HP ENVY 15 Hands On And Unboxing
The ENVY series of laptops has defined HP's high end for the last few years, and the trend continues with the newly remodeled ENVY 15.…
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Time To Upgrade My Parents
Mom . . . Dad . . . we need to talk. And by "we," I mean I'm going to talk, and you're just going…
Read MoreSkype Offering Free WiFi In NYC On New Year's Eve
Following a recent promotion offering free WiFi in airports for holiday travelers, Skype is now offering free WiFi to revelers celebrating New Year's Eve in…
Read MoreAcer Aspire One D270 Arriving With Intel Cedar Trail
The Acer Aspire One D270 netbook sports Intel's latest Cedar Trail based Atom processor and has already surfaced in the online product listings of some…
Read MoreiPad 3 Retina Display Photo Leaked In Korean Forum
The much rumored iPad 3 high resolution Retina Display may have turned up in a photo on a Korean forum. Not much was revealed in…
Read MoreNokia Ace 900 Windows Phone For AT&T Images Surface
New images purported to be of the Nokia Ace 900 Windows Phone have accidentally been leaked via a Christmas card distributed by a Microsoft partner.…
Read MoreSiri For Android Appears On Market, Just A Shortcut At The Moment
When the Apple iPhone 4S was introduced to the world, with it came a re-introduction of Siri, an until-then third-party app that used an above-average…
Read MoreVerizon Axes $2 Convenience Fee Upon Possible FCC Probe
Verizon recently confirmed that it plans to charge its wireless customers a $2 convenience fee for certain methods of credit card payments, news that sparked…
Read MoreSecret Apple Archives At Stanford Reveal Brand Name Source, Video Gems
Though the actual origin of the name Apple Computer and how it was brought up might not set the world on fire with inspiration, the…
Read MoreLG Intel Android Coming To CES 2012, Denied In Kind
There's something about device information leaks that gets everybody's engine going, and certainly there's no greater time to get a new tank of gas than…
Read MoreAcer Iconia Tab A700 Continues Android ICS Drive With NVIDIA Tegra 3
There's a whole mess of tablets coming in 2012, and if what Acer is presenting already in leaked photos is any indication, their Iconia Tab…
Read MoreWindows Emergency Update Live Today: Are You Patched?
There comes a time in every operating system's life when it needs to have an emergency patch slapped over a security hold in its guts,…
Read MoreNVIDIA High-Fives Sega For Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Mobile Release
Sega is coming on strong on the Sonic tip here at the end of 2011, first with Sonic CD for the mobile platform, now with…
Read MoreChina Outlines Plans For Space Exploration
The Chinese may be a bit upset that they were never invited to the ISS party, but they aren't sitting around angry about it. The…
Read MoreOddest Questions Asked In Job Interviews This Year By Tech Firms
I have worked at real jobs in the past surrounded by people that were possibly the biggest idiots on earth. I knew we have all…
Read MoreNintendo To Offer A True App Store For Wii U
We have already seen the Wii U with its superior graphics and fancy touchscreen controller and it looks really cool. If you are counting the…
Read MoreNo New iPads At MacWorld In January?
I always find the battle between the vague sources that are cited in reports around the web about Apple gear that is coming and other…
Read MoreMicrosoft To Launch LTE Windows Phones In 2012 On AT&T
There have been a lot of hints and suggestions of what the Windows Phone LTE offerings will look like next year. Paul Thurrott over at…
Read MoreStolen Stratfor Member Details Put Online By AntiSec
Earlier this week we talked about the security breach that happened with anonymous hacked the servers at a security firm based in Austin, Texas called…
Read MoreAndy Rubin Didn't Delete His October 2010 "Definition Of Open" Tweet
If you are an Android fan, you undoubtedly look forward to the occasional tweet from Andy Rubin. One of the best tweets to come from…
Read MoreWhy A 32- To 37-Inch Apple TV Isn't Worth Buying
If you’ve been following the latest rumors surrounding Apple’s television plans, you know that a new report claims the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is only planning…
Read MoreComScore: Android Still On Top, Apple Gets A Boost
Market research firm comScore has released its November 2011 report on US mobile subscribers, revealing unsurprisingly that Android continues to take the lead in smartphone…
Read MoreMicrosoft Testing Fix For Windows Phone SMS Bug, Desktop Software Not Immune
Microsoft has found the root cause behind the SMS vulnerability in its Windows Phone operating system. The bug was reported earlier this month by Khaled…
Read MoreASUS Announces MS-100 USB Speakers And HS-W1 Wireless USB Headset
ASUS has announced two new USB audio devices, the MS-100 USB speaker and the HS-W1 Wireless USB headset. Both products feature a sleek and minimalist…
Read MoreApple Files For iOS Face Detection Patent
The US Patent and Trademark Office has just published a patent application today from Apple that reveals the company's plans for implementing face recognition and…
Read MoreVerizon Confirms $2 Fee For Online Bill Payments
Following reports that Verizon may be unleashing a $2 convenience fee policy on its wireless customers, the carrier has responded today to Phonescoop confirming that…
Read MoreHTC Radiant And Samsung Mandel Coming Soon As LTE Windows Phones
HTC and Samsung are preparing two LTE-equipped Windows Phone devices that are expected to launch in early 2012, says The Verge, citing sources familiar with…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Note Headed To US, Hits 1 Million In Sales Globally
Samsung's larger than life smartphone known as the Galaxy Note isn't a smartphone at all but actually a phoneblet. After being unveiled at IFA it…
Read MoreLG To Show Off 84-Inch 3D UD TV At CES 2012
One of the product categories that is always out in force during CES is the HDTV. Over the last few years, the normal HDTV has…
Read MoreYellow Slime Mold May Hold The Key To Bio-Computers
A Japanese scientist named Toshiyuki Nakagaki, a professor at the Future University Hakodate, is working with amoeboid yellow slime mold. That sounds gross, but what…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S III Tipped To Surface At MWC In February
A few days back some photos of what was thought to be the Samsung Galaxy S III surfaced. It didn't take long for Samsung to…
Read MoreAnonymous Hacks Online Military Gear Supplier
Anonymous has hit an online supplier of military goods operated by a former special forces Lt. Col. named Dave Thomas. The hacker group was able…
Read MoreApple App Store Served 5.65M Free Daily Downloads In November
The App Store has hit a milestone that is very impressive. According to the latest stats from a firm called Fiksu, the Apple App Store…
Read MoreTake Your Twitter Kid's Gifts Back NOW
If you've not yet experienced the unmitigatedly satanic screaming of the hoards of ungrateful kids across the nation at not getting the iPhone they wanted…
Read MoreNokia Collection Section On Windows Phone Marketplace Surfaces
If you are the user of a Nokia Lumia smartphone that packs Windows Phone inside, you may have noticed a new section on the Windows…
Read MoreMicrosoft Help Wanted Ad Hints At Coming Cloud Backups For Windows Phone
It's always fun for geeks to peruse the ads that are placed by the big tech firms looking for help in specific areas. The ads…
Read MoreWiFi Packing Vending Machines Hit Japan
In my area, there are no hotspots to use for free anywhere. You can get access in some restaurants, but just being able to pick…
Read MoreTwo New iPad Versions To Unveil In January Says Sources
DigiTimes is citing sources that are claiming we will not have to wait long to see two new iPad version be unveiled by Apple. According…
Read MoreSwingHolder Is An Odd But Very Flexible iPad Holder
There is no shortage of iPad holders and cases on the market today. Typically, you can find plenty of cases that will prop your iPad…
Read MoreHP Wanted $1.2 Billion For WebOS And Palm Assets
HP has already made the decision to open source its WebOS platform, but according to a VentureBeat insider source, the company had initially wanted to…
Read MoreAge Of Wulin Pre-Release Auction Nabs $16k For A Virtual Sword
There's no denying that the virtual world is one lucrative enough for people on both sides of the equation to dedicate their lives to it…
Read MorePS Vita Sales Take A Dive In Second Week
Sony's PS Vita sales have taken a nose dive, selling a disappointing number during the crucial holiday season. The PS Vita sold only 72,479 units…
Read MoreVerizon Users See Third December Data Downtime: Are You Connected?
We've seen several downtimes this month in just about the least opportune time for Verizon of the entire year, this most recent downtime (today) being…
Read MoreApple Wins Another Crucial Multitouch Patent
Apple has won another crucial patent for its multitouch technology, as Patently Apple finds, that will add to its already deadly legal arsenal against Android…
Read MoreIntel 32nm Medfield SoC Reference Tablet Spotted In The Wild
Earlier this week we were treated to some basic numbers on what it means to own a device with the upcoming Intel 32nm Medfield chip…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Go Reviewed In Full Despite Dead Production Status
It's an odd situation we're in here with HP's webOS mobile operating system now being open sourced and its TouchPad tablet having had such a…
Read MoreSamsung Android 4.0 ICS Update Nixed For "Value Pack" Proposition On Galaxy S And Tab
Those of you pumped up by yesterday's news that Samsung was reconsidering their decision to not update their original Galaxy S line and their Galaxy…
Read MoreWindows Phone Roadmap Slips Into The Wild
A newly leaked Windows Phone roadmap has surfaced that gives a rough time frame for the launch for the coming versions of the OS. According…
Read MoreSlot Mods Crams A Slot Car Track Inside Replica RCR 917 Racecar
I used to really like slot car tracks when I was a kid, but I hated having to put them up when I was done.…
Read MoreBalls-O-Steel Race Driver And Navigator Win Race With Lamborghini On Fire
This is epic. A race driver named Jason White and his navigator were breaking in their new Lamborghini Gallardo Super Trofeo Stradale at the 2011…
Read MorePumPing Tap May Be The Most Irritating Design In History
I think there has been enough talk over the years about vampire power or phantom power that we all know that a bunch of the…
Read MoreApple TV/iTV Rumor Mill Churns Out More Firms That May Win Supply Contracts
Yesterday I mentioned that the rumor mill was claiming that suppliers were getting ready to start gathering the materials needed to build the new Apple…
Read MoreSome Intel Ivy Bridge Processors To Debut On April 8 Say Sources
We already know that the Intel Ivy Bridge processors are coming and that they are the follow-ups to the Sandy Bridge units already available. Not…
Read MorePhysicist Builds Large Hadron Collider Out Of Lego
I have seen plenty of photos of the Large Hadron Collider or LHC over the years and it is a very impressive piece of machinery.…
Read MoreSETI To Check Moon For Signs Of Aliens
It wasn’t that long ago that SETI went offline after funding was pulled. Thankfully, the funding was raised and the search for aliens began again.…
Read MoreToyota Aqua Hybrid Debuts In Japan To Fight Honda Fit
Toyota has launched a new hybrid car in Japan that is aimed at the Honda Fit. The hybrid is called the Toyota Aqua in Japan…
Read MoreAcer Isn't Leaving Tablet Market According To Founder
Acer's founder has stepped up and denied the rumors that have been circulating that the company will be leaving the tablet market. Acer's founder Stan…
Read MoreNetflix Users Spend Twice As Much Time Viewing Compared To Hulu Viewers
I have both Netflix and Hulu accounts. I rarely watch Hulu Plus anymore, the shows it has and the content just isn't that great. Even…
Read MoreYouTube Slam Is Like Battle Of The Videos
YouTube is the place that hoards of people go to find videos of whatever they are into at a particular time. Some of the videos…
Read MoreApple To Possibly Debut Completely Redesigned iPhone In Fall 2012
BGR has just reported that Apple is possibly debuting a completely redesigned iPhone in the fall of 2012, following the trend first set by the…
Read MoreGoogle+ Passes 62 Million Users, Adding 625,000 New Users Daily
It may be because of the brand appeal, the TV commercials, the Android 4.0 release, or the general holiday spirit (or rather, blatant commercialism) that…
Read MoreDropbox Adds Photo And Video Import Support Directly From Your Camera
Dropbox has just introduced a new feature with their new “Experimental Forum Build” beta app for Windows, Mac and Linux, which now essentially enables users…
Read MoreSamsung Android 4.0 ICS Update For Galaxy S And Tab Now Under Review
Earlier this month the software teams at Samsung sent out word that they would not be updating their Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Tab…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab Will Not Be Getting Android 4.0
Samsung has revealed that its Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab 7-inch tablet will not be getting the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update.…
Read MoreAndroid And iOS See Record Breaking Activations On Christmas Day
According to analytics company Flurry, Android and iOS saw a record breaking number of device activations on Christmas. The combined total reached 6.8 million devices…
Read MoreWhy Video Games Topped My Holiday Wish List
What did you get this holiday season? Was it a brand new iPad? How about a shiny new Android smartphone? Maybe you were really lucky…
Read MoreSamsung, Sharp, And Other LCD Makers Paying $553 Million To Settle Price Fixing Claims
LCD makers Samsung, Sharp and five other manufacturers have agreed to pay $553 million to settle a multi-state class action lawsuit accusing the companies of…
Read MoreAirtight App Brings Apple's AirPlay To Google TV
A new app called Airtight has just been released to the Android Market that promises to enable your Google TV to receive content via Apple's…
Read MoreIntel 32nm Medfield SoC Leaks With Specs And Benchmarks
There's something about the brains of the machines we work with that makes us think really hard about how long it'll be before they take…
Read MoreGameloft To Offer $0.99 Sale On All Titles For New Year's Weekend
If you're an Android gamer you should be happy to know that Gameloft will be offering a special sale during New Year's weekend. All of…
Read MoreChristmas Lights Recycled Into Slippers In China
If you live in North America, chances are you've had a good time purchasing, stringing, taking down and ball wrapping, and next year throwing away…
Read MoreWindows Phone Marketplace Hits 50k Apps, Here's Three Anchors That Matter
When it comes to applications for the mobile platform, it's essentially the same situation for any device ecosystem as it is for a mall: anchor…
Read MoreThe Pill iPod Nano 6G Dock Medicates Your Media Needs
There's a way to turn any device into the masterpiece you always though it should be, and in no greater environment is this true than…
Read MoreMicrosoft Canada Starts Developer Movement, Shows USA How To Do It
Though as a graphic designer by training, I'm not exactly keen on promoting contests to produce results in workers, it does seem like a pretty…
Read MoreBeidou Satnav System Promises Free SMS Messaging And Location Data Worldwide By 2020
You read that right, folks, the representatives speaking for the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said this week that their Beidou satellite navigation system…
Read MoreStratfor Users Check If You've Been Hit By Anonymous Now
This week the customers of global intelligence firm Stratfor fell victim to the hacker amalgamation known as Anonymous, and starting today the folks at Dazzlepod…
Read MoreFIFA 12 Cross-Promotes PS Vita Features In Bright Lights
Handheld gaming devices aren't dead yet, not by a long shot if Sony and the FIFA family has anything to say about it, what with…
Read MoreKindle Fire Gets Android 4.0 ICS Port, Stays Relevant
I've been messing around with a Kindle Fire for the past week or so as my good pal Marty picked one up pre-Christmas for the…
Read MoreApple Suppliers Tip Materials Prep For iTV In Q1
The rumors have been flying for a long time now that Apple was looking to make an actual TV. The company has had the Apple…
Read MoreGSM Standard Has Flaw That Allows Crooks To Take Over Phones
The GSM standard is widely used on mobile phones of all kinds depending on the carrier you are on. A security researcher is claiming that…
Read MoreNear Earth-Size Rocky Planets May Be Left Over Gas Giant Cores
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered two Earth-sized planets orbiting a very distant star. The two planets are 0.76 and 0.87 times the Earth's radius.…
Read MoreSchmidt Tips Google Tablet Incoming
Google's Eric Schmidt gave an interview to an Italian newspaper last week that talked about all sorts of things. The most titillating part for gadget…
Read MoreJapanese Adult Diaper Slurps Away Urine
Life starts in diapers for us all and for those that live to an advanced age life often takes you back to diapers. Once people…
Read MoreGoDaddy Interfered With Domain Name Exodus Accuses Namecheap
Last week GoDaddy reportedly saw 70,000 domain names moved away from its services as a registrar. The mass exodus was the internet response to GoDaddy…
Read MoreSiri Comes To Jailbroken iOS 5 Devices With Spire Installer
Since Apple unveiled Siri on the new iPhone 4S there have been users of older iPhone devices that are frothing at the mouth to get…
Read MoreStratfor Security Firm Hit By Anonymous
Hacker group anonymous has hit a security firm based in Austin, Texas called Stratfor. The hackers are alleging that they were able to gain access…
Read MoreAmazon's Cloud Supercomputer Is The 42nd Fastest Around
Supercomputers have been getting ranked on their performance for a long time now. The list of the fastest surfaces each year and often it changes…
Read MoreBoxee 1.5 Releases As Final Version For Desktop
Boxee's newest 1.5 update today essentially marks the company's transition from focusing their media-streaming service on the desktop, to that of devices. With that said,…
Read MoreApple's Kicks Off 12 Days Of Christmas Giveaway In Europe And Canada
It's the time of the year when Apple fires up its 12 Days of Christmas app once again, to mark the start of its annual…
Read MoreIntel's Thunderbolt I/O Reportedly Broadening Beyond Mac In 2012
It's the day after Christmas eve, and we've just found out that Intel has reportedly told company partners that a full release of their Thunderbolt…
Read MoreCrappy Android Tablet : A Christmas Guide
When the going gets tough, and you first-world gift receivers are crying because ALL YOU GOT was an Android tablet that wasn't quite the iPad…
Read MoreAction Movie FX For iPhone Lets You Blow Everything Up With Your Camera
It's time to get serious about blowing up everything from your car to your pet dog to your swingset and back down to your salt…
Read MoreGeek Speak And Holiday Headaches
Holidays are generally a time for high blood-pressure, so it's always nice when technology steps in to smooth frustrations and make things easier. Unfortunately, time…
Read MoreSpinner 360 Leather Edition Camera Takes Lomography To A Strange New Place
There are two main hero features on the camera you're about to witness: the first being that it's essentially got a drawstring that'll blast the…
Read MoreLG Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update Schedule Dropped
The folks at LG have let known today what and when they plan on doing with their active line of smart devices in regards to…
Read MoreNokia 3-Inch Buttonless Wonder Tipped For CES 2012 Event
Get your salt out, ladies and gentlemen, because although this device may well be a real-deal object set for the 2012 event already set in…
Read MoreNokia Prepares Windows Phone Press Event For CES 2012
Well, Nokia has just sent out press invitations confirming its plans for an CES press event at the Las Vegas convention center. From the looks…
Read MoreMotoACTV Rooted, Torn Down, Android Market Live
Just this past week I was speaking with my colleague Cory about how I'd wondered if anyone would take the time to root the MotoACTV,…
Read MoreSamsung Buys Out Sony S-LCD Share In $940m TV Deal
Sony will sell its shares in the LCD panel joint-venture S-LCD to partner Samsung, the two companies have announced, in a deal worth $940m, as the…
Read MoreLG 55-Inch OLED HDTV Promises Cheaper LCD-Beating At CES 2012
