The UK is reportedly proposing a legislation that would require service providers to share web browsing, email and phone calling data with the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in real-time pace. The legislation could be introduced as “soon as parliamentary time allows,” according to the British Government’s Home Office. These new...
The search giant released its Android 4.0.4 updates for the GSM Nexus S last week and just over the week’s time we are seeing more updates in the Android version. Brief Mobile noted that the official stock image files have finally landed up. The leak contains with the publication contains the whole shebang: an updated signed_radio.img, boot.img, bootloader.img,...
British retailer GAME which announced last week its entry into administration before closing around 227 stores and making 2,104 staff redundant days later has been saved from administration today, as its buyer OpCapita stating that the remaining 333 stores will stay open and nearly 3,200 employees will keep their jobs. Eurogamer is reporting that the buyers paid...
AVS Forum noticed that the price of Sony’s 65-inch Bravia X929 HDTV jumped over $1000 overnight on Amazon.com, and a look at price-tracking site Camelcamelcamel.com confirms this jump. Best Buy and B&H are also both selling the TV for within a dollar of this price, with AVS Forum posts claiming this is a major price increase at the latter retailer as well. Sony already stated last month that it is planning for such a move to roll out a “unilateral” pricing strategy in the US on April 1st and today we are seeing that it is...
The Verge is reporting that Sprint’s upcoming Galaxy Nexus LTE will be expected to launch on April 22nd at a Walmart-run discount club store. Cited “Walmart employee” as source, had sent the publication an internal document stating the device launch date. The device rumoured to have same specification as that of Verizon’s LTE and includes 1.5GHz with a Google...
Apple on Thursday had won an important victory against Motorola in the form of a claim construction order interpreting the meaning of certain claim language in Apple’s Patent No. 7,479,949 which is related to scrolling behaviour from US Judge Richard A. Posner. The judge tasked the time while construing the claims in the patent over the multi-dimensional scrolling...
Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pratibha is a technology enthusiast interested in analysing and reporting about different technologies. Dr. Leonard Sax U.S. psychologist considers teenage girls who engage excessively a lot time on Facebook are more expected to be dispirited. Moreover, the total number of Facebook friends they have can also be a big risk issue for depression. Dr. Sax deems this fussy risk is greater with girls as compare to boys. “Girls post the happy things and they turn the camera on themselves so it’s ‘look here...
As promised Sony Xperia Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade rollout is quickly running out of March and into April for all models, the company has just unveiled a new beta version of the upgrade for Xperia Play owners. Sony has pushed this version for the Play to find out which games may need some work to be compatible with Android 4.0 following the alpha release in December and a beta update in February for the Arc S, Neo V and Ray. There are a few things to pay close attention to before you download and install the beta ROM even if you’re an...
FOSS Patents (via French newspaper Les Échos) is reporting that the key European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) vote to determine whose nano-SIM patent – the next generation SIM – should become the standard has been postponed. The vote will be postponed for a minimum of thirty days. The decision comes in a light that Nokia seems threatening the ETSI that it will not license “essential” patents if Apple’s nano-SIM is selected. We earlier reported that battle between Apple and its rival smartphone maker has...
Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pratibha is a technology enthusiast interested in analysing and reporting about different technologies. Google’s “Big Picture” visualization research group introduces a new project this week that explains a time-lapse animation of wind speeds crosswise the U.S.”An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds...
