Archive for December, 2009 - Page 12

A lot of netbooks are coming out this holiday season, making for one of the most sought-after gadgets this year. However, if you’re in the market for one these days (maybe as a Christmas gift), there is a high chance to end up kicking yourself, maybe a month later. Why? [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the FCC decided to ask Verizon Wireless a few questions regarding those new Early Termination Fees that Big Red decided to invent. We covered that request and now we’re back with Verizon’s response.

Ford will be opening its Ford Sync API to developers in 2010, possibly leading to the release of a Sync app store as well as vehicle control of third party mobile apps.  Currently, controls on Ford Sync-enabled vehicles can be tied to contacts and music on mobile devices.  With an [...]

The CrunchPad has been a sweet dream of a visionary man but everything ended in disaster. Not only did Michael Arrington and his TechCrunch team cancel their collaboration with Fusion Garage and thus the launch of the CrunchPad but Fusion Garage also decided to sell the product on its own.

In just 18 months we have become pretty used to App Stores. The trend set by Apple was quickly followed by everyone else in the business and we’re probably going to see plenty of app store solutions in the near future. But will modern mobile browsers slowly kill app stores? [...]

Google has recently been in the news about their upcoming Nexus One smartphone and of course their rumored Chrome OS netbook, but it’s a certainty that their major focus is, still to remain a search engine — as it was originally meant to be. With that in mind, it looks [...]

Notion Ink is aiming to release a beautiful, large, Android-powered MID tablet next year. More information will be revealed next month at CES, but what we have seen, so far, is highly impressive. The tablet will have an ample 10.1″ LCD screen and will use NVIDIA’s new Tegra processing chipset.

In a week you’re waiting for Santa to deliver your Christmas gifts, in two weeks you’ll treat yourself with a drink for New Year’s Eve, and in three weeks you’d better have your Las Vegas plane tickets with you as the new CES 2010 Show kicks in from Jan 7 [...]

The XtremP3 (or XtreMP3) Player is a tiny waterproof MP3 player. The small gadget is a little ruggedized model, attached to an armband, that can be completely submerged up to 15 feet. It comes included with waterproof headphones. While ideally it may be useful for swimmers, it could also be [...]

As previously reported just a week ago, the new BlackBerry Curve 8530 has just been confirmed on Sprint (surprisingly, right on schedule — as it was supposed to be delayed till Jan 10th) with the smartphone shipping from the US carrier’s warehouse, starting today. Following to last month’s release on [...]