Day: September 13, 2013

DoCoMo ignites free iPhone 5S handset free-for-all in Japan

Japan carriers are offering some iPhone 5S handsets for free with a two-year contract…….


What’s in it for server buyers now that Intel’s Xeon E5-2600 v2 is here?

More oomph per socket – and maybe just a tiny system price hike……


Raspberry Pi As an Ad Blocking Access Point

coop0030 writes “Adafruit has a new tutorial that will show you how to use your Raspberry Pi as a WiFi access point that blocks ads by default for any devices using it. This is really neat in that it would work for your Android or iOS device, your Xbox 360, TiVo, laptop, and more without…


GE’s new ‘silent scan’ tech takes the noise out of MRIs

Conventional MRI scanners can exceed 110 decibels, which equals rock show noise levels and is on the edge of the human pain threshold…….


Google quietly dumps Oracle MySQL for MariaDB

Linux distributors have been moving from Oracle’s MySQL to its popular fork, MariaDB – and now Google is also moving to MariaDB…….


Straight Talk quietly starts supporting AT&T LTE

Ma Bell’s 4G LTE network is one more choice for customers of the no-contract service provider…….


Couchbase relaxes NoSQL derrière into mobile seats

Couchbase Lite sits a small JSON DB atop iOS, Android……


Hankook’s i-Flex ‘twheels’ bid farewell to flat tires

One day, we’ll live in a world where you can never get a flat tire. Hankook hopes to make that happen by combining a tire and wheel together into a single object…….


Google’s Schmidt pulls on kid gloves for NSA

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said he was worried that the NSA spying scandal could “split” the Internet…….


It’s about time: Java update includes tool for blocking drive-by exploits

Whitelist clamps down on web-based code……