LG has revealed plans to bring a huge 55-inch OLED HDTV to CES 2012 in January, with the super-slim panel using new OLED technology to…
Read MoreTen Apps For Your Brand New iPad 2 : Christmas 2011
Should you receive or if you've already received a brand new iPad or iPad 2 for the holidays here at the tail end of 2011,…
Read MoreTen Android Apps For Your New Smartphone Or Tablet: Christmas 2011
So it's Christmas day (or something similar here at the tail end of 2011) and you've just received a fine Android tablet or smartphone to…
Read MoreHappy Holidays From SlashGear
Today and tomorrow you'll hear just a little bit less from the team here at SlashGear than you normally would because we're out having a…
Read MoreRIM Hit With BBM Trademark Lawsuit
RIM has been hit with another trademark-related lawsuit. The company has already surrendered its efforts in using BBX for its QNX-based BlackBerry 10 platform, but…
Read MoreiOS Dominates 92% Of Mobile Online Shopping
Google's Android may be leading the US smartphone market, but when it comes to mobile online shopping, Apple's iOS dominates. According to a study by…
Read MoreSony Tablet S, Tablet P Getting Android 4.0 Update
Sony recently posted some good news for Tablet S and Tablet P owners, confirming that the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will indeed…
Read MoreASUS Expects To Ship 3-6 Million Tablets In 2012
Despite reported WiFi signal problems with the ASUS Transformer Prime tablet, ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih is optimistic about his company's tablet shipments for next year.…
Read MoreSpend Your Holiday Cash On A Galaxy S II: A Hands-On Video Rundown
With all attention turned to the Galaxy Nexus in these last weeks of the year, one should not fail to consider that there is an…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S III Fervor Begin Already, Realistic Press Images Leak
When it comes to Android device releases, nothing is more exciting than a Nexus smartphone or tablet, except when it comes to the Samsung line…
Read MoreMassive Jedi Star Wars Flash-Mob Promotes SW:TOR In Times Square
There's nothing quite like a flashmob these days, ladies and gentlemen, and when it comes to massive displays of unequivicle awesomeness, there's no better way…
Read MoreThe Future Of Retail: Apple's Grand Central Station Store
Earlier this month, Apple opened a new store inside New York City’s Grand Central Station. This is not Apple’s only store in Manhattan and does…
Read MoreMotorola DROID XYBOARD Hands-On Rundown, Complete With Accessories
This month we bore witness to Motorola's newest wave of Android tablets, that being both the DROID XYBOARD 10.1 and the DROID XYBOARD 8.2, both…
Read MoreRoland R-26 Portable Recorder Officially Shipped
This week we're jumping out of our seats at the news that legendary music machine makers Roland have shipped their newest sound recorder: the Roland…
Read MoreYamaha Outs Retro THR5 And THR10 Amps
I like products that look really old, but have modern insides. Yamaha has a new amplifier for musicians that look like something out of the…
Read MoreKia Shows Off Ray EV
The Kia Ray may well be the ugliest EV I have seen in a long time. It's boxy and square and makes the Prius look…
Read MoreNASA Offers Best Pics Yet Of Vesta Asteroid
It has been a while since we talked about the Vesta asteroid and the NASA Dawn spacecraft that went into orbit around the asteroid. The…
Read MoreBest Buy Cancels Some Online Orders Days Before Christmas
If you placed an order for any holiday gifts via Best Buy online that you haven't received yet, you need to check on them quickly.…
Read MoreXbox 360 Dashboard Update Keeps Some Offline
If you have applied the update to the Xbox 360 dashboard recently you may have found that you can't get online anymore. Kotaku reports that…
Read MoreIntel Chops Some Sandy Bridge Processor Prices
Of all the parts inside the notebooks and other computers that we all use every day, one of the most expensive components is the CPU.…
Read MoreAir Dictate Uses Siri Instead Of Typing On Mac Software
When it comes to using your voice to dictate your content to a computer rather than typing, there are a bunch of apps out there…
Read MoreFCC Green Lights AT&T/Qualcomm Deal
AT&T recently took a $4 billion beating at the hands of federal regulators when its plan to purchase T-Mobile in part to get the wireless…
Read MoreRepublic Wireless Goes True Unlimited
I think we all know that there are few truly unlimited plans left out there for smartphone users. They may say unlimited, but those little…
Read MoreSmartphones Pushing Single-Purpose Cameras Out To Pasture
I don’t think that anyone will be surprised by this new report by NPD. The company says that smartphone cameras are relegating the normal stand-alone…
Read MoreApple Received More Online Traffic Than eBay Or Walmart Last Month
The word is in that Apple received more traffic online last month than Walmart or eBay. In fact, Apple is the sole retailer other than…
Read MoreApple's iPhone European Sales And Market Share See Decline
The faltering economy and price-competitive rivals have triggered a decline in the market share and sales of Apple's iPhone in the majority of Europe, except…
Read MoreFacebook Is The Most Searched Term And Most Visited Site Of 2011
The most searched term and the most visited website of 2011 were, drum roll, Facebook. Garnering almost half of the top ten search terms (specifically…
Read MoreGoogle To Pay Mozilla Almost $300 Million Per Year In Search Deal To Outdo Microsoft And Yahoo
AllThingsD has reported that Google will be on track to pay an impressive $300 million per year to Mozilla, for when Google and Mozilla renewed…
Read MoreOptrix HD Sport iPhone Mount Allows Fearless Death Drops
The near infinite amount of iPhone cases and mounts in the market today for the iPhone 4 / 4S model family can only be cut…
Read MoreFounder Of Xerox PARC Jacob Goldman Dies At 90
Founder and chief scientist of Xerox's renowned Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Jacob "Jack" Goldman has died at age 90. Goldman has been credited with…
Read MoreSamsung CES 2012 Teaser Video Promises Smart TV Future
It's less than a month now before we're diving deep into the loving arms of the biggest gadget show of the year, the Consumer Electronics…
Read MoreLogMeIn iOS App Now Free For Remote Desktop Access
The LogMeIn app for remotely accessing your Mac or Windows desktop via your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch is now free. The app originally cost…
Read MoreRIM Denies Claims It Lied About BlackBerry 10 Delay
Following reports that RIM had lied about the reason behind its BlackBerry 10 delay, the company has expectedly shot back with a statement calling the…
Read MoreStreet Fighter Coming To Android In 2012
It's finally time for one of the most epic fighting games ever to grace the halls of the console era to make its way to…
Read MoreApple Exploring Fuel-Cell-Powered MacBooks
Two of Apple's patent applications surfaced this week at the US Patent and Trademark Office revealing that the Cupertino company is exploring ways to use…
Read MoreBriefly Envisioning An Apple-Made Social Network
The following is an exploration of what I believe Apple will make sometime in the future if it ever decides to dip into what we…
Read MoreGoogle's Andy Rubin Optimistic About Apple's ITC Win Against HTC
Google's Android chief Andy Rubin is optimistic about the recent ITC ruling that found Android partner HTC in violation of two claims on one of…
Read MoreApple Building New "Prototype" Store In Palo Alto
Apple looks to be planning a new prototype retail store that will be only a block away from one of its earliest retail locations in…
Read MoreWhy Netflix Is 2011's Biggest Loser
The year is just about over. And now, it’s time to take a step back to look at some of the winners and losers this…
Read MoreAMD Radeon HD 7970 Review Round-Up: Fast And Quiet
Earlier today AMD announced their new flagship Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, and while it wont hit the public shelves until mid January -- and…
Read MoreNest iPod-Style Smart Thermostat Gets A Detailed Teardown
A few months back we reported on a device called the Nest Learning Thermostat. This iPod-esque smart thermostat is available now and comes from Nest…
Read MoreFacebook Games Are Repetitive Says Nintendo President
Nintendo North America president Reggie Fils-Aime has again dismissed speculation that the company will release versions of its titles for other platforms, including Facebook, though the…
Read MoreVerizon Readying FiOS TV Media Streamer For Late 2012
The new push in DVR tech for your home is the whole home DVR system and they are grand. It's so great to have content…
Read MoreHubble Spies Evidence Of Complex Organic Molecules On Pluto
When I was a kid Pluto was a planet. It was stripped of planet status and now is called a dwarf planet. The Hubble telescope…
Read MoreSwype Beta Works With Dragon Dictation And Ninja Finger Puppets
Despite an increasingly wide range of virtual keyboard apps, Swype remains a popular option for many Android users, primarily because of its baked-in status on…
Read MoreRIM Lied On BlackBerry 10 Delay Excuse Claims Pessimistic Insider
RIM coCEO Mike Lazaridis lied about the cause of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone delay, an insider at the Canadian firm has alleged, with neither hardware…
Read MoreApple Complaint Over Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N Rejected
Apple has had its complaints about the redesigned Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N rejected in German courts today, with the judge deciding the tweaked slate differs enough…
Read MoreGresso Avantgarde Grand Premiere Mobile Phone Is $50K!
Gresso is the place where the rich go to buy suitably ostentatious gadgets that looks fancy, but often lack the features in much cheaper device.…
Read MoreUFO Spotted On Flatbed Was Actually A Military Drone
Residents in a small community in Cowley County, Kansas got the thrill of the year recently when a flatbed trailer came driving down main street…
Read MoreRhapsody Music Service Claims Top Paying Customers Spot In The USA
There's a site out there folks by the name of Rhapsody, one that's been around for 10 years now, averaging now more than 10 million…
Read MoreTargus Outs First USB 3.0 Dual Video Docking Station
There are a bunch of notebooks out there today that have at least one USB 3.0 port. If you are using one of those machines,…
Read MoreSelf-Healing Electronics Are Possible Thanks To Liquid Metal Capsules
If you have some sort of circuit board that is bent enough to crack the wires inside that are hiding on the board, your day…
Read MoreDell Outs Gingerbread ROM For Streak 5, Confirms No ICS For Streak 7
The Dell Streak 7 was discontinued by Dell not long ago. With that in mind, it won't come as a surprise to many that Dell…
Read MoreApple Drops 180-Day Deadline For Complete My Album Discount
Apple has been offering the Complete My Album upgrade program for a while now. The program allowed you to upgrade at a discount to the…
Read MoreiMAME Hits Apple App Store, Will It Survive?
Apple has a long and bizarre history of approving apps one day and then backtracking the next and pulling the apps from the App Store…
Read MoreFacebook Explains Adverts In Bid To Pacify Users
Facebook has quietly begun a new campaign to explain how its advertising system works, flagging up details on the system when users log into the…
Read MoreBritish Pensioner Has Felt Tip Pen Removed From Stomach After 25 Years
Here is a bit of morning strange for you all. As the story goes a British pensioner was trying to inspect her tonsils 25 years…
Read MoreOnStar And NORAD Team Up To Make It Easy To Track Santa Christmas Eve
If you have kids, they are undoubtedly very nearly insane with the anticipation of Christmas at this point. Last year I had to set my…
Read MoreMicrosoft "Kicked Out" Of CES Keynote Claims Insider
Microsoft's decision that CES 2012 will see the company's final keynote and booth at the January show may not have been as amicable as the press…
Read MoreASUS Sued Over Transformer Prime Toy Trademark
ASUS has had no shortage of attention for the Transformer Prime, most of it positive, but toy and game manufacturer Hasbro isn't so impressed: it…
Read MoreLG DM92 IPS Display Ushers In New LCD Range With 1mm Bezel
LG has outed a range of new IPS LCD displays as part of its 2012 panel push, with the LG DM92, DM82 and DM52 series and D43…
Read MoreAMD Radeon HD 7970 Series GPU Officially Announced
This week the AMD Radeon HD 7970 series graphics processor series has been released (for $549 on January 9th, if you'd like to know,) and…
Read MoreSteve Jobs Honored With Grammy Win For "Significant Contributions To Music"
So, the Recording Academy just announced today the recipients of its 2012 Special Merit Awards, with Steve Jobs being named a recipient of a Trustees…
Read MoreFirefox 9 Support For Android Arrives On Tablets
Mozilla's had a lot to put on their plate this week, from releasing a new beta version of their desktop web browser, to renewing a…
Read MoreYahoo Reportedly To Consider Selling Asian Assets
Yahoo's board of directors is reportedly considering a deal to sell all of its Asian assets, specifically, the bulk of the company’s prized holdings in…
Read MoreHere's Why Google+ Shouldn't Work, But Does, For Now
Just a few months ago, inside the summer of 2011, we saw the birth of Google's own utterly mystifying social networking site Google+, complete with…
Read MoreOnkyo Announces World's First A/V Receivers With InstaPrevue And MHL Support
The highly popular Home Theater rocking company Onkyo today has just announces the worlds first A/V Receivers that will have full capability for both Silicon…
Read MoreSony Ericsson LT28at AT&T Android Phone Leaked, 13 Megapixel Photos Included
There's reportedly a device on the way from Sony Ericsson and about to be carried by AT&T which has LTE connectivity, a 4.55-inch 720p display,…
Read MoreSony Uses Wedding Invite Site For CES 2012
If you've ever been in the position we're in as publishers headed to the Consumer Electronics Show for our umpteenth time in a row at…
Read MoreIs Your PlayStation Vita Fixed?
When a gaming company apologizes for a device they've released, you know good and well that they're at the mercy of their customers - this…
Read MoreSteve Jobs Bronze Statue Unveiled In Budapest, Hungary
This week the statue of Steve Jobs in Budapest you may have heard of has been officially unveiled, looking much like a man on a…
Read MoreAndroid Team Wishes You A Santa-Laden Galaxy Nexus Holiday
There's a video out there today by the name of Happy Holidays - from Android, which contains spirits being made bright, laughing all the way,…
Read MoreBlackBerry PlayBook Gets Angry Birds, And There Was Much Rejoicing
The BlackBerry PlayBook isn't exactly one of mobile's greatest success storied, and RIM's attempt at making BlackBerry function as a tablet-sized OS hasn't quite taken…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus Gaming Demo With Riptide GP And ShadowGun
There are a couple of games out there right now that show off the graphics finesse of whatever platform you play them on quite well,…
Read MoreYahoo Thinks Everything You Read Should Be Shared, That You Should Be Comfortable With It
If you've been a part of Facebook through the most recent round of updates that've included what they've dubbed "Frictionless Sharing", you know that many…
Read MoreMicrosoft: CES 2012 Will Be Our Last
Microsoft has announced that its CES 2012 appearance will be its last, with no plans to hold either a keynote nor run a booth at…
Read MoreVerizon 3G/4G Data Suffers Second Downtime [Update: It's Back!]
Verizon Wireless is experiencing widespread data network problems across the US, customer reports have suggested, with both 3G and 4G service down in many locations.…
Read MoreIrish Privacy Commissioner Calls On Facebook For Better User Controls
Facebook can't catch a break these days when it comes to privacy, but when you become the gatekeeper for info on hundreds of millions of…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Details Android 4.0 Upgrades: Kick Off March 2012
Sony Ericsson has detailed its Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade plans, with the roll-out of Android 4.0 expected to hit the XPERIA arc S, XPERIA neo V…
Read MoreGoogle Voice For iPhone With Multi SMS User Capability
Google has announced and update for the iPhone app for Google Voice. The updated app brings a lot of new features to the smartphone when…
Read MoreHajime Research At Work On A Giant 13-Foot Tall Robot
Giant robots creep me out. You never know when they will go nuts and try to wear your head as a hat. The folks over…
Read MoreJell-O Pudding Machine Shamelessly Denies Kids A Treat
Jell-O has a new pudding machine that won't serve kids. Why it won't serve kids is unknown. We can assume that no one under adult…
Read MoreWD TV Live And TV Live Hub Get VUDU And iPhone Remote
Western Digital has been offering its streaming media players the WD TV Live and The WD TV Live Hub for a while now. The last…
Read MoreT-Mobile USA Faces $9bn Bill To Bring Network Up To Scratch
T-Mobile USA may take away a "record high break-up fee" from AT&T's failed takeover bid, but the carrier still faces a roughly $9bn spend if…
Read MoreOlympus HQ Raided Over $1.7bn Fraud
Olympus has officially confirmed that Japanese prosecutors have raided its offices and the home of one of the former company executives that knew about the…
Read MoreHennessey Performance Crams 805hp Into Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8
I think that a lot of people that are into cars will agree that there is something to be said about a sleeper. The sleeper…
Read MoreNokia Begins Belle Roll-Out; Updates From Feb 2012
Nokia has begun shipping updated versions of the N8, C7 and C6-01 with Nokia Belle, aka Symbian Belle with a newly fettled UI, while an…
Read MoreVultures Circle BlackBerry But Samsung And HTC Rebuff BB10
RIM rejected takeover overtures from Amazon for its BlackBerry business, sources have revealed, though the Canadian company's attempts to license BlackBerry 10 to Samsung and…
Read MoreHTC Workaround For Avoiding Apple Patent Infringement Ruling Is Complete
HTC has been embroiled in multiple patent litigations with Apple over the last year. One of the patent cases involved HTC infringing on some of…
Read MoreApple App Store Sees 6x Revenue Versus Android In Top Apps
Apple's App Store generates six times the revenue of Google's Android Market for the top 200 grossing titles, app analysis firm Distimo has calculated, while in-app purchases account…
Read MoreAcer 15-Inch Ultrabook In The Works
If you like the thin ultrabooks that are starting to hit the market in greater numbers, but want a larger screen keep an eye on…
Read MoreMusic Video Site Vevo Wants To Be Like MTV
If you watch music videos on YouTube odds are many of them you have seen are actually vids from Vevo. Vevo is a music video…
Read MoreApple Fixes iOS 3.1.3 App Store Block Bug
Apple has quietly fixed the App Store issue preventing iPhone and iPod touch owners running iOS 3.1.3 from properly browsing the store and downloading new…
Read MoreIntel Reveals Medfield Phone And Tablet Designs For 1H 2012
Intel has revealed its latest Medfield smartphone and tablet reference designs, the path-laying hardware the chip company hopes will persuade manufacturers to adopt its x86 mobile…
Read MoreMicrosoft And Nokia Mull BlackBerry Buy
Microsoft and Nokia discussed a potential takeover of beleaguered BlackBerry manufacturer RIM, leaks have revealed, while RIM itself has approached Samsung, HTC and others about…
Read MoreAndroid Passes 700,000 Daily Activations Milestone
Android device activations have hit 700,000 a day, according to platform chief Andy Rubin, a huge increase on the 550,000 daily activations Google reported back…
Read MoreSuper Bowl To Be Streamed Online For The First Time, As Well As On iOS And Android
There is, bar none, no other televised, live event in the country that commands as much popularity and viewing numbers as the annual NFL Super…
Read MoreVerizon Facing Governmental Scrutiny Over Cable Spectrum Negotiations
Reportedly just in today from Bloomberg, Verizon Wireless’s current negotiations for spectrum with cable companies are under governmental scrutiny by the U.S. Justice Department, for…
Read MoreGoogle Holds Android 4.0 Updates For Nexus S And Galaxy Nexus
Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Nexus S hit a snag today, as Electronista reports that the company posted on its forums…
Read MoreApple Launches 'Complete My Season Pass' For TV Shows On iTunes
Until recently, Apple has only offered a music-oriented "Complete My Album" feature in the iTunes Store to allow users who have previously bought individual songs…
Read MoreWhat's The Most Ideal Game Type For Mobile?
