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Mexican Drug Cartels Have Technology Departments Staffed With Kidnapped Engineers
11/02/2012, The Mexican Drug Cartels are a couple of billion-dollar organizations requiring secure communications and logisitcs, so it would make total sense for them to have thriving IT departments. They do, but it looks like they’re staffed with engineers who have been kidnapped. According [...]
These Jeans Are 20% Plastic Bottles and Food Trays
10/31/2012, Recycling is great, but there’s a point where it stops being beneficial to the environement and starts being a marketing term. Levi’s new jeans, from the Waste Less line, fall firmly into the latter category: supposedly they’re made out of [...]
LaCie Porsche Design P’9223 Slim SSD for Macs
10/24/2012, Porsche Design carries the German supercar name, which is why when it comes to the kind of computer peripherals that it churns out, we more or less look forward to something stunning and of high performance caliber. Well, we are [...]
Asus Announced a Whole Slew of New Windows 8 PCs Today
10/23/2012, Our very own Eliane Fiolet is at the Asus Windows 8 event in New York City–yes, there are two technology events going on today–where Asus has just announced six–count them, six–new lines of Windows 8 PCs. We got some hands [...]
Asus Transformer Book Hands-On!
10/23/2012, Our very own Eliane Fiolet is at the Asus Windows 8 event in New York City–yes, there are two technology events going on today–where Asus has just announced six–count them, six–new lines of Windows 8 PCs. The new lines are [...]
Asus All-In-One Hands On!
10/23/2012, Our very own Eliane Fiolet is at the Asus Windows 8 event in New York City–yes, there are two technology events going on today–where Asus has just announced six–count them, six–new lines of Windows 8 PCs. The new lines are [...]
Motorola’s Wearable Computer Beats Google Glass to Market
10/22/2012, Google Glass, the Brin-approved, fashionable (or not) wearable computer still isn’t available to consumers, and it may be another year. If you’re itching to put a tiny screen in front of your retina, you should take a look at Motorola [...]
16 crazy things we learned about Google’s data centers
10/17/2012, Google’s data centers are secretive, massive locations filled with cutting-edge proprietary technology. So of course most Google fans will never get a chance to step inside one. But Google knows how amazing their data centers are, and so they recently put [...]
ZTE executives commit business seppuku, cut their own pay
10/15/2012, ZTE, a Chinese telecommunications company, which, according to who you ask, is either a threat to national security or a middling handset manufacturer, announced today that they were going to report losses for the first nine months of 2012. In a [...]
Apple patents technique that will make components appear/disappear out of nowhere
10/11/2012, While cameras and camera flashes are more or less an integral feature in smartphones these days, their presence can sometimes prevent a sleek and minimalist phone from being created due to the camera + flash’s design being rather out of [...]
iPad Mini rumor roundup: what we think Apple will unveil on the 23rd
10/10/2012, For much of the iOS era, accurate leaks were far and few between. But it’s a new Apple–with a freaking huge supply chain–and it certainly wasn’t able to keep the details of the iPhone 5 under wraps: we knew almost [...]
Emirates Airlines now allows in-flight calling using your cellphone
10/10/2012, Using our electronic devices during flights are starting to become more common, although the ability to make calls via our mobile devices are still a no-no, at least until now. Emirates Airlines has announced that passengers on their A380 aircraft [...]
Blackberry 10 March 2013 confirmed by RIM’s president of government relations
10/10/2012, So yesterday we reported that according to analyst Peter Misek, Blackberry 10 will not be seeing a January 2013 release, but a March 2013 one instead. Granted March still falls under Q1, but pushing it back by two months could [...]
