Google to step on FourSquare’s toes?
It appears the search giant is looking to revive Google Latitude with some FourSquare-like features.Google appears to be adding a level of gamification to its location-sharing app, Google Latitude, which could help the service compete with the likes of FourSquare. Last week, Google released an updated version of Google…
The Industrial Robot Revolution
NASA recently launched Curiosity, the newest rover to explore Mars. Curiosity is a supercharged robot that can collect, analyze and transmit data about the experience on the Red Planet using environmental sensors, radiation monitors, chemistry instruments and more. And although the project’s price tag – $2.5 billion – might seem RELATED:…
Chris Brown Wishes Rihanna ‘Happy Birthday’ On Twitter
Chris Brown has wished his ex-girlfriend Rihanna a happy birthday on Twitter, fuelling reports they have worked on a track together. Breezy took to the social-networking site to congratulate RiRi on turning 24 today (20th February) – which saw the Bajan babe quickly respond to her former beau, who assaulted Addressing…
iPhone tracking: Is Google breaking its privacy pledge?
iPhone privacy feature was circumvented to allow Google to track what iPhone users were doing, privacy researcher says. Google settled another privacy case in October. Google Inc. is under fire once again after allegations that it circumvented privacy protections built into the iPhone in order to track what users are…
TiVo loses support for Blockbuster On Demand
We have some bad news for TiVo owners who enjoy streaming video from Blockbuster On Demand. Blockbuster has announced that it will stop supporting TiVo DVR’s on March 31, 2012. You can read the official TiVo statement at the bottom of this post, but in a nutshell, Blockbuster claims it’s Apparently, the…
TiVo Wins Another Chance to Rerun
The company that introduced the digital video recorder 15 years ago and then faded from view once the dot-com bubble burst is back in the spotlight: In the past year, it has emerged victorious in two important software-patent litigation cases, and it is winning new subscribers on the strengths of a…
Facebook integration seems a natural fit for Apple OS X Mountain Lion, iOS
When Apple took the wraps off iOS 5 in June 2011, one of the marquee features the company announced was systemwide Twitter integration: Take a photo, see an interesting webpage in Safari, or come across a great video in YouTube, and iOS 5 lets you quickly share it with Twitter When Mountain Lion…
Apple Settles Class Action Lawsuit: iPhone 4 Owners Receive $15 or Free Case
It’s time for iPhone owners to get themselves a tasty treat, fifteen awesome prizes from the dollar store, or a brand-new case for their now-antiquated iPhone 4 smartphones. The class-action lawsuit has been settled! Wait, class-action lawsuit? As is often the case with these, a person might not know that he…
Quincy Vo-Tech students put their Little Devil robot on the line — with the …
Quincy High School is known statewide for its stellar Blue Devil basketball heritage. Now the Quincy Area Vocational-Technical Center, which is associated with QHS, hopes to start building a winning hardcourt tradition of its own with “Little Devil” — a robot that shoots basketballs. Little Devil is the creation of…
BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 could arrive this week
The latest version of Research In Motion’s PlayBook operating system could trickle out to users as soon as this week, according to various reports. The BlackBerry PlayBook could see an OS upgrade this week.(Credit: James Martin/CNET) The new operating system is expected to launch 21 February, according to Canadian…
