Emma Alaba has been into robots since the mid 1990s, writing code in DOS, an early programming language, but a 2009 conference at Carnegie Mellon University changed everything. That’s when she learned about the RoboFest competition. “When I went there I never did competitions,” said Alaba, who organizes the local tournament…

In a new update to the social location sharing service Foursquare, the platform is now showing the operating hours of local businesses and restaurants to users. But since it’s Foursquare, it doesn’t want to just provide a bland list of business hours. It also includes hours where special deals, like…

Following the big media event to unveil the next generation iPad yesterday, Apple launched an updated version of iOS. iOS 5.1 has some cool features and updates, but it is missing the one thing that would really make iOS–and by extension the iPhone and iPad–a significantly better mobile platform. What is…

Summary: Fear not, Android lovers. Google’s Motorola Mobility’s next generation tablet will commandeer Android’s rightful place in the market and bring others such as HP and Dell back to the Android table Apple and Microsoft are getting all the ink in the tablet wars these days but no doubt Android…

Twitter now comes in 28 languages. The newest ones — Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic and Urdu — were added just this week. Those four languages posed a particular problem to Twitter’s team of translation volunteers because they are read from right to left, rather than left to right. Therefore the translation required…

Apple has released a free tool that helps organizations configure and deploy large numbers of iPads and iPhones. The tool was not mentioned when Apple unveiled its latest iPad during a press event in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, but it’s now available from the company’s online Mac App Store….

IDG News Service – Apple delivered a performance breakthrough Wednesday with its new A5X processor for the iPad, but it’s possible that this chip won’t make its way into the next iPhone, analysts said. The chips used in the first two iPads, the A4 and A5, both made their…

Facing soaring demand for budget tablets (and one in particular), Apple has announced it will sell the iPad 2 alongside the new iPad, with last year’s model tumbling to a more palatable price of $399 for the WiFi-only model, or $529 for the 3G version. That entry-level price in particular Though this is…

Virgin Media has now added red button functionality to its TiVo service, starting with Sky Sports red button services. Sky Sports and Sky Sports HD subscribers on TiVo are now able to take full advantage of interactivity provided by multiple background events, allowing customers to enjoy more of their favourite…

I have it on good authority that Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand TiVo app will launch in early April Intel that lines up with TiVo’s recent quarterly call indicatingA service will roll outA within weeks versus months. Instead of reselling the TiVo experience, as Comcast once attempted, the new initiative makes…