Adidas AG said Wednesday its 4Q net profit slipped 63% due to higher sales and marketing expenses, but raised its 2011 sales forecasts amid improved economic conditions and its expansion in emerging markets. The world’s 2nd-largest sports-goods maker by revenue after Nike Inc. said net profit in the final 3 months of the year was [...]
the Porsche 918 RSR hybrid race car to the roll-out of the Chevrolet Sonic minicar 13 hours later, there was plenty of smoke filling Detroit’s Cobo Hall on Monday as the first official press day of the 2011 Detroit motor show got under way. With more than 30 new cars, lorries, concepts and crossovers making [...]
National Post Mobile is now available in Apple’s App Store. An all-in-one download for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, the app is free for users, supported by sponsorships. The new, smaller and redesigned media streaming device provides a cheaper means for images, video and music to be sent from iTunes to the television. Steve Jobs, [...]
OnLive has launched its MicroConsole first seen in beta form earlier this year. The MicroConsole TV adapter connects to both your wired broadband connection and your TV allowing games to be ‘delivered’ instantly over the internet. The selling point of this console is that it theoretically never needs to be updated as the games are [...]
Steve Perlman, chief executive of instant-play game company OnLive, is also chief pitch man for the company’s games-on-demand service. Today, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is announcing it is taking pre-orders for its $99 MicroConsole and wireless controller. With it, you can play high-end games on low-end hardware. OnLive has been working on its server-based [...]