I know many geeks out there were excited over the thought of having the cheap and tiny Raspberry Pi device to play with. The first batch of those little boards sold out quickly and then a production delay prevented other deliveries to people wanting to get hands on one. The company has announced that its first 2000 boards arrived in the UK this past Monday. However, the company was hit with a bit of a setback last week after two suppliers decided not to distribute the board.
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Archive for March, 2012
Raspberry Pi talks CE compliance
Ubi-Camera makes your fingers the frame
Making a frame of your fingers, peering through it and telling pretty people "yeah baby, yeah, work it for the camera" may one day actually result in photographs rather than odd looks, if researchers at Japan's Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences get their way. Their Ubi-Camera concept puts the lens onto a finger and uses the wearer's distance from the finger-frame to control zoom, DigInfo reports, doing away with viewfinders and displays that add a layer of disconnect between you and the subject.
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Ford unveils new twin turbo 2013 Explorer Sport
Yesterday Ford unveiled a new Explorer model that brings back the Sport nameplate. Years ago, the Explorer Sport could be had as a two-door version but this time out it appears the Sport is a four-door only. The big difference between the normal Explorer and the Explorer Sport is the engine. Ford is fitting the Sport model with a 3.5-liter V6 twin turbo EcoBoost power plant.
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Samsung apes Apple with store-in-a-store
Samsung has borrowed a leaf out of Apple's retail guidebook, announcing a deal with UK handset merchants Phones 4u to put a special Samsung-branded store inside its flagship London location. The new concession will open on Friday this week, and offer what's promised to be the largest range of working Samsung demo hardware available to the public. Meanwhile, Samsung and Phones 4u have apparently been coaching staff to levels of Samsung enthusiasm that presumably match Apple retail fervor.
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Nokia Lumia 800 battery fix firmware released
The near-magical update for the Nokia Lumia 800, tipped to hugely increase battery life for the Windows Phone, has been officially released. The new firmware "shows significant improvements" in the Lumia 800's runtime, Nokia says, along with improvements to audio quality and some other tweaks. However, there's still no WiFi tethering, and not every Lumia 800 user will get the new firmware immediately.
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LG flexible epaper devices promised for April launch
LG Display has launched a new, 6-inch flexible epaper display that the company expects to show up in bendable products by the beginning of next month. The panel, a 1024 x 768 monochrome sheet, can be bent up to 40-degrees without breaking; in addition, because LG Display has used a flexible plastic substrate rather than the more traditional glass, it's less than half the weight of a traditional epaper panel.
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GSM Galaxy Nexus gets Android 4.0.4 plus XOOM WiFi and Nexus S
Google has released the latest update of Ice Cream Sandwich for UMTS/GSM devices, pushing out Android 4.0.4 for the HSPA+ version of the Galaxy Nexus sold in Europe, among other models. The current Nexus flagship, along with its predecessor, the Nexus S, and the Motorola XOOM WiFi all get the updated version of the platform, headed out as an OTA upgrade.
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Box’s OneCloud pushes enterprise to the cloud
It looks like Box is the first to truly tackle the issue that we all know is the current problem with cloud-based storage services - an unnecessary emphasis on proprietary platforms and a lack of universal access. The innovative cloud provider Box wants saving something to the Internet as easy as, well, clicking the "save" button. Enter OneCloud, a product that is not a new cloud platform, but an entire cloud infrastructure.
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Disney’s Epic Mickey on 3DS will be Castle of Illusions sequel
The addition of the new, uniquely addicting Mickey Mouse video game franchise to Nintendo's glasses-free 3D device will bring back memories of a bygone era of gaming. The new game, Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion, is set to be a direct sequel of the Sega Genesis game Castle of Illusion. Anyone who played the game is no doubt getting flashbacks of it at this very moment. If you haven't played it, you're missing out.
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OnStar Family Link service launched
General Motors has rolled out a new addition to its already-successful OnStar platform. Called Family Link, the new service lets users track other family members who have access to your car, allowing you to sign up for text messages and e-mail alerts when the vehicle arrives at a specific location or to let you know where it is at a specific time. Yeah, it's a double-edged sword, but it's a feature that customers want.
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Atlus PSP games get price drop on PSN
Atlus, the publisher best known for its quirky and perhaps even too-far-off-the-wall role-playing games, has announced that it is decreasing the prices of all its downloadable PSP games that are currently available on the PlayStation Store. The discounts range from $5 to $20 off what the previous prices were, with many titles getting 50% discounts or more. The company is calling it the "ReVITAlized" sales event, encouraging sales of the PSP classics on Sony's new Vita handheld system.
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Netflix increases wall between DVD and streaming
If you're a streaming-only Netflix customer, the way you interact with the site is becoming increasingly different than those who have both instant and DVD-by-mail services on their account. Perhaps it's a good thing if you have no intentions of ever adding DVD support to your account, but then again, it looks like the site is trying to slowly weed out that side of its business altogether.
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