IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (I4U News) 4/2/2012

Google 8-bit Maps Nintendo NES is first April Fools' Day Joke

Tomorrow is April 1st, and the tech companies are entertaining again their fans with fun April Fools' Day pranks. Google is the most ambitious April Fools's prankster and their first April Fools'...

New Tablet from Facebook Coming?

Facebook will go IPO in May. The amount of money they will be pulling in will be astronomical. What are is Zuckerberg doing with the billions? Killing Google? There is a report on BusinessWeek that...

Hulu Plus Finds Home On Android Tablets

Hulu has managed to nestle into the market of Android tablets. Finally.But only a few are in the list of supported devices so far.Anyone who watched as the online streaming service was slowly and...

Mac Might Be Next Siri Platform

Apple is seemingly ready to take Siri to new heights.The company has filed for a patent that would allow users to essentially transfer their iPhone 4S (or other, future, iPhone that has Siri support...

Google Uses Street View Images in reCaptcha

I never thought of Google's reCaptcha process as anything more than a way to catch spamming robots and prevent them from getting on forums and other Internet resources. Apparently, Google also uses...

Chrysler Halftime in America Super Bowl Ad Continues Today with 4 New Ads

Chrysler has made a big splash at the Super Bowl two times in a row. First was Eminem with the Detroit theme and this year Clint Eastwood talked two minutes about where America is right now. The ad...

Best Buy becomes a Mobile Phone Store Chain

Best Buy announced a loss of $1.7 billion for its 4th quarter ended March 3rd. This looks worse than it is, still Best Buy is making a lot of changes. The fiscal fourth quarter 2012 results...

Bonobo Chat Tablet enables Apes to Talk to Us

The Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary has posted a project on KickStarter to develop a chat app for their great Apes to communicate more efficiently with humans. The bonobos already know a visual...

RIM misses Earning Targets and Restructures

RIM, maker of the BlackBerry, continues to struggle, reporting a net loss of $125 million on a revenue of $4.2 billion (down 19% from last quarter). The new CEO has his work cut out and he knows it....

What is Xbox FL?

Earlier this week we reported about a hot rumor that Microsoft is unveiling an Xbox Lite at the E3 2012 in June. Today a blog spotted Microsoft registering domain names for Xbox FL. Fusible (via...

Data suggests That Android Has Only Made $550 Million since 2008

Google and Oracle have been fighting in court for a long time now. Recently Google provided Oracle with a bunch of documents as part of a settlement offer to end the legal war. That data gives...

Fisker Nina Spy Shots Revealed

I mentioned bit ago that the SRT Viper will be unveiled at the New York auto show next week. Another interesting car that will be revealed at the show is the Fisker Nina plug-in hybrid. The Nina is...

BMW Recalls 367,000 2004 to 2010 Model Five and Six Series Cars

BMW has instigated a massive recall in cooperation with the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall covers 367,000 5 and 6 series cars manufactured from 2004 to 2010. The reason...

COD Black Ops 2 Details Tipped

A few rumored details have been leaked on the follow-up to Call of Duty Black Ops. The new game is called Black Ops 2 and according to the leaked details, the game will launch on November 6. The leak...

2013 SRT Viper Teased Via Facebook

Dodge is no longer the name on infamous Viper that has been around for so many years. Starting in 2013 the car will be branded as and SRT Viper. The tease has gone

Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Android Phone, Carbon Blue from AT&T Available Now

Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Blue is available at Amazon for $249.99.
Many phones are coming out into the market. It can be hard to determine which phone is best for you and your needs. Amazon makes it...

Foxconn Workers not in favor of Overtime Hours Cut

Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn stays in the news with worker conditions. This time their move of cutting the monthly overtime from 60 to 36 hours is not welcome by workers. That is easy to...

HTC One X, One S, and One V launch on April 2nd in Germany

HTC unveiled the HTC One X, One S and One V at the MWC 2012. Today the company announced that these three new smartphones go on sale on April 2nd in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Without contract...

Apple rumored to make Nano-SIM Royalty-Free - Updates: 3

Apple is prepared to make their nano-SIM technology royalty-free if it becomes the standard says a new report on Foss Patents. Apple is fighting for their nano-SIM specification against the proposal...

Google Tablet Rumors repeated by WSJ

Google is going to sell Google branded tablets to somehow try to compete with the iPad and the Kindle Fire. As reported back on March 9, Google and Asus are supposed to have partnered to bring a...

Android 4.0 ICS Goes To 4.0.4

There's a new update for Ice Cream Sandwich, for those who actually already have it.The search giant is pushing out the latest version of Ice Cream Sandwich, also known as Android 4.0, to the Galaxy...

The Future of Wireless Networking is 802.11ac

When it comes to wireless networking, the fastest speeds we can get right now come from 802.11n Wi-Fi chipsets and devices. With more and more people streaming HD video around the home using wireless...

Amazon to release 2-4 new Tablets in 2012

Amazon has been expected to release a new 10.1-inch Kindle Fire to join the currently available 7-inch Kindle Fire. Digitimes reports today that Amazon is at least launching two new tablets in 2012,...

2012 Apple MacBook Pro Mass Production starts next Month

It has been rumored for a while that Apple would release new MacBook Pro laptops that adopt the MacBook Air design. According to Digitimes the 15-inch MacBook Pro is going into mass production in...

Jeff Bezos seeks to recover Apollo 11 F1 Engines from Ocean Floor

The Apollo 11 mission from 1969 is possibly the most famous NASA mission. To lift the rocket NASA developed the F1 rocket engines with 32 million horsepower. Five F-1 engines burned for just a...

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Monday, April 2, 2012

IT News Head Lines (I4U News) 4/2/2012

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