Samsung unveils Galaxy Player 5.8, pockets everywhere brace for impact
By Jon Fingas posted Aug 27th 2012 12:15AM We hope you wear baggy pants, because you’re going to want big pockets to carry Samsung’s giant new jukebox. The Galaxy Player 5.8 is dominated by its namesake 5.8-inch, 960 x 540 LCD — a screen that makes the 4.8-inch AMOLED on the closely related Galaxy S III look downright modest by comparison. Android 4.0 and the latest generation of TouchWiz make their first appearances...
5 reasons Android users won’t switch to the iPhone 5
The hype around the upcoming iPhone 5 – which is rapidly approaching the hysterical peak that we’ve all come to expect every time Apple rolls out a new model – has already generated a number of possible reasons for Google and its Android partners to worry about the device’s impact. COUNTERPOINT: 5 reasons Android users will switch to the iPhone 5 But hang on – does the emperor really have any clothes? As...
Google Nexus 7 overclocked to 2GHz, punches well above its weight
By Jon Fingas posted Aug 27th 2012 12:25AM The stock Nexus 7 peaks at a 1.3GHz clock speed when it’s at full burn. That’s certainly good enough for the $199 price tag, but eager adopters have just hit a new record in trying to wring out even more of a bang for the buck. Courtesy of a custom Elite kernel from XDA-Developers’ Clemsyn, the Tegra 3 in the mini tablet will scale all the way to a heady 2GHz. You’d be...
New FileMaker 12 Software Line Released Today
FileMaker, Inc. today announced the release of the FileMaker 12 database software line — including FileMaker Pro 12, FileMaker Go 12, and FileMaker Server 12 — which offers powerful new ways to create custom database apps for iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows, and the web. New professionally designed themes and the ability to customize every detail make it easy to create databases for managing contacts, projects, digital content, and more....
beIN Sport USA soccer channel comes to Comcast, DirecTV and Dish Network
By Richard Lawler posted Aug 27th 2012 1:13AM While most of us have spent the last few weeks preparing for the return of North American-style football (get our NFL Pick ‘Em league info here), soccer fans in the US and France have been tracking the sudden rise of international TV network beIN Sport. Operated out of Qatar by Al Jazeera, beIN Sport USA has snagged the exclusive broadcast rights to Spain’s La Liga,...
