Honda robot Asimo makes balky tour guide
Honda’s interactive robot Asimo gestures while talking with visitors at a demonstration event at the Miraikan science museum, in Tokyo(Photo: Shizuo Kambayashi AP) TOKYO — Honda.’s walking, talking interactive robot is running into glitches in its new job as a museum guide in Tokyo. The bubble-headed Asimo machine…
Who says Apple’s iPhone 5 is the ‘most-hated smartphone’?
FORTUNE — Here’s what passes for tech news on ABC TV these days: “Tough news for Apple. Research firm We Are Social names the iPhone 5 the most-hated smartphone on the market for receiving the most complaints on social media. Last year, by contrast, the Samsung Galaxy S4 was named That…
BlackBerry investors to turn up the heat on management
TORONTO/NEW YORK – BlackBerry will likely face tough questions about its future at its annual meeting on Tuesday after dismal quarterly results last week triggered a 28 percent plunge in the Canadian smartphone maker’s share price. Sales of BlackBerry’s make-or-break new line of smartphones in the quarter ended June 1 “The…
Push alternatives for your Gmail messages on iOS
You may have noticed towards the end of 2012, Google started cleaning house and turning off some services many of us have come to depend on. One such service was Google’s Sync Services for Gmail, which allowed iOS users to access their Gmail accounts via the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol, The…
We’ll All Be Able To Watch Hi-Def TV In Planes By 2020
Watching “Les Miserables” on Gulfstream’s $65 million G650 private jet. Like so many great plane features, high-definition television is reserved to those who fly in private jets. The reason is simple: You need a lot more bandwidth for a plane with 200 passengers than for one with ten. Back in 2007, Freesky That…
Samsung Electronics’ second quarter misses forecast as smartphone worries …
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd missed already modest expectations for its quarterly earnings guidance on Friday, deepening worries that its smartphone business may have peaked, as growth in sales of its blockbuster Galaxy phones begins to wane and new rivals emerge to eat away at its market share….
The Best iPad Apps of the Week: Not Worse Than Food Poisoning
I bought a case of flavored “wild berry” bottled water this week. It was an accident, I thought it was just regular old water, but no, it’s some foul mix of whatever the dentist gives you right before he gives you the water cup to spit that crap out and…
Kim Dotcom’s Mega coming soon to iOS
Kim Dotcom’s cloud storage file-sharing service, called Mega, is coming soon to iOS. The service launched earlier this year to mark the one-year anniversary of the US government’s seizure of Megaupload.com. Mega works like many other cloud storage solutions, like Dropbox. However, Mega offers users 50 GB of free storage…
Teen Jailed for Facebook Posting About School Shooting
Americans were still reeling from the elementary-school massacre in Newtown, Conn., when Justin Carter allegedly committed his crime in New Braunfels, a city in central Texas. “I think I’ma [sic] shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one…
Test Report: Panasonic TC-P60ST60 3D Plasma HDTV
There’s an argument to be made that Panasonic’s ST50 Series plasma was the best TV to come out last year not the company’s more expensive VT50 model, which was Sound & Vision’s Video Product of the Year for 2012. Here’s why: The ST50 performed similarly to the VT50, but it So…
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