Breaking down Apple's $1 billion courtroom victory over Samsung

With a 20-page verdict form and 100 pages of instructions to explain it, many figured it would take longer for the jury to render a decision. But, the tech trial of the century has concluded, with Apple scoring a not-quite-flawless victory over its rival Samsung. While the company didn't win on every count, its cadre of lawyers did convince the nine jurors to award Apple over $1 billion in damages for Samsung's IP transgressions. Join us after the...

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Pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong dies at 82

It's a story that we hoped we'd never have to report. Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on Earth's Moon, has died at the age of 82 after complications from heart surgery three weeks earlier. His greatest accomplishment very nearly speaks for itself -- along with help from fellow NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, he changed the landscape of space exploration through a set of footprints. It's still important to stress his accomplishments...

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Alt-week 8.25.12: robotic noses, Nodosaurs and Space X launches again

Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.All good things come to an end, they say. Thankfully, most bad things do, too. So while the rest of the world of tech is dealing with the fallout, and possible implications of patent law, over here in the wild party that is Alt, we're fist pumping at all the awesome weekly sci-tech fodder. For example, we've got a robo-nose that can sniff out nasties...

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Mobile Miscellany: week of August 20th, 2012

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you're like us and really want to know what's going on, then you've come to the right place. This past week was a bit slow, but we've managed to dig up a couple interesting MeeGo tidbits, along with an excellent utility for Nexus 7 / OS X users -- something to help you in the pursuit of slack. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore...

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Personal Energy Orb Aruino project knows you haven't been exercising, cripples your computer

Spending too much time indoors? You need a Personal Energy Orb, a glowing Arduino powered ball that allows you to trade physical exertion for a tolerable mouse speed. Developed by two students at the University of Munich for a physical computing course, the PEO connects to a bike-mounted revolution counter to note how far a user rides, counting the total distance toward usable time on a computer. A fully "charged" green orb will allow a user to...

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NASA to launch mini lab, test for cancer and disease in space

It's hard to find a good specialist on earth, let alone when you're floating 240 miles above it. That's why NASA will test the Microflow, a breadbox-sized device that instantly detects cancer and infectious diseases, and can even sense the presence of rotten food. The Canadian-made device is a "flow cytometer," which works by analyzing microparticles in blood or other fluids and replaces hospital versions weighing hundreds of pounds. Here on Earth,...

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Vodafone Germany Announces LTE Version of ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity: TF700KL

Vodafone Germany has just announced the LTE version of the famous ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity tablet, that sports a Full HD display. Known as the TF700KL, the new model will be shown next week at IFA 2012 Berlin. The tablet will be priced at $1,026 without contract or $213 on contract. Pricey, right?This LTE monster keeps the same specs as the original unit, with an optional keyboard dock, a 10.1 inch 1920 x 1200 pixel display, an 8 megapixel...

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Facebook for iPhone and iPad is Actually a Functional App Now

It appears that Facebook may be a failure on Android, in the latest version of the app, but it’s also a hit on the iPhone and iPad in the meantime. The recent updates that FB underwent on the iOS platform made it much more reliable, so iPad and iPhone users rejoice. First of all, the app doesn’t crash as it used to and the interface is faster and smoother. Facebook 5.0 is the newcomer and just for comparison sake, you need to know some faults of...

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Windows 8 Lets Microsoft Know About the Apps You Install… Creepy Right?

It appears that there’s an interesting mechanism in Windows 8, one that automatically and instantly informs Microsoft about every app that you download and install on the OS. The info comes from programmer Nadim Kobeissi and is added to the long list of complaints regarding the OS, including the lack of a Start button and the Metro interface look. The feature that sends MS the info about the apps is called SmartScreen. Microsoft responded to the...

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Low Priced Tablets Are Tough on Supply Chains, Especially in the Profits Area

Low priced tablets will cause some problems to supply chains, as the pressure increases and so does the number of units that need to be shipped. Prices keep dropping, so part suppliers also drop their prices, but who will make profit if this goes on? Tablet PC vendors are competing against each other and pulling the prices down, for whole units and parts too. 7 inch products are predicted to be the most popular items in the second half of the year,...

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Lexibook Kid Tablet Coming to USA: 7 Inch Slate With $237 Price Tag

If you’re looking for a tablet for your kid, you may just want to give the Lexibook slate a try. This device is coming to USA from next month and the price is supposed to be pretty close to the Lexibook First version available in Europe. I’m talking about $237 here, a tad pricey if you’ve heard about the Nexus 7 before. The device offers a 600 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 4 GB of storage, a microSD card slot and parental control. To that we add WiFi...

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Rise to Fame: the Music RPG for iPad, an Original Game, Reminds me of Rock Band, With a Different Twist (Video)

If you want a cool game that includes headbanging and living the life of a rockstar, maybe you’ll try Rise to Fame: the Music RPG for iPad. This title can be found on the App Store for $1.99 and it was last updated on July 26th 2012. It takes up 146 MB of storage and it’s a reaction RPG, as its makers call it. This involves living the life of a rockstar: smashing guitars, dodging objects thrown by the crowd, getting the girl’s attention and more....

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Samsung SGH-T779 Gets Bluetooth SIG Approval; New Tablet or Just a Rebranding?

