iPhone 5? Well, not exactly. Apple’s iPhone turns 5.
What has changed, dramatically, is what the phone can do. At launch, it sported a 2 MP camera, ran on the EDGE network and touted its visual voicemail. It came in a $499 4GB version or a $699 8GB version. Users couldn’t download programs from other developers, but the introduction While it’s hard…
Open Home WiFi Access Led to SWAT Raid on Innocent Family Home
In Evansville, Indiana, a Police SWAT team has executed a search warrant on a home in full tactical gears. The reason: threats perpetrated against local Police forces over the internet, threatening the officers lives, their family, including the mention of home-made bombs. The Police needed no more to quickly find…
Foursquare Gets More Robust With Connected Apps Integration
Foursquare is about to become a lot richer, thanks to forthcoming apps built off of the location-based network’s API. The NYC-based startup unveiled Thursday a developer preview for Connected Apps that is, “developer-crafted experiences that exist within Foursquare” for iPhone and Android smartphones. (Blackberry, the company says, is on the…
Create Windows 8 Compatible Software Installers Today with New Setup Factory …
Setup Factory 9.1 gives software developers the tools needed to create setup programs for the upcoming release of Microsoft Windows 8 – today. Additionally, Setup Factory’s visual approach to installer building helps developers create Windows installation programs in minutes. Winnipeg, MB (PRWEB) June 29, 2012 Indigo Rose Software announces the immediate availability of Setup…
Report: Full upgrades to Windows 8 only from Windows 7
Computerworld – Microsoft will support full upgrades to Windows 8 only from the three-year old Windows 7, according to a report Thursday. Yesterday, ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley, citing unnamed sources, said that Microsoft has informed select partners of the upgrade paths to Windows 8. Microsoft has not yet set a release date…
Principal allegedly admits viewing child porn out of ‘morbid curiosity’
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Thursday Whispering Palms School principal Thomas Weindl for allegedly using a laptop to view child pornographic materials, mostly of 11-year-old girls. Weindl, 67, was taken to the U.S. District Court for the NMI yesterday afternoon on charges of receipt of child pornography and accessing…
NFC Cometh? 1M Android NFC Devices Shipping Each Week, And Prototypes …
Google I/O is in full swing, and stories have been pouring out at a fairly steady pace: Tony Stark Sergey finally demoed Google Glass, Google Drive passed 10 million users and is available on iOS, and we all got a look at Jelly Bean to name a few. Yet, overshadowed…
No Flash for Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, users
You may not have noticed at the time but Adobe told us back in February that Flash Player would not not supported on Android 4.1 and users should uninstall Flash Player prior to upgrading to Android 4.1, Jelly Bean. Adobe was serious. There will be no Flash for Android 4.1. So, if you…
Campers learn crafts, robotics, fishing
MINERAL WELLS – Hundreds of 4-Hers attended camp this week making whirligigs and snowmen, fishing, dancing, building robots out of Legos, singing around the campfire. It was all part of the annual June camps at the Butcher Bend 4-H campground. Seventy-nine 4-Hers attended camp this past week, ages 9-12; the…
This Cheating Robot Is Unbeatable at Rock-Paper-Scissors
[Credit: Ishikawa Oku Lab]We’ve already seen robots that could potentially replace our best chess players, multiple musicians, and an entire baseball team. Now Japanese researchers have gone too far and built a robot that will always win at rock-paper-scissors. The robot’s creators from the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the…
