Husqvarna’s e-commerce app to unify workflow with business partners, factories
Husqvarna Group, the Swedish-based maker of outdoor lawn and garden equipment, is powering up an updated e-commerce network designed to better share business information with tens of thousands of trading partners around the world and facilitate order fulfillment with the company’s factories. SECURITY: How to handle a digital-certificate fraud incident “The idea is to bring together all aspects of the process,” says...
Hisense Pulse Google TV set-top box coming in November for $99
By Dana Wollman posted Aug 27th 2012 1:26PM It was just two days ago that a Google product manager let slip that Google was working with Hisense on a low-cost Google TV box. At the time, we didn’t know much — not even a product name — but Google did intimate this mystery item would sell for under $100. Now, Hisense is stepping in to clarify a few key details. For starters, this thing is called the Pulse, and it will...
Foster the People Pumps Up with Logic Pro
For several months in 2011, the radio hit “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster the People was the song we couldn’t get out of our heads. For Mark Foster, who wrote the song, getting it out of his head — and into a demo — was no problem at all. Using Logic Pro, and playing all the instruments himself, Foster was able to write and record the single in just a day and a half. After the demo went viral on the web, the song climbed the charts and...
LG’s Game World landing on its own Smart TVs
By Steve Dent posted Aug 27th 2012 1:51PM LG has just announced Game World, a new Smart TV portal that’s only available to Cinema 3D Smart TV owners. The service will let users snap up downloadable games in categories such as action, RPG or arcade, then play them in 2D or 3D with the company’s Magic Remote or other third-party controller. The service is not to be confused with LG’s Gaikai cloud gaming service, and...
Kodak announces ‘asset protection’ cinema film, thumbs nose at your digital movie collection
By Daniel Cooper posted Aug 27th 2012 2:15PM Kodak may not be beloved by digital filmmakers, but it’s not fallen out of love with the talkies. It’s new “asset protection” cinema film is designed to save motion pictures from being lost if your digital-storage-medium-of-choice is rendered obsolete. It’s designed for long-term archive storage, with your Hollywood blockbuster stored in a...
