Adobe DItches Flash For Mobile

In what you could call a backend bombshell, Adobe this week revealed plans to ditch Flash for mobile devices, and instead focus on HTML5 and Adobe AIR. Who cares? For one, “those [people] whose job it is to market and sell Android tablets,” writes AllThingsD. “Flash support has been one of the key vantages that aspiring iPad competitors have used to tout their devices.” “Adobe will have a PR nightmare on its hands trying to...

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The Asus Zenbook: a steely marvel with an appalling trackpad

arstechnica.com Adopting the runaway success of the slim and powerful MacBook Air, PC manufacturers have finally arrived on the scene with their own blade-thin models. The Asus Zenbook is one of the first compelling "ultrabooks" and certainly the most striking, with a brushed metal body and clean lines. While we found the performance of...

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Toyota recalls 420,000 vehicles in U.S. to fix crankshaft pulley

latimes.com Reporting from Seoul— In a different corporate sputter for beleaguered Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., the company said it was recalling more than 420,000 vehicles in the U.S. in connection with potential steering problems. The safety recall to replace the crankshaft pulley on the V-6 engine affects 283,200 Toyota and...

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Asus Transformer Prime Is the First Quad-Core Android Tablet

Android tablets are old news, I know, but Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime hopes to get your attention again with its quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chip. The Transformer Prime, which got a quick tease end month, now has a December launch window—Asus still isn’t committing to an actual release date—and a price of $499 with 32 GB of storage, or $599 with 64 GB. As you would anticipate, the Transformer Prime is a spec-boosted sequel...

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ARM's new GPU chip design aims to boost mobile graphics

bbc.co.uk The Mali-T658 offers up to 10 times the performance of its predecessor. It paves the way for faster games and other more complex software on smartphones and tablet computers. ARM hopes to expand its share of a rapidly-growing market. Demand for its mobile GPU designs lags behind that for its central processing units (CPUs). The...

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New iOS 5.0.1 Update ‘Nothing Short of Amazing’

wired.com Good news if you’re one of the iOS 5 users who suffers from crippled battery life: Most early reports are showing that iOS 5.0.1 fixes the problem completely. “Frankly the difference is nothing brusk of amazing,” said Wired reader Donald Kuntzman, who downloaded the update on his Verizon iPhone 4. “To go almost an entire day...

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Seven Accused Of Infecting Computers With Malware In More than 100 Countries

Federal prosecutors accept charged seven people who allegedly ran a massive online-advertising fraud scheme and used malicious software to infect at least 4 million computers in more than 100 countries. Six people from Estonia and another individual from Russia allegedly used the malicious software, or "malware," to hijack Web searches and drive traffic to other websites in order to generate "pay per click" income. In some cases,...

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Nook Tablet, Amazon Kindle Fire ‘mini-tablets’ will shake up market

Everybody really wants to make a tablet these days. You can’t turn around in your local electronics retailer without bumping into some variant of either an iPad 2 or Android device. And those devices cover a wide range: from cheap and available $99 models for those willing to put up with drawbacks, such as sluggish performance or unattractive design, to high-end offerings from Sony and Samsung. Most people are opting for the...

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Microsoft unveils $50 smartphone Samsung Focus Flash

usatoday.com Microsoft on Monday took its turn drive down the buy price of a smartphone by unveiling the $50 Samsung Focus Flash as part of a publicity event in New York City. Last month, Apple dropped the price of it is 2-year-old iPhone 3GS model to zero (with a contract) to better compete against Google Droid models available since...

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Apple boots security guru who exposed iPhone exploit

Protection investigator Charlie Miller has been booted out from participating in Apple's developer programs, shortly after releasing early findings of a security hole in the company's iOS software. Miller annunciated the news on Twitter this afternoon, saying "OMG, Apple just kicked me out of the iOS Developer program. That's so rude!" Earlier today Forbes' Andy Greenberg published a story featuring Miller, who is a long-familiar...

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Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch e-reader drops to $99

latimesblogs.latimes.com Barnes & Noble dropped the cost on it is Nook e-reader, now renamed the Nook Simple Touch, to $99 on Monday. The price cutting, down from $139, came aboard the unveiling of the new Nook Tablet at $250 and the drop in price of the Nook Color tablet to $200 from $250. Along with the price change leave come a...

