Nintendo Delays Google Maps and TiVo for Wii U
If you were hoping to check out your house using Google Maps on the Wii U GamePad, you’re going to have to wait a little longer. According to Engadget, Nintendo has pushed back both Google Maps Street View and TiVo functionality until after January. Nintendo also faced setbacks in getting…
More WiFi Hotspots Come to Northern Virginia
Northern Virginians on the go now have more places to tap into WiFi. Cox Communications launched more than 750 wireless Internet hotspots this week across Fairfax County, available for free to its Internet customers and soon at a small fee to others. Twenty-seven of the hotspots are in the Mount Vernon…
Twitter, Washington Post Targeted by Hackers
Social media giant Twitter is among the latest U.S. companies to acknowledge that it is among a growing list of victims of Internet security attacks, saying that hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users. And now, The Washington Post is Twitter…
Expo Notes: iOS apps mixing more business with pleasure
My question at the end of this Macworld/iWorld weekend: Is iOS still fun? Delight was the name of the game a few years back when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, and again when he followed that up with the 2010 debut of the iPad. These days, of course, the James…
Pilot will boost cell coverage, wifi at 5 national parks by summer
Need to make a call from Rocky Mountain National Park? A pilot program may allow it in national parks. (Kyle Wagner, Denver Post file) The National Park Service is launching a pilot program to boost cellular coverage and Internet connectivity in some of the last places people might hope to…
TiVo Looks for Acquisitions in Data and Ad Sales
TiVo — remember TiVo? — is on the make in Silicon Alley. The California-based DVR pioneer is shopping for acquisitions in New York as it remakes itself into an all-purpose media hub. “We talk a lot to Silicon Valley companies,” said CEO Tom Rogers in a meeting with Ad Age…
Expo Notes: Mauz turns your iOS device into a touchscreen Mac mouse (video)
Walking up to your Mac to control it with a mouse or trackpad is so 2012. The Mauz aims to turn your iOS device into a portable and even more capable input device, via a dock connector add-on and some nifty software. The Mauz offers a full computer mouse interface, with…
Macworld: Double Robotics + iPad = Never leave your house again
Double Robotics president and co-founder Marc DeVidts, left, demonstrates the Double. (Chris O’Brien / Los Angeles Times / February 1, 2013) By Chris O’Brien February 1, 2013, 5:50 p.m. Stand by the Double Robotics booth at the Macworld trade show, and you hear the same thing over and over again as people walk by: “I would…
BlackBerry Z10 Off To ‘Strong Start,’ Analyst Contends
Early sales of the BlackBerry Z10 phone are off to a “strong start,” Jefferies analyst Peter Misek asserted in a research note this morning. Sales of the phone have launched in the U.K. Misek says some stores there had lines, “with widespread sell outs” of the white version of the…
BlackBerry 10 and Z10 Review: BlackBerry Catches Up
It was 2008 and my BlackBerry Curve’s BBM was overflowing with contacts. I’d plug away on the physical keyboard, quickly firing off messages and emails to my friends and colleagues. Back then, most of them had the same phone or another one of RIM’s popular handsets, like the BlackBerry Pearl. By…
