Daily Archives: December 9, 2011

It Begins: Coby Preparing Five Ice Cream Sandwich Tablets For CES

December 9, 2011
It Begins: Coby Preparing Five Ice Cream Sandwich Tablets For CES

Ice Cream Sandwich tablets are already coming out of the woodwork, and it looks like at least a few of them will be ready for CES 2012. The folks over at Coby Electronics have just revealed five, count ‘em five Android 4.0 tablets that will soon be making their Las Vegas debut. As you...

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Hands-On With the New Spotify Radio: Look Out, Pandora

December 9, 2011
Hands-On With the New Spotify Radio: Look Out, Pandora

Normally when a tech company launches a product or feature that’s billed as a potential “killer” of a popular incumbent, there’s cause to be skeptical. Quite often, that’s just unsubstantiated hype either on the part of the company itself or tech writers. In the case of Spotify’s new Web radio feature, we’re not going...

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C#, Objective-C and JavaScript Move Up in TIOBE Index

December 9, 2011
C#, Objective-C and JavaScript Move Up in TIOBE Index

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. TIOBE Software has released its programming community index for December 2011,...

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Watch The World’s Fastest Flying Human Being

December 9, 2011

If you had one wish what would it be? When you were a kid I bet a lot of you said that you wanted to fly. As humans, we may rule the Earth but we’re relegated to walking and running. Meanwhile the birds, Richard Branson and one man named Espen Fadnes rule the sky....

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Sometimes you just need to blow something up

December 9, 2011
Sometimes you just need to blow something up

There are times when only a gigantic explosion will make you feel whole again. For those times, there is DevestatingExplosions.com. Visit the site, smash the button, get delivered a very satisfying ball of fire blowing something apart. Feel better? The site is part of a brilliant campaign, again, from Old Spice marketing gurus Wieden +...

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Your Tiny Mobile Screen Drives StumbleUpon and Twitter Redesigns

December 9, 2011
Your Tiny Mobile Screen Drives StumbleUpon and Twitter Redesigns

This week, serendipity engine StumbleUpon launched an entirely redesigned site, complete with a new logo and a focus on topic features. A few days later, Twitter announced big updates to its user interface, completely changing the experience to focus more on a supposedly simpler user interface that tries to change hashtags from a symbol...

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When it comes to cancer, sharing can be the best medicine

December 9, 2011

With all of the social networking sites at our disposal, we’ve become somewhat robotic in how we share, and what we share. And then somehow real life always kicks back in and you’re smacked in the face with reality. There are actual people behind those computers and avatars. For all of the horror stories...

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Why Google Just Bought A Company That Helps Musicians Get Paid (GOOG)

December 9, 2011
Why Google Just Bought A Company That Helps Musicians Get Paid (GOOG)

Image: DrGala via Flickr See Also: EXPOSED: Music Startup Grooveshark’s Plan To Rip Off The Record Labels If Google Really Wanted To Screw With Apple, It Would Do This IT CAN HAPPEN HERE: The Feds Shut Down A Music Blog For A Year For No Real Reason Google has bought RightsFlow, a company that...

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This week at Microsoft: Windows 8, Xbox, and slipping market share

December 9, 2011

What a week! What drama! What intrigue! You just scratched your head, right? I know you did because this was a tame week by any standard. That in mind, let’s keep it brief today, upbeat, and happy. To begin, I shall not ask you a Microsoft question, as I do every week, but instead...

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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Will Hit Verizon Stores December 15 [REPORT] (GOOG, VZW)

December 9, 2011
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Will Hit Verizon Stores December 15 [REPORT] (GOOG, VZW)

Image: Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also: Ice Cream Sandwich Review: Sorry Google, I’m Not Ready To Ditch iOS Yet Actually, Google Currents Is Almost Nothing Like Flipboard (It’s Better) 10 Ways iOS Absolutely Annihilates Android Ice Cream Sandwich Verizon has told all employees and managers that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will launch on...

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