T-Mobile Discontinues FlexPay Option
T-Mobile is discontinuing the FlexPay option for a more conventional deposit method. This move could be the result of the high numbers of customer turnover…
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ShopAlerts By AT&T Sends Location-Based Text Ads
AT&T is preparing to step beyond typical carrier duties, by launching a new location-based text ad service. The carrier will be sending out text ads…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Tab 8.9-Inch To Debut At CTIA
Samsung has sent out an invitation for an event at CTIA in Orlando on March 22nd. The company already has a 7-inch Galaxy tablet and…
Read MoreMicrosoft Windows 8 Tablet Demo Possibly In June
There are rumors that Microsoft could have its first offering of Windows 8 operating system by the end of June, which is Microsoft’s fiscal year…
Read MoreDo As I Do, Say What I Say
I worked in the North Orange, New Jersey school district for one day. It was a training day. I had accepted a job as a…
Read MoreLG Wins Injunction Against Sony, European Customs Seize PlayStation Shipments
We reported before that LG filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission seeking to ban Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles from entering the U.S. due…
Read MoreApple Looks To The East
Tony Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research met with the top execs at Apple last week. He relased a note on Monday explaining what he learned during…
Read MoreU.S. Army Launches iPhone Blogging App For Troops
The U.S. Army launched today an iPhone app and mobile website blogging platform aimed at engaging current and potential recruits. Named Army Strong Stories, both…
Read MoreAugmented Reality For Online Retail And Advertising In The Future
Pocket-lint posted an interesting story on augmented reality (AR) use in online retail and advertising. The technology that has been deemed a “gimmick” in the…
Read MoreFirefox 4 To Be Final Major Update, Quicker Chrome-Like Updates Ahead
Mozilla will change the way they update their browser after the release of Firefox 4 and will take on a more Chrome-like release model. Mozilla…
Read MoreBlackberry Analytics SDK 0.9 Beta Release
Research In Motion just dropped a Beta version of an Analytics package for Blackberry Developers. This new SDK is going to add a number of…
Read MoreDirecTV App For iPad Available But Not For Streaming Content
DirecTV’s official iPad app is now available in the iTunes store for free. The app allows users to turn their iPads into a remote control…
Read MoreApple Cuts Off iPad Supply Ahead Of iPad 2 Announcement
Apple's special event for announcing the iPad 2 is only two days away and we're starting to see some interesting developments suggesting that the iPad…
Read MoreiPhone 5 Will Stick With 3.5-Inch Display [Logically]
Let's begin this short journey into the Apple mind with a so-called "leaked" image of what they're calling an iPhone 5 screen photo. What this…
Read MoreiOS MobileNotifier Beta3 Shows Great Promise
A mister Peter Hajas has created what very much appears to be a masterpiece in Apple iOS developing. Ever get annoyed that your pals over…
Read MoreIntel SSD 510 Series: 6Gbps SATA For Up To 500 MB/s Reads
Intel has outed its latest SSD, the Intel SSD 510 Series, offering 6Gbps SATA connectivity. Boasting up to 500 MB/s read speeds (double the previous…
Read MoreTractor Beam Tech Could Eventually Push & Pull Particles
Chinese physicists reckon they've figured out the tech behind a staple of science fiction: the tractor beam. Fudan University's Jun Chen and team found a…
Read MoreFujitsu Semiconductor Pick Up ARM Chips: Cortex A15, Mali GPUs, More
Fujitsu Semiconductor has become the latest company to sign up to ARM's Cortex A15 cores, following Texas Instruments and others in creating the next-generation of…
Read MoreDell Venue Pro Finally On Sale In UK
Dell's much-anticipated Venue Pro has finally gone on sale in the UK, with the official Dell store offering the Windows Phone 7 handset for £459…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video: February 27, 2011
Hey guys, this is our very first SlashGear Weekly Roundup video. We highlight the top ten news of the week and hope this will be…
Read MoreSlashGear Android App Released!
You've been asking for it, and we're excited to announce that the SlashGear Android app is now available for download from the Android Market. A…
Read MoreKindle 3G To Arrive In AT&T Stores March 6
Amazon and AT&T have announced that the Kindle 3G will go on sale in AT&T retail stores as of March 6, offering would-be ebook readers…
Read MoreAMD Radeon HD 6990 Officially Pictured
AMD's beastly Radeon HD 6990 video card has officially broken cover, with the company seeding shots of the dual-GPU monster ahead of its expected launch…
Read MoreWhite iPad 2 Latest Leak Ahead Of Wednesday Reveal
With Apple's iPad 2 event this coming Wednesday, the rumor machine is building up to its usual hype crescendo. Freshly skimmed from the tittle-tattle-tubes this…
Read MoreFord Sync Now Supports 19 Languages
We have talked a lot about Ford's Sync system around here. The Sync system allows the drive to use their smartphone hands free and allows…
Read MoreTazPad Packs Android, NFC, And ZigBee For CeBIT 2011 Debut
If you are looking for a new tablet computer CeBIT 2011 is right around the corner and you can bet there will be many tablets…
Read MoreHuawei Technologies Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Motorola
I mentioned about a month ago now that Huawei had filed a suit against former partner Motorola to keep the company from transferring Huawei IP…
Read MoreYill Is A Green Rolling Office With Its Own Power
If you are the busy filed worker sort that needs to be able to work wherever you might be power is probably your biggest issue.…
Read MoreASUS Eee Pad MeMO Fully Detailed: 7-Inch Honeycomb Flyer Rival [Update: Video & Price]
CeBIT 2011 kicks off this week in Hanover, and already we're seeing information trickling out. ASUS has quietly confirmed that the Eee Pad MeMO launched…
Read MoreGeekiest Video Game Ever Called PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew
If you were around in the early days of the video game, you will remember classics like Asteroids and others with blocky graphics and the…
Read MoreCheetah And Atlas Are DARPA Inspired Robots
I like robots as much as the next geek, but some of them creep me out a bit. I blame it on Hector and Terminator…
Read MoreKinect Hacked Into 3D Scanner For Making Foam Busts Of Users
The Kinect has turned out to be something that in my house at least rarely gets used. It is a very cool device though and…
Read MoreApple AirDrop Inspired By Our Wireless Sharing System, Claims eviGroup Founder
Apple's AirDrop easy file-sharing feature in Mac OS X Lion may bring the company some headaches, with a French tablet and software firm claiming it…
Read MoreGmail In The Midst Of Service Interruption
If you are a Gmail user today may not be starting smoothly for you. Gmail is having a service disruption right now and according to…
Read MorePark Bench Presses Ads On Your Bare Legs
If you thought pop-ups and spam were the lowest forms of advertising you were wrong. At least with a pop up the company isn't using…
Read MoreGeek Invents Cell Phone Button Pushing Machine For Weekend Job
Apparently, Mok Young Bacq works on the weekends doing some sort of work for an online gaming company that involves needing three mobile phones and…
Read MoreNFL Scouting Combine Uses Under Armor Shirts With Sensors
I was sitting in the lobby at the local barber shop this weekend and happened to catch a bit of the NFL Scouting Combine where…
Read MoreSeaMicro SM10000-64 Grabs 256 64-Bit Atom CPUs For Distinctive Server
Intel's Atom N570 processor isn't just to be found inside Lenovo's IdeaPad S100; server manufacturer SeaMicro has followed up its first Atom-based model, the SM10000,…
Read MoreFujitsu 22-Inch Wireless Displays Cut All The Cords
Fujitsu has unveiled what the company is calling the "world's first truly wireless display," using a combination of cable-cutting wireless data and an inductive power…
Read MoreApple Gesture Lock-Screen Borrows Android Security
While enthusiasts on each side will readily - and lengthily - argue which Apple innovations have been "borrowed" by Android and which Google cleverness has…
Read MoreNext-Gen Windows UI Previewed: Kinect, Windows Phone & Bubbly Tablets [Video]
Microsoft has previewed a next-gen UI for smartphones, tablets and PCs, which evolves the traditional windows and icons into bubbles of information which can be…
Read MoreBlackBerry PlayBook "Will Also Support Android Apps" Says RIM Rep [Video]
A BlackBerry rep has seemingly confirmed that the PlayBook tablet will indeed run Android apps, as rumored over the past few weeks. The demonstrator told…
Read MoreVerizon HTC Trophy Caught In Wild: First Windows Phone For Big Red?
Verizon hasn't officially announced what its first Windows Phone 7 device will be, nor when it might arrive, but if you were hoping for a…
Read MoreNintendo 3DS Teardown Puts 3D Parallax Display Under Microscope
The new Nintendo 3DS hit Japanese shelves over the weekend, and that meant it was only a matter of time before engineers there decided to…
Read MoreThe Best Picture Of The Year
Having reviewed some of the worst movies of the year for this SlashGear column, I can finally set my sights on the best of the…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review - Week 9 2011
Welcome to this week's edition of the SlashGear Week in Review! It was a busy week in the tech world with some major new products…
Read MoreI'll Be First In Line For The Sony NGP, Not The Nintendo 3DS
My love for video games is unconditional. I’m just as much a fan of the Nintendo Entertainment System as I am a fan of the…
Read MoreApple's Thunderbolt Port: A Closer Look
As I'm sure you're very much aware, Apple released news of a brand new set of MacBook Pros this morning, and along with them has…
Read MoreHP TouchPad, Pre3 In Dr Dre Music Video "I Need A Doctor"
For those of you much more interested in the webOS aspect of this article, you must forgive me, as I've got not only a healthy…
Read MoreHTC Thunderbolt Available Online But Can't Checkout
With the HTC Thunderbolt release once again postponed, it seems fans are getting antsy and a little crazy. One fan has taken it upon himself…
Read MoreWorld's First Robot Marathon In Osaka, Japan
The world's first robot marathon is being held in Osaka, Japan. The contest is expected to take up to four days to complete with toy-sized…
Read MoreOnLive Cloud Gaming Offers Free Console With Game Pre-Order
OnLive is trying a new tactic that could prove to be pretty smart. The company is offering a deal right now where if you pre-order…
Read MoreBing Launches Autosuggest Flight And Price Predictor Travel Search
Microsoft's Bing already has an edge over Google when it comes to travel search, but now it really ups the game with new Price Predictor…
Read MoreVerizon CEO: Apple LTE Products Coming
The first Apple LTE product is coming to a Verizon store near you very soon. Dan Mead, CEO of Verizon, recently confirmed that his company…
Read MoreWorld's First Flexible Organic Microprocessor
At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week, European researches unveiled the world's first flexible microprocessor made with organic semiconductors. Although the processing power is…
Read MoreCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Announcement Near
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 could be taking over the life of a gamer near you very soon. A new teaser site has popped…
Read MoreAngry Farm: New Game For BlackBerry, More Animal Catapulting
BlackBerry users don't have many options for games, but today's new addition should bring joy for some while making others cringe. Smarter Apps has developed…
Read MoreGoogle Changes Search Algorithm To Combat Content Farms
You may notice that Google is functioning a little differently today. The search engine recently made a major change to their search algorithms in order…
Read MoreHong Kong's First Apple Store To Open This Year
Hong Kong will be getting its first Apple Store later this year. The South China Morning Post reported that the 15,000 square-foot location will be…
Read MoreNintendo Unveils Two Limited Edition Pokemon DSi Bundles
This generation of Pokemon titles kicks off with a bang as Pokemon Black and Pokemon White land in North America, Europe, and Australia in March.…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Gets Dinged By Consumer Reports
When the iPhone 4 first debuted on AT&T users experienced the famous “death grip” as their reception plummeted after holding the phone in a certain…
Read MoreBank Of America Testing Mobile Wallet With NFC BlackBerry Smartphones
The time when you can pay for that Starbucks coffee with the swipe of your BlackBerry may very well be upon us. A source from…
Read MoreSkype To Go Lets You Make Calls From Any Phone, No Need For Internet
Skype announced today their Skype To Go service as a new way to save on calling abroad. This new service lets you enjoy great rates…
Read MoreGoogle Getting Strict With Android Market, Pulls VoiceMail App For In-App Payment Issues
Google is flexing its muscles with the Android Market as it just pulled one of its most popular and long standing apps, Visual VoiceMail, citing…
Read MoreHuawei To US Government: Please Investigate Us
Huawei is one of the fastest growing tech companies in the world. They have a brand new line of tablets, new smartphones and a ton…
Read MoreMotorola's Weird Xoom Ad: Now In English!
No habla espanol? Then you've come to the right place for a good old fashioned AMERICAN tablet ad. Actually, it's the same Xoom ad that…
Read MoreHTC Desire HD, Desire Z, Desire And Incredible S Gingerbread Update In Q2
HTC has confirmed its next batch of Android updates, with Android Honeycomb coming through the pipe for some of the most popular devices of the…
Read MoreDala Vinyl Player Expands The Vintage Landscape
Behold a concept for Vinyl Record playing that should have been brought to the real world years ago. This is the kind of tool that…
Read MoreMacBook Pro Early 2011 Benchmarks Confirm Huge Performance Leap
We've already been impressed by the quad-core speed boost shown by our early 2011 MacBook Pro review unit, but it seems the performance jolt is…
Read MoreHTC Merge Gets Official: QWERTY Android World Phone Due Spring
HTC has officially announced the HTC Merge, a phone we first heard rumors of so long ago we were beginning to think it had been…
Read MoreGingerbread For Galaxy S In March Confirms Samsung
Samsung Germany has apparently confirmed that the Galaxy S will get an Android 2.3 Gingerbread update in March 2011. The news was revealed at a…
Read MoreNVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 In March And AMD Radeon HD 6990 In April As High-End Graphics Heat Up
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 video card is expected to arrive in mid-March 2011, followed a month later by AMD's new Radeon HD 6990, with the…
Read MoreMobileMe Online-Only Shift Detailed By Leaky Genius
A leaked screenshot purportedly from Apple's internal systems has confirmed that MobileMe is transitioning to be available exclusively online. Rumored earlier this week, as part…
Read MoreSony PSP Price Slashed To $129.99; New Bargain Games Announced
Sony has slashed the price of the PSP, with the handheld console going for $129.99 as of Sunday, February 27. Confirmed on the official PlayStation…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM World Modem Spotted In Teardown
It's something of a teardown day, with first the new MacBook Pro getting stripped to basics and now the Motorola XOOM suffering the same. iFixit…
Read MoreKinect-Style Motion Tracking For Smartphones & Tablets Promises Crunchfish [Video]
Kinect-style motion recognition on mobile devices like tablets and smartphones could arrive sooner - and cheaper - than expected, with software developers Crunchfish coming up…
Read MoreT-Mobile USA Losing Subscribers: 318,000 Contract Users Jumped In Q4
T-Mobile USA may have the biggest 4G network in the US, and data ARPUs rising faster than any US rival, but the carrier is still losing users.…
Read MoreASUS Eee Note Sub-$200 When It Hits US Imminently
ASUS has confirmed US pricing for the Eee Note EA800 digital note-taking tablet, and if the active stylus input of the HTC Flyer appealed (but…
Read MoreGSLO Volt Solar Charger For iPhone Enters Mass Production
We have talked a lot about the GSLO Volt solar charging battery case for the iPhone 4 over the last few months. Earlier this month…
Read MoreNEC Shows Off World's First Contactless Hybrid Fingerprint/finger Vein Scanner
Years ago I had a notebook that used a fingerprint scanner to log me into the machine rather than having to type. The problem was…
Read MoreSpace Shuttle Launched Yesterday With Experiment To Boil Water In Zero-Gravity Onboard
Scientists have been hard at work trying to find safe and easy ways to do things in no gravity in space that are taken for…
Read MoreiWatchz Q Series iPod Nano Watchbands Hit Best Buy
If you have a 6G iPod nano and you have a hankering to turn the thing into a watch you can wear on your wrist,…
Read MoreNXE ActiveSLEEVE Arm Sleeve For Smartphones And More
If you are an active person that likes to hit the gym or run and you like to exercise with your smartphone of MP3 player…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Ships In March
We have already spent a bit of hands on time and filmed it for you to enjoy with the Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone. This…
Read MoreGoogle Subscription Movie Streaming Plans Tipped For European Trials
Google is reportedly considering taking on Netflix and Amazon with a subscription-based streaming movie service, kicking off trials in Europe where rivals are less well…
Read MoreSamsung Eyeing Google TV Gear With ARM Processors According To Source
Google TV launched with lots of high hopes from Google, Logitech, and Sony the original partners for the service. All was good for a short…
Read MoreViewpad 10 Crashes Tablet Party With Atom N550 In Tow
If you are into tablets that run Android at all you probably are aware of the Viewpad 10 from the first time we talked about…
Read MoreFujitsu STYLISTIC Q550 Slate PC Gets Official Launch Date And Price
Back at the end of January Fujitsu offered up a video on YouTube where it talked about the new Q550 Slate computer and said that…
Read MoreTravelteq Unveils Trip Sound Suitcase With Speakers
I'm not sure why you would want a suitcase with a sound system inside other than to be able to annoy the hell out of…
Read MoreMicrosoft Boosts Free Windows Phone App Submission Allowance To 100
Microsoft continues to lavish developers with freebies in the hope of boosting Windows Phone development, with the latest tidbit a dramatic increase in the number…
Read MoreRIM Testing Android Apps On BlackBerry Phones Tips Developer
Android developers ShopSavvy have spotted what looks to be evidence of three BlackBerry smartphones running their Android-only app, lending weight to rumors last month that…
Read MoreGingerbread 2.3.3 For Nexus One/Nexus S Direct Downloads Discovered
Download links for Google's official Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread updates for the Nexus S and Nexus One have been unearthed, meaning owners of the two official…
Read MoreMacBook Pro Early 2011 Gets Teardown: New RAM Inside
We've already shown you the outside of the new early-2011 MacBook Pro 15, and given you a preview of what its quad-core guts are capable…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM Rooted Already
Motorola's dislike of Android modders tweaking their toys was one of the potential downsides to the XOOM we mentioned in our review, but it seems…
Read MoreApple Moves Forward Wherever Jobs Happens To Be
Since January 17th when Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs mailed employees a notification that he'd be taking another medical leave of absence, there's been…
Read MoreHTC ThunderBolt March Best Buy Release Date Leaked
Oh my goodness this phone has had its release date moved around more times than Spinal Tap has had drummers. At one time it was…
Read MoreApple iPads Dominated With 93% Of Tablet Market In Q3 2010
The tablet marketplace is about to get crowded, but it took almost a whole year since iPad's launch for competitors to catch up. Some real…
Read MoreGoogle Introduces Cloud Connect For Microsoft Office
Google has released a new plug-in for Microsoft Office that helps users sync their Office documents with their Google Docs account. The Office documents will…
Read MoreThe Daily Coming To Android Very Soon
A couple weeks back The Daily made its splashy introduction exclusively on Apple’s iPad. That exclusivity will be gone in a couple months as The…
Read MoreiDisplay Transforms Your Android Device Into A Second Monitor
Shape Services has launched the Android version of its iDisplay app which allows Android smartphones and tablets to become secondary monitors for your computer. While…
Read MoreVerizon Sneaks In Another Motorola Xoom Ad
Beginning of the week we caught a glimpse of a mesmerizing 16 second ad released by Verizon for the Motorola Xoom. The pulsing of a…
Read MoreThe Prospect Of An Apple Television Bores Me
Through the many years I’ve been covering the technology industry, I’ve always enjoyed Apple rumors. From the absurd to the downright obvious, there is no…
Read MoreEcoSquid Makes Selling Or Recycling Gadgets Easy
There are lots of gadget recycling options out there, and sometimes the number of choices can be overwhelming. EcoSquid is a site that compares many…
Read MoreDisney Buys Kids Social Network Togetherville
Disney has bought social network Togetherville today for an undisclosed amount. Disney is combining the popularity of social networks with its popularity amongst kids. Togetherville…
Read MoreSprint Stops Android Froyo Update To Samsung Epic 4G
Samsung Epic 4G owners on Sprint may have to wait a while longer to update their devices to Android 2.2 Froyo. Sprint has stopped all…
Read MoreLaCie Announces Little Big Disk Featuring Thunderbolt
Intel's Light Peak technology, known commercially as Thunderbolt has been confirmed in Apple's new MacBook Pro series. However, we also mentioned that a few other…
Read MoreOCZ Launches Vertex 3 And Vertex 3 Pro SATA SSDs
OCZ Technology Group announced today its next generation Vertex 3 SATA III SSD lineup. These will be for both client and enterprise applications. According to…
Read MoreMacBook Pro Sandy Bridge Doesn't Work With Verizon LTE Pantech Card/Software [BREAKING]
We're taking a hands-on look at the new MacBooks released today and we've noticed something potentially quite important. When attempting to use Verizon's LTE Pantech…
Read MoreCisco Upgrades Video Sharing/Conferencing Portfolio
Cisco will soon be releasing upgrades to its videoconferencing and video sharing portfolio, the company said Thursday. According to David Hsieh, vice president of marketing…
Read MoreVerizon Says No Required Data Plan For Motorola Xoom
Verizon initially required customers who want to purchase the Motorola Xoom to also purchase their data plan. However, the carrier has changed its mind and…
Read MoreMacBook Pro 15-Inch With ThunderBolt Hands-On (Early 2011)
Make no mistake; the new MacBook Pro notebooks are impressive beasts. Outwardly all but identical to the previous range, which means plenty of milled aluminum,…
Read MoreSamsung 9 Series Laptop Has A Release Date
The Samsung 9 Series laptop, which according to Samsung is "a durable, ultra premium, lightweight laptop...equally suited for work and entertainment", now has an official…
Read MoreGoogle Cooks Up A New Recipe Search
Being one that aspires to cook well and beyond my current staple of instant ramen, I'm really excited about Google's latest search feature. Google announced…
Read MoreNYC Leading The Way In Hydrogen Powered Buildings
According to a new report on TreeHugger.com, more hydrogen powered buildings have gone up in New York City since 2005 than anywhere else in the…
Read MoreRoom 77 Finds You The Best Hotel Room, Not Just Best Hotel
Travel planning is being kicked up a notch. Instead of just searching for the best hotel, you can now search for the best hotel room.…
Read MoreHTC Incredible S Available For Pre-Order, Ships On 26th
We've just received word that pre-orders have just begun for the HTC Incredible S, a phone that's available exclusively through Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy…
Read MoreRumor: Sony Considering "Hack Proof" PS3
Possibly in response to the leak of "Killzone 3" a few weeks ago, Sony may be considering a hack-proof PS3. According to an anonymous souce…
Read MoreNew MacBook Pro: Dumped NVIDIA Is The Biggest News
The new MacBook Pro range certainly doesn't hold back when it comes to specifications, but in some respects it's what's missing from the updated notebooks…
Read MoreNEC MEDIAS E-04C Super-Slim Android Gets Hands-On Treatment
Almost as wafer-thin as the proverbial wafer-thin mint, NEC's MEDIAS E-04C has been well pawed in the wild at its launch event in Japan. Impress…
Read MoreRoku Get Rdio Streaming Radio Support
Roku continues to add content to its media streamer range, with the latest deal bringing Rdio streaming radio to the compact STBs. A $9.99 monthly…
Read MoreApple MacBook Pro 2011 Official
The new Apple MacBook Pro range is official, and it's quite the star line-up. The entire 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch spread has been updated, with…
Read MoreiPad 2 Thunderbolt Rumors Reignite: More Than Just Raw Throughput
Apple's confirmation of Thunderbolt on the newly refreshed MacBook Pro range this morning could lend weight to speculation earlier that the new iPad 2 will…
Read MoreVodafone Galaxy Tab 10.1 Hands-On
We're no stranger to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, having given the Android 3.0 Honeycomb slate a good going-over while at MWC 2011 last week,…
Read MoreApple Store Open: Get Your New MacBook Pro!