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GM To Recall More Than 38,400 Pontiac G8s Over Airbag Issue

(RTTNews) - Automaker General Motors Co. (GM: News ) is recalling more than thirty-eight,400 Pontiac G8 models to reprogram the sensor/control modules of airbags for the front passenger seats. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA said on Saturday that GM will recall 38,444 vehicles of model years 2008 and 2009, which were manufactured in Australia by GM's subsidiary Holden and foreign into the U.S. According...

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Twenty Minutes of Mass Effect 3 Beta Footage Emerges

Oh, you thought you accepted to wait till Jan to get your hands on the Mass Effect 3 beta?  A lucky few gamers in the Xbox Live Preview program were rather lucky, as Microsoft in reality put the beta up early on accident.  With the beta being snagged up rather quickly with a few lucky people, videos of the beta were bound to make their way out. Thanks to YouTube user Gamer812, we have over twenty minutes of footage for...

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Shaking it up many apps at a time

FROM a trickle to a torrent, the release of new travel apps has become such a regular occurrence, it is hard to keep up. Destination data, booking services, trip contrivers and niche travel apps are lining up to challenge App Store favourites such as TripAdvisor, Urbanspoon and Webjet. There are apps (or application program* for mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads and Android smartphones) for everything from booking a cab...

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Barnes and Noble NOOK Tablet details leaked

 slashgear.com This week the folks at Barnes & Noble accept had leaked out the newest addition to their NOOK family, a device by the name of NOOK Tablet, one that looks rather similar to the NOOK Color of the past but with a dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor instead. Inside you’ll also find 16GB of internal storage as...

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HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket go on sale

engadget.com You did not anticipate Ma Bell to open it is 1st LTE markets without tossing in a few 4G friendly toys, did you? Of course not, we told you as much last week -- but today things get official: The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and HTC Vivid (formerly known as the vacation) are ready to take Ma Bell's new LTE nodes for a birl....

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Apple gives devs second beta of iOS 5 battery fix

Less than 2 days after issuing its 1st crack at a fix for iOS 5's battery draining issue, Apple has issued a new version of the software to developers, suggesting its public release may come sooner than expected. Apple nowadays posted a 2nd beta of iOS 5.0.1 to its developer site, an update to the initial release of iOS 5 that fixes a handful of bugs while adding new features to the original iPad. The software hit Apple's developer...

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Switched On: Motorola's manic modularity

engadget.com When freshly independent Motorola Mobility introduced it is Atrix handset on AT&T at CES, the smartphone was generally well-received. But what drew more attention was the range of accessories that the company has continued to support through other high-end launchings such as those of the Photon on Sprint and the Droid Bionic...

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Canon unveils high-end camera for filmmakers

Camera maker and office equipment giant Canon Inc. is first appearance a new high-end digital video camera, called Cinema EOS, and providing for filmmakers who use it from a support center in Southern California. The camera similar in shape to a conventional still camera but comes with a variety of mounts. CEO Fujio Mitarai unveiled the product on the overriding Pictures movie lot Thursday, saying its digital images had the...

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Google updates search engine for fresher results

Google has modernised the way it serves up results in response to search queries. The update is designed to work out whether a somebody wants up-to-date results or historical data. The US firm estimated the changes to its core algorithm would make a difference to about 35% of searches. The changes try to make results more relevant and beef up boasts which Google believes set it apart from rivals. By contrast, Microsoft's Bing...

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Apple makes IOS 5.0.1 available to developers

FRUIT THEMED GADGET MAKER Apple has made its IOS 5.0.1 OS  available to developers, signaling that Iphone users might soon have a fix for battery life problems. Concording to macintosh Rumours, the beta version of the updated Iphone and Ipad OS is now available to developers. Yesterday, The INQUIRER reported that Apple had confirmed it would release a fix soon for the Iphone 4S battery problems that have been plaguing its...

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'Call of Duty' to let gamers compete across platforms

edition.cnn.com (CNN) -- The "Call of Duty" franchise is a perennial blockbuster, with more than sixty-five million units sold so far in the United States and hordes of fans lining up each fall to buy the latest installment of the war-simulation video game. Now, Activision Publishing will find out whether fans who are accustomed to dropping...

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EU Antitrust Authority Investigates Samsung's Use of Patents Against Apple

The European Union's top antitrust authorisation has launched an investigating into Samsung's apply of patents to block sales of Apple products. The news will be a boost to Apple in the ongoing legal battles between the two companies. Samsung has sued Apple in five E.U. countries averring infringement of its patents on 3G mobile technology. The European commissioning will now consider whether the South Korean company is abusing...

