"Create presentation slides with iPad drawing app Paper"

Do it before everyone else does: Create presentation slides with iPad drawing app Paper

iPad drawing and painting app Paper isn’t short on praise. It’s received a great response since it launched a few short weeks ago, having been downloaded over 1.5 million times in its

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"Coming soon! HP Slate 8 Tablet Image"

According to a “trusted source” from Neowin.net, the image above is a mockup of an upcoming business tablet from HP called the Slate 8. That would be a Windows 8 tablet focused on business use.

If this info is correct, it will have a 10.1-inch display, eight to ten hours of battery life, an

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"T-Mobile HTC One S Getting A Patch To Address Wifi Battery Drain"

Users of the HTC One S have been experiencing problems with the battery during Wi-Fi calling. Users of the device have complained that the battery drains more quickly when using the Wi-Fi calling feature. One user said, “After 5 hours and 32 minutes on battery, screen on 66%, Internet 7%, cell standby 7%, and Wi-Fi running 3 hours and 43 minutes, I’m at a low 35% battery left,”

HTC and T-Mobile have a fix in the works to address the issues, though we have no word on

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"Nintendo To Release Games Digitally On 3DS And Wii U Starting In August"

Nintendo has never been a big fan of digital content for its platforms, though they have improved over the lifetime of the Wii and with the introduction of the 3DS. However they still have a long way to go. For instance, with the launch of the PS Vita, Sony promised to release every game in digital form day-and-date with the retail version.

That’s pretty sweet for the user. And now CEO Satoru Iwata has confirmed that Nintendo will do the same with its first party titles for 3DS and the Wii U when it launches. It’s the

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"Boston Getting The First Smartphone Rail Ticket Service In The US"

It’s funny how many businesses are starting to realize that our gadgets can be used for much more. They can be used to make our daily activities much easier and more efficient. That’s why the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is going to start a program this fall that will allow commuter rail riders to buy tickets on their smartphones.

It’s a first for the U.S. The project is a partnership with Masabi, a company with expertise in

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"HP Pavilion G6, G7 Budget Laptops to Come with Quad-Core Intel CPUs"

HP fans will be happy to know that HP’s Pavilion G6 and G7 series notebooks will be available with the 3rd generation quad-core Intel “Ivy Bridge” processors.

The 15.6″ g6 and 17.3″ g7 are budget systems that pack in a lot. They come with up to the dual-core 2nd-gen Core i7 CPUs. The Core i7-3612QM will be in upcoming configurations

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"Acer Aspire V3 coming to Japan for $1,100"

It looks like the sexy Acer Aspire V3 is headed for Japan. And it has almost everything you want. A 2.1GHz Ivy Bridge Core i7 is nice, but the screen is just 1366 x 768. Though it does have a Blu-ray player and Dolby Theater v4. That might be a deal-breaker for some, but there’s still a lot to like here.

Besides, not everyone wants 1080p on a small laptop anyway. This 15.6-inch laptop also sports HD 4000 graphics for your gaming needs, a 750GB HDD, and up to 8GB of RAM.

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"Fighting is futile: Google's 'Zerg Rush' game 'impossible to win'"

Google's new search engine game sends dozens of letter "Os" to destroy your search results. Fighting is futile. Picture: Google

APPARENTLY Googling it has become too easy.

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"GREAT SCOTT: Will a LEGO DeLorean be in our future?"

• Car from Back to the Future uploaded to LEGO's website
• Built by fans, to be considered for production and sale
• DeLorean got more than 10,000 votes from eager fans
• No word from LEGO if it will be producing car for sale

Though you cannot see it, the LEGO DeLorean even comes with a miniature flux capacitor. Picture: LEGO Cuusoo

THE world has voted. We want our flying DeLorean - or at least a LEGO model of it.

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"The internet flexes its muscle"

Steve Mitropoulos, 18 with parents Con and Niki, run a successful Youtube channel with fitness videos. Picture: Kristi Miller

THE handyman appears to be going the same way as CDs, video stores and queues for concert tickets - the internet has made him obsolete.

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"Postcard from 1958 finally arrives, via Facebook"

A POSTCARD mailed from Chicago in 1958 has finally reached its intended recipient, but not without a little help from Facebook.

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"Will FB, Google be forced to set up servers in India?"

Regulate content says Government of India. AP

The government of India could look at tightening norms to regulate, what is deemed as objectionable content on social media networks and on the web. According to aHindustan Times report, the UPA government has already requested visiting US deputy secretary for Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute for regulation of content. The report also states that if objectionable content is not curbed, then it will be forced to ask Google, Facebook, Twitter to set up local servers so as to ensure the content can be regulated.

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"Google Translate turns 6, has 200 million monthly users"

In Douglas Adam’s iconic Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a universe teeming with billions of languages and dialects understand each other thanks to the Babel fish. The fish is inserted through the ear, whereupon it “feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain, the practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language: the speech you hear decodes the brain wave matrix.”

Google Translate is no babel fish but it's getting there

In reality thankfully, there is Google Translate, which does not require the insertion of a fish or indeed any living creature through any bodily orifice. It only requires a working Internet connection, the text you want translated, and voila! Instant understanding.

And as more and more people come around to the magic of the service, Google Translator turned six with the impressive news that its services were being used by 200 million people every month.

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"European scientists discover new subatomic particle"

Geneva: European researchers say they have discovered a new subatomic particle that helps confirm our knowledge about how quarks bind — one of the basic forces in the shaping of matter.

European researchers say they have discovered a new subatomic particle that helps confirm our knowledge about how quarks bind — one of the basic forces in the shaping of matter. AP

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said Friday the particle was discovered at one of CERN’s two main experiments involving thousands of researchers, in collaboration with the University of Zurich.

Joe Incandela, the physicist in charge of the experiment involved with the discovery, told The Associated Press the particle was predicted long ago but finding it was “really kind of a classic tour de force of experimental

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"Google vs Dropbox: It might make sense to use both"

Dropbox and Drive both have their uses

Google’s new cloud storage and sharing service, Drive, which was launched earlier this month, is looking to take on other popular services such Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive Live. But how does it stack up against these much loved programmes? Does it have enough going for it to convince users to switch? And more importantly should you be worried about your privacy?

In our opinion, to call Drive a Dropbox killer would be too soon, because users can easily choose to use both services. However Google’s Drive is admittedly very convenient for people who use Google Docs extensively, as it automatically (and a little worryingly) syncs all your documents.

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