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Dual-screen computing junkies may finally have a portable solution in GScreen’s Spacebook, a laptop with two screens that’s now available for pre-order. Although I’ve yet to see it up close, I’m already terrified by this monstrosity. The main attraction is a pair of 17.3-inch displays that slide into a side-by-side view, sitting in a frame [...]
Are patent infringement lawsuits endangering app development?
LimeWire may have shut down last year, and finally settled its five-years-long lawsuit with the RIAA this May, but that doesn’t mean that its troubles are over. Now, the former file-sharing company is being sued by a representative of more than 12,000 independent record companies that feel the RIAA settlement unfairly favored the big labels.
The whole point of Apple’s iOS 4.3.4 update was to put the kibosh on a serious iOS security defect that allowed hackers to jailbreak iPhones, iPads and iPod touches (as well as surreptitiously remote control them), but it seems the fix may have already yielded to hackers.
So far Activision’s only shown a handful of single-player levels from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, one of this year’s most anticipated games. I talked about two levels from the solo campaign–”Hunter Killer” and “Mind the Gap”– in my E3 2011 coverage and a comparison between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, and recently [...]
We all know that college is expensive, and outside of convincing someone to marry you (which, according to our friends at Moneyland, can save you up to $80k in tuition costs), debt-ridden students need all the financial help they can get.
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
If you can’t join ‘em, try and beat ‘em—that’s the gist of the reaction by notorious hacker group Anonymous to several of its members’ accounts feeling the banhammer from Google’s new social network site, Google+. But instead of hacking Google+ in retaliation for the bans, Anonymous says it’s launching its own social networking site, dubbed [...]
Does Google+ do it for you?
Did you watch the Women’s World Cup final yesterday? It was thrilling. And guess how many tweets per second were being bandied about Twitter? A record-breaking 7,196—also thrilling from a more nerdacious perspective.
Well, I guess Zuckerberg wasn’t too smitten, even if he has the most Google+ followers. Next time, Google should throw in some freebies to win over the CEO, like a lollipop. Or a pizza. I would like a pizza right now.
