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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 3, 2012

Another week has come to a detailed, but not before we had a big gamble to compensate for the large news of the day, like this one – the Android@Home prototype as an entertainment device for the house. Furthermore, the Windows Phone Marketplace has just launched in five new countries. Featured: Look at our review of the ms01 Monitor Series to determine what we considered it. Also, our Chris Davies takes a hands-on take a look at RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge app. The sports app is obtainable for iPad, iPhone, Android, and Facebook. Apple: We have got some news regarding Apple’s newest digital books platform: Apple updates iBooks author EULA terms to handle content ownership concerns. And at the Apple-branded TV front – Apple iTV pushed back as IGZO panels unready for shipment. Miscellaneous: Hey, here is a fun stat – Smartphones outpace PCs for the 1st time in [...]

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Posted by admin - February 3, 2012 at 11:59 pm

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thinksound ms01 Monitor Series earbuds Review

  When you suspect of earbuds for taking note of music and dealing with audio, you generally don’t expect the type of quality that thinksound presents here. What we now have here’s a wooden pair of earbuds by the name of ms01, an entry into thinksound’s monitor series. These in-ear earbuds each feature an acoustically enhanced 8mm high-definition driver, each with passive noise isolation to back them up – and that wood certainly warms up your world from the skin in. This pair of earbuds is among the many created in collaboration between thinksound CEO and acclaimed Audio Engineer Aaron Fournier and a hard and fast of musicians all aiming to create a couple of earbuds with nothing below a whole range of sound and acoustics worthy in their end price. At $99.99 a pop, we’d expect nothing lower than the most efficient for our ears constantly bombarded by the [...]

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Posted by admin - February 3, 2012 at 11:21 pm

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Yahoo launches search engine for iOS, Android apps

Yahoo launched a brand new category for its search engine this week that makes it easy to browse and find either iOS or Android apps. You’ll notice the addition of an “Apps” filter option above Yahoo’s search bar and a brand new portal that makes it easy to sift through apps by various categories and ratings lists. The new Apps feature allows you to type any search terms into the foremost Yahoo search bar after which provides you with results for just those touching on apps. You could filter by price and category and consider only iOS or Android apps. You can even go on to the Yahoo Apps portal, where you’re going to get to browse by categories. When you discover an app of interest, you may go straight from the quest results to the Android Market or iTunes App Store to download the app, send a link for [...]

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Posted by admin - February 3, 2012 at 9:22 pm

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Woot-sold XOOM refurb-tablets contain previous owners data

Motorola has announced this week that XOOM units sold through Woot.com’s refurbish and sell program long ago few months may need previous users data aboard. This mishap stems from improperly reformatted devices being brought in to numerous dealers within the last year, the groups leading as much as Woot’s resale having not taken measures essential to assure a clean wipe of the memory these devices held. Motorola is offering up a free two-year membership to an Experian credit monitoring system to be sure their checking account information specifically just isn’t taken benefit of. Those of you who turned their XOOM in for cash back between March and October of 2011 ought to be those worrying, as this is often the period inside which Motorola has tagged most probably to have had their data stuck at the devices. When you knew what you were doing and did wipe your device properly [...]

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Posted by admin - February 3, 2012 at 7:02 pm

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RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge app pairs sports and social: Hands-on

Rugby-loving couch potatoes beware: RBS expects you to flex your brain, if not your muscles, through the Six Nations tournament this year. The sports-sponsoring bank has created an interactive quiz, fixtures and social app for 2012, with game-related questions, score tables and Facebook integration for those particularly competitive. Available in versions for iPad, iPhone, Android and Facebook, we grabbed some hands-on time with the free Live Challenge app before its full release. Although RBS had a fixtures app for the 2011 tournament, this year’s update aims to monopolize your lap while you are actually watching the sport. RBS will push out questions matching the live gameplay, with multiple choice responses and – immediately after – the risk to determine how your answer compared with the entire other gamers. There’s also a penalty game, where that you can predict whether the ball will make it throughout the posts, go left or [...]

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Posted by admin - February 3, 2012 at 5:07 pm

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