Inside Facebook reports that Facebook has begun rolling out Trending Articles boxes inside the News Feed. The boxes include images from articles as well as the first 130 characters of each one and inhabit their own space underneath a Trending Articles gray bar. We haven’t been able to reproduce the box ourselves, but Facebook has only indicated that certain...
The Verge reports that Kotaku sent them image of a poster featuring both Activision and Treyarch logos, with a date and the tagline, “Return for debriefing.” The background is a vague, but not altogether unfamiliar, soldier in black giving a surprise sequel, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. French gaming site Gameblog.fr reported back in February that on an...
Real but still not to be believe at first, a new study group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University estimates that roughly 68 percent of all energy consumed by game consoles in 2010 wasted some 10.8 TWh of energy or roughly $1.24 billion in utility costs. The total electricity consumption of video game consoles in the US was around 11 TWh in 2007 and 16 TWh in 2010 (approximately 1 % of US residential electricity consumption), an increase of almost 50 % in 3 years. Although any estimate of total game console energy consumption is...
Nokia Lumia 900 which went out of stock in AT&T stores, we were not sure that “out of stock” which later carrier confirmed “is now available” conditions comes because of what – is it because of phone’s gained extra popularity (after all AT&T spend nearly $150 million on marketing budget of device) or the data connectivity issues. Now, Nokia...
China’s Huawei has announced (via M.I.C. Gadgets) that the Huawei Ascend P1, which features a dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP 4460 Cortext-A9 processor and measures 7.69mm thin and 64.8 mm long, providing a very comfortable grip. With a 4.3-inch super AMOLED 960 x 540 touch screens with Corning Gorilla Glass, an 8-megapixel BSI rear-facing camera and Dolby Mobile 3.0...
Back in late 2011, the TV and Movies app for Google TV upgraded to Android 3.1 Honeycomb and now the search giant has released another update for the OS. The new TV & Movies app now has more info on each show, like whether or not it’s a first showing and what actors are starring in the episode. You’ll be asked to rate a few shows (one to five stars)...
Verizon has put up the detail of a forthcoming update to the Motorola Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx name as 6.12.181.XT912.Verizon.en.US. The update will provide performance, security, battery life, and stability optimizations, as well as support for IPv6 protocols. The update will be available soon and includes measures to prevent third-party access to telephony database...
Nikon’s recently introduced D3200 DSLR camera gives consumers the power for quick transfer between the DSLR and your Android smartphone and for all what you needed to make this happen is the new WU-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter. The WU-1a also allows you to use your phone as a remote live view display and shutter trigger. As of now the adapter only works with the...
With the earlier rumors surrounded the web that HTC’s One S will be out on April 22nd next week – the new details winded up is that now it is coming to T-Mobile next week on Wednesday, April 25th. The 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED device with Android 4.0 and HTC’s Sense 4 will run on the carrier’s HSPA+ 42 network and come with the full version of “Where’s...
If you are still subscribed to MobileMe and engaged with Apple’s two-version old operating system, Apple is having something for you in store today. Till June 15, you can grab a free copy of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard directly from the source. After signing up, Apple will ship you a free Snow Leopard DVD. You’ll still be on your own to pay for and download Lion...
