SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - July 31, 2011
This past week seems to be all about what's to happen this coming August and September, which look to be eventful months. Samsung began teasing…
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Is Nintendo The Next SEGA?
If you’ve been following Nintendo news as of late, you know that the company is in trouble. During its last-reported quarter, its revenue slid considerably,…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review - Week 31 2011
Welcome to another week in review! There were some very strange and interesting stories going around over the last week and today I will run…
Read MoreApple Grabs Two-Thirds Of Mobile Phone Industry Profits
According to a new report, Apple's profits have now soared to become an astonishing two-thirds of the entire mobile phone market. This observation comes from…
Read MoreNew iPhone 5 Silicone Cases Leak, Shows Thinner Profile, Larger Dimensions
More iPhone 5 silicone cases have leaked today. With the next-gen iPhone rumored for a September launch, third-party accessories manufacturers are getting antsy, readying the…
Read MoreAT&T Confirms Data Throttling To Start October 1
Yesterday we talked about the rumor that AT&T may start throttling the data speeds of its unlimited data plan subscribers, specifically the heaviest-use customers that…
Read MoreAT&T Throttling Heavy-Use Unlimited Data Subscribers In Early October
If you're an AT&T customer still holding onto an unlimited data plan, you may start noticing some changes in the coming months. It's rumored that…
Read MoreStealth Computer LPC-125LPM Ultra-Compact PC Released
What you're going to get right here is one small computer, that's an open and shut case. This is the quite unassuming LPC-125LPM from Stealth…
Read MoreApple Now Has More Cash Than US Government, With $76 Billion In Reserve
Amidst the political debates over the federal budget and the debt ceiling crisis, the U.S. government revealed that it now has $73 billion remaining as…
Read MoreWiFi 802.22 Technology Promises Wireless Data Over 60 Miles: Say Goodbye To Data Plans
It's the news bit you've been waiting years to hear! The folks at the IEEE standards body have today announced a next-generation WiFi IEEE 802.22TM…
Read MoreGoogle Search Optimized For iPads, Android Tablets
Using Google Search on tablets hasn't been difficult, but the experience is about to get even easier. The company confirmed today that it will be…
Read MoreNintendo Possibly Taking A Loss On Every 3DS Unit Sold
Yesterday many things were revealed about Nintendo, facts about their abysmal earnings this past quarter, the fact that they had "few hit titles," and of…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Sign-Up Page For US Goes Live
The much anticipated Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone is finally making its way to the states and the company sure knows how to tease. Just…
Read MoreVizio Tablet Unboxing And Hands-On
Vizio has long been known for its budget-friendly TVs and now they’ve entered the tablet market with their very first Android slate that’s similarly affordable.…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Adding Qriocity Movie Streaming To XPERIAs In August
Sony Ericsson has announced that the Sony Qriocity streaming video service will be landing on select smartphones from the company's range as of August 1, with…
Read MoreChinese Dude Takes Fake MacBook Air Into Real Apple Store For Support
I'm not sure what to think of this Chinese dude that took a fake MacBook Air to one of the only real Apple Stores in…
Read MoreIntel: Apple's Electron-Blindness Is App Store's Shortcoming
Intel's AppUp digital store chief Peter Biddle reckons Apple's App Store doesn't consider electrons enough to be a success, and believes that separating out hats…
Read MorePanasonic Unveils New PT-AE7000U Full HD 3D Home Theater Projector
Panasonics has home theater gear ranging from TVs to Blue-ray players and projectors. The line of home theater projectors has grown by one-step today with…
Read MoreSpy Pic Snapped On Train Could Be The iPhone 5
Yesterday we showed you pics of the cases that had surfaced that were supposed to be for the iPhone 5 according to sources. The cases…
Read MoreHTC Confirms 6-8 New Phones/tablets In 2H 2011
HTC has announced that it has 6-8 new devices in the pipeline for the remainder of 2011, a mixture of Android, Windows Phone and tablet…
Read MoreGoogle Music Beta Account Holders Get Two Invites Each
If Google didn’t see fit to bless you with an invite to the launch of its Google Music Beta program you may have felt slighted.…
Read MoreLockheed Martin HALE-D Airship Flies For First Time
Lockheed Martin has been working on a new generation of airships, which I have always called blimps. Decades ago, the airship was seen as the…
Read MoreGoogle Buys 1,030 IBM Patents To Strengthen IP Catalog
Google has confirmed it snapped up a bundle of IBM patents, in a move that is believed to be defensive against the growing number of…
Read MoreDIDO Uses The Cloud To Process WiFi And 3G Traffic For Less Latency
The company that brought us the OnLive cloud gaming system has a new way to use the cloud to reduce the latency and interference associated…
Read MoreNewzbin2 Threatens To Break BT's Filtering System If It Tries To Block Their Site
Yesterday I mentioned that over in the UK the High Court had ordered BT to block access to the pirate website Newsbin2. The original Newzbin…
Read MoreWhite Samsung Galaxy S II Gets Official
The white version of Samsung's best-selling Galaxy S II has been confirmed for a September 1 release in the UK. Functionally identical to the existing…
Read MoreVerbatim Splashed Store 'N' Go USB External HDDs Debut
Verbatim has a new line of external storage drives that are thin and compact plus they are clad in brightly colored cases. The new external…
Read MoreMacBook Air Gets Half-Power Thunderbolt
Apple's new MacBook Air may have a Thunderbolt port, but size and cost constraints have led to the updated ultraportable offering reduced external display support…
Read MoreApple And Samsung Take Top Smartphone Sales Spots; Nokia Falls To 3rd
Apple and Samsung have pushed Nokia into the number three position for worldwide smartphone sales, analysts have claimed, with strong Q2 2011 performance leaving Symbian…
Read MoreFusion Garage "Grid10" JooJoo 2 Tablet Clears FCC With AT&T 3G
What looks to be Fusion Garage's JooJoo 2 has been caught clearing the FCC, the company's second attempt at the fast-growing tablet segment. Details on…
Read MorePixeet Promises 360-Degree iPhone Panoramas; Android App In Works
Adapter lenses to encourage your iPhone to take unusual photos are increasingly popular as the optics across each generation of Apple smartphone improve, and Pixeet…
Read MoreiPhone Is WiFi Flight Favorite Says Gogo
Apple's iPhone is the most popular mobile device among travelers paying for in-flight WiFi, according to provider Gogo, with almost two-thirds of the mobile gadgets…
Read MoreAcer Iconia Tab A100 Due August For $300; A500 Price Cut Imminent
Acer's Iconia Tab A100 is set to launch in August, according to new reports, with a roughly $300 price tag. The delayed slate - which…
Read MoreToshiba Promises Thrive Fix To Wake Somnolent Slate
The troublesome sleep issue affecting some owners of Toshiba's Thrive Android tablet should be addressed by early next week, the company has said, promising a…
Read MoreGoogle Page Speed Service Rewrites Sites For Up To 60% Speed Boost
Google reckons your site is too slow, and wants to rewrite it for you. A new launch from the search giant, Google Page Speed Service, promises…
Read MoreDear Nintendo: How Low Can You Go?
Nintendo tried to sweeten the news of its dramatically disappointing financial results, announced earlier today, with a pre-emptive price cut of the 3DS, but the outlook…
Read MoreMicrosoft Office 2011 To Add OS X Lion Features
So all the new OS X Lion features are great, but what's the use if they're not compatible with your most used software applications. Despite…
Read MoreiPad 3 Contract Goes To Pegatron Instead Of Foxconn
Although the iPad 2 launched but a few short months ago in March, there are already rumors of an iPad 3 or possibly an "iPad…
Read MoreMotorola Confirms Droid Bionic In September, Plus Two New 4G LTE Tablets
During Motorola's quarterly earnings call today, CEO Sanjay Jha was surprisingly candid about the company's upcoming products. He not only confirmed the timeline for the…
Read MoreiPhone 5 To Hit Second Week Of September, iPad 3 In November?
Speculation continues for the iPhone 5 as we get closer to its rumored September launch. A new report from China Times now pinpoints the next-gen…
Read MoreSkyfire VideoQ iOS App To Queue Flash Videos
Skyfire, popular for their mobile browser that enables viewing of Flash videos on the iOS platform, has just released a new iOS app called VideoQ.…
Read MoreWindows Phone Mango Supports Music Streaming From SkyDrive
The Windows Phone Mango update promises more than 500 new features, one of which includes the integration of Microsoft's online cloud service called the SkyDrive.…
Read MoreOLED TV Panels Not Cost-Competitive Until 2014 Says Taiwan TFT-LCD Panel Maker
It seems that while the TVs are pretty much as big as they're going to get (you can get them in any size now, basically,)…
Read MoreSpotify Gets Sued For Patent Infringement
Just two weeks since its U.S. debut, the popular European music service, Spotify, has already gotten a big American "welcome" complete with bear hugs and…
Read MoreGoogle Answers G+ Privacy Questions, Declines Others
Dan Gillmore, writer, teacher, and Google+ member has been in communication with Google over the past few weeks, asking questions about security and safety of…
Read MoreCan We All Just Pay Netflix And Move On?
The Netflix price hike for those who want DVD rentals and unlimited streaming just won’t go away. Everywhere I turn, someone I know or an…
Read MoreiBUYPOWER Launches Pro Series Line Of Workstations
Complete with 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 processors, RAID cards and NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards, iBUYPOWER keeps their title as a leading innovator of integrated…
Read MoreASUS Eee PC X101 With MeeGo Gets Official Listing
ASUS' MeeGo-running Eee PC X101 has found itself an official product page, ahead of the 1.5GHz Intel Atom Oak Trail 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 ultraportable's…
Read MoreHTC EVO 3D UK Launch Delayed Until September
HTC has confirmed to SlashGear that its European version of the EVO 3D will arrive in the UK in September 2011, two months after initially expected.…
Read MoreApple Top US Smartphone Manufacturer; Android Pulls Ahead Of iOS
Apple is the top smartphone manufacturer in the US, according to the latest Nielsen statistics, despite iOS not having the biggest share of the OS…
Read MoreAliyun OS Leans On The Cloud For Core Services And Runs Android Apps
I'm not sure the smartphone market needs a new OS, but in China, a new choice might go over better than it would elsewhere. A…
Read MoreLogitech Dumps Revue To $99 Amid Dire Q2: Loses $30m And CEO
Logitech has reported $30m in losses for Q2 2011 [pdf link], further slashed the price of its Revue Google TV box in a desperate grab at…
Read MoreTie Knot Water Balloon Filler Is A Summer Must Have Gadget
It's HOT in Texas in the summer. I mean really hot. Fat hairy dudes are banned from walking in the grass during droughts out of…
Read MoreLeica Lens Holder Accessory Surfaces
Leica has some nice digital cameras that are very expensive, but promise excellent quality in the build and in photos you shoot with the camera.…
Read MoreIs This The iPhone 4S?
The problem with a so-called iPhone 4S or "Lite" version - packing similar specifications and aesthetics to the current iPhone 4, but using cheaper materials…
Read MoreGoogle+ Growth Slows, Stat Firm Says, As +1 SEO Gamers Surface
The Google+ honeymoon period may be drawing to a close, as record early growth reportedly tapers off and users make fewer, shorter visits to the new…
Read MoreGood Technology Takes Security Seriously With Good For Government
With all the hacking attacks that have been, going on over the past few months it's no surprise that security is at the forefront for…
Read MoreNintendo 3DS Price Slashed To $170
Nintendo has slashed the price of the 3DS glasses-free 3D games console, less than four months after the handheld went on sale in the US,…
Read MoreMonsoon Offers TV Anywhere Placeshifting To OEMs
We have talked about the consumer product that Monsoon offers in the past. The line of Vulkano placeshifting and streaming video gear is large and…
Read MoreNintendo Reports Q2 Financial Misery: 25.5bn Yen Loss, "Few Hit Titles"
Nintendo has announced its Q2 2011 financial results[pdf link] and it makes for disappointing reading for the Japanese gaming giant. Net sales were down over…
Read MoreRude Gameware Announces Fierce 3500 Wireless Gaming Mouse For Pre-Order
Generally computer gaming and wireless mice are not things that go together in the same sentence. Over the last year or so some nice wireless…
Read MorePaper Craft Nyan Cat Is Weird And Cool
Not too long ago Chris Davies was having a nerdgasm over the Nyan Cat videos on YouTube getting that rainbow Nyan Cat custom load bar.…
Read MoreUK High Court Orders BT To Block Newzbin2 Website For Piracy
Pirates are rampant all around the world online. They stream music, movies, and TV shows and generally raise the ire of any association that seeks…
Read MoreBBC iPlayer App For iPad Hits Europe In First Stage Of Global Trial
The BBC has launched a European version of its iPlayer streaming TV and radio app for iPad, offering subscription-based access to new and archive content…
Read MoreThinkGeek Shows Off Electronic Rock Guitar Bag
ThinkGeek has some of the coolest geeky toys and wares around. Some of the stuff is a bit odd like that titanium straw we talked…
Read MoreNASA Gives Details On What Camera Hardware Hides Under The Crazy Looking Photo Rigs Astronauts Use
We have talked about some of the high-end camera gear that astronauts take into space with them for shooting photos. The last time I mentioned…
Read MoreWhite House Rickrolls Twitter User For Complaining About Briefing
I have always thought that life is more fun when you take the time for the little things like smelling the flowers and making fun…
Read MoreION Piano Apprentice Teaches You How To Play Using The iPad
When I was little, I had a Casio keyboard that had lights above each key. You could learn to play a bunch of song by…
Read MoreBest Buy Insignia TV With TiVo Coming Soon
Back in March, I mentioned that a new TiVo HDTV wearing the Insignia Best Buy store brand logo was in testing. Since then we haven't…
Read MoreNielsen Looks At How People Are Streaming Hulu And Netflix
Netflix and Hulu are the two most popular streaming video services around. The services can be accessed on all sorts of devices from your DVR…
Read MoreiPad Fastest Growing Games Platform As Consoles Shrink To 40%
The iPad is the fastest growing games platform, developers EA have suggested, with consoles now accounting for just 40-percent of the games industry. "Consoles used…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Telescope Teaser Sent To Publishers
We've received a surprised in the mail today, one that we certainly weren't expecting as no solid facts on the following device have been set…
Read MoreBBM 6 Released Today: Connected Apps & SMS Support [Video]
RIM has pushed BlackBerry Messenger v6 (BBM 6) out of the door, updating the popular instant messaging app for the company's BlackBerry smartphones. Available to…
Read MoreITC Finds Apple's OS X Infringes HTC's S3 Patents, But iOS Cleared
A ruling by the International Trade Commission (ITC) in the US on the patent case between Apple and HTC has just been released to the…
Read MoreLG Thrill 4G Hands-On And Unboxing
It may not look like its actually alive and grabbing you like something from Avatar, but it sure gets close. What we have here is…
Read MoreGoogle Maps 5.8 Update For Android Adds Photo Uploads, My Places, And More
Google today released an update to version 5.8 for its Google Maps Android app. The update brings several new enhancements to the Places and Latitude…
Read MoreMotorola Preparing An iPod Nano, Nike+ Hybrid Sports Watch?
We're all about hybrid devices these days. Having a watch that only tells time just doesn't cut it anymore, especially for those with a more…
Read MoreNASA Releases iPad App For Exploring Earth
NASA has been all about exploring space, but now with their space shuttle program winding down and the imminent decommissioning of the International Space Station,…
Read MoreMotorola Droid Bionic To Launch On Verizon In September?
The Motorola Droid Bionic is probably one of the most delayed handsets ever. It debuted at CES in January of this year and has since…
Read MoreiPhone 5G Conceptual Design Adds A Bit Of Color
It's been a while since we saw anyone add any sort of color other than silver, black, and white, if you consider those colors, to…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 To Get New TouchWiz UX On August 3, But NYC Only
Samsung is hosting an unusual press event in NYC on August 3. And we say unusual, because it's not common to see events like these…
Read MoreiPhone 5 Case Prototypes Reveal Radical New Design
We're getting closer and closer to the unveiling of the much hyped iPhone 5, which is rumored for a September launch. Now less than two…
Read MoreASUS Eee Pad Transformer Getting Android 3.2 Honeycomb Tomorrow
That was fast. ASUS has confirmed via Twitter that the Android 3.2 Honeycomb update will be rolling out tomorrow, July 28, to its ASUS Eee…
Read MoreHTC Ignite Revealed, Not Nexus Device As Previously Rumored UPDATE: WP7 Instead
Before you even ask, Binnenkort Leverbaar means COMING SOON in Dutch. And what is coming soon, you might ask? Why, the HTC Ignite, of course!…
Read MoreQualcomm's Augmented Reality SDK Now iOS Compatible
Augmented reality involves layering over images of the real physical world with digitally generated graphics that either create a fun gaming environment or enhance our…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash : July 27, 2011
Today's edition of the Daily Slash is strewn with rumors and speculation about none other than the fastest selling Android device of all time, that…
Read MoreLuminate Aims To Turn Web-Based Images To Interactive Apps
The folks at the company formerly known as Pixazza, if you've ever heard of them of course, have rebranded themselves as "Luminate", launching today a…
Read MoreLulzsec Spokesperson Topiary Arrested By British E-Police
UK police have reportedly arrested Lulzsec spokesperson Topiary, in a snatch that saw the unnamed 19 year old detained at a residential address in the…
Read MoreNokia N9 Due September 19 In Switzerland
The Nokia N9 has been dated for its Swiss release, with carrier Orange confirming that the MeeGo smartphone is expected to go on sale on September…
Read MoreRazer Switchblade First To Grab Atom Z690; Still Insists It's Just A "Concept"
Razer has confirmed that its Switchblade gaming notebook will be the first device to use the Intel Atom Z690 processor. The Switchblade - announced at CES…
Read MoreInternational Space Station To Get Watery Grave In 2020
Better book your space holiday fast if you were hoping to spend a romantic weekend at the International Space Station. After 2020, when the ISS…
Read MoreMeeGo Tegra 2 Drivers Could End Android Monopoly On NVIDIA SoC
NVIDIA has potentially given MeeGo a shot in the arm, with the release of a set of drivers for the Tegra 2 that will allow ports…
Read MoreDell Stage Software For Android And PCs Gets Update
Dell has been packing software into its PCs and some of its other devices for a while now called Stage to allow access to all…
Read MoreNetflix To Start Streaming Mad Men Today
Netflix is constantly looking for new streaming content to add it its lineup to woo more and more folks into paying for streaming. I guess…
Read MoreDrift HD Sports Camcorder Debuts
Tiny little rugged camcorders are finding their way into all sorts of places. A lot of professionals in action sports and motorsports use this sort…
Read MoreMozilla Boot To Gecko Will Use Android To Beat Android (And iOS, Too)
Mozilla has announced plans to develop a new mobile OS, Boot to Gecko (B2G), which will leverage web-based HTML5 apps on top of a spartan…
Read MoreNokia, ZTE And Huawei Face InterDigital 3G Patent Lawsuit
The ebb and flow of the patent battles in the tech world never cease to amuse me. They are never ending for many firms. Nokia…
Read MoreSamsung Confirms 720p HD Device: IFA 2011 Tablet Incoming?
