Van Halen on track for first big week
The music business, or whatever’s left of it, sure isn’t what it used to be, so if anyone’s buying music at all, it’s a miracle.
Original post by David Konow
Unplugging: Metallica creates its own music festival
This week welcomed great news of new projects in the works, featuring great music fests on the way, highly anticipated new albums and just all-around awesomeness.
Original post by Lily Angele, MXDWN
How Breakups Work
Many adults rate relationship breakups among the worst events of their lives. How does the psyche handle that kind of heartache? And is there a secret formula for mending a broken heart?
Original post by timothy
Triggers: Baretta 9mm vs. Remote Control Car
In order to compare the differences between the M19-11 and the Beretta 9MM, Wil Willis and Former Marines Firearms Instructor, Grant Reynolds, decide to aim for a much smaller and mobile target.
Original post by timothy
Let Me Upgrade You
Everyone loves getting bumped up to first class or a room with a view and a hot tub, but these upgrades can be hard to come by. Do you know how to get hotel and airline upgrades? Take this quiz and find out!
Original post by timothy
Growth of global TV shipments to slow in 2012
The growth of global LCD TV shipments is expected to fall in 2012, according to market research firm GfK. The company believes that in 2012, growth will come from emerging markets as demand from the U.S. and Europe will subside. Global TV shipments grew 12% in 2011, and that rate is expected to slow to an estimated 7% growth rate this year. In total, GfK expects vendors to ship 225 million LCD TVs worldwide in 2012, Digitimes reports. Samsung, the world’s largest TV vendor by shipment volume, has vowed to sell more than 50 million units into global channels this year.
Original post by Dan Graziano
German court dismisses Motorola patent lawsuit against Apple
On Friday, the Mannheim Regional Court of Germany announced that Motorola’s patent lawsuit against Apple had been dismissed. The patent in question was considered essential to the 3G/UMTS wireless telecommunications standard and was used as a “method and system for generating a complex pseudonoise sequence for processing a code division multiple access [CDMA] signal.” Judge Andreas Voss claimed that Motorola failed to present conclusive evidence that Apple infringed upon its patent, however, according to FOSS Patents. Rather than demonstrating Apple’s infringement, Motorola argued that any implementation of 3G/UMTS must then inevitably infringe on the company’s invention. Last December, the manufacturer won an injunction against the Cupertino-based company to ban the sales of iPhones and iPads. The ruling was upheld earlier this month and Apple’s devices were temporarily pulled from shelves, before returning soon after.
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Original post by Dan Graziano
Apple reportedly rushing to find apps to show off iPad 3 Retina Display
Apple is in “crunch mode” to line up apps that will be used for on-stage demonstrations during the company’s iPad 3 launch event, which is said to be scheduled for early next month, TheNextWeb reports. The Cupertino-based company is now looking for apps that will show off the stunning quality of the iPad 3′s high-resolution Retina Display. Apple works with partners to hand-pick apps that highlight the capabilities of new devices during major announcements, and the selection process for Apple’s iPad 3 is now said to be nearing its final phase.
Original post by Dan Graziano
Cupid targets the Fed with early Valentine tweets
(Reuters) – It isn’t often you see the words “love”, “romance”, and “Federal Reserve” in the same sentence.
Original post by samzenpus
Google Wallet a security risk: researchers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Security researchers said they found a vulnerability in the Google Inc mobile payments platform which is currently available in phones sold by Sprint Nextel Corp.
Original post by samzenpus