All the cool kids have their own branded smartphones, so why not Amazon? Per The Mac Observer and the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is expected to introduce its own smartphone on Wednesday, with AT&T as its exclusive carrier upon. Apple struck a similar deal with AT&T in 2007 when the iPhone first launched, which gave […]
Tag: 3D
What’s the one thing missing from today’s tech lifestyle? That’s right, another smartphone! At least that is what Amazon is betting on when it launches its own phone later this year. There have been a few photos of phone’s hardware in the last month, but it appeared that there was some type of case obscuring […]
PrimeSense purchase confirmed
On Sunday, Apple officially announced its acquisition of 3D sensor developer PrimeSense. As we reported earlier, Apple has been in talks with PrimeSense since the summer in a bid to grab the company. PrimeSense was the developer of the 3D tracking technology used in Microsoft’s original Kinect device that shipped with the Xbox 360. Apple spokeswoman Kristin […]
There’s nothing wrong with a regular update to a useful program. VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.2.18. The new version, a 110 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled. – VMM: fixed potential crashes […]
Parallels announced its Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac client today, the new version of the virtualization software offering the following set of fixes and features: – Cloud storage optimizations for iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive. – Support for OS X Launchpad in Windows applications – Enhanced support for Apple’s forthcoming OS X 10.9 Mavericks. […]