‘Hundreds’ of Cablevision iO TV on-demand rentals now last 48 hours, procrastinators rejoice

Last we heard from Cablevision, it was bringing its Optimum Online live TV streaming to Windows and Macs. Shifting directions to its more "traditional" cable offerings, the company now has good news for folks who’ve been generally bummed out about the 24-hour viewing window allotted with movie rentals

Consolidation Hits UK Local Sites: Zoopla Buys UpMyStreet, Folds It Into Its Own Property Pages

The UK housing market has been on shaky legs for a while now — with tight lending conditions, unemployment and general consumer confidence all playing their part in slowing things down — and that is having the inevitable knock-on to sites built up to serve that sector: today brings news that Zoopla,

FreedomPop Sleeve wants to spread ‘free’ WiMAX love in the form of a $99 iPhone case

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of free WiMAX? According to FreedomPop, yeah, that seems to be the deal. The outfit, started by one of Skype’s co-founders, is peddling $99 WiMAX-equipped iPhone cases that share up to 500GB of free data per month via an embedded WiFi module. The case also extends battery

New shear touch technology lets you skip a double-tap, push your device around (video)

Most every touchscreen in the market today can only register your finger input as coordinates; that’s fine for most uses, but it leads to a lot of double-taps and occasionally convoluted gestures. A pair of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson, have suggested that

Startups Court Dev Bootcamp’s Ruby Grads, 88% Have Offers At Average Of $79K

This year, Shereef Bishay came up with an ambitious engineering and educational challenge: Try to take 20 aspiring developers, at various levels of ability, teach them Ruby on Rails, and have them job-ready in 10 weeks. The result: Dev Bootcamp, a 10-week engineering gauntlet specifically that subjects

Isis bolsters its mobile wallet with American Express cards

The carrier-backed Isis mobile payment service added a batch of new financial partners earlier this year, and it’s now back with another fairly big addition. The venture announced today that it has brought American Express’ various credit card offerings into the fold (including the company’s own mobile-linked

Una aplicación de cámara que llega a conocer a tus amigos

Klik utiliza la tecnología de reconocimiento facial para identificar las fotografías.

Nintendo Wii U Star Fox game tipped

It appears there may be a fox-fronted space shooter game on tap for Nintendo’s upcoming home console. According to a leaked report, the game will be unveiled at next month’s E3 trade show. A lot of eyes are expected to be on Nintendo during the four-day event, since it will be the only company

Flight of the Century project aims for electric plane that never needs to land

If you think the idea of owning a car that never needs to fill up on gasoline – but instead needs to be charged at an electric outlet every day – is cool, then just think how much cooler it would be if there was a car that could run forever, and had a power Read The Full Story

J&W announces M001 Cedar Trail nettop, to keep desks and ears happy

If you like your computing to be neither seen, nor heard (or less seen and less heard), J&W has announced another bantam slab of nettop for your consideration. On the inside there’s a choice of Cedar Trail D2550, N2800 and N2600 dual-core options, with support for up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM. Diminutive machines