Despite Holidays, Video Game Sales Drop 21 Percent in DecemberPC Magazine
By Angela Moscaritolo Despite the holiday season, video game sales during December fell 21 percent to $3.99 billion from $5.07 billion a year earlier, according to new data from market research firm NPD Group. Because a large amount of video game ...
Ice Cream Sandwich update dripping out to Motorola XoomCNET
by Lance Whitney January 13, 2012 6:58 AM PST Follow @lancewhit As of yesterday, the Android 4.0 update has started to hit the Xoom, according to several reports. Motorola seems to have teased the update by sending the following e-mail to select Xoom ...
CNETMurdoch on MySpace: ' We Screwed Up In Every Way Possible'Wired News
By John C Abell Maybe it's the soul-searching that comes when you are closer to the end of your career than the beginning. Maybe the whole phone-hacking scandal thing, which can't possibly end well for him, has put things into perspective. ...
Beats Electronics Is Breaking Up with MonsterBloomberg
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) -- In a Las Vegas hotel a few days before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 10, Interscope Geffen A&M Chairman Jimmy Iovine takes out an iPad and swipes through photos of celebrities wearing headphones ...
California Energy CommissionCNET
Most battery chargers today are like leaky faucets dripping out a tiny flow of electricity even when it's not charging your electronic gadget. The California Energy Commission yesterday voted in favor of efficiency standards aimed at cutting wasted ...
Facebook launches real-time “Listen With Friends” music featureDigitaltrends.com
While Turntable.fm still provides a more entertaining musical discovery experience, Facebook just rolled out support for social music listening with other Facebook friends. Announced on the official Facebook blog earlier today, the social network is ...
Digitaltrends.comAndroid variant Cyanogenmod passes one million installsInquirer
By Lawrence Latif According to Cyanogenmod's statistics, just under 24 per cent of Cyanogenmod users run 7.1. While detractors claim that Android is fragmented between several different vendors, Cyanogenmod's statistics show that the vast majority of ...
IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bitBBC News
Currently it takes about a million atoms to store a bit on a modern hard-disk, the researchers from IBM say. They believe this is the world's smallest magnetic memory bit. According to the researchers, the technique opens up the possibility of ...
BBC NewsGmail Offline Chrome Web App Gets Settings, ShortcutseWeek
Google spruced up its offline Gmail Chrome application Jan. 12, adding a settings page, shortcut support, and making the app snappier overall. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) enhanced its capabilities for its offline Gmail Web application for Chrome, ...
Namco responds to Dark Souls PC petitionComputerandvideogames.com
A recently launched petition requesting Namco Bandai release Dark Souls on PC hasn't gone unnoticed by the publisher. "I honestly wasn't expecting such a massive support. My boss(es) even came to talk to me about this, after it explodes all around the ...
Words With Friends saves man's lifeTG Daily
An Australian man is thanking the addictive game Words With Friends for leading him to a life-saving doctor's visit. Georgie Fletcher started a Words With Friends round, searching for random users to be paired with. Fate matched her with one Beth ...
TG DailyVuzix augmented reality Smart Glasses prototype hands-on (video)Engadget
By Sean Buckley posted Jan 12th 2012 9:59PM Remember those wicked holographic augmented reality glasses that DARPA was so hot to build? They're almost here. Hiding out at Vuzix's CES booth we found a functional prototype for its Smart Glasses ...
Facebook users have a lot to say on debatesPolitico
POLITICO has joined forces with Facebook to offer readers an exclusive look at the conversation taking place on the social networking site about the Republican presidential candidates ahead of South Carolina's crucial primary on Jan. 21. ...
PoliticoGoogle Board Adds Ex-VMware CEO GreeneeWeek
Google filled its 10th board seat with former VMware CEO Diane Greene. Greene helped launch the most successful server virtualization company in history. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) selected VMware co-founder and former CEO Diane B. Greene to its board of ...
WinInfo Short Takes: January 13, 2012Windows IT Pro
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including why CES and the gadget blogs that live for this event are a complete waste of time for all of us, Ballmer reflects on his years as Microsoft CEO, a Windows 8 availability rumor that's not ...
Windows IT ProLive Verizon Fios app coming to SamsungTG Daily
Verizon is planning on bringing its TV service to TVs without needing to pay for a subscription. Samsung has revealed a new partnership with Verizon that will bring the latter's Fios app to the latest line of Internet-enabled Samsung TV sets. ...
