Bleeding Edge TV 366: Xbox 360 Fall 2010 dashboard update review
The next major Xbox 360 dashboard update happens in November, and we’ve got a look at all the new changes and additions in this episode of Bleeding Edge TV. This is a big update that brings another big redesign to the Xbox 360, similar to what they did a couple years ago with the New Xbox Experience.
Paddlesworth offers up Fake Blogs and Facebook Profiles for entertainment: Is this the future and are we actually entertained?
Would you be taken in by a comedy Facebook account? The founders of the “world’s first mixed-media collaborative novel” think you might be, and they think you might be amused by the experience. Paddlesworth Press is a spoof village…
Bose launch first TV set – a pricey £6000 but you get a lot of woofers for your money
German audio-makers Bose revealed their first TV today, out in time for the Christmas shopping punters. With an LCD screen, 6 woofers, 7 element speakers and a “sound radiator” built in… they claim that their VideoWave is not just…
How BT is mixed up in the porn-sharing and ACS:Law case…
It seems that BT could be getting dirty too in the case of ACS:Law versus International Privacy. One unencrypted email containing customer details sent to ACS:Law by a BT lawyer showed a lack of adequate data protection on behalf of…
BlackBerry PlayBook Professional Grade Tablet Introduced by RIM
Recently, Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry announced the launch of new professional-grade BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry Tablet OS. BlackBerry PlayBook offers the users oriented services. Uncompromised web browsing, true multitasking and high performance multimedia are the leading key features of BlackBerry PlayBook Professional Grade Tablet. It provides advance security features, out-of-the-box enterprise and a breakthrough development platform for IT departments and developers.
Pain of keeping the CMS updated pushed Arrington to sell TechCrunch to AOL
Well, not exactly, but when tech guru and TechCruch founder Michael Arrington explained why he sold his blog TechCrunch to AOL, his biggest complaint wasn’t the pounding hours, it was finding engineers to keep the back-end running. “The truth is…
HP exec Todd Bradley refers to webOS tablet as PalmPad
The webOS tablet slated for release in early 2011 hasn’t been given an official name, though an HP patent for ‘PalmPad’ led many to refer to it as such. Even HP’s Todd Bradley let this name slip during an Analyst Meeting. “We’ve already announced the expansion of our future product portfolio well beyond smartphones. We’ll have a webOS-powered PalmPad that will be set for release early in 2011,” stated Bradley during the conference
Delorme PN-60W wins Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award
The Delorme PN-60W is the first of its kind; a GPS linked to the SPOT satellite communicator that enables you to send location information as well as short messages (think SMS) to others in the outside world no matter where you are on earth (well almost anywhere – See the SPOT coverage ). Try that with your mobile phone! We think the capability is pretty cool, and apparently so does Popular Mechanics because they recognized it as one of the best products of 2010 (is the year over yet?) The PN-60W joins a pretty good group of winners including the Nissan Leaf electric car, the Chevy Volt, and a pretty amazing compound mitre saw from Bosch. More cool products like the Delorme PN-60W at Popular Mechanics
Waze Results: Social Driving is Popular – New User Groups Announced
Waze has released some interesting data that shows their Social Driving groups are popular among users, and are starting to form around traffic and commuters most often, hopefully helping to solve a major headache for so many consumers. Social Driving doesn’t mean chatting with your friends in the back seat on the way to a party Saturday night; here it means joining a Waze Group with people you probably don’t know. over 1.5 million users are using the free mapping and navigation application that is available for popular smart phones, and their recent release of their social driving groups is spawning some interesting behavior.
Justin Bieber the doll – but is it as cute as the real thing?
