Archive for April, 2010 - Page 8

You would need a PowerV Quad for your next Nintendo Wii party. Not only does it take the hassle out of charging four Wii remotes, but the device alone is pretty cool. Its sleek design and use of inductive charging will surely impress your friends.

Rumors begun circulating a month ago or so that NVIDIA was only getting a 20% yield on the Fermi GF100 GPUs. This was allegedly causing the poor supply of GeForce 400 cards, and was causing NVIDIA to actually lose money on every card sold. Drew Henry, an NVIDIA GM, has [...]

Just yesterday we’ve heard that Apple has purchased one of the main developers of its iPad A4 chip, Intinsity, for a rumored $121 million and now we hear that Cupertino has made one more interesting acquisition. This time around the company snatched Siri, an iPhone developer company, for a cool [...]

HP (the world’s biggest computer manufacturer) is going to buy Palm (the struggling mobile phone manufacturer). Palm has been in dire straits and was rumored to be courting several companies for a possible buy-out.

This is a highly dubious news report, but Bloomberg News is reporting that financial analysts in the mobile space and handset manufacturers are losing faith in both Google and Android’s future success. Despite perceived setbacks with Android, Google still says that mobile OS is going strong.

Samsung has recently announced that the Messenger B7330 is going to be making its way into the Canadian market. And for those of you that recognize the handset in the image below, it is also available as the Omnia Pro B7330 in Europe. But back to the task at hand [...]

United States Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has officially approved the first offshore wind farm in the United States.  130 wind turbines will be built off the Massachusetts coast in the Nantucket Sound for roughly $1 billion USD.

HP’s Compaq Airlife 100 smart-book has had a bit of attention as of late, it was officially announced back in February and more recently the specs were detailed on the HP website. Well, in a bit of news that will be nice for some, we have word of pricing and [...]

Japan is planning to launch a new satellite with an innovative propulsion technology.  The Ikaros Space Yacht will use solar sail technology to harness the energy of the sun’s radiation, the “solar winds” that flow throughout our solar system.

The Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G release is almost upon us, and just in case you forgot, it will be available this Friday April 30th. And perhaps a little more important are the details as to what you can expect in terms of data plans from AT&T. First and foremost [...]