Samsung has managed to leak something that’s not the Galaxy Note II today, a device codenamed SGH-T779, that could be a new tablet or simply a new version of an existing one. This slate is possibly headed to T-Mobile and it’s coming with Bluetooth 4.0, indication that we’re dealing with a higher end model, with the new standards on board. The Product Name is “Samsung Mobile Tablet (SGH-I497)”, that should point towards a device also headed for AT&T....

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Cyber Forensics (Computer Forensics) Facts and Research in India

Cyber forensics or computer forensics is a field of science that works on computer storage media and collects, preserves and presents the information in an acceptable form of law. So it is obvious that cyber forensics is strictly based on digital media or rather computer. Now we all know that how computer technology has changed our world in every aspect. As the phrase states that “with great power comes great responsibility”, so with the emerging...

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Apple Defeats Samsung in Court; South Koreans Must Pay $1.05 Billion in Damages

After long weeks of debates, questioning, sci fi proof, name calling and various testimonies, the Apple versus Samsung lawsuit has reached an end, with the verdict being in favour of Apple. Samsung will have to pay up $1.05 billion to Apple in damages, after the jury decided that Samsung did copy the creator of the iPhone and iPad. The total sum that needs to be paid is in fact $1,049,343,540 in damages, less than the $2.5 billion requested by Apple,...

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Tricks and Tips to Recover from the Google Penguin Effect

On 24th April, 2012 Google released a new algorithm update whose code name is Google Penguin for decreasing ranking of those websites in Google search results that breaks guidelines of Google by participating in link schemes, using black-hat SEO techniques and others. If you are owner of a website and after 24th April of this year, there is a decrease in traffic in your website then you are a victim of this new Google Penguin algorithm. After its...

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Windows Media Player 12 Tricks – Make your Entertainment more Amusing

Windows Media Player 12 has got more new features and traits. Windows Media Player 12 is seemed to be most popular since most people consider it to be the best media player ever launched by Microsoft. There are various Windows Media Player 12 tricks that can help you to use the player in the easier way. Here are some of the best Windows Media Player tricks. Windows Media Player 12 provides three options of looks such as the “Default Full Mode”, “The...

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How to Block a Website in Firefox, Chrome, Windows 7 and XP

Now a days Internet and World Wide Web is playing a vital role through out the globe. It is being used by huge number of people ranging from students to people of almost all spheres. Even though it has made life easy for paying bills online,booking railway tickets, shopping online, auctioning, placing orders etc. Besides this, social networking sites distract children from study, some sites contain offensive contents and porn pictures which are a...

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How to Earn Money via Flipping Website and Blogs

Making money via internet has always been a craze among the techies. With the advancement of internet and e-learning the scenario has changed a lot. Now people are making money just by sitting at their home by doing various internet related jobs like blogging, content writing, reviewing products, and the interesting one – by flipping websites for free. If this term seems new to you then you will be amazed to know that flipping websites is gaining...

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Tricks and Tips to Recover from the Google Panda Update

On February, 2011 Google introduced a new algorithm for affecting ranking of those websites in Google Search engine which contains ‘low quality content’. It lowers down the ranking of those websites which contains duplicate, thin, and weak content. It affected 12% of Google search engine results. Panda will affect your entire site and not a single page. Suppose your site contains some pages having low quality content and some other pages contains...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Apparently Has Jelly Bean on Board, New Details Surface

And here’s another batch of leaks related to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, the phablet that everyone is waiting for and that will be unveiled next week at IFA 2012 Berlin. Although initially we thought this model would launch with Android 4.0 ICS on board, it turns out that it will actually come with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on August 29th. Korean publication Seoul Newspaper is behind this story, claiming that the Galaxy Note 2 will have the latest...

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Nexus 7 Quad core CPU Overclocked to 2 GHz, Beats All Rivals in Benchmarks

The Google Nexus 7 has the Tegra 3 CPU on board, but you already know that. You also know that it’s running at 1.3 GHz, but recently the folks of XDA pushed it to the limit, reaching 2.0 GHz in frequency. The screenshots below are pretty clear on that aspect and last I heard this model was overclocked to 1.7 GHz, but now it surpassed that limit. At 1.7 GHz Nexus 7 scored 7000 points in Quadrant and now it’s at 8000 with 2 GHz. Now the customization...

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Raspberry Pi lands MPEG-2 and VC-1 decoding through personal licenses, H.264 encoding and CEC tag along

Making the Raspberry Pi affordable involved some tough calls, including the omission of MPEG-2 decoding. Licensing fees alone for the video software would have boosted the board's price by approximately 10 percent. Now, after many have made media centers with the hardware, the foundation behind the project has whipped up a solution to add the missing codec. For $3.79, users can purchase an individual MPEG-2 license for each of their boards on the...

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Latest and New Windows 8 Wallpapers – 2012

Here in this article we are going to enlist brand new Windows 8 Wallpapers. Before enlisting we will discuss Windows 8 Wallpapers and its features with extensibility property. Moreover we will see how to set wallpaper on your desktop (the main screen that is visible to user immediately upon booting) through the following steps: Right click on desktop screen (By Default it will have some wallpaper set appears immediately upon booting). Select the...

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