A new device has landed on the Samsung Developer Center and it has little in the way of details. The listing gives a part number…
Read MoreHTC Bypasses Apple Patent Ire For 2012 Android Range
HTC has reportedly developed workaround technologies for those systems the ITC deemed infringed on Apple's patents, and will shift its 2012 smartphone range to the…
Read MoreGoogle+ ID Clamp-Down Could Prompt UK Watchdog Investigation
Google's clamp-down on pseudonyms and anonymous users has caught the attention of the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), it's been revealed, with the data rights…
Read MoreSony Gets Official With New Walkman Wireless Audio Players
Yesterday a single press photo of a new Sony Walkman MP3 player leaked. Today Sony has gone official with the leaked A860 from yesterday and…
Read MoreGarmin Completes Purchase Of Navigon
Back in June, we caught wind that Garmin was looking to gobble up Navigon. Navigon is a company that is big in Europe and will…
Read MoreVolpin Props Creates Epic N7 Rifle For Mass Effect 3
How awesome is this dude at making replica weapons for video games! We have seen the work of Harrison Krix before back when he made…
Read MoreAmazon Tablet Suppliers Leak As E Ink Flexes FFS Display Investment
The pieces of Amazon's Android tablet puzzle continue to coalesce, with the retailer's lengthy parts supplier lists leaking ahead of what's expected to be a…
Read MoreFujitsu Toshiba IS12T WP7 Mango Phone Official [Video]
Fujitsu and Toshiba have officially announced the IS12T, the cellular partnerships' first Windows Phone and the first such smartphone to run Mango. The handset, which was…
Read MoreSuper Ball Escape HD Is Free For iPad This Week
If you have an iPad and like video games on the device Super Ball Escape HD may be a title you want to check out.…
Read MoreVodafone 555 Blue Takes Facebook Mobile (With Some Cut Corners)
Vodafone has outed its new "Facebook phone", the Vodafone 555 Blue, a QWERTY featurephone that promises to be a low-cost way to access the popular…
Read MoreSpeaky Bluetooth Car Kit Has Motion Detection And Looks Cute Too
The design of most of the hands free kits for cars is very similar. They all tend to hang from the visor so you can…
Read MorechicBuds Unveils New Zebra Chicboom Keychain Speaker
When I am looking for accessories or hardware, I want something that looks cool, but if a product works better or sounds better, I will…
Read MoreSony Launches New S-Frame Digital Photo Frame Models
Sony has added to its lineup of S-Frame series digital photo frames today with three new models launching. The new models include the DPF-HD1000, DPF-HD800,…
Read MoreHTC EVO 3D Gets Vodafone Snub
Could the tide be turning against HTC's prime position in the Android smartphone segment? UK carrier Vodafone has confirmed this morning that it has ditched…
Read MoreFacebook For Business Launch Highlights Google+ Shortcomings
Facebook has taken advantage of Google's tardiness over business profiles on Google+ and launched its own Facebook for Business subsite. While not actually delivering any new…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Passes 5m Sales Worldwide
Samsung's Galaxy S II smartphone has passed the 5m sales point, the Korean company has announced, besting the sales records of the Galaxy S it…
Read MoreWindows Finally Gets RAW Image Support In Photo Gallery And Explorer
For those of you who find not being able to preview RAW format images in Windows to be quite annoying, then be relieved to know…
Read MoreApple Readying Ultra-Thin 15-Inch And 17-Inch MacBook Pros?
Apple's MacBook Air ultraportable notebooks have been incredibly popular, but are only available in 11- and 13-inch models. That may soon change. Rumors have emerged…
Read MoreGoogle Shopper iPhone App Gets Map-Based Offers
Google just released an update to version 1.5 for their Google Shopper iPhone app, which now integrates Google Offers. The app makes it easy to…
Read MoreRadioShack To Ditch T-Mobile For Verizon
RadioShack has had an exclusive partnership with T-Mobile, which in recent months has proven to be a bad pairing for the electronics retailer, who saw…
Read MoreVerizon 4G LTE Adding More Markets On August 18
Verizon is really gobbling up the nation with its 4G LTE coverage at an unrelenting pace. After having just turned on 28 new markets a…
Read MoreApple Flat Keyless Keyboard Patent Revealed
It appears that in addition do their Motion-Sensitive keyboard patent, Apple has sent out a patent application for a "Flat Keyless Keyboard for Desktops &…
Read MoreKobo Circumvents Apple With HTML 5 Web App
Several major e-book publisher apps, including Amazon's Kindle, Google Books, and Barnes & Noble Nook, had their store links stripped away yesterday as Apple's new…
Read MoreWindows Phone Mango Released To Manufacturing
Microsoft's much anticipated Windows Phone 7 Mango update has been officially finalized. Today, the company announced that its development team has officially signed off on…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Coming To USA Via Verizon First, So Sayeth Mueller
Industry analyst Paul Mueller spoke today on the Samsung Galaxy S II, noting that according to his intel, the device will be coming out extremely…
Read MoreFace Detection API Added To iOS 5
Back during Apple's WWDC 2011, when they highlighted several of the new features to come with Mac OS X Lion, one involved a demo showing…
Read MoreXbox 360 Media Remote And Bluetooth Wireless Headset Announced
It's time for some more Xbox bits and pieces! Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson, aka Larry Hyrb has a personal message for you in the video…
Read MoreMotorola XOOM 4G LTE Upgrade Confirmed For September
Motorola XOOM 3G customers who have been patiently waiting for the promised 4G LTE upgrade, have gotten a little worried in recent months as rumors…
Read MoreBlackBerry Bold 9930 Outed By Verizon Ahead Of Official Announcement
RIM is expected to launch seven BlackBerry 7 OS smartphones before the end of this year, with one of them being the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930.…
Read MoreHTC Puccini Tablet Press Images Leaked
It appears that HTC's newest effort in the Android business has been revealed in real live photo form. That or there's a rather talented mock-up…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Slide From AT&T Pictured In Photos
It appears that in addition to the HTC Puccini 10-inch tablet having its press images leaked today, there's another AT&T-bound device hanging in the rafters.…
Read MoreHP Pavillion Dm1-3010nr LTE Release Date Confirmed For July 28
Verizon Wireless revealed on Tuesday that they'd be releasing the world's first 4G LTE enabled notebook, it being the model dm1-3010nr HP Pavillion. This notebook…
Read MoreSony Walkman A Series Press Images Leaked
Everyone's favorite legendary name in personal music players, that being the Walkman, has been revealed to be expanding the family with the high-end Sony Walkman…
Read MoreAViiQ Portable Charging Station Now Available
Back in March, I mentioned some new AviiQ gear that was coming to market. One of the items is finally now available. The gadget is…
Read MoreTwilio Client Adds VoIP To Any Website Or App
I am sure there are bunches of websites or apps that you use that could benefit from the ability to place VoIP calls using the…
Read MoreIf Goldmember Were A gamer…
Anyone that was around in the 80's will remember the Atari. This was the console to have back in the day. It never ceases to…
Read MorePower Up Puts Electric Motor On Paper Airplanes
I used to build paper airplanes a lot as a kid. I once tried to graft one of the rubber band propellers from those little…
Read MoreIdiot Gets Stuck In Manhole Trying To Retrieve Mobile Phone
How do I even start this? If stupid was an Olympic sport this dude would be the Michael Phelps of idiots. You have to watch…
Read MoreClearwire Clear Spot 4G Apollo Debuts
Clearwire is talking about its new 4G wireless hotspot for the WiMax network in some areas called the Apollo. The Apollo is the hotspot we…
Read MoreDell UltraSharp U2412M 24-Inch IPS Display Sells For $399
Dell is mostly known for its laptop computers and it has a bunch of accessories for laptops and desktops too. Dell has a new display…
Read MoreScientists Confirm A Single Photon Can't Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light
A group of physicists in Hong Kong have crushed the dreams of time travel for geeks everywhere with cold hard scientific fact. The physicists set…
Read MoreRipple Korea Unveils New Ripple Look AMD Brazos SFF Computer
There are plenty of tiny little computers on the market today that make for very nice SFF computers and HTPC rigs for the living room.…
Read MoreAsus And Acer Ultrabooks Will Cost Over $1000
If you liked the idea of the Intel Ultrabook platform with its good performance and very thin and ultraportable form factor at price of under…
Read MoreZero1.tv Offers VooMote One For iPhone And iPod Touch
One of the accessories for the iPhone and the iPod touch that is becoming more and more common are the universal remote controls. The last…
Read MoreGriffin Technology StompBox For iOS Devices Now Available
If you are a guitar playing geek that has an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch lying around you can use that iOS device to jam…
Read MoreSanDisk Ships New Ultra SSD For Notebooks And Desktops
SanDisk has announced that it has started shipping a new SSD to retailers that is aimed at the consumer notebook and desktop market. The SSD…
Read MoreBang & Olufsen Debut BeoSound 5 Encore Luxury Media Hub
Bang & Olufsen, known for their upscale electronics, has today debuted a new media hub called the BeoSound 5 Encore. The device works like a…
Read MoreApple Releases OS X 10.6.8 Supplemental Update For Better Snow Leopard To Lion Transition
If you haven't updated to the new Mac OS X Lion just yet, then you might want to get a new OS X 10.6.8 Snow…
Read MoreHTC Chief Innovation Officer Horace Luke Resigns For Personal Reasons
It was let known today that on the date of April 30th, 2011, HTC's Chief Innovation Officer Horace Luke resigned from the company for personal…
Read MoreSamsung Android QWERTY Slider Heading To AT&T
Earlier today, AT&T announced that 2.3 Gingerbread updates will be rolling out to its entire 2011 Android lineup of smartphones. But, that lineup has been…
Read MoreFacebook For iPad Leak Access Blocked
Remember all the way back this morning when we reported on the leaked version of the official Facebook app for iPad? Turns out the folks…
Read MoreHTC Bliss Leaked In First Blurry Image
The HTC Bliss was first rumored back in May to be an attempt at targeting females, a demographic that Android devices haven't been as popular…
Read MoreSlashGear Archos 101 Internet Tablet Giveaway
As you may have guessed, we're big on tablets at SlashGear, and so when Archos offered us its 10.1-inch Archos 101 Internet Tablet, we thought…
Read MoreApple Unleashes iOS 4.3.5 And iOS 4.2.10 Security Updates
Less than two weeks ago, Apple released an update to iOS 4.3.4 to address the security loophole found with downloading PDFs as well as to…
Read MoreAT&T Confirms Android 2.3 Gingerbread Update For 2011 Lineup
AT&T had some good news today for its Android phone customers who have been eagerly awaiting a platform update. The carrier confirmed that all of…
Read MoreAdobe Shutters AIR Marketplace And InMarket
Adobe will be shutting down its two app stores, the AIR Marketplace and the InMarket. The decision shows signs of defeat as well as wisdom,…
Read MoreXbox 360 Avatar Kinect Hits Xbox LIVE Marketplace [Video]
Microsoft's Avatar Kinect, unveiled at CES 2011 earlier this year, has landed in the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for download. A free app, Avatar Kinect allows you…
Read MoreKindle, WSJ, Spotify iOS Apps & More Lose Store Links
Multiple iOS apps have been updated this weekend to remove in-app purchasing links, with the WSJ, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Spotify and others apparently…
Read MoreAT&T Reportedly Readying Staff For iPhone 5 September Debut
AT&T is reportedly readying staff for a fifth-gen iPhone launch by the middle of September, according to the latest rumors, with management at the carrier…
Read MoreSony Cyber-Shot TX55 Packs Full HD Into 12.2mm Body; Brings WX30 For Ride
Sony has revealed its latest Cyber-shot digital cameras, the 12.2mm-thick TX55 - billed as the world's thinnest with Full HD video recording support - and…
Read MoreAT&T Infographic Notes Massive Wi-Fi Use Growth On Mobile Devices
This morning AT&T held a meeting in which the following infographic was discussed - and it's rather interesting. What we're looking at here is AT&T's…
Read MoreINgSOC Hybrid Bike Has No Chain, Looks Painful
If Bumblebee was ever in a pinch and needed to turn into a bicycle to hide from the Decipticons, the INgSOC is the bike he…
Read MoreSamsung Courting Ex-Acer CEO For Euro Tech Expertise?
Samsung is tipped to be hunting after ex-Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci, with the outspoken exec seen as a potentially valuable source of European notebook insight,…
Read MoreSpace Intruder Multitool Has Screwdrivers And Bottle Opener
I haven’t played Space Invaders since the days of the Atari, but it was one of my favorite games. I vaguely recall that some of…
Read MoreHTC Ruby Spotted In Reflection On A Tablet Screen?
This may be the strangest leaked photo of a supposed new smartphone I have ever seen. Looking at the pics below they are some of…
Read MoreRIM To Slash 2,000 Jobs As Sales Sink Against Android And iPhone
RIM has been taking a beating on the smartphone market with its Blackberry offerings not faring well against Android and the iPhone. RIM also struck…
Read MorePorsche Design P'6520 Watch Hides A Compass Under The Face
Porsche Design works with all sorts of things from external storage to bongs. The stuff that Porsche Design cranks out is generally very nice looking…
Read MoreMAUL Shotgun Fires Up To Five Taser Shells As Fast As You Can Pull The Trigger
I think it's a great thing that police and military have weapons at their disposal that will allow them to stop someone committing a crime…
Read MoreWall-E Becomes A Real Robot, No Fairy Godmother Needed
Pinocchio needed a fairly godmother to become a real boy, but all Wall-E needed to become a real robot was a geek with some parts…
Read MoreBoss Micro BR BR-80 Digital Recorder Lets You Record Your Music At Home With High Quality
If you are a musician that wants to be able to record your solo play or your entire band in the garage getting a high…
Read MoreApple Will Replace Some 1TB Seagate iMac HDDs
If you were one of the many people that upgraded to a new iMac back in May when they got new hardware you aren't alone.…
Read MoreGoogle+ Names: No Shirt, No Service
Google's stance on users listing their real names on Google+ continues to cause headaches on the fledgling social networking site, with a spate of account deactivations…
Read MoreChinese Officials Move To Close Fake Apple Stores In Kunming, China
Last week I mentioned that a very convincing fake Apple Store had been spotted in China that looked almost just like the real thing. The…
Read MoreGM Uses Computer Software And Rapid Prototyping Rather Than Clay Or Wood For Prototype Testing
Many of the 3D printing stories that I talk about are using the tech to make smaller things and concept products. One of the places…
Read MoreFacebook For iPad App Leaks
The Facebook for iPad app has been prematurely revealed, after the social network pushed out an updated version of its iPhone software that secretly contained…
Read MoreSony's Insurance Company Sues To Deny Data Breach Coverage
It's been a while now since we heard anything more on the massive security breach that happened to the Sony PSN this year. Sony finally…
Read MoreApple "Assistant" Voice Control System Tipped For iPhone 5
Apple's long-anticipated voice control system for the iPhone and iPad could make its debut in iOS 5 or as an iPhone 5 exclusive later this…
Read MoreSamsung Q2 Smartphone Sales Could Beat iPhone
Samsung is likely to have beaten Nokia for smartphone sales in Q2 2011, analysts have predicted, with the Korean company standing a good chance of…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - July 24, 2011
The much anticipated Mac OS X Lion touched down this past Wednesday along with revamped MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, and Cinema Displays. Apple's on a…
Read MoreClimbing The Mount Everest Of Twitter
A tech journalist friend of mine, Noah Kravitz, recently retweeted a message from a kid in Ireland, and I found it interesting. He said: “@noahkravitz…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review - Week 30 2011
Another week has come and gone in the geek world and it's time to round up some of the biggest and most important stories of…
Read MoreLet's Face It: Microsoft Innovation Makes Apple Look Bad In The Living Room
I was recently discussing companies that are trying to make it big with living room entertainment products with a friend, when he asked me which…
Read MoreMotorola Triumph Hands-On And Unboxing
I received a little surprise yesterday from FedEx and it just so happened to be the Motorola Triumph that is headed to Virgin Mobile. The…
Read MoreApple MacBook Batteries Vulnerable To Hack
When we think about data security and possible vulnerabilities in our computing systems, the laptop battery generally doesn't come to mind as a hacker target.…
Read MoreAT&T Customers Sue To Block T-Mobile Merger Deal
The AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile is facing more opposition just days following Senate antitrust subcommittee chairman Herb Kohl's letter warning against the "substantial harm" that…
Read MoreiOS 5 Beta 4 Released As Apple's First OTA Update
Apple has just released a fourth beta for its upcoming iOS 5 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This beta is the very first…
Read MoreSpotify Reached 70,000 Paying Subscribers In First Week Of U.S. Launch
After launching for only about a week in the U.S., Spotify is estimated to have already reached 70,000 paid subscribers. The incredibly popular European-based music…
Read MoreVerizon DROID Eris Gets Cheaper For Christmas At Best Buy Mobile
There are lots of cool new handsets on the market right now and with Christmas nearly here, it's not too late to get someone a…
Read MoreVerizon CEO Expects iPhone 5 To Arrive In Fall
Verizon's incoming CEO and current COO Lowell McAdam adds more fuel to the rumors of an iPhone 5 arriving this September. During a TV interview…
Read MoreLG's Roadmap Leaked, Includes Windows Phone 7 Mango Fantasy And Dual-Core Prada K2
The roadmap for LG's 2H 2011 smartphone lineup has been leaked along with specs and images revealed by the folks at PocketNow. They were not…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy 3D Smartphone Possible For Q4 2011
According to Korean News Site ETNews speaking with sources in the field, Samsung may be planning a 3D device not unlike what's been revealed by…
Read MoreT-Mobile Now Offers Micro-SIM Cards For iPhone 4
T-Mobile is now offering a micro-SIM card for customers wanting to use unlocked iPhone 4 handsets on its network. This move shows that T-Mobile is…
Read MoreGSMA Names Barcelona Mobile World Capital 2012-2018
The GSMA, who represents mobile operators worldwide and is known for hosting the largest annual wireless conference in Europe, has just named Barcelona to be…
Read More20th Century Fox Aims To Bring Digital Copies Of Blu-Ray Titles To Android
Watching movies on-the-go for Android has been lacking compared to some of the competition. While Android has options such as Netflix that is getting updated…
Read MoreMicrosoft Sends Linux A Happy Birthday Video
Microsoft has sent a Happy Birthday message to the Linux Foundation, congratulating them on turning 20 years old. The video, created by the Microsoft Germany…
Read MoreGoogle+ Games Stream Confirmed
Google's help pages for Google+ have officially confirmed the upcoming Games Stream, a place where results from what will presumably be social-style gaming on the new…
Read MoreAcer Ready For Apple's "Patent War" Insists Chairman
Acer chairman JT Wang has accused Apple of starting a "patent war" but claims his company is ready and willing to fight, despite having watched…
Read MoreSpy Shots Of Lenovo IdeaPad 7 Turn Up
The photos you see here are supposed to be the Lenovo IdeaPad 7. I say supposed because the photos have apparently been altered to hide…
Read MoreApple Axes Front Row From OS X Lion
Apple has quietly retired Front Row, its media center interface for Macs, which has disappeared as of OS X Lion's release earlier this week. Added…
Read MoreiPad Dominates Android Tablets In Enterprise Settings
I don’t think any of us are surprised in the least by the fact that the iPad is stomping the Android tablets in the enterprise…
Read MoreModded iPhone May Be Able To Track Oxygen, Sodium And Glucose In The Blood
A team of medical researchers is working on a really cool way for people that need to track certain vital statistics about their body. They…
Read MoreiFixit Guts New Mac Mini In Latest Teardown
Yesterday we posted up the iFixit teardown of the MacBook Air that launched this week. The teardown was cool and let us see inside the…
Read MoreGerber's New Steady Multitool Has A Tabletop Tripod Inside
I have seen a bunch of Gerber multitools over the years and I have even owned a few of them. I tend to lose them…
Read MoreVerizon Q2 2011: 2.2m New Customers But iPhone 4 Sales Slow
Verizon has announced its Q2 2011 financial results, adding twice as many subscribers as AT&T managed and activating 2.3m iPhone 4 handsets. The carrier saw its…
Read MoreLG To Bring 55-Inch OLED TV To Market In 2012
There have been a few OLED TVs on the market so far. Sony had its OLED a few years back, but the set was so…
Read MoreEpitaph Bike Looks Like Orville And Wilbur Made It
The last crazy looking bike I talked about was that wooden bike made out of black walnut wood. It was a work of art as…
Read MoreLensRentals Builds A Chess Set Out Of DSLR Lenses
Anyone that has a DSLR knows that the lenses of the cameras are very expensive. Especially when you get into the higher end of the…
Read MoreGeek Is Camping Out Already For iPhone 5 In London As A Marketing Stunt
Geeks camping out to be the first in line for new Apple gear is nothing new. They have been doing the campout to be first…
Read MoreV-Moda Vamps Out Another Set Of Headphones With The Revamp
I have used V-Moda headphones in the past and I can say from experience that they sound really good. I am not a big fan…
Read MoreFujitsu F-07C Windows 7 Smartphone Gets Official Launch Date Of July 23
The last time I mentioned the Fujitsu F-07C smartphone that is destined for NTT DOCOMO in Japan we were missing a few pertinent facts about…
Read MoreSlashGear Three HTC Sensation Giveaway!
