4G iPhone 5 Will Be Immediate Hit, PCWorld Study Suggests
If the results of a new PCWorld/Macworld survey are any guide, the forthcoming iPhone 5 with LTE is going to be a big hit. Large numbers of people plan to buy or upgrade to the first 4G iPhone, many of them citing the new LTE wireless technology as a main…
Samsung Galaxy S III Olympic Smartphone Looks to Ignite NFC Interest
A limited edition of the Samsung Galaxy S III super-phone will be paired with some super humans this summer. Samsung- and Visa-sponsored athletes and trialists participating in the London 2010 Olympic Games will each receive their own special edition of the smartphone, enabled with Visa’s new payWave mobile payment application, It’s…
Lenovo to Add New Windows 8 Tablet-Laptop Hybrids to its ThinkPad Line
Lenovo plans to extend its ThinkPad line with business-friendly Windows 8 hybrid laptops similar to the convertible, flippable IdeaPad Yoga. Making tablet PCs is nothing new to Lenovo. The company currently offers a convertible model of the ThinkPad X220. Instead of the screen swiveling and folding like typical tablet PCs, however,…
Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate
They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show no interest. The orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. The park is one of several zoos experimenting with…
Twitter Breach Exposes 55000 Accounts, Mostly Spambots
A Twitter breach exposed around 55,000 usernames and passwords, though Twitter is downplaying the attack by saying it only affected spambots. On Tuesday night, Airdemon reported that hackers had leaked around 55,000 Twitter usernames and passwords onto Pastebin. Twitter quickly told reporters that of the 55,000, more than 20,000 were duplicate We tried logging…
With BlackBerry 10 On The Horizon RIM Launches Last-Generation Curve 9320
Research In Motion on Wednesday released the BlackBerry Curve 9320 smartphone proving that despite the promise of BlackBerry 10, the company hasn’t lost its ability to offer handsets that are well behind the times. The latest Curve looks like every keyboard-centric Curve that came before it (just a little bit BlackBerry 10 RIM…
Robot That Connects to Neurons Could Provide Key to Understanding the Human Brain
Suhasa Kodandaramaiah was one of about 30 people on Earth who could perform something called whole-cell patch-clamping, a technique for studying the inside of a cell developed back in 1981. By hand, it is a painstaking process that, on a good day, lets a researcher examine around three or four Craig Forest,…
Facebook IPO Will be Tough for Investors to Get in on
Investors who “like” Facebook may now be able to put their money where their clicks are. Most of the large online brokerage firms, including E-Trade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab, are allowing customers to request shares of the Facebook initial public offering. It’s the latest phase in kicking off what’s expected…
Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate
The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show no interest. The orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. The park is…
Robotics team members reaching out to Putnam
The Putnam Science Academy Robo Mustangs have seen success during their first two years as a competitive robotics team. The team hopes to grow that success while extending its reach in the community. “We represent ourselves at competitions as Putnam’s robotics team,” said team captain Omer Seven, a junior at…
