Liverpool will be without Luis Suarez for Friday’s home game with Newcastle United after the Football Association handed down a one-match ban and £20,000 fine for a gesture made towards Fulham fans. Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez was banned for one match and fined 20,000 pounds by the English FA on Wednesday for making an offensive [...]
Apple will launch both a 32-inch and 37-inch iTV this summer, which will presumably have all the features of the Apple TV integrated along with “the simplest user interface you could imagine.” Those are the words the late Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s efforts to his biographer, which have led many to speculate that [...]
Pop superstar Lady Gaga has been chosen to lead the countdown for 2012 at New York’s Times Square. Lady Gaga is having a really interesting holiday season. First, she debuts a new B-side song called “Stuck on F***** You” as a Christmas gift for fans. Then, word breaks that she’s being sued by a former [...]
The 2012 New York City’s Time Square ball drop is just days away and the 11,875 pound Waterford Crystal New Year’s Eve ball is once again the focal point of the biggest night of the year in New York City. It’s almost 2012 — with nearly 3,000 crystal triangles sparkling on the New Year’s ball [...]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet — which you’ve likely seen gifted quite a bit this holiday season — has been hacked to run a “pre-alpha” version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. There is a hack in the works that could potentially bring a full working version of Android 4.0 to the $199 tablet. Although the [...]
Kindle Fire the hot-selling tablet more responsive to user input while adding new security and privacy features. Version 6.2.1 for Kindle Fire, was pushed automatically to the devices last week. It can also be downloaded from Amazon. “This update enhances fluidity and performance, improves touch-navigation responsiveness, gives the option of which items to display on [...]
ZVOX, the company that pioneered the concept of single-cabinet home theater systems, has expanded their lineup of Z-Base sound bars — which are designed to be placed under a flat-panel TV set. Three new models, priced at $199.99, $249.99 and $299.99, are the most affordable Z-Base systems ever offered. Sound Bars are getting more popular [...]
LG on Monday provided more details on which of its devices will receive the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” update and when users might expect it. During the second quarter of 2012, LG will roll out Ice Cream Sandwich for the Optimus LTE, its Prada phone, the Optimus 2X, the Optimus Sol, the my Touch Q [...]
Anonymous, over the Christmas weekend, hacked Stratfor, potentially compromising data on the security think-tank’s clients, which include government agencies and defense firms. Thousands of private and government organisations are examining their accounts after hacktivists linked to the Anonymous collective stole credit card information from an American security firm on Christmas Eve and used it to [...]
The Indiana man accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor he was watching told investigators he beat the girl with a brick, dismembered and dumped most of her body but kept her head, hands and feet in his freezer over the Christmas weekend, according to an affidavit filed on Tuesday. Michael L. Plumadore, 39, is charged [...]