Here’s the full story from Peter Svensson of the Associated Press: Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest cellphone company, is introducing a $2 fee for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit cards. The company says this “convenience fee” will be introduced Jan. 15. The fee won’t apply to electronic check [...]
Now this project looks really interesting. Rasberry Pi, a UK company is building tiny Linux computers that will sell for $25 and $35. No joke. They’ll run Linux off of an SD card and feature 128mb of RAM on the $25 model and 256mb of RAM and and ethernet port on the $35 model. Video [...]
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 31 out of 98 passed the Mechanical Engineer Board Examination given by the Board of Mechanical Engineering in the cities of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Jeddah and Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and in Doha, Qatar this December 2011. The following are the list of passers: MECHANICAL ENGINEER [...]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has been a popular choice for Christmas gifts this season, but reviewers have panned the device because of a slow, clunky interface experience. Yesterday Amazon released an over-the-air update for Kindle Fire that addresses these problems. I don’t have a Fire, but my colleague David Pogue at the New York Times [...]
Texas Instruments’ DLP projection technology is the surprise star in “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. Mannequins wearing risqué outfits by French fashion designer Gaultier appear to come alive with the technology, which wraps real images around their faces like a [...]
Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. today said it’s moving to the Nasdaq stock market from the New York Stock Exchange as of Jan. 1. TI shares will begin trading on the NASDAQ on Jan. 3 under the symbol TXN. “Nasdaq is home to many of the world’s best technology companies and is a natural fit for [...]
©National Geographic/Michael Nichols I think all of us have been reading National Geographic for as long as we can remember. Their photography has always been incredible and the photographers have always embraced technology to help capture pictures we’d otherwise never get to see. After reading a few entries, I’m intrigued by the use of a [...]
This just in from Sony. The demo hours are the same as the mall shopping hours and will go through the end of December. Sony PlayStation is offering DFW shoppers a sneak peak at the new portable gaming system, PlayStation Vita this holiday season. From now through December 31, as shoppers scramble to get their [...]
It took a while for the iPad 2 to make it to Apple’s refurb store, but when they did, the price difference from new was only about $50. Now, just in time for the holidays, Apple has dropped the price of the refurbished iPad 2s to as low as $419 for a 16GB wifi-only model. [...]
Texas Instruments Inc. said that more than half of all worldwide movie theater screens — or more than 500,000 — are using its DLP Cinema digital technology. The industry estimates that all worldwide cinema screens will convert to digital technology in four years, according to a report by Screen Digest. The first DLP Cinema-powered projectors [...]
