Archive for February, 2012
Smartphone stars come out to play
One of the more dramatic moments at this year’s Mobile World Congress – the industry’s monster annual get together in Barcelona – came when Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao had to be evacuated, along with a room full of journalists, from the company’s pavilion. The building had buckled and was being propped up by a [...]
Read moreTED2012: What’s next for planet Earth?
3.33pm: So Jennifer Pahlka is on next. She’s from Code For America, or as she puts it, “Peace Corps for geeks”. They persuade techies to take a year off and to use their skills to make America’s cities a better place. Writing “civic apps” to fix the flaws in government. 3.22pm: Zoref is enumerating the [...]
Read moreMobile World Congress 2012
2.09pm: Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live blog of the Windows 8 preview here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with me, Juliette Garside. This has been described as Microsoft‘s make or break year. Today’s event is arguably the most significant new product launch for Microsoft since Windows 1.0 introduced a graphical interface [...]
Read moreMLB at Bat 2012 app out for iDevices and Android, brings in-app monthly subscriptions to iOS
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Read moreMini quadrotors play Bond, James Bond (video)
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Read moreLytro pre-orders start shipping, infinite focusing now within reach
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Read moreDoubt cast on Near Field mobile payments
The mobile wallet payment systems being developed by Google, Vodafone, Orange, Visa and Mastercard could be out of date before they come to market, according to internet bank PayPal. Google and others are promoting Near Field Communication technology, which involves replacing credit cards with phones which can be tapped on a reader at the till. [...]
Read moreSchmidt: mobile groups ‘regulated to death’
Mobile operators are being “regulated to death”, according to Google chairman Eric Schmidt, endangering their ability to invest in better networks. “It is very difficult to be a telecom operator right now,” Schmidt told the Mobile World Congress during a keynote speech on Tuesday. “You’ve got the reality that you have to upgrade your equipment [...]
Read moreDemand for Raspberry Pi crashes website
A new British computer that costs just £22 went on sale at 6am on Wednesday morning – and immediately sold out, crashing the websites selling it in the process. The Raspberry Pi is intended to inspire a new generation of schoolchildren to learn to program, just as the Sinclair Spectrum and BBC Micro did in [...]
Read moreBroadcom: 802.11ac chipsets already in preproduction, preparing router invasion in summer
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