Sunday, January 22, 2012

22 JAN 2012, SUN: Sci & Tech

Science


British Scientists Unearth Long-lost Darwin Fossils

Kozmedia News - 
British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.

Editorial: Homeless teen science scholar is model for all

Dallas Morning News (subscription) - 
Intel Semifinalist Samantha Garvey, 17, is all smiles after Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced that the Garvey family would get a home.

Technology


Globe launches 1st concept store in Bacolod

Visayan Daily Star - 
Located at SM City Bacolod, the newest Globe Concept Stores in the country is a one-stop telecommunications shop, the press release said.

Sony's Presents New Display Technology at the CES 2012

Gadget Spy - 
We may have been excited about LG's big screen TVs pre-CES, but we were pleasantly surprised that Sony was also able to one up LG's TVs.

Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks

Atlanta Journal Constitution - 
By PETER SVENSSON AP NEW YORK - Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

Google+ now boasts 90 million users

ARNnet - 
Actually, Google's social networking platform had a very encouraging quarter, as CEO Larry Page announced yesterday that Google+ now boasts more than 90 million users worldwide, more than double the number of users it had in the previous quarter.

iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Receive First Untethered Jailbreak

PC Magazine - 
By David Murphy Good news for wannabe iPhone jailbreakers: The Chronic Dev Team and pod2g have finally released the first untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. "But wait," you ask.

Samsung suffers German court setback in Apple battle

Reuters - 
By Miyoung Kim | SEOUL (Reuters) - A German court ruled against Samsung Electronics Co in a patent suit versus Apple, another leg in a long legal battle as the two technology giants jostle for top spot in the booming smartphone and tablet markets.

Twitter Buys Summify: What Does This Mean For Its Users?

AppAdvice - 
Summify is a social summarizing tool. It connects to all of your feeds - currently only Google (including blogs), Facebook, and Twitter - and automatically summarizes which stories, news, and updates are the most important and relevant to you.

Notion Ink unveils Ice Cream Sandwich upgraded Adam II Android tablet

Zee News - 
New York: Notion Ink unveiled its second-generation Adam II Android tablet, a product in collaboration with Texas Instruments and plans to use a customized version of Ice Cream Sandwich.

Capcom announce Resident Evil 6

Stuff.co.nz - 
Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 6 is in full development and is scheduled for release on the 20th of November. Capcom promises that this newest instalment in the survival-horror series will be "the most ambitious, immersive and feature rich ...

Intel CEO: Windows 8 tablets 'being queued up' for production

CNET - 
by Brooke Crothers January 19, 2012 8:52 PM PST Follow @mbrookec Intel CEO Paul Otellini hinted that Windows 8 tablet production may not be that far off, while asserting that Android tablets won't be able to compete against the iPad until Ice Cream ...

LG X3 may be Android 4.0 flagship model

CNET - 
by Scott Webster January 20, 2012 1:20 PM PST Follow @swebster77 The LG X3 may be able to contend with just about any Android out there.
LG X3 Tease Shows Quad-Core Phones on the Horizon - by Jared Newman (in 770 Google+ circles)
X3 quad-core smartphone from LG

No Wikipedia? What if the Internet went down?

Salt Lake Tribune - 
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Washington • If a day without Wikipedia last week was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we would barely be able to cope if the entire Internet shut down in a city, state or country for a day or longer.

Amazon Kindle Fire: More Profitable Than Expected?

Forbes - 
RBC Capital analyst Ross Sandler reached that conclusion in a research note this morning, after he assessed the results of a proprietary survey of 216 Kindle Fire owners.

Mini Asus Transformer Prime To Destroy The Competition ? (Kindle Fire)

G 4 Games - 
by Catalin on January 21, 2012 We all know the level of surprise that overcame everyone when the Amazon Kindle Fire came out with its ridiculously low price tag as well as its technical specifications.

Sony Ericsson ST25i Kumquat emerges in a photo

GSMArena.com - 
While this is not the first time we've heard of this exotic fruit name bearing handset, we haven't had the pleasure of seeing it in a clear picture yet.

Amazon Goes Back to the Future With 'NoSQL' Database

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Wired News - 
By Caleb Garling Amazon helped start the “NoSQL” movement. And now it's giving the cause another shot in the arm. NoSQL is a widespread effort to build a new kind of database for “unstructured” information - the sort of information that comes spilling ...

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