The world’s cutest boy in fully-manipulable plastic form? I think I will! Justin Bieber is now a plastic doll and his millions of fans all over the wide world will be hoping this little plastic hunk makes it into their…
This one hot chili pepper! Watch him sing and dance and move his fiery mouth to the blazing sounds of Hot Hot Hot. This Singing and Dancing Chili Pepper really brings the heat when he shakes his maracas. Feel the burn, baby! That’s a spicy pepper! Get one at Baron Bob
Geomium: "we’re not rivalling Facebook, but.." UK start-up promises to be the best location-based social network
“Facebook just wasn’t made to be a location-based network.” says Michael Ferguson, the CEO of UK startup Geomium. His company on the other hand has been built from the bottom up around the idea of an all-round location service….
Today we have released Vision Helpdesk V2.8.4 Stable Release — This is mainly a bug fix release includes fixing of some important bugs in V2.8.2 and some new features in existing modules. Its recommended to upgrade as it will fix below listed bugs in your installation.
Project DaNGO – a Drupal project sponsored by Microsoft to help smaller charities get up and running with fundraising. DANGO provides Drupal a-ready-to-use solution. Download at: www.microsoft.com/web/drupal/ Project DaNGO – DANGO is a Drupal project sponsored by Microsoft designed to help smaller charities get up and running with fundraising activities.
After a long wait, finally the official application Foursquare, was present for the Symbian platform. Foursquare arrival at Symbian fairly slow when compared to other platforms such as BlackBerry, Android, and iPhone. But at least, Nokia users can download this application on Ovi Store.Thus, Nokia has kept his promise after the event Nokia World 2010, the Finnish company that promised to deliver
Samsung Galaxy 3 and Galaxy S Ajax Editions spank the Netherlands
Samsung launches Ajax Editions I5800 Galaxy 3 and Edition I9000 Galaxy S in the Netherlands aiming the football enthusiasts. The phone has no variations to its original model and features, however comes in Ajax boxes of gift and has the AJAX team’s App on the project
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Create for the BlackBerry Application Platform and get access to a large and growing market of both business and personal users RIM are delighted to invite the developer community to learn how to create compelling applications for BlackBerry platform. With the introduction of BlackBerry App World™ storefront, BlackBerry users can now easily search for and download both free and paid apps from around the world.
PRANK ME! for iPhone Gets its 200th 4-Star Review and Top 50 Ranking
JBMJBM, LLC is pleased to announce that its very popular PRANK ME! iPhone app has received its 200th 4-Star Review and Top 50 Ranking in the Entertainment Category. This app has surpassed everything we believe it could do or would have ever done
Japanese Sony VAIO Laptops Come with Dual USB 3.0 Ports
This is certainly a sign USB 3.0 train is finally picking up steam. Sony Japan has just announced their prestige line of notebooks will come with USB 3.0 support. These desktop-replacement full HD VAIO laptops come with possibly almost everything you can hope for with the exception of 3D and SSD
So, now we know that the new Apple TV runs iOS , which is what we expected. What we didn’t expect was that you’d be able to run the Apple TV version of iOS 4.1 on an iPod touch. The software that runs on the Apple TV is called Lowtide, and looks to operate just fine on the iPod, save for some screen real estate issues. Tags: apple , apple tv , apple tv ios , dustin howett , front row , hacks , ios , ios 4.1 , ipod touch , lowtide , software , videos , Video: Apple TV OS ported to iPod touch originally appeared on Gear Live on Tue, September 28, 2010 – 4:33:09
iOS 4.2 Beta 2 8C5101c now available to developers
If you’re tired of your iPad and the way it performs under the first iOS 4.2 beta, you’ll be glad to hear that beta 2 has just arrived. Build 8C5101c is now available for download to iOS developers for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Tags: 8c5101c , apple , beta , ios , ios 4 , ios 4.2 , ios 4.2 8c5101c , ios 4.2 beta , ios 4.2 beta 2 , ios 4.2 beta 2 download , ios beta , ipad , iphone , iphone 4 , ipod touch , software , iOS 4.2 Beta 2 8C5101c now available to developers originally appeared on Gear Live on Tue, September 28, 2010 – 4:23:30