The company is offering its backers who didn’t receive a console until after it was on store shelves a $13.37 credit for use in the Ouya Discovery Store. [Read more]
Much has been made about Google’s $35 Chromecast dongle, which lets users stream their desktops and video to large screen TVs, but there is now a similar application for the Raspberry Pi that offers some of the same functionality: PiCast. Its developer has an informational page up here, where he notes: “I thought what do I have that I could use w/HDMI [licensing] and wouldn’t be terribly hard to do? My Arduino? Nope BUT my Raspberry Pi can do it all, literally and [at the] same price as the Chromecast.”
You can watch PiCast in action here. Essentially, you install the required software on the Raspberry Pi, and then you can send video and other content found online through the Pi to a TV. The project is early in development, but there is a GitHub repository here.
Last week, the news broke that Android phone users with Office 365 subscriptions can now download Microsoft Office Mobile App, letting them create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Office Mobile, of course, has been available for Apple devices, but it is notable that Microsoft has cozied up to Android, an open source platform.
Unlike Google’s QuickOffice, which lets Chrome and Chrome OS users work with Microsoft Office files, the Microsoft Office Mobile App offers complete compatibility with Office files so that they look and work like the originals. QuickOffice can run into incompatibilities with complex spreadsheets and the like.
The tech research firm says tablet shipments should remain weak in the current quarter but pick up in the last three months of the year. [Read more]
