Problematic for computers, the leap second may be banished

Jaws isn't exactly the greatest adaptation of a film to a game that you'll ever see, but it earns a cautious recommendation for the enjoyable challenge that the frenetic gameplay offers and its great usage of the license.

PCWorld's Tony Bradley speculates on what a recently unveiled patent application could mean for iPhone security.

Worried about losing your iPhone? One Hints reader figured out a way to his contact information to his phone's lock screen.

Sony announced three new camera models on Monday, including two that feature a new translucent mirror technology.

Shortly after LG's GW910 smartphone surfaced in an FCC listing, a pre-release version has been previewed in a video demo showing the Windows Phone 7 browser. The mobile Internet Explorer adaptation appears to offer a similar browsing experience to that of iOS and Android, but with a few unique features. Users will be able to simultaneously load multiple tabs....


Android - Internet Explorer - Windows Mobile - Windows Phone 7 - Clients

Sedna GmbH has launched an update to its digital signage software, Sedna Presenter, which now supports the iPad. The software provides tools for content assembly, scheduling and distribution, with support of multi-screen video walls. The player manages digital signage playback, accessible over the web and distributed to large numbers of installed players....


DigitalSignage - Business - Signage - Business Services - Digital

Despite Steve Jobs' recent claim that the iBookstore has taken 22 percent of the US e-book market, some authors still report significantly higher sales volume on the Kindle. Author J. A. Konrath has published more than three dozen books on both platforms, with Kindle sales averaging 200 e-books every day. On the iBookstore, however, sales have only reached approximately 100 each month....


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The rotating corpses of massive stars can help scientists weigh the planets in the solar system. By carefully timing radio blips from spinning stellar leftovers called pulsars, astronomers have measured the masses of all the planets from Mercury to Saturn, plus all their moons and rings. Until now, the only way to figure out the mass of a planet was to send a spacecraft past it.

Google on Monday clarified its promise to release Google Goggles for iPhone. Speaking at Stanford University's Hot Chips conference, Goggles head David Petrou committed to having the iPhone version available by the end of this year. No reason was given for the delay over the Android version, which launched in December and is now built-in to Android 2.1 and beyond....


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With the NFL finally taking a proactive stance against identifying and preventing concussions, the league has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control to help spread the word about brain trauma that occurs on the field of play.

Your next iPhone might listen to your heartbeat or scan your face to identify its rightful owner — and it could react with anti-theft measures if it ended up in the wrong hands, according to a patent recently filed by Apple.

Sprint has begun offering a 3G EV-DO femtocell and Verizon plans to follow in the coming months.

A driver survives when his car goes airborne and slams into an overpass. You've gotta see this to believe it.

This app focuses on helping you navigate your e-mail without having to look at your phone's screen. And while there's a clever concept behind this text-to-voice e-mail reader, it simply doesn't prove to be very useful in practice.

Google's recently implemented anti-piracy system for developers has proven to be largely ineffective, white hat hacker Justin Case discovered today. Despite supposedly giving tighter reins over apps, Android License Verification Library (ALVL) has been cracked quickly by making a simple code patch that tricks Android into believing an app has a valid license to run on the system. In a demo to Android Police, case noted the approach doesn't require root access to the OS and could be automated to use a script to patch apps for inexperienced users....


Google - Android - Operating system - Handhelds - Piracy

Scammers are racking up hundreds of dollars in fake charges via hacked iTunes accounts.

Construction and thousands of big rigs conspire to create monumental gridlock near Beijing with no end in sight.

The innovative musician's upcoming record, created with fellow composers Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, hits stores in November.

Softpress Systems has launched an upgrade to its web design software, Freeway 5.5. The application offers fast layout and design, with support for embedded images and other content. It publishes in HTML with intelligent editing -- it only uploads changes to the site to make editing more time efficient. It supports media like QuickTime, Flash and You Tube and is E-commerce capable. Freeway ships with actions and templates for automation and has more options available for download....


Web design - HTML - QuickTime - YouTube - Adobe Flash