The HTC Sensation impressed us so much back when we reviewed it in May, that when UK carrier Three said it would like to give…
Read MoreGoogle+ Hits 20m Unique Visitors; Social Chief Admits Brand Strategy Was "A Mistake"
Google+ could have already exceeded 20m unique visitors, new traffic estimates suggest, a quarter of which are based in the US. That's unprecedented growth, comScore…
Read MoreiPhone 5 Rumor Suggests iPhone 5 May Use Bluetooth 4 Rather Than NFC
There are a lot of new smartphones and other devices that are coming to market with support for Near Field communications. NFC is a technology…
Read MoreGoogle Alexander Calder Doodle Demos HTML5 Canvas
Google's homepage doodles have evolved from mere images to interactive games, toys and gadgets that take advantage of the latest in browser technology, and today's…
Read MoreLensbaby Unveils New Portrait Kit And Ultimate Portrait Kit
Lensbaby makes some really interesting lenses for DSLR users that will let you make some very interesting photos. We have talked about the company in…
Read MoreApple Eyeing Hulu Purchase?
Apple is sitting on a stockpile of cash that would make Scrooge McDuck jealous. Jobs and his cohorts in Cupertino are sitting on north of…
Read MoreNokia N9 Clears FCC With Teardown Gallery And User Guide
Nokia's N9 has crossed the FCC and, as is traditional, splayed its guts for all to see. Unsurprisingly, Nokia has had to do a lot of…
Read MoreStar Wars Kinect Special Edition Xbox 360 Bundle Gets Droid Makeover
Microsoft and LucasArts have revealed a special Star Wars themed Xbox 360 console, the "Kinect Star Wars" bundle, intended to tie in with the new…
Read MoreAdobe Admits OS X Lion Flash Claims Were False
Adobe has backtracked on claims that OS X Lion dropped hardware acceleration for Flash video, after a knowledge base article suggested that Apple had disabled…
Read MoreApple Scoops Entourage Special For iTunes: Who Needs DVD? [Video]
With HBO's Entourage beginning its final season this weekend, we can't blame you if you're wanting to catch up on the action so far and…
Read MoreMacBook Air 13-Inch (Mid-2011) Teardown Reveals Replaceable SSDs
The revamped MacBook Air with OS X Lion, Intel's latest Sandy Bridge chip, Thunderbolt connector port, backlit keyboard, and boosted RAM and SSD, debuted just…
Read MoreOS X Lion Sold Over 1 Million Copies In First Day
Apple proudly announced that its OS X Lion, which was released yesterday, has already sold more than 1 million copies. The major OS revamp retails…
Read MoreAndroid App Player Leaks For BlackBerry PlayBook
The Android App Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook is a big part of its future. Being able to access many of the 250,000 Android apps…
Read MoreBlackBerry PlayBook Certified For U.S. Government Use
Although RIM's mobile business seems to be lagging behind in many aspects, they did manage to snag a first today. The BlackBerry maker announced that…
Read MoreMicrosoft Reports Solid Q4 Earnings Thanks To Enterprise, Servers, And Xbox
It's one of those weeks lined up with quarterly earnings calls. Nokia just had a horrid earnings report following Apple and Intel, both reporting record…
Read MoreThe New Mac Mini Is Still Best Choice For The Living Room
Over the years, I’ve tried to find the best device to connect to my television and enjoy entertainment. I’ve gone with the Apple TV, Roku…
Read MoreMotorola Droid Bionic $299 Ad Leak Appears To Be Photoshopped
In what appeared to be a leaked Verizon ad or landing page for the new and upcoming Motorola Droid Bionic a few keen eyes quickly…
Read MoreNokia's Crutch Is Broken
Nokia's Q2 2011 financial results makes for just as uncomfortable reading as we expected. If there was ever any doubts that Symbian had seen its…
Read MoreNot Enough Devices? Here's Why You Need More
I love a good smartphone. I work for Samsung, and I carry a Galaxy S II that I’ve been "testing" for an extended period of…
Read MoreHTC Wildfire S Official On T-Mobile
T-Mobile has today announced officially their plans for carrying the tiny yet powerful HTC Wildfire S, a mid-ranged device with aspirations for taking out the…
Read MoreSafari 5.1 Released For OS X Snow Leopard And Windows
Apple has released Safari 5.1, bringing Mac users still running OS X Snow Leopard - as well as Windows users - up to date with…
Read MoreGoogle Acquires Fridge: Groups For Google+ Incoming
Google has acquired social networking site Fridge, a group coordination and photo sharing tool, and intends to integrate its functionality into Google+. Like the new…
Read MoreNexus S Android Smartphone Heads To AT&T
If you are on AT&T and you are a fan of Android smartphones. A new offering is headed your way. The Nexus S is finally…
Read MoreiPad Stays Top Tablet: Faces Growing Android Challenge As Amazon Circles
Apple's iPad continues to dominate the tablet market, with global shipments up to 9.3m units according to the latest figures, though its percentage marketshare has…
Read MoreCut The Rope's Om Nom Hero To Get A Comic Strip And Plush Toys
When I think of games for smartphones two names always jump to my mind as the best out there - Angry birds and Cut the…
Read MoreTitanium Drinking Straw For The Neurotic Geek
I used to work with a woman that was weird. She had an unnatural fear of balloons and always brought her own straws to work.…
Read MoreAT&T Q2 2011: 3.6m iPhone Activations, Smartphone Sales Dominate
AT&T has announced its Q2 2011 financial results, and it makes for happier reading than Nokia's figures from earlier today. The carrier saw $31.5bn in…
Read MoreOS X Lion Update Kills Flash Player Hardware Acceleration And More
If you ran out and updated to Lion yesterday on your Mac you may be finding that a few things don't work like they did…
Read MoreAnonymous And LulzSec Taunt FBI Amid NATO And News International Leaks
Hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec have released a taunting message to the FBI, challenging the law enforcement agency in the aftermath of recent arrests of…
Read MoreSprout Watches Are Green And Biodegradable
If you are the sort that only buys things that are green and biodegradable this is the watch for you. The watch is called the…
Read MoreGuitar Has Freakin' Lasers To Detect Pitch
The next time Dr. Evil makes a rap video this is the guitar that they need to use. It has lasers after all and it…
Read MoreNavy Testing Remote Controlled Jet Ski To Detect Swimming Attackers
The US military is constantly adding new remotely controlled and automated weapons and surveillance systems to its arsenal. The USAF has a fleet of drones…
Read MoreLeaked Sony A77 Pics With Battery Grip Are The Real Deal
About this time last month, we saw some leaked photos of the coming Sony DSLRs dubbed the A77 and the A65. Those photos were a…
Read MorePioneer DJ Art Mix Tour Shows Off Customized DJ Gear
Pioneer makes a bunch of DJ gear and we have talked about a lot of it around here over the years. The last bit of…
Read MoreApple Contributes To Nokia's €430m Patent Settlement Income
With Nokia's Q2 2011 financial results painting a picture of a company weeping money while it desperately retools, there was one glimmer of hope amid…
Read MoreNokia Q2 Financials "Clearly Disappointing" Says CEO Elop: €487m Loss
Nokia has announced its Q2 2011 financial results, with an operating loss of €487m ($692m) and net sales of €9,275m, down 7-percent from Q2 2010 and…
Read MoreAcer Cloud Due 2012 To Link PCs, Phones And Tablets
Acer has announced plans to launch Acer Cloud, a web-based service to pull together its various PCs, tablets and phones. Built upon new Acer acquisition…
Read MoreGE Announces Breakthrough In Holographic Data Storage Performance
The Blu-ray disc is only a few years from winning the battle with HD-DVD to become the defacto format for HD films. Blu-ray discs are…
Read MoreSpace Shuttle Atlantis Touchdown Ends 26 Years Of Flight
Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down this morning at 9:57am ET, the final landing of the space shuttle program and bringing to a close a chapter…
Read MoreYummy Carbon Nanotube Cupcakes Absorb Terahertz Laser Light
If you want to get the attention of the kids running amuck in my house during the summer all you need to do is say…
Read MoreHitachi Shows Off New 4.5-Inch 3D Glasses-Free LCD For Mobile Devices
Hitachi has announced a new small screen that is sure to find its way onto smartphones and other portable gadgets in the coming months. The…
Read MoreAmazon Prime Lands CBS Programming Rights For Digital Streaming
Amazon and CBS have announced a new agreement between the two companies that allows Amazon to land some CBS programming for its streaming service Amazon…
Read MorePanasonic LUMIX LS5 And FZ47 Super-Zoom Revealed
Panasonic has outed a pair of new digital cameras, the LUMIX LS5 for entry-level users wanting wide-optics and a 14.1-megapixel sensor, along with the LUMIX DMC-FZ47…
Read MorePayPal Readying Brick & Mortar Store Till Trial As Google Launches Credit Card
The competition in the electronic payments market continues to rage, with both Google and eBay looking beyond their current online and mobile payment options in…
Read MoreGmail Adds Multiple Voice/video/cell Call Support With Call Waiting
Google has updated its Gmail calls service to support multiple lines, allowing users to manage several ongoing calls at the same time. Although Gmail calls…
Read MoreMock T-Mobile Commercials Poke Fun At AT&T Deal
The AT&T and T-Mobile deal heated up again today as Senator Herb Kohl issued a statement in strong opposition of the merger that was then…
Read MoreApple Killing Off More Boxed Software From Stores
Apple today released OS X Lion to the masses, but only allowed customers to download the major OS revamp via the Mac App Store---no boxed…
Read MoreAT&T Responds To Senator Kohl's Opposition To T-Mobile Acquisition
Senator Kohl, chairman of the Senate's antitrust subcommittee, had issued a letter today opposing the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile, stating that the deal could cause…
Read MoreIntel Q2 Earnings Beat Expectations, Netbooks Down, Cloud Computing Strong
Intel's Q2 earnings report has beat expectations with record revenue of $13 billion, up 21 percent from the same quarter last year. Net profit for…
Read MoreMacBook Air 13" Core i5 Hands-On (mid-2011)
Apple's long-awaited MacBook Air refresh has finally been delivered, and SlashGear caught up with the Cupertino company to find out what makes the new notebook…
Read MoreAT&T, T-Mobile Merger Opposed By Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman
The AT&T and T-Mobile acquisition proceeding may be hitting a snag for the two major U.S. carriers. Senator Herb Kohl has just issued a stern…
Read MoreWhat Google Labs Shutting Down Means For YOU The Google Lover
Google announced that they'd be shutting down their Google Labs department this Wednesday in an effort to "put more wood behind fewer arrows." This is…
Read MoreGoogle Is Shutting Down Google Labs And Some Experimental Projects
Opening a new chapter with the successful launch of Google+, it looks like the search giant is closing its doors on Google Labs, which has…
Read MoreNetflix App Updated, Now Supports More Android Devices
Netflix for Android has been hit or miss, with the huge variety of Android devices sporting different versions and customizations leaving the app compatible with…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash : July 20, 2011
Today's Daily Slash comes in a bit earlier in the day than usual because we've got a whole wild batch of updates for you and…
Read MoreGoogle+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes
The Google+ for iPhone app was released yesterday and it's already hit the top of the list for the most popular free apps in the…
Read MoreWindows Phone Mango App Submissions In August Support September Launch
Microsoft's Windows Phone Mango update, along with a slew of new and hopefully exciting Mango handsets, may have only two more months before their big…
Read MoreTabletpalooza Week 3 : Acer Iconia Tab A500 Giveaway!
The final week for this Tabletpalooza has begun, and it's for a sweet little ditty by Acer! This is the Aceri Iconia Tab A500 and…
Read MoreiTunes 10.4 And iWork 6 Updates Released For OS X Lion Full-Screen Support
Apple has just released an update for iTunes bringing it up to version 10.4 along with an update for iWorks to version 6. This comes…
Read MoreSchmidt: Google Was "Left Behind" On Social
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has reiterated his regret that the search giant historically lacked focus on social networking, describing Google+ as "a partial answer" to Facebook.…
Read MoreApple Thunderbolt Display Revealed
It's not just a new MacBook Air and Mac mini fresh from Apple's Cupertino labs this morning. The company has also officially introduced its updated Apple Thunderbolt…
Read MoreOS X Lion Recovery Lets You Boot From Apple's Servers
Apple's OS X Lion allows users to boot and restore their broken computers from the web, with a new tool called Lion Recovery. The system usually…
Read MoreScientists Develop Stainless Steel With Antibacterial Properties
Stainless steel is a ubiquitous material that you can find in kitchens in homes and restaurants all around the world. The metal is easy to…
Read MoreGeek Makes DIY Key Mounting Thingy Out Of LEGO
I have a very short memory so it's good that I spend my days flitting from one subject to another for work. I do tend…
Read MoreNotion Ink's Adam 2 Tablet Tipped For December Unveil
For a while, Notion Ink led the conversation when it came to tablets, certainly those running Android. Now, the Indian company hopes to do the same…
Read MoreBlueDrone RC Nissan GTR Is Controlled By An Android Smartphone
I really like remote controlled toys and have since I was a kid. I have had hankering for one of the AR.Drones that are controlled…
Read MoreContour+ Camcorder Gets Android Viewfinder App
In May, the Contour+ sports camcorder surfaced. This is one of the small camcorders that can be mounted to a car, bike, or to your…
Read MoreApple MacBook Air Updated
Apple has updated its MacBook Air ultraportable, bringing the notebook range up to date with Intel's 2011 Sandy Bridge processors, as well as the high-speed…
Read MoreWhite MacBook Killed Off In Favor Of Air
Apple has quietly retired its white plastic MacBook, with the company's Mac range now consisting solely of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks along with…
Read MoreApple Mac Mini Refreshed: Sandy Bridge And Dual-Drive Server
Apple's Mac mini has been updated, packing new Intel Sandy Bridge processors along with Thunderbolt connectivity. The compact desktop keeps the slick aluminum design of…
Read MoreViber Brings Free Text And VoIP Calls To iPhone And Android
If you are a user of the iPhone or an Android smartphone there is a new app out that will let you text and call…
Read MoreMac OS X Lion Available Now!
Apple has released OS X Lion, the latest update to the company's Mac platform. Boasting over 250 new features along with a performance boost, Lion…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II August US Launch Confirmed
Samsung has confirmed that it expects the Galaxy S II Android smartphone to be on sale in the US in August, though no details on carriers…
Read MoreChevronWP7 Dev Unlock Service Coming For $9
Remember the merry band of geeks called ChevronWP7 that had the unlocking tool back early this year for WP7 handsets? The launch of the unlock…
Read MoreChinese Baidu Browser Launches In Beta Form
China is the largest market for search and online ads in the world with its huge population going online in droves. Not too long ago…
Read MoreSonos CEO: Apple's AirPlay "Doesn't Work Very Well"
Sonos may have only just revealed its PLAY:3 speaker, the company's bargain $299 entry-level streaming music system, but it already harbors big ambitions for other…
Read MoreGoogle Chromebooks To Get Performance Push With Intel Chip Upgrade
There are several Google Chromebooks on the market right now and they rock netbook spec hardware on the inside. The processor is the Intel Atom…
Read MoreEvoluce Two Undercuts Microsoft Surface Using Kinect [Video]
Microsoft's Surface may be the dream multitouch dining table of many geeks, but its hefty price tag puts it out of the reach of most.…
Read MoreSuper Talent MasterDrive KX3 SSD For Tablets And Notebooks Debuts
Super Talent has a wide-ranging line of SSDs for all sorts of different uses from enterprise use to the general consumer. Super Talent has unveiled…
Read MoreMac Mini & Mac Mini Server Specs Leak Ahead Of Official Unveil
Leaked details of the refreshed Apple Mac mini expected to debut later today have emerged, tipping a similar upgrade path suggested for the MacBook Air. Although…
Read MoreSoundfreaq Sound Step Recharge Debuts
We have checked out some gear from Soundfreaq before. In fact, late last year Chris posted up a review of the Soundfreaq SFQ-01A iPod speaker…
Read MoreComplete Apple Retail Store Faked Quite Convincingly In China
We all know that the number of fake products in many countries is insane. One of the places you are very likely to find a…
Read MoreTubeTap App Could Make Tube Delays Profitable
A new iPhone app promising to help Londoners claw some cash back when their Tube journeys are delayed has been released, TubeTap, using a combination…
Read MoreRIM's PlayBook Manager Jumps Ship To Samsung
RIM's senior product manager on the BlackBerry PlayBook team has defected to Samsung, it's been revealed, where he will take charge of the Korean company's US…
Read MoreMicrosoft Drops Out Of Hulu Auction According To Sources
Early this month we caught wind that the popular online video streaming site Hulu might be up for sale. According to sources when the story…
Read MoreApple Store Goes Down: MacBook Air And More Incoming!
The Apple Store has been taken down, signaling that the company's web-elves are readying new product listings. Top of the list of expected additions to…
Read MoreT-Mobile Value Plans Make Data An Overage-Free Zone
T-Mobile USA has introduced a new set of "Value" plans, offering the price-conscious customer a choice of 2GB, 5GB and 10GB data bundles from $49.99…
Read MoreApple MacBook Air Specs Leak; White MacBook Facing The Chop
Details of Apple's much-rumored MacBook Air refresh, expected to be officially revealed later today, have leaked, giving us a sneak preview of what's happening with the…
Read MoreSonos PLAY:3 Official: Cheaper Entry To The Streaming Music Club
Sonos has officially announced the Sonos PLAY:3, the company's latest streaming music speaker, and the smallest all-in-one from the firm to-date. Already spotted earlier this…
Read MoreRoku 2 Official: Angry Birds Intros Casual Gaming Support
Roku has revealed its new range of Roku 2 media streamers, slimming down the Netflix-friendly STBs and adding in casual gaming support. Bundling Angry Birds…
Read MoreEarly Version Of Google+ iOS App Released By Accident
It appears that there was a glitch in the system, a rip in the Matrix, if you will, in this morning's release of the Apple…
Read MoreApple Hints At iPhone 5 In September?
