Shoot and Score with ‘Smart’ Basketball
Personal Tech columnist Ed Baig goes hands on with the 94Fifty basketball, which uses Bluetooth and an iOS app to help improve your game. The 94Fifty basketball and app.(Photo: InfoMotion Sports Technologies)Story HighlightsBluetooth basketball has wireless sensors that communicate with iPhoneApp can “coach” you on ball-handling and shootingGoes on sale exclusively in Apple Stores on TuesdayNEW YORK — Nobody is ever going...
Sony’s slimmer PlayStation Vita coming to the UK for around £180, pre-orders start today
Alright, so perhaps we took Sony’s invite to its London PlayStation event a little too seriously when we speculated Vita TV news was on the agenda. Although it’s not technically the “slimmest” PS device, Sony’s brought us here to welcome the late-2013 PlayStation Vita iteration (aka the PCH-2000) to UK shores. Thinner, lighter and with better battery life than its predecessor (partly due to the use of a...
Old-school Wi-Fi is slowing down networks, Cisco says
The fourth paragraph of the story, “Old-school Wi-Fi is slowing down networks, Cisco says,” posted to the wire on Monday, incorrectly identified IEEE 802.11ac as the first form of Wi-Fi to use 5GHz exclusively. The story has been corrected on the wire and that paragraph now reads: Read more: Old-school Wi-Fi is slowing down networks, Cisco says
Procter & Gamble Uses iOS Devices to Boost Global Productivity
From household cleaning supplies to personal care products, Procter & Gamble touches the lives of 65% of the people on Earth. P&G’s history includes innovations like Ivory soap, Pampers, Tide, and the first fluoride toothpaste, Crest. More than 175 years after its foundation, the company continues to expand its business using two other groundbreaking products: iPhone and iPad. “P&G’s mission is to make sure that people...
Facebook announces Paper: a ‘distraction-free’ news-reading app for iOS
Facebook is making its own play in the news app category, going up against incumbents like Flipboard and Google’s own Newsstand service. It’s called Paper and it promises a “full-screen” distraction-free layout, with the app separating out your own Facebook News feed to begin with. You can then add to that, picking from Facebook’s curated themes that’ll include photography, sports, food, science and...
