Google fuels local search with Zagat reviews
Google today unveiled a tool that promises to make it easier for people on the run to find the perfect restaurant. The new Google+ Local service provides users with Zagat restaurant reviews and Google+ friend recommendations. Google+ Local is available as a tab in Google+ and can be integrated into Google search, and the Google Maps mobile app. “Finding the best places to go is an essential part of our lives, as are the people...
Infinitec returns with Android 4.0-based HDMI dongle, Kickstarts the Pocket TV
By Darren Murph posted May 30th 2012 12:05PM Remember Infinitec? Tricky question, no? The company came to us at CES 2010 with a product that had big — nay, huge — aspirations. It was a simple USB stick that promised to enable ad hoc streaming, claiming to bring “infinite storage” to PC users. Unfortunately, it wasn’t exactly seamless in operation, and the company’s been radio silent ever since....
New iPad Tops Three Million
CUPERTINO, California―March 19, 2012―Apple® today announced it has sold three million of its incredible new iPad®, since its launch on Friday, March 16. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina™ display, Apple’s new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video, and still delivers the same all-day 10 hour battery life* while remaining amazingly...
Leica Monochrom test turns up the ISO, doesn’t bring the noise
By Steve Dent posted May 30th 2012 12:31PM In the case of “why would you pay $8k for a black and white camera,” exhibit ‘A’ would surely be the lack of a color filter array corrupting the image. Without one, the Leica Monochrom — with a similar CCD to its M9 stablemate — should have less noise. Tests comparing the two cameras on Red Dot Forum confirm it, with the Monochrom cleaner in glorious black...
ICANN stops taking custom domain names at 7PM ET, details the TLD explosion June 13th
By Jon Fingas posted May 30th 2012 12:52PM ICANN anticipated that we’d see the first fruits of its open season on top-level domains (TLDs) roughly a year after the hunt began; sure enough, it’s winding down applications tonight. If you have the $185,000 plus $25,000 per year to make a domain your own, you’ve got until midnight GMT (7PM ET) to get that custom spin on the web. Don’t think that you’ll get...