Apple's quarterly earnings call today was a record setter for the company with revenue at a whopping $28.57 billion. But during the guidance for next…
Read MoreGoogle+ Celebrity Acquisition Plan In The Works
Only a little over two weeks old, the Google+ social platform has amassed a huge user base before it's even stepped out of beta. Not…
Read MoreApple Confirms OS X Lion To Launch On Mac App Store This Wednesday
It's official, Apple's OS X Lion and revamped MacBook Airs will indeed be hitting stores this week---tomorrow, to be exact. During Apple's Q3 earnings call…
Read MoreApple Q3 Earnings Exceeds Expectations, $28.57 Billion Revenue, $7.31 Billion Profit
Apple's Q3 earnings results are in and the numbers are staggering. The company has had yet another successful quarter with figures far surpassing Wall Street…
Read MoreMotorola Dinara To Follow Droid Bionic With 13MP Camera, HD Screen
The much anticipated Motorola flagship smartphone, the Droid Bionic, has yet to arrive, but details on a successor are already surfacing. Codenamed the Motorola Dinara,…
Read MoreISIS Mobile Payment Network Adds MasterCard, Visa, And American Express
The mobile payments arena was starting to look very fragmented with several different players each attempting to offer their own NFC-based system. Google announced their…
Read MoreZuckerberg And 62 Facebook Employees On Google+
The Google+ social network launched just over two weeks ago and is still in a beta invite-only period with a public opening rumored for early…
Read MoreAmerican Express And Facebook Launch Link, Like, Love Deals Platform
This deals platform goes by the name "Link, Like, Love." It's the greatest thing since sliced bread. It's going to destroy all other credit cards…
Read MoreKaleidescape Vault M700 Robotic Storage For Your CDs, DVDs, And Blu-Ray Discs
If you have a massive collection of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs that you'd like to have automatically stored and archived for easy access, then…
Read MoreLaCie Announces USB 3.0 Rugged Mini External HDD, Ultimate Protector Of Your Data
LaCie today announced a new addition to its Rugged family of external hard drives called the LaCie Rugged Mini. Designed by Neil Poulton, the Rugged…
Read MoreSpotify Invites Giveaway Courtesy Of SlashGear!
The phenomenon known as Spotify is sweeping the nation, and we're right here to give you a little key to let yourself in to the…
Read MoreSlashGear Spotify Invites Now Up For Grabs!
It's time for Spotify! It's the streaming music service that everyone is talking about, one where when your in, you've got access to thousands of…
Read MoreGoogle+ For iPhone App Released
The Google+ for iOS app has been released [iTunes link], offering iPhone (but not iPod touch) users a native way to access the new Google social…
Read MoreLinksys WES610N Wireless-N Bridge Gets Your HDTV, Console & STB Online
Linksys by Cisco has outed its latest entertainment bridge, the WES610N Wireless-N Bridge, intended to hook up your ethernet-port toting HDTV, cable and other STBs,…
Read MoreViliv Reportedly Shuts Shop: MID Apathy Claims Another Victim
Ultramobile PC and MID manufacturer Viliv is imminently close to shutting down, reports suggest, amid claims that the company has been in receivership for some time. The…
Read MorePokémon Rumble Blast 3D Hits Nintendo 3DS On October 24
Pokémon in 3D: does life get any better than this? Nintendo has announced its first Pokémon title specifically created for the 3DS, Pokémon Rumble Blast, complete with…
Read MoreScosche Whips Out New sneakPEEK Auto In-Car A/V Cable For iOS
If you are like most people, you probably have a lot of video content and other stuff on your smartphone. I know I use my…
Read MoreSony Is Experimenting With Virtual Reality Games Using Head-Mounted Display
I haven't heard or thought of virtual reality in a long time now. I remember back years ago, I tried out a set of virtual…
Read MoreAsus Gets Xtion Pro Live Ready For Launch
The Kinect for the Xbox 360 has turned out to be a very cool device with a lot of potential outside of just letting you…
Read MoreGoogle Chairman: Apple's Lawsuits Prompted By Jealousy And Innovation-Shortfall
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has accused Apple and others of jealousy over Android's success, claiming the spate of patent lawsuits against Android OEMs are "just inspired…
Read MoreRIM Denies PlayBook WiFi Cancelation Rumors
RIM has strongly denied reports that the WiFi-only version of the BlackBerry PlayBook could be discontinued, describing the speculation as "pure fiction." The company is yet…
Read MoreNASA Signs Agreement With United Launch Alliance To Mod Atlas V Rocket To Send Astronauts To The ISS
NASA may have retired the shuttle fleet after the last launch, but the space agency still plans to keep shooting astronauts to the ISS for…
Read MoreCisco Axes 6,500 Staff As Flip Dump Fails To Turn Share-Slide
Cisco may be madly enthusiastic about its Cius tablet, but investors aren't so keen, and so the company has has officially confirmed plans to axe…
Read MoreRedpark Breakout Pack For Arduino And iOS Is Perfect For Geeky Tinkerers
Lately there have been a lot of interesting DIY robots that have surfaced. One of the cooler ones was the Android mascot robot that I…
Read MoreTokyoflash Right Angle LCD Watch With USB Memory Is Much Easier To Read Than You Think
The watches at Tokyoflash are always really cool looking but they are often very hard to read. The latest watch to come for the purveyor…
Read MoreThermos Launches Star Wars R2D2 Lunch Box With Sound
I was too young to catch the first two Star Wars flicks when I was a kid in the theater. I did watch Return of…
Read MoreKDDI Research Works On Android App And Headband That Measures Brainwaves
PLX Devices came out with a headset that worked with an app for the iPhone a long while back that promised to measure the concentration…
Read MoreKindle App For HP TouchPad Released
Amazon has finally released the much-anticipated Kindle app for the HP TouchPad, allowing owners of the 9.7-inch webOS slate to access their existing ebook library…
Read MoreIndian Eye Doctor Creates Contact Lenses Made From Gold And Diamonds
My mom wears contacts and I can remember her always cleaning them and complaining about how much they bothered her eyes. I would never wear…
Read MoreStanford Students Create Robot Arm That Wields Foam Sword SLOWLY
If the Jedi were to induct a robotic Jedi master that was gifted with the speed of a sloth, this robotic arm could be the…
Read MoreAndroid Legal Losses Reportedly Prompt Exodus To Windows Phone And MeeGo
HTC's recent legal loss in the ITC Apple patent case, along with Microsoft's aggressive patent push amid Android OEMs, has reportedly left manufacturers increasingly wary…
Read MoreLulzSec Hacks Again, Posts Fake Rupert Murdoch Obit To Sun Website
I guess LulzSec couldn't stand the thought to AntiSec getting all the attention and decided to come out of retirement. The LulzSec hacking group has…
Read MoreLinkedIn CEO Says Google+ Can't "Coexist" With Facebook And Twitter
Google+ makes demands on free time users simply don't have, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner has claimed, going on to suggest that the new Google service…
Read MoreSamsung Denies Granting Anymode Smart Case Approval Amid Apple Copy Accusations
Samsung has denied certifying the contentious Anymode folding Smart Case for the Galaxy Tab, and has had the Apple-alike product pulled from the retailer's site.…
Read MoreSony Tablets Continue To Tease: PlayStation Gaming & More [Video]
Curious as to how PlayStation gaming, ereading and multimedia will look on Sony's S1 and S2 Android tablets? The company's latest video teaser has quietly…
Read MoreNokia "Sea Ray" Windows Phone Caught On Video
Nokia's "Sea Ray" Windows Phone smartphone has leaked again, turning up in a Chinese video complete with an overview of the casing design - still…
Read MoreOS X Lion And New MacBook Air Launch Wednesday Morning Tip Insiders
Apple's release of OS X Lion, along with the new MacBook Air ultraportables, is being tipped for Wednesday morning this week, with multiple sources claiming the…
Read MoreSamsung Approves Apple Smart Cover Copy-Cats
As if the escalating legal feud between Apple and Samsung over copy-catting issues on smartphones and tablets isn't enough, Samsung has brazenly certified a third-party…
Read MoreApple May Have Sold A Record 4.2 Million Macs In June Quarter
According to a new report today from NPD Group, prepared by analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray, Apple may have sold a record 4.2 million…
Read MoreEvoz Baby Monitor App For iPad, Most Expensive Solution Yet
Ever get tired of all those iOS devices like the old iPhones, iPod Touch generations 1 through infinity, iPads 1 and 2, and more? Ever…
Read MoreVerizon 4G LTE Adds 28 New Markets On July 21
Verizon's blazing fast 4G LTE network coverage is about to spread to several new markets this week. A month ago, the company had announced rolling…
Read MoreCNN Touts First 24-Hour Streaming Mobile News Network, For Some, Not All
The folks at CNN can be proud today to call themselves the first ever news network to have fully active 24-hour streaming news via both…
Read MoreNokia RM-670 Passes Through FCC, Looks To Be Symbian Belle 700 Zeta
A Nokia handset passed through the FCC today with model number RM-670 and it looks to be the rumored Nokia 700 Zeta, which had some…
Read MoreGoogle Buys G.Co As Official URL Shortcut For Google Products
Google announced today that it will start using a new URL shortcut that's much shorter than the original Goo.gl. Reports this morning surfaced that the…
Read MoreMotorola Droid 3 Teardown Reveals Same 3G Chip As iPhone 4
The recently launched Motorola Droid 3 is touted by Verizon as the thinnest smartphone to pack a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and some mighty powerful…
Read MoreBlackBerry PlayBook Wi-Fi Version To Be Discontinued?
Research In Motion (RIM) rushed out the BlackBerry PlayBook earlier this year that received little love for its many platform shortcomings---check out our review. The…
Read MoreTabletpalooza 2011 Giveaway Week 2 Reminder: T-Mobile G-Slate Giveaway!
We've got another sweet slate coming your way courtesy of our pals at NVIDIA and we've just GOT to let you know that this week…
Read MoreAT&T U-Verse Mobile App Now Available For Infuse 4G, HTC HD7S, And More
AT&T has been offering a handy U-Verse Mobile app that lets customers watch TV shows and schedule recordings directly from their smartphones. The app is…
Read MoreChangeWave Research Releases Apple Vs Google Android Report
Leading analyst and data company The 451 Group's ChangeWave Research devision has today released a report that takes 4,163 consumer and finds what they're reporting…
Read MoreHTC Puccini 10-Inch Android Tablet Hits FCC, Supports AT&T 4G LTE
HTC's long rumored 10-inch Android tablet, codenamed the HTC Puccini, may be hitting the market very soon. It has just passed through the FCC today,…
Read MoreiPhone 3GS Tipped As Sub-$350 Prepaid Option In New 3-Strong Range
Deep breaths, people, it's next-gen iPhone rumor time. According to new reports, Apple is readying not two but three handsets for launch later this year,…
Read MoreiOS 4.3.4 Jailbreak Released Just Days After Apple Closes Loophole
The iPhone Dev Team has already jailbroken Apple's new iOS 4.3.4 release, pushed out to the iPhone, iPad and other devices on Friday last week. The…
Read MoreFolding Plug Concept Is The Switch Too
I have seen a bunch of concepts for chargers and plugs over the years. Generally, the plugs are designs to save power and be more…
Read MoreApple Reportedly Testing iPad 3 2048 X 1536 Displays From LG And Samsung
Apple is reportedly quality-testing high-resolution displays for a next-gen iPad from Samsung and LG Display, with orders expected to be placed imminently. "Apple's upcoming iPad…
Read MoreNASA's Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Vesta Asteroid
NASA's biggest achievement was certainly the landing of men on the moon in the 60's and early 70's. While we were putting men onto the…
Read More3D Printed Mushroom Cloud Lamp Costs $1495!
I really like that you can print anything you can dream up with a 3D printer. If you give a design geek access to a…
Read MoreAmazon Offers Up To 80% Off Digital Textbook Rentals
Amazon has gone and done all the college students out there a solid with a new savings program for textbooks. Amazon is offering students 80%…
Read MoreGeorgia Aquarium Streams Live Aquarium Feed For Shark Week
I have always liked aquariums; they are cool and fun to watch if you just want to chill. I am not a fan of the…
Read MoreHTC Vows To Fight Apple In Appeal Courts Over ITC Spanking
HTC has vowed to fight Apple in the courts, after the ITC ruled late last week that the company had infringed on two patents with…
Read MoreMicrosoft Unveils New Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector For Win Home Server
Microsoft has released a cool new official tool for Windows Phone 7 users that also have a Windows Home Server 2011 machine. The new tool…
Read MoreAcer Aspire 5755 Notebook Debuts In UK
Acer unveiled a new notebook last week that will land in the UK soon called the TravelMate 8481. Today Acer has another new notebook for…
Read MoreArchos G9 Tablets To Ship In September
You might recall last month we spent a bit of hands on time with the new Archos G9 80 and G9 101 tablets. The tablets…
Read MoreMySpace Founder Warns Google+ To Fear The Filter
MySpace founder and former president of the social network, Tom Anderson, has cautioned Google against relying too greatly on algorithmic filtering technologies in Google+, suggesting…
Read MoreMicrosoft Looking For An Engineer To Help With Top Secret Project
Sometimes the job listing that big companies post like Microsoft and others can give hints of what the company is working on. Often they start…
Read MoreAMD Says Xbox 720 To Have Graphics With Avatar Levels Of Detail
When Nintendo went on the record with its next generation console called the Wii U at E3 this year we knew that word would start…
Read MoreToshiba Thrive Tablet Won't Wake From Sleep Mode For Many Users
The Toshiba Thrive tablet hit stores earlier this month and the tablet has been popular with users since the launch. On the Toshiba Forums, there…
Read MoreOrphiro Shows Off Electric Motorcycle That Looks Retro
There are a bunch of green electric cars on the market today and a few electric motorcycles. The thing that most of those electric motorcycles…
Read MoreSonos Play:3 S3 All-In-One Gets Premature $299 Amazon Reveal
Details of the Sonos S3 aka the Play:3 wireless nightstand speaker last seen crossing through the FCC have leaked, courtesy of a prematurely posted Amazon product…
Read MoreIriver Story HD Browser Hack Discovered
iriver's Story HD ereader - which we reviewed this past weekend - may be shouting most about its Google eBookstore access, but that integration also…
Read MoreAndroid 3.2 Honeycomb SDK Released
Bored Android developer looking for something to do with your Monday morning? Google has you covered, releasing the Android 3.2 Honeycomb SDK. Tipped as fast-incoming…
Read MoreHTC Status Hits AT&T For $50, Hopes You Tell Your Facebook Friends
HTC's QWERTY Facebook phone has gone on sale in the US, with AT&T offering the HTC Status for just $50 with a new agreement. The Android…
Read MoreiPad 2 Availability Improves: Ships In 1-3 Days
Apple continues to shave away at the iPad 2 delivery delay, now bringing availability of the second-generation slate down to just 1-3 business days in the…
Read MoreTabletpalooza Weeks 1 And 2 Winners Roundup : It Could Be You!
It's that time again, ladies and gentlemen, time to ring the bell for several of our winners in a contest. The contest we're dealing with…
Read MoreTabletpalooza 2011 Giveaway Week 1: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1!
Welcome to our very first annual Tabletpalooza giveaway for July of 2011! This contest is one where you'll be able to win one of several…
Read MoreTabletpalooza Giveaway Week One Reminder: Free Galaxy Tab 10.1 In The House!
We've got a giveaway going on right now that you NEED to know about. It's our first annual Tabletpalooza and it's time to get YOU…
Read MoreReminder Deuce: Galaxy Tab 10.1 Giveaway Here On SlashGear For Tabletpalooza Week One!
Oh you didn't know? I'd suggest calling somebody. We've got an Android tablet giveaway going on right now that trumps the rest of the tablet…
Read MoreTabletpalooza Week One Reminder FINAL: Win A Galaxy Tab 10.1!
It's that time, finally! The end of our first week of Tabletpalooza mayhem, and everybody's celebratin! As you may already know, we've got a tablet…
Read MoreTabletpalooza 2011 Giveaway Week 2 : T-Mobile G-Slate!
Welcome back, all those of you who didn't win the first tablet (and yes, we're still waiting on that reply, winner, so be fast or…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - July 17, 2011
It was a disappointing week for Apple fans eager to pick up a new MacBook Air and OS X Lion, as both were no-shows with…
Read MoreCan The Internet And Nostalgia Get Along?