As soon as it became apparent a few years ago that the mobile platform for applications wasn't just going to be a secondary market, developers…
Read MoreMicrosoft's Xbox Live Gets New TV Channels
Microsoft has announced that it is adding eight new TV channels to Xbox LIVE. The Xbox Dashboard recently got an overhaul with a new more…
Read MoreITC Initial Ruling Finds Motorola Infringing On Microsoft Patent
The US International Trade Commission has issued its initial ruling favoring Microsoft in the patent feud with Motorola. The initial determination finds that Motorola's Android…
Read MoreIntel Ivy Bridge Desktop CPU Pricing Leaks
We recently got a peak at the pricing of Intel's mobile Ivy Bridge lineup and now the pricing for the Ivy Bridge desktop CPUs have…
Read MoreApple iPad 2 Factory Explosion Caused By Aluminum Dust Again
The recent explosion of Apple's iPad 2 factory operated by Pegatron in Shanghai, China is now being linked to a build up of fine aluminum…
Read MoreFacebook Gets Ads In Main News Feed Starting January
Starting in the year 2012 and in the month of January, Facebook will be starting the flood of ads in their main news feed with…
Read MoreFirefox Google Deal Renewed, 84% Revenue Loss Avoided
Not that we ever though Google would really abandon its best buddy in the world Mozilla, but the news that Firefox would lose 84% of…
Read MoreApple Picks Up Anobit For Flash Memory
There's a purchase out there today that you really aught to pay attention do, ladies and gentlemen, that being Apple's purchase of Israeli start-up SSD…
Read MoreICANN Approves Domain Names Of All Varieties For 2012
When the decision came down to approve the .XXX domain name this year for the web, there was madness and anarchy, clamoring to either get…
Read MoreApple Patents Won For iPhone Application Switching In-Call, iPod Shuffle
It appears that the folks over at Patently Apple have found themselves in possession of a lovely cornucopia of newly won patent applications created by…
Read MoreNuance Set To Acquire Vlingo For Siri-Fighting Combo Breaker
When it comes to mergers of a grand scale, there's no lack of ambiance around the most recent: Nuance Communications Inc has announced just today…
Read MoreSony: We Won't Make PSP Mistakes With PS Vita
Sony has admitted it made a mistake with how PSP games were handled, dropping the ball when the PS3 arrived, and insists that it will not…
Read MoreEA Games $0.99 App Store Sale Begins
EA Games has kicked off its App Store games sale, offering dozens of iPhone and iPad apps for under a dollar as the company prepares…
Read MoreT-Mobile USA Details "Record High Break-Up Fee" From AT&T
T-Mobile USA owner Deutsche Telekom has gleefully set out exactly what it can expect from AT&T as its break-up fee, after the collapse of the…
Read MoreMyriad Alien Vue Puts Android Apps On Regular TVs
Myriad, the company behind the Alien Dalvik runtime that allows native Android apps to run on iOS and other platforms, has launched Myriad Alien Vue, intended…
Read MoreArchos Outs 70b Internet Tablet Packing Android 3.2
Archos has unveiled a new internet tablet in the UK. The tablet is called the Archos 70b internet tablet. It sells for £179.99 and runs…
Read MoreGoogle FTC Inquiry Demanded By Antitrust Senators
Google faces renewed attention from the US Federal Trade Commission this week, as the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee reiterates demands for the search giant to be…
Read MoreAMD A-Series Unlocked APUs Revealed Plus New Dual/quadcores
AMD has outed its latest A-Series desktop and notebook processors, with a thirteen-strong line-up of new dual- and quad-core Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). The new chips…
Read MoreApple Might Trade Recalled 1G iPod Nano With 6G Version
Last month Apple made a recall notice public for the first generation iPod nano players. Apparently, there was an issue with the entire generation that…
Read MoreLady Gaga Twitter And Facebook Account Hacks Target Fan Info
When it comes to social networking none of the musicians out there today do it as well as Lady Gaga. She is the most followed…
Read More2013 Chevrolet Sonic RS Breaks Cover
Chevy has pulled the wraps of the new Sonic RS sporty small car ahead of the official introduction at the North American International Auto show.…
Read MoreMicrosoft Lync 2010 Released For iPhone And iPad
Microsoft has released two new apps for the iOS platform, Microsoft Lync 2010 for iPhone and Lync 2010 for iPad, targeted at enterprise users with…
Read MoreStar Wars: The Old Republic Game Launches Today
Star Wars: The Old Republic is launching today and is one of the coolest MMORPG games I have seen in a long time. Any Star…
Read MoreAOC Unveils New e2343Fi Monitor With iPhone Dock
If you are an iPhone user that wants somewhere to put your iPhone when you are working on the computer, AOC has a new screen…
Read MoreGoogle Makes A New $94M Investment In US Solar Energy Projects
Google has announced that it has made a new $94 million investment in clean solar energy. The investment will go into four different solar projects…
Read MoreApple's Anobit Flash Specialist Deal Final
Apple's acquisition of flash memory specialist Anobit has apparently been finalized, reports from Israel suggest, with the NAND controller company's tech used to boost capacity,…
Read MorespnKIX Wearable Mobility Skate Thingies Look Like Fun
There is no shortage of geek modes of transport to get you around town with as little energy expenditure as possible. Not long ago we…
Read MoreWindows Phone Execs Keep Shuffling: App Store Merge Mulled
Microsoft's Windows Phone team has lost another top-tier exec, as the company's General Manager for Developer and Marketplace, Matt Bencke, has been quietly moved to…
Read MoreFlash Rods Crams A 250GB HDD Inside A Mercedes SLS Replica
I really like cars, especially sports cars. I really like geeky tech products to and when tech and geeky products meet, I tend to go…
Read MoreTrumstand iPhone Dock Uses A Horn Rather Than Electronics
We talk about a lot of iPhone speaker docks around here, and generally, they are crammed with digital amps and other electronic whatnots. This iPhone…
Read MoreSony Moves 321,000 PS Vita Portables In First Two Days
We have been hearing a lot about the Sony PS Vita over the last few months leading up to its Japanese launch. The little portable…
Read MoreDell Streak Pro D43 Baidu-Yi Phone Revealed For China
Dell has officially unveiled the Streak Pro D43, a touchscreen smartphone for the Chinese market that runs the Baidu-Yi platform on specs that would please…
Read MoreNetflix Inks BBC Streaming Deal For UK And Ireland
Netflix has inked a deal with the BBC that will see the UK TV company's content available to streaming customers in the UK and Ireland…
Read MoreSeagate Samsung HDD Deal Final: New Mobile R&D In Pipeline
Seagate has completed its $1.4bn acquisition of Samsung's hard-drive business, taking on production as well as research & development of traditional platter-based discs while Samsung…
Read MoreiPhone And iPod Touch iOS 3.1.3 Users Blocked From App Store
iPhone and iPod touch users running older versions of iOS have found themselves blocked from downloading software from Apple's App Store, owner complaints have revealed,…
Read MoreHTC: ITC Apple Decision "Is A Win For HTC"
HTC may have been banned from importing some of its smartphones into the US, but the company is still describing the outcome of its patent…
Read MoreSamsung Details ICS Upgrades: GSII And Note In Q1 2012
Samsung has officially confirmed the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade schedule for its current line-up of smartphones and tablets, promising that the Galaxy S II and…
Read MoreSamsung Takes Top Position In Australian Mobile Market, Overtakes Apple As Leader
Shortly after prevailing over Apple in a legal battle over the the overturned ban on its Galaxy Tab earlier this month in Australia, Samsung has…
Read MoreSiri Can Now Purchase Electronics By Voice Utilizing Wolfram Alpha
What do you get when you combine two technically cool, existing services? Well, you get to shop for electronics by your voice, if those two…
Read MoreCablevision Irons Out Deal To Carry HBO GO
In a press release today, cable television provider Cablevision has reached an agreement to start carrying HBO's authenticated online video portals HBO Go (and also…
Read MoreGoogle X Glasses Tipped, Android Running Terminator-Like Tech
When it comes to futuristic projects coming out of the labs at such titanic companies as Apple and Google, there's no shortage of interest in…
Read MoreGoogle X Labs Plan Robot Researchers To Map The Future
Google could release a fleet of autonomous data collection robots, supplanting its current Google Street View cars insiders suggest, using robotics and AI research from…
Read MoreBada 2.0 For Wave Devices In 2012 Says Samsung
There are more than just a couple of mobile operating systems out there in the world, believe it or not ladies and gentlemen, and if…
Read MoreFirefox 9 Beta Available Now
The web browser with the cutest icon on the planet, no disputes necessary, has been released in a Beta version of its ninth iteration -…
Read MoreIBM's Five In Five 2011 Predicts Mind-Controlled Devices, Goodbye To Passwords
IBM has released its sixth-annual Five in Five predictions of the top five technologies that will become commonplace within the next five years. The predictions…
Read MoreTattoo-Form QR Code Generating Random Links
QR codes are becoming increasingly popular in a variety of settings. In 2010, Calvin Klein introduced the QR code on Billboards in Downtown New York…
Read MoreITC Rules In Favor Of Apple, Bans HTC Devices In US
The US International Trade Commission has just ruled in favor of Apple's patent claims against HTC, banning some HTC devices from sale and importation to…
Read MoreGameFly's Newest Addition - PC Downloads
With everything moving more towards digital format - TV Shows, Movies and now games, brick and mortar will slowly become a term of the not-too-distant…
Read MoreAT&T Drops Its T-Mobile Merger Deal
The AT&T and T-Mobile merger deal is officially dead. After months of seeking FCC approval and facing several road blocks, including a lawsuit from the…
Read MoreSamsung Apps Offering 16 Free Titles For Galaxy Devices
In an attempt to raise greater awareness for Samsung Apps, Samsung is offering Galaxy device users 16 free games. The goal, according to Samsung, is…
Read MoreGoogle Android Training Initiated To Educate The Masses
Out in the wild in this modern world of ours, we've got but two kinds of people: those who are willing to move forward into…
Read MoreSony Issues Update And Apology For PS Vita Freeze And Touch Screen Issues
Sony's much anticipated PlayStation Vita portable gaming device has just launched in Japan over the weekend and the company has already issued an apology along…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Nexus Official Google Unboxing Gets Its Own Ninja Game
When a new Nexus device is released by Google and whatever manufacturer Google has teamed up with, Samsung in this case, they also release a…
Read MoreiPad Case Claims To Boost 3G Signal And Reduce Radiation
Pong Research has released an iPad case that it claims to boost your iPad's 3G signal and reduce your exposure to the radiation emitted by…
Read MoreThrowable Panoramic Ball Camera Details Released, Still Seeks Investors
Back in October we first mentioned the next generation in image capturing, that being the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera as developed at Professor Marc Alexa's…
Read MoreSOPA Vote Rescheduled For This Week, Attempts Silent Passage
Despite what you may have heard at the end of last week, the vote for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is not delayed until…
Read MoreNFC Forum Releases Bluetooth Via NFC Guide, Tells Manufacturers To Get On Board
When it comes to connecting devices, especially mobile ones such as smartphones and tablets connecting to speakers, computers, and smart cars, there's one name that…
Read MoreDisney Sakar AppClix Camera For iPad Starts Influx Of Reasonable Shooters For The Slate
When you pick up an iPad 2, you know you're in for a great experience in all forms of working with the tablet form factor…
Read MoreLG Magic Motion Remote Control Revealed
This week LG has revealed that they'll be releasing a Magic Motion Remote Control inside the first quarter of 2012, one that'll work perfectly with…
Read MoreNokia Lumia 800 Giveaway!
The holidays are coming, and what better way to feel festive than winning a Nokia Lumia 800 courtesy of Three UK. The carrier has given…
Read MoreFacebook Sues A Different Mark Zuckerberg
Everyone knows the name Mark Zuckerberg as the person who founded the social networking site Facebook. Facebook and the real Zuckerberg are suing and being…
Read MoreSkype Outs Free Airport WiFi Offer For Holiday Travelers
Skype is offering free airport WiFi access in more than 50 locations between December 21 and 27, promising an hour's worth of complementary browsing, VoIP…
Read MoreAT&T HTC Elite And LTE Windows Phone Incoming
Details on two of HTC's 2012 smartphone flagships have been reportedly revealed, including an Ice Cream Sandwich uber-phone and a 4.7-inch AT&T LTE Windows Phone,…
Read MoreTests Show PS Vita Games Load Slower In Digital Form
The PS Vita is available for those that pre-ordered in Japan and the folks at Kotaku Japan got their hands on the new portable to…
Read MoreGoogle Nexus Tablet In Next 6 Months Teases Schmidt
Google will begin promoting what could be the first official Nexus tablet within the next six months, according to chairman Eric Schmidt, the latest stage…
Read MoreGoogle Hands Out Custom Galaxy Nexus To Workers
Apparently, all the folks that work for Google in the London and Zurich offices are getting a really nice Christmas gift from the search giant.…
Read MoreiPhone Facebook Use Trails Android App Use In Daily Users
When it comes to how many folks use a given app there are several companies that track that data. One of those firms is AppData…
Read MoreAT&T Asset Sale Stalls As T-Mobile Deal Sours
AT&T's strategy to sell off assets until regulators looked more fondly at its T-Mobile USA acquisitions have stalled, it's reported, with the carrier simply unable…
Read MoreAsus Transformer Prime 64GB UK Ship Date Slips To Q2 2012
A few days ago, we mentioned that the Asus Transformer Prime had hit Clove in the UK for pre-order. At the time, the 32GB and…
Read MoreSeagate Chops Warranty On Some HDDs
Seagate has announced that it is chopping the warranties that it offers on some of its hard drives down to size. Seagate says that the…
Read MoreGoogle+ Boosts Circle Control, Adds Brand Page Admins
Google has improved its Google+ social network, tackling circle overflow with new "graphic-equalize" controls over what shows up in your stream, tweaking notifications and photos, and…
Read MoreFind My Car Smart For iPhone Hits Kickstarter
The latest version of Bluetooth is 4.0 or Bluetooth Low Energy. This allows Bluetooth connectivity with a lot less power drain. The first app to…
Read MoreCurved Glass iPod-Bangle In Apple Labs Tip Insiders
Apple's engineers are experimenting with wearable devices, insiders claim, including a curved glass iPod intended to be worn on the wrist and controlled using Siri voice commands.…
Read MoreiPhone Explodes In Holiday Sales As Nokia Struggles To Penetrate
Nokia's multi-million efforts to push its Windows Phone based Lumia 800 still hasn't resulted in strong holiday sales, according to the latest UK stats, with…
Read MorePegatron Plant In China Reports Small Explosion
The manufacturing industry in China is huge with some of the big names including Pegatron and Foxconn building computers and gadgets for numerous companies like…
Read MoreFusion Garage Apparently Implodes: Grid10 MIA
Tragicomic tablet firm Fusion Garage has lost its PR company, frozen sales of its Grid10 slate and has left pre-order customers waiting for their purchases…
Read MoreNo Root Google Wallet Port For Galaxy Nexus
If you have a new Galaxy Nexus and you aren’t happy with the fact that Google Wallet isn't offered for the smartphone, you need to…
Read MoreApple Christmas Commercial Has Santa Using Siri
Christmas is nearly here with only a few more days before Santa comes slinking down chimneys all over the world. Apparently, Apple has Santa using…
Read MoreLast-Minute App Store Rush Ahead Of Holiday Lockdown
The yearly race for inclusion in the iOS App Store before Apple's holiday lock-down is on, with iPhone and iPad developers desperate to get their…
Read MoreBlackBerry Porn Problem Triggers Investigation
Uncontrollable mobile porn on BlackBerry handsets has prompted UK communications regulator Ofcom to demand RIM account for its smartphones' security, summoning the Canadian firm to…
Read MoreTwitter Sells $300m "Strategic Stake" To Saudi Prince
Twitter has secured $300m in funding from Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, with the well-known tech backer - who counts Apple shares among other…
Read MoreFacebook For iPhone Gets Timeline; iPad Update "Soon"
Facebook for iPhone has been updated to support Timeline, bringing the iOS app up to speed with its Android and mobile web cousins. The new…
Read MoreApple Talks TV And Tablets With Media Execs
Apple has reportedly ramped up its TV strategy, outlining a Siri and motion controlled television system in recent meetings with media executives and fleshing out…
Read MoreGoogle Sued By BT In New Android Patent Case
UK communications provider British Telecom (BT) has become the latest firm to sue Google over alleged Android patent infringement, claiming the search giant "willfully infringes"…
Read MoreThe Next Apple-Samsung Battle: TVs
If you’ve been paying attention to the mobile market over the last several months, you know that Apple and Samsung are at each other’s throats…
Read MoreSlashGear Week In Review - Week 50 2011
Welcome to the SlashGear Week in Review for week 50, which means we only have two weeks left in 2011! As usual, a lot has…
Read MoreA Negative Correlation Between Fun And Facebook
I have a friend who is not on Facebook, and never has been. One friend. Let's call him Marley, like the puppy (don't spoil the…
Read MoreUnlucky Thieves Snatch $1.7m-Worth Of PlayBook Tablets
Ah, the irony: over the past few weeks even RIM has admitted that the BlackBerry PlayBook is so unloved it can't even give it away, and…
Read MoreThrowable Panoramic Ball Camera Has Us Seeing Spherical Potential
Each time there is a new way to capture media, especially when that means is inexpensive, the world goes nuts trying to see how they…
Read MoreNASA Tests Metal Ballista, Space Harpoon For Comet Nucleus Mission
This week the coolest team of space explorers on the planet at NASA have announced their next raging action and adventure television episode called "Space…
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Visits The FCC With Verizon LTE Support
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 has just passed through the FCC, but this time around it's packing support for Verizon's 4G LTE network. We first…
Read MoreExpect A Netflix Bidding War To Erupt In 2012
Last week, I talked about Verizon’s reported desire to acquire Netflix, and why such a maneuver would be a bad one for the company. And…
Read MoreMicrosoft Details Windows 8 Picture Passwords
Microsoft today revealed more details on its picture password sign-in feature that will be native to Windows 8. The feature is more geared towards the…
Read MoreNintendo 3DS Gets Game Boy Advance Games In Market - Sort Of
When the original $250 USD version of the Nintendo 3DS was released, not just one whole heck of a lot of people purchased it -…
Read MoreNexus S To Get Android 4.0 Starting Today, GSM Version First
Google has announced via Twitter that it will be rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the Nexus S starting today. The GSM models…
Read MorePS Vita Details Surface On Trophies, Remote Play, And More
Sony's PS Vita has already sold out in pre-orders for its December 17 launch in Japan, but it won't be heading to the states until…
Read MoreAndroid 4.0.3 To Bring Bug Fixes, Optimizations, And New APIs
Google has announced via its developer blog an update to Android 4.0.3 that will bring optimizations and bug fixes along with new APIs. This update…
Read MorePirates Of Game Witcher 2 Charged $1,230 Each For Their Efforts
This week it's become clear that those users who have pirated the game Witcher 2 from game developer CD Projekt were not alone in receiving…
Read MoreBeware Facebook Timeline: There's No Going Back
Facebook's Timeline feature went live worldwide earlier this week, in both your regular browser and in the Android and mobile web versions, but beware, once you…
Read MoreQualcomm Snapdragon Stadium In The Works For Temporary Brand Impact
This week its been revealed that Qualcomm will be temporarily re-naming the home of the San Diego Chargers to Snapdragon Stadium. This place where the…
Read MoreSOPA And PROTECT IP Rallied Against By Top-Tier Internet Founders
When it comes to something so very important as the two proposed pieces of legislation PROTECT IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), you'd…
Read MoreAndroid 4.0 ICS Tablet Interface Discovered Inside Galaxy Nexus
Back a few months ago there was a discovery made by an intrepid developer inside Android's Honeycomb OS in which changing the LCD density to…
Read MoreDear Readers: Why Do You Still Use Internet Explorer?
This week we've learned two very important facts regarding the most infamous web browser of all, Internet Explorer: first that Microsoft intends to auto-update all…
Read MoreVerizon Picks Up Cox AWS Spectrum For Further LTE Expansion
This month Verizon is picking up contracts left and right, with a $3.6 billion purchase of AWS spectrum at the start of December and a…
Read MoreCarrier IQ On Millions Of Phones Admit US Operators
The saga of Carrier IQ and its tracking software installed on untold numbers of mobile phones on carriers in the US continues. Senator Al Franken…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus Accessories Hands-On
We didn't just grab the new Verizon Galaxy Nexus yesterday, we picked up the official accessories too, so whether you're concerned about power-hungry LTE or just…
Read MoreComet Lovejoy Survives Pass Through Sun's Corona
A newly discovered comet dubbed Lovejoy has survived an unbelievably close pass by the sun. The comet actually survived a pass through the sun's corona…
Read MoreKlipsch Gallery G-17 Air AirPlay Speaker Debuts
Klipsch has some of the best speakers for all sorts of uses that you will find on the market today. The company has announced its…
Read MoreLumia A Loser Says Euro Nokia Research
Nokia's ambitious and expensive launch promotion for the Lumia 800 has fallen flat, according to European market research, with only a little over 2-percent of those…
Read MoreThe Louvre Museum And Nintendo Team For 3DS Guided Tours
One of the most famous art museums in the world is the Louvre in France. The museum is famous for more than its art collection;…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus Gets Teardown Treatment
Verizon's Galaxy Nexus has gone under the knife - or the screwdriver at least - to bare its silicon guts in the now-traditional post launch…
Read MoreQualcomm Announces Snapdragon S2 And S3 Support For GPS And GLONASS
The number of apps and services in smartphones today that use GPS for locations and more is staggering. We take GPS location for granted until…
Read MoreSamsung Drops iPhone 4S 3G Patent Attack [Updated]
Samsung has reportedly abandoned attempts to hound the iPhone 4S with 3G patents it holds, conceding that Apple is covered for their use of the…
Read MoreNATO Drone Captured By Iranians Using GPS Hack?