It's been down for a few hours now, and the contents of the updated shelves are now known to us, but the Apple Store has…
Read MoreIntel Thunderbolt Partners Detailed: LaCie, Promise, Western Digital, More
While Apple may be the first to debut Thunderbolt, the technology is all Intel's, and the company is not being quiet about which partners have…
Read MoreSprint HTC Arrive Gets Official, Priced & Dated
As expected, Sprint has officially announced its first Windows Phone handset, the HTC Arrive. A rebadged HTC 7 Pro, the Sprint Arrive has a 3.6-inch…
Read MoreApple Thunderbolt Official
It's not just the new MacBook Pro range that is fresh and official this morning; Apple has also officially unveiled Thunderbolt, billed as "the fastest,…
Read MoreMiTAC Valar, Ulmo, And Zeus Tablets Head For CeBIT 2011 Launch
CES was packed with Android tablet unveilings and CeBIT 2011 is building up to be more of the same. The show is still a few…
Read MoreFaceTime For Mac 1.0 Hits Mac App Store For $0.99
FaceTime for Mac 1.0 has been added to the Mac App Store, the non-beta version of the video chat software allowing OS X users to…
Read MoreIDC Reports Processor Shipments Flat In Q4 2010 Year-Over-Year
When it comes to tracking the computer market IDC is one of the research firms we all look to for an idea how well things…
Read MoreApple Thunderbolt Promises 10GBs Claims Alleged Apple MacBook Pro Leak
We're counting down the hours until Apple announces the new MacBook Pro range sometime later on today - at time of writing the store is…
Read MoreOutdoor Technology Unveils New Bluetooth Tags Earphones
If you are the outdoors type that wants to listen to music while you are doing whatever it is you enjoy in the great outdoors…
Read MorePlayStation Home Users Can Watch Space Shuttle Discovery Launch On Sunset Yacht
If you have never watched a space shuttle lift off on TV before, the chances for you to do so are at an end. The…
Read MoreMarvell And Asus Team Up For Chinese Market TD-SCDMA Smartphones
Marvell and Asus have announced that they have teamed up to offer smartphones for the Chinese market that run on the Chinese TD-SCDMA smartphone network…
Read MoreQuirky Mantis Is A Clip On Task Light For Lots Of Tasks
Quirky comes up with some strange crowd-sourced product designs, but they are almost always cool products. The latest cool and odd product to come from…
Read MoreMacBook Pro Sandy Bridge Refresh Specs Leak: Five New SKUs
The Apple Store may still be down, but the details on the new MacBook Pro range has seemingly already emerged. 9 to 5 Mac's tipster…
Read MoreApple Store Is Down: MacBook Pro Refresh Incoming
It comes as little surprise, given the leaks, speculation and rumor in the lead-up to today, but the Apple Store is down. We're guessing that…
Read MoreTwitter Teasers OGT Mobile Taunt With Pics Of Mystery Tablet
OGT Mobile has a website that is up and has no products; it only has a squareish looking device hidden under a virtual black cloth.…
Read MoreMagic W3 Is The First Pocketable Windows 7 Micro PC With Telephony
AdvanceTC has unveiled a slick looking little computer called the Magix W3 that is hailed as the world's first pocketable Windows 7 microcomputer with integrated…
Read MoreJapan Pre-Orders On LG Optimus Pad Start March 15
One of the more interesting of the new and coming Android tablets to me is the LG Optimus Pad. The little tablet has some interesting…
Read MoreWindows Phone Team Talks About Issues With Latest Update
If you are rocking a Windows Phone 7 smartphone and have been hearing that there are some issues with the first update to the OS…
Read MoreMSI WindPad 110W With AMD C-50 APU And WindPad 100A Honeycomb Tablets Imminent
MSI is readying a tablet PC running AMD's dual-core C-50 APU, according to sources in Taipei, with the Windows 7 based slate expected to make…
Read MoreVerizon XOOM Up For Sale: $600 On Contract
So, you've read the review, you've eyed the 4G upgrade procedure, and you've decided the Motorola XOOM is for you. Happily, Verizon is now willing to sell…
Read MoreApple Ditching NVIDIA For AMD GPUs In Sandy Bridge MacBook Pros?
As speculated late last year, it's looking more likely that Apple has ditched NVIDIA's video chip technology for its imminent MacBook Pro refresh - expected…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S 4G Gets Torn Down And (Partially) Set On Fire
Ah, the Samsung Galaxy S 4G, just another Galaxy S family device only this time with a shot of HSPA+ for T-Mobile USA, right? That's…
Read MoreVerizon Details Motorola XOOM 4G LTE Upgrade: Must Send Off Slate
Verizon has confirmed the process for upgrading the Motorola XOOM to 4G, and as we feared it will require shipping off the slate to the…
Read MoreVietnam Sets Strictest Curfew On Video Game Playing
Back in April, South Korea placed cutoff times for online gaming from the hours of midnight to 6 am because of worries of gaming addiction.…
Read MorePhononic Raises $10 Million For Thermoelectric Cooling, Lowers Your Energy Bills
Phononic Devices, a maker of thermoelectric coolers and generators, has just raised $10 million in a second round of financing. Although thermoelectric technology has been…
Read MoreWikipedia Now Available On Livescribe Smartpens
Livescribe, the company behind the Pulse and Echo smartpens, has just announced that for the first time ever, Wikipedia is now available on their smartpens…
Read MoreTech Bloggers The Focus Of Latest T-Mobile Ad
Remember long ago when Apple first did those “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” commercials? They exploded and got popular real fast. T-Mobile has…
Read MoreDaft Punk Teams Up With Coca-Cola For Daft Coke
The popular House duo Daft Punk will be partnering with Coca-Cola for a specially bottled limited edition cola called Daft Coke starting in March. Tom…
Read MorePowerTrekk: A Hydrogen Fuel Cell Gadget Charger
If you're in the market for an eco-friendly gadget charger, the PowerTrekk may be right up your ally. This device uses water to charge a…
Read MoreThunderbolt Leaks Again: Light Peak For 15-Inch MacBook Pro
Another shot of the new Apple MacBook Pro complete with the Apple Thunderbolt port has leaked, this time showing the 15-inch version of the notebook…
Read MoreWho Wouldn't Want An Ego Personal Semi-Submarine?
How would you like your own personal submarine? Sounds terrifying, right? You'd be dead in a matter of minutes. Submarines are incredibly complex vehicles. Under…
Read MoreFeeling Naughty? Motorola Atrix Gets Naked
Who out there is in the mood for some gadget fetishism? That's basically what the folks at iFixIt offer, with their regular and ruthlessly thorough…
Read MoreNewest Farmville Crop Is…Watermelon Babies?
Popular game Farmville has a new crop you can try, but its appearance can be a bit off-putting. Farmville China now has Watermelon Babies. You…
Read MoreGet A Little Less Dumb Every Morning With The IQ Calendar
Word-a-day calendars are neat and all, but who the hell uses paper calendars? Oliver Shal has designed a brilliant, brain teasing calendar that'll start your…
Read MoreAdult Swim App (With Full Episodes!) Hits App Store
iPad and iPhone users, rejoice! A universal app for Adult Swim has just landed in the App Store. It allows for streaming clips and full…
Read MoreMore MacBook Pro Images Leak, Specs Revealed On Box
As if there was any doubt remaining as to the new MacBook Pros, a new series of leaked high-resolution photos have spilled the beans once…
Read MoreOlympus May Announce New Micro Four Thirds Cameras March 2nd
Fans of the compact lens system may be getting some new cameras next week if rumors are true. 43 Rumors is reporting that three new…
Read MoreSamsung Captivate Android 2.2 Froyo Update Tomorrow
We pondered earlier this month when the Samsung Captivate would get its long awaited Android 2.2 Froyo update, and finally the time is here. AT&T…
Read MoreSamsung's Galaxy S II Will Have MHL Port For USB And HDMI-Out
Good news, Samsung fans. The Galaxy S II will not lack for HDMI. While the new flagship Android smartphone has no HDMI-out, it will be…
Read MoreYouEye: Simple Online Solution For Eye-Tracking, User-Testing
For web designers, being able to track users' eye movements and behavior while looking through a web page is very helpful for determining which parts…
Read MoreMotorola Gives Out Golden Xooms To Movie Stars
Were you nominated for an Academy Award this year? The answer is almost certainly 'no'. But if you were, Motorola has the coolest goodie bag…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble's First PubIt! In-Store Event, Demo NOOK Color, Get Free Coffee
Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, is launching their first in-store promotion event for their "PubIt!" self-publishing platform tonight in its Santa Monica, CA…
Read MoreSouthwest Airlines To Offer InAirtainment Via iTunes
Southwest Airlines has just announced their partnership with Apple to launch a new in-flight entertainment offering called InAirtainment. The service allows passengers to purchase music,…
Read MoreSnoop Dogg Promotes Samsung Galaxy Indulge On MetroPCS
If you don't know everyone in the video you're about to watch, you might not get the depth. However, the smoothness of the 4G LTE…
Read MoreSymbian UI Refresh Previewed On Nokia N8
What looks to be the new Symbian homescreen layout has been briefly previewed, ahead of the promised Nokia update later in 2011. Shown briefly during…
Read MoreAOC Aire Black LED Displays Just 12.7mm Thick
AOC has outed its latest LCD display, the AOC Aire Black LED, a mere 12.7mm thick despite offering up to 23-inches of picture. The 20-inch…
Read MoreApple Event Confirmed For March 2nd: iPad 2 Incoming
Apple has sent out invites for an event on Wednesday, March 2, where we're expecting to see the company announce the second-generation iPad. The event…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 23 2011
First let us tell you of three rather important points from the Android Community side of the world today - first, the Nexus S and…
Read MoreWiFi-Only HTC Flyer Up For Pre-Order
The WiFi-only version of the HTC Flyer has shown up for pre-order in Germany, with retailer Cyberport listing the 7-inch slate for €499 ($686). Your…
Read MoreSprint Confirms Windows Phone Plans With HTC Arrive Xbox Tease
Sprint has all but confirmed that tomorrow's handset launch is a Windows Phone 7 device, with the carrier's latest tweet - "Wouldn't it be great…
Read MoreApple Joint Venture Will Let Prosumers Take A Genius Home
Apple's imminent retail staff meetings and secretive NDA demands for employees were, it was suggested, for an upcoming store service, rather than around the iPad…
Read MoreT-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4G On Sale Now
T-Mobile has put the Samsung Galaxy S 4G up for sale, charging $199.99 for the HSPA+ compatible smartphone. Generally identical to the T-Mobile Vibrant that…
Read MoreNexus S Losing Facebook Contacts Sync As Google Tightens Data Policy
Facebook integration with the Nexus S is set to be scooped out after the Android 2.3.3 update currently being distributed OTA, with Google claiming that…
Read MoreMicrosoft Pulls Omnia 7 Windows Phone Update Over "Technical Issue"
The Windows Phone 7 update has been pulled for Samsung's Omnia 7, after the new firmware was found to brick some users' handsets. According to…
Read MoreBen Heck Crafts Speedy Can Beverage Cooler From Peltier Modules
Ben Heck is a modder that landed his own show thanks to his modding prowess with all sorts of gadgets. Typically, we see gaming systems…
Read MoreiGugu InterneTV Ships In Wired And Wireless Versions
A new media streaming solution has landed called iGugu InterneTV and the device ship sin wired and wireless versions. The device is a video streaming…
Read MoreHusqvarna Launches Robotic Lawn Mower Dubbed Automower 305
Husqvarna has been around for a long time and way back in the day the company made some dirt bikes. Today it is more known…
Read MoreBuffalo Adds New USB 3.0 DriveStation Duo And DriveStation Quad Solutions
Buffalo has unveiled new USB 3.0 storage solutions that have multiple storage drives inside with RAID capability to protect your data from loss. The new…
Read MoreSony To Kill NEX-3 Camera Line Already?
The Sony NEX-3A, 3K, and 3D digital cameras haven’t been on the market for a long period yet and the things have been getting updates…
Read MoreMicrosoft Is Set To Air New Windows Phone 7 Time Trials Commercials Online
You might recall the Laptop Hunter commercials that Microsoft aired on TV back when Vista was the new OS it was pushing, the commercials had…
Read MoreMacBook Pro Thunderbolt Connector Spotted: Is It Really Light Peak?
A photo supposedly showing Apple's Thunderbolt Light Peak connector on an updated MacBook Pro has leaked. The origins of the image are unknown, but it…
Read MoreRazer Chimaera And Chimaera 5.1 Headphones For Xbox And PC Gamers Drop Soon
Razer has announced a new set of headphones that come in two different versions called the Razer Chimaera. The headphones come in a 5.1 surround…
Read MoreDell Set To Ship XPS 17 And XPS 15 Laptops With Sandy Bridge On March 16
Dell is set to start shipping new laptops in the XPS family that sport the Intel Sandy Bridge processors inside. Shipments are estimated to start…
Read MoreNew MacBook Pro Specs Leak, Plus Apple Thunderbolt Light Peak Branding
New rumored specifications for the imminent MacBook Pro refresh have emerged, building on earlier leaks tipping 16GB mSATA boot SSDs across the range. According to…
Read MoreUrbanears Bagis Headphones Debut In Bright Colors
Urbanears headphones are known as much for bright colors as they are for good sound. The company has added a new headphone model to its…
Read MoreV-Moda Unveils New Crossfade Customs Program
V-Moda has been offering the cool Crossfade headphones for a while now. Back in August of 2010, they added a couple new colors to the…
Read MoreiBike Dash Cycling Computer Turns Your iPhone Into Fitness Device
For many of the folks out there getting fit this year was probably right up there at the top of the list of resolutions. If…
Read MoreIntel Medfield smartphones/MIDs On Sale Q3 2011 Tip Insiders
The first Intel Medfield based devices could ship as soon as Q3 2011, according to Taipei component sources, with the low-power devices making their debut…
Read MoreSprint HTC Arrive Is Rebranded HTC 7 Pro Due Tomorrow?
The HTC 7 Pro may well be headed to Sprint tomorrow - based on the carrier's broad teases earlier this week - but it seems…
Read MoreSamsung 8.9-Inch Galaxy Tab Could Launch In March
Samsung has been talking about a range of Galaxy Tab slates for months - the company confirmed a whole series of different sized tablets was…
Read MoreMotorola ATRIX 4G Teardown Finds Repair-Friendly Guts
It's a rite of passage for any new high-profile gadget to not only get a SlashGear review but to be torn down by iFixit, and…
Read MoreFinalized Honeycomb SDK Released For Android 3.0 Developers
The Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK has been finalized, with Google pushing out the polished version on the eve of the Motorola XOOM's retail debut. Accompanied…
Read MoreAndroid 2.3.3 Gingerbread For Nexus S And Nexus One Now OTA
Prepare to spend a whole lot of time checking and re-checking your phone, as Google confirms that the over-the-air (OTA) update for Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread…
Read MoreBoost Brain Activity By Chatting On Cellphones?
A new study has found that radiation from a cellphone can cause increased brain activity. Areas of the brain close to where the device is…
Read MoreIntel Light Peak Event This Thursday Fuels MacBook Pro Rumors
Rumor has it that the upcoming MacBook Pro revamp will include at least one Light Peak port. News of the Intel Light Peak event this…
Read MoreNetflix Gets New CBS Deal To Stream TV Shows
Shortly after the news of Amazon's new video streaming service, Netflix announces their new show streaming deal with CBS. The new deal will add several…
Read MoreYouTube In Talks With NBA To Broadcast Live Games
Google is really ramping up content offerings for its subsidiary YouTube. Earlier this week we heard they were investing $100 million into celebrity channels and…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM To Have Unlockable, Relockable Bootloader
We had just talked about the Motorola Atrix 4G having a locked bootloader to prevent any root-level customization of the device. And now, as if…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S 4G Heading To T-Mobile Tomorrow
Last month we had reported on a leaked schedule of upcoming T-Mobile devices including the Samsung Galaxy S 4G and more recently posted a hands-on…
Read MoreMotorola Atrix 4G Bootloader Locked Down Against Custom ROMs
The Motorola Atrix 4G comes with a locked down bootloader to prevent folks from installing custom ROMs or making other types of modifcations to root-only…
Read MoreYour Neighborhood's Census Data Gets Mapped
Ever wondered about the demographics of your neighborhood? For those with school-aged kids, or those seeking to buy a new house, having access to demographics…
Read MoreMinecraft Coming To iOS And Android
The wildly popular Minecraft, which according to the official website is "a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine" is now coming…
Read MoreTwitter For BlackBerry Updated With Geotagging And Push Mentions
The Twitter app for BlackBerry has been updated to version 1.1 in the Beta Zone. This new version of Twitter for BlackBerry will have geotagging…
Read MoreWindows 7 SP1 Available For Download
Microsoft has begun to release the first major update to Windows 7, SP1, to customers around the world today. The download is 1.9GB, and should…
Read MoreAndroid Phone Gets Driver Out Of A Ticket
College student Sahas Katta was able to beat his speeding ticket in traffic court using...drumroll please...his Android smartphone, and a handy app. Katta was pulled…
Read MoreSeesaw Battery: AA Batteries Get Smarter
From designer Young Suk Kim, this battery that would make the frustrating task of getting those darn batteries out the compartment a lot easier. And…
Read MoreSquare Dropping Transaction Fees To Ramp Up Volume
As if having an easy and convenient way to take credit card payments on the go for small businesses isn't good enough, it gets even…
Read MoreFirst Millimeter Scale Computing System - Coming To An Eye Near You
The University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has created a prototype for what is believed to be the first complete millimeter-scale…
Read MoreFujitsu To Launch Windows 7 Tablet With Intel Oak Trail At CeBIT
We mentioned before here and here that tablets are increasingly being adopted at the enterprise level. Originally a luxury item for media consumption and game…
Read MoreApple iPad 2 Event Wednesday March 2?
Apple is reportedly set to announce a March 2 2011 event, at which the company will unveil the new iPad 2. According to AllThingsD's "multiple sources",…
Read MoreSega Jumping Into Facebook Games With Baseball
Sega will be entering the US social games business this month with an American version of Sega Play! Baseball, according to Total Telecom. Sega has…
Read MoreConcept Phone: HTC Eerie HD3 By Wallec
The HTC Eerie HD3 is a new concept phone which, with its 4.7 inch AMOLED display, is closer to a tablet than a smartphone. The…
Read MoreMass Apple Retail Staff Meeting Imminent: iPad 2, MacBook Pro Refresh Or Something Else?
Apple has reportedly scheduled an all-hands meeting for employees, believed to be taking place later this week. Supposedly originally planned for last week, before being…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 22 2011
Well hello there all you morning readers, haven't seen you around for a while! We've been to Barcelona and back and now we're back in…
Read MoreTomTom GO 2435 And GO 2535 PNDs Quietly Revealed
TomTom has quietly pushed out two new ranges of standalone touchscreen GPS units, the TomTom GO 2435 and GO 2535 lines, complete with capacitive touchscreens…
Read MoreDIY Transformers 2 Megatron Tank Is Utterly Crazy
All of a sudden, Batman Tumbler replicas don't seem quite so intimidating. Chinese artist "Steel Legend" has put together an incredible, huge replica of the…
Read MoreApple Considering 24-Bit iPod/iTunes Update For Boosted Audio Quality?
Apple is reportedly in talks with record labels over offering higher quality digital tracks, though it will take more than just a 24-bit master before…
Read MoreOWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2: 12TB Of Super-Flexible Storage
OWC knows how to tease us: slap a huge amount of speedy storage into a shiny aluminum box, and give it a glamorous name. The…
Read MoreSuperTalent CoreStore SSDs Promise 350MB/s Read & 220MB/s Write Rates
SuperTalent is promising hitherto-unseen SSD performance for desktop and mobile users, with the new CoreStore range of solid-state drives. Set to hit the market in…
Read MoreVerizon Motorola XOOM Pricing Confirmed: $600 With Agreement
Verizon has confirmed its official pricing for the Motorola XOOM, ahead of the Android 3.0 tablet's launch this Thursday, February 24. The Honeycomb slate will…
Read MorePalm Pre Plus webOS 2.1 Update Already Up And Running On French Phone
Well, that didn't take long. O2 Germany only began pushing out the webOS 2.1.0 update for Palm Pre Plus handsets a few hours ago -…
Read MoreT-Mobile Readying Unlimited Data Plan
T-Mobile USA is tipped to be readying a potentially true-unlimited data plan for its heaviest users. According to TmoNews' tipster, who sent them a shot…
Read MoreNintendo 3DS Games Detailed: Nintendogs, Steel Diver, More
Nintendo has confirmed its launch day line-up of Nintendo 3DS games, an 18-strong list including Nintendogs + Cats, Steel Diver and Pilotwings Resort. Each will…
Read MoreSpring Design "Phasing Out" Alex Ereader
Spring Design has apparently confirmed that it is "phasing out" the dual-screen Alex ereader, with no replacement in sight. On sale since March 2010, the…
Read MoreAmazon Prime Instant Video Service Switched On
Amazon has begun offering free streaming content to Amazon Prime members, as was tipped incoming earlier this year. The new service adds a "Prime instant…
Read MoreToshiba AC100 Android 2.2 Froyo Update Arrives With Flash Support
It's taken months, but Toshiba has finally pushed out Android 2.2 Froyo for the AC100 smartbook. According to owner Steve Paine, the update - build…
Read MoreApple Looking To White iPhone 5 As Touch Supplier Leaks
Rarer than the Loch Ness Monster, the white iPhone may not make an appearance until the fifth-generation Apple smartphone. According to the Economic Daily News,…
Read MoreSteve Jobs Says Subscriptions Are "For Publishing Apps" But Confusion Remains
Steve Jobs has weighed in on the ongoing in-app subscription debate, claiming that only publishers will be subject to the new restrictions. The Apple CEO's…
Read MoreSony VAIO L Series All-In-One Wraps Touch-Bezel Around Multitouch Screen
Sony's third VAIO launch of the day is the new VAIO L Series, all-in-one touchscreen desktops packing 24-inch Full HD displays and a new "edge…
Read MoreSony VAIO C Series: Garish Looks Hide Decent Notebooks
Sony's 14hr VAIO S series may be the company's new mobility maven, but the Sony VAIO C Series promises to be a little more affordable. Described…
Read MorePalm Pre Plus Gets webOS 2.1.0 Update In Germany
HP's suggestion that older webOS devices wouldn't be seeing 2.x updates seems to have been overly cautious: an upgrade to webOS 2.1.0 is now available…
Read MoreNokia N950 MeeGo Phone Named: "Very Elegant Hardware" Says CTO [Video]
Nokia CTO Rich Green has seemingly named the company's first MeeGo device, the Nokia N950, set to launch later in 2011. Speaking at Nokia's Developer…
Read MoreApple iPad 2 Release In June After Production Delays Tip Analysts
Apple's retail partners may be selling out of old iPad stock, but that doesn't necessarily mean the iPad 2 will be ready and waiting to…
Read MoreSecusmart Encryption microSD: Security Costs $2,700 [Video]
We're used to high-capacity memory cards costing a lot, but €2,000 ($2,709) for a microSD? Secusmart's card doesn't just offer 4GB of storage, however; it's…
Read MoreApple iPad Stock Shortages Tip iPad 2 Imminent
Stock shortages of the first-gen iPad are being cited as evidence that Apple is readying the second-gen model for imminent release. UK retailer Carphone Warehouse is…
Read MoreGeohot Sony Defense Fund Closes After Rapid Response
Hacker George Hotz (aka Geohot) surprised a few people when he changed his long-standing unofficial policy on asking for donations last week; then again, when…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Tablet Shipping April Tip Suppliers
When new HP CEO Leo Apotheker admitted that one of the company's key issues was pushing products out on time, we didn't expect any changes…
Read MoreAT&T Motorola ATRIX 4G On Sale Now
Motorola's ATRIX 4G has gone on sale, arriving on AT&T's network for $199.99 with a new, two-year agreement. As we found in the full SlashGear…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM Flash Player 10.2 Release "Within A Few Weeks"
Motorola's XOOM tablet won't have to wait long before it gains support for Flash content, with Adobe promising an imminent OTA update delivering Flash Player…
Read MoreLenovo ThinkPad W520 Quadcore Desktop Replacement Outed
Lenovo's sixth notebook of the day is the ThinkPad W520, a 15.6-inch desktop replacement packing a choice of Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors…
Read MoreLenovo ThinkPad T420s, T420 And T520: Up To 30hrs Battery Life
Lenovo has revealed its latest T Series ThinkPad notebooks, promising all-day battery life and super mobility. The Lenovo ThinkPad T420s, T420 and T520 offer a…
Read MoreLenovo ThinkPad L420 And L520 Entry-Level Notebooks Outed
Lenovo has outed its latest set of entry-level ThinkPad notebooks, the L Series, with pricing kicking off from $899. The Lenovo ThinkPad L420 and L520…
Read MoreVerizon Updates V Cast Music App For Android
Verizon Wireless has just updated its V Cast music app for Android. It allows users to buy songs, ringtones, and ringback tones in one program.…
Read MoreVerizon Releases New Ad For Motorola Xoom
Verizon released a new ad today for the much anticipated Motorola Xoom. The 16-second ad was posted on YouTube this afternoon and should be the…
Read MoreApple's New Subscription Policy Upsets Readability App
Another app maker is displeased with Apple’s new subscription policy it announced last week. Richard Ziade is a co-founder of Arc90, creator of Readability, and…
Read MoreSony 3D Dual-View Split Screen Demo For PlayStation 3
Sony plans to introduce a dual-view 3D mode for its PlayStation 3 that will eliminate the need for split screens when gamers play against each…
Read MoreXfinity 3D Channel Launched By Comcast
It continues to seem as though the first time the 3rd dimension was offered as a media format, it just wasn't the right time. Today…
Read MoreMicrosoft Windows 8 MileStones Schedule With September Beta Release?