Emily Price has an interesting piece on TechnoBuffalo about whether the Internet is killing our memory. In fact, she’s really talking about nostalgia, not recall…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review - Week 29 2011
Welcome to this week's edition of the SlashGear Week in Review, let's get to it! The Vol Speaker concept turned up this week with a…
Read MoreA RIM Apple TV Competitor Is The Worst Idea Ever
This past week, I was just surfing the web, looking at news stories, and came across what might be the most shocking report I’ve seen…
Read MoreT-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide Review
In my possession I have HTC's latest attempt at a slider. This here is the myTouch 4G Slide running over on T-Mobile with those super…
Read MorePentagon Announces Cyberspace As Operational Domain
Time to grab your Androids and equip them with pistols, all you cyber-attack ladies and gentlemen, because the Pentagon has decided to tap the ON…
Read MorePlayStation 4 Concept Design, Edgy And Eco-Friendly
Recent reports suggest that Sony's PlayStation 4 may already be in the works with suppliers revealing that production could start by the end of 2011…
Read MoreITC Finds HTC Infringes On Two Apple Patents
Earlier this week, Apple filed a new complaint against HTC with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in a second attempt at alleging patent infringement.…
Read MoreAmazon UK Drops Apple Pricing Across The Board
Apple has a lot of rumored revamps coming up, including new MacBook Airs, new Apple TVs, and even new LED Cinema Displays. This could mean…
Read MoreAndroid Market Files Hint At Google Music Store
Google's Android Market was just revamped this past week with a new layout, easier navigation, and the addition of books and movies. But still missing,…
Read MoreGoogle Shares Surge Amid Blockbuster Earnings
Early Friday saw a surge in share prices for the internet giant Google after a rather important earning's call the day before. This Q2 earnings…
Read MoreSlashGear Free Spotify Invite Giveaway
Well wouldn't you know it? We've got our very own batch of Spotify invites and we're giving them away to you! For those of you…
Read MoreHP Pre 3 Specs Boosted To 1.2Ghz Dual-Core Processor
HP's first flagship webOS smartphone, the Pre 3, which is oddly being released months after the HP Veer, is tipped to launch on July 21…
Read MoreVerizon 4G LTE Devices Not Compatible With AT&T's 4G LTE Network
Now that AT&T is finally ramping up it 4G LTE network to catch up with Verizon, you might think that you'll soon have more carrier…
Read MoreBlackBerry Torch 2 Hits The FCC, Heading To AT&T
RIM had just announced earlier this week that it will be launching seven new BlackBerry OS 7 smartphones this year in an attempt to assuage…
Read MoreApple's Revamped LED Cinema Displays With Thunderbolt Coming Soon
Rumors for an upcoming MacBook Air revamp alongside Mac OS X Lion are so prominent that we've pretty much accepted their launch next week as…
Read MoreiPhone Apps For This Sunday's FIFA Women's World Cup Soccer Finals
This upcoming Sunday will be a major day for women's soccer as the US team advances to the World Cup finals to play against Japan.…
Read MoreApple iOS 4.3.4 Released, PDF Vulnerability Fixed
Apple today released the iOS 4.3.4 update for the iPhone 3GS, both the GSM and CDMA versions of the iPhone 4, both generations of the…
Read MorePermutations Of Relationships On Social Networks
There is me, and there is you. There is also that guy over there. The one looking at us. He’s watching us and listening to…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up : July 15, 2011
There's a terrifying robot smashing about, and it's coming to yours neighborhood! It's no Michael Jackson apparatus, but you'll certainly be doing the Thriller when…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Arrives In UK
In the UK and envious of the HP TouchPad that landed in the US at the top of the month? Fret no longer, webOS fans; the…
Read MoreGoogle Games Discovered In Google+ Code
Some judicious digging through the Google+ code has revealed the Google Games logo, further evidence that the search giant is preparing an online social gaming…
Read MoreMicrosoft Leaks Its Tulalip Social Network Plans
Is anyone surprised that Microsoft is working up its own social networking project after Google+ broke cover and has blown up the way it has?…
Read MoreGScreen SpaceBook, Monstrous Dual Screen Laptop, Pre-Orders Start Now
Notebooks have improved in many ways over the years from better portability to increased battery life to computing power comparable to desktops. But one area…
Read MoreSpaceX Breaks Ground On Launch Site For Falcon Heavy Rocket
This month marked the last flight of the Space Shuttle fleet and while NASA is on hiatus from putting things in space using the shuttle,…
Read MoreVodafone Sure Signal Femtocell Hack Allows Call Recording, Spoofing [Update: Fixed]
Vodafone's Sure Signal femtocell has been hacked so as to allow calls to be intercepted and recorded, as well as enabling SMS messages and calls to…
Read MoreSony Unveils Cool CMT-CX5 Audio System That Wall Mounts
Being able to hang stuff on the wall is cool at times because it will get things off your counters or cabinets so you have…
Read MoreEpiphany Acoustics EHP-1 Headphone Amp Is Packing
If you're an audiophile, prefer headphones to speakers and gain particular pleasure from visitors complimenting you on your shapely knob, Epiphany Acoustics might have the…
Read MoreWillow Garage Explores Ways To Allow Paralyzed Man To Use PR2 Robot As A Surrogate
Of all the robots that are on the market today, one of the most useful and expensive is the PR2 from Willow Garage. We have…
Read MoreVerizon Pairs Cisco Cius Business Tablet With 4G LTE
Cisco's Cius Android tablet still hasn't actually made it to market - last we heard, July 31 was the big day - but already the…
Read MoreSpazzi Dancebot Busts A Move
Generally, the robots we see around these parts are larger things that are quite bulky. They do typically move in one way or another with…
Read MoreDell Latitude XT3 Convertible Tablet Hits FCC
It's been a long time since we heard anything about the Dell Latitude XT3 convertible. This is the machine that I mentioned back in February…
Read MoreResearchers Develop Soft Memory With The Consistency Of Jell-O
As technology progresses there are a number of ways that tech will be able to help people recover from illness and accidents that compromise the…
Read MoreiUsers Lets Jailbroken iPads Have Multiple User Accounts
There are a lot of things that many iPad users wish their iPad could do that Apple doesn't allow. Some of the things are very…
Read MoreRemote Controlled, DIY Android Mascot Surfaces
If you are a fan of the Android operating system, you will recognize the geeky remote controlled robot you see in the photo below. This…
Read MoreSpotify Ecosystem Is Key: Sonos, Motorola, More
Spotify has finally made its US debut, but the streaming music service is about more than just playback on your PC or Mac. As well…
Read MoreAcer Outs The TravelMate 8481 Notebook In The UK
Acer has a gob of notebooks and netbooks that it sells all around the world. Sometimes the new rigs land in the US first and…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Blames Japan Earthquake For Big Q2 Losses
Sony Ericsson's 2011 range of handsets have marked a real change in direction from the dross of the previous year, but it hasn't been enough…
Read MoreTime Cloaking: Physicists Create A Hole In Time
Science is creating all sorts of awesome things today. Not long ago, I mentioned an acoustic cloak that hid the noise made by things like…
Read MorePentagon Admits To Losing 24,000 Files In Major Network Breach
2011 has certainly been the year of the hacker so far. The number of hacks and attacks that have been perpetrated against the US government…
Read MoreAndroid Patent Situation Not Critical Insists Google CEO
Google CEO Larry Page has denied that Android is under attack from the swelling patent coffers of its rivals and the increasing threat of IP…
Read MoreSpace Shuttle Crew Gets Midnight Wakeup Over Computer Failure
Of the wake-up calls you might want to get while on the Space Shuttle, an equipment failure alarm is probably not high on the list.…
Read MoreSony To Launch New eReaders Next Month? [Updated]
Sony has been in the eReader market for longer than many of the companies that sell readers today. The rub for Sony is that its…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash : July 14th, 2011
Welcome to everyone's favorite tech and gadget roundup: The Daily Slash! Today I should first mention that we've got a team-mate daily roundup going on…
Read MoreQualcomm Vellamo Benchmarking System [Hands-On]
It's Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc's turn and it's time to benchmark some heads. There's a new benchmark in town, and this one's aimed directly at…
Read MoreApple's New MacBook Airs To Launch Late Next Week
Apple's revamped flagship ultraportable notebooks, the MacBook Airs, were rumored to hit Apple Stores today. But that has happened yet and insider sources reveal that…
Read MoreBlockbuster Attempts Neftlix Customer Thievery In Wake Of Price Hikes
If you're not aware that Netflix is raising their prices in all sects, you're not a Netflix customer. On the other hand, you'd have to…
Read MoreGoogle Activates 550,000 Android Devices Daily, Reaches 250,000 Android Market Apps
Today was a big day for Google as they excited shareholders with an awesome earnings call, boasting just over $9 billion in revenue this past…
Read MoreRIM's BlackBerry Apple TV Clone Dubbed Cyclone, To Have Netflix?
Despite all the dark clouds surrounding BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) over their smartphone and tablet blunders, horrible earnings call last quarter, lay-offs, and…
Read MoreSlashGear 101: What Is Spotify?
Today I'm sure you heard the news: Spotify has hit the USA! Finally, everyone is saying, finally we can get our Spotify on and we…
Read MoreSpotify Invites Here, There, And Everywhere
Well would you look at that, Spotify is live in the good ol' U S of A! This is a streaming music service with the…
Read MoreGoogle+ Has Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Shared Per Day, Says CEO Larry Page
During Google's rosy Q2 2011 earnings call today with shareholders, CEO Larry Page highlighted some interesting statistics on the company's newly launched Google+ social platform.…
Read MoreGoogle Q2 Earnings Report Blows Past Expectations With $9 Billion Revenue
Google released their Q2 2011 earnings numbers today with results that are blowing past Wall Street expectations across the board. The search giant had a…
Read MoreApple Now Third Largest PC Vendor In US Market
Apple's personal computer business has been growing strong according to a recent report from research firms Gartner and IDC. So strong, in fact, that Apple…
Read MoreGoogle+ Corporate Accounts Testing To Launch Next Week
When the new Google+ social platform was announced for beta testing over two weeks ago, it attracted plenty of interest from personal account users as…
Read MoreMicrosoft Tablets, Phones, PCs, And TVs To Ditch Windows For Single Ecosystem?
Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) hinted at ambitious plans for the company at uniting its various platforms for smartphones, tablets, and the Xbox into one…
Read MoreApple's New MacBook Airs To Boost RAM And SSD Specs
Apple's revamped MacBook Airs will not only be getting the latest Intel Sandy Bridge chips along with the new Thunderbolt connector port, but may also…
Read MoreFujitsu Windows Phone Could Be Tweaked 12MP Android Handset
Fujitsu's first Windows Phone handset could well be a reworked Android device, with particular similarities spotted between the smartphone briefly previewed earlier this week and the…
Read MoreApple Settles iPhone Tracking Lawsuit In South Korea
Apple has paid a South Korean man the equivalent of $950 in compensation over "psychological stress" and infringement of constitutional rights to privacy, as the…
Read MoreMicroVision SHOWWX+ HDMI Pico-Projector Adds HDMI Input
Pico-projectors are relatively commonplace now, but one with an HDMI input is still something of a rarity. MicroVision's latest model takes last year's SHOWWX+ and adds…
Read MoreNuance Dragon Go Voice Search App Launches For iPhone
When you are driving and need to find something on your iPhone looking down at the screen is never a good idea. There are a…
Read MoreLockCircle Is The Ultimate Canon DSLR Body Cap
If you have a DSLR camera from Canon, you are familiar with the body cap that is made from plastic and goes onto the body…
Read MoreHP Ultrabook To Hit Market Before Asus UX21?
We have talked quite a bit about the Ultrabook around here. The Ultrabook is an Intel concept that is a very thin notebook that Intel…
Read More10.1-Inch Amazon Android Tablet To Be Built At Foxconn Claim Sources
The tablet market is hot right now and consumers are buying tablets in droves. The iPad is the most popular, but there is certainly room…
Read MoreAmazon Now Selling ViewSonic VB730 Android Tablet For $229
Since Barnes & Noble updated the Nook Color with official support for email and apps, it has been a very appealing Android tablet for entry-level…
Read MoreSpotify US Goes Live
As expected, Spotify US has gone live, offering streaming music to PC, Mac and mobile devices. Spotify's free service requires an invite in order to…
Read MorePhoto Of Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera Leaks
Digital cameras get many geeks swooning at the thought of getting better quality images and cool new features. If you are a camera fiend that…
Read MoreLine2 Gives Your iPad A Phone Number
The amount of accessories on the market and apps for the iPad is massive. Many of the accessories tend to be the same sort of…
Read MoreSuper Talent TeraDrive CT3 SATA III SSD Debuts With 520MB/s Writes
Super Talent has announced a new SSD for storing data that is aimed at the consumer. The new SSD is called the TeraDrive CT3 and…
Read MoreNetflix Lands On Nintendo 3DS Today
The Nintendo 3DS has been around for a while now and not too long ago one of our big problems with the console that we…
Read MoreNokia Hints At Google Maps Web Challenge For iPhone/Android
Nokia Maps has long been one of the best elements of the Nokia smartphone experience, and now there are signs that the company is eyeing…
Read MoreTwitter Updates Android App With Two New And Important Features
If you are an Android user that has been taking advantage of the official Twitter app, I am sure there are a few things that…
Read MoreVirgin Mobile USA To Start Data Throttling
I think we all knew the day was inevitable when the final carrier offering truly unlimited data would start throttling users and that day is…
Read MoreJawbone UP Tracks Movement & Sleep For Healthier Living
Jawbone may be best known for its Bluetooth headsets - SlashGear still has a soft-spot for the ERA we reviewed back in January - but the…
Read MoreiPhone 5 On August 16 Suggests Apple Store Job Posting
Apple's iPhone 5 could arrive earlier than expected, with new job listings for the company's UK retail stores tipping a release as soon as August…
Read MoreApple Changes App Store Pricing: UK Apps Get More Expensive
Apple has quietly changed App Store prices for locations outside of the US, with UK pricing climbing by up to 26-percent while other territories have…
Read MoreGriffin Helo TC Remote-Controlled Helicopter Controlled By Your iPhone
Griffin has outed a new remote-control helicopter, the Helo TC, which turns your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad into a command station. The Griffin Helo…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: July 13, 2011
Today there were a handful of leaks that made the whole thing just a big ol' glass of awesome - potential awesome, that is. First…
Read MoreSpotify US Launch Tomorrow
Joy unto the mountains, the greatest subscriber music service in the whole wide world will be launching officially in the USA tomorrow. This is the…
Read MoreSony's New VAIO Z Series Is Available Now, Lightest 13-Inch High Performance Notebook
Sony's much anticipated VAIO Z Series ultraportable notebooks have arrived. This new VAIO Z Series is touted as the "world's lightest 13-inch standard voltage PC"…
Read MoreIs This The Chance Netflix Rivals Have Been Waiting For?
Netflix might have committed a major blunder earlier this week by announcing that customers who had previously paid $9.99 per month for unlimited DVD rentals…
Read MoreMicrosoft To Ship Windows Phone Mango Devices By September?
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Mango update is set to touchdown sometime this fall, but when exactly has remained under wraps. Now it looks like a…
Read MoreToshiba Glasses-Free 3D Panels For Tablets Mentioned
The fine folks at Toshiba have announced their intent to create some fantastic 15.6-inch lenticular lens-based panels for notebooks while tablets also sit very much…
Read MoreMicrosoft Touts 400M Sales Of Windows 7, Admits To Dismal Sales Of Windows Phone 7
Microsoft kicked off their annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Los Angeles today. CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage for the opening keynote to boast…
Read MoreT-Mobile Offers Caller ID, A First For US Carriers
T-Mobile announced today that it will be the first major US carrier to offer a name-based caller ID similar to what's long been available to…
Read MorePolice Get iPhone Facial-Recognition Add-On, Ignites Privacy Concerns
Police in the US may soon be getting an iPhone add-on that will equip them with a facial recognition technology called MORIS (Mobile Offender Recognition…
Read MoreAmazon Android Tablet Suite Takes Shape
The mobile team at Amazon, if there really is such a magical mystical force, will be flipping around in their beds again tonight as more…
Read MoreMicrosoft To Open 75 More Retail Stores Over Next 2-3 Years
Plenty of Microsoft news is still underway thanks to their annual Worldwide Partner Conference taking place this week in Los Angeles. Today, the company's COO…
Read MoreDell Latitude Notebooks Get Verizon 4G LTE
Notebooks are supposed to be portable much like our tablets and smartphones, but for some reason they never have wireless connectivity built-in other than WiFi.…
Read MoreSony MiniDisc Walkman Officially Retired
Oh dear god WHY?! My favorite of all formats, the MiniDisk, will be officially shunned by Sony starting in September of 2011. This news comes…
Read MoreICANN Destroys Main Street Dot Com
Can you guess what the most common street name is in the U.S.A.? It’s not main street. It’s Second street. When you think about it,…
Read MoreiPhone Fling Mini Thumb Joysticks Revealed
The folks that brought you Fling, the joystick stuck to all of your iPads, Ten One Design, now bring you a smaller version for your…
Read MorePayPal Unveils NFC Money Transfers For Android
PayPal today unveiled their first NFC-based mobile payment solution for Android devices. It's not quite a full on payment system that you can use to…
Read MoreiPad 2 G-Form Extreme Portfolio Case 60-Foot Drop [VIDEO]
It's always a joy to speak about electronics and gadgets, especially when they're such high quality, awesome products like the iPad. Then again, it's also…
Read MoreVirgin Mobile $35/$55 Unlimited Data Plan Announced
So you've got a smartphone, yes? Perhaps you've got a hankering to lower your $70 a month plan to something like HALF of that? Or…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: July 13, 2011
Boy what an odd morning. Confusion over who has the 4G in their pockets and who doesn't, some more legal business that everyone LOVES to…
Read MoreNews Corp Drops Bid To Purchase BSkyB
News Corp has been working to purchase the British pay-TV company BSkyB since last year. New Corp has now dropped its bid to purchase the…
Read MoreiOS 5 Beta 3 Has AirPlay Mirroring For FaceTime!
