With the solicitation of suggestions from Windows Phone handset owners, Microsoft may be about to adapt its Windows Phone 7.8 software and ship it with a couple of previously unannounced features, a post on the company’s Windows Phone forums indicates. In reply to a post entitled “MORE WINDOWS PHONE 7.8 FEATURES!!” (via WMPowerUser)– where a...
Daily Archives: September 9, 2012
Getting Into The Groove: A Few Hours In At The Disrupt SF 2012 Hackathon [TCTV]
As this is being published, it’s just after midnight at the Disrupt SF 2012 Hackathon, and programmers are elbows deep into their projects (or perhaps in the middle of a well-deserved nap) with a very limited amount of time left to finish them off and polish them up for on-stage presentations Sunday. It may...
Last week in Asia: Baidu launches Android browser, mobile Web tops fixed-line in India, and more
Welcome to the latest instalment of Last Week in Asia, our roundup of the key stories and developments from across Asia’s growing technology and Internet spaces. China Top story: Baidu, China’s Google, jumps on mobile, launches speedy Android browser Baidu dominates the search space in China, accounting for around 80 percent of the local market, and last...
How RelayRides’ GM-OnStar Partnership Unlocks Doors — And A Potential 15M Cars For Its Fleet
Pardon the pun, but peer-to-peer car-sharing service RelayRides is on a roll. In March, the startup expanded beyond its first two regional markets — Boston and San Francisco — and made its marketplace available nationwide. Part of the reason it could do that is a partnership with GM and the automaker’s OnStar service. The...
Can Breaking Bad’s Story Sync get viewers to give up their DVRs?
Last Sunday, I did something I haven’t done in a long time: Watch an episode of television as it aired — commercials and all. Please note: This article contains MASSIVE spoilers for the 5th season of “Breaking Bad.” You’ve been warned. For the past two months, AMC has prefaced each new episode of the...
Meet The Disrupt SF 2012 Hackathon Hackers
Every Disrupt we like to walk around the hall and meet with the uber-cool hackers who have dedicated their lives to making cool stuff in less than a day. We cornered five hackers and asked them what they were working on, what their biggest problem has been so far, and who would they consider...
Samsung tipped to post record Q3 profits of $6.2 billion, driven by Galaxy S3 sales
It seems like Samsung only just revealed record quarterly financials in July but already the Korean firm is being tipped to better those figures with its performance in the third quarter of 2012. Korea-based analysts — cited by The Yonhap — foresee that operating profit during the period will hit $6.2 billion (7 trillion...