Microsoft Windows 8 seems to be moving along as various information leaked so far suggest a September beta release. The new OS will primarily target…
Read MoreAmazon's New Kindle Commercial Jabs At iPad Again
Amazon has just released a new Kindle commercial full of happy indie music, hip young folks in coffee shops, frolicking in parks, jaunting in the…
Read MorePlastic Bags Into Fuel Via Carbon-Negative Device
Welcome to the modern consumer landscape, one where our everyday environment is literally littered with plastic bags. We cannot escape them, we cannot stop using…
Read MoreApple's New MacBooks: Bigger Trackpads, OS On SSD, Half Pound Lighter
Apple's new MacBooks are just around the corner--and by that I mean sitting on pallets at your local resellers. Apple has warned resellers not to…
Read MoreFormer Head Of Design Discusses Where Nokia Went Wrong
Adam Greenfield was once the head of design direction for UI over at Nokia. Now he's off on his own, and posting on the Internet…
Read MoreHTC Inspire 4G HSUPA Intentionally Disabled
There's conflicting news about what's going on with the HTC Inspire 4G. Some sources claim that the HTC Inspire 4G is unequipped for HSUPA while…
Read MoreNomad Capacitive Brush For iPad Unveiled
The iPad got a little more creative today, with the launch of the Nomad Brush. This weird new "stylus" is made from capacitive fibers that…
Read MoreSamsung Unveils Five New NX Lenses
Samsung has just unleashed five new lenses for their NX line of digital cameras giving the lineup a total of 10 lenses. Lenses of the…
Read MoreOfficial Apple Playing Cards Show Up On Ebay
Apple fanatics, get ready to search your souls and throw some serious money at eBay. A rare set of playing cards themed after OS 7…
Read MoreThe Verizon iPhone: Mostly Bought By AT&T iPhone Owners?
The Verizon iPhone hasn't been quite the wild success we'd expected. Not only is the Big Red iPhone not moving fast, it is also selling…
Read MoreMicrosoft Xbox 360 Announcements Coming This Week
Microsoft is planning a conference at the upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week in San Francisco. Not many details on what the conference will…
Read MoreNew Angry Birds Cake Takes Playing With Your Food To A New Level
We have another entry in the line of Angry Birds cakes and this one hails from across the pond in the U.K. This cake sets…
Read MoreMicrosoft Opens Kinect SDK Up To Hackers
Microsoft has proved their support of the "backyard" modding community today. News has just come out that the company will release the Kinect SDK for…
Read MoreBlackBerry Bold Touch Spotted In The Flesh
We're still a depressingly long way off from any QNX-based BlackBerry handsets. But RIM's next line of smartphones has already started to leak out. We…
Read MoreGoogle May Have Vanishing Address Bar In Next Chrome
Google is working on a new interface for its Chrome browser. Some changes they are considering may include replacing the address bar with something less…
Read MoreWindows Phone 7 Update Imminent (But No Copy & Paste)
Microsoft has confirmed that a new software update for Windows Phone 7 smartphones is heading out the virtual door today, though it's won't bring the…
Read MoreSamsung Adds Live TV Streaming For Galaxy Tab 10.1 And Galaxy S II
Samsung's Galaxy range of Android-based devices have always had DLNA support for streaming content, but the upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet and Galaxy S II…
Read MoreSprint Teases New Phone On Feb 24: CDMA HTC 7 Pro Finally Arriving?
Looks like Sprint hasn't learnt its lesson. The carrier blew expectations out of proportion for the Kyocera Echo, delivering an awkward dual-display Android handset with…
Read MoreSony S2 Honeycomb Dual-Display And VAIO Windows 7 Slider Tablets Tipped
Sony's tablet ambitions extend to more than just the S1 in 2011, according to the latest batch of rumors. Loose lips have been flapping, and…
Read MoreHanvon HPad A112 Froyo Tablet Packs 3MP Camera, Ereader App & More
Hanvon brought its HPad A116 along to CES 2011 last month, and now there's apparently a second version for the European market. The Hanvon HPad…
Read MoreDell Inspiron Duo Price Slash Cuts Convertible By 27%
Dell's Inspiron Duo has seen its price slashed, with the official Microsoft store knocking more than a quarter off the convertible netbook. Now down to…
Read MoreLeaked iPad 2 Leather Case Apparently Confirms Camera, More [Video]
Another day and another leaked iPad 2 case, this time leather rather than the silicone skins we've seen before. MIC Gadget were passed the case…
Read MoreNintendo 3DS Gets Pre-Release Teardown
Nintendo's execs spoke earlier this month about the physical design decisions around the Nintendo 3DS, but what we really wanted was to see the 3D-capable gaming…
Read MoreMissing Motorola XOOM Flash Leaves Honeycomb At A Disadvantage Until Spring 2011?
Android's Flash advantage over the iPad will be missing in action from the launch of the Motorola XOOM, with Flash Player support not expected until…
Read MoreHuawei Offers London Underground Cellular Network For 2012 Olympics
Huawei has offered to outfit London's Underground train system with blanket cellular access in time for the 2012 Olympics, as a so-called gift "from one…
Read MoreiPad 2 Light Peak: High-Speed Port Refresh For Tablet And MacBook Pro?
Apple's iPad 2 could be the first tablet to have a Light Peak port, it's been suggested, with persistent leaks showing what was initially interpreted…
Read MoreMicrosoft FlashStore Promises HDD/SSD-Beating Performance For Xbox LIVE & More
Microsoft is looking to boost Xbox LIVE online gaming speed, server farms and cloud apps using an injection of flash memory. Microsoft FlashStore works in…
Read More7.7mm NEC MEDIAS E-04C Android Smartphone Bests Chubby Arc And Galaxy S II
How skinny is too skinny? NEC obviously reckons Android smartphones aren't quite slender enough, since the new NEC MEDIAS E-04C is a waifish 7.7mm at…
Read MoreSony VPL-VW90ES 3D Projector Goes On Sale For $10k
Sony knows you too well. You don't want a big 3D HDTV like your friends: you want to rub their faces into your vast, projected…
Read MoreKno Mulling Tablet Hardware Business Split
Kno is reportedly considering selling off its education tablet hardware business and instead concentrating on offering software and services across the iPad and Android based…
Read MorePanasonic VIERA Kitchen TVs Offer Motion-Control, Blu-Ray And WiFi
Panasonic has outed a trio of new VIERA TVs, including one model with an integrated Blu-ray player, and another which can be gesture-controlled. The Panasonic…
Read MoreMacBook Pro Sales Stalled Until Refresh; Resellers Warned Over Mysterious Stock
Apple is now showing 3-5 day shipping estimates for all US MacBook Pro notebooks, lending further weight to speculation that the company is planning a…
Read MoreNexus One Gets Android 3.0 Honeycomb Port
Honeycomb has hit the Nexus One, though the tablet OS on the original Google phone won't exactly set the world on fire, at least not…
Read MoreA/V Accessories Are Ridiculously Overpriced, And I've Had Enough Of It
As you’ve probably gathered from reading my columns here on SlashGear, I’m pretty much obsessed with every single product that can help improve my entertainment…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review - Week 8 2011
Welcome to the latest edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. This week was MWC 2011 in Barcelona, Spain so there are hoards of phone…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM Pre-Order At Best Buy: February 24 Release
Motorola's XOOM is on track to be the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet commercially available, with Best Buy stores now accepting pre-orders of the 10.1-inch…
Read MoreMWC 2011 Wrap-Up
Another year, another Mobile World Congress, and the unstoppable juggernaut that is the smartphone industry continues apace. SlashGear took its biggest team to MWC 2011…
Read MoreOversized iPod Touch PMP/tablet Hybrid Tipped Ahead Of iPad 3
Steve Jobs may have dismissed 7-inch slates as "tweeners", but that doesn't mean the company isn't considering an oversized iPod touch according to the latest…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Hands-On [Video]
The Samsung Galaxy S II has a lot to live up to. Its predecessor, the Galaxy S, took the top spot for Android devices in…
Read MoreWindows 8 Tablets "Closer To Competitive" Than Expected: ARM-Based Win-Slates In Late 2011?
Microsoft's tablet ambitions may reach fruition a lot earlier than previously expected, according to the latest leaks from the company, with Windows 8 based slates…
Read MoreNokia: Cheap Windows Phones Will Reach Market "Very Quickly"
Nokia has promised low-cost Windows Phone 7 smartphones "very quickly", addressing concerns that the Microsoft OS would drive up prices of the Finnish company's smartphone…
Read MoreApple HDTV Plans Hinted At In New Job Listing
A new Apple job posting has dropped further hints that the company is planning an Apple HDTV. The role, for an AC/DC power supply design…
Read MoreAT&T Motorola ATRIX 4G Already Rooted
Motorola hasn't been too keen on Android modders tinkering with its smartphones, throwing in various locked-down bootloaders and other frustrations to prevent the hardware running…
Read MoreGoogle Docs Update Supports New Formats Including Photoshop And AutoCAD Files
Google Docs continues to evolve into the ultimate online file managing service that lets you securely view all types of documents without having to download…
Read MoreBlackBerry Storm 3 First Video Leak
RIM's much anticipated BlackBerry Storm 3 specs and details were leaked last month, but today is the first time a video of the device has…
Read MoreSamsung Epic 4G And Sanyo Zio To Get Android 2.2 Froyo Update On February 21st
If you own a Samsung Epic 4G or a Sanyo Zio, then you'll be glad to know that both devices will be getting an OS…
Read MoreUberMedia Updates Mobile Twitter Apps In Face Of Eternal Ban
Just a little bit ago we let you know that the reason you're having trouble working on your phone with UberTwitter, twidroyd, and Echofon were…
Read MoreApple Major Product Launch Possible For Next Week
It appears that a source "familiar with the matter" has come forth to AppleInsider to spill the dish on some big fat Apple news about…
Read MoreGoogle To Invest Millions On Celebrity Youtube Channels
The recent boom of YouTube stars may get pushed aside by established Hollywood stars. Google is looking to entice established celebrities with $5 million dollars…
Read MoreMicrosoft May Allow More Open-Source Apps In Windows Phone Marketplace Later On
A Microsoft spokesperson just confirmed that the company is considering allowing more open-source licensed apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace. The response was in light…
Read MoreTwitter Suspends Ubermedia's Twidroyd And UberTwitter
Twitter posted earlier today that it has suspended the 3rd party clients Twidroyd and UberTwitter for violating policies. All are owned by Ubermedia, which claims…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S 4G Hands-On Via Android Community
Android Community has their hands on the lovely new Samsung Galaxy S 4G here and while it's definitely not revolutionary, it's certainly evolutionary. This phone…
Read MoreSpringpad Announces Spiffy New Features And Tips
In case you're unfamiliar, Springpad, is fast becoming one of the major life-organizing note repository services such as Evernote. And having just passed the 1…
Read MorePhotos From Obama's Tech Dinner
The White House has released photos of President Obama’s tech leader consortium at a dinner last night. The dinner was attended by most of Silicon…
Read MoreNYT Debunks iPhone Nano Rumors, Concepts Continue To Surface
The New York Times has just reported that the iPhone nano rumors are false, contrary to what Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal reported last…
Read MoreBillToMobile Signs Sprint Deal, Now Three Major US Carriers For Mobile Payments
BillToMobile has just signed a deal with Sprint to allow the carrier’s customers to purchase items with their mobile phones. With this deal BillToMobile now…
Read MoreFTC And Department Of Justice May Investigate Apple's Subscription Model
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple's new subscription model is catching the attention of U.S. antitrust enforcers. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade…
Read MoreinPulse Smart Watch Finally Shipping
It's taken inPulse a little longer than expected, but the company's Bluetooth watch for remotely controlling a BlackBerry smartphone is now finally shipping. Priced from…
Read MoreLG Optimus 3D Gets Hefty Price Ahead Of April Release
LG's Optimus 3D was always going to fall on the expensive side, with its dual 5-megapixel camera array and glasses-free 3D screen, but we're still…
Read MoreSony Ericsson's 4G Android Tablet Prototype Spotted
We were only just talking about Sony Ericsson's Android tablet plans, and now shots of what could be the company's 4G prototype have emerged from…
Read MoreSony Ericsson: LTE Phones And Android Tablet Incoming, But No WP7
Sony Ericsson has said it is "advanced" in its development of an LTE handset, and revealed that it has plans to release an Android tablet. CTO…
Read MoreNokia Giving Developers Free E7 And Free WP7 Device
Nokia's decision to switch from Symbian to Windows Phone 7 might not have been met with glee from many developers, but the company looks to…
Read MoreApple Files Patent App For Better Battery
One of the most important things in the tech world for gadgets, computers, and even cars and lots more are batteries. Innovations in battery design…
Read MoreFujitsu HOPA-2 Learns To Erase A Whiteboard
Of all the awesome things, you could teach a robot to do, why would you decide to teach one to erase a whiteboard? A chalkboard…
Read MoreAudi Connect Makes Your Car A Hotspot And More
If you have ever been cruising along in your car and wished you could get online for surfing the web and share that connection with…
Read MoreAeroViroment Develops Operational Unmanned Aircraft For DARPA That Looks Like A Hummingbird
A company called AeroVironment has developed an awesome unmanned aircraft for DARPA that is tiny and designed to look like a hummingbird. The little flying…
Read MoreNextreme Thermobility Solution Turns Heat Into Power For Mobile Devices
A company called Nextreme has a really interesting mobile wireless power generation system that might one day find its way into the gadgets we all…
Read MoreFord Replaces 50K Light Fixtures To Go Green And Save Money
Ford has a bunch of different properties in Dearborn, Michigan where it does much of the work for its line of vehicles. Ford Land Energy…
Read MoreTenba Vector Bags Have Style And Features
Anytime I have to shop for electronics, gadgets, or accessories for gadgets with my wife things get dicey for me. I am a function over…
Read MoreInduro Unveils New Adventure AKP Tripods
If you shoot with a DSLR camera on manual, you know that sometimes when exposures are long you need a tripod or your image will…
Read MoreSprint Eyeing LTE Future?
WiMax appears doomed in the US with Clearwire shutting down retail operations and LTE networks coming online as we speak. Sprint banked on a massive…
Read MoreChevrolet Introduces MyLink Interface For Smartphones
For a long time now, Ford vehicles have been coming with an awesome Sync system that allows you to control all sorts of things inside…
Read MoreScosche goBAT II Portable Battery Charger For USB Gear Ships
Scosche has announced that it is now shipping the goBAT II portable battery charger and back up battery device. The little gadget is an external…
Read MoreApple Clamps Down On App IP Theft; Mulls Tougher iTunes Password Amnesia
Changes look to be afoot in more than just MobileMe, with Apple adding in a new clause to help protect developers against content copying and…
Read MoreHP CEO: HP Innovation "Takes Too Long To Get To Market"
HP CEO Leo Apotheker has admitted that one of the main issues the company faces is reducing the amount of time between development, product announcement…
Read MoreLenovo LePad Tablet Due Worldwide In June
Lenovo has confirmed that its LePad Android tablet will see a worldwide launch in June 2011, though the Chinese market wil get the Android 2.2…
Read MoreiPhone 5 Price Shrinking, Not Screen, Claim Insiders
Persistent rumors of a smaller - or, more recently, larger - iPhone are apparently untrue, with insiders suggesting that instead Apple is looking to shrink…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM Dated For European Debut
The Motorola XOOM is expected to make its US debut sometime this month, priced at $799, but would-be European tableteers will have to wait a…
Read MoreSkype And Qik Hint At Video Calling Partnership With AT&T
Skype and Qik jointly announced at MWC 2011 that they plan on further integrating their technologies to help improve Qik's video calls on Sprint and…
Read MoreFacebook Adds New Relationship Status Options: Civil Unions And Domestic Partnerships
In “The Social Network” Mark Zuckerberg had an epiphany right before he launched Facebook, an option for users to state their “relationship status” on their…
Read MoreSpotify Signs Deal With EMI, Closer To U.S. Launch
Spotify has signed a licensing deal with record label EMI today, giving the European music service two out the four major music labels. Last month…
Read MoreThe XPERIA Play's Gaming Appeal Is Practically Non-Existent
Apple’s iPhone has done quite a bit to change the mobile market. It has ushered in the touch-screen craze, delivered an easy way to get…
Read MoreScientists Have Developed The World's First Anti-Laser
A team of physicists from Yale University has built the world's first anti-laser device capable of absorbing an incoming laser beam. The incoming laser beam…
Read MoreIntel: MeeGo Must Go On, Seeking New Partner
Last week Microsoft and Nokia surprised the world with their partnership announcement that has been quite an episode. Nokia chose Microsoft's Windows Phone over Google's…
Read MoreST-Ericsson "Focusing Strongly" On The Windows Phone Platform
Mobile chip maker ST-Ericsson is focusing strongly on the Windows Phone platform, to be ready when Nokia starts ramping up production of WP7 phones, according…
Read MoreGoogle Launches One Pass Subscription Service
Google just officially announced their new digital content subscription service called One Pass. To compete against Apple’s subscription service, which has received tons of criticism…
Read MoreBlueDot YouTube Box Releasing In Japan
Not that there is any shortage of set top boxes, or internet connected TVs, but here is another one, dedicated to YouTube. BlueDot is introducing…
Read MoreAcer To Launch Windows Phone 7 Devices This Fall
Acer is the latest to embrace Windows Phone 7 as the company says they are preparing mobile devices for release in either September or October…
Read MoreTandar - Interactive Monkey Pet With A USB Tail
Yes, it's furry, it talks, and it is a little bit scary - and it has a USB port on its tail. And it can…
Read MoreSony PlayStation 4 Still Five Years Away?
The Sony PlayStation 3 has been around for awhile now. In tech years, it could be like a hundred years old. But when it came…
Read MorePanasonic Releases New HD Cameras And Camcorders
Panasonic has just released two new HD mobile cameras (the HM-TA20, and TA2) , and three full-HD camcorders (HX WA10, HX-DC10 and HX-DC1). The TA20…
Read MoreAMD Wireless TV Takes On Intel WiDi [Video]
AMD is joining with software partner Vivu to go head to head against Intel's WiDi streaming video. The new solution, dubbed is AMD Wireless TV…
Read MoreIBM And Nuance - "Dr. Watson Is On His Way"
This week IBM's Watson has been going up against Jeopardy champs in the Jeopardy challenge. Now, IBM has announced that it will collaborate with Nuance…
Read MoreNVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti Coming In March, GTX 590 Later
NVIDIA is getting ready to launch the GeForce GTX 550 Ti on March 15th. The video card is based off of the new GF116 chipset…
Read MoreSony Debunks Rumor Of Withdrawing From iTunes And Announces Own Music Unlimited Service
Last week there were rumors that Sony was planning to withdraw from Apple’s iTunes store after Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Michael Ephraim's interview resulted in…
Read MoreTouchscape Multi-Touch Coffee Table
If the multi-touch screens of your iPhone, iPad, or Android devices, are just not enough tactile fun, then consider adding the Touchscape Multi-Touch coffee table…
Read MoreApple Ties Up 60% Of Touch Panel Supplies For 2011 iPad 2 Tip Insiders
Apple has reportedly snagged nearly 60-percent of the global touch panel supply, leaving rival companies struggling to secure the hardware needed for their own touchscreen…
Read MoreMotorola ATRIX 4G Arriving Early: February 22 In AT&T Stores
Losing iPhone 4 exclusivity seems to have perked up AT&T's supply chain, with the news today that the Motorola ATRIX 4G will be shipping sooner…
Read MoreGoogle Updates Social Search, Your Friends Opinions May Now Affect Your Search Results
Google announced today an update to their Google Social Search feature that will more fully integrate the social search results into normal search results. Now…
Read MoreDell Smartphone/tablet Roadmaps Leak: Android Ice Cream Smartphones & Windows 8 Slates
What appears to be Dell's roadmaps for smartphones and tablets over the next twelve months have leaked, with mention of Windows 8 for tablets and…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM WiFi/EVDO/HSPA Detailed; "Ability To Deliver 50MB/s" Justifies $799 Price
Details of Microsoft's various XOOM models have been released, with the initial Verizon version of the slate up against the WiFi-only MZ604 and HSPA MZ601/MZ603…
Read MoreKno Dual-Screen Tablet Pre-Orders To Ship In 60 Days?
The Kno tablet has been one of the tablets that has teased for over a year now. The tablet has already seen a couple ship…
Read MoreRedbox Readying Movie Streaming Service To Battle Netflix
I am a big fan of Redbox kiosks for renting movies. That is really the only place left in my area to get a movie…
Read MoreIntuit GoPayment Offers iPhone Credit Card Processing With Free Card Reader
If you run a business that is outside of an office most of the time and you need the ability to take credit card payments…
Read MoreGLSO Files Patent App For Sweet iPhone Volt Solar Charger
I mentioned back at the beginning of the month that GSLO had received its first test shipments of the Volt Solar Charger. GLSO has one…
Read MorePioneer DJM-900nexus DJ Mixer Aims At Club DJs
Pioneer has been adding a lot of gear to its line of DJ controllers over the last few months. The company has now added another…
Read MoreStudy Finds Casual Video Games Reduce Depression And Anxiety
The results of a recent study looking for a link between reducing depression and anxiety and the play of some casual video games has been…
Read MoreOreo Sets Guinness World Record For Most "Likes" On A Facebook Post In 24hrs
I have a love/hate relationship with Oreo cookies. I love them because they are yummy; I hate them because my daughter can destroy a house…
Read MoreGhost Rider Personal GPS Tracker Debuts
I know someone that has a grandparent with Alzheimer's and they have to keep a constant eye on him everywhere because he wanders off and…
Read MoreSanus Launches New VMA301 iPad Adapter Mount
Sanus has mounts for just about everything you can think of from computer screens to big flat panel TVs. If you want to hang a…
Read MoreSonos Adds XM Streaming To Multiroom Audio Systems
Sonos has announced that it has now expanded its options for streaming media services to its multiroom audio systems like the S5 pictured here. Sonos…
Read MoreiPhone 4 Wins Best Mobile Device Award At MWC 2011 Without Being At The Show
Apple is infamously against attending any of the big trade shows that come around each year. The company doens't do CES nor does it attend…
Read MoreMajority Of CIOs Surveyed Are Buying Tablets For Employees
Morgan Stanley's latest report on corporate technology development reveals a very interesting statistic that shows the impact tablets are having on corporate America. According to…
Read MoreWindows Phone 7 Connector App Syncs Windows Phone With Mac
If you’ve adopted a Windows Phone 7 device but still hang on to your Mac or your large iTunes collection, then you should be glad…
Read MoreVivox Voice Chat Hugely Popular Among Gamers
Voice chat company Vivox has been able to find a great niche, gamers. According to Monty Sharma, vice president of product management and marketing at…
Read MoreSony Lays Down The Law For PS3 Hackers
Amidst the whole PS3 hacking saga that is Sony vs. Geohot, a new announcement--or warning--has just been released by Sony to really lay down the…
Read MoreReport: Android App Market Outpacing iPhone Apps
According to a report released today by the mobile security firm Lookout, the Android Market is growing at three times the rate of the iTunes…
Read MoreSIRF Walk Indoor GPS - Coming To A Smartphone Near You
If you've ever gotten lost in a mall and had to spend time searching for one of those "directions" kiosks, then help is on the…
Read MoreMobClix Says Apple iOS Users More Valuable Than Android Users
Mobclix--mobile advertising platform and open marketplace--just drew together a chart from revenue data that shows Apple iOS users to be more valuable than Android users.…
Read MoreAngry Birds Heading To WP7, 3D Version Coming Soon
Rovio, the company behind the popular Angry Birds game, has just confirmed that it is working on a Windows Phone 7 version. On top of…
Read MoreDoCoMo Touchable 3D Lets You Touch What Jumps Off The Screen
I'm sure all of us have watched something jump off the screen of a 3D movie and wanted to grab at it as it floated…
Read MoreTablets Saving Trees?