I know that a bunch of iPhone users are waiting anxiously for iOS 5 to hit so they can upgrade. The latest beta 3 version…
Read MoreKindle 3G Gets Cheaper With AT&T Sponsorship
If you still don’t have an eReader one of the best out there is the Amazon Kindle 3G. The cool part about having a 3G…
Read MoreAT&T Grabs Sony S2 4G HSPA+ Tablet Exclusive
AT&T has announced that it will be the exclusive carrier for the Sony S2 tablet, with the Honeycomb slate using the 4G HSPA+ network. The…
Read More7Gbps WiGig Wants To Kill Your Cables
I think one thing we can all agree on when it comes to home theater and other gear in the living room or office despite…
Read MoreMicrosoft Licenses GeoVector AR Tech To Challenge Google Goggles
Microsoft has licensed augmented reality technology from specialist GeoVector, potentially opening the door to "pointing-based local search" being included in future mobile devices like Windows…
Read MoreSony 3D Experience Gives Bravia Owners New Free 3D Content Streaming Channel
Sony is a giant in the electronics industry and has a full range of products from TVs to cameras and everything in between. Sony is…
Read MoreSamsung NC215S Solar Netbook Shipping Delayed Until Mid To Late August
Yesterday I talked a bit about the cool Samsung NC215S solar netbook that had landed on Amazon for pre-order. I also mentioned that the netbook…
Read MoreJudge Rebukes Apple's Attempts To Speed Samsung Patent Suit
Apple's attempts to speed up the ongoing legal battle between it and Samsung have suffered a set-back, with the judge presiding over the patent infringement…
Read MoreGoogle+ To Get An Address Book Uploader Soon
I am not that big of a social network user. I have Google+ account as all of us here at SlashGear do but so far…
Read MoreRumor Has Motorola Working On High-Resolution 10-Inch Tablet
Motorola has one of the more popular Android tablets on the market today with the Xoom. The Xoom hasn't racked up the kind of sales…
Read MoreFoxconn Blocks iPad Production Plans
Foxconn has reportedly blocked arch-rival Pegatron from securing iPad 3 manufacturing orders, with the company supposedly persuading Apple not to double up on its production…
Read MorePopcap Purchase To Cost EA $650 Million In Cash Plus More In Stock
Late last month I mentioned that a rumor was circulating that EA would be purchasing Popcap for about $1 billion. The purchase rumor has come…
Read MoreSurvey Finds That A Lot Of iPhone, RIM, And Android Phone Owners Think They Own A 4G Phone
There is a lot of confusion in the smartphone realm with people thinking a phone has a particular feature it doesn't have. Many people in…
Read MoreWhite MacBook And New Mac Mini To Launch Soon According To Rumor
Yesterday we reported a rumor that new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air notebooks were coming this week. Apparently, that rumor was false and rather than…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Xperia Duo Press Image Leaks With Rumor Pointing To September Launch
Sony Ericsson has turned to Android to bring itself out of the smartphone slump it was in. Since the launch of the Android offerings for…
Read MoreConcrete Building Blocks Look Like LEGO
I like LEGO blocks and I really like to see the creations that geeks get up to making when they have plenty of blocks at…
Read MorePhotovine Is Live, Time For Some Futuristic Google Photo Sharing
What on earth is Google thinking? Don't they already have a photo sharing service called Google+? Or better yet, Picasa? Then there's that other service…
Read MoreApple TV Bluetooth Support Discovered In iOS 5
Apple's incoming iOS 5 update could enable the Apple TV's latent Bluetooth connectivity, it's reported, with mention of various pairing options being discovered in the…
Read MoreMicrosoft: Windows Phone Is Not For Tablets
Microsoft may have given a sneak peak of a new range of Windows Phone handsets coming down the line from Samsung, Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE…
Read MoreNokia N9 Nine Second Adverts Leave Us Briefly Wanting MeeGo [Video]
Nokia has released a series of new videos squeezing adverts for the N9 into a mere nine seconds, pushing the idea of the MeeGo handset being particularly convenient…
Read MoreFacebook For Every Phone Boosts Mobile Access, Offers Free Data
Is Facebook feeling the heat from Google+? It certainly looks that way; the social network is pushing its ubiquity message hard with the new release…
Read MoreNetflix Announces Price Hike, Splits DVD And Streaming Plans
Back in April we talked about Netflix considering some major changes to their pricing plans and today the company has officially unveiled those details. But…
Read MoreVerizon DROID 3 By Motorola Gets Officially Official
As expected, Verizon has officially announced the DROID 3 by Motorola, which we saw sprout up on the company's site in recent hours. The keyboard-equipped…
Read MoreThe Daily Slash: July 12, 2011
Boy have we got some tidbits for you today. More TouchPad posts than you can shake a stick at, T-Mobile's expanding their 4G network and…
Read MoreT-Mobile Expands 4G Network To 56 Additional Markets In The USA
So you thought you had a lot of markets, you carriers you? Check out a bit of the ol' expansion at the hands of T-Mobile!…
Read MoreZAGGfolio For iPad 2 Offers Stylish Case, Bluetooth Keyboard, And Stand All-In-One
Here's a stylish protective case from ZAGG that turns your iPad 2 into a mini laptop. It's called the ZAGGfolio and it features a carbon…
Read MoreMophie Pulse To Bring ViviTouch Haptics To Your iPhone, iPod Touch
Your iPhone and iPod touch may soon become the ultimate portable gaming machine with the Mophie Pulse case featuring ViviTouch haptics technology. The new case…
Read MoreDROID BIONIC Signup Page Live At Verizon
One of the most widely anticipated Android devices inside 2011 has been this lovely little animal right here, the DROID BIONIC. This will be the…
Read MoreAT&T Announces Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play 4G With Android 2.3 Gingerbread
AT&T hosted an event in NYC today that previewed their phone lineup for the upcoming holiday season. One of the devices was the Sony Ericsson…
Read MoreEvernote Goes Tablet Style On Android
Joyous day of awesome days, Evernote now has a tablet version available for all Androids. While they certainly did have integration with tablets before -…
Read MoreGoogle Updates Android Market With Books And Movies
Google announced today that it has updated the Android Market with new features that let you purchase books and movies while on your handset. These…
Read MoremyTouch 4G Slide Hands-On And Unboxing
T-Mobile's next big phone is all set to launch this month, and that is the myTouch 4G Slide. I was lucky enough to get my…
Read MoreHTC Status Pre-Launch Blast In AT&T Videos
The folks at AT&T are getting really ramped up for the release of the HTC Status (also known as the HTC ChaCha in some circles,)…
Read MoreMicrosoft Reveals New Windows Phone 7 Mango Handsets From Samsung, Acer, And More
Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) kicked off yesterday with a keynote that had CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledging poor sales of the company's Windows Phone…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Discounted On Amazon, Best Buy
The HP TouchPad launched not more than two weeks ago and is already getting a price cut on Amazon and Best Buy. Although many folks…
Read MoreHP TouchPad 4G With Faster Processor Unveiled For AT&T
A recently leaked HP roadmap revealed that a new 4G version of the HP TouchPad would hit sometime in August. Well, the company has come…
Read MoreSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: July 12, 2011
Welcome to the dip! It's that time of year again where there's not that much basic tech news, but the news that DOES come out…
Read MoreNikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/.8G Announced As New Affordable Macro Lens
Nikon announced a new lightweight and affordable macro lens for DX-format shooters called the AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G lens. The new glass is…
Read MoreOWC Data Doubler For MacBooks Adds Up To 2TB Internal Storage
Other World Computing (OWC) today announced a new OWC Data Doubler 1TB DIY Kit that can add up to 2TB of internal storage to your…
Read MoreApple's New MacBook Airs To Get Backlit Keyboards
New MacBook Airs are set to hit Apple Stores any day now. Preloaded with OS X Lion, the revamped ultraportable notebooks will feature the latest…
Read MoreGoogle+ Demands Your Real Name: Pseudonyms Suspended
Google+ users who refuse to list their real names on the social network could see their accounts suspended, as the company pushes to relegate pseudonyms.…
Read MoreZoom H2n Portable Recorder Packs Five Microphones [Video]
Zoom first showed us its H2 portable stereo recorder back at CES 2008, so the handheld is well overdue a refresh. The Zoom H2n keeps…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Update Due In Ten Days Time
HP will push out a webOS 3.0 update for the HP TouchPad tablet in around ten days time, according to personal systems group chief Todd Bradley.…
Read MoreSony S1 Tipped For September 1 UK Pre-Order
Sony's S1 Android Honeycomb tablet will apparently go up for pre-order on September 1, in the UK at least, lending further weight to rumors of…
Read MoreBeautiful Wooden Bike Made From Black American Walnut Costs $6,000
If you like to ride bicycles for fun and have a taste for it odds are you have a very nice bike, not something you…
Read MoreAT&T LTE Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G And USB Modem Due This Summer; New International Data Plans Outed
AT&T has outed a pair of new 4G LTE modems, ready for launch this summer on the carrier's fledgling LTE network. The AT&T USBConnect Momentum…
Read MoreDisgusting Edible Angry Birds Cakes Are Cool And Gross
We have seen some things based on Angry birds that you can eat before, but generally, they were of the cute variety. A woman and…
Read MoreReason 6 Revealed With Balance Audio Interface [Video]
Popular digital music app Reason has hit v6, and developers Propellerhead has celebrated by outing its first audio interface hardware. Now pulling the best of…
Read MorePanasonic Debuts Toughbook CF-H2 Tablet For Field Workers
Panasonic has rolled out a new tablet in the UK called the CF-H2. The tablet is aimed at the field worker that needs a tablet…
Read MoreApple's Chief Patent Lawyer Leaving Imminently Tip Sources
Apple's chief patent counsel will imminently leave the company, according to sources familiar with the situation, despite the current heavy workload of patent-related litigation. Richard "Chip"…
Read MoreSolar Powered Samsung NC215 Hits Amazon Pre-Order
As solar panels, become more efficient and able to create more power we will see more and more devices that adopt the tech to help…
Read MoreHelferich Patent Licensing Files Infringement Suit Against Nokia
Another day, another patent suit in the tech world. This time a patent licensing firm called Helferich Patent Licensing has filed a suit against Nokia…
Read MoreSteampunk Flash Drive Has Real Hardware Security
I have always said that I really dig steampunk, even if it's not my style. I like to see the way people with vision and…
Read MoreSony Makes PS Vita Dev Kits Cheap To Encourage "Garage Developers"
A rumor was circulating after the Pokémon Company announced plans for games for the mobile phone segment that Nintendo might finally be bringing its games…
Read MoreNYC And San Francisco Bay Area Get Google Offers Beta
If you live in NYC or the Bay area and are a big fan of local eateries and deals, you can now sign up for…
Read MoreSamsung Demands Apple Legal Team Be Disqualified Over Insider Knowledge Fears
The legal furore between Apple and Samsung has taken another bizarre turn, with the Korean company demanding that some - or potentially all - of…
Read MoreLG Cinema 3D DX2000 Display Uses Eye-Tracking For Glasses-Free 3D
LG has outed its latest 3D monitor, the LG Cinema 3D DX2000, and like Toshiba's recent Qosmio F750 3D notebook it uses eye-tracking to offer glasses-free…
Read MoreMIT Engineer Rosalind Picard Has Developed Glasses That Read Facial Expressions
If you have ever watched the show Lie to Me, you know that their main character is a human lie detector that reads facial cues…
Read MoreAMD Throws Down The GPU Gauntlet With Radeon HD 6990M
AMD has upped the stakes in the mobile GPU game for notebooks my tossing the new HD 6990M onto the market. The new mobile GPU…
Read MoreAntiSec Steals 90,000 Military Email Account Addresses And Passwords
The rash of hacks and attacks against the websites of government and private firms over the last year has grown to proportions we have never…
Read MoreAcer Chromebook AC700 Now Available To Purchase On Amazon
Acer's AC700 Chromebook was announced back in May and went on pre-order a while later. The little netbook was among the first of the Chromebooks…
Read MoreSony Announces New Ultra-Zoom SX21E And SR21E Camcorders
Sony has announced a pair of new camcorders for the ultra-zoom crowd. These are the perfect camcorders if you want to be able to get…
Read MoreSharp's Laser-Growing Molecule Manipulator Gets Video Demo
It may look like some monstrous espresso machine, stripped of its shiny Italian casing, but the Sharp MBE (Molecular Beam Epitaxy) actually spits out Blu-ray…
Read MoreFujitsu Next-Gen FLEPia Color Ereader Revealed [Video]
Fujitsu has been churning away at its FLEPia color e-paper technology for years now, and the company brought the latest fruits of that hard work to…
Read MoreHP webOS Gets Exec Shuffle: Rubenstein Moves Away, TouchPad Owners Concerned
Ex Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein is stepping away from his central role in webOS management at HP, with Stephen DeWitt of the personal systems group…
Read MoreHTC Calls Out Apple For Competing In Courts, Not On Products
HTC has officially commented on yesterday's news that Apple has added a fresh batch of patent infringement allegations to the ongoing legal action between the…
Read MorePayPal For iPhone Update Adds Full Mobile History Access, New UI
eBay may have bought mobile payments specialist Zong, but that doesn't mean that PayPal will disappearing from the mobile line-up. A new PayPal for iPhone update has been…
Read MoreApple Mac OS X Lion Apps Now Being Accepted
Apple's Mac OS X Lion has been rumored for a July 14 launch and it looks to be on target. The Golden Master version of…
Read MoreGoogle Nexus Plus: Somewhat Of A Reality?
When I say Nexus Plus, you know I mean Nexus+. We've got a rumor here published by one above-average unbelievable source, that being a "G00gle…
Read MoreSpotify US Launch To Be Invite-Only?
The much hyped European music streaming service, Spotify, is making its US debut this week after months of wrangling deals with US record label companies.…
Read MoreBlackBerry Bold 9900 Passes Through FCC
RIM announced the BlackBerry Bold 9900 back in May for a summer release. However, the company has since had to delay the launch to September.…
Read MoreComcast Xfinity TV Gets Android Honeycomb, Gingerbread, And iPad App Updates
The Comcast Xfinity TV app has been available to the iOS platform since last year, offering Xfinity TV customers the ability to turn their iPads…
Read MoreSpotify Will Not Be Exclusive Partner To Facebook Music
The popular European music streaming service, Spotify, is ready to make a splash with its U.S. launch this week. A recently leaked internal document of…
Read MoreMac Pro And MacBook Air With OS X Lion Launching This Week
Oh my goodness oh my goodness, time for some operating system update goodness, right inside the machines we're about to own. That's right, a source…
Read MoreT-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide Release Date And Price
HTC's next big thing will be rolling out on T-Mobile this July 2011, and now we've got a real solid date on this newest in…
Read MoreHP Play Gets Public Beta, The iTunes For The TouchPad
The HP TouchPad went on sale last week and thanks to its smooth WebOS 3.0, fans can somewhat overlook the cheapish hardware. Plus, recent talks…
Read MoreAndroid 3.2 Banishes Screen Incompatibility For Former Handset-Only Apps
Today our good pals Tim Bray and Scott Main, Android developers the both of them, have let the world know that in an upcoming version…
Read MoreApple iBooks Patent App Reveals Fun And Interactive Features
A new patent application from Apple was published last week by the USPTO that revealed some neat features planned for the Apple iBooks app. The…
Read MoreIndifferent Meh Thumb Button Hits Nail On Head
There's this thing about social commentary - it doesn't matter. Or at least that's what folks like Zuckerberg and the +1 folks at Google don't…
Read MoreFacebook Deactivates Open-Xchange, Blocks Personal Data Migration
Although the recently announced Google+ social platform is still in private beta, it has generated enough excitement to have Facebook making some preemptive measures. Shortly…
Read MoreClickfree C6 EASY Imaging Backs Up All Your Files, Software, And OS
If you're looking for an easy backup solution that images your entire PC, copying not only your files but also all your software and OS,…
Read MoreApples Seeds iOS 5 Beta 3 To Developers
Apple's iOS 5 is set to launch sometime this fall, and the company is busily plugging away at it having already released two beta versions…
Read MoreHTC Status Pre-Order Starts Today
The HTC ChaCha as it's known in some parts of the world, here known as the HTC Status as carried by AT&T, has begun its…
Read MoreFacebook Contact Export App Makes Google+ Migration Easy
After Facebook snubbed users hoping to export their details from the social network and make a quick start on Google+ earlier, blocking the Friend Exporter…
Read MoreApple Targets HTC In Second ITC Patent Case
Apple has filed a new ITC complaint against HTC, the second such suit alleging patent infringement. The exact devices covered by the complaint are unknown…
Read MorePiper Jaffray Says Apple Users Buy 61% More Apps And Pay 14% More Per App
Piper Jaffray has released some estimates on the Apple App Store. The firm believes that Apple is increasingly dependent on the health of the App…
Read MoreLenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid Hits FCC
The Lenovo IdeaPad U1 tablet was talked about a lot previously around here along with the LePad tablet. The tablet looks a lot like a…
Read MoreGetJar Rejects Apple Cease & Desist Demand Over "App Store"
Software download store GetJar has refused to comply with a Cease & Desist (C&D) demand from Apple, arguing that the contentious "app store" name is not yet an…
Read MoreSamsung Mobile Loses CTO Responsible For GSII And Galaxy Tabs
The executive arguably behind Samsung's dominance in Android over the past eighteen months is leaving the company, its been revealed. Omar Khan, who has been…
Read MoreiRiver Story HD Is First eReader With Google eBooks Integrated
We have talked a lot about iRiver around here; the company has all sorts of gadgets and electronics. The last product from iRiver I mentioned…
Read MoreXperia Pro Pushed To Q4?
Back during Mobile World Congress Sony Ericsson made a lot of announcements for new smartphones that were due to land early in 2011 running the…
Read MoreBen Heck Creates CD Changer For Xbox 360
Anyone that plays video games a lot knows that on occasion you are really tired of playing whatever video game you are using and want…
Read MoreGoogle's Eric Schmidt To Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee
Google may have thought all of the legal wrangling that had to do with the revelation last year that its Street View vehicles were capturing…
Read MoreAlienware Crams Bigfoot Networks Killer Wireless-N Tech Into Gaming Notebooks
Alienware has been in the business of making gaming notebooks that are cool and seriously high end since before the gaming brand was part of…
Read MoreApple Doubling Up On Next-Gen iPad 3/iPad HD Suppliers Tip Insiders
iPad 2 supplies have been constrained since the second-gen slate launched earlier this year - Apple has only just shaved the expected shipping times down…
Read MorePantech Pursuit II Coming To AT&T July 17
If you are in the market for a new feature phone that is easy on the budget the Pantech Pursuit II will be coming to…
Read MoreBowers & Wilkins Announce C5 Noise-Isolating In-Ear Headphones
High-end audio firm Bowers & Wilkins has introduced a new set of in-ear earphones called the C5. The C5 headphones are an in-ear design with…
Read MorePanasonic Gives NASA AG-3DA1 3D Camcorder And Shoots It Into Space On Final Shuttle Mission
Panasonic has announced that it has given NASA some hardware to take to the ISS aboard the final space shuttle mission with Atlantis that launched…
Read MoreJoerg Sprave Creates A New Slingshot That Flings iPhones
Our sling shot making pal Joerg Sprave is back with his latest homemade slingshot. This time around, he's not flicking saw blades, machetes or even…
Read MoreVol Speaker Concept Is Awesomely Minimalist
I love design concepts that are cool. We see concept speakers every now and again and of all of the concepts I have seen in…
Read MoreMicrosoft Outs Explorer Touch Mouse With BlueTrack Tech
The gang over at Pocket-Lint went to the big Christmas in July event Microsoft put on recently in London and spied an interesting sounding mouse…
Read MoreNyko Zoom For Kinect To Launch August 23
About a month ago, I mentioned the interesting Nyko Zoom for Kinect accessory that had debuted. The device is a special clip on lens accessory…
Read MoreElement 5 Mini L iPad Bag Sports Solar Panel For More Power
If you travel a lot with your iPad, you probably have a bag to carry the thing in so that you can keep it safe…
Read MoreHTC Bootloader Unlock Starts August For Sensation And EVO 3D
HTC has announced that it will begin the process of unlocking the bootloaders on its Android phones from August, with the HTC Sensation first on the…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - May 15, 2011
This past week's Google I/O developer conference brought lots of Google news involving Android, Google Music Beta, Google TV, Android Market, and Chromebooks. The keynotes…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - May 22, 2011
Gaming got some extra attention this week with speculation about the next-gen Nintendo Wii, a unique offer on the Xbox 360, and restoration issues for…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - May 29, 2011
Perhaps the two biggest topics of the week, the Google Wallet announcement and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.1 Mango unveiling, brought exciting new developments for the…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - June 19, 2011
Hope everyone had a great Father's Day weekend. We had a Toshiba TV giveaway for this special occasion and the winner will be announced anytime…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - June 26, 2011
New hope for the Nokia and Microsoft partnership came this week with the unveiling of the N9 MeeGo handset and the Windows Phone Mango version…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - July 10, 2011
Battle of the social networks kicked off this week with Facebook announcing group chat support, a new design, and a video calling feature developed in…
Read MoreRelationship Me Vs. Independent Me On Google+
I am a libra. Like most people I know, I put no faith in the zodiac; I have no magical belief that everyone born within…
Read MoreGoogle Stock Cap Up $20 BILLION Amid G+ Opening
The market cap for Google's GOOG-tagged stock grew $20 BILLION in the past week - can you guess why? Investors have certainly thrown in their…
Read MoreIs This The iPhone 5 3D?
We've just been tipped by a tipster by the name of fishtoon that the next big iPhone iteration will not only be called iPhone 5,…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review - Week 28 2011
Welcome to this week's edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. There was lots of goings on in the tech world as usual so let's…
Read MoreSony Must Announce The PlayStation 4 ASAP
Earlier this week, reports surfaced suggesting Sony would be launching the PlayStation 4 next year. Almost immediately, Sony fans jumped for joy at the news,…
Read MoreWhy Competing With Google+ Is Impossible
And why Apple has the rest of the keys to the kingdom. That's what we're about to talk about here. Let me preface this by…
Read MoreBioLite Wood-Burning Stove Can Charge Phones While Cooking Dinner
Here's an interesting green concept gizmo that can be useful on your next camping trip. It's a wood-burning stove by BioLite that can cook your…
Read MoreHave A Say On What Apps William And Kate Get On Their iPad 2
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, that is William and Kate, will be touching down in Los Angeles later today. For their grand arrival, Governor…
Read MoreApple iTunes HD+ 1080p Movies Coming In September?
New reports have surfaced that suggest Apple may begin testing a limited selection of 1080p HD movies on iTunes. Up unil now, most Apple products…
Read MoreMotorola XPRT Hands-On And Unboxing
Today in the SlashGear labs we have another Android phone to show you all. This is the Motorola XPRT. Aimed right at all those Blackberry…
Read MoreVerizon Unlimited 3G Customers Can Upgrade To 4G, Keep Unlimited, And Add $30 Tether
Verizon's new tiered data plans officially kicked in yesterday with four packages ranging from $10 per month for a meager 75MB to $80 per month…
Read MoreHTC Thunderbolt Is The Most Expensive Phone To Make?
Verizon's very first blazing fast 4G LTE smartphone was the HTC Thunderbolt. We did a full review on the handset and although we were a…
Read MoreHTC Panache Sneaks Out - A myTouch By Any Other Name, Slightly Sweet
For those of you with a keen eye for codenames, you'll remember that at one point or another, the HTC Glacier, a device later called…
Read MoreiPhone 4, Infuse 4G, Droid Charge Among Most Popular Smartphones In June
If you've been wondering which smartphones are the most popular right now, then wonder no more. Canaccord Genuity analysts T. Michael Walkley, Charles John, and…
Read MoreHDMI To Mini DisplayPort Cables Declared Illegal
The fine folks at HDMI.org, aka the group responsible for keeping the HDMI Specifications in check, have declared that the Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable…
Read MoreSpotify Plans U.S. Domination With Help From Facebook
Spotify has recently confirmed a U.S. launch for next week. This news comes after months of delays as the popular European music streaming service struggled…
Read MoreiOS 5 Beta Sets Dev's iPhone 4 Cable On Fire
A fellow by the name of Gus Pinto has garnered some attention in the early hours of July 8th, 2011, aka this morning with a…
Read MoreiPad 2 Shipping Times Drop To 3-5 Days
When Apple's iPad 2 first came out back in March, there were massive supply shortages. The bottleneck was rumored to be light leakage issues with…
Read MoreAmazon Tablet Could Ship 1.2 Million Units In Q3
Amazon was rumored back in May to have plans for two Android tablets, a 10-inch model codenamed Hollywood and a 7-inch model codenamed Coyote. The…
Read MoreAtlantis STS-135 Mission Is Go: Space Shuttle's Final Launch A Success
Space Shuttle Atlantis launched successfully this morning, the final flight of the Space Shuttle program, on mission STS-135 to the International Space Station. Traveling at…
Read MoreApple May Let You "Pour" Files From One Device To Another
A new Apple patent application has surfaced that reveals some creative ideas the company has for file transferring. You may soon be able to literally…
Read MoreCERN Launches Open Source Hardware Project
The folks who brought you the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the experiments therein are now working to bring you an OHR, aka an Open…
Read MoreNumark iDJ Live Offers iPad Owners Bedroom DJ Skills
Bedroom DJs desperate to plug their iPads into something musical may find Numark's new iDJ Live to their liking, a dual-deck portable DJ rig intended to…
Read MoreiPod Touch 3G Tipped For September: Data-Only 3G Radio
While we've been fielding rumors of iPhone 5's and iPad HD's of late, let's not forget the iPod touch, itself due for a refresh in…
Read MoreMobile Gaming Will Surpass Consoles "Within A Very Short Time" Says Id Co-Founder
id Software co-founder John Carmack agrees that mobile gaming devices like cellphones will, in "a very short time," surpass the power that consoles offer, but…
Read MoreVizio Honeycomb Tablet Hits Amazon For $350
Vizio began taking limited pre-orders for its 8-inch Android tablet back at the start of the month, but now Amazon has got in on the action…
Read MoreBioShock Infinite E3 Demo Released: Gamers Swoon [Video]
Of all of the games previewed at E3 2011, BioShock Infinite caused the most excitement. At the show, the lengthy game demo was limited to…
Read MoreSony PSN Pass Targets Second-Hand Game Buyers
Sony has confirmed it will be using a new system called PSN Pass to authenticate online access to certain new games, a move that is…
Read MoreSpace Shuttle Atlantis Readies For Final Flight
NASA's final space shuttle mission, STS-135, is readying for take-off at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, despite weather concerns that could threaten the…
Read MoreBlackBerry Touch 9860 "Monza"/"Monaco" Caught In Wild With BB7
It's been a while since we last saw the BlackBerry Monza in the wild, but the full-touch smartphone is looking as bulky as ever in…
Read MoreNVIDIA Delaying GPUs Over Subpar Performance And Production?
