In this latest installment of “A Matter of Life and Tech,” Stephanie Humphrey shows you two apps that can really make a difference in your life. First, there is an app that shows you have to get gas at the lowest prices. In this economy, saving money can be critical, so having this information on [...]
Continue reading …Buyer Beware: Mobile Phone Apps Can Steal Your Contacts and Change Settings on Your Phone
July 13, 2012 No Comment
Pop-up ads are just never fun, although some would say that they are necessary. Well, there are now thousands of smart phone apps that run ads from crazy ad networks that change the settings on your phone and take your contact info without your permission. All this is according to a new study that was [...]
Continue reading …HP Pavilion dv6 gets treated to AMD’s Trinity processor, shakes hands with Ivy Bridge twin
June 15, 2012 No Comment
HP’s Pavilion dv6 must be pretty popular. That’s how we’d explain the fact that the laptop will be one of the first to land with AMD’s Trinity chipset — despite already appearing with an Ivy Bridge refresh
Continue reading …‘Free form’ lens over mobile display could improve audio and haptics, says Motorola patent filing
June 15, 2012 No Comment
It’s hard to tell exactly what Motorola is thinking of here, but it probably isn’t a billowing sheet of fabric stretched loosely over the face of a smartphone — even if that’s what it looks like.
Continue reading …Imagination goes ‘all out’ with bigger PowerVR graphics cores: the G6230 and G6430
June 15, 2012 No Comment
Imagination Technologies has launched two new variants of its Series6 “Rogue” GPU, giving manufacturers more choice for the loadouts of next-gen mobile devices, TVs and dash systems. The PowerVR G6230 and G6430 differ from the earlier Series6 cores in one single respect: they’re bigger, which means they’re designed for those who want to go “all out” for better performance. At this point it’s not clear just how much extra juice they’ll deliver, but in general the Rogue architecture is all about being “scalable” — Imagination can simply add more “compute clusters” to boost frame rates at the expense of power consumption and it says “further cores will be announced” that will extend the eye-candy possibilities even further.
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After giving its iPlayer the nod to stream programming content over mobile networks in the UK, the Beeb has decided to do the same with its BBC Sport mobile site. Not only will you be able to stream live coverage, like the current crop of Euro 2012 football matches, but also any existing video content that was previously desktop-bound.
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British Supermarket behemoth Tesco has snapped up WE7 , a streaming music service co-founded by Peter Gabriel that offers personalized radio stations to users, for £10.8 million ($16.7 million).
Continue reading …Microsoft applies to patent gaze-tracking camera, wants to stare into your eyes
June 15, 2012 No Comment
See that complication of a line-drawing above? Well that’s Microsoft describing how it would like to patent a function for a dual 3D and 2D camera setup that’s able to process precisely where your eyes fall on a screen. While Kinect could fulfill that hardware component, the application goes into more detail on how the “gaze tracker” would calculate both the direction you’re looking in and track the region of the screen that you’re focusing on.
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It was only a couple of months ago that we first crossed paths with Sony’s Xperia Neo L, and now the Ice Cream Sandwich handset is back with a vengeance — at least in terms of exposure. As you may know, details were revealed in abundance (read: 1GHz Snapdragon S2 CPU, 512MB of RAM) during our first MT25i encounter, but thanks to Taiwanese site ePrice , we’re able to gander at the device posing in an array of different angles and leaving very little to the imagination. For now, pricing still remains a mystery, though we do know Sony’s 4-inch (854 x 480) Neo L is expected to hit Chinese shelves later this month
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The Electronics Entertainment Expo is no place for the easily distracted, every inch of convention center carpet devoted to capturing the attentions of calloused video game journalists. In spite of the customary flash however, it’s hard to come away from this year’s festivals without a creeping sense of disappointment, that for all the showmanship, we didn’t actually see all that much at E3 2012 — an in-between year that seemed lackluster even by those standards. It’s diminishing to break such a show up into clearly delineated binaries like “winners” and “losers” certainly, but if impact can be measured by lasting buzz, Epic’s certainly sitting pretty at the close of the event.
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