Not yet able to connect to Apple’s servers, but at least you can see that all the Siri UI performs smoothly on the older hardware As we mentioned in our earlier coverage, Siri was initially developed outside Apple at the SRI, and the original Siri app worked just fine on an iPhone 4, although [...]
It’s a celestial event that has astronomers around the world talking, but the best of the Draconid meteor shower occurs Saturday afternoon over North America — and will be invisible to the naked eye. While Europe will catch a peak of up to 600 blazing meteors an hour, Canadians will have to settle for [...]
Lenovo announced that it would offer its new A1 Tablet for only $199. The new tablet features a 1 GHz Cortex A8 CPU, built-in GPS, 1024 by 600 capacitive touch screen, 2 GB internal storage, SD card slot, microUSB port, and a 3MP front and rear cameras. It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system [...]
Apple is almost certainly working on a digital television based on its iOS operating system, according to multiple sources in Silicon Valley. An Apple-based television makes sense in light of Apple’s continued expansion out of the computer industry into the larger consumer electronics market. But is it real? Multiple reports, as well as sources interviewed [...]
HP announced that it would end its lines of mobile devices running the company’s webOS software. Among those devices that would land in the HP gadget graveyard were the newly launched HP TouchPad tablet and the HP Pre 3 smartphone, which was already on sale in Europe and had yet to launch Stateside. Though [...]
We all know lasers make a “pew pew” sound, but shouldn’t there be a sound effect button for high-speed burning meteors? Well, the US Air Force Space Surveillance Radar in Texas just recorded its own, capturing echoes of the Perseid meteor shower last Friday night. Every year, the Earth orbits directly into a cloud of [...]
The claws came out Thursday morning when Kelsey Grammer’s new bride, Kayte Walsh, responded to Camille Grammer’s insinuation that her ex is not as well-endowed as one might hope. It all started when the new “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” promo hit the web in late July. Camille Grammer, whose public divorce was a focal [...]
With Watch the Throne’s hugely buzzed-about Monday morning release on iTunes, its wide release today, and now the premiere of their first music video off the album, this can probably officially go down in history as Watch the Throne Week. Jay-Z and Kanye West dropped the Spike Jonze-directed video for their single, “Otis,” on [...]