The US fleet of aerial drones has been hit with a virus in the past that was very hard to remove. The virus was actually…
Read MoreNew iPad Internal Cable Surfaces, Hints At Redesigned iPad 3
We have been hearing a bunch of rumors on what the future brings for the iPad lately. The rumors so far are pointing to a…
Read MoreDo Universal Music And Google Have A Backroom YouTube Deal?
This may be one of the most bizarre things I have read about YouTube and Google. Granted you need a giant grain of salt with…
Read MoreAT&T To Get Samsung Galaxy Note With Different Features
Samsung has sent its Galaxy Note for the States across the pond and it carries model number SGH-I171. The device is apparently different than the…
Read MoreSquare Enix Hacked, 1.8M Users Affected
This has certainly been a year of hacks in the tech world. The biggest of all the hacks was the only on the Sony PSN…
Read MoreDell Axes Netbooks To Focus On Ultrabooks Instead
Dell has ditched consumer netbooks and confirmed it has no plans to launch new budget ultraportables based on Intel's upcoming Cedar Trail platform, shifting attention instead to…
Read MoreJapanese Gamers Get Gold Edition PS3
Japanese gamers will be able to get their hands on a new limited-edition PS3 in a gold hue with a special design on the top…
Read MoreGoogle Chrome In-App Payments Launch Outside Of US
Back in July, Google launched its in-app payments for developers in the US to use. We reported in August that the in-app payment API from…
Read More$3.6bn Samsung Facility Supplies Apple A5 Chip And Maybe A6
Apple has again turned to Samsung for production of its iPad 2 and iPhone 4S processor, with a 1.6m square foot production facility in Austin,…
Read MoreGoogle Gets Patent On Driverless Car Tech
Google has been working with its driverless cars for a long time now. These cars use a lot to technology and other hardware attached to…
Read MoreMassive Gas Cloud Being Sucked Into Black Hole Discovered In Our Galaxy
If you are a space geek you know that at the center of our galaxy is a black hole. Scientist using the ESO Very Large…
Read MoreASUS Transformer Prime Hits UK Preorder, Ships January
ASUS has thrown open UK pre-orders for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, offering the Tegra 3 based Android tablet for £449 ahead of shipments beginning in…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Branding Yanked From UK HQ
Sony isn't planning to kill off the Sony Ericsson brand until mid-2012, the company has said, but it seems the fat-trimming could have started already.…
Read MoreiTunes Match Goes Live Internationally
Apple has rolled out iTunes Match for international users, offering those in the UK, Canada and other countries the chance to replicate their music collection…
Read MoreApple Rumored To Launch 7.85-Inch iPad In Late 2012
Digitimes has just reported that Apple's rumored 7.85-inch iPad is slated to be going into production next year, in late 2012. Electronic parts manufacturers talking…
Read MoreiPhone 4 Siri Port Made Legally Possible By Apple With iOS 5.0.1 Update Today
Earlier today we reported that Apple's iOS 5.0.1 update today was the first iPhone 4S firmware build that’s both official and has an accessible encryption…
Read MoreBill Gates Confirms That He's Not Returning To Microsoft
Bill Gates today squelched all rumors (that have surfaced in the last week or so) that he was considering a return to being the head…
Read MoreFacebook's Timeline Now Available On Android And Mobile Web
Coming off the release of Timeline worldwide this morning, Facebook has also announced Timeline's launch on both the mobile web (at m.facebook.com) and the Android…
Read MoreiPhone 4S Gets New iOS 5.0.1 Build, File System Now Accessible By PC
For those of you on the developer tip, you're more than likely already working on the update that goes by the number 5.1, but for…
Read MoreAdobe Flash Player Updates For ICS, Galaxy Nexus Users Rejoice
Just a few weeks ago when the international edition of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released, we were just thunderstruck over the idea that Adobe…
Read MoreRIM's BlackBerry 10 Delayed Until Late 2012, Hints At Dual-Core 4G Device
During RIM's conference call to discuss its fiscal Q3 2012 earnings report, the company revealed that its major platform transition to BlackBerry 10 will be…
Read MoreRIM Reports Q3 Earnings, Falling Profits, Shipped Only 150k PlayBooks
RIM released its fiscal Q3 2012 earnings report today and although the numbers are dismal, the company remains chipper about what lies ahead. Profits fell…
Read MoreSenator Al Franken Grills FBI Director On Carrier IQ
The saga continues to unfold in the matter of the data-mining finger-tap-recording application known as Carrier IQ, the one that just a couple of days…
Read MoreRoku Intros Its Official iPhone Remote Control App
Now there's a new way to control and navigate your Roku set-top box. Roku has released its official remote control app for your iPhone that…
Read MoreGoogle Chrome 15 Is Now The Top Browser Version, But Not The Top Browser
If you're the sort of person who follows technology news across multiple websites, you may be seeing a story about how Google has finally out-done…
Read MoreMicrosoft Claims 3,200 Users Bashed Android For Free Windows Phone
Earlier this week, Microsoft capitalized on the Android malware issues of late by offering free Windows Phones to Android users that shared the virus "horror…
Read MoreApple May Expand Third-Party iPhone, iPad Accessories Support
Apple may be considering expanding its support for third-party accessories for iPhones and iPads. In a patent application published by the US Patent and Trademark…
Read MoreAndy Rubin Touts Galaxy Nexus US Release, Names Next Countries For Release
The Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus, Google's next hero device for it's newest mobile operating system version Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has been…
Read MoreFacebook Shakes Hands With Greenpeace To Axe Dirty Data
When you think about Facebook, your thoughts are almost certainly stuck in the notions of updates, privacy, and tagging of unfortunate party photos - thats…
Read MoreADM Radeon HD 7970 Specifications Revealed In Leaked Slide
This week we're getting our first real glimpse of the ADM Radeon HD 7970 though what appears to be a leaked slide from the manufacturers,…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus Announced For Sale [UPDATE: Off-Contract Pricing Included]
The device known as the Galaxy Nexus has been formally announced for sale this week via Verizon Wireless, this device being the first LTE smartphone…
Read MoreiPhone 4S Siri Hack Adds Spoken Settings Control And Battery Status
The Siri hacks continue, with the latest mod for the iPhone 4S granting voice control over settings like WiFi and Bluetooth, as well as the ability…
Read MoreMicrosoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000 Eyes Your iPad
Microsoft has outed a new keyboard, the Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000, targeted at mobile professionals hoping to do some serious text-entry on their iOS,…
Read MoreMicrosoft So.cl Official: Study Group Killer Not Facebook Killer
Microsoft has officially unveiled So.cl, and contrary to Facebook-challenger expectations it's a hybrid system pulling together social networking and search and targeted at students. Found…
Read MoreSlingPlayer For Logitech Revue Google TV STB Officially Released
Sling has released SlingPlayer for the Logitech Revue, allowing all owners of the Google TV set-top box to access its media streaming app and placeshift…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Outs ICS Alpha For XPERIA Arc S, Ray And Neo V
Sony Ericsson has released an Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.1 alpha ROM for XPERIA arc S, neo V and XPERIA ray owners, though there are some…
Read MoreFacebook Timeline Goes Live Worldwide
Facebook Timeline has gone live worldwide, the social networking giant has announced, with all users now being notified that they can activate the life-tracking activity…
Read MoreArchos Home Connect 35 Android Clock/radio Hits US
The Archos Home Connect 35 Android-based alarm clock and internet radio has finally gone up for sale in the US, offering a a 3.5-inch touchscreen, stereo speakers…
Read MoreASUS: ICS For Transformer Prime Due Jan 2012
ASUS has announced that Italian would-be buyers of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime will have to wait until the end of January 2012 before they can…
Read MoreMicrosoft To Auto-Update Old Internet Explorer Users
Microsoft has announced plans to automatically upgrade older versions of Internet Explorer, such as the much-maligned IE6, from January 2012. The decision is intended to…
Read MoreNew 3DS Ambassador Program Games Available For Download In Japan
Yesterday we talked about the new old school video games that Nintendo had announced were being added to the 3DS Ambassadors program for the people…
Read MoreNokia Starting Free Developer Lumia 800 Push Next Week
Nokia plans to distribute as many as several thousand free Lumia 800 smartphones to its developers, SlashGear has been informed, with the shipping process set to…
Read MoreNearly 25% Of 16-74 Year-Olds In EU27 Have Never Used The Internet
It seems today that with the prevalence of the internet that just about everyone in a developed country has used the web. A recent survey…
Read MoreGoogle Zeitgeist 2011 Details Top Searches
Rebecca Black, Steve Jobs, Adele and the iPhone 5: not a group you might expect to necessarily find together, but they're all among the top…
Read MoreGoogle Makes £550,000 Donation To Bletchley Park Restoration
If you aren’t familiar with Bletchley Park, this is the place in England where during the war the allies worked on breaking the codes that…
Read MoreFord Focus EV Expected To Grab 100mpg Rating
The production of the 2012 Ford Focus EV has kicked off. Ford is stating that it expects the car to be rated at the equivalent…
Read MoreKyobo eReader Shows Muted Mirasol Colors But Solid Video
The mirasol-toting Kyobo eReader continues to taunt us from afar, with its color e-paper display capable of video playback, though first impressions from early hands-on have…
Read MoreVIA Unveils Android Support For Embedded x86 Mainboard
VIA has announced today that it is integrating Android support into its x86 mainboards for embedded systems, the support for Android kicks off with a…
Read MoreXbox Design Chief Replaced Ahead Of 2013 "Xbox 720"
Microsoft is believed to have replaced the design architect responsible for the Xbox 360 user-experience, Dan Coyner, an acolyte of Apple-style consistency in user experience…
Read MoreSony PS Vita Sells Out In Japanese Pre-Orders
The Sony PS Vita is launching first in Japan and inside Sony's home country the little Vita portable has been up for pre-sale ahead of…
Read MoreNTSB Says Hands Free Phones Are Just As Risky
The NTSB has just announced that it has concluded hands free phones are just as risky when compared to holding the phone in your hands…
Read MoreIntel And Microsoft Mobile Shake-Up: WP7 Lees "Benched", Intel Groups Combined
Intel and Microsoft are undergoing significant mobile reorganization in an attempt to boost their chances against Android and iPhone, with exec shuffling including the "benching"…
Read MoreFacebook For Android Gets Timeline, Real-Time Alerts
If you are an Android user that hasn't hit the update approval for Facebook yet, you might want to. The Facebook app for Android users…
Read MoreAcer Trims 2012 Range By Two-Thirds, Predicts Wintel Besting Apple
Acer's chairman has announced some big changes for the Acer line up in 2012. The company will be cutting its product line back significantly with…
Read MorePRADA Phone By LG 3.0 Leaks [Update: Official]
The PRADA Phone by LG 3.0 isn't expected to be made official until later on today, but that hasn't stopped press shots and specs of…
Read MoreLG Adds Intel WiDi To 2012 Cinema 3D Smart TVs
LG's 2012 Cinema 3D Smart TV line-up will be the first televisions to natively support Intel WiDi, the chip manufacturers Wireless Display streaming video standard.…
Read MoreIntel WiDi Debuts For HD-Over-WiFi Streaming; Netgear & Toshiba Onboard
Intel have announced Intel Wireless Display or WiDi, a system for streaming high definition video content from your PC to an HDTV via your WiFi…
Read MoreNetgear Push2TV PVT1000 WiDi Adapter Gets Official
Netgear have come clean with full details on their Push2TV adapter, the Netgear PVT1000, designed specifically to work with Intel's newly-announced WiDi Wireless Display technology.…
Read MoreToshiba Satellite E205-S1904 Now Shipping At Best Buy
You might recall that the Toshiba Satellite E205 was unveiled at CES this month as a Best Buy exclusive machine and we talked about it…
Read MoreCedar Trail M Next-Gen Atom CPUs Getting 1080p Wireless Display
Fresh details on Intel's upcoming Cedar Trail M platform - the replacement to the current Intel Atom N4x0 Pine Trail processors - have emerged courtesy…
Read MoreWonderMedia SmartStream Makes Intel WiDi Generic
Intel's Wireless Display technology is slowly proliferating among laptops, but WonderMedia reckon their SmartStream system knocks it into a cocked hat. The media adapter uses…
Read MoreHP Pavilion dm4, dv5, dv6 & dv7 Plus ProBook S-Series & B-Series Hands-On [Video]
The rest of HP's new notebook range may not be quite as eye-catching as the ENVY 14 and ENVY 17, but there are still some…
Read MoreDell XPS Multimedia Laptops Outed: Optimus, 3DTV Play & WiDi
Dell has outed its latest multimedia laptops, in the shape of the newly refreshed Dell XPS range. Available in 14-, 15.6- and 17-inch sizes, the…
Read MoreIntel Tips Incoming Sandy Bridge Processors
It's always a great time to be a computer geek when new products are inbound from Intel. The entire ecosystem of hardware including mainboards tends…
Read MoreIntel 2nd-Gen Core Processors Get Official With WiDi 2.0
Intel has officially unveiled its Sandy Bridge 2011 Core processor series, with the 29 new second-gen Core i3, i5 and i7 chips replacing the existing…
Read MoreVIA Nano X2 Dual-Core Super Frugal Chip Gets Official
AMD and Intel aren't the only company with new, dual-core processors on the mind. VIA has announced its latest chip, the VIA Nano X2, offering…
Read MoreHP ENVY 17, Pavilion dv6 & dv7 Get Intel/AMD Updates; Mini 210 Goes Pink
HP has updated its ENVY 17, Pavilion dv6 and Pavilion dv7 notebooks support the new, second-gen Intel Core 2011 processor line-up along with AMD's new…
Read MoreFujitsu LIFEBOOK Laptops Get Core 2011 Update: T901 Tablet & More
Fujitsu has refreshed its notebook range, adding Intel's new 2nd-gen Core 2011 processors to a new line-up of LIFEBOOK models. The new CES 2011 offerings…
Read MoreIntel Push Core 2011 Chips For Entertainment; Intel Insider 1080p HD Movie Store
Intel made its Sandy Bridge based 2011 Core i3, i5 and i7 processors official earlier this week, but it's still making a song & dance…
Read MoreMAINGEAR Overclock 2nd-Gen Core i7 To 5GHz In New PC Range
MAINGEAR has announced a new range of desktop PCs based on Intel's 2nd-gen Core 2011 processors, including overclocked models ramping CPU speeds up to 5GHz.…
Read MoreGateway FX And DX Performance PCs Get Core 2011 Update
Gateway has updated its desktop PC range with models using Intel's latest Sandy Bridge 2nd-gen Core i5 and Core i7 processors. The FX high-performance and…
Read MoreAcer Aspire 8950G-9839 Gets Core I7-2630Q In Aspire Sandy Bridge Refresh
Acer has launched a set of new laptops using Intel's 2nd-gen Core 2011 range of processors. The Acer Aspire 8950 range is the company's new…
Read MoreLogitech Launches WiDi And Bluetooth Speaker Adapters; Spotify For Squeezebox
Logitech's streaming music ambitions continue, with the launch of the Logitech Wireless Speaker Adapter for Intel WiDi laptops unveiled, along with a Bluetooth counterpart and…
Read MoreIntel Atom Accelerates: Cedar Trail For Netbooks, Medfield For Sub-9mm Gaming Tablets
It's not just Ultrabooks that Intel is pushing at Computex this year: the chip company also has Atom news to share. That concerns Cedar Trail…
Read MoreFujitsu Lifebook Series Gets Cool New Features
Fujitsu has announced that it has added some cool new features to its line of new Lifebook notebook computers. The new features are implemented across…
Read MoreToshiba Unleashes Qosmio X770 And Satellite P700, L700, And C600 Laptops
Toshiba today announced four new laptop series for its Q3 lineup that meets all budgets and lifestyle needs. From the decked out Qosmio X770 gaming…
Read MoreD-Link MainStage For WiDi 2.0 Notebooks Offers Plug'n'play Streaming
The range of ways to get your PC-bound content onto your big-screen TV increases, with the arrival of the D-Link MainStage for Intel Wireless Display.…
Read MoreSony Debuts New VAIO E And C Series Laptops With More Colors
Sony today debuted the new VAIO E Series and C Series that all combine colorful stylish designs with good specs and affordable price tags for…
Read MoreBelkin ScreenCast WiDi Shoots Laptop Content To Your TV
Belkin has a new way to get your favorite content from the web on your notebook to your TV in the living room and it…
Read MoreQualcomm Buys GestureTek Gesture-Recognition Tech For Snapdragon
Qualcomm has acquired a bundle of gesture recognition technologies from developer GestureTek, promising to integrate the systems into current and future Snapdragon chipsets. While the…
Read MoreDell Vostro V131: Squared-Off Style On A Budget
Dell has outed a new Vostro, the latest notebook in the company's budget line. The Dell Vostro V131 kicks off at $499 for a Celeron…
Read MoreMSI Announces New Ultra Slim X460, X460DX Notebooks
MSI today announced two new X-Series ultra-slim notebooks designed for mobile professionals. The X460 and the X460DX are both 14-inch notebooks that are stylish and…
Read MoreAndroid Tablet With x86 Medfield Chip Due Q1 2012
Intel revealed that the first Android tablets based on an x86 processor should be available in Q1 of 2012. This tablet could be very similar…
Read MoreDell XPS 14z Official
Dell has outed its latest notebook, the Dell XPS 14z, a 14-inch notebook that manages to squeeze its 1366 x 768 display into space that…
Read MoreLG Xnote Z330 Ultrabook Revealed
LG has revealed its own attempt at the ultrabook segment, the LG Xnote Z330, with Intel's Core i5 and i7 processors and more than a hint…
Read MoreCarrier IQ Meets With FTC And FCC Over Rumored Inquiry
Carrier IQ has been questioned by the FTC and the FCC this week over allegations of data privacy transgressions, though the analytics company insists the…
Read MoreAsterisk Insect Robot Demos Prey-Grabbing Talents
Humans, this is your fate: scooped up by a terrifying, insectile robot and dumped into the organic power-reclamation unit or, if you're lucky, the breeding…
Read MoreGrand Theft Auto III Out For iOS And Android
Grand Theft Auto III has dropped into the Android Market and iOS App Store for smartphones and tablets, offering some high-octane gaming while you're on the…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus On Sale Now For $300
The Verizon Galaxy Nexus, Google's third Nexus smartphone and the first to include 4G LTE connectivity, has finally gone up for sale, priced at $299.99…
Read MorePaul Allen To Invest Millions In New Satellite Launching Space Plane
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been teaming up with aircraft pioneer Burt Rutan for a long time in an effort to build a reusable…
Read MoreSonic CD Available For iOS Tomorrow, Android And WP7 Must Wait [UPDATE: Android Version Live Now!]
