft’s Surface 2.0 testing robot paTTy is a nerdy delight

August 16, 2011

We don’t usually go full-nerd here at TNW, but today is an exception. Yesterday on TechNet, Microsoft posted a video that shows off a robot it built to help the company test the coming Surface 2.0. In other words, it spent oodles of money and time building something that mimics, wait for it, hands....

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Apple’s first update to OSX Lion now available for download

August 16, 2011
Apple’s first update to OSX Lion now available for download

Moments ago, as reported by macstories, Apple released the first update to OS X Lion. The Mac OS version 10.7.1 includes a number of fixes to the brand new operating system including WiFi reliability, video issues in Safari and reported audio issues with HDMI connectivity. Perhaps the most important update includes an improvement on the migration of...

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Japan’s first Windows Phone handset gets priced

August 16, 2011

The Fujitsu IS12T, the world’s first Windows Phone 7 Mango handset, and Japan’s first WP7 handset at all, was priced today. Our reaction: “The rent price is (probably) too damn high!” The IS12T is no slouch of a phone: It’s near waterproof, has a 13 megapixel camera, and runs Mango on its 32 gigabytes...

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UK Riots & Poverty Put on a Google Map

August 16, 2011
UK Riots & Poverty Put on a Google Map

“These riots were not about poverty,” England’s Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday – but thanks to publicly available data, free services like Google Maps and web collaboration – statements like that are now more fact-checkable than ever. London’s data-loving Guardian newspaper did just that this morning, mapping out the data about riot locations...

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MIT Launches Center for Mobile Learning with Support From Google

August 16, 2011
MIT Launches Center for Mobile Learning with Support From Google

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced the creation of a new Center for Mobile Learning. The center will be housed at the MIT Media Lab. Google supported the creation of the center with a grant from Google University Relations. The center’s first project will be the adoption and further development of App Inventor...

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Microsoft sends Mozilla tiny cupcake to celebrate ‘small’ Firefox release

August 16, 2011
Microsoft sends Mozilla tiny cupcake to celebrate ‘small’ Firefox release

Microsoft’s never-ending cake shipping saga has taken a new turn today, as Mozilla released yet another version of Firefox, forcing the Redmond software giant into sending more sugar. And as usual, Microsoft took advantage of the moment to poke a little fun at its browser rival. Instead of sending Mozilla a real cake, as...

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Uberblic launches a ‘Rosetta Stone’ that lets multiple APIs work together for developers

August 16, 2011

The explosion of APIs in recent years means that developers have all sorts of data at their disposal for use in their applications. Getting data from multiple APIs work to work together can be tricky, and that’s where Uberblic comes in. The Berlin-based team at Uberblic Labs has created a product that links data...

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Microsoft likely set to distribute developer preview, not beta, of Windows 8 at BUILD

August 16, 2011
Microsoft likely set to distribute developer preview, not beta, of Windows 8 at BUILD

Yesterday, we brought you the news that Microsoft had made new comments that pointed to a quickly approaching publicly available build of Windows 8. We called it a beta, but new information seems to point to it being a developer preview edition of the forthcoming operating system instead. To refresh your memory, Microsoft said...

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