There is no question that the iPad and soon, other tablets, are making printing less and less necessary. When you can carry the content with…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Lower Than Expected Sales Numbers Leaked
Verizon’s much hyped iPhone 4 launch touted record setting pre-orders only to be greeted with embarrassingly small store queues and now disappointing actual sales numbers.…
Read MoreSuper Compact Book Printer From SADI
Korean design school SADI has come up with this super compact printer - shaped like a book. It's so small, that you could really take…
Read MoreSony S1: A PlayStation Tablet Coming This September?
With all the rage that is the tablet market right now, it’s surprising that one of the major players in consumer electronics, Sony, has yet…
Read MoreIs Samsung Using Tegra 2 Or Exynos For New Galaxy S II?
Early on at the 2011 Mobile World Congress, Samsung and NVIDIA made an announcement that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be made with NVIDIA's Tegra…
Read MoreLG CINEMA 3D LW5700 HDTV Certified Flicker-Free
LG's CINEMA 3D LW5700 TV has gone on sale, though you'll need to live in Korea in order to pick one up. The first third-party…
Read MoreMotorola Xoom Pricing Confirmed $799
After all the speculation and then the mysterious disappearance of a Best Buy ad, we finally have an official number for the Motorola Xoom price…
Read MoreWarner Bros. To Sell Movies As Apps Through App Store
Warner Bros. has just released The Dark Knight and Inception via the App Store rather than iTunes. This move was in part a workaround for…
Read MoreGoogle Competes With Apple On Subscription And In-App Purchasing
Publishers that were complaining about Apple’s new in-app purchasing and subscription requirements may now have a better alternative. Google is reportedly starting today a new…
Read MoreHTC's Facebook Button Is The Start Of Something Big
Yesterday HTC announced two new phones the ChaCha and the Salsa. Each included a new and unique implementation with the social networking giant Facebook. As…
Read MoreOakley 3D Glasses Get RealD Certification
If you have seen a 3D movie in the theater chances are the flick used RealD technology to get the 3D effects. Oakley has announced…
Read MoreNetgear N300 DGN2200M Router With 3G Backup Ships
We talked a bit about the Netgear N300 wireless ADSL2+ modem router back in early January when the thing turned up during CES. That router…
Read MoreSI Swimsuit Models + Badass Cars = WIN!
I would bet that there are lots of geeks out there that like cars and babes. When you combine the two it's hard to not…
Read MoreSeaLife Mini II Dive & Sport Camera Is Seriously Rugged
There are rugged cameras and there are RUGGED cameras. The SeaLife Mini II Dive & Sport is definitely the latter type. This little point and…
Read MoreLockheed Martin GPS Satellite Has Been In Orbit And Working For Over A Decade
GPS is one of the most important technologies we have today and is used by billions of people all around the world each day. Lockheed…
Read MoreSurvey Shows Mobile Users Are Interested In Mobile Payments Despite Privacy And Security Concerns
I would bet that the biggest concerns for people that are interested in mobile payments are security and privacy of their mobile payment information. The…
Read MoreA Produkt Shows Off Kork iPad Case
When it comes to iPad cases they all tend to be made from similar material like plastic or silicon. A few are made from leather…
Read MoreNokia Won't Have Windows Phone OS On Handsets Until At Least October
One of the biggest surprises to be unveiled so far this year was the announcement by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop that Nokia would be moving…
Read MoreMasterCard Pushing Mobile Payments On iPhone Using iCarte
MasterCard announced this week at MWC 2011 in Spain that it was set to push mobile wireless payments using a MasterCard account and a NFC…
Read MoreSoundmatters FoxLv2 Bluetooth Stereo Speaker For iPhone And iPad
If you enjoy listening to music wherever you go, it's not always convenient to have to wear headphones or earphones. If you want to hear…
Read MorePacifica Media Partners Reports That Pico Projector Sales Doubled In Q4 2010
Pacific Media Partners has announced the numbers for the pico projector market for Q4 2010. The numbers look pretty good for the small projectors with…
Read MorePathpartner Skype 720p And Ittiam 4-Way Video Chat Get TI OMAP4 Demo
Texas Instruments told us they were more interested in showing what their OMAP processors could do than telling us, and the TI booth at MWC…
Read MoreDoubleTwist For Android Media Streaming To Xbox And PS3
The popular DoubleTwist app for Android just got a new update that will allow you to use your Android device like a media server. With…
Read MoreSearchReviews: New App For On-The-Go Product Reviews
Smartphones have given buyers the power to retrieve reviews and information about products as they see them while shopping in stores. SearchReviews launched their app…
Read MoreSesame Street Jumping To Microsoft Kinect
A great new way to keep your kids entertained and healthy is to get them dancing and jumping around with their favorite Sesame Street characters…
Read MoreRhapsody Objects To New Apple Subscriptions Requirements
Apple's new subscription rules first introduced for News Corp.'s "The Daily" has now fully rolled out for everyone. Apple just announced the new subscription model…
Read MoreAT&T Unleashes $49 iPhone 3GS Commercials
With the iPhone no longer exclusive to one carrier, the new competition with Verizon has pushed AT&T to launch a slew of strategic promotions to…
Read MoreOrange Launching Contactless Payments In Q2 For Europe
European carrier Orange announced today that the company will have NFC (near-field communications) services for contactless payments in the UK, Spain, France, and Poland starting…
Read MoreAT&T Will Carry HTC Facebook Phones And More Android Phones Later This Year
It seems like with the end of iPhone exclusivity, AT&T is really broadening its smartphone offerings. The carrier just announced that they will be carrying…
Read MoreHP Clarifies Plans To Expand WebOS On PCs
Some have been wondering what HP meant during its “Think Beyond” event when launched a slew of webOS based devices and announced that it would…
Read MoreSkype Expands To Over 500,000 WiFi Hot Spots
Skype just announced at MWC 2011 that it has expanded its Skype Access coverage to over 500,000 hotspots. The Skype Access service was introduced back…
Read MoreIs Microsoft's Zune On The Way Out?
With all the talk about Windows Phone 7 recently, many people are starting to wonder why Zune hasn't been mentioned at all. It seems logical…
Read MoreApple's New App Store Rules Impact Amazon's Kindle App
Apple's new app store subscription plan, specifying that Apple will take a 30% cut of all content sold within apps, will also affect Amazon's Kindle…
Read MoreRecap Of New HTC Smartphones, Tablet, And Announcements From MWC 2011
We had quite a rush of HTC news live from MWC 2011 this morning, so here’s a recap in case you didn’t catch everything. Our…
Read MoreMovie Studio Tablet App At Google Event During Mobile World Congress 2011
We're here at the Google presentation speeches here at Mobile World Congress 2011, and the music is loud. After presenting a monumentally impressive moving infographic…
Read MorePanasonic's First 3D LED TVs Debuting In 2011
In 2011, Panasonic's Viera TV line will include the brand's first 3D LED TVs. The DT30 series will include two TVs, the 32-inch TX-L37DT30, and…
Read MoreSolider In Afghanistan Uses Recycled Materials To Make Awesome Action Figures
PFC Rupert Valero, stationed at Khandahar, Afghanistan, has been using his spare time to build robots and action figures out of found recycled materials. He…
Read MoreHP Pre 2 Starts Selling At Verizon February 17
If you can't wait until later this year for HP's Pre 3, the Pre 2 may still be a good option as it will be…
Read MoreZTE Skate 4.3 Hands-On
ZTE isn't generally recognized for its own brand, instead providing low-cost devices - often with Android on them - for carriers to rebrand and push…
Read MoreHuawei IDEOS S7 Slim Hands-On; X3, HiLink & Mobile WiFi Official
Huawei's IDEOS S7 Slim isn't exactly a tricky proposition to understand: take the original IDEOS S7, shave some heft off the chassis and switch out…
Read MoreShuttle Introduces Two New Mini-PC Models
The Mini-PC maker is about to release two new barebone systems on Intel’s “Sandy Bridge”. The XPC Barebone SH67H3 and SH67H7 will support Intel’s i3,…
Read MoreWorldGSM At MWC 2011: Mobile Data For Impoverished, Isolated Villages
Since you're reading SlashGear, you almost certainly don't live in an isolated village in rural Africa. But if you do, you're almost certainly connecting to…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 Hands-On
Samsung's Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 isn't the only Galaxy S family PMP the company has that's new at MWC 2011 this year; there's also a…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 Hands-On
All eyes were on Samsung's larger Galaxy Tab 10.1 at MWC 2011, but if you judge a Dell Streak 5 a tablet by virtue of…
Read MoreHTC ChaCha And HTC Salsa Hands-On [Video]
Looks like we spoke too soon on the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa; while the company first told us they only had a couple of…
Read MoreMeeGo Tablet UI Hands-On [Video]
After a generally apathetic response to MeeGo's new tablet UI yesterday, we thought we should stop by the booth and check out the system for…
Read MoreApple App Store Subscriptions System Gets Official
Hardly a great surprise, since we saw it used on The Daily and Apple VP Eddy Cue said it was coming soon, but Apple has…
Read MoreRumor: Apple To Give Next iPhone A 4-Inch Screen
A new rumor has surfaced that claims the next iPhone will have a larger 4-inch screen. The rumor comes by way of component supplier sources…
Read MoreSandForce Ships A Million SF-1500 And SF-1200 SSD Processors In First Year
SandForce has announced that at the closing of the first full year that its SSD processors SF-1500 and SF-1200 have been on the market they…
Read MoreKingston Unveils New Secure DataTraveler 4000 And DataTraveler Vault Privacy Edition Flash Drives
Kingston has announced a pair of new secure flash drives for enterprise and business customers that carry sensitive data that needs to be encrypted. The…
Read MoreSanDisk Providing microSD Cards For MetroPCS Android Smartphones
We mentioned last week that MetroPCS was getting its first Android smartphone on the LTE network called the Samsung Galaxy Indulge. The phone sounds interesting…
Read MoreSakar Licenses NERF Brand For Lots Of Electronic Gear
NERF has been around for a long time with all sorts of stuff made from foam. I would bet most of us are familiar with…
Read MoreHTC ChaCha And HTC Salsa Eyes-On
HTC has locked the single HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa prototype units here at MWC 2011 behind glass, and they're not allowing our Facebook-addicted fingers…
Read MoreSonim XP3300 Force Has Longest Talk Time In The World
Sonim has unveiled a new rugged mobile phone at MWC 2011 that it claims to have the world's longest talk time called the XP3300 Force.…
Read MoreLeapFrog Unveils New LeapPad Explorer Learning Tablet For Kids
LeapFrog has been making some really interesting and high-tech learning toys for kids for a long time. These toys are often a little geek's first…
Read MoreBroadcom BCM2077x Bluetooth Chip Family Surfaces In Spain
Broadcom is always on hand at MWC with new chipsets for all sorts of uses. One of the new unveilings that the company has at…
Read MoreOnLive Cloud Gaming On HTC Flyer [Video]
Last week HTC announced that they would make a $40 million dollar investment in the cloud gaming service company OnLive. Today at their press conference…
Read MoreAirspan Air4G Base Station Integrates WiMax And LTE Connectivity Into One Device
Airspan is showing off its new Air4G base station at MWC 2011 in Spain this week. The new base station is a cool device that…
Read MoreHTC Flyer Live [Video]
HTC's Flyer promises to bring another new angle to the Android tablet marketplace, with its stylus input and HTC's focus on note-taking and content creation.…
Read MoreHTC Incredible S Hands-On [Video]
Of all of HTC's new devices at MWC 2011, the handset we're least convinced with is the HTC Incredible S. The company's "inside-out" style reminds…
Read MoreHTC Wildfire S Hands-On
The HTC Wildfire S is the company's cheapest phone at MWC 2011, but it feels considerably better than the Wildfire it replaces. Gone is the…
Read MoreJabra Shows Off Bluetooth Gear At MWC 2011
Jabra has shown off some of its cool new Bluetooth gear at MWC 2011. Among the gear that is being shown off at the show…
Read MoreEpson Announces New ES1000 Ultraportable Projector Screen
There are loads of ultraportable projectors on the market today that business users and others can take with them on the road easily to give…
Read MoreHTC And Qualcomm Announce Multi-Core Partnership
This morning at HTC's Mobile World Congress 2011 press conference, Dr. Paul Jacob's announced that the two companies are working on developing multi-core devices. HTC…
Read MoreHTC Desire S Hands-On [Video]
We've just grabbed some hands-on time with the HTC Desire S, and the unibody update has done nothing to diminish the best-selling smartphone's charm. Broadly…
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg: "We're Going To See Multiple Facebook Devices This Year"
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been featured at the HTC MWC 2011 press event this morning, discussing the new HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa. Appearing…
Read MoreHTC Video Chat App Revealed
HTC has shown off a brief demo of its home-grown video chat app for Android, as loaded onto the HTC Desire S and the HTC…
Read MoreHTC Sense Updated: High-Res Display Support, More
HTC has announced a new version of HTC Sense for superphones, with portrait and landscape orientation support, and specially coded for high-resolution displays like the…
Read MoreStylus Wars: HTC Strikes Back
The HTC Flyer is an anomaly. So far, stylus-driven tablets have either been bargain-basement slabs with resistive touchscreens and hair-tearing usability, or expensive Windows-based machines…
Read MoreHTC ChaCha And HTC Salsa Facebook Phones Debut
HTC has announced a pair of Facebook phones at MWC 2011, two affordable Android devices with a focus on social networking. The first of the…
Read MoreHTC Wildfire S Official
The HTC Wildfire S has made its official debut, the updated version of HTC's entry-level Android smartphone. Now running Android 2.4 Gingerbread, the Wildfire S…
Read MoreHTC Desire S Official
HTC has announced the HTC Desire S, the successor to its wildly popular Desire smartphone. Set to go on sale in mid-Q2, the Desire S…
Read MoreHTC Incredible S Official
HTC's Verizon DROID Incredible has spawned a European version, the HTC Incredible S, now packing a GSM radio into its unusually angular casing. HTC describes…
Read MoreHTC Flyer Tablet Official
We were expecting an HTC tablet at MWC 2011, and boy has the company delivered. The HTC Flyer is a 7-inch Android slate based on…
Read MoreMacBook Air 3G Tipped By Apple Survey
A new Apple survey has prompted suggestions that the company is planning a MacBook Air 3G, with integrated high-speed cellular connectivity. The questionnaire, spotted by…
Read MoreIntel Core I7-990X Extreme Edition Is New Hexacore Flagship
Intel has released its latest high-end processor, the Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition, packing six 3.46GHz cores and 12 processing threads. Capable of being overclocked…
Read MoreiPad 2 And iPhone 5 Multi-Core Tipped By iOS Benchmark Tool
Further evidence to suggest the incoming iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will use a new, multi-core processor has emerged, with iOS benchmarking tool Geekbench 2…
Read MoreMeeGo Preview At MWC 2011 Disappoints
Intel previewed MeeGo at MWC 2011 today and to say that industry bloggers were less than impressed would be an understatement. MeeGo is a collaboration…
Read MorePhotojojo Telephoto 8X Lens For Your iPhone Camera
Many of us resort to our iPhones as our main camera for capturing life's memories as they happen in a moments notice. Whether at the…
Read MoreiPad Enterprise Adoption Up To 80% In Fortune 100
The iPad once viewed as simply a consumer device for media consumption is gaining traction at the enterprise level. Some of the largest companies in…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Official
As expected, Samsung has officially announced the Samsung Galaxy S II, the replacement to the much-loved Galaxy S. Based around a 4.27-inch WVGA Super AMOLED…
Read MoreWindows Phone 7 Major Update To Include Multitasking And IE9
Microsoft just announced at the MWC today what lies ahead for Windows Phone 7. Several new features are scheduled for an update due out in…
Read MoreMotorola Xoom $1200 Best Buy Pre-Order Page Pulled
Best Buy had published an ad on their site for taking pre-orders on the Motorola Xoom listing it at $1200. This seemed way over-priced, double…
Read MoreSwingline Unveils Stack-And-Shred Paper Shredder
I bet I am not the only one that gets a sick thrill out of shredding up stuff. Back when I had a real job…
Read MoreQualcomm Makes A Slew Of Announcements At MWC 2011
SlashGear is live at MWC 2011 in Barcelona, where Qualcomm just released a series of announcements about new product releases, including Quad-Core Snapdragon for Next-Gen…
Read MoreApple To Buy $7.8 Billion Worth Of Samsung Components
Reports are that Apple will be purchasing $7.8 billion dollars worth of components from their competitor/partner Samsung. A report from the Wall Street Journal says…
Read MoreOptimus 3D Vs Optimus Tab: Not All HD 3D Video Is Created Equal
When we caught up with LG earlier today, to check out the freshly announced Optimus 3D and Optimus Tab, we couldn't help but wonder about…
Read MoreTwitter Launches Crowdsourced Translation Center To Add Indonesian, Russian, And Turkish
Tweets have been resounding around the world with Twitter already rolled out in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Korean. However, its full steam…
Read MoreNetflix Available Now On Boxee Box
As if to give us a lovely Valentine's Day present, Boxee has gifted us with news that they now support Netflix on their set-up box,…
Read MoreAcer Iconia Tab W500 Tablet Hands-On
Acer's third tablet departs from the Iconia Tab A100 and A500 by virtue of its OS; rather than running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the Acer Iconia…
Read MoreThe Umeox Apollo Solar Powered Cell Phone - With Android
The latest solar powered cell phone was just announced at Mobile World Congress in Spain, the Umeox Apollo. The phone runs on Android, and would…
Read MoreEPOS Ultrasonic Pen Turns Your Table Into A Tablet [Video]
Texas Instrument's OMAP4 platform, star of MWC 2010, is now filtering out onto the market in devices like the LG Optimus 3D and BlackBerry PlayBook,…
Read MoreTexas Instruments OMAP4 Gesture Recognition
Texas Instruments was showing gesture recognition back at MWC 2010, but with OMAP4 the system has really come of age. The chipset - to be…
Read MoreIntel Shipping XMM 6260 HSPA+ Modem, Introduces LTE XMM 7060
Intel announced on Monday that it will begin shipping the XMM 6260 platform to key partners. The plaform supports HSPA+ networks with download speeds up…
Read MoreAcer Iconia Tab A100 Hands-On
Earlier we reported from MWC 2011 with a hands-on of the Acer Iconia Tab A500. Well, now we have a hands-on with its little brother,…
Read MoreOff The Burning Platform And Into The Holding Pattern? WP7 Not Ready
After all of the excitement surrounding Nokia's move to abandon Symbian (the burning platform) and move to Windows Phone 7, there might be a long…
Read MoreBook Listings On Amazon Could Indicate July Launch Of Mac OS X Lion
Book listings on Amazon.co.uk could indicate that Mac OS X Lion will be launched in July or August of this year. The books include Mac…
Read MoreAT&T Clearance On iPad Accessories To Make Way For iPad 2?
All the rumors about an upcoming iPad 2 may just be validated with AT&T's massive clearance on all current iPad accessories. The sale starts today…
Read MoreWorld's Smallest Engraving On Razor's Edge
Graham Short, after 150 attempts, has succeeded in etching the words "Nothing Is Impossible" on the edge of a Wilkinson Sword razor blade. The engraving…
Read MoreT-Mobile G-Slate Hands-On [Video]
After a brief on-stage appearance at CES 2011, T-Mobile has brought along the LG G-Slate to MWC 2011 to launch alongside its European Optimus Pad…
Read MoreMIT Lab Creates Recompose, A Gesture Controlled Surface
There are more ways for using your Kinect than just playing games. Some folks over at MIT managed to create an actuated surface that can…
Read MoreSamsung Dumping Own Processors In Future Super Phones?
Yesterday Samsung announced that their latest tablet the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be running NVIDIA's dual core Tegra 2 processor. However at the bottom of…
Read MoreI Would Never Buy An HDTV From A Brick-And-Mortar Again
Each day, I’m usually presented with a very simple question that requires an extremely involved answer: “What television should I buy?” As one might expect,…
Read MoreBuild Your Own Telepresence Robot For $500
Remember that Vgo telepresence robot for the kid that couldn't go to school? The one that cost the school $6000 plus $1200 a year service…
Read MoreLG Partners With YouTube 3D
LG announced at their press conference this morning here at Mobile World Congress 2011 their new Optimus 3D smart phone. This device's claim to fame…
Read MoreAcer Iconia Tab A500 Hands-On
Acer's Iconia Smart was something of a hybrid, but the company also has a number of new slates for MWC 2011 that are definitely all…
Read MoreLG Optimus Pad Hands-On [Video]
Another day, another Honeycomb tablet. After the XOOM and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 there's a certain sense of familiarity about the LG Optimus Pad, aka…
Read MoreLG Optimus 3D Hands-On [Video]
LG is the first to admit its 2010 range of devices wasn't exactly the most inspiring; as the company said to us at MWC 2011…
Read MoreAcer Iconia Smart Hands-On [Video]
When does a phone become a tablet? The Dell Streak 5 blurred the boundaries with its 5-inch WVGA display, and now the Acer Iconia Smart…
Read MoreSierra Wireless AirCard 753S And 754S Debut At MWC 2011
Sierra Wireless has announced a pair of new WiFi hotspots at MWC 2011 in Barcelona. The two new hotspots are the AirCard 753S and the…
Read MoreMWC 2011: SwissQual's Diversity Ranger Is The Backpack Of The Future
Looking to do some network benchmarking in the Swiss Alps? Want to test which wireless network gets the best signal in isolated volcano islands? Probably…
Read MoreNetgear Announces MF100H Second-Gen Femtocell At MWC 2011
Netgear has announced a new femtocell at MWC 2011 in Spain today. The new Femtocell is the MF100H and it is a second-generation femtocell that…
Read MoreNVIDIA And Atmel To Collaborate On Large Touchscreen Tablet PCs
NVIDIA and Atmel have announced that they will be working together on some large format tablet computers that will be coming to market. The announcement…
Read MoreAcer Iconia Smart Android Smartphone Debuts At MWC 2011
Acer has unveiled one of the most interesting product I have ever seen from the company at MWC 2011. Acer is more a computer firm…
Read MoreLG Optimus 3D Official
LG has officially announced the LG Optimus 3D, the company's 3D-capable smartphone based on a Texas Instruments 1GHz dual-core OMAP4 processor and a 5-megapixel dual-lens…
Read MoreNokia CEO Stephen Elop At MWC 2011
All eyes have been on Nokia over the past few days, and SlashGear has just finished a sit-down session with CEO Stephen Elop to talk…
Read MoreMotorola To Launch Xoom In Europe In Q2
We have been excited about the hardware inside the Xoom tablet from Motorola and the fact that it will be one of the first Android…
Read MoreNokia In Talks With Verizon Over CDMA Possibility; Is "Considering Everything"
Nokia has been in talks with Verizon Wireless in the US, CEO Stephen Elop has confirmed to us, and while the Finnish company has no…
Read MoreRIM Announces Two More PlayBook 4G Models
RIM announced the PlayBook tablet a while back and modest production of the tablet started late in January. RIM is at MWC 2011 in Spain…
Read MoreMotorola Debuts Pro Smartphone At MWC 2011
MWC 2011 is underway and Motorola has made its first announcement of the show with the unveiling of the Motorola Pro smartphone. The smartphone will…
Read MoreNokia CEO: Microsoft Decision Made The Night Before; Intel Knew Prior To Event
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has revealed that the company's board only settled on adopting Windows Phone and a Microsoft partnership the night before the Friday…
Read MoreSnapdragon Refreshed: Up To 2.5GHz Quadcore With 3D & LTE
Qualcomm has officially announced its new, next-gen Snapdrgon range of mobile chipsets, with single-, dual- and quad-core processors using new micro-architecture. The single-core MSM8930, dual-core…
Read MoreKinect Connects To Android For Reading Depth Info
Kinect hacks are coming with geeks taking the device that Microsoft intended for the Xbox 360 console and hacking it to do things Microsoft never…
Read MoreLG Optimus Pad Gets Official
LG has officially announced the LG Optimus Pad, in effect the T-Mobile G-Slate for the non-US audience. Based on the same 8.9-inch 1280 x 768…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Hands-On [Video]
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 all but leaked in its entirety over the weekend, but we were still excited to see what the company had done to bring…
Read MorePandora Looks Beyond Music In IPO
Plagued by costly music rights fees, online radio service Pandora looked beyond music in their multi million dollar IPO filing this week. The online service,…
Read MoreAnother Legal Round For DISH And TIVO
DISH Network has scored a victory in it's legal struggle against TIVO. A judge has ruled that since the field is densely populated with DVRs…
Read MoreWill The Playstation Move Go Open Source?
