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...

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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...

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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...

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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 offeri...

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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 figur...

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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 Commissio...

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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 II...

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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 downloade...

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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 Appl...

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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 device...

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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...

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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 maxiPad...

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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 da...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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,...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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 renaissanc...

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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 develope...

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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 do...

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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 numb...

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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 phon...

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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 indust...

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