Archive for January, 2012
Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter?
A new year, a new you: even if you’re an 80-year-old media magnate, it appears the transformative allure of 1 January can prove irresistible. Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corporation – who may have more reason than usual to want to make a break with 2011 – has apparently joined Twitter. Users [...]
Read more‘You can use a banana as a telephone’
Alvaro Cassinelli is an assistant professor at the Ishikawa-Oku lab at the University of Tokyo. He and his partner, Alexis Zerroug, have created a multi-modal, spatial augmented reality, a system that instantaneously changes household objects into communication devices. The effect, known as “invoked computing“, is a process that has enabled Cassinelli to transform a discarded [...]
Read moreMeizu MX launches today, lines dotted all over China as usual
MEIZU MX On Sale Across China Starting On January 1, 2012 HONG KONG – December 30, 2011 – MEIZU will begin selling its latest flagship device, the MEIZU MX, on January 1, 2012 in its retail stores across China. This highly anticipated smartphone has received a warm reception, with the market displaying great interest both [...]
Read moreFisker Karma recall is official, 239 cars will need their battery packs swapped
FISKER / KARMA 2012 Manufacturer: FISKER AUTOMOTIVE, INC. Mfr’s Report Date: DEC 21, 2011 NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number: 11V598000 NHTSA Action Number: N/A Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: BATTERY: PROPULSION SYSTEM Potential Number of Units Affected: 239 Summary: FISKER IS RECALLING CERTAIN MODEL YEAR 2012 FISKER KARMA PASSENGER CARS MANUFACTURED FROM JULY 1, 2011, THROUGH NOVEMBER 3, [...]
Read moreAmazon v the high street – which would you bet on?
Now’s the time of year when columnists are expected to peer into crystal balls. Not being able to find such a device in his local Apple shop, all this columnist can do is to speculate on the implications of some developments that are already highly visible. Online shopping, for example. A glance down any high [...]
Read moreAlvaro Cassinelli: you really can use a banana as a telephone
Alvaro Cassinelli is an assistant professor at the Ishikawa-Oku lab at the University of Tokyo. He and his partner, Alexis Zerroug, have created a multi-modal, spatial augmented reality, a system that instantaneously changes household objects into communication devices. The effect, known as “invoked computing“, is a process that has enabled Cassinelli to transform a discarded [...]
Read moreTechnology’s big beasts fear new predators
Seats are being reserved in the last-chance saloon for two of the technology industry’s biggest chieftains: Sony Group’s Sir Howard Stringer and Microsoft‘s Steve Ballmer. Stringer, a former CBS journalist who went on to run Sony’s American business, including the record label and film studio, has made it his mission knit the Japanese media conglomerate [...]
Read moreInsert Coin: A look back at ten top projects from 2011
2011 has been a tremendous year for tech — Amazon launched a $200 Android tablet, ATT and Verizon continued their LTE expansion, Apple killed off the Mac mini’s SuperDrive and Samsung introduced a well-received killer 5.3-inch smartphone. But tiny tech startups made their mark as well, proving that you don’t need an enormous RD budget [...]
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