It's no secret that Sony's much heralded wireless controller, the Playstation Move, was destroyed in sales by the Microsoft Kinect, a sensor device which reads…
Read MoreThe World's Largest Multi-Touch Screen Developed
Researchers at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, have developed the world's largest, curved multi-touch screen. The screen, measuring 33 feet wide, incorporates 6…
Read MoreGroupon Pulls Controversial Ads
Remember those strange, controversial Groupon Ads that got everyone upset because they poked fun at raising awareness for such causes as Free Tibet and Saving…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Neo Hands-On [Video]
Sony Ericsson's Neo feels more than a little familiar, just like the Vivaz did all the way back in January 2010, but this is really…
Read MoreIntel MeeGo Teaser Tips MWC 2011 Smartphone & Tablet Reveal
Intel may have been in the dark about Nokia's re-evaluated plans for MeeGo, but that hasn't stopped them planning some noise about the open-source OS in…
Read MoreSony Ericsson XPERIA Play Hands-On [Video]
Sony Ericsson's XPERIA Play has been so well leaked already, there's a strange sense of familiarity with the gaming smartphone despite it having only made…
Read MoreSony Ericsson XPERIA Play Debuts
Sony Ericsson has officially launched the XPERIA Play, its PlayStation gaming phone, at MWC 2011. As we've already seen well previewed, the XPERIA Play has…
Read MoreSony Ericsson XPERIA Pro Slaps QWERTY On The Neo
Sony Ericsson's surprise smartphone for MWC 2011 was the XPERIA Pro, a business-centric handset running Android and packing a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Like the XPERIA…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Neo Packs 8MP And Gingerbread
Sony Ericsson has officially announced the Neo, its photo-centric Android Gingerbread smartphone, at MWC 2011 today. Effectively an Android update to the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, with…
Read MoreSonos' Android Controller App Gets Hands-On Demo [Video]
It's ShowStoppers, the unofficial pre-MWC event, and we've just caught up with the Sonos team to take a look at the latest beta of their…
Read MoreNokia CEO Left Holding Microsoft Shares
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop currently holds an estimated $3.18m worth of Microsoft shares, making him the eighth largest individual shareholder in the company, and giving…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review- Week 7 2011
Welcome to another edition of the SlashGear Week in Review! Before we get into the meat today, I want to note that SlashGear will be…
Read MoreGalaxy Tab 2 To Premier At MWC?
Samsung might unveil the second generation of the Galaxy Tab at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Pocket-lint says they have exclusive information about…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S 2 Sighted & Detailed; Galaxy Tab 2 To Be 200g Lighter Than iPad
Details of Samsung's various MWC 2011 wares have leaked, ahead of the company's big reveal tomorrow evening in Barcelona. First spotted in a low-res press…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II And Galaxy Tab 10.1" Officially Pictured
Samsung hasn't really managed to keep a lid on either the Samsung Galaxy S II dual-core smartphone (aka the Galaxy S 2) or the new…
Read More$1,200 Motorola XOOM Listing: Madness Or Mistake?
Back when we thought the Motorola XOOM might be $800, we wondered if the company had priced the Android 3.0 Honeycomb slate out of contention.…
Read MoreAT&T Motorola ATRIX 4G Pre-Orders Open
As promised, AT&T has thrown open pre-orders for the Motorola ATRIX 4G, ahead of the dual-core smartphone's release on or around March 6. Priced at…
Read MoreLG Optimus 3D Dual-Core 1GHz OMAP4 And GPU Prowess Detailed
LG's MWC 2011 press conference isn't until Monday, but the eager Koreans obviously couldn't wait to spill the beans on what they're bringing to the…
Read MoreMobile World Congress 2011 Full Coverage LIVE On SlashGear! [We're Here!]
We're just pulling in to the city that's soon to be known as the Town of Trillion Cellphones - Barcelona! We're here for World Mobile…
Read MoreWhy Nokia's CEO Chose Microsoft
In the end, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop really didn’t have a choice. When he surveyed the competitive landscape, he found that he was boxed into…
Read MoreIntel Blindsided By Nokia Windows Phone Deal; N9-01 Could Debut At MWC 2011
Nokia's deal with Microsoft took up most of the news cycle on Friday - there's always our "Everything you need to know" roundup, if you're…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Dropping June For $699?
HP is reportedly aiming for a June release of the TouchPad tablet, according to the latest leaks, with a price that undercuts Motorola's XOOM by…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: February 11, 2011
Nokia ruled the day today, their Microsoft partnership announcement reverberating through the whole day from Google offering sacked Nokia engineers a lifeline to Nokia Workers…
Read MoreBoston Developing "Street Bump" App To Report All Potholes In Real Time
The city of Boston is developing an app - first of all, I didn't realize cities developed apps, and that seems pretty neat. Second, this…
Read MoreLG Triptych: Phone Morphs Into Tablet Concept Design
Designer, Edward Hale, recently shared some images of an LG concept phone called the Triptych that can morph into a tablet. This sounds familiar harking…
Read MoreAT&T Offers A Sweet Perfect Pair Deal For Valentines
If you're trying not to go the traditional route of flowers and candy this Valentine’s day, then you may be glad to know that AT&T…
Read MoreRovio Takes On Nokia With An Angry Call To Arms
In a move that can only be called "absolutely insane yet somehow very sensible," Rovio has re-tweeted a joke sent out by mobile entrepreneur Jan…
Read MoreDuke Nukem Forever Collectors Edition Revealed
For those of you wishing there wouldn't have been a gigantic span of around 12 years between now and the last Duke Nukem title, here's…
Read MoreHTC Thunderbolt At Best Buy Price Confirmed
We mentioned before that the HTC Thunderbolt release date was confirmed for Best Buy but did not have a confirmed price at the time. For…
Read MoreIntel To Ship Fixed Cougar Point Chipsets February 14th
Intel’s flawed chipsets has caused some headaches for its OEM partners in the past weeks as they’ve scrambled to issue recall and customer support announcements…
Read MoreApple Improving Notifications On Next iOS
Apple's iOS really exemplifies their clean and stylish design approach on their devices and software. Save for one small blemish--their notifications system. The pop-up notifications…
Read MoreOrbo Watch Takes Circular Face, E Ink, Tells All
We've got a soft spot for conceptual design in our collective hearts here at SlashGear, and when a bit of industrial design comes along so…
Read MoreNokia Workers In Finland Take Collective Lunch Break In Protest Of Windows Phone 7 Deal
It would appear, according to Finnish paper HS.fi Uutiset that workers at at least one Nokia development location in Tampere, Finland, are walking out in…
Read MoreHitachi Announces 4.5-Inch Display That May Rival Apple's Retina Display
Hitachi has developed a new high-definition LCD display for smartphones that has a pixel density slightly higher than that of Apple's much touted Retina Display.…
Read MoreSony Hints At Withdrawing From iTunes
It was reported today in an Australian newspaper, The Age, that Sony has hinted at withdrawing from Apple’s iTunes store. Sony has in the works…
Read MoreAT&T Rewards iPhone Customers With Bonus 1000 Rollover Minutes
AT&T is going that extra mile to show its iPhone customers how much they appreciate them for not jumping ship to Verizon. Current iPhone users…
Read MoreTarget Offering iPhone 4 Trade-In Service
If you’ve got an on old iPhone 3G or 3GS just begging to be upgraded to an iPhone 4, then you’ve got one more day…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 11 2011
It's shaping up to be a real Nokia day, believe it or not, with Microsoft and Nokia announcing a partnership that they hope will launch…
Read MoreNokia Windows Phone: Everything You Need To Know
Nokia's news today that it would be adopting Microsoft's Windows Phone may have fit in with the rumors, but it still met with significant surprise…
Read MoreAdvent Vega Update Brings Back Flash Player 10.1, And There Was Much Rejoicing
If you'll remember back in December of 2010, there was a bit of an upsetting announcement for those who had or were planning on obtaining…
Read MoreVodafone Webbox Internet Keyboard Plugs Into Your TV [Video]
Vodafone has announced Webbox, an internet-enabled keyboard intended to turn a regular TV into an "internet portal". Based around a 14 x 25 cm QWERTY…
Read MoreMacBook Air Sandy Bridge Refresh Tipped For June
Apple is reportedly planning to refresh its MacBook Air ultraportable with Sandy Bridge processors in June, delayed slightly due to the chipset issues Intel has…
Read MoreAnalysis: Nokia's Huge Bet On Windows Phone 7 Is All Or Nothing
I was getting a sense earlier in the week from contacts of mine close to both Nokia and Microsoft that Nokia was going to pick…
Read MoreNokia Microsoft Partnership Video
We've not been short on news from Nokia and Microsoft's partnership event this morning, with the announcement that the two companies will be working together…
Read MoreSamsung Rebrands Exynos Processor Family: Hummingbird Flies Away
Samsung has rebranded its latest-gen application processor range, which will now be known as Exynos. Incorporating Orion, the Samsung dual-core chip expected to power tablets…
Read MoreApple iPhone 5 And iPad 2 NFC Rumors Debunked By Analyst That Prompted Them
Rumors that Apple is planning a wholesale assault on the NFC ecosystem, with NFC-enabled iPhone 5 and iPad 2 devices together with freely-distributed payment terminals…
Read MoreGoogle Offers Sacked Nokia Engineers A Lifeline
Google hasn't exactly had words of support for Nokia and Microsoft in the run up to today's Windows Phone deal announcement, and the search giant…
Read MoreMeeGo Hardware "Repurposed" For Windows Phone; No WP7 Update For N8 Or E7
Nokia will use hardware, industrial design work and chipsets intended for MeeGo devices for Windows Phone handsets instead, it has been confirmed, as the company…
Read MoreNokia: Big Windows Phone Push In 2012; Increased R&D In Low-End Devices
Nokia has described 2011 and 2012 as "transition years", with Symbian gradually phasing out and the company putting its weight behind Microsoft's platform. According to…
Read MoreNokia Allowed To Modify Windows Phone While Rival OEMs Locked Out
As we suggested earlier today, Nokia has confirmed it will have a hitherto-unseen freedom of customization on Windows Phone, starkly different from the strict limitations…
Read MoreWindows Phone Kills Symbian As Nokia Strategy Shifts
The writing for Symbian is on the wall - or on the slide, at least. As part of its financial presentation today, Nokia has illustrated…
Read MoreMicrosoft Paying Nokia "Hundreds Of Millions" For WP7 Deal?
Microsoft has reportedly offered Nokia "hundreds of millions of dollars worth of engineering assistance and marketing support" in clinching the Windows Phone deal, as part…
Read MoreGeoHot Forced To Hand Over HDD To Sony
George Hotz, known as GeoHot, has really pissed Sony off with the release of his PS3 hack. Sony took him and other hackers of the…
Read MoreBelkin Launches Verizon iPhone 4 Case Line
Belkin has announced that it has a new line of cases that are available that will work with the Verizon iPhone 4. The new cases…
Read MoreEngage WirelessLCD Debuts, Piccard Nowhere To Be Found
I have two kids that are in elementary school and I can tell you that learning is boring for them on the average day. When…
Read MoreUSA Today Uses Microsoft Tag To Get More Interaction From Smartphone Users
Print publications are trying all they can to become more interactive and useful to readers in the age of the internet and with more and…
Read MoreBoogie Board LCD Writing Tablet Heads To Europe
The Boogie Board LCD writing tablet has been around for a while for geeks in the US and back during CES several new colors for…
Read MoreVTech InnoPad Is A Kid's Tablet
My kids are gadget hounds just like me. This Christmas they didn’t want real gadgets, but everything they did want was electronic and interactive for…
Read More"Too Many Players" In Android Led Nokia To Windows Phone
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has confirmed that the company was in discussion with Google over the possibility of using Android on its smartphones, but concerns…
Read MorePowerTrekk Fuel Cell Charger Charges Gadgets Anywhere
PowerTrekk is a small and portable fuel cell that can act as a lightweight charger for people that are away from an outlet for long…
Read MoreNokia Confirms "Substantial Reductions In Employment Around The World"
Nokia has confirmed that there will be job losses as a result of the new partnership with Microsoft. Although no specific numbers are expected to…
Read MoreAntec Rocks Us With The Rockus 2.1 Speaker System
Antec is a name well known in the computer world for making some nice computer cases, power supplies and other gear that computer enthusiasts know…
Read MoreNokia Considering Microsoft And MeeGo For Future Tablets
Nokia's tablet strategy may look to Microsoft's platforms and, according to Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, "what they are currently working on", however the company could…
Read MoreOnkyo Unveils Entry-Level AV Receivers
When it comes to home theater, Onkyo makes some of the coolest gear on the market. The company has unveiled three new entry-level receivers this…
Read MoreMeeGo Focus Shifts To "Future Disruption In Mobile Ecosystem"
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has addressed questions over the future of MeeGo at the company's meeting this morning. Asked whether the platform has become the…
Read More"Weeks And Months" Before Nokia Windows Phone Hardware Reveal
Microsoft and Nokia have declined to say when the first Nokia-developed Windows Phone 7 smartphone will be announced, only saying that there will be more…
Read MoreNokia CEO: Xbox Live On Nokia Phones
"The game has changed from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems" Nokia CEO Stephen Elop insists, taking the stage at the company's…
Read MoreSteve Ballmer: "Nokia Will Do Unique Things On Top Of Windows Phone 7"
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has implied that Nokia will have greater flexibility in how it can customize and modify Windows Phone devices, taking the stage…
Read MoreSharkoon Scorpio 1000 ATX Mid-Tower Case Debuts
Sharkoon has announced its latest product and this time around, it's a cool case called the Scorpio 1000. The chassis is an ATX mid-tower that…
Read MoreLive At Nokia & Microsoft Partnership Event
Nokia's big news is out of the bag already - Microsoft's Windows Phone software on Nokia's hardware - but there's plenty of detail we still…
Read MoreNokia: "Success Requires Speed. We Will Be Swift"
In an open letter from Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer published today, the two chief executives promise to "disrupt" other mobile ecosystems,…
Read MoreNokia Announces Windows Phone Partnership
Nokia has announced a partnership with Microsoft, adopting Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform. In the process, Symbian will become a "franchise platform", while…
Read MoreBlackBerry PlayBook Android App Support Coming In 2H 2011 Tip Insiders
Speculation last month that RIM would adopt an Android app-compatible VM for its BlackBerry PlayBook looks increasingly based on some truth, with a new leak…
Read MoreViewSonic Dual-SIM V350 Phone & Dual-OS ViewPad 10Pro Tablet Outed
ViewSonic has outed at least part of its MWC 2011 line-up ahead of next week's show, with the new ViewSonic V350 Android smartphone and ViewPad…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: February 10, 2011
First get your giggle on in a column by yours truly over on Android Community by the name of Waves of Impact and No Lines…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Launch At Mall Of America - Embarrassing Video
We mentioned earlier today just how underwhelming the over hyped Verizon iPhone 4 launch turned out to be. But saying the lines were modest is…
Read MoreOpera Mini Coming To The iPad
For many iPad users this is welcome news. Opera is planning to introduce a iPad specific version of its popular Opera Mini browser at the…
Read MoreApple Preparing iPhone Nano For $200 Sans Contract?
A report has come out from Bloomberg saying Apple is preparing a smaller version of its popular iPhone for $200 without contract. Its speculated that…
Read MoreImmersion Announces MOTIV Haptics Development Platform
Haptics has become an integral part of UI design when it comes to mobile devices. Those little vibrations and buzzes a user feels when they…
Read MoreOpening iPad Numbers Crush iPod And iPhone
This has to make Apple execs happy. A presentation at Google’s thinkmobile event by Mary Meeker, former Wall St. analyst now at Kleiner Perkins, showed…
Read MoreOnkyo Debuts Two Affordable Home Theater Systems
Onkyo just announced today the release of two new “home-theater-in-a-box” (HTiB) systems for those wanting to indulge but on a budget. The systems feature the…
Read MoreNew 3D Network To Launch On DirecTV
A new 3D channel is setting to premiere this Sunday on DirecTV, making it the third 3D channel on national satellite TV provider. The new…
Read MoreGoogle Bulks Up Sign-In Security
If you’ve ever had your account hacked resulting in a deluge of spam bombarding the inboxes of your friends and family addressed from you, then…
Read MoreLG VL600 LTE Modem For Verizon Is Now Mac-Compatible
If you have an LG VL600 LTE, rejoice! After being promised an update in early December, LG's VL600 LTE dongle now has Mac drivers. You…
Read MoreVerizon Gifts Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers With A Replacement iPhone 4
Earlier today, Superbowl winning Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers sent out a tweet complaining about his terrible iPhone connection, saying that he'd like to…
Read MoreNo Kidding? Skull Implanted Camera Gives Professor A Headache
NYU professor Wafaa Bilal had a camera implanted in his skull last fall as part of a year-long art project, and now it is giving…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Cheaper For Apple To Build
The new Verizon iPhone 4 costs 9% less for Apple to build than the AT&T iPhone 4, according to a teardown analysis report by IHS…
Read MoreiPhone Password Broken In 6 Minutes
If you feel safe that your iPhone is secure because you set a password, this might make you a little nervous. Six minutes is all…
Read MoreGoogle Closing In On Next New Networks
Google is getting close to acquiring Next New Networks (NNN), an online video studio and home to popular web shows such as Barely Political, Channel…
Read MoreGoogle TV Is Dying, And An Apple TV With Apps Will Finish It Off
You remember Google TV, right? It was supposed to be the software, running on several different devices, that would reinvent how we consume entertainment in…
Read MoreObama: "Connecting Every Corner Of America To The Digital Age"
During an address at Northern Michigan University in Marquette on Thursday afternoon, President Barack Obama said the US will spend $5 billion to build next-generation…
Read MoreYahoo Announces LiveStand Digital Newstand
Yahoo has unveiled details on its latest push into the mobile media market with Livestand, a digital newsstand platform that will land sometime in the…
Read MoreMicrosoft Internet Explorer 9 RC Released
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 is looking promising and today they just unleashed the RC (release candidate) version for all to download. This RC build is…
Read MoreApple TV To Support Gaming?
Strings inside Apple's iOS 4.3 beta firmware that'll be used on Apple TV have been shown to display clues leading to one possibility: the ability…
Read MoreIs The Market Too Crowded For webOS To Be Successful?
Let’s start off by remembering that the smartphone market is still relatively early. Even though it is one of the hottest topics around, smartphones as…
Read MoreSymbian Still Number One Smartphone Platform According To Gartner
With the explosion of smartphones, most of the focus has been on the iOS and Android platforms. However, neither of them is the top smartphone…
Read MorewebOS 3.0 ENYO SDK Released To Developers
Yesterday was the biggest day HP / Palm have had in a long time, due in no small part to the release of webOS 3.0.…
Read MoreiPad Mini In The Works?
With all the absolutely absurd iPad refresh rumors permeating the digital air as of late, it's been difficult to sort out what's slightly possible from…
Read MoreIDAPT i1 Eco Charges Your Gadgets While Saving The World
IDAPT is pretty keen on universal charging, but with its latest model there's a dash of earth-friendliness in there too. The IDAPT i1 Eco boasts…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 10 2011
It's iPhone 4 day. This phone has been out for months on AT&T's mobile network, but the release on Verizon will today create a whole…
Read MoreWiFi-Only Motorola XOOM Clears FCC
No glamor shots or details, but what looks to be Motorola's WiFi-only version of the XOOM has been spotted crossing the FCC. WirelessGoodness caught the…
Read MoreAndroid Community Wants Writers!
Do you think you have what it takes to be a member of our sister site Android Community's team of writer/editors? Do you like odd…
Read MoreAmazon App For Windows Phone 7 Released
Amazon has outed its latest mobile shopping app, and now Windows Phone 7 users can know the wallet-draining usefulness of having an easy way to…
Read MoreSonos Controller For Android Due March With Voice Control [Video]
Sonos has announced its latest controller app, this time headed to Android smartphones. The Sonos Controller for Android will hit the Market in late March…
Read MoreNokia CEO: "It's Not Just Differentiation But Sustainable Differentiation"
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has insisted that the decision over the company's future platform strategy must enable long-term viability and partnership opportunities, rather than simply…
Read MoreScythe Gouriki 3 PSU Breaks Cover
Scythe has a lot of cooling gear for CPUs and the company makes more than just cooling products. The latest new product to hit market…
Read More7-Year-Old Boy Wins eBay Auction For Harrier Jet, Dad Not Happy
When I was a kid the coolest jet to me was the Harrier. It wasn’t the fastest jet or the best looking, but the thing…
Read MoreM16 Golf Ball Launcher Is Mr. Driving Range Ball Picker Upper's Worst Nightmare
If they ever remake Caddy Shack, this is the weapon that Bill Murray's character will use to hunt gophers. Feast your eyes on the golf…
Read MoreStabucks Mobile Payment App Easily Scammed By Simple Screengrab
It appears someone at the dev center for the Starbucks app for smartphones that allows payments from mobile phones should have thought things through a…
Read MoredB Logic EP-100 Earphones Ship With SPL2 Healthy-Listening Tech
Earphones are one of the things that most people will replace right away when they get a new music phone or digital audio player. The…
Read MoreQualcomm's HP Touchpad-Powering Snapdragon APQ8060 Detailed
HP's new Touchpad tablet is the first device to publicly commit to Qualcomm's new Snapdragon APQ8060, and now the chipset company is spilling the beans…
Read MoreMophie Juice Pack Air For Verizon iPhone 4 Pre-Ordering Now
I think we can all agree that the small change to the buttons on the Verizon iPhone 4 is confusing when it comes to finding…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 In Stores Now
It's Thursday, February 10that means it's Verizon iPhone 4 day. Stores are opening across the US at 7am this morning for new subscribers, looking for…
Read MoreNokia Eyeing Boutique Developers For Halo Apps; In Adobe Dev-Tool Talks?