The blue hedgehog we grew to love in 1993 is back again and pocket-sized! Both players who have loved the blue hedgehog from the early…
Read MoreGoogle Giving Back To Education, Technology And Anti-Slavery
With the Holidays quickly approaching, Google has reminded us of other ways for achieving technological growth and innovation. This week Google listed the organizations that…
Read MoreGammaTech Unveils Fully Rugged Durabook R13C Convertible Notebook
GammaTech has announced its latest fully rugged convertible laptop called the Durabook R13C. It will withstand the harshest of conditions and is perfect for those…
Read MoreSatechi BT Portable Speaker Now Available
For those shopping for a tech enthusiast this holiday season, take a gander at Satechi's latest product. Satechi, a leading mobile accessories manufacturer, is pleased…
Read MorePS Vita Could Succeed With More PS3 Integration
Sony's PS Vita could get a good boost from integration with the PS3 console. With casual mobile gaming becoming popular, the dedicated next-gen gaming portable…
Read MoreCommand & Conquer: Tiberium Alliance Will Be Free-To-Play
Yet another Electronic Arts game will join the free-to-play category. Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, announced today, is a new massively multiplayer online strategy game…
Read MoreCan PRADA Save LG?
LG's first PRADA Phone was legitimately groundbreaking, with its pre-iPhone capacitive touchscreen. The second PRADA handset was a stumbling attempt to cash in on a…
Read MoreNokia Lumia 900 Launch Date Outed By Swisscom
Swisscom, the largest carrier in Switzerland, let it slip via Twitter that the Nokia Lumia 900 would be launching by the end of February. The…
Read MoreSamsung Beats iPhone In Consumer Buzz
Nokia's suggestions that the iPhone may be falling from fashion-grace could be correct, though it seems Samsung's Android devices not the Finn's new Lumias are…
Read MoreHP Radical Brand Redesign Proposal Revealed
HP's identity could certainly use a makeover and apparently the company has been actively looking into making some changes during the past few years. Moving…
Read MoreOlympus LS-100 Linear PCM Recorder Revealed For All-In-One Audio Prowess
When you first lay eyes on this beast of an audio recorder, you're going to think it's right out of Ghostbusters or the original switches-everywhere…
Read MoreGmail For iOS Gets First Major Update With Scribbles, Signatures, And More
Google has released a major update today for its Gmail app on iOS. When the app was first launched back in November, it was quite…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus Gets Interactive Support Simulator, Help With Android 4.0 ICS
Though the differences between the original Galaxy Nexus that's been released a couple of weeks ago by Samsung internationally and the Verizon 4G LTE version…
Read MorePRADA Phone By LG 3.0 Hands-On
The PRADA Phone by LG 3.0 is official, so we slipped into the softest of our silk evening jackets and grabbed some hands-on playtime with…
Read MoreApple Ban Of Galaxy Tab Made It A Household Name Says AU Samsung Chief
This week as the Samsung 10.1-inch tablet reaches stores after having been banned for weeks in an Apple injunction to do away with sales altogether,…
Read MoreNetflix For iPad Update Live Now, Version 2.0 For Interface Ease
What you're about to experience is an update that your humble narrator has been waiting for since Summer began, an update to the Netflix instant…
Read MoreDROID RAZR In White Comes Tomorrow - Can You Guess Why?
Though it may seem like an exercise in foolish re-reporting to speak on this white version of the DROID RAZR again when we announced it…
Read MoreGalaxy S II Android 4.0 ICS Official Early Update Leaked, TouchWiz Intact
What you're about to see is a video of a person using the international edition of the Samsung Galaxy S II with what SamMobile blog…
Read MoreTeleNav GPS HTML5 Browser-Based Navigation Announced, World's First
When it comes to mapping out the earth for mobile devices, there are only a few choices options you should really be deciding between -…
Read MoreQualcomm: Tegra 3 Is A "Single Use Product"
Qualcomm is pushing to make its Snapdragon mobile chipset brand more visible in the consumer marketplace, dismissing the threat of NVIDIA's Tegra 3 as a "single…
Read MorePogoplug Series 4 Revealed, Cloud Storage Push A Must
This week the folks at Pogoplug have both reintroduced their Pogoplug Cloud service (complete with 5GB free for all users) and have shown off their…
Read MoreNokia Lumia 710 Revealed For T-Mobile, Mango Included
This week we're seeing Nokia's first drum hit in an incoming thunderstorm of devices for 2012, this the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device Lumia 710…
Read MoreNokia 803 User Manual Leaks With Line Art
Line art isn't as nice as a real pic of a smartphone in the wild, but when it comes to line art or nothing, we…
Read MoreFlex Lighting Shows Off Integrated Light For eBook Readers
eReaders like the Amazon Kindle and others are great for reading in a bright room or outdoors since they last a long time and have…
Read MoreHTC, Apple Patent Dispute Ruling Delayed Again
Apple has a patent suit pending against HTC in the US that is aiming at trying to stop the import of some of HTC's devices.…
Read MoreNintendo Confirms More Game Titles For 3DS Ambassador Program
The Nintendo 3DS has sold decently with sales since the price cut going up significantly. The downside to that price cut was that the folks…
Read MoreMicrosoft Tipped To Buy Nokia Smartphone Division In 1H 2012
Nokia sale rumors continue, with Danske Bank predicting that the company will sell its smartphone unit to Microsoft in a deal announced as early as the…
Read MoreEmirai Dashboard Interface Concept By Mitsubishi Debuts
Mitsubishi has its fingers into a lot more than just making cars. That line of automobiles is probably what Mitsubishi is most known for though.…
Read MoreGoogle Grabs Clever Sense For Siri-Beating Local Recommendations
Google's Majel Siri-rival could soon be delivering personalized entertainment suggestions on Android smartphones, with the news that the search giant has acquired AI recommendations service Clever…
Read MoreElevation Dock For iPhone Blows Up On Kickstarter
Kickstarter is becoming increasingly where companies go to gauge demand and pre-sell a bunch of product before they actually spend the money to make the…
Read MoreApple 2880 X 1800 MacBook Pro Tipped For Q2 2012
Apple is readying a super-high resolution MacBook Pro update for Q2 2012, supply chain sources claim, with displays running at a whopping 2880 x 1800. The…
Read MoreLinksys E4200 V2 Router Rocks Mobile App Control
Linksys has a cool new router for your wireless home network that will make taking care of that network while you are away a snap…
Read MoreApple Founding Docs Sell For Over $1.5M
Back in late November we mentioned that the founding documents for Apple were going to hit the auction block. These are the documents that started…
Read MoreGoogle Pulls Plug On Google Shoot View Mashup
Google has taken down a first-person shooter that turned its Google Maps Street View into killing fields, using those people inadvertently captured in the 360-degree…
Read MoreApple Fake License App Yank Prompts Coder Controversy
Apple has ignited another app yank controversy, with the creators of a fake driver's license app dismissing concerns that it could be used to produce…
Read MoreApple Grabs iOS Concept UI Creator
Apple has hired the designer behind a number of iOS UI concepts, including a fast app switcher and dynamic icons that access different elements of…
Read MoreGmail Free Voice Calls Extended Through 2012
Google has extended its free Gmail calling deal throughout 2012, offering free domestic calls for users in the US and Canada. The extension to the…
Read MoreGoogle Android Siri Opponent Codename Majel, Aka Star Trek Computer
If you track this story all the way back to the source, you might find the actual factual bits to be less than brick solid,…
Read MoreApp Developers Believe iOS Will Beat Out Android This Holiday Season
iOS hit big this past October by surpassing 18 billion total downloads. But the Android Market has 10 billion total app downloads so far, and…
Read MoreSquare Mobile Payments Hits 1 Million Merchants Milestone
Square announced today via Twitter that there are now more than 1 million merchants using its mobile payment services to accept credit cards. The startup…
Read MoreSkype 2.6 For Android Can Send Photos And Videos
Skype rolled out version 2.6 today for Android that lets users easily send photos, videos, and files directly from the app. The update also features…
Read MoreCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Title 6 Update Live Now
MW3 fanatics, I am talking to you! Well, if you're a fanatic you should know this by now. For those who haven't logged into XBOX…
Read MoreAndroid Market Has 22 Apps Pulled By Google To Prevent Fraudulent Charges
Security vendors have tipped off Google to 22 applications that trick users into accepting fraudulent charges. This "SMS toll fraud", as Lookout Mobile Security has…
Read MoreXXX Domain Name Blocking Begins With Schools
It's not tough to imagine why schools across the country would be blocking out student access to the newly minted .XXX domain name environment, especially…
Read MoreXbox Live Gets YouTube, Verizon FiOS TV And More
Microsoft had detailed earlier this month its plans to challenge cable TV by adding more content and improved features to its Xbox Live service. Today,…
Read MoreGoogle Releases Chrome 16 Update With Multi-User Sign-In
Google has posted the final stable release version of Chrome 16. This update to the Chrome browser was mainly focused on supporting multiple account sign-ins…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus In $289 Bundle Leaked By Costco Ad
Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich hero device, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, may be heading to Costco in a $289 bundle. A leaked Costo ad…
Read MoreSkyDrive Apps Released For iOS And Windows Phone
This week the folks at SkyDrive.com cloud storage system have announced the simultaneous release of both an iOS application and a Windows Phone application so…
Read MoreDimensions iOS App Works With Hans Zimmer To Create Alternate Reality Soundscape Game
Ever since video games were first invented, it has been both graphics and gameplay that have dominated talk about their quality and vision -- what…
Read MoreGoogle Maps Create 2011 Japan Earthquake And Tsunami Archive
For those of you wishing to get up close and personal with the destruction and collapse of massive parts of Northeastern Japan as crushed up…
Read MoreQualcomm Snapdragon S4 Developer Tablet Running Android 4.0 ICS
A bit earlier this month the folks at Qualcomm had an analyst summit with about 50 industry analysts from both North and South America to…
Read MoreMicrosoft Giving Windows Phone Devices Away To Angry Android Users
The folks at Microsoft appear to be taking several opportunities to give away Windows Phone devices on Twitter with a clever usage of the hashtag…
Read MoreFacebook "Other" Message Inbox Makes Us Realize How Addicted We Are
Very recently Facebook introduced a feature you may not have noticed, but will very likely have you flipping your lid when you see it for…
Read More3G Tablets Fall From Favor Say Researchers
Integrated data connections in tablets along with mobile hotspot connected slates are falling from favor, new research suggests, with WiFi-only use proliferating among owners of…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus ICS ROM Restores Facebook Contacts Sync
Facebook and Google may have fallen out over contacts sync, Google stripping support for adding Facebook friends into the Android address book back in the…
Read MoreRobots Make Sandwiches And Popcorn Using Voice Command And Kinect
We love our robots around here and when those robots can make lunch or a snack for you, I am even more interested. That is…
Read MoreWindows Phone Mango SMS Attack Disables Messaging Hub And Forces Reboot
A new attack has been discovered that is focused on Windows Phone devices. The attack is an SMS message that forces the WinPo device to…
Read MoreKinectimals For iPhone And iPad Released
Microsoft has released Kinectimals for iOS, a version of its Kinectimals on Kinect for Xbox 360 game, working as both a standalone title and as…
Read MoreNokia: iPhone Is Unfashionable, Android Confusing
Nokia has dismissed the iPhone as so ubiquitous as to be unfashionable while Android is too complex and too insecure, and hopes to persuade young…
Read MoreBlock III GPS Satellite Prototype Starts Testing
The use of GPS is so prevalent all around the world that a lot of people never stop to think about the satellites in orbit…
Read MoreAlienware Aurora R4 Packs Hexacore Core i7 And Active Vents
Dell has launched its latest gaming PC, the Alienware Aurora, a hexacore-based powerhouse with liquid-cooling as standard and eye-catching active vents running across the top.…
Read MorexPrintServer Handles iOS Device Printing With No Wires
If you have a home or office full of iOS devices like the iPad or iPhone that receive hoards of emails all day and need…
Read MoreCERN Finds "Tantalizing Hints" Of Higgs Boson
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) believe they may have spotted signs of the Higgs boson, it has been announced this morning, though the…
Read MoreO2 Starts New Lease Plans For iPhone 4S
If you are in the UK and have your eyes set on getting yourself a shiny new iPhone 4S, but you don’t want a long…
Read MoreCarrier IQ Admits SMS Log Bug In Data Collection FAQ
Carrier IQ has admitted that its cellphone monitoring software contains an SMS bug that can inadvertently collect text message data, though the company says such accidental…
Read MoreSecurity Of Google Wallet Questioned By viaForensics
Most of us are very concerned about the security of the data that is stored on our smartphones. That concern is only going to grow…
Read MoreApple Loosens iAd Grip To Better Rival Google
Apple is loosening its stringent iAd regulations in the hope of better taking on Google AdMob in mobile advertising, it's reported, with lower promotional spend…
Read MoreNintendo Outs Massive Line Up Of Games For Early 2012
Nintendo has announced a huge line up new video games that will be coming in early 2012. The launches cover all of the devices available…
Read MoreGracenote Second-Screen Tablet App Tracks TV For Extra Info
Gracenote is readying a "second screen" platform that would use digital audio fingerprinting to show related information to TV shows on an iPad or other…
Read MoreSony Z-1000 Android Walkman Struts Past FCC
The Android operating system is turning up in all sorts of tech gear from smartphones and tablets to set-top boxes and MP3 players. Sony has…
Read MoreGoogle Launches Street View Of Japanese Tsunami Devastation
Google has launched a new Street View tour that takes you through the Japanese areas that were devastated by the tsunami and earthquakes earlier this…
Read MoreWin 8 And Windows Phone 8 Code-Combine Rumored
Microsoft's Windows Phone exec shuffle yesterday could have significant implications on harmonizing the codebase for Windows 8 and the smartphone OS, it's been suggested, amid…
Read MoreMIT Camera Photographs Light At A Trillion Frames Per Second
The speed of the camera sensor is virtually unfathomable to my mind. MIT has created a new imaging solution that is capable of taking photos…
Read MoreApple Is Tops In The Connected Set-Top Box Market
The internet connected set-top box market isn't exactly the hottest market in the tech world right now, but it is doing decently. There have been…
Read MoreRogers, Vodafone And O2 Add To Carrier IQ Denials
The quest to dig up the extent of Carrier IQ use in smartphones continues, with more carriers leaping to extricate themselves from the privacy maelstrom.…
Read MoreApple Admits Carrier IQ Usage In iOS, But Mostly Removed In iOS 5
Apple has confirmed reports that its previous generation iOS platforms support the Carrier IQ data tracking software, but the company assures that the software has…
Read MoreMicrosoft Confirms Windows Phone 7 Devices Do Not Support Carrier IQ
Following statements from several handset manufacturers and network operators addressing the Carrier IQ controversy, Microsoft has confirmed that its Windows Phone devices do not use…
Read MoreCarrier IQ Called Out By Senator Al Franken
If you're unaware of who Al Franken is in the US Senate, you sure as heck must at least remember him from his days on…
Read MoreGoogle Confirms No Affiliation With Carrier IQ
Here's another update to the whole Carrier IQ news blowup in the past week (this time it's Google's turn, instead of Apple). Word on the…
Read MoreCarrier IQ Detector App Released For Android
A new Android app to identify whether your smartphone has any Carrier IQ tracking/monitoring software installed on it has been released, the Voodoo Carrier IQ detector,…
Read MoreRIM: No Carrier IQ On Your BlackBerry
RIM has joined the crowd of manufacturers and carriers distancing themselves from Carrier IQ, telling SlashGear that it neither preloads the snooping software on BlackBerry…
Read MoreCarrier IQ Tracking Turns Into Wiretapping Suit Against It, Samsung ,And HTC
The tech world has blown up over the last several weeks with Carrier IQ's tacking software being sore point for just about every smartphone user…
Read MoreFTC Asked To Open Investigation Of Carrier IQ
The Carrier IQ controversy has snowballed quickly over the last week, with the company now possibly facing an investigation by the FTC. Following Senator Al…
Read MoreCarrier IQ: Blame Operators, Not Us
Carrier IQ has come out fighting amid the ongoing controversy around alleged cellphone tracking and covert customer data collection, claiming information gathered from users amounts…
Read MoreCarrier IQ Under Investigation By European Regulators
Carrier IQ has landed in an ocean of hot water for the alleged tracking and intercepting of keystrokes that the software is said to perform.…
Read MoreCarrier IQ, Apple, Samsung, HTC, And More Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit
The Carrier IQ scandal continues to spiral and now a new class-action lawsuit has been lodged against the company. The lawsuit, filed by three local…
Read MoreFBI May Be Using Carrier IQ For "Law Enforcement Purposes"
The scandal involving the data and location tracking software called Carrier IQ that's been installed on more than 140 million phones may now involve the…
Read MoreIntel Pushing SSD As Hard-Drive Shortage Hits Revenues
Intel is hoping to leverage the hard-drive shortage to drive its SSD business, in the attempt to offset its slashed Q4 revenue estimates after lower…
Read MoreApple Buying Anobit Performance Flash Specialist Tips Report
Apple has reportedly bought Israeli flash memory specialist Anobit, in a $400-500m deal for the NAND company's proprietary performance technology. Anobit is a fabless semiconductor company…
Read MoreMicrosoft Socl Facebook Rival Resurfaces
Microsoft has quietly moved its "socl" social network while it continues to dogfood the new Facebook and Google+ rival, after the site was spotted in…
Read MoreMotorola DROID XYBOARD 10.1 And XYBOARD 8.2 Hands-On
Motorola's first-gen XOOM launched with plenty of promise at the beginning of the year, but Honeycomb - and some expensive data plans from Verizon -…
Read MoreMicrosoft To Allow Open Source Apps In Windows 8 Store, Unlike Apple
Here's another point racked up by the open source community. Microsoft has plans to allow applications licensed under the Open Source Initiative license in the…
Read MoreAMD Readying Competing "Ultrathin" Platform To Intel Ultrabooks
In an interview today, The head of AMD Australia and New Zealand, Brian Slattery, revealed that AMD's competing platform to Intel's ultrathin ultrabooks could debut…
Read MoreFacebook Testing Private Messaging For Facebook Pages
It's just been confirmed by communications agency WeAreSocial.sg that Facebook has started testing a feature that allows people to communicate privately with Facebook Pages. Which…
Read MoreMagic Carp Pet Turns Static Rug Into Aquarium Of Printed Fish
What we've got here is a design by John Leung which exists as two separate pieces: first, the table which is a simple slate-bars top…
Read MoreMicrosoft Swaps Out Windows Phone Chief Andy Lees
Microsoft is swapping out Windows Phone Chief Andy Lees to a new role that will have him involved in a new "time-critical opportunity" involving both…
Read MoreDiablo III Opening Cinematic Released
There's nothing quite like a good ol' game of Diablo to get you out of the everyday hum-drum of normal human life, and as Blizzard…
Read MoreiTunes 10.5.2 Update Brings CD Audio Distortion Fix And More
Following complaints about audio distortion problems when playing CDs via iTunes, Apple has released an update today to fix the issue as well as bring…
Read MoreAT&T, T-Mobile Consider Deal Re-Cut, Dish Steps In
For months now we've been hearing that AT&T and T-Mobile have been going back and forth with various investigatory boards, the FCC, the Department of…
Read MoreAT&T, Verizon Both Testing Nokia Lumia 800 With LTE
According to CNET sources, both AT&T and Verizon are currently testing LTE versions of Nokia's Lumia 800 Windows Phone. The device has already launched in…
Read MoreMicrosoft Updates OneNote App With iPad Support
Microsoft announced today that it is making its popular note-taking app, OneNote, available for the iPad. With this update to version 1.3, the OneNote app…
Read MoreAT&T Acquires T-Mobile For $39 Billion
AT&T has announced its intent to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for a price tag of $39 Billion US dollars. The deal is expected to…
Read MoreHitachi GST 4TB Deskstar 5K4000 Hard Drive And Touro Desk External Drive Revealed
The fine folks at Hitachi have revealed a couple of new models in their hard drive line this week, one of which is the 4TB…
Read MoreModern Warfare 3 Beats Avatar For $1 Billion Record
This week the folks at Activision and Blizzard are certainly more than just a little bit joyful at the news that their game Call of…
Read MoreIntel Running 14nm Tests Says Director Of Northern Europe Branch
This week it's become apparent that Intel is fully prepared to start in on the generation following their up until now known Ivy Bridge architecture…
Read MoreMacBook Air Set To Decimate Ultrabook Market Says J.P. Morgan
In an investor's note released this week by J.P. Morgan, they made it clear that they believe the Ultrabook market will continue to be dominated…
Read MoreFaderfox DS3 Sound Controller For Traktor Revealed
If you've got an eye for precise control over the beats you are bringing to the table and your table is already full of a…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus Set For December 15th Says Multiple Sources
This week we've got more sources than we know what to do with telling us that Verizon's new release date for the Galaxy Nexus is…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Xperia Nozomi (Aka Arc HD) Spotted In The Wild
This week we get our first "in the wild" look at the Sony Ericsson Arc HD, also known by its code-name Sony Ericsson Xperia Nozomi…
Read MoreNumber Keypad Film For Touchpad Provides The Missing Link For MacBook
This week a rather simplistic approach for getting that all-powerful number-centric keyboard of calculations, aka the keypad, has been revealed by designers Gong Huachao and…
Read MoreNintendo Puts Miyamoto In Mario Kart: "Look, He's Not Leaving!"
