| Wi-fi is battery suck, grad student has cure Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:20 AM PDT 
If you wanna drain your smartphone’s precious juice(s), go somewhere with a high density of wi-fi hotspots, connect and download video. In other words, you’ll get battery performance download via wi-fi in a Midwestern farmhouse than, say, the middle of Manhattan. Duke Today, the student newspaper at Duke University, reports that graduate student Justin Manweiler [...]  |
| U.S. ISPs agree to be copyright cops Posted: 07 Jul 2011 07:00 PM PDT 
The major ISPs in the U.S. have voluntarily joined the Copyright Alert System which essentially turns them into cops tracking and punishing users who infringe on copyrights. Big-name ISPs such as AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable have all signed on the dotted line to a system that codifies what has been in [...]  |
| iPhone SLR mount redefines ‘strap on’ concept Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:47 PM PDT 
To quote Gurney Halleck (Patrick Stewart) in the original movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, “Gawd, what a monster!” What we’re looking at here is a $249 mounting device for a $1,200 lens onto $1,600 smartphone — what will they think up next! Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount turns your iPhone — assuming you’ve got a [...]  |
| Blu-ray arrives at the party [three years late] Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:20 PM PDT 
There’s a “bag of hurt” in the unclaimed baggage department. You don’t need a ticket to claim it, just some $40 software and a Blu-ray drive, which you can pick one of those up for $70 to $100 online. Obviously, Apple could have just built this über optical drive into the Mac, but why would [...]  |
| Nintendo nixes smartphone game rumors Posted: 07 Jul 2011 12:20 PM PDT 
Nintendo has ruled out developing games for smartphones and tablet devices. It follows the announcement that the Pokemon company, in which Nintendo holds a minority stake, is to release a smartphone game. The game, whose Japanese name translates as Pokemon Say Tap, is based more on the Pokemon characters than the trading card element. It’s [...]  |
