An unfortunate side effect of a “cool” conference like SXSW is you find a lot of people who truly, deeply believe that they themselves, personally, are changing the world for the better. It’s somewhat sweet, somewhat cheesy, and very, very naïve.
Mobile electronics accessory and design firm AViiQ has started a solidarity campaign for Japan with donations to the American Red Cross for every user that likes its Facebook page.
America’s students are bored, unengaged and dropping out at alarming rates – but technology may be able to save the day. At least according to the panelists on a Samsung sponsored SXSW panel on Friday entitled: Asleep in the Classroom: A Wake Up Call from Tomorrow.
Rovio is certainly feeling the luck of the Irish this week as the Angry Birds maker picked up a cool $42 million in new venture funding on the same week it released 15 new levels in honor of Saint Patrick’s day.
There’s no need for Symbian developers to go nok, nok nokia-ing on heaven’s door just yet, because Samsung plans to lure them over to a Bada life.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. has struck a deal with 7digital Music Store to have the service natively pre-installed on the BlackBerry PlayBook at launch in the United States and Canada with worldwide launch soon after that.
The roadmap for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry software future has tipped up online, showing two updates to BIS this year and a new version of BlackBerry OS slated for the end of the year.
As a BlackBerry user, my main gripe about Android phones is that I just can’t find one that suits my incessant e-mailing habit. The on-screen keyboards just don’t cut it, no matter what new-fangled system the phone is using. i just want my QWERTY brick, goddamit!
Vodafone Hutchison Australia has had a tough time of its own making lately, blindly walking into one mess after the other.
This week at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, RCR caught up with one of the world’s largest ISPs, Level 3, which was touting its role as the messenger …
GPS mapping provider Navteq says it believes it has a lot to offer the world of gaming, and spent GDC trying to persuade developers their content would look a whole lot nicer if it included the firm’s enhanced 3D city models for more realistic and compelling content.
Possibly the most common gripe about any Apple device is the swiss cheese style holes it leaves whenever it encounters flash content. Of course, Apple’s refusal to budge on the issue has also closed the door to many a Flash game and given the finger to any developer clinging to Adobe’s products.
Cisco is not typically the kind of company you’d think of if anyone asked you to name a gaming firm, but the router company is nothing if not diverse, as we discovered in GDC this week.
RCR was doing a bit of bird watching at GDC in San Francisco yesterday, only to land ourself an Angry Bird, in the form of Mighty Eagle Peter Verterbacka himself, CMO at Rovio.
A lot of people like to dismiss and poke fun at MeeGo, but developers don’t seem put off by Intel’s OS offering. While Nokia’s betrayal was certainly a kick in the teeth for the chip maker, developers seem to be showing more than a passing interest in the software, showing up to developer sessions in droves.
BlackBerry may be business minded, but RIM wants you to know it’s not all work and no play, showing off some rather compelling gaming content on its upcoming tablet at GDC in San Francisco.
RCR shows off some day one snaps from the geekiest gaming show in town
The BlackBerry PlayBook isn’t even on shelves yet, but already the firm is talking about upgrades to it coming just a few months after launch – in Summer.
Everyone seems to be winning at the Game Developer Conference is San Francisco this week, as the Moscone center becomes engulfed by a host of weird and wonderful nerds looking to mix business with playful pleasure.
Intel believes it knows what developers are –and are not – looking for in mobile platforms and plans to use the knowledge to win them over as part of its long term MeeGo strategy.
a firm by the name of XTR3D is taking hand gesture controls to mobile, enabling today’s smartphones, TVs, PCs and any other device with a front facing camera to capture full 3D motion and translate it to a gesture.
CBOSS has always puzzled me. The firm has a prominent booth at every single major tech show, complete with a big stage and a bevy of Russian beauties who periodically do a little dance and pose for photographs with drooling nerds. All well and good, but what the heck does the firm actually do?
Is the Motorola Xoom worth its weight in Gold? At $800 the answer should be yes, but just in case, Moto has produced a real golden version of its super expensive Android Honeycomb tablet, available only to Oscar nominees and one lucky Twitter winner.
Cor Blimey, the mobile chip space is heating up, as the various players carry out their own little ARM’s race to beef up on performance, mainly through the addition of more cores.
Nokia Corp.’s announcement it would be dropping MeeGo and going Windows Phone 7 caused quite a “kerfuffle” inside Intel Corp., admitted Peter Biddle, general manager of Intel’s AppUp products and services.