TG DailyHow to tackle the climate, health and food crises, all at the same timeThe Guardian (blog)
From coal mines to rice paddies and cooking fires to diesel exhausts, 14 highly cost-effective measures could quickly curb global warming and save millions of lives, while also boosting global food production. That is the striking conclusion of a new ...
Illuminating Their Cause at Weber State UniversityStandardNet
By Nancy Van Valkenburg OGDEN -- Each Friday when school is in session, a handful of Weber State University students from the Environmental Club gather in the Shepherd Union building to trade light bulbs and to illuminate their cause. ...
StandardNetLatest News About Space Junk and Orbital DebrisSpace.com
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor With bits of rockets, satellites and other leftovers from more than 50 years of spaceflight surrounding the Earth for thousands of miles in all directions, the space junk problem more than just academic; ...
CES data storm sweeps up wireless carriersCNET
How CNET mobile reviewers Lynn La, Briant Bennett, Jessica Dolcourt feel about poor CES reception. LAS VEGAS--The irony never fails to smack us in the face. Every year, the flood of conference-goers at the Consumer Electronics Show and other technology...
CNETGadget makers developing phones that let you feel things, like the rumble of a ...Washington Post
LAS VEGAS — Sure, today's phones can deliver the sound of a heartbeat. But how would you like to actually feel the throbbing? A few companies want to replace the crude vibration motors in today's phones and tablets with something that provides a much ...
How mysterious molecules may help cool Earthmsnbc.com
By Joseph Castro, LiveScience Staff Writer Elusive molecules in the Earth's atmosphere may be helping to cool the planet more efficiently than scientists previously thought, a new study suggests. They are called Criegee intermediates, ...
The SpareOne Cell Phone Runs On One AA BatteryTom's Guide
Smartphones are a wonderful invention, but their wide range of abilities mean that battery life takes a beating. Sure, you can navigate your way around town, find the best restaurants, update your social networks, play games and send email, ...
Touch My Katamari video reveals the King of the Cosmos' secretsComputerandvideogames.com
Here's a not-at-all-bizarre prologue video for Touch My Katamari, coming to Vita on launch day. It'll show you that, while the King is easily more awesome than your dad, he's probably "like, the same" as a school principle, and he might not be too ...
Audi Mounts Technology Blitz at C.E.S. - NYTimes.comBy By JERRY GARRETT
The German automaker showed a touch-sensitive version of its heads-up display that projects information onto the passenger's side of the vehicle, among other next-generation telematics features.
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Abengoa heads for Brazil with advanced ethanol technology ...By Thomas Saidak
In Spain, Abengoa announced that they have been selected by BNDES and FINEP to adapt its second generation ethanol technology to produce ethanol from sugar cane biomass. The project, which forms part of the Industrial Innovation ...
Biofuels Digest
BlackBerry Tag Unleashes NFC Technology in Your Smartphone ...By Annu D.
I'm a Senior Product Manager at Research In Motion® (RIM®) working on this exciting technology. I think that BlackBerry Tag will make Near Field Communication (NFC) a very real part of BlackBerry users' daily lives…and it works like magic! ...
Inside BlackBerry
Boeing Begins Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Study at ...By Doug Messier
11, 2012 – The Boeing Company has begun work on a four-month NASA contract to develop a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies. Under the $600000 firm, fixed-price contract, Boeing will evaluate concepts that ...
Parabolic Arc
Technology Essays | Techbargains ReviewBy Gibson
We are an online based company that specializes in producing high quality technology papers for our clients. In line with the technological demands of the 21st century, we have embarked on deep research into all the issues concerning ...
Techbargains Review
When Art and Technology and Moby CollideBy Brian Barrett
We're at an artistic crossroads, says the documentary Press Pause Play. Technology means it's never been easier to create, to push out a little piece of oneself and share it with the world. But that ease has created a landscape where the ...
Gizmodo
Technology Is at Least 3 Years Away From Improving Student ...By Josh Fischman
During the rest of the day, technology executives described programs that could improve graduation rates and learning, but won't be able to do so for several years. They collect many points of data on what professors and students do, but can't ...
Wired Campus
International Game Technology To Acquire Double Down Interactive ...By Monica Gerson
International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT) reached a definitive agreement to acquire social-media developer Double Down Interactive LLC for up to $500 million. IGT projects to fund the transaction from cash on hand. The transaction is ...
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Political Calculations: Technology's EndBy Ironman
Some technologies last for a really long time before they become obsolete. Newspapers are a still current example of things that are becoming obsolete that have been around for centuries, but which are unlikely to continue existing in ...
Political Calculations
