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USAF eying 18,000 iPad 2 tablets to cut pilot workload

Shane McGlaun, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

The United States Air Force is considering a massive purchase of iPad 2 tablets to outfit some pilots with tablet computers. There is a chance the tablets purchased might not be iPads, but the chance is slim. The USAF Air Mobility Command is reportedly going to issue a request for proposals to buy somewhere between 63 and 18,000 "iPad 2, brand-name or equivalent devices." Read The Full Story

iPad puts the smack down on Samsung in South Korea

Shane McGlaun, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Some manufacturers that have recently come onto the Android tablet market with cheap, smaller screen tablets had hoped that they could beat or at least match the iPad. So far, no one has been successful in pulling that off. In South Korea, Samsung's home country, Apple has recently passed the 1 million iPads sold mark. It beat Samsung to that number on Samsung's home turf. This is really no surprise given the global popularity of the iPad. Read The Full Story

Hackers breach Indian Microsoft Store, passwords exposed

Shane McGlaun, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Anyone who signed up for an account or purchased items from the Microsoft Store in India has reason to be concerned today. Over the weekend, hackers were able to break into the Microsoft India store and compromised the store database. The database breach apparently happened last night and the home page of the site was replaced with one showing the photo you see below. Read The Full Story

Scosche unveils bassDock for iPad

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you're an iPad user of any generation of the tablet that is looking for a nice dock that will improve the audio quality for your streaming media, and hold the tablet at a more comfortable angle for use, the bassDock might be exactly what you need. The device has 2.1 audio inside and promises nice bass with support for both the iPad and the iPad 2. It will even hold the screen of the tablet in portrait or landscape mode. Read The Full Story

Video claims to show long extinct woolly mammoth crossing a Siberian river

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

A very strange video has surfaced this week that claims to show an extinct woolly mammoth wading through a river. There are several obvious issues, the biggest of which is the fact that the mammoth has been extinct for thousands of years. Apparently, the other issue is the man the posted the video has been tied to other videos believed to be hoaxes. Read The Full Story

British auto insurer AA unveils GPS tracked insurance policies for drivers

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you live in the UK, you're probably familiar with auto insurance company AA. The company has taken a cue from some of its smaller rivals in the UK and has introduced a new type of insurance policy that uses a little GPS recorder under the hood to track driving habits of the insured. The little box can transmit things like your speed, and if you're braking hard. The box can also record cornering speed, what types of roads the person drives on, and what time of the day the person drives. Read The Full Story

Diablo III launch postponed until at least Q2 2012

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

For a while now we've been hearing that Diablo III would be landing this month. It seems that launch window isn't correct after all. Tom's Hardware reports that Blizzard will not be releasing any games in Q1 of 2012. The good news is that the game is still set for a 2012 launch. We don't know exactly when that launch will occur, but it won't happen until at least the second quarter putting the launch in April at the earliest. Read The Full Story

Microsoft + Google = Apple

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you aren't a big Apple fan, this is going to sting. As of yesterday morning, AppleInsider reports that Microsoft's market cap was about $256.7 billion. At the same time, Google's market cap was about $198.9 billion. If you flipped over and looked at Apple's market cap, it was at $456 billion. Yes, that meant that Apple was worth more than Google and Microsoft combined. Read The Full Story

Roku Players ship in UK with new iPlayer support

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Roku has made a couple announcements that fans streaming media in the UK may get excited about. The first is that the Roku players are now shipping to customers in the UK. The other announcement is that the selection of entertainment content for fans in the UK has increased. The UK versions of the players previously allowed users to access content like Netflix and a lot more. Read The Full Story

Get all The Pirate Bay in a 90MB download

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you are the sort who likes to download your movies, music, and other stuff from places like The Pirate Bay, you can grab your very own copy of the pirate website right now. Back in January, I mentioned that The Pirate Bay was making some changes from directly hosting torrent files to magnetic links. The change was to make the site require less bandwidth and to allow fans to be able to download and host their own version locally as a way to avoid authorities seeking to take the site off-line. Read The Full Story

Kickstarter sees two projects hit the $1 million mark

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

I can remember the first time I happened across Kickstarter. I remember thinking that it was a very odd website, and I didn't see how people would be able to raise the sort of money they were seeking for products and other things such as movies or games they wanted to produce. As it turns out, Kickstarter has massively blown up over the last year, and many projects are racking up huge sums of money from hoards of Internet users who can put their own cash behind projects that they find interesting. Read The Full Story

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