Nokia is reportedly considering a spending spree on boutique application developers, in an attempt to create a halo package of apps for future devices. Furthermore,…
Read MoreClub3D Unveils New Radeon HD 6950 Video Card
If you are in the market for a new AMD branded video card for your gaming rig, Club 3D has a new offering that you…
Read MoreHTC Facebook Phone With Dedicated Shortcut Key At MWC Tips Source
HTC is expected to join INQ in launching a Facebook phone at MWC 2011 next week, though the Android-based device will not be branded with…
Read MoreBroadcom's New BCM21654 Baseband Processor For Android Debuts
When it comes to smartphones running Android or any other OS as the components inside the phone get cheaper the price of the handset overall…
Read MoreiChair iPhone 4 Cases Work For AT&T And Verizon Smartphones
If you have your eye on a new iPhone 4 on the Verizon or AT&T network things can get a bit confusing when it comes…
Read MoreVerbatim Color-Tunable OLED Lighting Debuts
Generally when we are talking about Verbatim we are talking about something along the lines of flash drives and media sharing gear for computers like…
Read MoreActivision Ends Guitar Hero And True Crime Franchises
The music game genre helped many musicians get back into the mainstream and titles like Guitar Hero and Rock Band were some of the strongest…
Read MoreiPad 3 This Fall Tips Latest Batch Of Frantic Apple Refresh Rumors
The iPad 2 isn't even official yet, but already the speculation over the third-generation version of the Apple tablet has begun in earnest. Prompted by…
Read MoreNokia Close To Windows Phone 7 Deal Report Insiders
With only a day to go until its capital markets event on Friday, Nokia is reportedly close to announcing a software deal that would see…
Read MoreClearwire Reportedly Shutting Down Retail Operations
Clearwire is hurting for cash and has been implementing strategies to save up since fourth quarter last year with cutting jobs and canceling some retail…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: February 9, 2011
Today was HP / Palm / webOS day, believe it or not, as the special event we were very much live at revealed a triad…
Read MoreBlackBerry PlayBook 16GB For $499 At Office Depot
More and more details about availability and pricing for BlackBerry’s PlayBook are popping up and the latest is from Office Depot where the 7-inch tablet…
Read MoreINQ Mobile's First Attempt At Facebook Phone
Facebook has been denying rumors that they are preparing a self-branded phone to compete with Apple and Google. Instead, they say their horizontal approach is…
Read MoreHP Touchpad Live
It feels like we've been waiting for the HP TouchPad ever since we first used webOS, making no bones of the fact that Palm's platform…
Read MoreMatrox Introduces Edge Overlap For Multi-Projector Use
If you want to show a video or presentation over a large surface, but just can’t get all your projectors to line up correctly, Matrox…
Read MoreApple iPad Vs HP TouchPad Tablet Matchup
Today we were treated to a presentation by HP that might completely turn webOS around, out of the dark spaces of everyone's doubt centers and…
Read MoreVerizon Completes First Ever Voice Over LTE Call On A Commercial Network
Today Verizon Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone has reported that Verizon has accomplished the very first VoLTE (voice over LTE) call ever on a commercial…
Read MoreTwitter Record Set By Super Bowl XLV
Super Bowl XLV has already broken the record for the most watched program with 111 million viewers, besting last year’s mark of 106.5 million. The…
Read MoreiBooks Update 1.2.1 For iPhone/iPad Available Today
If you've been enjoying some good books on your iPhone or iPad then most likely you've been using Apple's free ebook reader, the iBooks app.…
Read MoreAT&T Strikes Back: Atrix Laptop Dock Not Pricey Next To Tablets
It's no secret: the Atrix laptop bundle is rather pricey at $499. And that's after a $100 rebate, so you'll be setting down $599 in-store.…
Read MoreHP Veer Hands-On
HP's new Veer may be the entry-level model in the refreshed webOS range, but that doesn't mean it's an unimpressive handset in its own right.…
Read MoreTwitter User Sinks Sony's Battleship, Leaks PS3 Hacking Code Via PR Guy
People who work online can still have a terrible day at the office. Kevin Butler, Sony corporate spokesman, is having one right now. A PS3…
Read MoreApple Compromises On iPad Subscriptions
Apple's used to telling people how things are done, from how Flash media should no longer exist to how you should only hold your iPhone…
Read MoreHP Pre3 Hands-On
The Pre was groundbreaking for Palm, the Pre 2 was too little, too late, and so the Pre3 has a big challenge ahead of it.…
Read MoreThe MPAA Might Cut Off Google's Internet Access
We live in a society of laws that no man- or corporation- is above. And when a company sort-of breaks the law in a virtually…
Read MoreiPod Classic Ranked 5th Most Popular Mp3 Player Of 2010
Before we start mourning the anticipated death of the iPod Classic, NDP Group offered up some sales numbers indicating that the classic device may have…
Read MoreStarbucks Rewards Card Mobile Payment App Has A Huge Flaw
We reported last month that Starbucks had just instituted a nationwide mobile payment plan. Customers merely scanned their gift card barcodes in to an app…
Read MoreAndroid 2.3.3 Adds NFC Capabilities To Developers
The world takes another baby step towards NFC ubiquity today, with the announcement of new NFC capabilities for Android developers with the 2.3.3 update. Devs…
Read MoreMotorola ATRIX 4G Unboxing And Hands-On
CES 2011 had its share of stand-out products, and Motorola's name was on a number of them. The Motorola ATRIX 4G has dropped onto the…
Read MoreHP webOS PCs, Printers & More Promised
HP may have a new range of webOS devices today - the HP Veer, HP Pre3 and HP TouchPad - but that's not the end…
Read MoreTouchPad Introduces webOS Video Calling, Integrated Seamlessly With Phone Calls
Although this feature has been a staple for a couple other notable mobile OS groups for at least several months now, webOS has today introduced…
Read MoreHP TouchPad webOS 3.0 Tablet Official
We've been calling for a webOS-based tablet for years now, and HP has finally delivered with the HP TouchPad. The first of a new HP…
Read MoreHP Pre3: 1.4GHz webOS Flagship
HP has officially announced the third-generation Pre, the HP Pre3, the company's new flagship webOS smartphone. Based around a 3.58-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen…
Read MoreHP Veer Shrinks webOS To 2.6-Inches
HP has officially announced the HP Veer, the smallest webOS smartphone to date at around the size of a credit card. Billed as bridging the…
Read MoreAndroid Beats Apple In US Smartphone Share
Just in case the IDC study showing that smartphones now outsell PCs wasn't enough of a rush for you, ComScore has a new study out…
Read MorePalm Pre 2 Hitting Verizon Tomorrow
Just announced from the HP Palm Think Beyond webOS event is that the long speculated Palm Pre 2 is finally hitting Verizon tomorrow. The device…
Read MorewebOS Touch To Share URLs, Calls, And More Between Pre3 And TouchPad
We're live at the webOS 3.0 / Palm / HP event today covering all the news that's blasting forth from the groups, all of it…
Read MoreAmazon Kindle For webOS TouchPad Confirmed
Amazon has announced its latest Kindle app, this time targeted specifically at HP's new TouchPad tablet. As on the iPad, Android and other platforms, the…
Read MorePalm TouchPad Keyboard Offers Several Sizes Out Of Box
The brand new Palm TouchPad, just announced at HP's event today on February 9 2011, is said to be featuring a variable size keyboard, adjustable…
Read MorePalm Made HP Relevant Again
It’s no secret that mobile, namely smart phones and tablets, is the hottest topic in the tech industry today. It’s almost as if companies who…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Confirmed: HP Topaz Tablet Gets Early Outing
We're eagerly waiting to see what HP has in store for us at its webOS event in just a few hours time, but thanks to…
Read MoreAT&T Announces Unlimited Calling To Any Mobile Number In America
AT&T is stepping up their game and getting very competitive as the battle between the original iPhone carrier and the new challenger Verizon ensues. AT&T…
Read MoreHP webOS Event Starting Now!
HP's big surprises - the HP Pre3, HP Veer and HP TouchPad - may have been revealed already, but that doesn't mean we're not interested…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Available At Walmart Tomorrow
With the Verizon iPhone 4 launch feeling like just yesterday—preorders started a week ago—the device on the new carrier is already heading over to Walmart.…
Read MoreHP Pre3 And HP Veer webOS Smartphones Leak
Hot on the heels of the HP TouchPad tablet comes yet another leak ahead of the official webOS launch, this time about a new smartphone.…
Read MoreGoogle VP Snipes At Nokia With Turkey Trash Talk
Google VP of engineering Vic Gundotra has made what seems to be a dig at Nokia ahead of the company's Capital Markets Day event on…
Read MoreApple OLED Ambitions Tipped By Patent Applications?
Apple has filed three OLED patent applications, leading to speculation that the company is looking to the low-power, color-rich panels for future devices. Patently Apple…
Read MoreMetroPCS Samsung Galaxy Indulge Adds 4G LTE To Android
If MetroPCS's 4G LTE service appealed, but the Samsung Craft didn't, then worry not: the carrier has a second Samsung LTE smartphone for you, and…
Read MoreNikon P300 Promises Image Quality In Any Light
It can be hard to get a decent photograph in dark or really bright environments. The image ends up too dark or too bright and…
Read MoreNokia N9-00 Reportedly Axed As MeeGo Flails
Nokia has reportedly cancelled its first MeeGo smartphone project, believed to be the N9-00 QWERTY-toting slider first spotted midway through 2010. Reuters' sources couldn't give a…
Read MoreDell Adamo Gets The Axe
Over the last few months, we have seen the Dell Adamo price cut to impressively low levels. Apparently, the pricing move wasn't to position itself…
Read MoreDzyPlastic Shows Off Three New Series 2 Android Robot Toys
If you are an Android geek that likes toys, you are in for a treat with the three new DzyPlastic Android mascot toys that have…
Read MoreFujitsu Milbeaut Image Processors Hit Gen 6 With MB91696AM
Fujitsu has announced a new sixth generation of its Milbeaut imaging processors has debuted. The debut comes with the unveiling of the new MB91696AM imaging…
Read MorePlanar Ultra-High Resolution Wall Display Has 5760 X 2160 Resolution
I know this Planar MegaPixel Wall is designed for corporate and military type use, but I really, really want this thing on the wall in…
Read More3LCD Hits 70M Chips Shipped In Projector Market
If you hop over to a forum, where home theater fans that use projectors hang out the debate between 3LCD and DLP is as fevered…
Read MoreIBM And Samsung Electronics Tie Up With Patent Cross-License Agreement
IBM and Samsung Electronics are a couple of the largest companies in the electronics world and between the two of them they hold a plethora…
Read MoreDell Latitude XT3 Convertible Tablet PC On Video
Dell has given up the goods on some of its new business notebooks and among those notebooks is the somewhat interesting Latitude XT3 convertible tablet…
Read MoreCamera Phones Of The Future Look To Arrays And Software Rather Than Megapixels
If you have ever used your mobile phone to take pics no matter the brand we have all wished the image quality was better. I…
Read MoreNikon Coolpix P500 Puts The Mega In Megazoom
Zoom on a camera is like download speed for your internet connection, you can always use more. I want to be able to zoom in…
Read MoreEpson PowerLite X9 Multimedia Projector Is Cheap And Bright
Many people look for a couple really important features in a multimedia projector for business and education. They want the projector to be priced very…
Read MoreHTC Flyer Tablet A 7-Inch Pegatron Rush-Job For Q1 2011?
More chatter around HTC's new tablet, the HTC Flyer, has emerged, with a new Economic Daily News report suggesting that the company has worked with…
Read More"Nokia, Our Platform Is Burning"; Elop Memo Reportedly Leaks In Full, Admits Ecosystem War
The full text of the Nokia "Standing on a burning platform" memo distributed internally by CEO Stephen Elop has apparently leaked, and even in the…
Read MoreNotion Ink Orders Open Again; Adam Skipping Gingerbread For Honeycomb
The second round of Notion Ink Adam orders is kicking off today, and pre-registered would-be-buyers should apparently already be receiving emails. Notion Ink isn't saying…
Read MoreFlash Player 10.2 Released: Stage Video Full H/w Acceleration
Adobe has released Flash Player 10.2, complete with support for Stage Video full hardware acceleration. Available initially for Windows, Mac and Linux, Flash Player 10.2…
Read MoreVerizon HTC ThunderBolt Gets Early Unboxing, Though Launch Date Absent
The HTC ThunderBolt may not be shipping quite yet, but retailer Wirefly has already gotten its hands on at least one unit and shared the…
Read MoreAcer P5403 Projector Adds Network Remote Control And 120Hz 3D Support
Acer has outed its latest projector, the P5403, an SXGA+ model with 3,000:1 contrast ratio and 3,500 lumens brightness. The Acer P5403 has an HDMI…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 General Pre-Sales Open
Verizon set a new sales record with its iPhone 4 pre-order for existing customers last week, and now it's hoping to do the same with…
Read MoreHTC Wildfire Version 2 Smartphone Caught On Video?
HTC posted a video today on their YouTube channel meant to promote the company’s recent innovations, but may have inadvertently included some footage of what…
Read MoreiPad 2 Rumors Confirmed By Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal has long qualified itself as a reliable and respected source for news. So when they confirm some rumors that have been…
Read MoreVerizon LG Revolution First VoLTE Detailed Look
We mentioned earlier today that Verizon announced its plans for heading towards a complete 4G voice over LTE (VoLTE) network with the very first VoLTE…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S 4G Heading To Walmart
Last week T-Mobile announced they would carry the new Samsung Galaxy S 4G and now comes evidence that Walmart will be selling the smartphone for…
Read MoreRIM To Discontinue Flickr For BlackBerry
Research In Motion (RIM) just announced on their website today that they would be discontinuing support for the Flickr Uploader on their BlackBerry smartphones starting…
Read MoreTwitpic Begins Support For Video Sharing
TwitPic, the popular picture sharing service for Twitter, just announced today that it will be adding support for video upload, storage, and sharing. Twitpic founder,…
Read MoreSigma To Release DP2x Compact Camera
Sigma announced its newest DP2 series camera, the Sigma DP2x compact camera. The DP2x uses and Analogue Front End (AFE), and offers improved autofocus speed,…
Read MoreGoogle Translate App Available For iPhone
Google just announced today that their Google Translate service is now available as an iPhone app. This should be welcome news for those often lost…
Read MoreLG Optimus 3D Leaked Video Tease
LG’s Optimus 3D is expected to make its debut at the Mobile World Congress with an official announcement on February 14th. But right now the…
Read MoreAndroid 2.2 For Samsung Captivate? Maybe.
When Samsung released the Galaxy S seven months ago, they promised users a quick upgrade path to Android 2.2 (Froyo). But that was seven months…
Read MoreVerizon Preparing 4G Internet Calling
Verizon is planning to roll out voice and video calls over the fourth-generation wireless data network the carrier started implementing in December. The new network…
Read MoreSmuggle Truck Game Pending Apple Approval
Throw political correctness out the window—or in this case, over the side of the truck—with the new “Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration” game developed by Boston…
Read MoreDell Announces Creation Of 10 Inch Android Tablet
At the "Dell Means Business" Press Conference, Dell announced the largest consumer product line they have ever launched, with 39 products in the works. The…
Read MoreSmartphones Outsell PCs For The First Time
The popularity of smartphones is exploding as the IDC reports a total of 100.9 million smartphones were shipped worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2010.…
Read MoreTexas Instruments' OMAP 5 May Bring Minority Report UI To Reality
Soon, we may see the kind of interactive screen that Tom Cruise used in Minority Report, thanks to Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments is combining its…
Read MorePioneer Introduces New NavGate Systems To Guide Drivers Safely
Pioneer just announced today three new in-car navigations systems that not only safely guide you on the road but also safely and easily integrate the…
Read MoreiControlPad With Bluetooth Shipping This Month
Back in September we wrote about iControlPad dumping the dock connectors in favor of Bluetooth. The new iControlPad with Bluetooth is scheduled to ship February…
Read MoreJBL Studio 1 Series Speakers Now Available
JBL Studio 1 Series speakers are now available, with floorstanding loudspeakers, a bookshelf loudspeaker, a center-channel loudspeaker, and a subwoofer. With JBL's background in movie…
Read MoreHuge Touchscreen At The University Of Groningen
The University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, has converted a 3D theater into the world's largest touchscreen, used for teaching mathematics and computer science students…
Read MoreLG Demands US PS3 Ban Over Alleged Sony Patent Infringement
LG has requested that the US International Trade Commission impose a permanent ban [PDF link] on imports of the PS3 into the US market. Alleging that…
Read MorePlextor M2 Series SSDs Pack SATA 6Gb/s Interface
Plextor has thrown open the doors to its M2 Series SSDs, offering SATA 6Gb/s support and up to 480MB/s sequential read rates. The drives - available…
Read MoreWarner Music: "Spotify, And Services Like Spotify Are Ever-More Meaningful"
Warner Music Group isn't quite ready to throw its proverbial licensing hat into the Spotify ring with Sony Music, but it sounds like the label…
Read MoreBlackBerry PlayBook Simulator Updated With Browser: Flash & HTML5 Video/Audio
RIM has pushed out an updated version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator, complete with a fully embedded BlackBerry browser so that would-be PlayBook devs…
Read MoreSynaptics ClearPad 4 Promises Skinnier Smartphones
Synaptics has outed its latest range of capacitive touchscreen systems for mobile devices, and the promise is even thinner electronics. The new ClearPad Series 4…
Read MoreNEC PaPeRo Robot Coaxes Out The Elderly, Researchers Discover
We may have a soft spot for NEC's PaPeRo robot because of his endearingly huge eyes and squat little body, but the Japanese company's latest…
Read MoreEFO Wireless Google TV Keyboard/remote Ideal For Logitech Revue
We were reasonably impressed by Logitech's Revue when we reviewed the Google TV STB last year, but one of our main concerns was how living…
Read MoreSprint Kyocera Echo Hands-On
Sprint's Kyocera Echo is certainly eye-catching, you have to give it that. Packing two 3.5-inch touchscreens and a clever - if slightly convoluted - hinge,…
Read MoreQualcomm FlashLinq Promises Broadband-Speed P2P Mesh Networks
With Qualcomm's chipsets inside a huge number of the gadgets we take for granted, when the company starts talking about new wireless tech we generally…
Read MoreGoGo To Expand Into Streaming Content In-Flight
GoGo was successful in bringing people connectivity to the internet and email while they are stuck in the air on a long flight. Gogo has…
Read MoreInFocus IN146 Short-Throw Projector Launches
If you need a projector in your home or office for any reason and have small room, but still need a large image short throw…
Read MoreBest Buy Taking Pre-Orders On HTC ThunderBolt
We have talked quite a bit about the cool HTC ThunderBolt smartphone. The launch date for the ThunderBolt was confirmed by Best Buy a while…
Read MoreIntel Resumes Flawed 6 Series Chipset Supply
Intel has resumed shipments of the Intel 6 Series "Cougar Point" chipsets, revealed last month to have a design error that could impact SATA 3Gbps…
Read MorePentax Optio WG-1 And WG-1 GPS Digital Cameras Appear
Pentax has announced a pair of new ruggedized point and shoot digital cameras for the outdoors types that want to take pics, but need a…
Read MoreNokia "Standing On A Burning Platform" Says CEO Memo
As indications of comfort-levels with your current cellphone software go, describing the situation as "standing on a burning platform" doesn't exactly suggest contentment. That, according…
Read MoreLaw Firm To Distribute Part Of A $16.4 Million Class Action Settlement Against AT&T
AT&T is certainly no stranger to class action suits and the telephone company has lost a few major cases over the years. One of the…
Read MoreLancom 1780EW-3G Business VPN Router Packs In 802.11n And HSPA+
When it comes to internet connectivity in some business environments it's a must. No web connection means that you can't work and missed work is…
Read MoreHP Updates Pavilion Notebook PC Line
HP has unveiled a new line of notebook computers that have cool designs and some nice hardware. The new line includes the dv6 and dv7…
Read MoreFujifilm FinePix X100 Digital Camera Has World's First Hybrid Viewfinder
Fujifilm has pulled the covers back and shown off a cool looking camera with a retro style to it that reminds me a lot of…
Read MoreWalmart, Macy's, And JC Penney To Use Item Level RFID Tagging For Shoes
We have all been shopping for shoes and had to ask the person behind the counter if they have the size we need only to…
Read MoreBallistic HC Case For Verizon iPhone 4 Breaks Cover
Ballistic has announced that it has the new iPhone 4 on Verizon covered with one of the most protective cases on the market for the…
Read MoreBBC iPlayer App For iPad Due February 10; US Version In June 2011
The BBC iPlayer app for iPad will arrive this Thursday, February 10, according to Interactive Operations Engineer Geoff Marshall, though it will only support streaming…
Read MoreCoolIT Systems And Maingear Team Up For Better Cooling
More performance from a computer system means that you must have better cooling or things just aren't good. Too much heat inside a computer will…
Read MoreGoogle 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Doodle Is Best Yet
Google has set the bar pretty high with its homepage doodles - the search giant's playable Pac-Man logo remains one of our favorites - but…
Read MoreLG G-Slate Makes Video Appearance: 3D, Ports, More
Excited by LG's G-Slate - or its LG Optimus Pad European sibling - and want to see more? LG has been pretty coy when it…
Read MoreAlien Dalvik Puts Android Apps On Non-Android Devices [Video]
Android apps running seamlessly on rival platforms could well be the order of the day, if Myriad Group has its way with Alien Dalvik. The…
Read MoreHTC Buys $40m OnLive Stake For Streaming Smartphone Gaming
HTC has confirmed it will buy a $40m stake in OnLive, the streaming gaming company, the latest in the smartphone manufacturers investments and what looks…
Read MoreAmazon Kindle Update Adds Public Notes, Page Numbers, More
Amazon has announced an update for the third-gen Kindle and Kindle 3G, which adds proper page numbers to select ebooks, and the ability to share…
Read MoreDreamBook ePad F10: New Intel Windows Tablet
There are more and more tablet options on the market these days. Pioneer Computers in Australia is offering up another alternative in its new DreamBook…
Read MoreBest Buy, Justin Bieber, Ozzy Osborne, And The New "Buy Back" Program
During the Super Bowl, Best Buy featured a commercial with teen pop sensation, Justin Bieber, and heavy metal legend, Ozzy Osborne, to launch their new…
Read MoreLive From Sprint's "Industry First" Event: First Dual Touchscreen Smartphone-Kyocera Echo
Sprint and Kyocera joined forces to reveal the very first dual touchscreen Android phone--the Echo--at this evening’s special “Industry First” event hosted by Sprint. Our…
Read MoreBest Buy Inventory Shot: New MacBook Pros On March 11
Early this morning we reported that low inventory levels pointed towards a MacBook Pro refresh. The announcement was tipped as coming on February 9. Now…
Read MoreApple May Do Away With Boxed Software
Apple’s Mac App Store might be the main source of purchasing software for Apple customers in the future. The success of the Mac App Store’s…
Read MoreTrouble At Notion Ink: UI Director Leaves, Adam Battery Issues Surface
Notion Ink put on one hell of a show at CES 2011. The Adams they showed us were extremely polished. But one thing you can't…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Jailbreak Successful
It didn’t take long for the just released Verizon iPhone 4 to be successfully jailbreaked. The first screenshots of the jailbreaked device was released over…
Read MoreNFL Teams May Replace Playbooks With Tablets
The NFL is considering trading in the hefty playbooks with a tablet. The move would be a great win for environmentalist as one NFL team…
Read MoreT-Mobile: All Smartphones Free February 11 & 12
T-Mo has just announced one of the crazier deals in their long, storied history of crazy deals. As a Valentines Day celebration, the carrier will…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Teardown: World Phone CDMA/GSM Radio Inside
iFixit has been at it again, whipping out the adjustable spanner set (well, a selection of Torx screwdrivers actually) and taking on Verizon's iPhone 4.…
Read MoreVerizon's iPhone 4: I Was Wrong. Here's Why.
