BBC introduces Red Button to the internet, thinks they’ll be great pals
By Alexis Santos posted Jun 30th 2012 11:46AM Since 1999, the BBC’s Red Button feature has delivered alternative camera angles, sports scores and the like over broadcast spectrum, but it’s now set to become internet enabled. Channel surfers shouldn’t expect a full-blown web experience, however, as the Beebs stresses it’s not about to include everything and the kitchen sink in terms of functionality. Rather,...
Chrome Rockets to Top as No. 1 Free App in iTunes
Chrome is already the No. 1 one free app in the Apple App Store even though it has only been a few days since Google announced its browser is now available for the iPhone and iPad. It’s getting decent reviews from users who so far have cumulatively ranked it at 4.5 stars, although the biggest complaint they seem to have is the browser is slow compared with Apple’s Safari. PCWorld’s Daniel Ionescu made this point in...
MacBook Pro with Retina Display Named Editors’ Choice
The Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Retina Display) is the laptop you want if you care about performance, thinness, and the screen. It’s not the vaunted “15-inch MacBook Air” that was rumored prior to 2012’s WWDC—it’s better, thanks to an up-to-date components, super-thin chassis, and impressive battery life. This “next-generation” MacBook Pro hasn’t just caught up to the thin and powerful...
Panasonic’s Eluga V for NTT DoCoMo swings past the FCC
By Daniel Cooper posted Jun 30th 2012 1:14PM Panasonic’s Eluga V smartphone arrived at NTT DoCoMo back in May and now the company has dropped one of its handsets off at the FCC’s underground bunker. The Ice Cream Sandwich-running phone has a 4.6-inch, 1280 x 720 display, wireless charging, the same water and dust proofing that we saw in its two brothers, HSPA, Bluetooth 3.0 and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi. Don’t let the news...
Amazon Cloud Hit By Real Clouds, Knocking Out Sites Like Netflix, Instagram
Digital cloud services aren’t immune to the impact of real clouds, and that meant some bad news this weekend for the folks at Amazon and sites that rely in its web services. Severe storms that wiped out power to more than 2 million people across the eastern United States Friday night also took down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram and other sites due to an outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in northern Virginia....
