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In need of a new computer, but holding out because you don’t want to be saddled with a last-gen OS when Windows 8 lands? Worry not potential consumers, Microsoft plans to offer a cheap upgrade path to its latest and greatest if you buy in now. Well, not now, but soon.
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Microsoft to offer $15 Windows 8 upgrade, when you buy a Win7 PC
The Samsung Galaxy S III is coming very soon. Currently we are greeted with few pictures for the device accessories. We can expect the accessories to arrive soon
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Samsung Galaxy S III Accessories Shows Up On Press Image
We got a look at a holographic telepresence project from Microsoft Research earlier this week, but that’s far from the only Kinect-enhanced rig it’s working on these days. This setup dubbed a MirageTable was also shown off at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Austin, Texas this week, offering a glimpse of one possible future where two people can interact with virtual objects on a table as if they were sitting across from each other (or simply do so on their own). To make that happen, the setup relies on a ceiling-mounted 3D projector to display the images on a curved surface, while a Kinect on each end of the connection both captures the person’s image and tracks their gaze to ensure images are displayed with the proper perspective
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Microsoft Research’s MirageTable brings some augmented reality to your tabletop
More new Windows Phones, this time for the old continent. Instead of the Focus 2 , Samsung announced that the Omnia M will take its place in Europe and it’s looking an awful lot like its predecessor — although we’re a bit concerned the build quality may not match its older brother.
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Samsung Omnia M revealed for Europe: 4-inch Super AMOLED and some software extras
Most every touchscreen in the market today can only register your finger input as coordinates; that’s fine for most uses, but it leads to a lot of double-taps and occasionally convoluted gestures . A pair of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University , Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson, have suggested that shear touch might be a smarter solution. Instead of gliding over fixed glass, your finger could handle secondary tasks by pushing in a specific direction, or simply pushing harder, on a sliding display.
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New shear touch technology lets you skip a double-tap, push your device around (video)
Intel has typically kept its cool in responding to Windows 8 on ARM , but that war of words (and chips) just got a little more heated at an investor meeting. CEO Paul Otellini saw his more mobile-oriented competition facing a “big uphill fight” without the presence of legacy Windows app support. That’s a big drawback for corporate buyers that have legions of traditional apps they want to keep running, the executive said.
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Intel knocks ARM’s legacy app dilemma in Windows 8, says it has a ‘big uphill fight’ ahead
Mozilla is waving red flags about Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows RT (the variety designed to run on ARM processors). It’s claiming that only the Internet Explorer browser will run under the much more (in computing terms) privileged Windows Classic environment
Remember when Nokia said that overwhelming demand had postponed the UK launch of the Lumia 900 ?
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PSA: Nokia Lumia 900 available from Phones4U in the UK from today!
Intel unveiled its Hybrid Memory Cube at IDF late last year, and the company hasn’t wasted time moving forward with this new DRAM architecture; it even created an alliance dedicated to standardizing and implementing the technology. Now Microsoft wants in on the action: the outfit just announced that it will lend its clout to the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium. To jog your memory, HMC technology promises seven times the efficiency of current DRR3 memory modules and is being vaunted by Intel et al
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Microsoft joins Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium to develop new DRAM standard
Kyocera has just unveiled their newest Android 4.0 smartphones.
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Kyocera Announced Hydro And Rise Smartphones
Super Diet Genius plans your meals based on super-healthy superfoods. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET) Diet apps are a dime a dozen
With E3 2012 right around the corner, Reggie and co. want to make sure your oft-distracted eyes catch every drip drop of the impending Wii U news flood.
Sufficiently enamored with Samsung’s Galaxy S III that you’ve got to have one in the US before anyone else, and you don’t want it sullied by carrier customizations in the trip across the Pacific?
We can’t be certain as to how many units of the HTC EVO 4G LTE have made it out of customs thus far, but it appears the number is high enough for Sprint to officially set a date for shipping the device out to those who pre-ordered it online. A Sprint representative reached out to us to share the company’s statement from this afternoon that customers should expect to receive their valuable treasure “on or around” May 24th. We’re not in love with the “around” terminology, but this could simply be due to a high amount of demand.
The digital gTar never needs tuning. (Credit: Incident Technologies) At first glance, a digital guitar with the brains of a super-powered smartphone and illuminated fretboard seems like a product that could change everything about guitar instrumentation
(Credit: Pentax) I have to admit: the $900 Pentax K-30 dSLR sounds like a pretty promising replacement for the K-r. Rugged on the outside with the potential for the same excellent photo quality as the K-01 mirrorless ILC, claimed faster autofocus performance than the already fast K-5, and a 100 percent coverage viewfinder that you usually only see in more expensive models all add up to a possibly great start to the Pentax-Ricoh era. Though it’s not “durable” in the same sense as bodies like the Nikon D4 or Canon EOS-1D X , with parts designed to withstand heavy photographic abuse, the K-30 offers weather-and-dust resistance, with claims of usability down to 14 degrees (most cameras only guarantee down to 32 degrees); that said, Pentax makes no claims about battery life at those temperatures.
House After eight seasons, the run of Gregory House MD comes to an end on Fox tonight with a double episode. While we’ll miss Hugh Laurie fumbling around on our American TV screens every week, it definitely felt like time for the series to come to an end. We’ll see how Wilson’s cancer diagnosis wraps up and if any other old characters stop by after Thirteen popped up last week, although we will avoid throwing back a Vicodin just for old time’s sake.
You wait for one Thunderbolt-compatible motherboard and then two decide to arrive on the same day.
Never one to focus exclusively on the very latest hardware , a new mod has brought an 6502 microprocessor to a Minecraft world near you. The system is made from three separate cubes, representing the CPU, monitor and disk drive, respectively, all connected by ribbon cables. Part of pre-release 5 of the RedPower 2 mod, programmer Eloraam has also thrown in pumps and solar panels to keep crafters busy — you’re no longer limited to light switches
Come summer, the 4G LTE-ready Motorola Droid Maxx will also be global-ready. Wondering when you can take your Verizon Android phone overseas without hassle?