"The surest way for an analyst to generate attention is by making an Apple prediction. Apple has a cult following, and its product development and…
Read MoreGroupon Super Bowl Ad Makes Fun Of Tibet & Whales, Provokes Ridiculous Controversy
The group coupon buying site Groupon may have damaged its image forever, thanks to a series of Super Bowl ads that were...actually pretty funny. The…
Read MoreSkinDisplay Prints Phone And Text Messages On Skin
With mobile phones dominating our lives these days, we seem constantly connected virtually yet ever more easily disconnected in person. To limit this intrusion of…
Read More2% Of Soldiers In Afghanistan Are Robots
Today, in 2011, one out of every fifty soldiers in Afghanistan has battery acid and lubricant instead of blood, sweat and tears. This means that,…
Read MoreThe New MacBook Pros: February 9?
Late last month we reported that low stocks of 15" and 17" Macbook Pros might be a sign of an imminent refresh. That shortage has…
Read MoreiPhone 5 Rumored To Debut June 5th - 9th
So the rumor is that the iPhone 5 may be revealed sometime between June 5th and June 9th during Apple's WWDC 2011 event. This speculation…
Read MorePolice Find $10 Million In Fake iPhones, Other Gadgets
High-tech forgery is the criminal growth industry of the future. As cash money becomes less common and more difficult to imitate, the shady smugglers of…
Read MoreSquare: Aiming To Replace Receipts And Registers
The folks over at All Things Digital recently caught up with Jack Dorsey, the cofounder of Twitter and the CEO of Square--a company focused on…
Read MoreNokia: E7 Sales Expectations "By Far The Most Important" In 2011
Nokia may have promised a MeeGo device sometime in 2011, but the company is still looking to Symbian for the bulk of its sales this…
Read MoreTI OMAP 5 Outed: Twin Cortex-A15 Cores, Kinect-Style Tracking, More
Texas Instruments has officially announced the TI OMAP 5 platform, the company's latest multi-core chipset complete with two 28nm ARM Cortex-A15 MPCores running at up…
Read MoreSprint Dual-Touchscreen Kyocera Echo Unveiled Today?
Sprint's surprise device later today will be a dual-touchscreen Android smartphone with a clever pivoting hinge, according to the latest leaks, with the double displays…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone TeleNav GPS App Available Now
Popular and ever-expanding GPS location and mapping service TeleNav is newly available today on Verizon's iPhone 4. TeleNav is now a free app in the…
Read MoreLast.fm Demands Premium Radio Subscriptions For iOS, Android & More
Last.fm has announced mandatory paid subscription plans for mobile and home entertainment devices accessing its streaming radio service, with the new premium subscriptions affecting anybody…
Read MoreMilitary Grade iPhone 4 Case Protects To MIL Specs
I dropped my iPhone 3GS and cracked the screen about this time last year. It took me months to find an iPhone 4 in stock…
Read MoreAlcatel-Lucent lightRadio Promises Tiny 2G/3G/4G Cell Base-Stations
Cellular base-stations generally aren't all that interesting or visually endearing, but at least Alcatel-Lucent's new lightRadio technology promises to make them easier to ignore. Billed…
Read MoreHTC Invests In Digital Media Delivery Specialists Saffron Digital; HTC Sense To Get Games, Music, More?
HTC's digital media ambitions continue to progress, with the company picking up investing in digital multimedia delivery specialists Saffron Digital. According to HTC CEO Peter Chou,…
Read MoreNokia CEO Weighing "Finnish Talent" Value As Board Hangs In Balance
Rumors of an imminent cull across the Nokia board continue to make headlines, with CEO Stephen Elop reportedly considering "how much he wants to keep…
Read MoreHuawei Teases S7 Slim Tablet Ahead Of MWC 2011 Reveal
Details are scant right now, but Huawei has joined the line-up of manufacturers teasing a new tablet for MWC 2011. The Huawei S7 Slim is…
Read MoreGingerbread Rebaked As Android 2.4 In April For Dual-Core App Support?
ViewSonic has tipped Google's hand on an incoming update to Android, though it's not the Ice Cream Sandwich we've been waiting for. According to Pocket-lint's…
Read MoreHaptica Brail Watch Designs By David Chavez Seeks Funding On Kickstarter
We see all sorts of watches that are expensive and really cool around these parts. The thing that they all have had in common is…
Read MoreDIY Android Mascot Crochet Figure Is Cool
I am not the artsy craft sort. My grandmother was serious crochet machine and she could crochet like the wind. It was like watching one…
Read MoreTaiLinx Cougar20-H Security Robot Can See You Breathe Through Walls
When it comes to finding out where the bad guys are inside a building, generally soldiers and police have to actually go in or have…
Read MorePint-Size Vader From Super Bowl VW Commercial Unmasked
It never ceases to amaze me that 364 days of the year I skip the commercials on my DVR as if they were the plague.…
Read MoreScythe Mine 2 CPU Cooler Debuts
Scythe has unveiled another new CPU cooling solution today called the Mine 2. The thing is a big and blocky looking CPU cooler that has…
Read MoreNokia E7 Shipping: Hands-On
The Nokia E7 is finally shipping, the Symbian QWERTY business phone making its retail debut in several markets this week. Announced all the way back at…
Read MoreToshiba Starts Shipping UIM Cards With NFC Tech Integrated
Toshiba has announced that it has started shipping new UIM cards to KDDI Corporation that support NFC (near field communications). NFC is going to be…
Read MoreBest Buy Clears Shelf Space For White iPhone 4
The first time we saw Steve Jobs pull the iPhone 4 out of his pocket we were supposed to be able to get the smartphone…
Read MoreCarl Zeiss AG Enters Micro Four Thirds Lens Market
When it comes to camera optics and lenses, one of the biggest names in the industry is Carl Zeiss. The company has announced that it…
Read MoreeLocity 10-Inch Android Tablet To Hit Pre-Order Feb 15
eLocity has been selling the interesting A7 7-inch Android tablet (pictured) for a while now. The 7-inch tablet went on sale back in August. If…
Read MoreBen Heck Creates A Smaller Portable Sega CDX System
Ben Heck has created another interesting and sufficiently geeky gadget on his show recently. The new creation is an old school portable gaming console made…
Read More$800 Motorola XOOM Could Price Honeycomb Out Of Contention
Honeycomb was shaping up so well. CES 2011 saw several new slates debut and look to offer solid competition to the iPad, and then Google's…
Read MoreWhite Vodafone Nexus S Confirmed
Vodafone has announced it will be offering the Google Nexus S, the first carrier in Europe to sell the Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone direct. As…
Read MoreSony Ericsson XPERIA Play Gets Official: Full Unveil On February 13 [Video]
Sony Ericsson has finally confirmed what we all knew, and announced that the XPERIA Play "PlayStation Phone" will be making its official debut on Sunday…
Read MoreHTC Saga Images Leaked In Taiwan
Behold a brand new phone, one that appears to be codenamed HTC "Saga." These photos have been taken by a fellow (or a lady) in…
Read MoreBest Music Apps [SlashApps]
An anonymous author once said, “Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole,…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review - Week 6 2011
Welcome to another edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. Lots of tablet and smartphone news this week with a few other cool items tossed…
Read MoreiPad Radiology App For Mobile Diagnosis Approved By FDA
Incase you are from outer space and do not know, FDA stands for US Food and Drug Administration, and they've just approved an app that'll…
Read MoreNintendo Must Release The Wii 2 This Year
The video game market finds itself in a rather interesting place. Its consoles are still selling exceptionally well, some of the best games released in…
Read MoreHuge Nokia Exec Slash Incoming Tips German Business Mag
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is reportedly preparing to significantly shake up the company's top management, axing big names such as executive VP of phones Mary…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: February 4, 2011
First, see for yourself the release dates for both the Motorola XOOM and HTC ThunderBolt. Then, grab yourself a wish from Android Community for a…
Read MoreSlashGear's Final Football Matchup Toshiba TV Giveaway WINNER
Stop being so excited about football! Our contest with Toshiba to give away one gigantic television is complete! We've tallied up the votes, counted the…
Read MoreiPad Game For White Tigers Mimics Kitten Mittens Vibe
This is one of those bits of content that I think noone saw coming. This video and explanation for an app just showed up in…
Read MoreCorning Analyst: 180 Million Tablets Sold, 2014
The tablet market is poised for a meteoric jolt towards ubiquity. It's hard to look at all the sweet new tablets due out this year…
Read MoreRadioShack Begins HTC Inspire 4G Pre-Sales
Today retailer RadioShack announced their exclusive pre-sale of a new Android smartphone. The Inspire 4G will be $99 with a 2-year contract. Pre-ordering customers will…
Read MoreHogs And Kisses, An Angry Birds Expansion, Will Launch Next Week
The Angry Birds Valentine's Day Edition expansion pack will be coming to a smartphone near you a little earlier than expected. The much caked and…
Read MorePlayStation Network Going Back To The Future
The 80’s classic Back to the Future will be landing on the PlayStation Network this February 15th. Telltale Games will be bringing PlayStation 3 gamers…
Read MoreApple To Launch iOS 4.3 On February 14?
The next edition of iOS may be heading out at the very start of the 2011 Mobile World Congress. A Class C flurry of rumors…
Read MoreSamsung Silhouette World's Lightest 3D Glasses Available March
You would be hard pressed to walk by a TV display in any electronics store and not find a 3D display touting the benefits of…
Read MoreRIM Announces BlackBerry Trade-Up Program
Phone swapping must be all the rage right now. We just mentioned AT&T’s brand new trade-in program in partnership with FlipSwap and now we bring…
Read MoreSlashGear's Final Football Matchup Toshiba TV GIVEAWAY!
So you've got a love for tech, right? And you might just happen to also have a love for that big giant game at the…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S 2 (I9100) Specs Leak: Dual Core 1.2 GHz Processor?
Today we have our first clear look at the Galaxy S 2 smartphone's specifications. Samfirmware.com spoke with some "insiders" who revealed that the company is…
Read MoreAT&T Confirms Hotspot Tethering For iPhone
The competition between AT&T and Verizon over the iPhone has already lead to a benefit for users. Yesterday we reported on an accidental leak by…
Read MoreFirst Blogger App Now On Android
The popular blogging platform aptly named Blogger has just announced their very first Android app. This first version allows you to easily compose posts on…
Read MoreAndroid Market Web Store Has Dangerous Security Hole
The Android Market Web Store- announced earlier this week- has a potentially ruinous security hole. Hackers who find their way to your Gmail password can…
Read MoreAT&T Rewarding Loyalty With Free Microcell
AT&T has recently been sending out emails to some of its customers offering free microcells as rewards for staying loyal customers. Could this be another…
Read MoreBurn The Rope 1.2 Bursting Up iPhone Soon
If playing with fire is your thing then a safer alternative might be to play the popular iPhone game, Burn the Rope. Feeding the fire…
Read MoreDrug Cartels Selling Counterfeit Microsoft Software
Nobody likes drug cartels. Even the people who love drugs have no trouble admitting that the cartels are crazy, blood-thirsty murder-faces. No one wants to…
Read MoreGiving Tree Charging Station Concept Design
Designers have caught our attention again with another simple and elegant concept. Dubbed the Giving Tree, this cute multi-connector charging station in the abstract form…
Read MorePalm Pre 2 From Verizon On February 17th?
Looks like the Palm Pre 2 is going to be available in less than two weeks, if you believe an internal product page from a…
Read MoreAT&T Offers New Trade-In Program For Old Phones
Were you thinking of switching to Verizon with all this hype about them now having the iPhone 4 minus the spotty service plus unlimited data…
Read MoreWhat Honeycomb Means For Tablets
In advance of Google’s Honeycomb deep dive scheduled for this Wednesday February 2, I wanted to do a quick analysis of what Honeycomb means for…
Read MorePaul Frank Julius Dance Machine Chimping Out Your iPod
Need to revamp your iPod docking setup and unleash your inner fashionista? American fashion designer Paul Frank has teamed up with SpeakerCraft to bring an…
Read MoreAava Mobile TWIST Concept Origins Revealed [Video]
We've already told you that Aava Mobile will be bringing its slick second-gen Medfield-based smartphone to MWC 2011 shortly, and now we know a little…
Read MoreGoogle Cr-48 Gets Gobi 3G Unlock For GSM Support
One of the lucky minority with a Google Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook? Maybe you were one of SlashGear's lucky winners a few months back, or…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 4 2011
First and foremost, Android Community would like to wish you a Happy Chinese Android New Year! Next, grab the release dates for both the Motorola…
Read MoreToshiba Glasses-Free 3D TVs Sales Dramatically Underperform
Glasses-free 3D TVs sound like they should be ideal: all that 3D fun, with none of the pesky eyewear demands. Sadly for Toshiba things aren't…
Read MoreASUS CEO Promises "Secret Weapon" To Vanquish iPad 2
If you can't beat Apple outright, hint that you can. That seems to be the strategy adopted by ASUS CEO Jonney Shih, who claims the…
Read MoreNintendo 3DS: Sturdier Than DS Lite And Grease-Phobic
Nintendo has been talking about the physical design decisions made around the upcoming 3DS, including how the Japanese company made the 3D gaming console easier…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Set New First-Day Record In Just Two Hours
Verizon has announced record sales of the CDMA iPhone 4 yesterday, describing it as the carrier's most successful first day sales in history. While actual…
Read MoreMassively Stupid Thief Leaves Smartphone Charging In House He Robbed
A man has been arrested and is suspected of robbing ten or more homes in the Montgomery county area of Washington. The man is Cody…
Read MoreMotorola CLIQ XT Owners: No Android 2.1 For You!
Motorola CLIQ XT owners have been waiting for a long time now for their smartphones to get the update from Motorola 1.5 to 2.1. That…
Read MoreNokia Commits To "Embrace Change" As WP7 Rumors Bump Shares
Speculation over Nokia's potential adoption of an OS other than Symbian and MeeGo continues, with the company's share price buoyed amid rumors of a surprise…
Read MoreTexas High School Student Attends Classes Using Vgo Telepresence Robot
Robots are cool and while many of them that we talk about here are more for fun for a geek, there are many uses for…
Read MoreNokia Bubbles Proves Nokia Can Be Innovative, Symbian 1.1 Update Lands
This may be the first time I have seen anything from Nokia and thought it was really cool. Nokia Beta Labs has unveiled a new…
Read MoreHidden Voice Call Function On Dell Streak 7 Is Hidden For Good Reason
The geeks over at StreakSmart have posted up a video and some photos of the Streak 7 hidden call function they dug up. Before you…
Read MoreLG Optimus Pad A Barcelona Lock-In; Honeycomb Ahoy!
LG has confirmed it will be launching the European version of its T-Mobile G-Slate, the LG Optimus Pad, at Mobile World Congress 2011 later this…
Read MoreSony's Kaz Hirai Talks NGP With Official PlayStation Blog
I was never that impressed by the original PSP, the games on the system weren't that great and the portable device itself was just not…
Read MoreKenko C-Mount Camera System And Lenses Break Cover
Kenko is a Japanese company that makes all sorts of gear and among that gear is a line of cameras and lenses. The company is…
Read MoreApp Store Filtering Added As Apple Boosts Discovery Options
Apple may be ahead when it comes to iOS apps, but the company certainly could do more to make discovering App Store titles more intuitive…
Read MoreSpy Net Video Watch Kids Gadget Will Fit Adults Too
One of the great things about having kids is that you can buy all these cool toys like the Spy Net Video Watch and say…
Read MoreMitsubishi Reminds Us All Super Bowl XLV Has No Jumbotron
Mitsubishi really wants to make sure we get it right when we talk about the gigantic screen hanging from the roof of Dallas Cowboys Stadium…
Read MoreVerizon Presto 4G LTE Hotspot Is Samsung's SCH-LC11, Due February 17?
Samsung's SCH-LC11 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot slipped out at CES 2011 with the promise of dual-mode EVDO Rev.A and LTE support for Verizon's network, but…
Read MoreUSA Today Brings Augmented Reality Super Bowl Coverage To Android And iPhone
I haven't purchased a newspaper since college and I only did it then because we had to get them for class. I get all my…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM And HTC ThunderBolt Releases Dated By Best Buy
US release dates for the Motorola XOOM Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet - which we spent more hands-on time with earlier this week, at Google's Honeycomb…
Read MoreAudiovox To Acquire Klipsch, Klipschiovox?
Geeks that follow speakers and other audio gear will know the name Klipsch as the company that makes all sorts of audiophile gear. You can…
Read MoreGreenPois0n iOS 4.2.1 Untethered Jailbreak Released
Got an iOS device running 4.2.1 that's in dire need of an untethered jailbreak? Good news; the Chronic Dev Team has released a new solution,…
Read MoreDell Venue On Sale In AT&T And T-Mobile Flavors
It's taken a while, but the Dell Venue has finally gone up for sale. However, you'll need to raid your piggy-bank first, since so far…
Read MoreFroyo Extends Android Lead As Legacy Versions Dwindle
Google has outed its latest batch of Android platform distribution stats, based on the in-the-wild devices accessing the Android Market over the most recent fourteen…
Read MoreHotmail Disposable Email: Would You Throw Away Gmail For This?
Hotmail is launching a new temporary email system, which will allow existing users of the free Microsoft mail service to create disposable emails linked to…
Read MoreThe Daily Indexed Bypasses News Corp's iPad Paywall
Back at News Corp's launch of its iPad digital newspaper, The Daily, editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo confirmed that, while HTML versions of articles would be posted…
Read MoreApple HDTV Rumors Reignite: Did Apple Spend $3.9bn On Displays?
Apple's recently revealed $3.9bn investment is tipped to be in display manufacturing and development, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who goes on to…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Pre-Ordering Closed; First Handsets Already Shipping
Existing Verizon customers angling for an iPhone 4 will have to have got in early, as without warning the carrier has closed pre-orders for the…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone Commercial Strikes AT&T With Heavy Sarcasm
That's sarcasm, right? The fellow in this commercial is making fun of AT&T by having their official Verizon guy smile very deviously. Before that though,…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: February 3, 2011
Have a shut-down sit-out with Don Reisinger in a column by the name of I Refuse to Buy A New TV Every Few Years. Hypothesize…
Read MoreArmani Exchange 3D Eyewear Revealed
Adding to the ever-increasing collection of big-name brands and fashion lines delivering 3D eyewear to the market, Armani has today announced their first ever 3D…
Read MoreMSI Responds To Intel Sandy Bridge Recall
MSI is now on the same recall train as Acer, Toshiba, HP, and Samsung in the aftermath of the Intel Sandy Bridge chipset design flaw…
Read MoreDungeon Defenders Updates To 4.0
Trendy Entertainment's popular Dungeon Defenders is getting an update but their 3.0 version was rejected by Apple last week. And since their Android version update…
Read MoreNASA Discovers Earth-Sized Planets In New Solar System
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the discovery of six planets orbiting a sun-like star, Kepler-11. This is the largest group of planets outside our solar…
Read MoreAcer Group Will Fully Support Customers With Intel's Sandy Bridge Problem
Earlier this week, Intel announced a design flaw in its new chipsets, affecting its whole line of Sandy Bridge processors and setting off a slew…
Read MoreVodafone Forced By Egypt To Spread Propaganda
U.K. based Vodafone is saying it was forced by the Egyptian government to send government scripted pro-Murabak text messages to its Egypt customers. There have…
Read MoreBritish Man Faces Jail Term For Stealing 400 Billion Zynga Poker Chips
Ashley Mitchell, a 29 year old IT business man plead guilty yesterday to stealing 400 billion Zynga poker chips. Though these were virtual chips, they…
Read MoreAava Mobile Medfield MeeGo/Android Phone Confirmed
Intel has been showing off Medfield-based MeeGo prototypes in the past weeks, and soon Aava Mobile will be getting into the act with its second-generation Aava Core…
Read MoreHeat Vision For Your Cell Phone Camera
Do you ever look into your backyard at night wondering if there are hostiles hiding in the bushes readying for an ambush? Well, if Pentagon’s…
Read MoreZynga Bringing Words With Friends To Android
Popular mobile word game Words With Friends will be available for Android phones and tablets later this month, thanks to Zynga. The cool thing is,…
Read MoreGoogle Offering $20,000 Prize To Hack Chrome
CanSecWest, the world’s leading conference in applied digital security, will be hosting the Pwn2Own contest pitting security researchers and exploit writers against popular web browsers…
Read MoreVerizon Employees Asked To "Focus On The Customer" - Wait For The iPhone
If Verizon employees are excited about the opportunity to get an iPhone on Verizon's network - they will have to wait. Verizon sent out an…
Read MoreiPad 2 Possibly Revealed Next Week?
Sources have been quoted saying that Apple’s iPad 2 could possibly make its appearance next week at a special event Apple is having for the…
Read MoreNo More "Big Black Blot" With A Transparent TV
With a new design from Michael Friebe, TVs may start looking a lot cooler. The Loewe Invisio television is completely transparent, allowing it to blend…
Read MoreMotorola Atrix 4G Pre-Orders Begin Feb 13
We now have word that pre-orders for the much anticipated Motorola Atrix 4G will start just 10 days from now. A press release was just…
Read MoreI Refuse To Buy A New TV Every Few Years
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show, a slew of televisions were shown off by the top TV vendors in the business. Many of…
Read MoreMad Catz To Produce Wireless Headset For XBox 360
Mad Catz, a gaming accessories developer, has entered into a licensing agreement with Microsoft to produce a range of co-branded, licensed headphones for the Xbox…
Read MoreVerizon Will Limit Data Speeds Of Its Heaviest Users
Verizon wireless released a memo today stating that it will reduce the data-throughput speeds of the top 5% of data users on its network. The…
Read MoreApple Files Patent For iPad Stylus
Apple filed a patent today for a Stylus specifically designed for touchscreen use. Does this mean that Steve Jobs is backing down on his position…
Read MoreApple's iPad To Grow A Kickstand?