NVIDIA has reportedly delayed its GPU roadmap, pushing back the release of 28nm, 22nm and 20nm chipsets over what's said to be poor yields from…
Read MoreSony MZ-RH1 Hi-MD Walkman Faces Axe (But MiniDisc Lives On!)
Goodbye, MiniDisc, we loved you. Well, perhaps not love, but at least a grudging regard. Unfortunately, grudging regards don't add up to sales, and Sony…
Read MoreASUS Eee Pad Slider Delayed Until Fall
ASUS UK has indicated that launch of the Eee Pad Slider has been delayed, with the converting Honeycomb tablet now expected sometime in the Autumn (aka…
Read MoreOS X Lion And MacBook Air Refresh July 14 As Apple Staff Warned Of "Overnight" Prep Sessions
Mac OS X Lion is looking increasingly likely to see a July 14 release, with new sources suggesting that Apple is warning retail staff to…
Read MoreUS Carriers Ignoring Samsung Galaxy S II Over Moto/HTC Bias?
US carriers have reportedly been dragging their heels over the Samsung Galaxy S II because of bias toward CDMA devices from rivals Motorola and HTC, a…
Read MorePioneer S-MM301 And S-MM751RU Speakers Have Your Desk And Bag Covered
Pioneer has outed its latest speakers, the the S-MM301 and S-MM751RU are both intended for computer users rather than those looking for something to blow…
Read MoreTwo "Totally Distinct" iPhones In September Insist Sources
The one iPhone/two iPhone fifth-gen rumor mill continues to grind, and after yesterday's supposedly definitive claims that Apple was readying a single iPhone 5 for launch…
Read MoreSpotify US Launch Next Week Say Reps
Spotify confirmed its US streaming music service would be launching soon earlier this week, but didn't go so far as to confirm exactly when that would…
Read MorePrintable Lieca M3 Pinhole Camera Revealed
It's not often that you can get a masterpiece of a DSLR, a point and shoot, or even a cameraphone made entirely of paper these…
Read MoreFacebook Vibes Music Service Revealed In Video Calling Code
The Google+ social platform was unveiled last week in an invitation-only beta form but has already generated lots of excitement for its new features, including…
Read MoreHow Often Should You Replace Your TV?
Over the July 4 weekend, I was with some friends discussing televisions. We were talking about the different technologies and what sort of features we…
Read MoreVerizon Already 32% Of All iPhone 4s In The US
Apple's iPhone has long been an AT&T exclusive, but back in February this year, the iPhone 4 made its way to Verizon. At that point,…
Read MoreUSA Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc Unlocked And On Sale Now
You're about to get super pumped up about this one, let me tell you that. One of the greatest Android-based devices to come out of…
Read MoreApple Patent Filing Reveals Plans For Transparent Augmented Reality iPad Display Technology
A couple of patent applications surfaced today, revealing that Apple is considering some interesting new features for its future iOS devices. Just this morning, a…
Read MoreApple Store Spy Cam Artist Under Investigation By Secret Service
A recent video posted by digital artist Kyle McDonald has garnered a lot of attention that could be getting the artist into some serious trouble.…
Read MoreBlueAnt Embrace iPad Headphones Get Official
Back in January 2011, we were running around like mad trying to grab all the sweet hands-on action we knew you'd like with all the…
Read MoreLTE Rolls Out In Canada For The First Time Ever
Not that there's going to be another time that LTE will be rolling out in Canada, but it's never been there before! The folks at…
Read MoreGoogle Docs Mobile Gets Sort, Narrow, And Share
Google Docs for mobile just got an update today that will make it easier to sort and share your documents. An Android app for Google…
Read MoreiOS Hacker Bringing Swype To Jailbroken iPhones
It's unusual for someone that's gone Android to go back to iOS, but when it does happen, a sorely missed feature is the Swype keyboard.…
Read MoreToshiba Thrive Lands At Newegg With Free Shipping
The Toshiba Thrive 10.1-inch Android tablet took its time to hit the market. It was first unveiled at CES but waited for Android Honeycomb and…
Read MoreVerizon Tiered Data Plans Include Free Texts To Monitor Usage
For those hoping to get an unlimited data plan from Verizon, you're time is up. Today, the new tiered data plans officially kick in with…
Read MoreiPhone 4 Turns Into A DSLR With New Photojojo Case
Photojojo always comes up with some fun gadgets and accessories for photography enthusiasts and this time they've managed to produce a case that will turn…
Read MoreGoogle+ And The Privacy Pit
Google may not have said it publicly, but its Google+ social network was deemed a Facebook rival from the very start. Now, as more elements…
Read MoreiPad HD Tipped For September Alongside iPhone 5
The Apple iPhone/iPad rumors continue to swirl, with further evidence pointing to a high-resolution version of the iPad set to launch later this year. Talk…
Read MoreiPlayer For Kindle Puts TV Shows On Your Ereader
As bizarre, brilliant ideas go, "iPlayer for Kindle" has to be one of the best. Despite initially sounding like an April Fool - video content…
Read MoreOnkyo BD-SP809 Blu-Ray Flagship Adds On-Demand Streaming, More
Onkyo knows you love a flagship, and so it's packed more than the average abilities into its new top-tier Blu-ray player, the BD-SP809. As well…
Read MoreHTC Admits S3 Buy A Patent Grab: Plans "Offensive Licensing"
HTC announced yesterday that it was buying S3 Graphics from VIA and its partner in the operation. We speculated at the time that the purchase…
Read MoreeBay Buys Carrier-Billing Startup Zong For Mobile Shopping
Online auction giant eBay has bought mobile payments specialist Zong, spending $240m on the startup despite already having PayPal onboard. According to eBay, the interest…
Read MoreAT&T Outs New USBConnect Force 4G USB Modem
If you have a notebook that you like that lacks 3G or 4G connectivity inside you don’t need to get a new notebook. What you…
Read MoreAir Pick Plays A Note To The Tune Each Time You Strum Your Air Guitar
Air guitar is the age-old ritual that goes along with your favorite music and happens when a music fan has no musical talent of their…
Read MoreDIY Instant Camera Actually Needs Minutes To Print Photos
Typically, when you say instant camera, we think of the sort like the old Polaroid's that you shoot the pic, the film comes out the…
Read MoreApple Patent Applications Surface For Stylus Pens On iPad And iPhone
It seems that Steve Jobs and his minions in Cupertino are reversing on the long held beliefs that a stylus isn’t required if you get…
Read MoreApp Store Passes 15 Billion Downloads
Apple has announced that the App Store has passed 15 billion downloads, with over 200m iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners taking their pick from…
Read MoreResearchers Create Printed Devices Capable Of Harvesting Electromagnetic Energy For Power
Researchers and scientists are working around the globe to find new and novel ways to generate the power needed to operate sensors and devices for…
Read MoreApple Promises Fix For PDF Exploit (And Will Block JailbreakMe Exploit In The Process)
For a long time the general consensus among many geeks was that Apple gear didn’t have the security flaws that some other brands suffered from.…
Read MoreGateway ID And NV Notebooks Outed: Core i5 And AMD APU Options
Gateway has outed its updated ID and NV notebook ranges, offering Sandy Bridge processors, USB 3.0 and - on select models - NVIDIA Optimus graphics…
Read MoreSwitch Lighting LED Light Bulb Is Cheap And Makes Light Just Like Incandescent
I am all for moving away from the normal incandescent bulbs almost all of us use today to a more efficient and longer lasting alternative…
Read MoreDIY Wooden 5230 B Front Shovel Makes Me Go Hmmm
On one hand I look at this wooden 5230 front shovel and think dude, whoa, that is awesome. On the other I look at this…
Read MoreAsus Eee Pad Transformer Android Tablet Packing 3G Gets Official Pricing In Italy
If you are a fan of the Android OS and have been looking for a tablet, one of the coolest out there is the Asus…
Read MoreNokia Commits To N9 Support; "Several" Updates In Pipeline
Nokia has confirmed it plans to support the MeeGo-based N9 "for years" and that the company's software engineers have "several SW updates" planned for the…
Read MoreTomita Technologies Sues Nintendo Over 3D Tech In 3DS Console
The number of patent suits that fly around the technology world is staggering. It seems like every day we hear of a new patent infringement…
Read MoreNintendo Denies iOS And Android Game Plans
Nintendo is having a hard time in the gaming market right now with its new 3DS console not selling well. The 3DS needed until mid-June…
Read MorePlushtography Pillow Looks Like A Giant Lens
I know there are a bunch of photography geeks that read SlashGear. Sure mostly you guys want to read about new hardware in the camera…
Read MoreMaxell Maxsound Soundbar Is Small And Compact
If you have a small TV in your office or a dorm room and you want better sound and not much room the Maxell maxsound…
Read MoreSamsung Warns Of Q2 Profit Slump As LCD Business Dives
Samsung has warned investors to expect a dive in Q2 2011 performance, with the revelation that - despite strong sales of smartphones, like the 3m-selling…
Read MoreIntel Reveals "World's Smallest Cloud"
Intel has been flaunting what the company reckons is "the world's smallest cloud data center" though we can't help but think they'd come in for…
Read MoreOcosmos OSC9 Pre-Sale Announced; OSC1 Far Behind?
Ocosmos' compact Intel Oak Trail tablets - launched at CES 2011 earlier this year - the OSC9 and OSC1 could be on sale imminently, with…
Read MoreApple Injunction Demands Over Amazon Appstore Denied
Attempts by Apple to have Amazon's use of the name Appstore for its download store blocked have failed, with the Cupertino company's legal argument failing…
Read MoreiPad 2 Plus With High-Res Display Tipped For Late 2011 Launch
Talk of a third iPad for launch this fall has reignited, with suggestions that Apple is readying an "iPad 2 Plus" or "iPad 2+" with…
Read More2012 iPhone Could Have Inductive Wireless Charging
Apple is reportedly considering a new charging technology for the 2012 iPhone, the successor to the new model - or models - expected to arrive…
Read MoreVerizon DROID 3 By Motorola Detailed: $200 Imminently?
Verizon's DROID 3 by Motorola has begun to show up across the carrier's site, though is not yet available for online ordering. The QWERTY smartphone…
Read MoreQualcomm Roadmap Leaks; Rivals "Haven't Mastered" Power/performance Balance Says VP
Details of Qualcomm's processor roadmap for 2012 and 2013 have emerged, with the company planning to leverage its "Krait" next-gen chips for up to 2.5GHz…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Angry Birds Level Discovered!
Well what do you know, there's another Rovio connection to a brand promotion. Who would have thought? This time it's for the Samsung Galaxy S…
Read MoreAmazon Cloud Drive, Cloud Player Now With Unlimited Music Storage
Amazon was first to offer a cloud-based music locker back in March beating out competitors Google and Apple. Despite its early arrival, Amazon's Cloud Drive…
Read MoreMotorola LTE Tablet Hits The FCC, Could Be The XOOM 2
What looks to be the new Motorola XOOM LTE tablet has just passed through the FCC today, signaling an imminent launch. This is good news…
Read MoreApple Files ITC Complaint Against Samsung
The legal battle between Apple and Samsung, which erupted back in April, has only been escalating. Just last week Samsung filed a complaint with the…
Read MoreGriffin Ships iMarker For Crayola ColorStudio HD iPad App
Griffin and Crayola have teamed up to create a product that will help your kids express their creativity without finger-painting your walls. But, it will…
Read MoreSG+ 101: Why Does My Name Show Up As Asterisks To Other People In Google+?
So you're just waltzing around on Google+, just minding your own business, maybe having a sip from your special edition SG+ coffee mug, enjoying your…
Read MoreApple iOS Has Major Security Hole Warns German IT Agency, Avoid PDFs
A new claim about Apple's iOS security makes the previous location data tracking controversy look like child's play. Germany's national IT security is claiming serious…
Read MoreSymbian Belle Gets MeeGo-Harmattan Style Swipe
When Nokia announced its transition to the Windows Phone 7 platform, the company revealed that its Symbian platform would slowly be phased out while MeeGo…
Read MoreClear Spot 4G Mobile Hotspot With New LCD Display Hits The FCC
Clearwire looks to be readying a new mobile hotspot device for their Clear 4G WiMAX network. New documents passed through the FCC today revealing that…
Read MoreFacebook "Awesome" Announcement Strewn With Veiled Google+ References
Don't get me wrong before we start here, the ability to chat in a window inside Facebook with Skype's video capabilities is really neat. If…
Read MoreGoogle Maps 5.7 Update For Android Gets Transit Navigation
The Google Maps app for Android has been updated today to version 5.7 and introduces several new improvements including better directions, search suggest, and a…
Read MoreWindows 8 Public Beta To Be Unveiled At CES 2012
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is still several months away, but there's already buzz now that the next-gen operating system dubbed Windows 8…
Read MoreMotorola Droid Bionic Redesign Confirmed In Best Buy Leak
The Motorola Droid Bionic has been taking its time to launch. First announced at CES, the smartphone has since been delayed over the last six…
Read MoreBoxee Remote DSM-22 By D-Link Officially Announced
Everyone's favorite path into the internet, the internet that's full of TV shows, movies, music, and photos that is, is getting an officially excellent remote.…
Read MoreZuckerberg Announces Facebook Video Calling With Skype, Group Chat, New Design
In an "Awesome" announcement on the 6th of July, 2011, Mark Zuckerberg announced several new items for their popular social networking site. The first item…
Read MoreSpotify US Sign-Up Page Offers Early Access On Imminent Launch
Spotify has begun collecting pre-interest registrations ahead of its US launch, asking people to sign-up if they want to be among the first batch of…
Read MoreGoogle Will Delete Private Google Profiles August 1
If you have a Google Profile and you have it set to private, you aren't using the service correctly apparently. Google doesn’t want your stinkin'…
Read MoreHuddle Says That It Is Not Involved With Google+
There is a huge push in the tech world today for cloud services and everyone from Google to Microsoft is taking things to the cloud.…
Read MoreMotorola Cuts Xoom WiFi Price To $499
The last time we talked about a price cut for the Motorola Xoom was back in April when the tablet got a price cut in…
Read MoreMSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) Intel Mainboard Is First With PCI Express Gen 3
MSI has announced a new mainboard that sounds really cool the board is called the Z68A-GD80 (G3) and I will just call it the G3…
Read MoreRuckus Wireless And KDDI Corp To Deploy First And Largest Instant On WiFi Network In The World
Ruckus Wireless and KDDI Corp in Japan have announced that they have teamed up to deploy the world's first and largest instant on WiFi access…
Read MoreGCT Semiconductor Unveils GDM7225 WiMax 2 Chip 4x Faster Than Other Chips
I would imagine most of us aren't familiar with GCT Semiconductor. The company makes different chips that are found inside the mobile devices we are…
Read MoreiPhone 5 "Complicated And Difficult To Assemble": Supplies May Be Short
Apple's incoming fifth-gen iPhone is "complicated and difficult to assemble" according to sources at Foxconn, with the potential for that design trickiness to impact supplies…
Read MoreMicrosoft Targets Samsung In Android Patent Shakedown
Yesterday I mentioned that Microsoft had signed Wistron up for an Android patent agreement. Wistron was the latest firm to agree to pay Microsoft for…
Read More3D Printer Uses Chocolate For Printing!
Not long ago I talked about a 3D printer called the Solar Sinter that uses sand and solar power to print 3D objects. That was…
Read MoreBaidu Bing, Baidu Bang: Bing And Baidu Announce Search Deal
China is notorious for censoring the internet within its boundaries to keep citizens from accessing things that might not meet the questionable moral code of…
Read MoreNokia 700 Zeta Smartphone Press Photos Leak
Nokia is taking a beating in the smartphone and feature phone markets today. Nokia is hoping that Windows Phone will pull the company out of…
Read MoreTriggertrap Lets Geeky Photogs Control How And When Their Camera Snaps
If you have a cool camera that you take with you wherever you go and want a gadget that will let you play with that…
Read MoreJVC Victor Unveils New Dual iPhone And iPad Docking Station Audio System
JVC has pulled the wraps off a cool new docking station audio system for the Apple iPhone and iPad. This sort of docking station isn't…
Read MoreLenovo X121e 11.6-Inch Notebook Launches
Lenovo has a new notebook that has launched with a very small and portable design that should be interesting to the mobile type looking for…
Read MoreFord Sued By Eagle Harbor Holdings For Patent Infringement
Ford has a lot of cool tech inside some of its late model vehicles. The tech ranges from its Sync system that is powered by…
Read MoreHTC Buys S3 Graphics From VIA
HTC is to buy GPU specialists S3 Graphics, in a deal which will see the smartphone company take all existing shares held by VIA -…
Read MoreSpotify Hits Virgin Media TiVo, Phones And Broadband In New Deal
Streaming music service Spotify and UK ISP/TV provider Virgin Media have announced a deal to include cut-price premium membership to joint subscribers. Set to…
Read MoreiPad 2 Jailbreak Released As JailbreakMe.com Updated
A jailbreak for the iPad 2 has been released, as part of the updated - and super-straightfoward - hack site jailbreakme.com. The handiwork of iPhone…
Read MoreFacebook Project Spartan Leaks Again: Google, Not Apple, The Key Enemy?
