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Posted on: March 13, 2014 7:00 am

Daylight Reinvents The Experience Of Art Photography On The iPad

Daylight, an immersive iPad app dedicated to art photography, has been a decade in the making. The company’s founder Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff first built a bi-annual magazine about 10 years ago dedicated to documentary photography. "It was meant to bridge the gap between the more conceptual concerns of fine…

Posted on: March 12, 2014 5:00 pm

Windows 8.1 Update 1: Meh, it’ll have to do I suppose

Microsoft is preparing the way to release its second update for the Windows 8 operating system next month, but thanks to both contacts within the industry and a foul-up by Microsoft which made the Windows 8.1 Update 1 packages available on Windows Update for anyone wanting to grab them, I’ve On installing the…

Posted on: March 12, 2014 5:00 pm

Video: The Hero of Grandparent Wifi

A time capsule from the era of Compaq Presarios and the Geek Squad. Anyone can make a funny video, but it’s the mark of the master to create an artifact of the times with that funny video. And that’s what we have here in the Ballad of the Wifi Hero,…

Posted on: March 12, 2014 5:00 pm

Testberichte für das Medion Akoya P2211T MD98602

Ausstattung / DatenblattNotebook: Medion Akoya P2211T MD98602Prozessor: Intel Celeron N2910Grafikkarte: Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail)Bildschirm: 11.6 Zoll, 16:9, 1920×1080 Pixel, spiegelnd: jaGewicht: 1.695kgPreis: 449 Euro Medion Akoya P2211T MD98602 Bewertung: 71.5% – BefriedigendDurchschnitt von 2 Bewertungen (aus 1 Tests) Preis: – %, Leistung: 71%, Ausstattung: 69%, Bildschirm: 84% Mobilitaet: 93%, Verarbeitung: 65%, Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail): Grafikeinheit…

Posted on: March 12, 2014 12:00 pm

BlackBerry’s QNX: Why it’s so valuable to Apple, Google, auto industry

Apple’s CarPlay has to ride on top of BlackBerry’s QNX platform for in-auto entertainment systems. Ford was reportedly pondering a swap from Microsoft to QNX to for its Sync platform. And it’s highly likely that the front end of Google’s Android in-vehicle efforts are also going to have a QNX…

Posted on: March 12, 2014 7:00 am

HS Robotics Team Qualifies For Tech World Championship –

EULESS (CBSDFW.COM) A North Texas robotics team is one step away from world domination. Last week students from Trinity High School in Euless qualified for the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship to be held in St. Louis next month. Now if they can only raise the cash to get…

Posted on: March 12, 2014 7:00 am

Man Beats Robot at Ping-Pong, World Breathes Sigh of Relief

Are robots destined to beat humans at everything? Maybe not or at least not yet. Chinese industrial robotics company Kuka hosted what may be the first-ever man versus robot (arm) table tennis match and finally revealed the results in this video. Kuka’s Agilus robot arm, took on German Table Tennis…

Posted on: March 12, 2014 7:00 am

Twitter posts land 2 Saudi men in prison

File photo: Two men were found guilty in Saudi courts this week for, among other offenses, messages they posted on Twitter. STORY HIGHLIGHTSOne man sentenced to a decade in prison for posting pro-protest messages to TwitterA second man got eight years, convicted of insulting Saudi Arabia’s king via TwitterCritics say…

Posted on: March 11, 2014 5:00 pm

Ex-Dish Marketing Chief Hops Over To TiVo

Ira Bahr, Who Spearheaded Product Planning & Marketing For the ‘Hopper’ DVR, Is Named TiVo’s CMO Ira Bahr, the former Dish Network exec who oversaw the product planning and marketing for the satellite TV giant’s "Hopper" whole-home HD-DVR, has been hired as the chief marketing officer of DVR pioneer TiVo.

Posted on: March 11, 2014 5:00 pm