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Fresh iPhone Apps for Nov. 2: GarageBand, AmazonFresh, Russian Dancing Men, Bring Me Down

Grab your iPhone and download GarageBand, the app that Apple used to show off the power of the iPad 2 way back in March. It's now available for the iPhone as well, along with AmazonFresh, a new app from online retailer Amazon that allows you to purchase groceries applying your iOS device. In games, you will find yourself addicted to rhythm game Russian Dancing Men before long. We’ve also got a tough new physics puzzler in Bring...

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HP Reveals Project Moonshot: Ultra-Low Power Datacenter in the Works

xbitlabs.com Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday exposed a new industry program comprising a new server development platform, customer discovery lab and partner ecosystem to help customers significantly reduce complexity, energy use and costs. Under the new Moonshot program, HP, along with partners from AMD, ARM, Calxeda, Canonical and Red Hat will...

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New Nook Color could beat Kindle Fire's sub-$200 price

Barnes & Noble has called for the news media to a New York event on Monday, sparking speculation that the bookseller will announce a lower-cost Nook Color tab computer that matches or beats the $199 price of the upcoming Amazon Fire. Three analysts agreed that Barnes & Noble won't want to be beat by Amazon.com on price, since it already sells a 7-in. Color Nook for $249 that was first announced Nov. 19, 2010, and was...

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Best Buy selling 32GB TouchPad for $450 below launch price

thetechherald.com Though we here at Tech Herald Towers thought the defunct TouchPad tab comprised no more, it would come along finest Buy is still flogging HP’s purportedly dead technology horse. Moreover, the leading U.S. retail outlet is bidding the TouchPad tablet at a bargain price to any customer in the market for a new PC purchase....

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Finally Windows 7 overtakes Windows XP use

REDMOND software package firm Microsoft has finally seen apply of its Windows 7 operating system (OS) overtake that of its ten year old brother, Windows XP. Web analytics firm Statcounter revealed the change in usage and explicated that globally Windows 7 has a 40.5 per cent market share, Windows XP has 38.5 per cent, and Windows Vista has 11.2 per cent. "Vista was like the ugly sister that few wanted to dance with," said Aodhan...

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AT&T (NYSE:T) Opens 4G LTE Doors

AT&T (NYSE:T) has announced it will be releasing its 1st 4G LTE Smartphone, the HTC Vivid, and the Samsung Galaxy S II for buyers crossed the United States in a week. The phones feature 4G LTE, which anticipates data speeds up to 10 times that of 3G. The HTC Vivid is a 1.2-GHz dual-core phone running the gingerbread edition of Android, with a 4.5-inch q HD (540-pixel-by-960-pixel) display. The Samsung device has a slightly...

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LCD panel firms in South Korea fined a total of $176M

slashgear.com South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission have fined 10 LCD panel makers controlling inside the country a total of $176 million or 195 billion won. The fines were for allegedly holding meetings with the goal of keeping the prices of LCD screens artificially high. This is not the first time the LCD industry has been broke holding...

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October auto sales rate seen at 8-month high

41 economists polled by Reuters expect Oct seasonally adjusted annualized rate to be around 13.2 million vehicles, up about 9 percent from the year earlier. In September, the sales rate was 13.1 million. Analysts said October's likely stronger sales comprised also driven by the greater availability of vehicles arrived at by Honda Motor Co (7267.T) and Toyota Motor Co (7203.T), after the industry recovered from Japan's March earthquake...

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Novatel ships three millionth MiFi hotspot

slashgear.com Novatel Wireless has annunciated that it is celebrating a milestone this week. Novatel is celebrating the fact that it has shipped three million of the MiFi portable intelligent hotspots so far. The device was introduced in 2009. It is a small box that allows the 3G or 4G connection it has to be shared among double devices...

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Ubuntu 14.04 to Run on Smartphones, Tablets and TVs

maximumpc.com "Now it is no longer just about the desktop but really a broader vision.” This remark was part of Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer’s CES 2009 keynote address, in which he talked about the impending transformation of Windows into “an experience that spans the PC, the phone, the TV and the cloud." Fast forward...

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Cut price Touchpads appear at Best Buy USA

MORE CUT PRICE Touchpads are going on sale at Best Buy in the US this week, but this time you have to buy a PC to get a cheap one. Best Buy's bundle allows consumers to get a 32GB HP Touchpad for $149.99 when they buy a PC, but the 16BG version is not available. The deal starts today for online purchases and will launch in stores on 4 November. The option to buy a discount priced Touchpad is accessible to anybody who buys a...

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