Rdio wrapped the technology side of South by Southwest with a redesign of its desktop and web apps. The new interface is consciously much more unified and visual, with album art at the front and elements like playlists at the side. A new drag-and-drop interface, including on the web, lets users add whole albums to playlists as well as quickly share tracks to friends through the People Sidebar.... Read more...
Amazing Water-Repellant Tech Keeps Your Gadgets Dry (Mashable)
Mashable - BARCELONA: If you're one of the people whose gadgets often die a watery death, you'd feel really safe at this year's Mobile World Congress. Several different companies are showing off their water-repelling technology at the ShowStoppers event, and though we've seen similar tech in the past, it's always cool to see an iPhone submerged under water or drops of liquid literally running away from a specially treated paper tissue. Read more...
Tic Tac Launches Augmented Reality-Enabled Times Square Billboards (Mashable)
Mashable - Tic Tac is the latest major brand to embrace augmented reality, and it is doing so in a big way: With three billboards in New York's Times Square. Read more...
Tic Tac Launches Augmented Reality-Enabled Times Square Billboards (Mashable)
Mashable - Tic Tac is the latest major brand to embrace augmented reality, and it is doing so in a big way: With three billboards in New York's Times Square. The billboards are the latest element of Tic Tac's "Shake It Up" campaign, which centers around a mobile app (for iOS or Android) that offers extras beyond the outdoor and print ads Read more...
Rumor pegs iPad 3 launch event for March 7
Apple's rumored early March iPad 3 launch event may have been narrowed down through a claim Monday. Read more...
7 Epic Videos of Gadget Destruction (Mashable)
Mashable - 1. Kid Breaks iPad Outside the Store Here's a video of a group of teenagers who buy an iPad at Best Buy, then smash it with a bat in front of all the people in line waiting to buy their own. Some sense of humor they have. Read more...
RedPad aims to be $1,600 anti-iPad for Chinese government
A Chinese company has tried to create the antithesis of the iPad for China in what may be unintentional irony. Read more...
RedPad aims to be $1,600 anti-iPad for Chinese government
A Chinese company has tried to create the antithesis of the iPad for China in what may be unintentional irony. The RedPad Number One, as described in Wall Street Journal anecdotes, would have the same 9.7-inch screen, dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip, and even an iOS-like app tray but would be an Android 3.2 tablet tailored to the Communist Party. Its 9,999 yuan price, equivalent to $1,584, was supposedly to load it with government-related apps, such as checking for accredited journalists or reading supposedly private updates on officials from People's Daily or the micr... Read more...
Apple faces $1.9b lawsuit for selling unauthorized iBooks
Apple is currently facing a lawsuit in China for allegedly aiding in the sale of illegally published e-books on the iBookstore. The People's Daily reported that nine authors accused Apple of doing nothing to stop bootleggers from publishing 37 works without permission and profiting from it Read more...
Typical Android User is Anything But Typical [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)
Mashable - What are Android users like? Read more...