نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان T-Mobile reportedly introducing unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes on April 4th _ متن اصلی If you’re a T-Moblie customer and spend most of your time calling other mobile phones, it looks like the carrier is planning to launch a new feature that might be worth investigating. According to a document obtained by TMoNews, T-Mobile will start offering unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes (regardless of carrier) as a $10 monthly add-on to existing voice [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Nike to unveil FuelBand developer API at SXSW hackathon _ متن اصلی Earlier this week Path revealed that it would be offering integration with the Nike+ FuelBand fitness bracelet in a future update, but it appears Nike has even more in store for the device. The Next Web is reporting that the athletic company will be taking the wraps off a beta version of a new NikeFuel API at [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان NPD: February video game sales down 20 percent in US, Xbox 360 still best-selling console _ متن اصلی February historically isn’t a huge month for video game sales, but numbers from market research group NPD show that sales in the US have fallen 20 percent compared to 2011. Overall sales in February totalled some $1.06 billion, a drop from the $1.33 billion in hardware and software sold during the [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Anonymous releases source code for Norton AntiVirus 2006, Symantec says not to worry _ متن اصلی After a number of threats, hacker collective Anonymous has released what it claims is the source code for Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus 2006. The code was allegedly stolen, along with the source for several other Symantec products, after a security breach back in 2006. A hacker group called “YamaTough” attempted to extort money from [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Todd Park appointed as new US Chief Technology Officer _ متن اصلی Almost two months after Aneesh Chopra ended his tenure as the first US Chief Technology Officer, the position has been filled by Todd Park. Park, formerly CTO of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), got his start in health care technology. During his time at HHS, he worked on a series of “open data” projects [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Imagination Technologies GPU face-off: PowerVR SGX540 vs. SGX544 _ متن اصلی Curious how today’s middle-of-the-road mobile graphics compares against next year’s tech? Look no further than this comparison video we shot at the 2012 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week. We pit the Intel Medfield Reference Platform, with Imagination Technologies’ wildly popular PowerVR SGX540 GPU, against the new PowerVR SGX544 graphics in ST-Ericsson’s Novathor L9540 prototype design. [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Details on Nvidia’s Kepler-powered GeForce GTX 680 GPU reportedly leak _ متن اصلی We’ve been expecting GPUs based on Kepler — Nvidia’s 28nm successor to the Fermi line — since the company first revealed the product’s existence back in 2010. Things seem to be getting closer now, with Epic Games showing off a demo on Kepler hardware at this week’s Game Developers Conference, and details on the first shipping [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Samsung exec views Apple patent dispute as a ‘no compromise’ situation _ متن اصلی It’s no secret that Apple and Samsung (and another company) have a tumultuous relationship when it comes to patents. But after Apple apparently offered a licensing deal to the mobile giant, Samsung’s mobile division president Shin Jong-kyun made his company’s stance quite clear: “No compromise.” Shin made the declaration to The Korea Times this week [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Space Monkey: Dropbox meets BitTorrent for peer-to-peer cloud storage _ متن اصلی Space Monkey is a new cloud storage service that has some pretty cool ideas about how to serve you up your files. Instead of storing them on its own server for Dropbox-style remote access, it puts a free 1-terabyte hard drive right inside your home and lets you access the data from mobile apps or connected computers. [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان PlayStation Suite SDK in open beta next month, more content on the way _ متن اصلی Sony Android devices like the Xperia S and Tablet P may well be PlayStation Certified, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from looking at the meagre selection of content available. While the promise of PlayStation Suite seems yet to materialise, Sony is at least making efforts towards it today by announcing that the [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview available to download, Microsoft details roadmap _ متن اصلی Microsoft has laid out its roadmap for the next version of Windows Embedded, with a preview of the standard version available to download now. Windows Embedded is the specialized version of the OS that you’ll often see running in devices ranging from kiosks and ATMs to car dashboards and medical equipment. It looks like the [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Zynga moves away from Facebook with dedicated games portal _ متن اصلی Zynga didn’t waste too much time launching its own games portal after last week’s announcement — Zynga.com is now live and open for freemium business. This marks the first time you’ll be able to play many of the company’s games outside of Facebook, though you will still need to log in with your Facebook ID to play. [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Preserving physical books in a digital age _ متن اصلی As readers of a technology-focused website, you’re probably more likely than most to be cheerleading the demise of paper books. