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Spinning Image Stabilization Gets Smooth High-Flying View from a Football Cam
PetaPixel - 24 Feb 2013 22:34Samsung takes on Apple TV with the HomeSync media streamer
The Verge - 24 Feb 2013 04:12
The news from MWC is already starting to break: along with the Galaxy Note 8.0, Samsung has also introduced a new living room device called the HomeSync. On one hand, it's a media streamer that hooks up to your televisio...
Samsung Announces an iPad Mini-Sized Galaxy Note
Time - 24 Feb 2013 09:19
I'm not at the massive Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, but I'm monitoring news from the show -- and there's going to be a lot of it over the next few days. One of the first major announcements is Samsung's...
A tale of two markets: Alcatel shows off high-end Idol X, basic One Touch Fire smartphones
The Verge - 24 Feb 2013 20:27
Alcatel has unleashed a slew of new phones onto the market here on the first day of Mobile World Congress, but the most interesting two lie at diametric opposite positions on the smartphone spectrum. We first got to spen...
Microsoft's next Windows Blue test build said to be a public preview
ZDNet - 24 Feb 2013 20:19
Microsoft's Windows Blue operating system update may be on its way to a public, consumer preview in the next few months. And it might even be free, according to the latest scuttlebutt.
US government ending paper benefits checks, switching to direct deposit March 1st
The Verge - 24 Feb 2013 20:12
People receiving benefits from the US federal government, from Social Security recipients to veterans with pensions, won't have to wait for their checks to arrive in the mail anymore after March 1st. That's when the US T...
3 Ways to Watch the Oscars Online
Mashable - 24 Feb 2013 23:59
LOS ANGELES -- Winners of the 85th Academy Awards, hosted by Ted director and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, will be revealed Sunday at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC. You can watch the Oscars online, enhancing your TV viewing...
Samsung amps up business push with Knox security software
CNET - 24 Feb 2013 23:52
Samsung is considering embedding KNOX into its flagship mobile products for the first half.
Let There Be NanoLight, the World-Changing Lightbulb
Mashable - 24 Feb 2013 23:45
Leave it to Kickstarter to try reinventing the lightbulb. Three graduates from the University of Toronto got together and started a Kickstarter campaign for a product called the NanoLight, a lightbulb that promises to be...
Benchmarks Are In: Nvidia's Tegra 4 Really Cooks
Gizmodo - 24 Feb 2013 23:37
When Nvida announced the Tegra 4 back at CES, they laid down the claim it was the world's fastest mobile processor. Now, at Mobile World Congress, the benchmarks are coming in and there's no questioning it. The Tegra 4 i...
Hands-On With The Week's Top Apps
Mashable - 24 Feb 2013 23:32
Several exciting new apps launched this week. Sunrise, a new social calendar created by ex-Foursquare developers, launched for iOS, and SwiftKey released a huge new update for Android. Location-sharing app Highlight rele...
Fly Or Die: Sunrise Calendar
TechCrunch - 24 Feb 2013 23:32
A calendar is a tool created many millennia ago, a tool that is vital to our very functionality as intelligent beings. Yet, when technology has ventured far beyond a simple grid of numbers, the Calendar applications we u...
Samsung to launch first Tizen smartphone as early as July
CNET - 24 Feb 2013 23:22
The upstart operating system will get its first device courtesy of the world's largest smartphone manufacturer.
Head to head: NVIDIA's Tegra 4 and Tegra 4i
Android Central - 24 Feb 2013 23:06
Chipmaker shows its 2013 wares at Mobile World Congress For NVIDIA in 2013 (so far at least), the conversation revolves around Tegra 4 and Tegra 4i. The gist is that Tegra 4 is more powerful of the two, with more GPU cor...
Alcatel announces the 1080p One Touch Idol X
Android Central - 24 Feb 2013 23:06
Alcatel kicks of their presence at Mobile World Congress 2013 with an unexpectedly high-end offering, the 1080p One Touch Idol X. Don't let the Nokia style colored cases fool you, this one is all Android and a refreshing...
Nvidia Phoenix hands-on: the 5-inch, quad-core blueprint for mainstream superphones
The Verge - 24 Feb 2013 23:00
Earlier this week, Nvidia announced a major milestone in its mobile development history: its first chip to combine both the applications processor and LTE modem on the same silicon. The Tegra 4i, as it is called, is the ...
Nvidia Tegra 4: the first benchmarks
The Verge - 24 Feb 2013 23:00
Nvidia's next-generation mobile processor, the Tegra 4, may have been announced at CES last month, but it's only today that the company has truly let us get an idea of its pixel-pushing potential. Running a trio of the m...
Backed Or Whacked: Ups And Downs In A Yo-Yo World
TechCrunch - 24 Feb 2013 23:00
Editor's note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Kickstarter has seen its share of campaigns that spin out of control, but it's a lot more impressive when spin is in control....
NVIDIA Tegra 4 benchmarked, breaks all sorts of speed records (video)
Engadget - 24 Feb 2013 23:00
When NVIDIA unveiled Tegra 4 back at CES, we scrambled to get hands-on with a reference device. And though our initial performance impressions were positive -- it runs 1080p video and games smoothly -- there was only so ...
NVIDIA Tegra 4i Phoenix reference phone hands-on (video)
Engadget - 24 Feb 2013 23:00
NVIDIA's latest venture in the mobile world, called the 4i, was introduced last week ahead of Mobile World Congress, and fortunately the chipset maker brought the product to Barcelona embedded in a reference phone known ...
Nvidia Tegra 4 supercharges smartphones (hands-on video)
CNET - 24 Feb 2013 23:00
Nvidia's latest Tegra 4 and Tegra 4i processors aim to boost gaming performance and battery life. We go hands-on with its reference devices.
What Really Caused the Tesla Car to Break Down?
Mashable - 24 Feb 2013 22:57
The New York Times published a review of the new Tesla Model S last week, in which the writer said the electric sedan broke down on a Connecticut freeway during a test drive. Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk had one word ...