Hasta La Gadget!

This week we’re seeing quite a bit of news on the RIM front, mostly because the heads of the company have been vocal in the face of a possible incoming lawsuit that will be headed by angry investors – bits like We don’t build phones in China and re-elections of the board are running wild. On a lighter note, you’ll want to check out the kickstarter for Ouya if you’ve got a love for Android and video games – console style. There’s a couple of new Motorola devices out there soon, too, the RAZR V for Canada and the ATRIX HD for AT&T in the USA.

Steve Ballmer has spoken – Microsoft will “leave no space uncovered that is Apple’s”. Steve Wozniak, on the other and of the tech world, is speaking up on Megaupload, Microsoft, and Google Project Glass.

Over in Finland, researchers have started recording the Northern Lights in sound form. AT&T has come forth with a bit of their own speech technology with a Watson-powered speech API for developers. In their Safari case, Google will have to pay a tiny $22.5 million dollars in damages.

New Google Chrome APIs have been released for cameras while Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has been released to AOSP. Head on down to Google’s developer pages for both systems and get to work making masterpieces!

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: July 10, 2012 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This morning it’s time to get real with HTC, as their not so fabulous Q2 profit report is reacted to by our own Chris Davies in a column by the name of HTC’s Precipice Moment. In completely unrelated news, Microsoft will be releasing a Halo 4 Xbox 360 sometime in the future and it’s high time we started printing blood vessels.

You’ll be interested to know that the box floating around your Piccsy screen is not a gigantic USB stick, it’s a Ouya Android device, made to be a game streaming box for just $99 on kickstarter – see it soon! Watch out for the framers out there looking to make Android look bad with Malware Botnet like you’ve never seen before.

You will also be having a fabulous time working with the Quad GeForce GTX 690 server – a blast of power from all sides! Microsoft has confirmed that there will be no Windows Home Server for the Windows 8 generation.

Samsung is doing quite a bit better this past quarter than HTC has done.

NASA is showing off some brand new images of Mars. The folks at Blue have released a brand new Tiki USB mic that’s out at Best Buy today – and be sure to check out their new setup at the big box stores that are left as well! Nokia has released their until-now-secretive Batman: Dark Knight Rises 3D Gotham map. And of course, don’t forget the Amazon Kindle Phone – also very possibly coming soon, too.

BONUS: keep up to date on the newest blockbuster action, adventure, super-hero film on the block: The Amazing Spider-Man with our interviews and features galore – check em all in the timeline below and stay tuned for more this and next week!

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: July 6th, 2012 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This morning we’ve got news on the God Particle about to be named by the folks at CERN – but perhaps they’ll stop short after all. Maybe it’ll just be a kingly particle instead. Nokia has found several patent infringements in the Google Nexus 7, this spelling trouble for the not-yet-shipped device. The tablet known as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is in a bit of trouble as well as Apple has had its ban on sales retained.

Apple’s iCloud has had several web apps added. Some BlackBerry 10 plans have leaked with a map leading to an early 2013 release date. The world’s new lightest ultrabook is now the NEC LaVie Z

The Google Nexus 7 has been torn down, revealing no less than two audio drivers inside – strange! Researchers are now predicting that tablets will be overtaking notebooks by the year 2016.

You’ll want to check out The Next Microsoft: the branding Surface deserves. Parrot has revealed a pair of super-advanced headphones for the USA under the title Parrot ZIK. Ferrari designer Sergio Pininfarina has died.

The Google Jelly Bean statue has melted but the software is still alive and well in our full review of the Nexus Q.

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: July 3, 2012 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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