More details are coming out about billionaire-adventurer Richard Branson and his planned forays into the ocean’s deepest nether regions.
According to the LA Times, Branson’s 20-foot Virgin Oceanic vessel will be feeding previously unseen topographical data back to Google Earth, the free 3D mapping software that lets users do cool …
How does Facebook serve up its social network to more than half a billion people around the world–and do it with surprisingly few outages and glitches? It started out seven years ago by leasing servers in data centers as it needed them. Eighteen months ago, it built its own massive data center in Prineville, Oregon–and decided to …
A Swedish cell phone company just unveiled what might be the future of online shopping – a strange combo of video chat and interactive graphics that looks very much like something out of Minority Report.
The video above explains how the 3 Live Shop works and how it was made. Three bespoke operator stations were built by a team working
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If you live in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York or Texas, then congratulations: Your state is among the six responsible for almost half of all suspected cases of software piracy in the US, according to the Business Software Alliance.
The BSA says those six states are behind 49.3% of all piracy reported to its …
David Lynch says you’ll never really watch a movie on your phone, but what about full-on 24/7 ESPN sports events?
ESPN already breaks off bits of its live shows for occasional phone-based palm-gawking via an app drably dubbed ESPN Mobile TV. So what do you call the app that lets you simply stream ESPN live?
WatchESPN, of course, …
Chrome OS notebooks won’t arrive until later this year, but Google is already planning for tablets.
CNet’s Stephen Shankland found lots of tablet evidence among the Chrome OS source code, including a virtual keyboard and touch-optimized tabs. Google then confirmed that it’s “engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form …
Yesterday afternoon, Toyota and Microsoft announced a new $12 million partnership that aims to bring cloud computing on the road. This team-up will grant the industry-leading automaker’s vehicles access to streaming music, telecommunications information, GPS and energy mangement on the go.
According to Wired, the initiative will be …
Gartner’s crystal ball predicts that Android will make up 49.2% of all smartphones in the world by the end of 2012. But in 2013, it’ll drop to 48.8% for some reason. What happened, Future Android?!
I’ll tell you what happened. The Mayan Calendar ended, we entered a new age of consciousness, and our newfound telepathic powers rendered …
The man behind Android, Google’s Andy Rubin, has taken to one of his company’s blogs to “attempt to set the record straight” as it pertains to “a lot of misinformation in the press about Android and Google’s role in supporting the ecosystem.”
The so-called misinformation that Rubin is believed to be addressing comes from a March 30th …
This fun video was created by Vodafone UK to advertise its Android offerings.
They used a technique called 3D projection mapping, where objects are used as projection screens instead of the traditional flat screens on the wall.
In this case, the screen is a table – and a selection of cell phones from the archives. The phones are …