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so hasty, though — traditional books aren’t without their advantages, not least longevity. A book is a book is a book, without DRM complications or hardware obsolescence to worry about, and it’s with this in [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Human hearts replaced by 10,000 RPM artificial pump with no pulse _ متن اصلی At least fifty calves and three human beings are living with no pulse in their bodies, thanks to an artificial pump that replaced their naturally-grown hearts, as detailed in a story from Popular Science. Doctors Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn devised the artificial organ, and it can completely replace a heart and provide a continuous [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان PSA: Sony reschedules PSN maintenance for Sunday beginning at 3PM ET _ متن اصلی We hope you weren’t planning on a Sunday filled with multiplayer action, PlayStation gamers. The extended PSN maintenance session that was originally slated for Thursday only to be postponed in the eleventh hour will now be taking place tomorrow. Sony will be shutting off its online service starting at 3 PM ET and says it [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان ‘Star Wars’ conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie passes away at age 82 _ متن اصلی Artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. One of the primary visual forces behind the original Star Wars trilogy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, McQuarrie created the original designs for such iconic characters as Darth Vader, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO. Before partnering with George [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Inside the private screening rooms of Hollywood’s ‘Bel-Air circuit’ _ متن اصلی While HDTVs have been bringing theater-esque experiences to the average living room, true big-screen theatrical viewing is still the domain of your local movieplex — unless you can afford a private screening room, that is. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the screening rooms of the likes of Steven Spielberg and Brett Ratner, who sometimes [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Google Assistant listens and responds to voice like Siri, to be company’s main focus of 2012? _ متن اصلی TechCrunch is reporting that Google has a new service in the works called Google Assistant, which users will be able to speak with to get answers, search results, and more. The “do engine” sounds like a Siri competitor, but, it’s rumored that Assistant won’t just be a standalone app; apparently [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Rumor: iPad 3 pricing to match current lineup _ متن اصلی With five days to go before Apple unveils its latest iPad, 9to5 Mac has apparently debunked a rumor that Cupertino’s new tablet would come with a $70-80 price increase. The hearsay started when MacRumors reported on unconfirmed price comparisons of the iPad 2 and iPad 3 that showed up on a Chinese microblogging site. However, one of 9to5‘s [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان The Vergecast 020 – 03.02.2012 _ متن اصلی Vergecast XX is the “November Rain” of Vergecasts. We see you, fanboy, and NO, we don’t see Josh naked and shivering in the fetal position at the end (that’s for Vergecast XXX), but we do get to think it’s over about 3,000 times before it actually is, so if you’re into that thing, you’re into this. 00:16:06 – HTC One family [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Apple streaming TV service rumored for holiday launch despite content deal hold-ups _ متن اصلی We’ve been hearing for months now that Apple has been trying to wrangle content deals for a streaming TV service, and the New York Post has a new report that claims Cupertino is hoping to launch such a service this holiday season — despite gaining little traction with content providers. According to the Post, [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview post-arrest: "I’m no copyright infringer" _ متن اصلی Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was recently released on bail, and just gave his first TV interview since being arrested to New Zealand’s 3 News. Predictably, he used the opportunity to come out guns blazing against his critics and vowed to come out on top of his legal issues. He has two main defenses: firstly that the [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Seidio’s LTE Galaxy Nexus battery upgrade adds NFC, thickness _ متن اصلی If all that LTE speed has been putting a dent in your Verizon Galaxy Nexus’ battery, smartphone-accessory maker Seidio might have the answer for you — a 3800mAh replacement with NFC support. Seidio had previously released a battery of this size, but it lacked NFC. Now it packs the same features as the standard 1850mAh pack that [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Wacom announces Intuos5 tablets with multitouch, soft-touch finish, and heads-up display software _ متن اصلی Wacom has announced four new Intuos5 tablets, refreshing the Intuos line with multitouch gesture support, “Express View” heads-up display software, and a soft-touch matte finish — and they’re available starting today. Wacom says that the Intuous line now supports standard Mac and Windows multitouch gestures simultaneously with pen use, and that users can create [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان ‘Gunna’ to ‘gunman’ autocorrect mishap leads to lockdown at two Georgia schools _ متن اصلی Text message autocorrect may not often lead to more than mildly comical mishaps, but today one instance of an unintended correction spread fears about a possible gunman and led to the lockdown of two Georgia schools, Gainesville Times reports. Police say that the text message, which was sent to the wrong phone number, was [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان ‘Hacker Monthly’ embraces print media _ متن اصلی It’s hard not to get excited whenever we come across a story about print media finding new, unique ways to thrive. That’s why we love the what Lim Cheng Soon is doing. He’s the creator of Hacker Monthly: a print and digital-edition magazine that curates the best articles from Hacker News. Soon wanted a way to keep up-to-date with the best [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان NFC payment network ISIS gets its first banking partners — Chase, Capital One, and Barclaycard _ متن اصلی We’ve been hearing about the ISIS payment network since last summer, and while we knew that the service was launching sometime in early 