The iPad Mini 2 is the tablet to beat all tablets, possibly

If the rumors about the iPad Mini 2, due to be released before the end of 2013, are true, then the latest Apple tablet could be the tablet to beat all tablets. No, I’m serious. I have been writing about the iPad since before it was even announced. Months prior to the day when Steve Jobs stood on stage and presented the iPad to the world there were rumors galore that Apple’s next big product was going to be a tablet. And so it came to pass. However,...

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Nokia Lumia 1020: You Will See Things You Have Never Seen Before

The Nokia Lumia 1020 marks the beginning of the end of Nokia’s transition period. After almost two years of launching the Lumia range of smartphones, Nokia finally has something that would make buyers notice its product while they are deciding whether they should go for the latest iPhone or Galaxy smartphone. Despite the weakness of Windows Phone as a platform when compared to iOS and Android, over the past two years Nokia has managed to come up...

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Rockstar’s Agent is still alive, GTA V PC petition nears quarter million

PS3 exclusive title, Agent has been in development limbo for quite some time over at Rockstar. The game was announced back in June 2009 during Sony’s E3 presser. It seems like we revisit this title every year with no new information about the game. Take-Two did update investors that this game was indeed still in development back in 2011. The game was brought up during Take-Two’s Q1 2013, earnings call, CEO Strauss Zelnick stated that the publisher...

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The Raspberry Pi mini computer starts at $25

Imagine a computer slightly bigger than an Altoids box that only costs $25.  These tiny computer has been developed for kids to make it easy for them to learn how to program using Linux.  The computer hooks up to a TV and a keyboard, plays Blu-Ray discs, and runs Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux.  Hopefully kids will play around with programing like they used to in the 80’s and 90’s. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK charity.  The...

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Ajay Bhatt: Intel’s Rock-Star Inventor

Steven Cherry: Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum’ s “Techwise Conversations.” One day, about 25 years ago, an engineer at Intel was trying to install a multimedia card into his computer and came up with the idea for a universal port for peripherals. The engineer was Ajay Bhatt, and the port became USB. Today, there are by one count 6 billion USB devices in the world, and not just printers and keyboards and mice. There’s a USB butt cooler for your chair, USB heated gloves for your hands, and a USB disco ball for your inner John Travolta....

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