Android-powered Ouya console breaks all Kickstarter records, raises over $2M in a day

Yesterday an interesting project launched on Kickstarter. An Android-based gaming console called Ouya promised to change the gaming world for good. The $99 console aimed to deliver cheap, high quality games to everyone by being completely open to developers, hackers and users.

Yet, what Ouya managed to achieve was probably beyond its creators’ wildest dreams. The developers were hoping to gather $950,000 to begin production, but the Kickstarter project generated a whopping $2 million on the first day alone.
At the time of this writing the counter is at a mind-blowing $2.7 million and it keeps rising quite quickly. Shocked by the amount of money they got, the developers are now working on their stretch goals – the things they will do with the extra financing. In case you have an idea you are welcome to contact them ideas@ouya.tv and if you want to back the project or just learn more about it, feel free to follow the source link.

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Angry Birds to hit Xbox 360, PS3 and Nintendo 3DS later this year

The Angry Birds universe will undergo another expansion at the end of the year. After a small teaser on the E3 in June, Rovio has finally spoken on the matter.

New Angry Birds versions that are being “built from the ground up” will hit the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo 3DS in the holiday season.
The game will be distributed physically on discs (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) and a 3DS cartridge. There is no info on the pricing just yet.
The console Angry Birds offerings will include the original Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. It is yet unknown if the game will pack all the levels available on iOS and Android.
The fact that Rovio rebuilt the game from scratch for the consoles allowed the devs to include animated backgrounds, new and better effects, HD (and probably Full HD) resolution support, etc. MS Kinect, PS3 Move and 3DS StreetPass support is going to be included as well.
There will be new leaderboard and achievements system as well as individual score charts for each level.
Angry Birds for consoles is coming this holiday season.

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Indoor Google Maps gets support for 22 of the most popular US museums

The indoor maps are one of the coolest features of Google Maps, but the coverage is rather limited for now, meaning you don’t get to use it as often as you might like. It’s good to know though that the developers are working on that and have just announced newly-added map data for 22 new museums and a zoo.

The newly supported venues include the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Museum Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural

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Dropbox doubles the available storage for paid plans, introduces a new 500GB tier

Dropbox has just brough some good news to its Pro customers, doubling the available storage for the Pro 50 and Pro 100 plans. This means that if you subscribe to one of these you will get your 100GB and 200GB of storage, respectively, for the same price as before. Even if you are already a paying Dropbox customer you still get your quota doubled
.

And if that still doesn’t seem enough to you, Dropbox announced the launch of a whole new plan offering

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PC sales slump but reasons unclear

The number of PCs shipped by manufacturers has notably fallen in the US according to new estimates. There’s also a surprising dip in the global figure.

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Google facing $22.5 million fine for Apple sneakiness

Google is reported to have agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle claims that it broke promises about respecting consumer privacy. The fine would be the highest ever paid to the Federal Trade Commission.

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First Galaxy S III ads talk up All Share

According to most reviews the Galaxy S III is the best Android handset to date. Hell, the S II is still pretty damn good and the S III is superior in every way to its predecessor. But even the best phones need to be advertised to interest the masses, and Samsung has begun its campaign promoting the S III.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab not cool, judge rules

Samsung has finally tasted a success in its ongoing battle with Apple over alleged patent infringements with the Galaxy Tab. But that taste is bittersweet with the ruling partially decided by the idea that the Tab isn’t as

“cool” as the iPad.

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Apple’s App Store oops frustrates users and developers alike



IPhone and iPad users were frustrated on Wednesday when a “rogue” server added digital rights

management (DRM) software to more than 100 apps being downloaded.

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Amazon smartphone on way, probably



It looks as though Amazon is developing its own smartphone alongside Foxconn, the Chinese company that

currently manufactures the iPhone for Apple.

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DNSChanger doomsday has arrived



On Monday July 9 many of the computers still infected by the DNSChanger trojan horse malware will be

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Government seeks energy efficient robots



A US government agency has issued a call for technologies that could increase the energy efficiency of

robots by 2,000 percent. It’s not so much an environmental concern as an attempt to create more practical devices.

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CERN discovers an illusive “Higgslike” particle

In 1964 six physicists including Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, Tom Kibble of Imperial College,

London; Carl Hagen of the University of Rochester; Dr. Guralnik of Brown University; and François Englert and Robert Brout, both of Université Libre de Bruxelles developed the theory of the Higgs bosun. The Higgs bosun was conceived as a “manifestation of an invisible force field, a cosmic molasses that permeates space and imbues elementary particles with mass.” But until now no one has been able to show that it really existed.

According to The New York Times scientists at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) have finally discovered a Higgslike particle using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Two teams each comprised of about 3,000 physicists, crunched data from experiments conducted in the LHC and came up with the same particle.


