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With federal loans blocked, Fisker halts work on Project Nina, lays off 66 workers
Fisker Automotive’s bumpy 2011 appears to have given way to an even rockier 2012. A little more than a month after recalling 239 of its Karma plug-ins, Fisker has now stopped working on its second electric vehicle, following the US government’s decision to suspend its federal loans. The manufacturer confirmed the news in an email […]
Glasses-free 3DeeScreen augments Windows 7 displays, lets Peter Gabriel get in your eyes
Glasses-free 3DTVs sporting 4K resolution don’t exactly match up to the everyman’s budget. Still, the tech needs to trickle down to the masses somehow and it appears Spatial View’s keen to take up that three-dimensional, plebeian mantle. Available today, the outfit’s inventively titled 3DeeScreen snaps onto 15.6-inch laptops of the
Globe and Mail reveals early details on Apple iTV: Siri wants to hear you shout at the big game
iTV rumors continue to swirl around the shady backwaters of the internet, but it’s not often national papers of record decide to wade in — Canada’s, no less. According to an anonymous source who spilled the beans to the Globe and Mail, Apple’s TV set will include Siri-powered voice control, with the virtual assistant also […]
Report: Jaffe leaves Eat Sleep Play, layoffs hit developer
Eat Sleep Play, which will shortly ship Twisted Metal, has reportedly laid off eight employees. The Salt Lake City Tribune also reports that co-founder David Jaffe is also out and is expected to pursue “casual games.” Jaffe responded to the “rumor” of him making casual games after Twisted Metal as “highly exaggerated.”
RIM shows off new features for PlayBook 2.0 at DevCon
All eyes are on Amsterdam this morning, as RIM hosts DevCon Europe. Among all the usual avowals about how well things are going are a few nuggets of the new and the noteworthy. One such morsel was a demonstration of new BlackBerry Bridge features. Now, swipes and touches from your BlackBerry handset get translated over […]
inPulse and WIMM One: the tale of two smartwatches (video)
We’re no strangers to watches here at Engadget, but smartwatches — tiny wearable computers capable of running apps with SDKs to match — are still a rare breed. The best known examples are probably Fossil’s Meta Watch, Allerta’s inPulse Smartwatch and WIMM Labs’ WIMM One, all of which are primarily targeted at developers. We recently […]
UK retailer Game cuts 46 jobs from HQ
Retailer Game’s problematic financial condition has caused the troubled retailed to cut 46 jobs from its UK headquarters.
“Our proposed new structure will change the
Tiny Tower builds up 10 million downloads
Nimblebit’s Tiny Tower keeps building up, up, up! Developer Ian Marsh tweeted last night that the addictive tower management title had reached 10 million iOS downloads. The company previously mentioned it has a million daily active users. It can’t hurt that the game doesn’t cost anything, but that’s still quite
Acer files suit against former CEO Gianfranco Lanci over non-compete breach
Gianfranco Lanci may be gone from Acer, but the PC maker’s former chief is not forgotten — not financially, at least. The company is suing the exec over non-compete violations, after he jumped ship around this time last year.
Motorola Droid 4 sliding onto Verizon shelves February 10th for $200
We’ve been speculating that Verizon’s latest Droid would be arriving on February 10th, but we lacked any official word from the carrier to back it up. Not to worry anymore, as Big Red has finally made the phone’s release official for the predicted date. The Droid 4
