Android Market Share Falls In Q4 2011

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Android's stance in the global smartphone market has gone down for the first time.ABI Research reports that in the fourth quarter of 2011, Android's market share reached 47.0%. In the previous...

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Want A New TV For Super Bowl XLVI Don't Expect A
Deal

post from I4U News on 27 January 2012 04:31:19 PM. © I4U News

If you're as shocked as every other Giants fan out there and suddenly need a new big-screen TV for the big game, you may not be that lucky.Last year at this time, TV sales were huge, but that's...

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Super Bowl 2012 Ads Update: Ferris Bueller,
Honda, Budweiser, Metlife

post from I4U News on 27 January 2012 04:10:39 PM. © I4U News

Like the past years we feature again the Super Bowl Guide for Geeks on I4U News. This year we offer for the first time a dedicated site that covers the Super Bowl Ads in more detail than ever. Super...

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Star Trek Enterprise Coffee Table- DO WANT!

post from I4U News on 27 January 2012 04:00:49 PM. © I4U News

Yeah, I want this coffee table really bad. It would be perfect for my game room/home theater upstairs. It was made by a geek named Barry Shields. Shields is a wood artist and he crafted the base of...

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Ballistic iPad 2 tough Jacket Launches

post from I4U News on 27 January 2012 03:30:08 PM. © I4U News

Ballistic has been making its heavy-duty Tough Jacket three-layer case for a long time now. The case has previously been offered for a bunch of different smartphones and it has now launched for the...

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Google Earth 6.2 ditches the Gaps and Adds
Sharing

post from I4U News on 27 January 2012 03:00:52 PM. © I4U News

The image quality in Google Earth used to be bad. If you want to look at a place you had to view a bunch of stacked up rectangular photos to see what you are looking for. It was irritating in that...

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Pac-Man, Mega Man To Be PS3 Exclusive In Street
Fighter X Tekken

post from I4U News on 27 January 2012 03:00:20 PM. © I4U News

In this corner, we have a circular yellow dot-eating creature. In the other corner, it's a pixilated blue guy with a fantastical gun. Does this sound like the set-up to a Street Fighter game?Well, it...

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Efficient Gas Engines Pushing Hybrids Aside

post from I4U News on 27 January 2012 02:23:36 PM. © I4U News

The hybrid has lost some of its sales momentum in the US. Apparently, sales are declining a bit with 2010 seeing 2.4% of all vehicles sold being a hybrid. In 2011, 2.2% of vehicles sold were hybrids...

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Wii U name might be rebranded

The Bard once said, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet – and while I agree with that statement in a general manner, surely a console name like the Nintendo Wii U would affect a small minority out there that would only purchase a console based on the coolness level of its name? Word on the street from a Nintendo insider has it that the Japanese company is considering a rebadging of their upcoming Wii U console, and might just call it something else. Right now, we will just have to make do with the Wii U as a frame of reference, and the Japanese gaming company certainly needs a hit in the next console, so perhaps maximizing its chances by giving it a decent name which appeals to the masses might just do the trick? Should Nintendo rename their upcoming console, what would you like to have Nintendo call it?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Nintendo Wii U will see a end of year launch in time for the holiday season, Nintendo Wii U might be getting an app store of its own,

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Reprogrammable magnetic fluids lets you feel
virtual keyboard physically

A virtual keyboard is just that – technically speaking, you are not supposed to be able to feel the keys when your fingers glide all over them as you type in the necessary characters to form that long Word document, right? Not so if Apple has their way, perhaps some time down the road. It seems that Apple did apply for a patent which details a system that employs coded magnets and ferrofluids, resulting in haptic feedback on a touchscreen or virtual keyboard. For example, a coded magnet could be activated when a proximity sensor detects a finger approaching a touchpad or other surface that is full well capable of detecting a touch. Within a certain closeness, the proximity sensor?s output will kick start a coded magnet located beneath the portion of the surface that is about to be impacted. This coded magnet will then draw ferrofluid to it, which means the upper portion of the surface will rise. I do hope that the technology is fast enough to accommodate all of you speed typists out there, otherwise it would be a really awkward situation.