The Atlas team was lead by led by Fabiola Gianotti, the spokes person and coordinator of the experiment. According to CNN, she was democratically elected to that position by the scientists involved.


“We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage,” said ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti, “but a little more time is needed to prepare these results for publication.”

The spokes person for the second team was Joe Incandela, a physicist of the University of California, Santa Barbara.


"The results are preliminary but the 5 sigma signal at around 125 GeV we’re seeing is dramatic. This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it’s the heaviest boson ever found,” said CMS experiment spokesperson Joe Incandela. “The implications are very significant and it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent in all of our studies and cross-checks."

According to CERN: “One sigma means the results could be random fluctuations in the data, 3 sigma counts as an observation and a 5-sigma result is a discovery.” So the fact that both groups reached a 5-sigma result is significant.

While there is still more data to analyze and more experiments to be conducted to determine the precise nature of the particle. For now however, this discovery appears to prove the Standard Model of particle physics. For over forty years, people have been theorizing that the Higgs bosun was an essential ingredient in the model and at least preliminarily, it has been shown to exist.

Now they have to figure out if it is behaving as the Standard Model predicts or is something different occurring? More experiments are needed but for now, for give particle physicists if they decide to party on this news. It isn’t often that elusive particles like the Higgslike particle just discovered are found

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‘Apple planning mini iPad’ rumors return

Back when Apple first unveiled the iPad, we all made sanitary towel jokes. Now it appears we might have to redub the existing models as maxiPads.

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Smartphones – more smarts, less phone

Smartphones are becoming increasingly smarter as time goes on and as technology improves. But the phone, you know, that part actually used for making calls, that’s becoming less important by the day.

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Install CyanogenMod 9 Android 4.0.4 ICS Motorola Defy Plus

Finally we found the tutorial How to Install CyanogenMod 9 CM9 Android 4.0.4 ICS custom Firmware rom update on Motorola Defy Plus. Motorola Defy+ Plus is a rigid Android Smartphone from telecom giant Motorola. They have done pretty fine with this phone but we are not much impressed with battery. The phone is totally water and dust resistant. For people who work on very dirty atmosphere or keep throwing and dropping their phone here and there can go for this phone. Recently, XDA dev forum member has launched Android 4.0.4 ICS custom ROM for Defy Plus and it is not official yet still in beta stage. This custom developed ROM is based on CyanogenMod 9 which can be installed manually, most of the things are working. Being based on AOKP this ROM is fast and performing nice with battery as well. You just need to root your Defy plus on current firmware which you are currently running and also install Custom Recovery too.

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Install CyanogenMod 9 ICS ROM Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G

CyanogenMod Team has officially provided a tutorial how to install CyanogenMod 9 CM9 Nightly ROM Android 4.0.4 ICS on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G GT-P7500 model. CyanogenMod 9 rom firmware version update is made through AOSP based custom rom and most preferred by advance Android users. CyanogenMod are fully ripped, fast performing and efficient custom ROM build by developers. Now, Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G users can install Stable CyanogenMod ROM manually on their device. CM9 for Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G is pre rooted and debloated. Most of the features are working fine except the camera function. Developers have already told that that it will be fixed as soon they get their hands on leaked ICS compiled for the model. 

Warning: Neither we nor the developer will hold any responsibility or liability if in the process of following the methods and steps mentioned in this article you brick your phone. This article is only meant for educational and instructional purpose. Do it at your own risk and warranty will be voided.

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Install Cyanogenmod 9 Android 4.0.4 ICS Galaxy Note N7000

We have found quick tutorial how to install Cyanogenmod 9 CM9 Android 4.0.4 ICS Firmware Rom on Samsung Galaxy Note N7000. Galaxy Note GT-N7000 has got the ICS update recently and now CyanogenMod team has launched a full ICS overhauled version of ICS Firmware update based on XXLB2 Android ICS 4.0.4. CyanogenMod are best ROMs for Android devices. CM9 for Galaxy Note is yet in nightly build and final official version will take 3-4 weeks to release. There are few issues like FM radio is not working, GLONASS satellites are not reporting GPS status, also issues with Noise reduction and volume controls. But these are all minor issue that will be resolved soon. CM9 is a fully stripped version based on AOKP, crafted to perform faster and give a better battery life. ICS camera feature was working excellent and also taking high resolution photos and videos. Developers are promised that they are going to fix all this issues on upcoming release updates. We have provided a detailed step by step guide to assist you with the installation.

