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"You can't lift me up," this girl once said to me, making implications about by perceived lack of strength. "Why, because you are ninety percent my weight?" I quickly shot back, not exactly adhering to the two rules of life I always advise people; the first being to never call a girl fat, and the second to never call a guy short. (Just if you are wondering, an untrained person can lift about 70% of their body weight, while a... |
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From CNET News.com: Chrome 25 for Android (download) finally gets another update, this time bringing numerous fixes to stability, speed, and overall browser behavior. The last time Chrome for Android updated was November 2012. In the interim, Google has been building significant... |
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From DailyTech: BlackBerry has a lot riding on the success of its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones. The company has already seen some moderate sales success with the new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone by selling three times better than previous BlackBerry models in the UK. While these... |
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From DailyTech: Barnes & Noble suffered a sizable loss in the third quarter due to a sales drop in its Nook and e-books business. Barnes & Noble reported a net loss of $6.1 million (18 cents per share) compared to its profit of $52 million (71 cents per share) in the year-ago... |
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From X-bit Labs: Even though Mozilla’s browser-based Firefox operating system has failed to gain support from large makers of smartphones, it does not mean that nobody is interested in making devices powered by the HTML5 platform. At least four smaller makers of smartphones have... |
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From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hard disk drives, plans to cease production of mobile hard drives with 7200rpm spindle speed late this year as the mainstream market demand will shift to different products, such as solid-state hybrid... |
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From CNET News.com: Apple's iCloud had a major outage this morning, but things are slowly but surely returning to normal. The outage was reported this morning on Apple's Status page, showing that 11 percent of users were affected. All of iCloud's services, including Mail support... |
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From DailyTech: Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) is perhaps the most intriguing force in the U.S. telecommunications market. While it's currently performing miserably, bleeding customers and revenue, it's also in a process of evolution that could make it a leaner, more competitive power... |
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From DailyTech: NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) in January made the bold claim that its Tegra 4 system-on-a-chip (SoC) was "the world's fastest mobile processor". At the 2013 Mobile World Congress, the company was busy preaching that claim and praising the chips potential for smartphones... |
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From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices reaffirmed plans to sell accelerated processing units with Jaguar x86 cores and Radeon HD “GCN” graphics technology on open market. While those APUs will not be as powerful as the one that AMD developed for Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 game... |
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