A new patent from Apple has been revealed today by the US Patent & Trademark Office, suggesting that the future iPad may be sprouting a…
Read MoreAT&T Motorola ATRIX 4G Due March 6: $200 Alone Or $500 With Laptop Dock
AT&T plans to begin taking pre-orders for the Motorola ATRIX 4G from February 13, with deliveries and general sales of the sizeable Android smartphone expected…
Read MoreLG Optimus Black Coming Soon Says T-Mobile
LG's Optimus Black smartphone looks to be almost upon us, with UK carrier T-Mobile throwing up a pre-interest page for early registration. Announced back at…
Read MoreYahoo! IMAP Issue Affects iPhone Too Reveals Email Sniffing
Yahoo! wasn't happy with Microsoft blaming their email systems for the Windows Phone 7 "phantom data" bug; the company pulled out a long list of…
Read MoreJVC GS-TD1 3D Camcorder Gets Pre-Release Price Slash
Looks like JVC's GS-TD1 Full HD 3D camcorder has had a price-cut, and that's before it's even on sale. Back when we played with the…
Read MoreVerizon Threatens Bandwidth Throttling For Mobile Data Hogs
Verizon's plans to throttle the bandwidth of its heaviest data users have emerged, courtesy of a data memo [pdf link] spotted on the carrier's site.…
Read MoreXPERIA Play Advert Leaks: Gaming So Good You'll Graft On Thumbs
Sony has built something of a reputation for itself by putting together unusual, odd or vaguely unpleasant commercials in the past, but Sony Ericsson has…
Read MoreCee-Lo No-Show At Honeycomb Intro
In a surprise appearance during the Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb event at the Googleplex today, the folks on stage got a call from none other…
Read MoreSamsung: Galaxy Tab Return Rate Is Under 2%
The Galaxy Tab saga continues, with Samsung's latest umbrage being over analyst reports that return rates for the 7-inch slate were as high as 16-percent…
Read MorePouge Slips iPhone 4 On AT&T To Get Tethering On Feb 13
We mentioned earlier this morning that AT&T was set to finally add tethering to a series of unspecified smartphones on February 13. We can assume…
Read MoreStreetFlyer Is Perfect For Those Afraid Of Heights
I have always wanted to learn to fly. The thing that always keeps me from that is that even if I learned to fly, actually…
Read MoreThanko USB Cat Mask Makes You Look Nuts
Thanko has some strange gear and gadgets that it sells and most of them connect to the USB port. The company has a new and…
Read MoreSky 3D Lands 70K Customers
Here in the US we are still having the problem of not enough content to justify the cost of 3D gear for most consumers. In…
Read MoreHulu And Viacom Hammer Out Content Partnership
Hulu became one of the largest video streaming sites online since it launched and has some of the best streaming content you can find on…
Read MoreTuneLink Auto For Android Devices Ships
A few days before Christmas, we heard that the TuneLink Auto for Android smartphones was coming in the middle of January. The company that makes…
Read MoreSceptre Galaxy Series 24-Inch LED HDTVs Get New Colors
If you are looking for a new HDTV for a bedroom or dorm that has a smaller screen size you have probably noticed that they…
Read MoreBest Buy Will Sell Verizon iPhone 4 On Feb 10
If your geeky little heart is all aflutter at the thought of finally getting the iPhone 4 in the Verizon network you aren't alone. We…
Read MoreCowon D3 AMOLED PMP Now Shipping
Having gone up for pre-order only a few days ago, Cowon's D3 media player is already on sale - a couple of weeks ahead of…
Read MorePADACS Offers Up Two Battery Cases For The iPhone 4
It's apparently iPhone 4 accessory day with another new battery power case coming to market. This case is from a company called PADACS and is…
Read MoreiKit Unveils New iPhone 4 NuCharge Case
iKit has been a busy little beaver this month so far with the unveiling of several new products for smartphones and car charging already. iKit…
Read MoreCaseable Lets You Create Your Own Laptop Sleeve
If you are the sort that likes to customize your notebook with stickers, custom colors and more you might not want t schlep that notebook…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Up For Pre-Order
So you've read the SlashGear Verizon iPhone 4 review, you're an existing Verizon subscriber and you've decided to take the plunge: good news, pre-ordering has…
Read MoreAT&T Mobile Hotspot Plan Due Feb 13 As Tethering Bundle Doubles
AT&T has officially confirmed its mobile hotspot plans, with the app debuting for Android smartphones with the launch of the HTC Inspire 4G come February…
Read MoreiPad 2 Secret Guest At The Daily Launch Tips Dubious Report
Rupert Murdoch and Apple's Eddie Cue officially announced The Daily yesterday, but according to one "eyewitness report" that's not the only unveiling that took place.…
Read MoreHP Tease webOS Tablet/smartphone Curves [Video]
As teasers go, HP and Palm's new video ahead of the webOS event next week is very brief and very elusive. A few buttons and…
Read MoreApple In-App Purchase Deadline March 31 Tips Developer
Apple's tightening restrictions on in-app payment support in iOS software, believed to be the reason Sony's Reader app was rejected from inclusion in the App…
Read MoreGoogle's Honeycomb Event Video Available To Watch In Full
If you missed Google's livestreamed coverage of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb event yesterday then it should come as little surprise to hear that the YouTube…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: February 2, 2011
It's still Honeycomb day! Check out all the little bits of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, including the Notification System, the App Optimization, the Notifications Bar, and…
Read MoreLin Jian Feng Presents The Perfect Superphone
The Motorola Atrix packs the dual-core power of a computer into a slender handset package. Moto made much of the laptop and TV docks, but…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4 Launches Tomorrow
Verizon Wireless has just sent out a flurry of emails to their current customers. Tomorrow will mark the first day of subscriber-only sales for Big…
Read MoreAnalyst Advises Nokia To Kill MeeGo, Embrace WP7
Berenberg Bank analyst Adnaan Ahmad recently sent an open letter to Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In it, he urged the…
Read MoreHTC ThunderBolt Here "Sooner Than Expected"
The HTC ThunderBolt will hit stores earlier than Verizon initially anticipated. The original launch date was set as February 24, but now Big Red has…
Read MoreChina Orders Mandatory Parental Monitoring Protocol For Online Games
The Chinese government has just sent out a joint notice to gaming companies, demanding that they provide parents with a method of monitoring, limiting and-…
Read MoreAndroid Marketplace Introduces In-App Purchases, Currency Settings, Additional Giant Apps
In addition to the rest of the changes made to the Android Marketplace today, Google went on to introduce two giant changes to the way…
Read MoreAndroid Marketplace Changes Detailed - Webstore Now Also Browser Based
Today Chris Yerga showed the world the Android Market Webstore. This is a browser based Android Marketplace as shown here: Your Entire Music Library in…
Read MoreDenmark Will Build Underwater Tunnel To Germany
One of the great architectural marvels of our time has just been approved by seven out of eight parliamentary factions in Denmark. The state-owned firm…
Read MoreSkin Gun Is Star Wars Level Medicine
Scientists have developed a skin gun that could radically change the recovery times of burn victims. Doctor Jörg C. Gerlach has developed a spray-on skin…
Read MoreThe New X-Com Trailer: Better Than My Childhood?
Huge swathes of my childhood were devoted to two things: X-Com, and the X-Files. And now both of those wonderful things are being poured into…
Read MoreInternet 'Kill Switch' Bill Hits Congress Again
Egypt's sudden removal and equally sudden return to the web has given open Internet advocates a stockpile of new ammunition. The first target of this…
Read MoreAndroid 3.0 Honeycomb Hands-On [Motorola XOOM]
Google has just finished officially launching Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and we wasted no time in grabbing some hands-on experience with the tablet-centric OS on Motorola's…
Read MoreChat Program / CNN App Detailed At Google Android Honeycomb Event
With a single click, they thusly were connected through video chat. After a short bout with attempting to find a user by the name of…
Read MoreThe Today Show Talks About New Fangled Contraption Called The "Internet" In 1994
“That little mark with the “a” and the ring around it.” Those were Bryan Gumbel’s words as he tried to figure out the “@” symbol…
Read MoreAndroid Community App Demoed On Motorola XOOM Tablet
We're at the Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb event here at Google headquarters and the first thing our head man Vince does is download the Android…
Read MoreRender Script / 3D Applications Impress At Google Android Honeycomb Event
Flowing through items like the Music app, YouTube, and Google's book store are shown to be working miraculously well, looking amazing sliding back and forth,…
Read MoreNotification System, App Optimization Detailed At Google Android Honeycomb Event
The presentation begins with the basics of the Honeycomb UI - Back Button, Home Button, and Multitasking Button are on the lower left. In the…
Read MoreWant A Better Signal? Get A Cell Phone Tower In Your Front Yard
One family in Brookhaven, Long Island may not have to worry about power signal strength, but they now have a three-story high eyesore to deal…
Read MoreLayar Player Now Available For iPhone - Makes Augmented Reality Your Reality
Dutch company Layar has released their Layar Player on iTunes, giving the users the opportunity to experience AR (augmented reality) within their iPhone apps. The…
Read MoreNew HEX Sport Watch Band For iPod Nano, Nike Plus Compatible
For workout enthusiasts that need their iPods attached at all times, a new fashionable tech accessory may be your next must-have. Hex has just announced…
Read MoreStar Trek Mr. Potato Heads Coming Summer 2011
Mr. Potato Head is going trekkie this summer. The first set of the Star Trek Potato Head series will feature Captain Kirk and his Klingon…
Read MoreBlackBerry App World 2.1 Goes Live With In-App Payments
BlackBerry App World 2.1 has gone live, with the updated download store rolling out to BlackBerry devices throughout today. In v2.1, RIM has added in-app…
Read MoreGoogle Shopper Now Available On iPhone
If shopping is a daunting task for you with all the selections to forage through and price comparisons to undertake and not to mention finding…
Read MoreAndroid Honeycomb Event : Full Pre-Game Review
We are officially in the doors of Google's Android Honeycomb Event, and it's time for some review. This event will be primarily Android 3.0 Honeycomb…
Read MoreThe Daily Debuts New iTunes Subscription Agreement
In a new move, iPad digital newspaper The Daily has its own Application License Agreement in the App Store [iTunes link], with a new section…
Read MoreThe Daily Gets Official: iPad App For "True News Discovery"
News Corp has officially announced The Daily, an iPad digital newspaper that promises "true news discovery." The app will be published 365 days a year,…
Read MoreMurdoch: "This Year And Maybe Next Year Belong To Apple"
The Daily owner Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that News Corp will be looking to other tablets beyond the iPad, stating during the launch Q&A that…
Read MoreApple: App Subscription System Announcement "Soon"
Apple VP of internet services Eddy Cue took the stage with Rupert Murdoch today to announce The Daily, and has confirmed that publishers can expect…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 2 2011
It's Honeycomb day! We're about to be LIVE at the Android 3.0 Honeycomb event at Google headquarters, and we're gonna give you all the coverage…
Read MoreLG Teases Optimus 3D Will "Rewrite History" [Video]
LG has already confirmed that the Optimus 3D is coming to MWC 2011, but that doesn't mean there isn't time for another quick teaser. In…
Read MoreNokia DC-14 Bicycle Charger Kit Now On Sale
Nokia's Bicycle Charger Kit turned out to be a surprisingly popular concept when the company first showed it back in June 2010, with calls to…
Read MoreMicrosoft Releases H.264 Plugin For Chrome; IE9 WebM Video Via Plugin
Microsoft has released an H.264 video plug-in for Google Chrome on Windows today, following the debut of a similar plug-in for Firefox back in last…
Read MoreMy Keepon Borrows Dancing Robot's Moves With A Toy Price Tag
Tiny dancing Keepon, the endearing yellow spongeball robot, is spawning a toy version. My Keepon will lack the original's research functionality - it was designed…
Read MoreLG's G-Tablet: 3D Grail Or Gimmick?
3D was the home entertainment industry's big push for 2010, and it's not giving up in 2011 either. CES 2011 saw the usual array of…
Read MoreVerizon iPhone 4: General Reservations Feb 9, Sales Feb 10 From 7am
Apple has confirmed pre-order details for the Verizon iPhone 4, the CDMA version of the Apple smartphone which will go up for sale tomorrow, Thursday…
Read MoreLG G-Slate Detailed, 3D Recording And Playback This Spring
The LG G-Slate that was introduced to the world at CES (then seemingly disappeared) has been further detailed by T-Mobile. The impressive Honeycomb-based tablet will…
Read MoreChicks'n'Vixens Brings Angry Birds Clone To WP7 As Rovio Protest [Video]
Rovio has already warned would-be WP7 feather flingers that Angry Birds isn't expected to arrive for Windows Phone 7 devices until well into 2011, but…
Read MoreEpsilon Planet L Speakers Look Like Sputnik
The second I laid eyes on these speakers I started to hear Mike Myers in my head saying, "They look like Sputnik, mostly spherical but…
Read MoreYahoo! Strikes Back Over Windows Phone 7 Email Bug: Microsoft IMAP App To Blame
Yahoo! has responded to Microsoft publicly naming & shaming them over the Windows Phone 7 phantom data bug, arguing that it's in fact a poor IMAP…
Read MoreKineo Android Tablet From Brainchild Ships In March
My kids don’t mind going to school most days, but they are downright excited on the days they are having computer lab. Tech in the…
Read MorePanasonic Set To Redesign Some Of Its Lenses
I have a Nikon DSLR and it has no image stabilization built-in. If you want or need stabilization, you have to buy lenses that have…
Read MoreNEC Adds New P350X, P350W, And P420X Projectors To Line
NEC has a full line of projectors for uses ranging from home theater to education and business offerings. The company has added three new projectors…
Read MoreLG Optimus V Landing On Virgin Mobile No-Contract Service
Mobile Phone contracts aren't things that any of us like, but we are willing to sign away a few years of wireless freedom to get…
Read MoreKeyport USB Drive Gets More Storage
Back in September of 2001, I mentioned that the cool Keyport key hiding slider thingy had gained a new feature with the ability to add…
Read MoreMeeGo Superphone Bug Report Tips 1.6GHz Atom & HSPA+
A MeeGo bug report could have spilled the beans on an upcoming flagship smartphone, with the promise of a 1.6GHz Intel processor, 854 x 480…
Read MoreT-Mobile Dell Streak 7 On Sale Now
As promised, Dell's Streak 7 has gone up for sale at T-Mobile, with the 7-inch 4G tablet priced at $199.99 with a new, two-year agreement…
Read MoreHammacher Schlemmer The Camcorder Projector Breaks Cover
Hammacher Schlemmer has some of the craziest gadgets and gear that you will find anywhere. Many of those kooky gadgets also cost a fortune as…
Read MoreiChair iPad Case Protects And Props
A bunch of the cases that are on the market for the iPad try and do more than just protect the tablet from drops and…
Read MoreTSA Testing New Software For Full Body Scanners
The full body scanners that are in use in hundreds of airports around the world have drawn huge amounts of criticism from passengers and privacy…
Read MoreAsus Unveils New GT 440 Video Card With Super Alloy Power Tech
A new video card from NVIDIA surfaced this week called the GT 440 and so far, many of the big card partners for NVIDIA have…
Read MoreCooler Master To Show Choiix Power Fort Gear At MWC 2011
Cooler Master has announced that it will be on hand and MWC 2011 with its line of Power Fort offerings. I have talked a bit…
Read MoreAmazon Prime Subscription Streaming Movie Bundle Tipped Incoming
Amazon is reportedly preparing to bundlestreaming movie content with its Prime subscription service, in an attempt to better take on Netflix in the US. According…
Read MoreEgypt Back Online: Internet, 3G & BlackBerry Reported Working
Egypt is reportedly back online, after the government pulled the plug last week in an attempt to undermine protests in the country. According to multiple…
Read MoreGoogle Bakes Hotpot Into Search In Push For NFC Adoption
Google is broadening support for its Hotpot recommendations system, adding 38 new languages - including French, German and Chinese - and adding search results for…
Read MoreToshiba Recalls Notebooks Over Intel Chipset Flaw; HP & NEC Delay Launches
Toshiba has officially recalled select Sandy Bridge based notebooks, after Intel admitted a silicon flaw in the 6 Series Cougar Point chipset could lead to degradation…
Read MoreVerizon Adds OS X Support To Pantech UML290 4G LTE Modem
It's taken a while, but Verizon has finally released Mac drivers for its 4G LTE modems; well, at least one of them. The LG VL600…
Read MoreApple Denies New In-App Purchase Rule; Devs Must Enforce It By June 30?
Apple has denied updating the App Store rules regarding in-app purchases - and which Sony fell foul of with their Reader for iPhone app -…
Read MoreiPad 2 Display Reportedly Leaks: Thinner, Lighter & Smaller Bezel
Pinch of salt time, but images purportedly showing Apple's second-generation iPad display have emerged, hot off the Chinese production line. According to 9 to 5…
Read MoreVerizon Educates Users With Fact Sheet About Data Usage
If you're not one of the thousands and thousands of world citizens that have subscribed to the idea that you need a smartphone to function…
Read MoreGalaxy S 4G Revealed By T-Mobile On Honeycomb Day
The Galaxy S line of phones from Samsung has just expanded with the Galaxy S 4G. This fabulous new phone will be rocking the house…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: February 1 2011
Samsung Galaxy S2 gets early reveal - or is it just a Video Dummy? Android Honeycomb lead designer Matias Duarte assures us that that Android…
Read MoreHoneycomb Will Make Android King Of Enterprise, So Says Aaron Levie
Mister Aaron Levie is the chief executive of enterprise cloud storage company Box.net, and he's been so bold and so kind as to say that…
Read MoreNOOKcolor Owner Creates Custom BOOKcase
This is not the first time that someone's carved out a book to put electronics inside (everyone in the worlds' favorite case being, of course,…
Read MoreGoogle Latitude Check In Introduced
Take a peek at Google's newest mobile offering - an upgrade of Google Latitude that includes a "check in" option that's bound to scare the…
Read MoreComing Soon: Monty Python Cow Tossing For Your iPhone
If flinging turds at island invaders hasn't helped you get out your pent up aggressions, help is on the way. Soon you will be able…
Read MoreGoPro Launches LCD BacPac Detachable Screen
GoPro announced today the availability of the LCD BacPac, a detachable LCD screen for its HD HERO video camera. The screen attaches to the camera…
Read MoreIntel Completes Purchase Of Infineon
Intel has finished the purchasing process of Infineon’s Wireless Business and that means problems for everyone making processor chips for mobile devices. The industry giant…
Read MoreApple Releases Third Beta Of iOS 4.3 To Developers
Today Apple released the third beta of iOS 4.3, called 8F5166b, to developers for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This is the third beta…
Read MoreGoogle Exec Missing In Egypt
Wael Ghonim, marketing head for Google in the Middle East and North Africa, was reported missing by Google earlier today. Ghonim was last seen Thursday…
Read MoreAndroid Smartphone Sales At 43 Percent And Rising
43 percent of smartphone sales are Android based, according to Nielsen. Android devices currently hold a 27% market share, putting Android in a close race…
Read MoreBeatles Grammy Winning Album And Documentary Debuts Exclusively On iTunes Worldwide
The Beatles “Love” album and the “All Together Now” documentary are digitally debuting exclusively on iTunes worldwide later this month. The album includes special versions…
Read MoreSamsung Issuing Refunds For PCs With Faulty Intel Chipset
Yesterday, Intel stopped shipments of its 6 Series support chip, used in personal computers, because of a design flaw. Today, Samsung announced it will issue…
Read MoreGoogle's Chrome Passes 10% Of Market
Google’s Chrome web browser has earned itself a double-digit share and a third place ranking in the market place with 10.7%. This is a big…
Read MoreFarmVille Cake. What's Next, Mafia Wars Theme Park?
Last year, 7-11 started selling FarmVille-inspired food, and now Fiesta Fun Cupcakes in Puerto Rico has created a FarmVille Cake. It looks pretty good, too.…
Read MoreTeen Creates Death Ray With Brightness Of 5,000 Suns
19 year old Eric Jacqmain created a "death ray" using 5,800 tiny mirrors placed in a 5'9” dish mounted on a wagon chassis. When objects…
Read MoreAT&T Allegedly Over Billing On iPhone And iPad Data Plans
A new federal class action lawsuit alleges that “AT&T’s bills systematically overstate the amount of data used on each data transaction involving an iPhone or…
Read MoreCall Of Duty: Black Ops Offers First Downloadable Content
Popular first-person shooter game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, has released its first downloadable content--a map pack with five all new locales spanning the globe…
Read MorePinkBerry? RIM Releases Fuschia BlackBerry 3G
Research In Motion has just released a 3G BlackBerry Curve in pink, officially called Fuchsia Pink. This phone has the same features as the original…
Read MoreTraffic Signals On Trees
A good way to green a city is to plant more trees and what better reason to do so than have trees replace traffic signal…
Read MoreNotion Ink Apps Ported To GTab
For those seeking an alternative custom ROM to boost speed and improve user interface of the Viewsonic GTab, there’s some good news. Developers over at…
Read MoreHoneycomb, Galaxy Tab & The 7-Inch Stumble
It's hardly been a good week for Samsung. Not only has the company been forced to backtrack on its Galaxy Tab sales figures, admitting it…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 1 2011
Two rather odd bits of news from over on Android Community - one, there's an Australian whose figured out a way to connect phones directly…
Read MoreAnybots Telepresence Robot Now Shipping
Anybots' telepresence business robots have now begun shipping, offering remote control of a balancing robot with two-way audio and video. Billed as a challenge to…
Read MoreGoogle Accuses Bing Of Copying Search Results
Google has accused Microsoft of copying its search results in Bing, having set a "honeypot" trap in December 2010 that spotted mirrored results on both…
Read MoreAT&T HTC Inspire 4G Hits February 13 For $100
AT&T has confirmed pricing and availability for the HTC Inspire 4G, announced back at CES 2011, which is now expected to hit shelves on February…
Read MoreSamsung Backtracks On Galaxy Tab Figures: Customer Sales "Quite Small" [Updated]
Samsung has admitted that its much-vaunted sales figures for the Samsung Galaxy Tab did not, in fact, refer to sales to end-users, but were merely…
Read MoreSamsung: Galaxy Tab Sales "Quite Smooth" Not "Quite Small"
The Samsung Galaxy Tab situation thickens, with the company now insisting that rather than admitting customer sales of the 7-inch tablet were "quite small", executive…
Read MoreAndroid 3.0 Honeycomb For More Than Tablets Says UI Head Duarte
Google's focus at the Android 3.0 Honeycomb event tomorrow might be tablets like the Motorola XOOM, but the updated OS isn't just about taking on…
Read MoreHTC 7 Mozart Headed To T-Mobile USA?
Microsoft may be playing a Samsung game when it comes to Windows Phone 7 sales and shipments, but just having handsets in stores should make…
Read MoreBoxee Netflix Delayed Again: DRM To Blame?
The promised Boxee Netflix app - which the streaming media company had previously said would be released by the end of January - is once…
Read MoreRoku Announces Official Support For USB Drives
Media fans that use a Roku XD|S or HD-XR media steaming device will be glad to hear that a new update is coming for both…
Read MoreGSLO Gets First Shipment Of Volt Solar iPhone Cases For Testing
We have talked a couple times now about the GSLO Volt solar charger case for the iPhone that will be offered by GSLO in the…
Read MoreSony Patent App Hints At Future Thin Camera Design
I am all for thin electronics to a point. If you go too thin some gear can be hard to grip and that can be…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Tab Returns As High As 16% Researchers Claim
Samsung has already had to backtrack on its Galaxy Tab performance figures, admitting that sales have actually been "quite small", and now new research suggests…
Read MoreBest Buy Offers Big Screen Deals For The Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is this weekend marking the only game of the year that a lot of folks will watch and the only time of…
Read MorePlanar Adds New 55-Inch LED Backlit HD Resolution LCD To Clarity Matrix Video Wall Line
Planar has announced that it is adding a new screen to its line of Clarity Matrix screens designed for making video walls. The new screen…
Read MoreGoogle Offers speak2tweet To Keep Egyptians Connected
The Egyptian government has come down hard on protestors during the period of unrest within the country over the last several days. Part of the…
Read MoreEpson Unveils PowerLite 915W And PowerLite 905 Projectors
Epson has a wide range of projector options that are available for home theater fans, business users and for education. Today the company has added…
Read MoreCowon D3 Hits Pre-Order In UK Packing Android Under The Hood
Android is finding its way into all sorts of products and is common in things like MP3 players and more today. The latest Android-powered MP3…
Read MoreSony HX100V Packs In 30x Optical Zoom While HX9V Offers 16x Optical Zoom
When it comes to point and shoot digital cameras there is a huge amount of offerings to choose from depending on your needs. One of…
Read MorePuget Systems Talks About Fix For Intel Sandy Bridge Flaw
Yesterday Intel stepped forward and announced that it had found a flaw in the chipsets that go along with the Sandy Bridge platform. The flaw…
Read MoreFree In-Flight Gogo Facebook Access: Get Poked At 30,000 Feet
Getting poked on a plane just got a lot easier, with the news that free Facebook access via in-flight WiFi will be offered by seven…
Read MoreRadioShack Announces Fresh Phone February
RadioShack has announced a new plan that will help mobile phone users that want a new device get one at a discount called Fresh Phone…
Read MoreSatin Silver PS3 Is Sony Japan Exclusive From March
Sony Japan has outed a Satin Silver version of the PS3, intended as a limited edition for Japanese gamers. The repainted console offers the same…
Read MoreSony Move Server Project To Push PlayStation Move To PCs
Sony's plans to make the PlayStation Move controller a PC peripheral have been prematurely outed, after references to the "Move Server project" were included in…
Read MoreApple Blocks Sony Reader App: New In-App Purchase Rules Could Scupper Kindle
Apple has rejected Sony's Reader for iPhone application, with the New York Times [subscription required] reporting that Apple now insists that from now on all in-app…
Read MoreNetgear CEO Apologizes For Apple Comments
Netgear CEO Patrick Lo has apologized for his choice of words in recent statements regarding Apple and the company's future after Steve Jobs steps down…
Read MoreYahoo! Mail Cause Of Windows Phone 7 Phantom Data Use
Microsoft has blamed Yahoo! Mail and an "inefficiency" with the Windows Phone 7 email client for the phantom data use some users have reported. The…
Read MoreLG Confirms Optimus 3D Ahead Of MWC 2011: 3D Camera & HDMI
With a leaked pic in the wild, LG couldn't exactly keep pushing its "dimensions" teaser and hope to maintain both enthusiasm and mystery about the…
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