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Toshiba Tablet/TV

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 23rd, 2012

Toshiba has a huge 13.3 inch tablet with a build in tv tuner, reports Lilliputing. The tablet is expected to be launched later this year although pricing and availability are yet to be announced. It may use the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. Other hardware specifications include a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, a SIM card slot as [...]

Nividia Mobilizes Big Guns

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 22nd, 2012

Nvidia is retaking the crown today as the creator of the world’s fastest graphics chip with the debut of its Kepler chips. The next-generation chip is called the GeForce GTX 680 and analysts say that it has taken the crown from AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 and 7950, priced at $550 and $450. The GTX 680 [...]

Carlos Slim Plans Internet TV Network

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 12th, 2012

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is financing an Internet TV network that will include an interview show with former CNN television host Larry King in a project that could be running before October, reports Reuters. The online venture, Ora.TV, will be based in the United States and could launch in the third quarter of this year, [...]

NBC Partners with YouTube for Olympics

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 7th, 2012

NBC is partnering with YouTube to provide livestreaming for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Comcast, which was recently acquired by NBC Universal, recently agreed to a $4.3 billion contract that will keep the Olympics at the network through 2020. As a result, NBC has been selling more than $900 million in advertising to ensure it [...]

Google Play

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 6th, 2012

Google announced today that Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore will all become part of a new integrated hub called Google Play, starting today. Google Play is designed to be a simpler way to manage your entertainment. Google Play and the Google+ page have more on this change. If you’re headed to Austin [...]

Flying Cell Towers

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 6th, 2012

Regina Dugan, director of DARPA, demonstrated some of their projects at TED2012. A hummingbird-type aircraft, developed with AeroVironment, is equipped with a video camera, and weighs less than a AA battery. It flew for 20 seconds in 2008; a year later, two minutes, then 6, and eventually 11 minutes. Other examples Dugan showed included: Using [...]