Rob Glaser — founder, chair and former CEO of RealNetworks — hopes all eyes will soon be on an app developed by his new company, SocialEyes, which is designed to bring video chat to Facebook. Like all social media services, SocialEyes can be used both publicly, for groups organized around common interests, and privately [...]
Unlike its arch-rival, the Apple iPad, the Motorola Xoom tablet is easy to open up for repairs and upgrades. “It appears Motorola built the Xoom to be upgraded, so they have this parting line about an inch from the top on the back that lets you separate the device into two pieces,” Miroslav Djuric, who [...]
Last week, I tried to come up with some epic things I would like to think I’d do were I given six weeks to live — a rumor that’s been floating around about Steve Jobs — and was as insanely wealthy as he is. The purpose was to focus on something other than the [...]
With its focus on usability, Canonical’s Ubuntu is held up by many as the best Linux distribution of all time, and its Distrowatch rankings tend to reinforce that belief. Not only is the distro currently the most frequently downloaded from that site, but all the many ground-shaking changes it has announced promise to keep it [...]
If you nauseate easily at the prospect of non-stop Apple announcements, right now might be a good time to take a long hike in the woods, weather permitting. Apple’s given developers a brand-new preview of OS X Lion; next week we’ll see an announcement that’s almost certainly going to be all about iPad 2; and [...]
Just shy of 40 successful space journeys, the NASA shuttle Discovery headed to the International Space Station Thursday on a final mission that followed repair problems and bad weather. Known as “STS-133,” Discovery’s last voyage will take 11 days. The shuttle is delivering a variety of parts and modules to the space station and carrying [...]
Google on Thursday began using a new algorithm to rid its top search results of what it described as low-quality websites. This will reduce the rankings for sites that are low value-add for users, ones that copy content from other websites, or sites that just aren’t very useful. Simultaneously, the algorithm will improve the rankings [...]
Epic Games has created award-winning series like “Gears of War” and “Unreal Tournament,” as well as a popular proprietary development platform. That platform, Unreal Engine, doesn’t only appear in Epic titles, though. The company has allowed other developers to license it — for a fee. Now, it’s opening up that platform to independent developers with [...]
Since it was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last January, the Motorola Xoom tablet has been hailed as the strongest challenge yet to Apple’s iPad. However, it faces two possible obstacles to widespread acceptance: Its price, and its lack of a WiFi-only version. The Xoom has both 3G and WiFi capabilities, and it’s offered [...]
Since it was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last January, the Motorola Xoom tablet has been hailed as the strongest challenge yet to Apple’s iPad. However, it faces two possible obstacles to widespread acceptance: Its price, and its lack of a WiFi-only version. The Xoom has both 3G and WiFi capabilities, and it’s offered [...]