Day: September 3, 2013

Huawei officially unveils the Valiant budget Android

The midrange Huawei Valiant lands on Metro PCS……


Give us a break: Next Android version to be called ‘KitKat’

‘Key Lime Pie’ dropped for familiar chocolate wafers……


Is this the world’s thinnest wireless touch surface?

A super-thin prototype touch surface and keyboard shows off the potential for Bluetooth Smart and printable electronics technologies…….


The 404 1,334: Where no secret is safe (podcast)

Ariel’s back on the mixing board as a married man, a mattress made for spooning, Amish hacking, and someone confessed to a murder on PostSecret!……


Microsoft buys Nokia, next Android named KitKat

And in other big mobile news, Apple sends out invites for its iPhone event and Amazon updates the Kindle Paperwhite…….


VrAse turns your smartphone into VR goggles

A simple 3D-printed case currently seeking funding on Kickstarter can convert your smartphone into the display on a VR headset…….


Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect

Zothecula writes “Skype has been around for ten years now. Once a science fiction dream, the video calling service has 300 million users making two billion minutes of video calls a day. One problem: most of them can’t look each other in the eye. Claudia Kuster, a doctoral student at the Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH…


Woman claims e-cigarette blew up, shot 4-foot flames

An Atlanta woman plugs an electronic cigarette into her computer’s USB port. Next, in her own words: “Kaboom!”……


How to control your PC from your iPad for free

You don’t have to spend $80 annually for an app like Parallels Access. Free alternatives get the job done just fine…….


Intel readies server-grade Atom for microserver ARM wrestling

Avoton is what happens when you give Chipzilla time……