Facebook's "awesome" announcement is set to be revealed in just a few hours time, but according to reports it won't be the so-called Project Spartan…
Read MoreGoogle's New Travel Search Products Powered By ITA Coming Soon
Besides all the awesome Google+ features, the search giant may be serving up some nifty travel search features very soon. Google's $700 million acquisition of…
Read MoreAmazon, AT&T, Verizon Now In Early Talks To Buy Hulu
The popular video streaming site, Hulu, is currently shopping itself around for a buyer. Preliminary talks have begun with Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo revealed last…
Read MorecomScore Reports Android Dominates 38% But iPhone Still Growing
A new report was released today by comScore that compared the U.S. mobile phone market share differences between the last three-month period ending May 2011…
Read MoreGoogle+ Hangouts Will Be Open To Third-Party Apps
One of the most popular features of Google+ is the Hangouts group video chat component. It's a convenient way to easily setup a group meeting…
Read MoreT-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide May Arrive July 27
T-Mobile's myTouch 4G Slide, also known as the HTC Doubleshot, is now rumored for a July 27 release. Back when T-Mobile's roadmap leaked, it was…
Read MoreGoogle To Kill Picasa, Blogger Brands In Push For Google+
Google may soon be killing off its Picasa and Blogger brands and integrating their services into Google+. The company's new social platform was just recently…
Read MoreiPhone App Loopy 2 Allows DUB FX To Lay Down Track In Single Take
So there's this guy named DUB FX, he's a street performer, recording artist, and lover of new technology. He specializes in singing, recording, and rolling…
Read MoreMicrosoft's Bing Lasso Beats Apple's Copy And Paste Feature
Microsoft released today an update for its Bing for iPad app that introduced the company's own version of copy and paste. The feature is dubbed…
Read MoreHTC Marvel Hits FCC, Heading For T-Mobile
Back in May, a leaked T-Mobile roadmap revealed a wide variety of delicious smartphones waiting to come out of the oven. One of the handsets…
Read MoreVerizon To Offer iPhone 4 Discount, HTC Thunderbolt For Free?
Verizon has just confirmed tiered data plans to start this Thursday. For power data users, that could mean an unwelcome hike to your monthly bill.…
Read MoreNVIDIA Bestows CUDA Center Of Excellence Title On Stanford University
Today NVIDIA let it be known that they've named Stanford University a CUDA Center of Excellence for their work in parallel computing research using NVIDIA…
Read MoreSkype 5.2 Update For Mac Brings Group Video Screen Sharing, Multitasking
Recently, a video leaked that was confirmed to be a preview of Skype's upcoming app designed for the iPad. Although it's been almost two weeks…
Read MoreDisclaimer: Facebook Email Addresses Aren't "Awesome"
There a message being thrown around today that the "Awesome" announcement made by Facebook this week will be about Facebook-based emails. We'd like to set…
Read MoreSlashGear Officially On Google+, Join The G+ Party!
So there's this company called Google, right, and they've got a brand new social networking community by the name of Google+, correct? We've got the…
Read MoreVerizon Tiered Data And LTE Hotspot Fees Confirmed For July 7
You'll need to act fast if you want to pick up a new unlimited Verizon Wireless data plan, with confirmation that, as of tomorrow, July…
Read MoreNokia's $200m R&D Ransom Spawned A Decade Of Paranoia
A mass exodus of Nokia R&D engineers in 1997 led to the company paying $200m in what amounted to retainer bribes, newly released documents in…
Read MoreJapan Discovers Vast Deposits Of Rare Earths On Pacific Sea Floor
If you are a fan of gadgets, you have used things that require rare earths in their construction. There are deposits of rare earths spread…
Read MoreWistron Signs Microsoft Patent Agreement For Android Gadgets
For most of the time that Android has been on the market people have thought of Android as free. Google doesn't charge for the OS…
Read More1080p Netflix On Android Imminent Says TI After OMAP4 Certification
Netflix streaming at full HD 1080p resolution on Android mobile devices could be with us imminently, with the news that Texas Instruments' OMAP4 platform has…
Read MoreAT&T Set To Roll Out Insurance For iPhone This Month
Back when I bought my first iPhone, I asked the AT&T lackey about insurance. You would have thought I asked for free data or something.…
Read MoreFlorafil Covers Your Cables With Weird
I will admit that cables are ugly; they are even uglier when I install something because I just don’t care what the cables running on…
Read MoreToshiba Thrive Lands Early At Best Buy In Austin, Texas
The Toshiba Thrive is a small 7-inch Android tablet that some fans of Android have been looking forward to getting their hands on for a…
Read MoreFacebook Blocks Friend Export Tool In Google+ Snub
Facebook has already hinted at an "awesome" launch this week to drag the attention back from Google+, but in the meantime it looks like the…
Read MoreQbo Open-Source Robot Gives Autonomy Demo, Warts & All [Video]
We've been tracking the Qbo open-source robot for over a year now, as creator TheCorpora aims to turn it into the Ford Model T of…
Read MoreiRiver P8 PMP Breaks Cover With Slick Interface And More
iRiver has been around for a long time making some interesting PMPs and other devices for music and video fans to take with them wherever…
Read MoreQbo Open-Source Robot Wants To Be Ford Model T Of 'Bots
Open-source and DIY robotics should be the ideal match, but the expense of robot hardware often puts it out of reach for all but the…
Read MoreQbo Robot Gets Detailed Schematics Along With Current Set Of Skills
Building a robot is a lofty goal. It's not rooted in science-fiction for no reason, after all. It doesn't help when the price to build…
Read MoreQbo Adorable Open-Source Robot Detailed
Could it be love at first sight? As soon as I saw his tubby little body and wide eyes, I knew I had to make…
Read MoreQbo Open-Source Robot No Longer Naked
It's been a while since we've seen movement from the Qbo open-source robot project; last we heard, the tubby little 'bot had been fully spec'd…
Read MoreGoogle Has Submitted Google+ iPhone App For Approval
If you are one of the geeks that were able to get an early invite to Google+ from us or someone else and have found…
Read MoreARM Looks To Provide Mali Mobile GPU With PS3 And Xbox 360 Power In Next 18 Months
ARM is the dominant player in the mobile realm for processor and graphics processors that are able to provide the performance that consumers want in…
Read MoreWebOS Roadmap Leaks Showing New TouchPad And More
The TouchPad from HP only went live in the last few days. We posted up our review of the TouchPad already and found the hardware…
Read MoreSony's Ballsy S1 And S2 Ad Gets Part Two
Remember that ad we showed you from Sony that hit YouTube a while back from Sony for its S1 and S2 Android tablets? The ad…
Read MoreS'mores Maker Lets You Make S'mores Sans Fire
S'mores is some good eatin'. My kids love s'mores, but I can never get the marshmallow just right over a campfire. They always end up…
Read MoreAlternative Alarm Clock Can Wake You With Whatever You Plug Into It
I am not a fan of alarm clocks. The shrill alarm is very annoying and my wife never ceases to jump and freak out when…
Read MoreToshiba Qosmio F750 3D Hands-On
Toshiba's clever new 3D laptop, the Qosmio F750 3D, only got official this morning, but SlashGear stopped by for some early playtime to see just how…
Read MoreToshiba Qosmio F750 3D: Glasses-Free 3D Core i7 Laptop
Toshiba has outed its latest 3D laptop, the Qosmio F750 3D, the first to offer glasses-free 3D. Pairing a lenticular display - which splits the…
Read MorePegatron Readying 15m Next-Gen iPhone 5/4S Order For September Tip Insiders
Apple's iPhone 5 fabricator, Pegatron, has reportedly landed a 15m-strong order for the fifth-gen smartphone, with shipping expected to begin in September. That's according to…
Read MoreSandy Bridge MacBook Air To Use 400Mbps NAND Flash Storage?
Apple could be planning another flash memory speed boost in the upcoming MacBook Air refresh, according to new reports, with the company tipped to be…
Read MoreSamsung Readying Galaxy S II With Windows Phone Mango?
Samsung is tipped to be readying a Windows Phone version of its best-selling Galaxy S II Android smartphone, with the Samsung SGH-i937 showing up at…
Read MoreKanye West Reveals Watch The Throne Cover And Release Info Via Google+
While truly it should be par for the course that a big label artist like Kanye West would release information about a new album via…
Read MoreHappy 4th Of July From SlashGear
On behalf of everyone here at SlashGear, have a very happy, fun, and safe 4th of July! Spend some quality time with your friends and…
Read MoreDropbox Legalese Tweak Prompts Privacy Panic
Dropbox has found itself at the center of a privacy storm this weekend, having changed its terms of service in a way that left many…
Read MoreShuttle H3 6700P SFF Computer Revealed
Shuttle has been around for years and years with some really cool small form factor computers that allow users to save space on their desktop…
Read MoreApple Found To Infringe On Two S3 Graphics Patents
Apple always has a few irons in the patent suit fire. It's battling Samsung right now over alleged trademark and patent infringement for instance. Samsung…
Read MoreNEC And Lenovo Joint Computer Venture In Japan Announced
The computer market is very competitive with so many of the machines having the same or very similar features many consumers look at notebooks as…
Read MoreSamsung Gobbles 61% Of 3D TV Market
The 3D TV market is hardly booming today with the sets not selling as well as TV makers had expected. This is due to a…
Read MoreKRE-O Construction Transformer Sets Hit Stores
Hasbro is the toy company that was behind some of the toys that shaped my youth. Specifically, I had all the Transformers that my parents…
Read MoreLG VR6172LVM Robot Vacuum Cleaner Will Diagnose Itself And Tell You What To Fix
Robot vacuum cleaners are very cool little devices that have been around for a long time now. The Roomba was my first experience with one…
Read MoreSkype Hotfix Officially Adds Video Calling To Nexus S 4G
Last week Skype officially updated its app for Android users. The big feature that the update brought with it was video calling. There were numerous…
Read MoreTextbooks In Korea To Go Digital By 2015, Samsung Hits Lotto
The thing I remember most about college was the cost and weight of my textbooks. The books I needed for a semester of school were…
Read MoreDroid Bionic Hits The FCC Packing LTE
We have talked about the Motorola Droid Bionic on more than a few occasions over the last several months. The smartphone turned up back during…
Read MoreMetamaterial Provides Acoustic Cloak That Works In Air
Metamaterials are very interesting materials that can be used to cloak things from the naked eye and hide the sounds produced by things like submarines…
Read MoreIntel Subsidizing Notebook Makers To Lure Them Into Producing Ultrabooks
The notebook market is cooling right now with much of the focus from consumers on tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the iPad…
Read MoreFox News Twitter Account Hacked, Obama Not Shot
Am I the only one that thinks that hackers have got out of hand recently? Not a day goes by that hackers haven't worked their…
Read MoreApple Hack Latest In Anonymous AntiSec Campaign
Apple has become the latest target for hackers, with a group of Anonymous users releasing a list of what are said to be usernames and…
Read MoreiPhone 4 Prototype Hits eBay; Bidding Hits $100k
Got $100,001 to spare and a taste for Apple history? An iPhone 4 prototype has shown up on eBay, reportedly of similar ilk to the…
Read MorePS4 Production In Late 2011 Ahead Of 2012 Launch Tip Suppliers
Sony may have confirmed that the PS4 next-gen console is in development, but the company isn't so foolish as to announce any launch details for…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S II Ships 3m In 55 Days, Setting New Company Record
Samsung has announced that it has sold three million of its Galaxy S II smartphones in 55 days, setting a new record for the company and…
Read MoreSlashGear Weekly Roundup Video - July 3, 2011
Happy July 4th weekend to everyone in the U.S. But there's more to celebrate than Independence Day, SlashGear is having our first Tabletpalooza Giveaway as…
Read MoreShould Kinect Play A Role In The Xbox 720?
When the Nintendo Wii launched, the future of motion gaming was in doubt. Some speculated that the console would die as soon as it launched,…
Read MoreHP's Rubinstein Addresses TouchPad Reviews; Compares webOS To Early OS X Feedback
Ex-Palm CEO and current webOS lead at HP, Jon Rubinstein, has fired out an internal email of support to the TouchPad and webOS 3.0 teams…
Read MoreMotorola Droid 3 Leak Confirms Specs And July 14 Release
We've been hearing about the Motorola Droid 3 smartphone for quite some time. No official announcements have been made yet, but images and videos of…
Read MoreNokia's Windows Phone 7 Apps Will Work On Rival Devices
Nokia's very first Windows Phone Mango device leaked recently, dubbed the "Sea Ray." The slick handset will be getting some custom apps developed by Nokia,…
Read MoreGoogle Nexus Contraptions Lets You Play Your Way To A Nexus S
It was an exciting week discovering the new features of Google+ that is so far shaping up to be a worthy Facebook competitor. But that's…
Read MoreGoogle Begins Highlighting Content Creators In Search Results
Starting this week, Google will begin highlighting search results which turn up Content Creators. What this means is that Google, in their never-ending search for…
Read MoreOS X Lion And New MacBook Airs To Be Released July 14?
The Golden Master version of Apple's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was just seeded to developers this morning. It's a good sign that the major…
Read MoreFoursquare App For Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Today
Foursquare released a new version today of its popular "check-in" app that's been completely revamped for the Windows Phone 7 platform. The company had previously…
Read MoreNokia To Exit Japanese Market In August
Nokia has already shut down its US and UK online stores and now reports are saying that the company may completely exit Japan by the…
Read MoreCars 2 Review
“Cars 2” is not just a bad movie, it is dangerously bad. It is, by far, the worst movie Pixar has ever made, though “A…
Read MoreGoogle, Microsoft, Yahoo All In Early Talks To Buy Hulu
The L.A. Times reported today that insider sources have divulged that both Google and Microsoft have now begun preliminary talks to purchase Hulu. It's been…
Read MoreFacebook To Launch In-Browser Skype Video Chat Next Week?
Shortly after Google+ was announced earlier this week, Facebook made their own announcement with CEO Mark Zuckerberg proclaiming something "awesome" to be unveiled next week.…
Read MoreOS X 10.7 Lion Golden Master Version Seeded To Devs
Apple's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was announced and previewed at WWDC 2011 to have over 250 new features, including full-screen apps, built-in Mac App…
Read MoreiPhone 5 And iPad 3 Reveal In September Tips Supply Chain
Another day, another Apple production rumor, and as the whispers in Taiwan would have us believe that Apple's suppliers are already gathering together materials for…
Read MoreVizio Tablet Limited Pre-Orders Start Today
There are several budget-friendly Android tablets on the way and one of them is from Vizio. The company may be more known for their TVs,…
Read MoreSteam Summer Sale Just Started, Enjoy The Savings!
I know lately the news has been covered with all sorts of mobile phones and Google+ but another big thing is going on right this…
Read MoreLivescribe Shutters Developer Program To Focus On The Cloud
Livescribe has shut down its developer program, telling coders that the company is looking to focus instead on "cloud access, storage and services." The platform…
Read MoreNew Samsung Series 9 Notebooks Outed: Core i3, i5 And i7 Options
Samsung has outed a new range of Series 9 notebooks, with three new 13.3-inch models and two new 11.6-inch models, priced from $1,049. The new…
Read MoreBlackBerry Media Box Tipped: Apple TV Meets Presenter With PlayBook Power
RIM is reportedly working on a BlackBerry Media Box, a compact set-top box (STB) that would run the same QNX OS as the PlayBook and…
Read MoreAT&T Approves PlayBook Bridge App; $20 If You Want To Tether
AT&T has finally approved the BlackBerry Bridge app which will allow PlayBook owners to wirelessly connect their tablet to their BlackBerry smartphone. The carrier "has…
Read MoreSamsung To Apple: We're Not Copying, We're Competing
Samsung has refined its retaliatory patent infringement suit against Apple, dropping two patents and adding a further four as well as challenging its rival's position…
Read MoreAdobe: Save 50% If You Dump Apple's Final Cut Pro X For Our App
Earlier this week we pondered out loud whether Adobe - in addition to releasing various video tutorials showing dissatisfied Apple Final Cut Pro X users…
Read MoreSlashGear 101: What Is Google+, Circles, Huddle?
Despite various failed attempts in the past, Google is taking another stab at creating a social platform to rival Facebook. Their latest creation is called…
Read MoreWhat Google+, Circles, Sparks, And Huddle Will Mean For Me And You
Dear Google, you've been ever so kind in allowing me to keep all of my stuff in one place with Gmail. I had a tough…
Read MoreA Google+ Guide From Top To Bottom
What Google has just yesterday announced, (yesterday, that is, if you're reading this the day we post it,) is Google+, a social ecosystem based in…
Read MoreGet Google+ Invites From SlashGear!
As you may already be aware, Google has launched their latest social networking effort as Google+. This project exists as both a mobile application suite…
Read MoreFacebook To Thwart Google+ Excitement With An "Awesome" Launch Next Week?
Google+ was just launched and has stirred a lot of buzz that will hopefully last longer than Google Buzz. This is the search giant's second…
Read MoreDevelopers Now Working With Google+ Social Gaming Team
You knew it had to happen, it was just a matter of, what it turns out to be as, hours. A few game developers who…
Read MoreGoogle+ Invite Work-Around Active Now!
We're all really rather pumped up about the brand new program put out by Google to help everyone in the world be more social and…
Read MoreGmail And Calendar Refreshed With Google+ Matching Themes
It isn't just Google+ which is new from the search giant this week. The company has also kicked off a significant refresh of its Gmail…
Read MoreGoogle+ Developer API In Works Confirms Social Chief Gundotra
Google's Vic Gundotra has confirmed that the search giant is readying a developer API for Google+, the company's new social network. "I'm a developer guy…
Read MoreSleepWell Smart WiFi Tech Could Double Smartphone Battery Life
A new system for intelligently power-cycling WiFi connections could see smartphone battery life doubled, by cooperating with nearby wireless devices rather than competing with them.…
Read MoreMicrosoft Breaks 25,000 Windows Phone App Barrier
Microsoft has broken the 25,000 app barrier in the Windows Phone Marketplace, roughly half of which are free to download. The figure - which stands…
Read MorePS Vita Face-Tracking Demo Tips SmartAR Gaming [Video]
Sony has demonstrated the face-recognition and tracking capabilities of the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld, using the portable console's front-facing camera to track head movement and…
Read MoreSony Files For Trademark On PS Vita Logo In EU
We all know that Sony is hard at work on a new portable game console to replace the PSP that hasn't sold well. The code…
Read MoreE3 2011: Sony NGP Officially PS Vita [Updated With VIDEO]
We've been waiting for this moment, the unveiling of the next-generation portable, the Sony NGP. During Sony's E3 2011 press conference, the company confirmed several…
Read MoreSony Answers All Your PS Vita Questions
One of the major announcements kicking off this past week's E3 2011 conference, was Sony's unveiling of the next-generation portable (NGP) now known as the…
Read MoreClimate-Change Skeptic Funded $1m+ By Fossil Fuel Firms
Documents obtained by Greenpeace US allege that one of the most prominent climate change skeptics, Dr Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, has been…
Read MoreApple Could Snatch HP's Portable Computing Crown In 2012 (If You Count iPads)
Apple is expected to overtake HP as the leading provider of portable computing products worldwide in 2012, if calculations take into account tablets like the…
Read MoreHP: Enterprise, Not iPad, Our TouchPad Target
HP has dismissed criticisms of its TouchPad tablet - which SlashGear reviewed earlier this week - suggesting that incoming webOS updates will smooth out any…
Read MoreSharp 7-Inch Galapagos And Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Tablets Clear FCC
Details of two compact Android tablets have turned up at the FCC, with both the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Sharp 7-inch "EB-W71LJ-H" Galapagos slate…
Read MoreTurbo Tango Puts Foam Soda In A Spray Can
Those of you who take sugar binges deadly seriously will know how tricky it can be to simultaneously quaff sodas while squirting spray-cream into your…
Read MoreRicoh Buys Pentax Digicam Business: Plans Interchangeable Lens Cameras
Photography juggling this week, as Ricoh announces plans to buy up the Pentax Imaging Systems business and strike out for new ground in the consumer…
Read MoreLenovo IdeaPad K1 Honeycomb Tablet Finally Up For Pre-Order
Lenovo's IdeaPad K1 Android tablet has turned up for pre-order at Amazon, priced at $499.99 though with no sign of a ship date at present.…
Read MoreApple And Microsoft Join Forces To Beat Google In Nortel Patent Bid
A consortium including Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM and Sony has beaten Google and Intel to a cache of potentially vital Nortel patents, after the company's…
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