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Video: Texas Instruments wants you to remember that more cores aren’t necessarily better
Next week you’re going to hear everyone in the mobile industry trumpet NVIDIA’s quad core Tegra 3 as the best thing since sliced bread. Why? Because four cores simply have to better than two cores, right? Texas Instruments, in what can best be described as a public service announcement, just uploaded a video to YouTube showing how their dual core ARM Cortex A15 chip compares to NVIDIA’s quad core ARM Cortex A9 chip on EEMBC’s BrowsingBench testing tool. The benchmark is really easy to understand: 20 web pages get loaded … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Never question an app again with Appreciate – The personal Android Market
The Android Market’s road to getting where it is today was a rocky one, and even though it’s never looked better and is miles better when it comes to discoverability, some people may want more. We’ve seen some attempts at making the Android Market a more personable experience but none have come close to Appreciate. Not only is Appreciate a great application to have on hand when trying to find Android apps, it looks good doing it, too. Appreciate breaks down applications by the amount of downloads, whether its relevant … Read more
Blake Stimac
Several major tech companies sign privacy agreement with California
Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Research In Motion, and Hewlett-Packard signed a privacy agreement that requires each company and its developers to disclose how they will use private data before an app is installed on a device. This agreement is the result of six months of talks between these leading tech companies and California Attorney General Kamal Harris. Harris pushed for stronger privacy requirements on mobile devices and said at a San Francisco press conference that “Most mobile apps make no effort to inform users about how personal information is used. … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
NVIDIA dubs Tegra 3 architecture: 4-PLUS-1
We all know that the Tegra 3 packs a ton of power with a quad-core processor but it actually has a fifth core which is aimed at handling battery life. Well, NVIDIA decided it was tired of this being called a “ninja core” or something, so it has officially dubbed this “4-PLUS-1.” The name is interesting but it’s mostly a branding issue. What should excite you is what NVIDIA says the 4-PLUS-1 architecture will mean for devices utilizing it: What this revolutionary architecture does is simple: It provides both exceptional … Read more
Marin Perez
Forrester: Mobile broadband users will exceed PC-based users by 2016
It’s a good time to be a wireless carrier. According to Forrester Forecast analyst Susan Huynh, the number of mobile broadband users will exceed the number of PC broadband users by 2016. This bold prediction is based on the current number of mobile phone owners which will total 4.3 billion or half of the world’s population by the end of 2012. Developing nations are the biggest untapped market for mobile phones and will fuel this growth in the upcoming years. Not surprisingly, these areas tend to have a low penetration of landline … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Create.Work.Inspire – Dell and Intel head back to NY
This Thursday, Dell and Intel head back to New York for their third Create.Work.Inspire event. This time the XPS 13 Ultrabook™ is a key player in the creation of a music video. Curious about the XPS 13 Ultrabook™? Visit the event this weekend in New Yorks’s hip Williamsburg district at Create.Work.Inspire to see it for yourself. Get more information and RSVP here. The last Create.Work.Inspire event at the Carte Blanche Gallery San Francisco was very inspiring. Dell and Intel used photography as a creative inspiration to show how the forthcoming … Read more
Yoeau
Droid Fighter and LG Cayman: two new Android phones headed to Verizon?
Droid-Life got the scoop from their sources that Verizon Wireless will soon release two new Android handsets: the Droid Fighter and LG Cayman. The image above is supposedly a schedule for different phone and tablet workshops for the carrier’s employees. The majority of devices on the list are ones that are already on the market such as the Motorola Xyboard and LG Spectrum. The last two, however, have yet to be announced. The LG Cayman has a scheduled workshop on March 29th and the Droid Fighter has one a couple of … Read more
George Tinari
Employee steals 25 iPhones worth $16,000 from Apple Store
Well, it looks like an Apple store in Charlotte is the latest retail location to suffer from theft, as a total of 25 iPhones valued at over $16,000 was reported stolen, according to The Charlotte Observer. These iPhones were taken from Apple’s Northlake Mall retail store in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it’s believed to be orchestrated by an inside man. “The iPhones were stolen from the Genius Room located inside of the store,” a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police report says. “The suspect did have access to the Genius Room.” The stolen phones, which are valued at $16,425, include 22 16-gigabyte iPhone … Read more
Charles West
Hands-on: PS Vita
Today marks the day the PS Vita has officially hit retail stores in North America and Latin Americas, and boy, has it been a long time coming since it’s original announcement back in January 2011. Now that the PS Vita has hit store shelves, I couldn’t help but tear open my PS Vita box and get to using the system early this morning to see if all of the hype surrounding the device was well worth the wait. Firstly, let’s get the specs out of the way. The PS Vita … Read more
Daniel Perez
Viggle app pays users to watch TV
Calling all couch potatoes! Viggle is a new app for iPhone and iPod touch that actually pays you to watch television. The app determines what you are watching when you put your iOS device up to the TV and then gives you points to accumulate and unlock rewards. Viggle works similarly to IntoNow, an app acquired by Yahoo last year that uses the microphone on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to listen in on the TV show or movie and share what you are watching with friends. Viggle utilizes … Read more
George Tinari
Asus releases bootloader unlock tool for the Transformer Prime
Asus dropped some great news earlier today, as the company released the bootloader unlock tool for its wildly popular Android tablet: the Transformer Prime. This release only came about because of the outrage people displayed over the company launching the slate with the bootloader locked, as it prevented avid hackers from uploading custom roms onto the device. You can grab the unlock tool for the Transformer Prime (TF201) here. But before you get too excited and do something you may regret later, you must first understand that if you mess up … Read more