You're Nintendo: what's the best way to convince people your iconic game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, really isn't stepping back from developing hit franchises and retiring?…
Read MoreSiriusXM 2.0 Adds Timeshifting, Track Catch-Up For iOS
SiriusXM has released a new version of its iOS app, with v2.0 bringing the ability to jump back to the beginning of a show or…
Read MoreLHC May Have Observed Higgs Boson For The First Time
One of the things that the Large Hadron Collider or LHC has been trying to observe has been the Higgs boson particle. There have been…
Read MoreiLuv iSM524 Is The First Audio Dock For Samsung Galaxy Tablets
If you are rocking a Samsung Galaxy Tablet of some sort and have, a hankering for a new audio dock iLuv has a product that…
Read MoreIntel Slashes Q4 Predictions By $1bn After HDD Shortages
Intel has warned of worse than expected Q4 2011 performance, cautioning investors that the ongoing hard-drive shortage could lead to quarterly revenues $1bn lower than…
Read MoreGoogle Antitrust Inquiry Over Motorola Mobility Buy Frozen
The European Commission antitrust inquiry into the Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility has been suspended, as the organization hunts down more evidence required before it…
Read MoreMicrosoft Admits Windows Phone NFC Gaffe
Microsoft has backtracked on suggestions that NFC lies dormant and unused in Windows Phone 7, admitting that the short-range wireless technology won't actually arrive in…
Read MoreApple AirPlay Over BT Coming, Accessory Makers Get To Work
Apple is set to start cramming a new Bluetooth chip inside its devices according to a source cited by 9to5Mac. Apple unveiled the newly certified…
Read MoreHP Brought Just 8,000 TouchPads To Its Fire Sale
HP's "sell out" TouchPad fire sale saw less than 8,000 of the webOS tablets change hands, official figures have confirmed, arguably making the slate sale…
Read MoreNook Color Gets New Streaming Content
Barnes & Noble is doing well with the new Nook Color as the fastest selling product it offers. The company has announced a software update…
Read MoreApple App Store Has Over 500,000 Apps
Apple's App Store now has over 500,000 titles for download, the company has confirmed, announcing the figure as part of its 100m Mac App Store…
Read MoreMac App Store Passes 100m Downloads
Apple's Mac App Store has hurtled past the 100m downloads point, less than a year after throwing open its doors to OS X users. Launching…
Read MoreSamsung Ships Over 300m Phones In 2011
Samsung shipped over 300m cellphones in 2011, the Korean company has announced, putting it only behind Nokia in terms of global mobile might. The milestone has seen Samsung…
Read MoreSteve Jobs Statue To Be Erected In Budapest
Steve Jobs' death has many fans of Apple and companies that worked with and admired Apple and its co-founder Steve Jobs remembering the contributions he…
Read MoreVerizon Revolution 2/LG Spectrum Photos Leak
A photo showing multiple sides of the LG Spectrum to be known as the Revolution 2 on the Verizon network has surfaced. This phone was…
Read MoreDrunk RIM Execs Escaped Cuffs On In-Flight Fight
Rambunctious RIM wags given the boot for mid-flight misdemeanors managed to chew through plastic restraints in order to resume their hunt for liquor, court documents have…
Read MoreWhite Nokia N9 Shipping Now
Nokia has begun shipping the white N9, its fourth color variant of the niche-appeal MeeGo smartphone. Revealed back at Nokia World 2011, the white handset is…
Read MoreiPad 3 To Land In 3-4 Months Tips Sources
The rumors about the next-generation iPad are coming quickly. Another source is claiming that the new iPad 3 will land in the next 3-4 months.…
Read MoreSamsung Series 5 Ultrabooks Debut
Samsung has revealed its latest ultrabook, the Samsung Series 5, a choice of 13- or 14-inch ultraportables packing 7s resume in a chassis as thin…
Read MoreNew Acura NSX To Debut At Detroit Auto Show
Honda hasn’t allowed anyone to snap pictures of the coming rebirth of the legendary Acura NSX sports car. That new sports car is set to…
Read MoreKiller Music Licensing Deals Crippling Spotify
Details of the draconian music licensing deals Spotify has been forced to agree to by record labels have leaked, amid suggestions that the streaming music…
Read MoreSpecial T-Shirts Draw Geeks For Apple Store Opening In Grand Central
I think we all know that the lengths that some Apple fans will go to get the latest products are impressive. These folks will camp…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Fire-Sale Sells Out In Minutes, Cripples eBay
HP's restarted TouchPad fire sale saw eBay brought to its knees on Sunday, as desperate bargain-hunters swamped the auction site and payments provider PayPal in the hope…
Read MoreGoogle Celebrates Chip-Father Robert Noyce With New Doodle
Google has revealed a new chip-themed homepage doodle that celebrates the birthday of Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel and widely known as one of the brains…
Read MoreEight-Jet Google Execs Fear $33m Hangar One Refurb NASA Snub
Google's top three execs have offered NASA $33m to refurbish NASA's historic Hangar One, though parking provisos for an eight-strong fleet of private jets suggests…
Read MoreSpaceX ISS Docking Mission Gets Feb 2012 Go-Ahead
SpaceX will become the first commercial spaceflight company to dock a vehicle with the International Space Station, with NASA giving the green light for the…
Read MoreMicrosoft Confirms Untapped Windows Phone NFC Support
Windows Phone 7 already supports NFC technology, Microsoft has confirmed, but it remains the decision of handset manufacturers whether to activate the short-range wireless or, indeed,…
Read MoreXbox TV Unique Shows Planned As Microsoft Shops For TV Execs
Microsoft is looking to create its own original content for its Xbox LIVE TV service, insiders claims, with the software giant seeking to recruit a…
Read MoreHP: webOS Tablets Could Return In 2013
HP could return to webOS to make new tablets in 2013, using the freshly open-sourced platform for larger mobile devices though smartphones are still off the…
Read MoreLogitech Revue Google TV 2.0: Have You Got It Yet?
Logitech pushed out the Google TV 2.0 update to its Logitech Revue set-top box this week, upgrading the smart TV adapter with Android Market access,…
Read MoreASUS Transformer Prime Vs iPad 2, Side By Side Gaming
One of the most surprising aspects of our hands-on series with the ASUS Transformer Prime thus far has been the single benchmark in which the…
Read MoreASUS Puts Delay Rumor To Rest, Confirms Transformer Prime Is On Schedule
Late last night rumors hit the street that the ASUS Transformer Prime had been delayed and I'm sure a few were saddened by such news.…
Read MoreDear Verizon: Don't Try Streaming, It's A Dumb Idea
Something rather interesting has been happening as of late: an increasing number of companies, smelling Netflix blood, want to jump into the streaming space and…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus Hands-On
Samsung and Google unveiled the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in Hong Kong today, and we grabbed some hands-on time with the…
Read MoreApple Reveals Animated Beatles Record Albums Ad For iTunes
Without a doubt this should have been the advertisement video Apple should have used when it was first announced the iTunes would be making the…
Read MoreGoogle Currents: Digital Magazine For iOS And Android
Google Currents has been officially launched, a digital magazine for iPad, iPhone and Android smartphones and tablets delivering full-length articles from over 150 different publishing…
Read MoreEarly-Adopters Must Learn To Wait
Early-adopter shouldn't mean beta-tester. The Jawbone UP saga is a great example of this: pushed out too soon, eagerly picked up by keen geeks, and…
Read MoreLemur Multitouch Music Controller iPad App Finally A Reality
This week the folks at liine have released an app version of their legendary multitouch MIDI/OSC controller Lemur for the iOS platform on the iPad…
Read MoreGoogle Chrome Browser Reinvigorates Native Client Push For Game Developers
When it comes to promoting your web browser to the internet, it can get pretty meta pretty quick, and but when your Google and you've…
Read MoreGameStop's PS Vita Memory Card Pricing Not Official
Despite Sony's PS Vita not being available until February of 2012, GameStop has already posted pricing for the device and its various components back in…
Read MoreNintendo 64 Modded To Mobility, Looks Like A Gigantic Gameboy
There's this fellow by the name of Slipstream, folks, and he's created not on, not two, but three N64 handheld gaming devices, each of them…
Read MoreCoby Reveals Five Android 4.0 Tablets For Q1 2012
Coby Electronics announced today that it is preparing to offer five new tablets running Google's latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform in early 2012.…
Read MoreGoogle Acquires RightsFlow To Boost YouTube And Music Offerings
Google announced today via its YouTube blog that it has purchased New York-based startup RightsFlow to manage its music licensing efforts. This move could help…
Read MoreAT&T, T-Mobile Merger Lawsuit To Be Postponed Or Withdrawn By DOJ
According to the Wall Street Journal, the antitrust lawsuit against AT&T's T-Mobile merger may be either postponed or withdrawn by the Department of Justice sometime…
Read MoreWhy Doctors Love Apple Products And Miss Steve
Apple's products have been much prized in the healthcare industry with a recent survey revealing that about 75 percent of US physicians owned an Apple…
Read MoreShare Your Experiences With ChatON Now
The last time we spoke about Samsung's mobile communication service ChatON, it was only just being announced as a future product - that was earlier…
Read MoreHP webOS Hardware Still A No-Go
While the good news that webOS as a mobile operating system would now be Open Source did come down the chute with much rejoicing this…
Read MorewebOS Goes Open Source
This week HP announced that their mobile operating system webOS will be contributed to the open source community. While HP assures us that they will…
Read MoreDROID XYBOARD 10.1 And 8.2 In Stores Today At Some Verizon Locations
Though earlier today the word was that the online and pre-order sales for the newest Motorola tablet by the name of XYBOARD were the only…
Read MoreBlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Reveals 4G LTE Icons, 1280×768 Resolution
When you're in the business of developing software and producing awesome bits of hardware, especially in this modern "what's next" consumer market of ours, you…
Read MoreZite Intelligent Mobile Mag Hits iPhone
Zite has launched an iPhone version of its personalized newsreader app, bringing the software over from the iPad with a new UI to suit the…
Read MoreMicrosoft Takes Apple Genius Idea Online With Answer Desk
For years if you needed help with you Mac all you had to do was walk into your local Apple store and hike over to…
Read MoreAncient Anomalocarids Had Compound Eyes With 16k Lenses
I can only imagine how violent it was to live in ancient times where the giant dinosaurs and sea creatures roamed the Earth's oceans and…
Read MoreHundreds Of NASA Moon Rock Samples Are Missing Or Stolen
With every bit of the moon rock and soil samples on Earth having been brought back by NASA missions to the moon they are all…
Read MoreQualcomm Snapdragon 3rd-Gen S4 Dual-Cores Revealed
Qualcomm has announced to new parts that are slipping into its S4 Snapdragon range. The new parts are the MSM8625 and the MSM8225. Both of…
Read MoreMotorola Scores Apple iPhone/iPad Injunction In Germany [Updated]
Motorola Mobility has won a wireless patent case against Apple in Germany this morning, meaning - unless Apple can secure a stay until an appeal…
Read MoreAsus Transformer Prime Pre-Orders Start In UK
If you are looking forward to getting your mitts on a new Asus Transformer Prime tablet and live in the UK, you can get your…
Read MoreTexting While Driving Up 50%, 2 Out Of 10 Admit To It
There is no doubt that anything in the car that can be distracting can lead to accidents and death or serious injury to the driver…
Read MoreNokia Lumia 710 Now Shipping
Nokia has begun shipping the Lumia 710, the second of the company's Windows Phone 7 devices, and the model it hopes will strike a chord…
Read MoreNissan Shows Off Nismo Leaf Concept
The Nissan Leaf is a full EV that runs only on battery power that has been sold in a few markets around the US for…
Read MoreGoogle's Schmidt: Carrier IQ Is Unacceptable Keylogger
Carrier IQ has been in the headlines in a very bad way over recent weeks. The company makes software that tracks the usage of users…
Read MoreJawbone Offers Full UP Refund And Lets You Keep The Band
We have talked a lot about the Jawbone UP over the last few months since we first heard about it. The UP is a bracelet…
Read MoreTwitter Brand Pages Aim For Google+ And Facebook
Yesterday Twitter rolled out a new update to the service that brought along with it some new features and a redesign that looks really cool…
Read MoreFinal Decision On The Fate Of WebOS To Be Decided Today
In November, we heard that a meeting to decide the fate of WebOS was happening within two weeks. HP is set for an all hands…
Read MoreASUS Convertible Win 8 Ultrabook/tablet Tipped For 2012
ASUS is readying a convertible touchscreen ultrabook for launch in September 2012, sources in Taipei have revealed, in an attempt to leverage Windows 8 to…
Read MoreSpotify Radio Relaunched With Unlimited Play
Spotify has relaunched Spotify Radio, offering unlimited playback with a free account along with as many track-skips as you like. The updated streaming music service allows…
Read MoreAOC Shows Off New DisplayLink USB Powered 15.6-Inch Monitor
AOC has unveiled its latest product called the e1649fwu. This 15.6-inch LCD monitor uses DisplayLink technology to allow the connection to a notebook or a…
Read MoreNokia Outs Slick Maps 3D With Nav And Share Capability
Nokia unveiled its Nokia Maps 3D back in April of this year and they were certainly cool. The service reminded me more than a little…
Read MoreNokia Looks To Sell Luxury Vertu Mobile Phone Brand
Nokia has been operating Vertu since 1998, which is a long time. I always thought that the company couldn't have too many people lining up…
Read MoreVolt Fires Possibly Caused By Welded Parts Near The Battery Pack
The Chevrolet Volt has been under investigation for a while now after several of the vehicles caught fire after crash testing. GM has since offered…
Read MoreiPad 3 In February 2012 Tips Analyst
The Apple iPad 3 will launch in February 2012, analysts have predicted, complete with the double resolution "Retina Display" that has been well rumored over…
Read MoreVerizon DROID XYBOARD 10.1 And 8.2 Go On Sale
Verizon has thrown the DROID XYBOARD 10.1 and 8.2 tablets up for sale, offering Android Honeycomb on a 1.2GHz dual-core in a choice of sizes,…
Read MorePanasonic 4.3-Inch OLED Android Phone Hits Europe 2012
Panasonic has revealed the first model of its European smartphone assault, a 4.3-inch Android device with a qHD 960 x 540 OLED display, NFC and…
Read MoreAT&T's LTE Network Now Active In San Francisco
San Francisco AT&T users are reporting that the carrier's 4G LTE network is now active in the city by the bay (at least in the…
Read MoreAustralian Court Denies Apple Appeal, Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted
Samsung, you win this battle against Apple down under. The Australian court has just officially denied the appeal filed by Apple on their propose sales…
Read MoreThe Wii U Is Coming: Why Buy The Wii Now?