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How to Install Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update Galaxy Nexus GSM

Are you more anticipated? How to Install Android 4.1 Jelly Bean JRN84D firmware update on Samsung Galaxy Nexus GSM, then we have detailed tutorial with steps on below. Galaxy Nexus is the first device going to get latest official Android 4.1 JellyBean OS update. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is released recently for both mobiles and tablets and also Nexus 7 Tablet comes with pre-installed with it. This has made Nexus 7 tablet the most updated and desired one. You can get the update over the air. However, if you have rooted your device and want to update, then follow the below procedure to download and flash Jellybean updated firmware on Galaxy Nexus. Jelly Bean will be soon available for Motorola Xoom, Nexus S and a few other phones.

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How to Install Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update HTC One X

It was the perfect chance for HTC One X users to update their devices with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean JRN83C Firmware version. We have tutorial How to Install Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update on HTC One X. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has created a lot of ripples on the internet as everyone is eager to download and install Jelly Bean for their phone and tablets. Jelly Bean is faster and more efficient than Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich ICS. Some of the great features are Offline Voice to text support. The new UI is very fast and butter smooth. HTC One X owners can now enjoy JellyBean on their phones and we must say thanks to tgascoigne a xda dev forum member for releasing the SDK port. WI-FI, Camera, Radio and Audio are not working so it is not a problem for people who want all the functionality from the device. This custom ROM is based on the Jelly Bean update released for Galaxy Nexus. Developers are trying to resolve the bugs in the upcoming build versions, and it will take few weeks to get a fully working stable ROM.

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Install Official Android 4.0.3 Update Huawei Ideos X5 U8800 Pro

The time has arrived for Huawei Ideos X5 U8800 Pro users to install Official Android 4.0.3 ICS firmware update on their devices. I know most of the users are you thinking how to install it right? Then we have prepared a detailed tutorial procedure on below. Huawei Ideos X5 U8800 Pro was upgraded version of his older brother Ideos X5 U8800 and it was launched in April, 2011. It was shipped with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread OS. Recently Huawei Company has released Official Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich ICS update for Ideos X5 U8800 Pro in June month with many bug fixes and also added new features. Sad news is they didn’t release the update via OTA (over the air); users must download the ICS rom file from the official website and install it manually. The phone has 800 MHz processor and Adreno 200 GPU that is supporting ICS well. Check out the detailed list of new features below added on this Android ICS firmware for Huawei Ideos X5 Pro:

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Install Official Android 4.0.4 ICS Update Sony XPERIA Ray ST18A/I

Sony Xperia Ray ST18a/I was shipped with Android Gingerbread on a 1GHz Qualcomm snapdragon processor paired with Adreno 205 GPU. Every Xperia Ray user is looking for Android 4.0.4 ICS firmware update and they can get it now officially. But Sony didn’t release the Official update via over the air (OTA). Users must download the rom package from official site and install the Android 4.0.4 ICS firmware update manually through flash tools on their Sony XPERIA Ray ST18A/I devices. We are providing detailed tutorial and Firmware package that will guide you to installed latest ICS update on Xperia Ray. The latest Official Android ICS was dubbed with FW 4.1.B.0.431 firmware version and this update has many bug fixes and also added new features. Sony has also tried to resolve the battery drainage problem, enhanced other features and solved Wi-Fi disconnection issues.

Are you confused with what is ST18A/I? well here is your answer Sony has released two different models Xperia ST18A and ST18I both having same specification and features. But Xperia ST18i was international model and ST18A was american version.

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Google’s Nexus Q is made in the USA

What a novel concept, building electronic gadgets in the good old USA. Most of our devices are manufactured in Korea or China. We all know that Apple products are made by Foxconn in China. The fact that Google has decided to manufacture it’s new home media device in the United States may be the start of an American manufacturing renaissance.

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Android apps come to Macs

A company that already lets you use Android applications on a desktop PC is now doing the same for Mac users. BlueStacks is able to bridge the technical gap between the various systems, but will only do so with the authorization of the app developer.

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Google I/O: Nexus 7 tablet unveiled

The long-awaited Google Nexus tablet is real, is here, and is serious competition to everything from the iPad down.

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Drunks ,druggies and slackers exposed by Facebook posts

Anastasia R hates her boss and hopes he dies. Lukey D is hungover. And Ellis M would like to share his new phone number.

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Nokia 808 PureView reviews are in – it succeeds as a camera, fails as a phone

The Nokia 808 PureView is a great camera, it’s just a shame about the phone it’s attached to.

When it first announced the 808 PureView Nokia stunned everybody into silence with the 41-megapixel-boasting camera. On a phone.

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Top 40 best technology websites 2012

With no further adieu, we present our 2011 list of the best technology Websites, listed in alphabetical

order so that no one can think that we’re playing favorites or making comparative judgments. :)


AllThingsDigital – The Wall Street Journal’s tech blog hub continues to provide us with hard-hitting, far-reaching news, opinion and commentary on the tech industry.

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