Sharp pain continues with $1.2 billion loss in Q1, drastically lowered forecast for 2012
Having already scraped through a disastrous 2011, Sharp had been banking on making a small but significant profit this year. Those hopes have now evaporated, with the Japanese manufacturer’s forecast of 20 billion yen ($250 million) in operating earnings for 2012 being revised down to a 100 billion yen
Sony eats $312 million loss in 2012 Q1 results
Sony’s first-quarter figures for 2012 are out, revealing that despite the company’s optimism at the end of its last financial year, it’s made a net loss of $312 million. It managed to pull in a whopping $19.2 billion in sales for the three months ending June 30th, credited to bringing the company’s mobile
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon pricing spotted in Hong Kong
Lenovo floated the ThinkPad X1 Carbon past us in May without so much as a whisper of what the lightweight Ultrabook’s price would be. The company doesn’t mind shouting it out in what looks to be a Hong Kong back-to-school promo flyer, though. As long as the Newsmth.net post represents the final pricing,
Samsung starts mass-producing 4x faster mobile flash memory, kickstarts our phones and tablets
Samsung isn’t content to leave fast NAND flash memory to traditional solid-state drives. Its Pro Class 1500 promises a big jolt to the performance of frequently pokey smartphone and tablet storage. By how much? That name is a clue — it reaches 1,500 IOPS (inputs/outputs per second) when writing data,
Total Recall director Len Wiseman shares his sci-fi love with SlashGear
This past week we got the opportunity to sit down with film director Len Wiseman at the Los Angeles press junket for the newest science fiction blockbuster of the summer: Total Recall. Wiseman revealed that not only is he a long-standing superfan of science fiction in general, he’s had a bit of
Minecraft update 1.3.1 arrives with emeralds and NPC trading
Minecraft update 1.3.1 has gone live, and we’re going to level with you: it sounds pretty awesome. This is easily one of the biggest Minecraft updates we’ve had since the game officially launched back in November, adding a variety of new things and fixing a number of bugs. Though there’s
Total Recall (2012) Movie Review
The 2012 version of Total Recall begins with Colin Farrell bloodied and beaten lying on the floor of a room that quickly becomes a barrage of flashing lights and gunshots – then suddenly the movie is over. This movie does not let up the action to the point where several times during the film I
Developer Claims Facebook Tried to Destroy His Business
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Lego motorized wheelchair joins Mindstorms NXT alumni (video)
It’s been a while since we’ve come across a Lego project that’s on par with a certain Pixar hero or the Rubiks solving robots, but Simon Burfield’s brick-based motorized wheelchair definitely ranks close. He’s cobbled together seven Mindstorm NXT micro-computers (programmed in RobotC), 14 motors, 16
YouTube’s 10 Most-Shared Ads in July
1. DC Shoes: Ken Block’s Gymkhana Five: Ultimate Urban Playground, San Francisco
The most-shared ad of July is a riveting, white-knuckle adrenaline ride through the streets of San Francisco.
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