I’m shocked that anyone wants to buy the Wii. But I’m even more shocked that so many people are doing it. Earlier this week, Wedbush…
Read MoreAT&T Begins Throttling Heavy iPhone Data Usage To 2G Speeds
AT&T has reportedly started throttling its heaviest data users (to be exact, the top 5% of its data users) to, well, 2G speeds. ??According to…
Read MoreSamsung May One-Up Apple With 11.6-Inch Tablet Sporting 2560x1600 Resolution, Coming February
Rumor has it that Samsung has plans to take on Apple's upcoming iPad 3 tablet with its own 11.6-inch tablet, which may sport an incredibly…
Read MoreTwitter 3.0 For Android Hands-On
This week the folks at Twitter have updated their many different platforms to bring about a new age in Twittering, one where the hashtag keywords…
Read MoreiTunes Rewind 2011 Goes Live: Top Apps, Movies, And Music Listed
This week Apple has released their annual best of the year list titled "iTunes Rewind 2011" this year showing off the best selling and best…
Read MoreFujitsu And Suvolta Reveal Ultra Low Voltage RAM
Fujitsu and SuVolta have partnered up to develop a new transistor technology that would cut chip power consumption in half without compromising performance. With this…
Read MoreExmobaby And AT&T Offer You Baby Monitoring Via Phone, Tablet, And PC
Exmovere has partnered with AT&T to offer parents of newborns a new way to monitor their babies using today's latest gadgets. The company offers a…
Read MoreGoogle Currents Available Internationally Via Hacked Download For Android
Not able to wait for the action for more than an hour after the races have started, hackers at XDA Developers Forums have already loosened…
Read MoreNintendo 3DS Users Get Free Boingo Wi-Fi Access
Nintendo and Boingo forged a partnership that will offer Nintendo 3DS users free Wi-Fi access at 42 airports in North America where Boingo provides wireless…
Read MoreZTE Plans High-End Smartphones For The US In 2012
Chinese phone maker ZTE has expressed its plans to introduce high-end smartphones for the US market sometime in mid-2012. The company has been more well…
Read MoreSony Says PS Vita Allows Multiple PSN Accounts
Following reports earlier this week that Sony's upcoming PS Vita was limited to only one PSN account, Sony has responded to clarify that the device…
Read MoreTwitter Redesign Revealed
Twitter has launched a comprehensive revamp of its interface, updating its web UI, along with the free iOS and Android clients, in an attempt to…
Read MoreToshiba Excite Android Tablet Gets Release Date
When the first Toshiba Android tablet was released, it seemed like a really big deal - at one point it was even rumored that they'd…
Read MoreComp Bullet Promises Tiny Holes Will Silence And Speed Up Your Murder Spree
When we write about the ever-so-terrible bullet here on SlashGear, or more specifically when I write about it, you'd better understand right out of the…
Read MoreGoogle+ Automatic Face Recognition In Photos Starts Today
Starting today there's a brand new feature on Google+ which works inside the photo app that'll make it much easier for you to tag the…
Read MorePhotojojo Macro Cell Lens Band Works With Any Smartphone
Just so long as you've got a camera on your smartphone, you can bet you'll have a shot at taking some macro photos with this…
Read MoreGoogle Currents Social News App For Tablets Imminent
Google is tipped to be on the precipice of launching its new socially-enabled news reader app, Google Currents, with the iPad and Honeycomb software expected…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus On Sale In Canada
Samsung's Galaxy Nexus has made its North American debut but, unfortunately for those hoping for some Verizon LTE action, it's the Canadian carriers who are…
Read MoreSamsung iPhone 4S French Ban Attempt Rejected
Samsung has been given an embarrassing legal spanking by the French courts, which refused to grant a sales ban against the iPhone 4S and demanded that it…
Read MoreVerizon 4G LTE Back Online
Verizon Wireless has restored its 4G LTE network, following an outage over the past 24-36 hours that saw customers dumped back onto 3G or even…
Read MoreLeica V-Lux 3 Packs 24x Superzoom And 1080p60 HD
Leica has outed its latest superzoom camera, the Leica V-Lux 3, packing a 12.1-megapixel sensor, 24x optical zoom and a 1080p HD video recording mode.…
Read MoreRazer Blade Gaming Laptop Ships Imminently
Gaming device manufacturer Razer has confirmed it will be offering pre-orders on its $2,799.99 Blade uber-notebook within days, with the laptop - that has a touchscreen…
Read MoreDRM Gets Creative As Serious Sam Attacks Pirates With Pink Scorpion
Game DRM can be annoyingly complex, so mild as to be ineffectual, or, as in Serious Sam 3 BFE, it can be a giant, invincible…
Read MoreBill Gates Helping China Build Super-Safe Nuclear Reactor
Bill Gates is helping China go nuclear safely, with an innovative new reactor design being developed between Terrapower and Chinese engineers that would prioritize long-lasting,…
Read More$290 Galaxy Nexus Tipped As Retailers Struggle To Shave Price
A $300 price tag for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus looks increasingly likely, with the latest leak indicating even cost-cutting wholesalers like Costco can't bring the…
Read MoreXbox 360 And PS3 Controller Rings Shows Gamer Geek Pride
If you are a gaming geek that loves to play on the Xbox 360 or the PS3 and you have a penchant for gaudy geek…
Read MoreApple 3D Display & Kinect-Style Tracking System Still In Labs
A newly filed Apple patent application suggests the company is still working on a Kinect-style 3D motion tracking system, that could create a virtual desktop…
Read MoreFCC Manual Confirms Nokia Lumia 710 For T-Mobile
You have to love the FCC as a geek. Those government workers just leak stuff willy-nilly and it makes us all happy. Today the FCC…
Read MoreAMD Adds New Parts To A-Series Notebook APU Range
AMD has been working to update many of its CPU and APU lines to bring them up to par with Intel counterparts. One of the…
Read MoreApple TV Adds iCloud TV Buy Streaming In Canada, UK And Oz
Apple has quietly activated TV show purchases on the Apple TV for owners in Canada, the UK and Australia, adding outright buying options to the existing…
Read MoreNokia Software Update Coming For Lumia 800 Fixes Battery Issue
Nokia has announced that over the course of the next two weeks it will be rolling out a new software update for the Nokia Lumia…
Read MoreApple TV-Enabled iMac Tipped For 2012 Television Attack
Apple could ease itself into the TV market by integrating Apple TV and iCloud functionality into an iMac-style all-in-one, one analyst has suggested, using a…
Read MoreRED 4K Projector Gets First Public Demo
RED looks set to show off its much-rumored 4K laser projector in its first public demo, with the camera company's RED Studios Hollywood running a demo…
Read MoreSuper Talent TeraNova SSD Offers Crazy 540MB/s Speeds
SSD manufacturer Super Talent has launched a new, high-speed drive capable of over 500 MB/s read and write rates, targeted at hardcore users. The Super…
Read MoreNintendo: Miyamoto "No Intention Of Stepping Down"
Reports that Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto was step away from game development are false, the Japanese company has insisted, saying the well-respected exec "has no intention…
Read MoreOnLive Hits iOS And Android With Phone/tablet Cloud Gaming
OnLive has launched its smartphone and tablet cloud gaming apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, bringing console-class gaming to WiFi and 3G/4G mobile devices with…
Read MoreTokyoflash Digital Pocket Watch Adds Touch To An Old Classic
Arch geekwatch manufacturers Tokyoflash have revealed their latest special edition, the Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch, ideal for the distinguished systems engineer who prefers a…
Read MoreGoogle's Eric Schmidt Envisions Google TV On Majority Of New TVs By Summer Of 2012
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has become the unofficial chief bearer of good news for his company at the LeWeb Conference in France this year,…
Read MoreFacebook For Android Updated, Inherits Speedier UI From iOS
Facebook just launched their updated Facebook app for Android, which the social networking giant claims is "now quicker and easier to view photos, get messages…
Read MoreVerizon 4G LTE Nationwide Outage Confirmed, Limited 3G Service
So it turns out that Verizon's 4G LTE network isn't only down in the Midwest region only, as we originally reported. Verizon has confirmed that…
Read MoreConflict Materials In My Smartphone? Hope For Congo Says Yes
It's a risky business you enter in when you purchase a product, and not just when you're rolling with NIKE with their child labor-made shoes…
Read MoreVerizon Wireless Network Down In Midwest USA, No ETR For Repair
For those of you experiencing difficulties with your Verizon data-laden products this afternoon, specifically with LTE devices such as the DROID RAZR or the BIONIC…
Read MoreBatman Arkham City Lockdown Released For iOS
The popular console and PC game, Batman Arkham City, is getting an iOS version for Apple's iPhones and iPads. The iOS version is called Batman…
Read MoreThis Verizon Galaxy Nexus Extended Battery Extends My Tears For Waiting
Back a little less than a year ago when the first Verizon LTE-laden Android smartphone was released, that being the HTC ThunderBolt for all you…
Read MoreXbox Live App Now Available For iPhone And iPad
Microsoft has just released its Xbox Live app for Apple's iPhones and iPads, shortly following its release of the Windows Phone 7 version and its…
Read MoreT-Mobile Confirms White Galaxy S II For December 14
T-Mobile has confirmed via Twitter that the white version of its Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone will be launching on December 14. The white variant…
Read MoreMicrosoft, Google, And Intel Continue To Beat Apple In Brand Value
You would think with all the buzz and cult following that Apple generates it's brand value would be leading in the rankings, but that's not…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Fire Sale To Restart December 11
HP is preparing another fire sale for its HP TouchPad tablets just in time for the holidays. The limited time sale will begin at 6:00PM…
Read MoreT-Mobile Nokia Event Invites Sent, Lumia On The Horizon
Next week there's an event going down that'll be a team-up between Nokia and T-Mobile, a mobile event to be sure, in New York for…
Read MoreSoundTracking Music Sharing Service Gets Android, Spotify, RDIO Integration
If you're in to the whole sharing of your entire life, no holding back, and you love music, there's a pretty good chance you're going…
Read MoreVerizon Family Data Plans Coming 2012 Says CEO
Here at the end of 2011 it seems almost strange that this didn't happen already on multiple carriers: that family plans would spring up not…
Read MoreBlackBerry Milan Next-Gen BlackBerry 10 Slider Leaked
What we're looking at here is the first image of the BlackBerry Milan, a slide-up QWERTY keyboard revealing BBX (aka BlackBerry 10) device that shows…
Read MoreBehringer iNuke Boom $30k iPod Dock Is Hugely Ridiculous
That tiny little chip of color that could look a little like an iPhone if you squint? Why, that is an iPhone, and it's sitting…
Read MoreHP Folio 13 Ultrabook On Sale Now
The new ENVY range isn't the only thing HP has new in notebook sales today; the HP Folio 13 ultrabook is also ready for primetime, offering 13.3-inches…
Read MoreHP ENVY 15, ENVY 17 And ENVY 17 3D Go On Sale
HP's updated ENVY 15 and ENVY 17 notebooks have gone up for sale as promised, offering second-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, slick metal chassis…
Read MoreApple Siri API For More Flexible Voice Control In Pipeline
Apple is readying a Siri API that could pave the way for integration with third-party apps and services, with new software engineer positions seeking help…
Read MorePandaboard ES Launches Packing ARM A9 Power
Pandaboard.org has unveiled a new and small mainboard that is called the Pandaboard ES. This little board is one of the open source parts that…
Read MoreAT&T: NYC LTE Live This Month, iPhone 4S Helping Set Q4 Sales Record
AT&T has announced that its New York City 4G LTE network will go live this month, as the carrier targets coverage for 70m people by…
Read MoreCrazy Satellite Dish Chair Beats The Landlord
If you are one of the unlucky Europeans that live in an apartment building where it is against the rules to hang a satellite dish,…
Read MoreHonda Talks About The Slick HEV Hybrid Prototype
Honda is showing off a very interesting new hybrid vehicle prototype called the HEV. The car is based on the North American version of the…
Read More.XXX Domains Available For General Sale
ICANN started the process of approving the new .xxx domain name back in March of this year. After months of waiting people that wanted to…
Read MoreToshiba REGZA 55X3 4K2K Glasses-Free 3D TV Gets $11.5k Price
Toshiba's REGZA 55X3 TV almost had it all when the glasses-free 3D 55-inch 3850 x 2160 set was announced back in October; all that was missing…
Read MoreSwiftKey Android Keyboard Developers Grab $2.4m Investment Boost
This week the the group TouchType Ltd, best known for their keyboard application by the name of SwiftKey - as found on the Android Market…
Read MoreFacebook Timeline Lands In New Zealand
We have been waiting for the Timeline since we first heard details back in September. As of yesterday, the Facebook Timeline went live in New…
Read MoreEvernote Hello And Food Apps Jog Social And Meal Memories
Evernote has released a pair of new apps, focusing its notetaking expertise with Evernote Hello for remembering people and Evernote Food to do the same for meals.…
Read MoreJVC Shows Off 4K Projectors At Cedia 2011
JVC is on hand at the Cedia 2011 expo with some of its cool new home theater gear. The things that caught our collective eye…
Read MoreWindows Store Mandates Touch Support, 5 App Installs
The Windows Store for Windows 8 will mandate touch- and gesture-support for all applications, allow users to install purchased apps on up to five computers…
Read MoreNintendo 3DS System Update Rolls Out
If you own a Nintendo 3DS a new software update is now available for the portable console that brings with it some new features. That…
Read MoreTouchscreen Ultrabooks To Rival MacBook Air And iPad In Pipeline
Touchscreen ultrabooks to challenge the growing tablet market are expected to debut alongside Windows 8, according to sources in the manufacturing chain, as notebook makers…
Read MoreST1080 Head Mounted Augmented Reality Display Gets Priced
There are a number of head mounted displays on the market today that try and look like sunglasses and offer you a simulated larger screen…
Read MoreAMD Changes Bulldozer Transistor Count
When AMD first started talking about its new Bulldozer processors there were a lot of excited geeks out there. On paper, the processor sounded really…
Read MoreApple Blocked From iPad Name In China
Back when Apple first unveiled the iPad name for its tablet, there was no end to the jokes about the name. Those jokes didn’t last…
Read MoreLogitech Revue Google TV 2.0 Update Goes Live
Logitech has begun pushing out the Google TV 2.0 update for the Logitech Revue, adding a refreshed UI, more comprehensive searching and - perhaps most…
Read MoreBBX Renamed BlackBerry 10 As RIM Loses Trademark Case
RIM has been forced to rethink branding for its next-gen smartphone and tablet OS, changing the name to BlackBerry 10 after a trademark suit saw…
Read MoreWindows Store For Windows 8 Detailed
It's not just the Windows 8 Developer Preview coming in February 2012; Microsoft will also launch the Windows Store, its download center for Windows 8-based…
Read MoreMicrosoft Confirms Windows 8 Public Beta Slated For February 2012 Launch
Microsoft has just confirmed that the public beta release of Windows 8 will come in February of 2012, a date that was danced around tentatively,…
Read MoreApple Submits Updates To Campus Plans, Stunning Renderings Revealed
The City of Cupertino has just posted up today the updated campus plans that Apple submitted to the city last month for its new Campus…
Read MoreGoogle Engineer Explains Why Android UI Will Never Be As Fluid As iOS Or WP7
Recent Google engineering intern Andrew Munn has launched into a detailed explanation on Google+ as to why many Android devices are significantly more sluggish and…
Read MoreArt Lebedev's Optimus Popularis And Mini Six Keyboards Ready For Pre-Order
We haven't heard much from Art Lebedev's design studio since, well, the update on the Optimus Polaris last summer. But the Russia design company know…
Read MoreIntel's Mobile Ivy Bridge Lineup Details Leaked
Just days (three, to be precise) after information pertaining to Intel's upcoming desktop processors was leaked, details of Intel's mobile versions of its Ivy Bridge…
Read MoreXbox 360 Dashboard Updates Start Tonight For Xbox LIVE Members
Earlier today we found that the Xbox 360 Dashboard update promised for today was just a bit delayed - now we learn from Microsoft's Major…
Read MoreVerizon Taking On Netflix With Online Video Service
Verizon may be preparing to launch an online video streaming service next year that will rival similar services like Netflix and Hulu as well as…
Read MoreSony Ericsson XPERIA Active Launched The USA, $340 Unlocked
The folks at what will soon be simply Sony have released the XPERIA active here in the United States this week officially, complete with protection…
Read MoreDirecTV To Bring Back TiVo DVRs On December 8
The long delayed DirecTV TiVo DVR may finally be arriving as soon as this week. Following DirecTV and TiVo's reconciliation in 2008, talks began of…
Read MoreAT&T Ranked Worst US Carrier Again By Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports has released its latest survey of US wireless customers, revealing once again that AT&T scores the worst in customer satisfaction, repeating its last…
Read MoreBugHouse Future Fossils Tech In Cement For The Gadgeteer Who Has Absolutely Everything
When it comes down to it, there's only so much technological gadget bits that one person can possibly want for the holidays*, so when you…
Read MoreMacBook Air Knockoff Gets Real Close, But In Appearance Only
The folks at MIC Gadget have found a MacBook Air knockoff from China called the AirBook that looks near identical to the real thing upon…
Read MoreVerizon Denies Blocking Google Wallet On Galaxy Nexus, Blames Hardware
Verizon has issued a statement today denying claims that it is intentionally blocking support for the Google Wallet mobile payment app on the upcoming Galaxy…
Read MoreGTA III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition For Android And iOS Priced And Dated
Last we heard about Grand Theft Auto III for the mobile platform, it was back when the action figure special edition was announced, then when…
Read MoreNEC PX700W And PX800X Projectors Revealed, God-Level Home Theater Addition
When it comes to projecting images onto walls, NEC is no chump - and when it comes to bringing forth some professional grade projectors to…
Read MoreLenovo ThinkPad X130e Official, Rugged And Student-Aimed
This week the folks at Lenovo have revealed the ThinkPad X130e, a notebook for students and schools with an 11.6-inch display, less than 4 pounds…
Read MoreSpotify Apps Beta Released, We Go Hands-On
Starting today you're able to pick up the newest version of the streaming music service Spotify for desktop, one that contains access to each of…
Read MoreAndroid Market 10 Billion Promo Sees Premium App Price-Slash
Google has kicked off a new Android Market promotion to celebrate 10 billion downloads, offering ten days of offers on premium software. The 10 Billion…
Read MoreArchos G9 Used To Show Off Android 4.0 ICS Features
The geeks over at ARMdevices.net has their hands on the Archos G9 tablet and put the latest version of the Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich…
Read MoreiPen Active Stylus For iPad Tipped
If you are the sort that uses your iPad a lot for taking notes or drawing you will like this product that has landed on…
Read MoreWhite DROID RAZR Arrives For The Holidays
It's not just the DROID XYBOARD tablets which Verizon has for us this morning: the carrier also revealed a white version of the DROID RAZR which…
Read MoreVerizon DROID XYBOARD 8.2 And 10.1 Official
Verizon has made the DROID XYBOARD Android tablets official, the 4G LTE versions of Motorola's XOOM 2 and XOOM 2 Media Edition slates. The 10.1-inch…
Read MoreMicron And Intel Unveil World's First 128Gb NAND Device
Micron and Intel have announced the results of something that the two have been working on together. The result is the unveil of the world's…
Read MoreOpera 11.60 Desktop Browser Launches
Opera software has announced today that it is now releasing a new version for its desktop browser for fans to download. The new version of…
Read MoreXbox 360 Dashboard Update "Slightly Delayed"
Bad news if you're waiting desperately by your Xbox 360, impatiently hopping from foot to foot for the Dashboard update: the new interface is apparently…
Read MoreVerizon Gives Microsoft Windows Phone LTE Ultimatum
Verizon has thrown down the gauntlet to Microsoft and demanded LTE smartphones, arguing that 4G is essential if the carrier is to continue to offer…
Read MoreNewly Discovered Black Holes Are Billions Of Times More Massive Than The Sun
Scientists have made some new discoveries in distant galaxies. The new discoveries are of the most massive black holes that have ever been discovered with…
Read MoreHTC Rezound Hands-On
HTC's Rezound has hit the SlashGear test bench, the company's first Beats Audio phone for the US market and one that packs LTE and a…
Read MoreMagnetU Wearable Social Network Device Debuts
If you are big into social networking this new gadget might catch your eye. It's not something that is made to allow you to connect…
Read MoreSpecs For Wii U Leak
We have already talked a lot about the Wii U and today some new details have surfaced. The rumored specs for the console have now…
Read MoreDevastating Japanese Tsunami Was The Result Of Two Merged Tsunamis
Japan is still cleaning up and investigating the scope of the disaster from the tsunami that hit the area hard. The massive tidal wave hit…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus Launching December 9th, According To Leaked Document
The Galaxy Nexus should be in stores and ready for purchase as early as December 9th according to a newly leaked Verizon e-mail. The latest…
Read MoreBBC Global iPlayer Hits iPhone And iPod Touch
The BBC iPlayer has been around for a while and has seen several iterations and updates since it launched. There is another new iteration of…
Read MoreApple And Ebook Publishers In EU Price Fix Investigation
Apple and a group of international publishers are the subject of a European Commission investigation into potential ebook antitrust behavior, it has been announced today,…
Read MoreASUS Aims To Overtake Samsung In 2012 Tablets
Asus is predicting big things for 2012 and talking about what it has done in 2011. The company had a global sales meeting this month…
Read MoreXOOM 2/Droid Xyboard Could Hit AT&T With Modem Unlock
A very interesting little secret has been discovered about the new Motorola Xoom 2 tablets that have started to be detailed. We know the Xoom…
Read MoreVoyager Plies A New Region Of Space At The Edge Of Our Solar System
Way back in 1977 NASA launched the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes and sent them hurtling away from Earth towards the edge of our…
Read MoreHTC Revenue Dives 30% As Phones Fail To Impress
HTC saw device sales revenue dive 30-percent in November 2011, with the company's struggling to maintain consumer interest as it heads into the all-important holiday…
Read MoreApple Research Admits Samsung No Threat Leaks Redacted Ruling
