News tagged with handheld computing

Sony says it has sold 1.2M of the PlayStation Vita

Sony says it has sold 1.2 million PlayStation Vitas worldwide, exceeding the company's expectations amid stiff competition from mobile devices and Nintendo.

Technology / Business

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Portable device will quickly detect pathogens

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Cornell professors will combine their inventions to develop a handheld pathogen detector that will give health care workers in the developing world speedy results to identify in the field ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nintendo 3DS game system gets momentum in US

Nintendo on Tuesday announced that it sold more than four million of its sophisticated 3DS handheld videogame gadgets in the United States by end of 2011.

Technology / Business

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Digital music lockers offer compelling bargain

If you've got a big digital music collection, you may want to consider signing up for a digital music storage locker.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hulu shows heading for Nintendo Wii and 3DS

Nintendo said Friday that online video service Hulu Plus will stream movies and television shows to Wii and 3DS videogame systems by the end of the year.

Technology / Business

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Without new iPhone, Apple iOS 5 more evolutionary than revolutionary

Apple's latest update to its iOS software for iPhones, iPads and other handheld devices is more evolutionary than revolutionary, particularly if you're not getting it on the new iPhone 4S, which was released Friday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SideBySide projection system enables projected interaction between mobile devices

Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a system called SideBySide that enables animated images from two separate handheld projectors to interact with each other ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sony videogame line-up flexes motion control

Sony on Thursday unveiled a holiday season line-up of PlayStation 3 videogames tailored for motion control using the Japanese entertainment titan's Move gear.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nintendo seeks to rev up 3DS with holiday games

Nintendo is readying an array of video games for the holidays in an aggressive attempt at catch-up for lost time from the sales delay of the 3DS portable machine last year.

Technology / Business

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 12

Rebooting the PC industry: Tablets force a shift

(AP) -- The personal computer industry needs a jumpstart - and it's counting on a rescue from emerging markets and a late-to-the-party push into tablet computers.

Technology / Business

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 9

Meeting consumers' HD demands with a faster algorithm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers help smaller processors outperform a single superfast processor by working more efficiently in parallel.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Palm's webOS hasn't gotten the attention it deserves

Lost in the recent deluge of smart-phone news -- Apple's iPhone store hitting 100,000 applications, and the launches of the new Droid phone and the BlackBerry Storm, among other things -- have been the efforts ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Much riding on success -- or failure -- of Palm Pre

(AP) -- When Palm Inc.'s and Sprint Nextel Corp.'s latest bundle of smart phone joy, the Pre, arrives Saturday, it will be entering an increasingly crowded market backed by parents that have a lot riding ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nintendo's Game Boy turns 20

Twenty years ago Japan's Nintendo Co. launched the Game Boy, the iconic handheld video game player that spawned characters from Super Mario to Pokemon and sold 200 million units worldwide.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Technology aims to end heat strokes in American football

American football players may be able to avoid heat strokes by wearing helmets with specially made technology, an Austrian company that worked on the project said Friday.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1


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