Leap Motion is giving us a small taste of the technology that Tony Stark has the pleasure of working (or playing) with on a daily basis. With this latest innovative touch-free controller, you may find yourself using your mouse less and less. Leap Motion’s new gesture control technology works with the Windows 7 and 8 [...]
Written on 23 May 2013 by Vincent AbryIs Google really striving toward becoming the counterpart of the Star Trek computer? The answer, quite simply, is yes. If you have grown up around or been exposed in any degree to the technology revealed in the many incarnations of the Star Trek series, then you know how advanced and awe-inspiring their computers are. Why, [...]
Here is an awesome timelapse : 50,000 photos taken over 12 weeks and put inside a 76 second-video to show the building of Maersk Line’s very first Triple-E vessel at the DSME shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. The time lapse was produced by Discovery Channel and Maersk. The Ship has a tonnage of 165,000 metric tons. Its length is 400 m [...]
Written on 21 March 2013 by Vincent AbryHow much do you love Apple Products ? Are you a real fanboy ? Can you name and spell Apple Founders ? All Mac OS ? Did you convince your co-workers to switch to Apple ? Did you end your relationship because she/he didn’t love the miracle of Cupertino ? Did you name your child [...]
Written on 15 March 2013 by Vincent AbryIn the face of steadily dwindling share prices, Apple shareholders are getting antsier by the minute. These investors have been prodding CEO Tim Cook to compensate them for the falling shares, especially now that Samsung and Google are among the elite brand’s fiercest competitors. According to Bloomberg, Apple’s investors are clamoring for bigger dividends and [...]
All these years Apple has ruled Silicon Valley where its brightest minds work in a six-building main campus that houses labs, offices, a conference center, and its own Apple Company Store. In contrast, Samsung’s Silicon Valley headquarters, with its semiconductor and venture capital offices and R&D laboratory, are rather nondescript and not much of a [...]
CNN has just published a highly interesting story by Business Insider Steve Kovach about why Samsung, in terms of innovation, is outsmarting Apple. While Apple deserves all the world’s credit for introducing impressive and sophisticated mobile devices, it appears to have already been outrun by many of its competitors in the rat race of smartphone [...]
To the rest of the world, the fax machine used to be a communication device relied on by businesses and private homeowners before personal computers and the Internet revolutionized communication in more ways than one. But in Japan, a country known for its sophisticated technologies and scientific inventions, the fax has remained a staple in [...]
If recent reports posted by 9to5Mac are to be believed, a new 128GB iPad will be joining the line of iPad models presently available. According to sources cited by the website, Apple is reportedly preparing for the release of this new iPad, which will more or less be an upgrade on the fourth-gen iPad rather [...]
The worldwide Android tablet is ruled by Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and not Google’s Nexus 7, according to TheNextWeb. Kindle Fire, released in 2011, has been able to hold its dominance in the market impressively despite the more recent introduction of Google Nexus 7 just last year. This piece of information is sourced from Localytics, a [...]
The arrival of the Sony Xperia Tablet Z has usurped the iPad Mini’s throne as the thinnest tablet available. Just announced recently, the Xperia Tablet Z is the latest offering from Sony after the company introduced their Xperia Z smartphone at CES, reports The Verge. While pricing details and information with regards to its availability [...]
In an announcement made by Judge Nelson Wolff and several other county leaders in Bexar County, Texas, the first bookless public library in the county will soon be opening in the fall. Plans regarding the paperless library system, dubbed as BiblioTech, and with a sample location on the South Side of the county, have been [...]
For the first time in four years Apple suffered a sharp decline with its Online Customer Satisfaction Rating, according to the annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index by ForeSee. Apple secured 83 points for the previous year, 2011, whereas this year the score fell by three points, resulting in a rating of 80. ForeSee is speculating [...]
In an in-depth analysis of the ever-burgeoning competition between Google and Amazon, Reuters is reporting that the rivalry between these two online giants is set to go sky-high in 2013, as Amazon ventures into online advertising and both companies offer cloud computing services, among others. The rivalry, in fact, started more than ten years ago [...]
On Thursday Microsoft released their predictions on the security landscape for 2013, with the general contention that dry-by-download attacks will dominate the scene and rootkits will respond to new technologies and therefore evolve, but software updating will be much easier. Here is a quick rundown of the top 5 security threat predictions as outlined by [...]
Months after the iPad Mini made its debut, Apple is already making efforts at releasing its second-generation version, according to DigiTimes. This time, the 2nd gen iPad Mini will feature a higher resolution for its display or 324 pixels per inch in pixel density, considering the 7.9 inch screen size of the iPad Mini. This [...]
In a report by Bloomberg, Apple and Google are apparently teaming up to acquire the patents of Kodak, a company that filed for bankruptcy this year, worth a total of more than $500 million. This piece of news comes from Bloomberg’s sources, who have requested for anonymity considering the privacy of the matter. The imaging [...]
One security software that eliminates the need for passwords and uses eye verification standards instead has been developed by a very promising start-up, says Mashable. EyeVerify, a company based in Kansas is hoping to release their revolutionary software in early 2013. The program makes use of “eyeprints” to identify the legitimate user of the device, [...]
Approximately 1.4 million Tweets per day come from Australia, and it appears that Twitter executives are pleased with the fact. In a report by Australia’s Startupsmart, senior Twitter executives are expected to arrive in the country within the week to convene with the media, major sporting companies, and top Twitter users in Australia. Twitter’s Head [...]
Apple has judiciously followed requirements of the UK Court of Appeal to publish newspaper advertisements stating that Samsung has not committed any infringement on its devices, reported TheNextWeb. Today – and one day after it received reproof on its failure to publish an apology on its site – Apple has published the first of several [...]
