One of the things holding back sales of Windows Phone 7 is that there isn’t a single handset out there that simply blows you away. While Android phones reach new peaks of awesomeness every few months, and Apple always manages to do something amazing with each new iPhone model, WP7 handsets are invariably good but [...]
Greg Sandoval at Cnet raises an interesting proposition: Should Netflix offer a rental or purchase option for individual movies that it can’t convince studios to include in its all-you-can eat library of streaming videos? Of course, if you really want new releases right now, you can always just wait a few days for the DVD [...]
Dallas developers Aaron Benzick, Chris Pick, Scott Foster and Josh Terkelsen have created a game called Munzee, what they call a “21st century scavenger hunt,” where you use your iPhone or Android smartphone to find and scan QR codes scattered around the Dallas area. You can see general locations of each munzee on this map, [...]
As much as we yearn for the not-far-away day when Google will finally get around to releasing that self-driving car, the truth is that the proliferation of technology in cars is, at least right now, resulting in less reliable vehicles. J.D. Power and Associates recently released its 2011 Initial Quality Study, and the report found [...]
In the manufacturing industry, grinding products and shaping machines are some of the most critical resources in any particular facility. That’s because these tools have new and complex technologies which allow them to work more accurately, quickly and effectively than ever before. Furthermore, the variety of types of precision grinders, from centerless grinding machines to [...]
PC Magazine recently hit the road to test the wireless 3G and 4G data networks in 21 cities around the country. The result? On average, Dallas has the fastest wireless Internet speeds in the U.S. Check out the chart above. And, for comparison, here are the national averages PCMag measured: As you can see, the [...]
IndustryGamers has an interesting interview with Xbox COO Dennis Durkin, who claims that Microsoft has no interest in competing directly with Sony or Nintendo in the dedicated handheld games market. One of his comments: I’m not sure I would want to be launching a dedicated portable device right now into that market. I think the [...]
We all know that, locksmiths are someone who will likely be going to style and fits together the locks plus the keys. Apart from that, they say that the earliest practice of the security engineering was the locksmithing, and then the earliest practice of the security infiltration was lock picking. In case you would [...]
In the aviation sector the standard, or not so standard, hangar has hardly altered in over 50 years. Whereas aircraft building itself has moved forward on the “larger the better” road with developments in resources and engine technology allowing the ostensibly impossible to be possible, here I’m thinking of the huge A380, C130 , and [...]
In Britain although the General Aviation market is decent and growing it has not got to the saturation level that our European and American cousins enjoy. There are some good reasons for this, topography, cultural divergence, and the price of fuel for example, but one of the most controvertial issues surrounding the expansion of General [...]
