The gang over Lenovo continues to plug away offering various ultrabook and notebook models with portability and interesting features. Lenovo has a new offering today called the Flex 14 that reminds a bit of the Yoga 11. Before you get too nervous, the resemblance between the Flex 14 and Yoga 11 is mostly physical. At […]
NASA’s really into 3D printing, but its latest project goes far beyond pizza. The space agency has manufactured its largest rocket part ever, an injector plate, which successfully helped produce around 20,000 pounds of thrust on a test bed. They modified the design of an existing machined injector in order to create a 3D printed version using two parts instead of 115 — which NASA said performed “flawlessly” in tests. Such parts could one day reduce rocket costs while potentially increasing safety, since they’re less-complex and have fewer points of failure. NASA will ramp up the thrust on subsequent tests, but meanwhile, if you don’t want to see a rocket motor firing with 10 tons of thrust, don’t head after the jump.
Filed under: Transportation, Science, Alt
Via: Ars Technica
That huge thing to the right there is alleged to be the Nokia Lumia 1520, the phone company’s first go at entering the monster phone/tablet hybrid space.
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TiVo’s brand new Roamio platform is about to get a whole lot “appier” thanks to the introduction of Opera’s Devices SDK, and the addition of the Opera TV Store, a means through which developers can offer HTML5 web apps to TiVo device owners. The new partnership will also give developers an SDK to build TiVo-specific apps for an app store the over-the-top services provider plans to launch later this year.
TiVo’s Roamio platform launched just last week, via a new family of DVR hardware devices that improve considerably on the amount of content that can be recorded, and there’s a new feature coming that allows live and recorded content streaming, even out-of-home, thanks to an upcoming feature that’s going to be introduced via an update (hence the “roam” pun).
While most of the update was focused around the hardware — adding more tuners and more storage to improve the core DVR experience — TiVo also improved several of the onboard apps, making them faster and more responsive. According to TiVo VP of Product Marketing Jim Denney, some of that improvement comes from switching to the Opera Browser for those apps. The Netflix and YouTube apps in particular, both of which are built on Opera, are a lot faster to open and use.
Already, Roamio devices offer up access to some pre-installed apps including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, Spotify and more, and it consolidates content from all of the above in addition to cable services when you’re searching for shows. The introduction of the Opera TV store, which TiVo is aiming to deploy early next year, will bring a whole catalogue of new HTML5-based apps to the service, broadening the type of app-based content users have access to exponentially.
Opera’s TV Store is already available on millions of shipping devices, and the Opera Devices SDK made its way onto over 25 million connected TVs in 2012 alone. That means that TiVo customers will be getting access to a platform that’s already mature when the Opera Store goes live on its devices; there won’t be any waiting while a new store is set up and curate the way there would be if TiVo had started from scratch.
TiVo also contends that the partnership will help it more quickly introduce new and improved pre-loaded software to its set-top DVRs, since Opera has become a key partner for big brands and service providers that are making the switch to HTML5 in order to gain more presence on connected home entertainment platforms.
Access to Opera TV Store content is a big value-add that should help TiVo’s Roamio price tags look more attractive to users who might otherwise feel like a Roku or Apple TV device could fit their needs. And if TiVo and others suspect that Apple is preparing to make a fresh foray into the living room, as has been recently rumored by none other than our own contributor MG Siegler, building as full-featured an offering as possible definitely explains the push to build a software ecosystem.
If you’re a fan of Windows 8 and you want to take advantage of all the touch features that the operating system has, but you use a desktop computer Dell has some new computer monitors you may be interested in. Dell has announced the launch of three new touchscreen monitors aimed at Windows 8 users […]
DirecTV’s spruced-up mobile app with voice control
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A great way to boost your health is to stand up — and move — while working.
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The folks over at PhoneArena have gotten their hands on a shot of a Sprint roadmap that’ll excite fans of Mark Rothko’s “Blue” period. The document claims that we’ll see HTC’s azure-hued version of the One arrive on the big yellow network on September 10th. Which is nice, because as far as we know, that’s looking like it’ll be a slow news day.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, HTC, Sprint
Source: PhoneArena
If you’re a Verizon customer and you’ve been counting the days until you could get your hands on the Moto X, we have some good news for you today. The new Moto X is now available on the Verizon web store. You can purchase the smartphone on or off contract via the website right now. […]
Vodafone currently owns a significant portion of Verizon Communications. Sources who claim to be familiar with negotiations between Verizon and Vodafone are saying that talks have started up again concerning Verizon possibly buying out Vodafone’s stake in the company. If these sources are accurate, any buyout would cost Verizon a huge amount of money. The […]
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