T-Mobile G2 To Have 5mp Camera
March 20, 2010
It looks like T-Mobile is certainly intent on being one of the carriers that provide Android-powered devices, and now word is out that the HTC Sapphire (G2) will sport a 5-megapixel camera, instead of the 3.2-megapixel offering that other carriers use. The device might be released this July at Walmart for $179 on a 2-year contract.
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‘SkiFree’ Comes to the iPhone, TiVo Remote Combo Lets You Skip Ads
March 20, 2010
There’s a load of great tech news happening out there each day, and, unfortunately, we just can’t cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw this day on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- Relive your elementary school days on your iPhone with a new mobile version of Microsoft’s classic, vertical sports-scroller ‘SkiFree.’ [From: Gizmodo]
- While it’s not widely advertised, you can skip forward 30 seconds (the length of a commercial) on TiVo with a quick ’select-play-select-3-0-select’ tap on your remote. [From: Make]
- In case the enormous NCAA Vault of March Madness videos didn’t grind office productivity to a halt, you can ensure that nothing gets done with Business Insider’s guide to the top 10 March Madness iPhone apps. [From: Business Insider]
- ‘Futurama,’ an office favorite, returns this summer. Don’t miss Comedy Central’s 30-second teaser. [From: Geekosystem]
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Rock Band Weekly: X, Carrie Underwood, Tiny Fish, Ace Frehley, OneRepublic
March 20, 2010
Despite American punk rock band X being next week’s featured Rock Band DLC pack artist, we decided to go with a picture of Carrie Underwood. Why Isn’t it obvious! Her single, “All-American Girl,” available next week, speaks to the struggles of the middle-class American female. Of gender roles, a father’s love and providing babies for your husband. It’s like the “American Pie” of a new generation. So that’s why Underwood gets featured with that “how do I spend my next million, y’all” look.
Check out the full release list after the break.
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Japanese College Distributing Free iPhones
March 20, 2010
Sounds too good to be true - Japan’s Aoyama Gakuin University will be giving away about 500 iPhones to students and faculty members in a deal with Softbank Mobile, as part of the new Mobile & Net Society Education and Triaining program. The basic charges will be paid by the university so there will not be any extra financial burden on the students. The catch To track the students’ attendance using the built-in GPS system in the iPhones given to them. There are also plans to roll out tests and handing out assignments on the device as well. Hopefully the balance of work and play can be achieved, knowing how (much more) fun an iPhone can be.
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Court Rules That Sexting Teens Aren’t Felons
March 20, 2010
After a teenage girl from Pennsylvania was caught sending topless photos of herself to her fellow classmates, then-District Attorney George Skumanick offered her the chance to avoid court time by taking a class on sexual harassment. When the 16-year old called his bluff, Skumanick threatened her with felony charges. The student, in turn, filed her own lawsuit against the D.A.’s office, eventually becoming the first-ever sexting criminal case to make its way all the way up to a federal appeals court. On Wednesday, the Third U.S. District Court of Appeals finally ruled in her favor, deciding that teenagers involved in sexting criminal cases cannot be charged as felons.
According to the court, the D.A.’s attempt to force the student to take a class and write an essay on the social ills of sexting directly violated her constitutional right to be free from compelled speech, and unnecessarily infringed on her parents’ rights to direct their child’s upbringing. The court also interpreted Skumanick’s felony threats as “retaliation” against the girl for refusing to participate in the course. Witold Walczack, the legal director of the Pennsylvania ACLU, was understandably satisfied with the decision, calling it an “important message for prosecutors… that there are constitutional limits on their ability to bring criminal charges against kids involved in sexting.” Current Wyoming County D.A. Jeff Mitchell, on the other hand, was a bit more disappointed, saying, “[The] decision appears to limit the discretion a district attorney has when faced with a criminal case, or a juvenile case.”
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GM Wants to Bring AR to a Vehicle Windshield Near You
March 19, 2010
Augmented reality has primarily been used to locate nearby restaurants, insert 3-D baddies into video games, and offer glorified advertisements. General Motors, however, is trying to put the technology to good use, and integrate it into the windshields of future vehicles. Under the generic title “enhanced vision system,” the prototype uses sensors, GPS, and video cameras to overlay useful information in a heads-up display (HUD), and thus aims to curb distracted driving.
