Lenovo ThinkPad Edge S430 readies to enter Euro market, gets priced at €809 on German site
By Edgar Alvarez posted May 28th 2012 8:11PM A lot has happened since Lenovo unveiled its biz-oriented Edge S430 back at this year’s CES, but after months of staying under the radar, it’s finally looking like the laptop’s ready to hit a few shelves around the globe. If a product page on Geizhals.at is to be believed, the Thunderbolt-loaded, 14-inch S430 is set to carry a €809 (about $1,015) price tag on one of the...
NASA denies Iranian cyberattack
NASA denied Friday that its website had been hacked and information stolen by a band of Iranian students that called themselves the “Cyber Warriors Team.” The group bragged in a May 16 post on Pastebin that it had hacked a NASA site and stolen the personal information of thousands of NASA researchers. The site allegedly compromised is called the Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System. NASA said...
Apple Scores with Digital Textbooks and App
By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY Updated The sizzling rate at which e-books are growing suggests that digital textbooks almost certainly will be the norm when your kids’ kids are in school. What we don’t know is how quickly a transition to a mostly all-digital textbook education system might happen, how it could affect the way students learn, and which companies will be leading the charge. Apple Apple’s new iBooks...
Amazon offers prepaid 4G LTE data in Japan, gets you online 500MB at a time
By Jon Fingas posted May 28th 2012 9:23PM Amazon has decided that offering 3G-capable Kindles isn’t enough of an involvement in the cellular world — it’s now getting into the business of offering the bits themselves. Through a tie-up with NTT DoCoMo-using MVNO Japan Communications, Amazon is selling prepaid SIM cards for LTE data. Each slice of plastic and circuitry will provide a 500MB block of sweet, sweet 4G for...
LG launches ‘upgraded’ SP820 Smart TV Upgrader box in June for about $170 US
By Richard Lawler posted May 28th 2012 10:52PM Should you have the impulse to turn your dumb display into a full-fledged Smart TV, LG has revealed the second iteration of its Smart TV Upgrader box is ready to hit the marketplace. The original ST600 box was released last year, and this new SP820 was announced earlier this year at CES. It adds LG’s Smart TV experience complete with Magic gesture and voice controlled remote to any...