A poorly redacted copy of the Apple/Samsung US preliminary injunction ruling has revealed that Apple's own market research shows buyers of iPhone, iPad and its…
Read MoreH1Siri Hack Prompts Privacy And Stability Complaints
Concerns around an unofficial Siri port for the iPhone 4 and iPod touch have escalated, with some users reporting device instability, their camera no longer…
Read MoreCox TV Connect For iPad Streams Live TV
Cox has released a Live TV app for iPad, bringing streaming content to Apple's tablet - with a few important provisos. Unlike some placeshifting tech…
Read MoreMeizu MX Smartphone Official: Pentaband HSPA+ And 1.4GHz Dualcore
Chinese electronics manufacturer Meizu has finally unveiled its next flagship Meizu MX smartphone, though it's not quite the speed-demon we were originally expecting. A dual-core version…
Read MoreIntel To Aid Smaller Companies To Increase Ultrabook Production
Intel is aiming to bridge the gap between manufacturers and smaller brands, in an effort to build more ultrabooks. The manufacturers Intel is targeting include…
Read MoreGoogle Confirms Verizon's Galaxy Nexus Won't Support Google Wallet
So it's official, Google spokesperson just confirmed tonight that Verizon's Galaxy Nexus will not be supporting Google Wallet, along with those from other carriers, such…
Read MoreWorld Of Warcraft - Patch 4.3, The Final Patch Of Cataclysm
Every Tuesday is an important day for those involved in World of Warcraft. That is because Tuesdays are known as "patch days". When Tuesday hits…
Read MoreApple's Internal iOS Codenames Revealed, Sporting Winter Theme
When it comes to flavorful codenames for operating systems, the majority would tend to think about Android's bountiful dessert flavors, or Mac OS X's large…
Read MoreVerizon's Galaxy Nexus To Be Priced At $299.99 On 2-Year Contract, Reports WSJ
Following the newly released leaked shots today, the Wall Street Journal has just reported that Verizon's version of the Galaxy Nexus will be priced at…
Read MoreGraphing Functionality Now Available On Google Search
In a move that seems to put them in square competition with, say, Texas Instruments, or Wolfram Alpha, search giant Google has just rolled out…
Read MoreSamsung W999 Android Clamshell Official, Like A GSII With A Gigantic Keypad
When it comes to releasing a variety of devices that center around a hero, enough devices to stuff an elephant with, so many devices that…
Read MorePorsche Design BlackBerry P'9981 Visits The FCC With Support For AT&T And NFC
RIM's Porsche Design BlackBerry P'9981 has passed through the FCC, indicating that it may finally be making its way to market. The device looks like…
Read MoreAngry Birds Cross-Promote With Galaxy Note For Christmas
The folks at Rovio are no strangers when it comes to cross-promoting their brand with other gigantic names in the business, this time with Samsung…
Read MoreiPhone Games Brought To Life In Hey Geronimo Video
Ever wondered how some of your favorite iPhone games would look like in real life? Well, you can find out by watching this fun and…
Read MoreIDC Predicts Windows 8 Upgrade To Be "Largely Irrelevant" Beyond Tablets
Research firm IDC has published its top 10 systems software predictions for 2012, and it is quite skeptical about the success of Microsoft's Windows 8…
Read MoreIOGEAR USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Card Readers And 4-Port Hub Announced
This week IOGEAR has announced three new USB 3.0 devices, each of them with data transfer speeds up to 10 times that of previous generation…
Read MoreVerizon 4G LTE Network Turns One Year Old Today
Though it seems like just yesterday that we were first unboxing the HTC ThunderBolt, the first smartphone to roll out on Verizon's still-impressive 4G LTE…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus In-Store Packaging Appears
At this point we've got to assume that the folks at Verizon had all of this leak and pre-release panic planned for the Galaxy Nexus,…
Read MoreEarth-Like Planet Kepler 22-B Confirmed By NASA
This week astronomers have announced the existence of a planet discovered to be in human livable range of star not unlike our sun, with a…
Read MoreH1Siri Hack Comes To Hacked iPhone 4 And iPod Touch
When you've got a jailbroken phone, aka a hacked phone on the Apple iOS mobile platform, you've got a lot of freedoms when it comes…
Read MoreGowalla Folding Into Facebook Starting Today
Before you even begin to have a freak-out session about how Facebook is going to envelope all your user data without asking, that's simply not…
Read MoreXbox TV Puts Microsoft Ahead Of Apple And Google
Gaming has long been Microsoft's wildcard: while the company struggles to find its feet with Windows Phone, and faces a difficult tablet market when its…
Read MoreRumor: Apple TV Will Come In Three Screen Sizes By End Of 2012
The rumors have been going around for a while now that Apple was working on a new TV that is an actual TV, not the…
Read MoreSony Ericsson Brand Moving To Sony Only In Mid-2012
We already know that Sony wants to take over all of Sony Ericsson and bring the mobile devices under its corporate umbrella. The buyout was…
Read MoreMicrosoft Windows 8 App Store Reveal Imminent
Microsoft is expected to reveal its Windows 8 app store plans this week, detailing how it will challenge Apple's thriving third-party download ecosystem with its…
Read MoreMIPS Unveils Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet Under $100
If you are in the market for a new Android tablet and you think that he $199 tablet that is so popular right now is…
Read MoreIp.access AFC Portable Femtocell Offloads 3G/4G To WiFi
An iPhone-sized portable femtocell could make creating a private bubble of cellphone coverage straightforward in homes, offices, hotel rooms and public spaces, offloading smartphones and…
Read MoreIntel Roadmap Shows Core I 3000 CPUs Inbound For Q2 2012
Intel is set to toss some new processors out into the market early in 2012. A new roadmap leak has shown that in Q2 2012…
Read MoreHTC Flyer Update Brings Honeycomb
T-Mobile just got its own flavor of the HTC Flyer last month even though the tablet crossed the FCC back during the summer. The tablet…
Read MoreSamsung Readies Anti-Apple "Hard-Line Stance" And $200m Legal Fund
Samsung may have been reasonably magnanimous in its defeat of Apple's US preliminary injunction attempts, but the Korean company's execs haven't lost their fighting spirit even if…
Read MorePS Vita Lacks Game/web Multitasking; Single PSN Limit
Sony's PS Vita handheld with ship with limits on multitasking preventing web browsing while a game is running in the background, as well as on…
Read MoreWindows 8 Storage Spaces: Bounce Back From Drive Death
When you rely on your computer, each day to work and play few things can ruin your day more than a crash. A new feature…
Read MoreHP TouchPad Go Turns Up On eBay
The only time the HP TouchPad sold well was when the tablet went on $99 fire sale shortly after it was discontinued. Back when the…
Read MoreSamsung, Toshiba And Lenovo Tipped To Lead Windows 8 On ARM Tablets
Samsung, Toshiba and Lenovo will lead the Windows 8 on ARM platform, according to the latest supply chain leaks, with Microsoft putting Qualcomm, Texas Instruments…
Read MoreASUS Transformer Prime TransSleeve Gets Video Demo
ASUS has begun teasing some of the official accessories for its Eee Pad Transformer Prime, with one of the most interesting, the folding Transformer Prime…
Read MoreDell Streak 7 Discontinued
Dell has been trying its hand in the Android tablet market and so far has only been able to make a slight rustle in the…
Read MoreFirefox Loses Google Contract Producing 84% Of Its Revenue
For a long time Firefox from Mozilla was the second most popular web browser right being Internet Explorer from Microsoft. Over the last year, Mozilla…
Read MoreSamsung Flexible Tablet Concept Shows Transparent Future
Samsung's Mobile Display division has taken some time off from creating rollable, bendable AMOLED panels to throw together a concept video of what the transparent,…
Read MoreXbox LIVE App Turns Windows Phone Into 360 Remote
Microsoft's December 6 Xbox 360 Dashboard update will also bring a new smartphone app, Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone, turning your handset into a remote…
Read MoreXbox 360's LIVE Cable TV Attack Detailed
Microsoft has detailed its challenge to cable TV, with a roadmap of Xbox LIVE streaming content for the Xbox 360 including Hulu Plus, Netflix and…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus Volume Update: Are You Fixed?
Samsung and Google began rolling out the Galaxy Nexus volume bugfix late last week, though it seems not all users of the Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone have…
Read MoreApple Licensed iOS Patent To Nokia But Samsung Deal Collapsed
Assumptions that Apple uses its patent portfolio to strongarm rivals into costly, time-wasting revisions of hardware and software, rather than as a way to milk them…
Read MoreThe Apple TV Has Been Quietly Killed, Hasn't It?
Last year, when Apple released the next-generation Apple TV, I was happy. I felt that after all these years, the company finally understood just how…
Read MoreApple's US Samsung Sales Ban Demands Refused
Apple's attempts to have Samsung's smartphones and tablets banned from sale in the US have been rejected in the US courts, with a ruling late…
Read MoreLG Nitro HD Hands-On And Unboxing
If you want a top tier Android smartphone rocking just about all the top of the line specs we've seen lately then you'll want to…
Read MoreMIUI Version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Under Development Now
When you've got the opportunity to improve upon the most advanced version of a software made by one of the biggest tech companies in the…
Read MoreApple Made To Specify Design Alternatives For Samsung
Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in a worldwide legal battle for months regarding the South Korean manufacturer's smartphones and tablets infringing on the Cupertino…
Read MoreSouth Park: The Game 2012 Official For Xbox 360, Playstation 3, And PC
Let the skepticism begin as a series of games so bad they're compared to the Nintendo releases of Star Wars continues with a release on…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus Visits FCC Again, But With AT&T Bands
There's still no definitive word yet as to when Google's new flagship Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will arrive on Verizon, but…
Read MorePortal 2 Takes Your Holiday Shopping To A New Dimension This Season
There's a game out there called Portal 2, and in that game it's the physics of the environment you're in that dictate how you play…
Read MoreMotorola Droid RAZRMAX May Tout Larger Battery
Motorola may be preparing a follow up to its ultra-thin DROID RAZR LTE smartphone with a new device called the DROID RAZRMAX. This move may…
Read MoreAndroid ICS Nexus S Update Out Today For Employees Only
It has begun for those of you working at Google today running a Nexus S, the update to the official Google-distributed Ice Cream Sandwich Android…
Read MoreiPhone Siri Vs. Windows Phone TellMe In Fair Comparison Video
Apple's Siri voice-driven intelligent assistant app called Siri faces off with Microsoft's similarly capable Windows Phone TellMe app in a new YouTube video that claims…
Read MoreThe Midwest And Greater Russia: Mobile Equivalents
Just a few short years ago, your humble narrator had never so much as picked up a smartphone, much less owned a device with a…
Read MoreAndroid And Samsung Steal The Show In comScore October Report
When it comes to statistics on mobile devices, there's one name that shows up in our news readers more often than any other - comScore…
Read MoreMotorola DROID 4 Dual-Core LTE QWERTY Slider Revealed Semi-Officially
When it comes to the DROID line as carried by Verizon, there's no knowing which manufacturer is going to get to have their hardware graced…
Read MoreGasoline Fuel Cell Might Find Its Way Into Volt-Like Cars Of The Future
The Volt has been having its share of issues of late with fires after crash tests. Still it is one of the only cars of…
Read MoreGM Will Buy Volts Back From Owners Worried About A Fiery Death
The GM Volt extended range hybrid has been in the news a lot lately after a test vehicle caught fire in the test center parking…
Read MoreHonda Shows Off Motor Compo Electric Scooter Concept
When you live in some of the major cities around the world getting around is a hassle. In the more rural parts of the world,…
Read MoreSecurity Researcher Shows How To Game Facebook's Three Trusted Friends Recovery Feature
A Brazilian security researcher has shown at a conference how hackers can use social engineering and the new three Trusted Friends password recovery feature to…
Read MoreVerizon Buys $3.6bn AWS Spectrum For LTE Expansion
Verizon Wireless has splashed out on $3.6bn worth of spectrum for its LTE expansion, grabbing 122 AWS licenses covering approximately 259m people from a joint venture made…
Read MoreCasio Bluetooth 4.0 Smartwatch Pairs With DoCoMo Android Phone
Casio's Bluetooth 4.0 smartwatch plans are nearing fruition, with the first pairing of a low-power wireless watch and Android smartphone headed to Japan's NTT DoCoMo…
Read MoreRIM Swallows $485m Q3 Hit Over Unsold PlayBooks
RIM will take a $485m hit for its stockpiled BlackBerry PlayBook mountain, the company has announced, though insists it is still "committed" to the 7-inch tablet…
Read MoreAcer Iconia Tab A200 Official: Budget Slate With ICS Promise
Acer has officially announced the Iconia Tab A200, its latest Android tablet, though don't expect any Transformer Prime-style performance rivalry here. The Iconia Tab A200…
Read MoreAndroid Gingerbread On Over Half Of Devices, As ICS Challenge Begins
Google and its Android manufacturing partners have finally managed to get the majority of devices in the wild up to date with Gingerbread... just in…
Read MoreVerizon XyBoard 4G LTE Tablets Confirmed For December
If you were expecting the next tablet that hit Verizon in the US from Motorola to be called the Xoom 2 you are out of…
Read MoreGoogle In Talks For Cheap One-Day Delivery Scheme For Online Purchases
I like shopping online, but I hate shopping online too. The thing I like is that I don’t have to fight the idiot masses at…
Read MoreWindows 8 ARM Tablet Apps Metro-Only Tips Insider
Microsoft is considering dropping support for regular software on Windows 8 on ARM tablets, according to the latest leaks, leaving owners of the slates with…
Read MoreApple Squeezes Out Longer Samsung Tablet Ban In Oz
Apple has managed to extend the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban in Australia for a further week, despite an appeals court describing the block…
Read MoreWindows 8 Public Beta Slated For Release Late February
Word is that the public beta of Windows 8 is apparently slated to be released in late February of 2012, according to sources close to…
Read MoreReport Shows That iPhone 4S Now More Popular Than iPhone 4
An overwhelming majority of iPhone 4S owners are “very satisfied” with their new Apple device, and in particular, of the onboard Siri Digital Assistant. According…
Read MoreApple Patent Reveals Device Data Sharing Via Camera-Based Handshakes And Invisible Inks
A new patent application from Apple released today reveals the company's recent foray into new methods for establishing communication between devices close to each other…
Read More4moms Origami Stroller Is $850 USD Of Futuristic Baby Transport
You've got a choice when it comes to getting your baby around in style, and if 4moms has anything to say about it, the Origami…
Read MoreI Want To See Amazon Destroy Netflix
Over the last couple years, I’ve been a devoted Netflix customer, paying my fee every month to access the company’s streaming service. But I’m starting…
Read MoreGoogle Wallet To Hit Vending Machines Starting In NYC, Chicago, D.C., And San Francisco
Google Wallet will soon be heading to a vending machine near you. The NFC-enabled payment system lets you make purchases with a simple tap of…
Read MoreV-MODA Faders By Ear Armor Metal Earplugs Block Sound With Metal
When you first get a glimpse of these little pieces of hardware, you may well mistake them for earbuds for listening to your high-fidelity soundscapes…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus Verizon Apps Disabling Photographed, Launch Imminent
What we're looking at today is a few more photos from the wild of the Galaxy Nexus working out on Verizon's 4G LTE network, this…
Read MoreYouTube Unveils Major Redesign, Gets Social, Adds Algorithmic Feeds
YouTube unveiled today the biggest redesign of its homepage in history. The revamped interface appears to be part of Google's move to introduce a social…
Read MoreGoogle+ Hangouts Add Free Conference Calling
The first time we used the Hangouts feature on Google+, the group's social media network, just a few short weeks ago, the team here at…
Read MoreASUS Transformer Prime Vs iPad 2, Benchmark Tests
There's so very much to say about a couple of devices when you're comparing them, especially two titans like the iPad 2 and the Asus…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus LTE Press Images Appear In Verizon Webpage Guts
When you've got a device so monumentally important to the operating system it runs that people are hunting through the webpage code for the carrier…
Read MoreICS 4.0 Hidden Android Dreams Feature Hands-On
Google is a place where even though their slogan may no longer have to do with the doing of no evil, they certainly do a…
Read MoreSony PlayStation Video Store Viral Ads Have Us Questioning Our Effects Skills
Sony is showing off their PlayStation Store's Video Store with a set of "Most Insane Immersive Movie Experience EVER" spots that show off how utterly…
Read MoreApple Store Grand Central NYC Confirmed For December 9
When it comes to well-placed stores, Apple is more than a pro in the industry, and confirming their plans to add another hero store in…
Read MoreVerizon Galaxy Nexus Release Date Dec 11 Tips Best Buy Leak
Another day, another Verizon Galaxy Nexus release date rumor, and now Best Buy is tipped to be getting the Ice Cream Sandwich in stock on…
Read MoreAT&T Blasts FCC T-Mobile Report: "Obviously One-Sided"
AT&T has lashed back at the FCC over its comments regarding the T-Mobile USA acquisition, calling preliminary analysis "obviously one-sided" and "an advocacy piece, and…
Read MoreiPhone 4S Buyers Overwhelming Happy; Missing 4G A Pain Point
iPhone 4S buyers are more content with their smartphone than iPhone 4 buyers were after that handset's 2010 launch, according to a new survey, with…
Read MoreUSAF X-37B Space Plane Stays In Orbit Past Its 9-Month Mission Window
Of all the recent space secrets that the USAF and NASA are keeping one of the most intriguing is the X-37B that is in orbit…
Read MoreSharp Unveils Thinnest CMOS Camera Module For Smartphones
As the smartphones that we all know and love get thinner, the components inside the device must get thinner too. Super thin smartphones like the…
Read MoreAuction Nabs $380,000 For Apollo 13 Checklist
During the space race in the 60's and 70's NASA sent several mission to the moon. Of all those manned moon missions, the only one…
Read MoreSamsung PixelSense LCD Multitouch Displays Hit Mass Production
Samsung isn't just relying on Microsoft's second-gen Surface SUR40 for sales of its in-pixel multitouch LCD panels: the company has begun mass production of the 40-inch display,…
Read MoreAT&T Lands Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket In White Just For Christmas
If you are in the market for a new smartphone, the Christmas season is a good time to be in the market. Not only can…
Read MoreIntel Tipped To Work On WiGig Wireless Docking Stations For Ultrabooks
I mentioned last week that Intel was said to be working on a new wired docking device for the Ultrabook lien that is tipped to…
Read MoreNo Transformer Prime 3G/UMTS Version Says ASUS Germany
While the ASUS Transformer Prime has finally hit the SlashGear test bench and - in a few days time - store shelves, for some the…
Read MoreImplanted Medical Devices Of The Future Could Be Laser Powered
Should Dr. Evil ever have the need for an implanted medical device like a pacemaker, pain med pump, or insulin pump he will love this.…
Read MoreSamsung Outs 256GB SSD Ideal For Ultrabooks
As Intel pushes its Ultrabook platform there are more and more SSDs hitting the market that are seemingly aimed right at the Ultrabook makers and…
Read MoreVideo: Android 4.0 Running On ZiiLABS ZMS-20 Reference Tablet
The chip inside this ZiiLABS reference tablet that has turned up on video at ARMdevices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich today is the ZMS-20.…
Read MoreUS Forces AT&T And Verizon To Fork Over Data In Search For Chinese Spying
The US has forced major telecommunications providers like AT&T and Verizon to fork over data using powers left over from the cold war. The reason…
Read MoreVerzo Responds To Consumer Input, Offers Two Cheaper Kinzo Phone Models
A couple weeks back we talked a bit about the Verzo Kinzo Android smartphone that had just launched. The smartphone was a luxury focused device…
Read MoreNokia Denies Carrier IQ Tracking; iPhone Code Spotted But Nexus Clean
Nokia has denied reports that its cellphones and smartphones contain code from Carrier IQ, the mobile analytics company accused of logging keypresses, text entry and…
Read MoreLG Debuts New DX2500 3D Monitor With Parallax Barrier Tech
I like 3D and wouldn't mind having a TV or computer monitor that supports the tech in my home. I don’t want to have to…
Read MoreFoursquare Adds New Save To Foursquare And Follow Buttons
When it comes to social networking most all of the big sites have special buttons that make it easy for you to share content you…
Read MoreApple Explains Siri Abortion Ignorance
Apple has denied intentionally omitting women's health services and abortion clinics from its iPhone 4S Siri virtual assistant, highlighting instead the system's beta status. Controversy…
Read MoreIllinois Hack Scare Mistook Own Team For Russian Spies
Local and Federal blunders have been blamed for the false Illinois hack attack scare in November, described as a "comedy of errors" with investigators mistaking…
Read MoreTransformer Prime Available 12/19 Says ASUS
In addition to our first hands-on post and introduction to our review series on the ASUS Transformer Prime, we've got official word from the manufacturer…
Read MoreASUS Transformer Prime Hits US December 8 Says Taiwan
ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer Prime will go on sale in the US from December 8, the company has confirmed, a week after Taiwanese sales begin…
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus LTE For Verizon Spotted In The Wild, Video By Early Owner
It appears that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE, aka the version coming out in the USA under the Verizon banner, is closer than we thought…
Read MoreASUS Transformer Prime Hands-On And Unboxing
The newest Android tablet by the name of ASUS Transformer Prime is also the first place on earth you'll be able to work with the…
Read MoreASUS Eee Pad MeMo 7-Inch Tablet Running Android 4.0, Dropping In January
There have been more than a few iterations of the ASUS Eee Pad MeMo since it was first announced at the Consumer Electronics Show last…
Read MoreAT&T & T-Mobile Mulling Joint Venture If Acquisition Deal Falls Apart
Judging from all the rumors, it seems like that AT&T is looking at all of its remaining options in light of its withdrawn attempt to…
Read MoreArduino 1.0 Release Now Available
Arduino 1.0 is finally out, after many years of revisions and changes to "clean up the Arduino environment and language, as well as adding lots…
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