Climbing Everest with iPad and iPhone
This spring en route to Mount Everest, Hilaree O’Neill, 39, a ski-mountaineer from Colorado who is part of our 2012 Everest expedition which will be covered live in the National Geographic iPad app, will trek the same valleys and work up to Base Camp just as Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did 59 years ago when the duo claimed the first ascent. But on the mountain, fortunately, O’Neill will not be using the antiquated...
ARM bucks weak semiconductor market trend in Q2
ARM showed strong growth in an otherwise weak semiconductor market, with robust demand for smartphone and tablet processors driving profit and revenue growth in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday. The company’s processors are used in devices like Apple’s iPad and iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets, and ARM said it is set for strong growth in the coming quarter. The company reported...
Samsung ChatON for Android gets Olympic Buddy feature, also sports a new logo
By Edgar Alvarez posted Jul 27th 2012 4:18PM Ever since its debut late last year, Samsung’s ChatON application has been a moderate hit amongst folks using iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android devices. Now, along with outing a slightly redesigned logo (pictured above), the Korean outfit’s also updated its app in Google’s sweet OS to version 1.9.5 on handsets, or 1.7.3 if you’re handling one of those larger...
3D printer cuts vinyl, mills, draws, fits comfortably inside a briefcase, is generally fab
By Brian Heater posted Jul 27th 2012 4:46PM Is there anything this tool from MIT’s Ilan Moyer and collaborator Nadya Peek can’t do? Probably, but that list seems likely to be shorter than the list of those it can. So far, Popfab has been shown doing a little printing during a brief video, but Moyer has promised a lot more to come, telling Core 77, “we also have toolheads working for vinyl cutting, milling and...
Mountain Lion arrives in Mac App Store
Apple on Wednesday released Mountain Lion, the operating system otherwise known as OS X 10.8. Mountain Lion adds several iOS-inspired apps and features, wholly embraces iCloud, and, of course, drops support for some older Macs. Read Jason Snells full review of Mountain Lion. Like Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion is available exclusively through the Mac App Store as a 4.34GB download. But it comes at a discount from its predecessor:...
