As part of its plan to build a social networking service to counter the popularity of Facebook, Google confirmed Friday that it had bought up Internet company Angstro and hired its co-founder Rohit Khare. A Google spokesman confirmed the acquisition of Angstro but declined to comment on Khare’s role at the company. Google employee Joseph Smarr said [...]
Recently, Japan has been testing out the latest in its touchscreen craze with a slight twist, a judgemental touchcreen vending machine. Customers in Shinagawa Train Station are being treated to the 47-inch touchscreen drink vendors, which display a virtual row of drink options and price information. Customers can also zoom into a product to get [...]
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 37,679 out of 91,008 passed the Nurse Licensure Examination given by the Board of Nursing in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Dagupan, Davao, Iloilo, La Union, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Pampanga, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga last July 2010 . Those who will register [...]
Canon announced a new D-SLR, the $1,099 Canon EOS 60D, successor to the Canon EOS 50D. The new 60D is Canon’s first D-SLR to feature an articulating LCD that can flip out and twist so it can be viewed from different angles. It changes the 50D’s magnesium to a plastic body. With the new EOS 60D DSLR, [...]
(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s iPad will not face a serious competitor until next year, and when tablet rivals do emerge, they will have a hard time matching iPad’s customized applications, according to a report from market research firm iSuppli. The iPad, which likely will account for nearly three quarters of worldwide tablet shipments this year, [...]
Yahoo! Mail folders make it easy to organize those incoming and outgoing messages. You can create your own folders in which to store your messages and even instruct Yahoo! Mail to deliver certain messages to specific folders.
According to PopCap games, the maker of the popular video game “Plants vs. Zombies”, the game will be available on the Nintendo DS in January 2011. GameStop.com is now accepting pre-orders for the game, which will cost $19.95. The DS version of “Plants vs. Zombies” will include all the features available on other versions, including [...]
Intel announced on Monday the first dual-core Atom processor targeted specifically at Netbooks, finally putting the same number of processing cores inside these tiny laptops as found on larger mainstream laptops. Acer, Asus, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba, among others, are expected to follow with new dual-core Netbooks in the coming weeks and [...]
Halo: Reach has been leaked this weekend, with modders at Game-Tut finding a way to download the game from Microsoft’s own servers. Microsoft has been hosting the full game online. Only a few people were allowed to download the game, and each needed a special code. Game-Tut cracked the security, and has made the files [...]
According to recent report, a team of researchers at MIT has developed a way of bringing supercomputing power to the Android phone. Said team at MIT has been working with colleagues from the Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) to develop the application. A series of simulations on the Ranger supercomputer were already completed to generate [...]
According to LG’s vice president of marketing for mobile devices Chang Ma says “Our tablet will be better than the iPad.” According to Ma, “It’s going to be surprisingly productive.” The tablet is powered by Android and will be trained in on content creation, like writing documents, editing video and creating programs, with “high-end features [...]
Visual search and shopping startup Like.com has confirmed that it’s being acquired by Google. A note from chief executive Munjal Shah on the company site announces the deal without offering many details, such as acquisition price. On like.com site, Munjal Shah wrote “Since 2006, Like.com has been moving the frontiers of eCommerce forward one step [...]
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