2012 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Austin, Texas, we didn’t know which banks were going to be on board. Well, the NFC-powered digital wallet service has just [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Japan’s only iPhone-less carrier announces Siri competitor _ متن اصلی NTT Docomo is the only one of Japan’s three major carriers to not carry Apple’s iPhone devices, and with the expected release of Japanese language support for Siri just around the corner, the company is blasting first with a Japanese language voice-activated concierge service called Shabette Concier. Available for Android 2.2 and up beginning March 1st, the app (whose [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Nokia Lumia 610 pictures, video, and hands-on preview _ متن اصلی MWC 2012 isn’t quite Nokia World, but the Finnish company has kept interest going with a number of important announcements. Chief among them, in terms of Nokia’s long-term strategy, is the Lumia 610. This device drops the entry-level price for the Lumia range down to 189 euros before taxes and subsidies, which is precisely 70 percent of the [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Intel and Lava to launch Medfield-based Android phone in India this spring? _ متن اصلی We’re expecting to hear all about Intel’s Medfield processors and the company’s plans for smartphone domination this week at Mobile World Congress, and it sounds like a big launch in India could be in the plans. According to a report from BGR, Intel is planning to launch Medfield-based Android smartphones in India and China [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Galaxy Tab 2 coming in 10.1-inch version as well _ متن اصلی Samsung has just announced a 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 Android tablet after revealing the 7.0-inch version earlier this month. The Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) will have a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 LCD and a 1GHz dual-core processor running a Touch Wiz-skinned version of Android 4.0. The 9.7mm-thick tablet has 1GB of RAM and will [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان PS Vita has issues with PlayStation Plus minis, but fix on the way _ متن اصلی With a downloadable collection of PSP titles, full PS Vita games and PlayStation Minis, the PlayStation Vita digital library is off to a great start, but this week, subscribers to Sony’s PlayStation Plus service are finding that a few of their games don’t work. The cross-platform Minis given out to each member on [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Watch all 84 iPhone commercials in one place _ متن اصلی Advertising site Adweek has compiled all 84 of Apple’s iPhone ads for your viewing pleasure. To handle advertising duties for its soon-to-be flagship product, Apple stuck with TBWA\Chiat\Day, the agency that had been handling its Mac advertising since Steve Jobs’s 1997 return to the company, including the Think Different and Mac versus PC campaigns. The iPhone ads first [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Apple makes Oregon data center official _ متن اصلی Apple is bolstering its data center capacity in the US, as a representative from the company confirmed this week that a new facility was in the works for Prineville, Oregon. The new data center in the Beaver State was rumored last December, just a few months after Apple officially opened its long-rumored North Carolina operations. The company didn’t give any [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان T-Mobile LTE service coming to USA in 2013 _ متن اصلی Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company that until recently was trying to shed its US operations in a deal with AT&T, has announced plans to deliver LTE connectivity to its subscribers at some point next year. LTE has rapidly become the de facto next-generation standard for mobile broadband and the other three major US carriers are already at varying [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Google Maps Street View comes to Russia _ متن اصلی You can now use the Street View feature of Google Maps to take a closer look at Russia. The two largest cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, have been photographed street-by-street, allowing you to take a digital stroll along the banks of the Muskva River or virtually visit the Kremlin. Of course, mapping the whole of the world’s largest country [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 to appear in consumer devices at MWC _ متن اصلی The dual-core Snapdragon S4 chip that wowed us this morning will definitely be showing up at Mobile World Congressin consumer devices. Qualcomm VP of product management Raj Talluri told GigaOm that the MSM8960 chip would debut in multiple phones next week in Barcelona, and emphasized the chip’s integrated LTE processor. Current LTE phones have a separate [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Sky Go for Android released, list of supported devices is slim _ متن اصلی Android users have been patiently waiting for a version of the Sky Go streaming television app to be released since the iOS version debuted last July, and the wait is finally at an end — for owners of a few select phones. The app allows Sky TV customers in the UK to watch 22 channels [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان The Transparency Grenade captures clandestine communications _ متن اصلی If an opaque regime retains rule by restraining knowledge, then the truth’s an explosive risk: so there’s no better place to welcome a wiretap than in the translucent form of a Soviet F1 hand grenade. Artist Julian Oliver’s “Transparency Grenade” is a device that uses a small computer, microphone, and wireless antenna to lift nearby network traffic and audio and [...]

نام وب سایت theverge.com _ عنوان Samsung spinning off its LCD business to focus on OLED _ متن اصلی We knew that Samsung was thinking about spinning off its unprofitable LCD business, and while its disclosure on February 14th stated the company would make a final decision within three months, a new filing shows Samsung is going ahead with its plan. Bloomberg reports the new subsidiary is tentatively named Samsung Display Co., and could be [...]