GM envisions transparent phosphors that are able to highlight lanes in fog, and can pinpoint destinations, not on a map, but in the driver’s field of vision. The system could also be used to alert drivers to passing automobiles, or to animals and kids in the street ahead. Sadly, GM doesn’t expect the technology to make its way into a commercially available automobile until at least 2016. We’re just hoping some other company takes that as a challenge, and pushes this technology to its limits. [From: New York Times]
Filed under: Vehicle Tech
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AT&T ZERO Charger Targets Vampire Cell Phone Plugs
March 19, 2010
We’ve lectured you before about unplugging chargers to conserve electricity. It’s pretty much common knowledge at this point that, even when turned off, our gadgets consume energy. Design student Conor Klein’s solution was the Outlet Regulator, which detects when a cell phone is fully charged and then physically jettisons it from the power source.
AT&T has a less perfect, but slightly more practical fix: simply shut down the charger when nothing is connected to it. The ZERO Charger can tell when a gadget is connected to its USB port, and simply disconnects from the power source if nothing is plugged into it. It can’t tell when your iPhone is completely charged and then turn itself off, but, if you’re the type who can’t be bothered to remember to unplug your charger when you leave the home, the ZERO charger could end up saving you a few bucks on your electricity bills. [From: GeekSugar]
Filed under: Cell Phones, Green Tech
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Laid Off Worker Remotely Disables Over 100 Cars
March 19, 2010
When Omar Ramos-Lopez was laid off from his job at Texas Auto Center last month, he decided to send his former employer a message… about 100 times. It turns out that Ramos-Lopez not only had an intimate knowledge of automobiles, but knew his way around personal, as well — and, in particular, around his company’s online vehicle-immobilization system.
With the help of a former colleague’s log-in information, the newly unemployed Ramos-Lopez logged on to Webtech Plus, a network that grants the Austin based Texas Auto Center employees to remotely disable (or set off horns on) vehicles that haven’t been paid for. Once he gained access to the system, Ramos-Lopez began running down the entire database of clients, in alphabetical order, routinely disabling their vehicles, setting off their horns, and vandalizing their stored records. After customers began pouring into Texas Auto Center with complaints, managers got suspicious, and decided to change the passwords for all employees. The rash of mysterious breakdowns subsided, and police soon traced the hacker’s IP address to Ramos-Lopez, who was slapped with personal intrusion charges on Tuesday.
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Mass Effect getting an ongoing comic book series
March 19, 2010
It looks like Dark Horse is champing at the bit to squeeze a bit more commercial success out of BioWare’s deep space opera franchise following the impressive sales of the Mass Effect comic mini-series, “Redemption.” During a Dark Horse Comics panel at the Seattle-based Emerald City Comic-Con, it was announced that Mass Effect writer Mac Walters and John Jackson Miller, writer of the original mini-series, would be teaming up to create a regular, monthly Mass Effect comic.
According to Comic Book Resources, the plot of the series will “follow the second game.” We don’t know if that means it will actually cover the events of Mass Effect 2, or if it takes place shortly thereafter. What we do know is that the panel also brought the announcement that Patton Oswalt is working on a Firefly comic which takes place shortly after the events of Serenity, and that’s the ideal news we’ve ever heard in our whole lives.
[Via Massive Download]
Mass Effect getting an ongoing comic book series originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Court Rules That Sexting Teens Aren’t Felons
March 19, 2010
Filed under: Cell Phones, Cameras
After a teenage girl from Pennsylvania was caught sending topless pics of herself to her fellow classmates, then-District Attorney George Skumanick offered her the opportunity to avoid court time by taking a class on sexual harassment. When the 16-year old called his bluff, Skumanick threatened her with felony charges. The student, in turn, filed her own lawsuit against the D.A.’s office, eventually becoming the first-ever sexting criminal case to make its way all the way up to a federal appeals court. On Wednesday, the Third U.S. District Court of Appeals finally ruled in her favor, deciding that teenagers involved in sexting criminal cases cannot be charged as felons.
According to the court, the D.A.’s attempt to force the student to take a class and write an essay on the social ills of sexting directly violated her constitutional right to be free from compelled speech, and unnecessarily infringed on her parents’ rights to direct their child’s upbringing. The court also interpreted Skumanick’s felony threats as “retaliation” against the girl for refusing to participate in the course. Witold Walczack, the legal director of the Pennsylvania ACLU, was understandably satisfied with the decision, calling it an “important message for prosecutors… that there are constitutional limits on their ability to bring criminal charges against kids involved in sexting.” Current Wyoming County D.A. Jeff Mitchell, on the other hand, was a bit more disappointed, saying, “[The] decision appears to limit the discretion a district attorney has when faced with a criminal case, or a juvenile case.”
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