19
2012
Facebook’s IPO is a jackpot for some, despite dark shadow of mobile
Today is Facebook Day, the day when the most-successful-social-network-so-far opened up to public investment and outshone all other American IPOs up to this point.
19
2012
IT embraces bring your own device in corporate deployment, despite risks
While the bring-your-own-device phenomenon in IT presents a fair amount of risk to enterprise security, most companies are warming up to the idea anyway. A Cisco-sponsored survey of 600 IT and business leaders found that 95 percent of their companies allow employee-owned devices on the corporate network.
19
2012
Woot offering 32GB HP TouchPad for $200
Missed out on the original HP TouchPad firesale? The ill-fated tablet gained a second lease on life once hackers started going to work on it and produced Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs. Fear not, youâve got another chance to snag one: Woot is offering a refurbished 32GB HP Touchpad for $200. Itâs one day only, and the deal is sure to catch fire, so youâll have to move quickly.
19
2012
SlashGear Weekly Wrap-Up: May 19, 2012
Happy Saturday, everyone. If you’re curious about what made news in the tech world this week, you’ve come to the right place. One of the biggest things of course is Facebookâs IPO, and lucky for you we have a very concise Facebook IPO wrap-up. Moving on to the world of gaming, Diablo III real-money auction house second launch date set. Unfortunately, one of the most notable stories was not a very positive one for consumers â Verizon CFO kills unlimited data for LTE upgrades.
19
2012
Plex shows you how to make your TV shows look great with its new Local Media Agent
Out friends at Plex have shuttled out a new Local Media Agent that’ll enable you to make your TV shows look great. The updated software lets you add show and season posters, banners, background art, theme music and individual episode thumbnails to your recorded shows to make each one really, really good-looking. It’ll happily handle PNG and FLAC files for those lossless enthusiasts and it’ll even overlook a messy file structure to get everything looking great. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to catalog our Community episodes with thumbnails of Dean Pelton’s outfits.
19
2012
Insert Coin: CordLite illuminated iPhone cable (video)
In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line.
19
2012
Nokia Lumia 900 gets hammer and nails stress tested
This week a couple of engineers from Tech Craver busted out a hammer, some nails, and their own Nokia Lumia 900 review unit to do some stress tests. While what you’re about to see isn’t technically as scientifically viable as we’d normally like to see in a hammer-to-smartphone test, we’ll accept it – if only because they added what appears to be Stephen Elop calling them on the phone at the end of the video before the video stoppers up. This story has also been picked up by Nokia official Jason Harris of Conversations by Nokia – they’re fairly impressed by the whole situation too, to be frank.
19
2012
Oracle Versus Google: The Database Kingpin Gets Desperate
Oracleâs lawsuit against google over alleged infringement of Java slipped from epic battle to soap opera this week: The relationships between the judge, jury, plaintiff and defendant have become a tangle of legal ambiguity and financial suffering â or is it avarice? The jury deferred to the judge on the extent of Oracleâs intellectual property protections. The judge, in turn, wrested from the jury control over the lionâs share of damages, yanking Oracleâs prize another few inches out of reach. With major issues still to be decided, it is becoming clear that Judge William Alsup holds the high cards – and that he has the tech smarts to play them intelligently and mercilessly.
19
2012
Silicon Micro ST1080 glasses are augmented reality now
If you can’t want for google’s Project Glass, these beauties will give you your fix, but they’re not exactly comparable. A company called Silicon Micro wants to get on the augmented reality game before google does. Project Glass is an ambitious idea that will most likely define the augmented reality industry. It’s a very niche market right now but google wants to bring it to the mainstream.
19
2012
Dish warns the FCC its 4G LTE might come in earnest as late as 2016
Dish has been tranquil about facing a longer FCC review period for its planned LTE-based 4G network, and now we might have an idea as to why. The satellite TV giant is telling the FCC that it only expects coverage to reach up to 60 million potential customers “within four years,” or about 2016 — six years after MetroPCS and Verizon first flicked their respective 4G switches. This is also assuming that the 3GPP cellular standards group clears the AWS-4 frequency band for LTE use. There’s speculation that Dish is giving the extra time so that it can sell the spectrum later, but we’d take the safe road and assume Dish is serious. After all, AT&T wouldn’t be trying to set tough conditions for Dish’s LTE if it didn’t think there was possibly significant competition on the way.
