Archive for June, 2010

Sad news for fans of Microsoft’s Kin phones today. Sources close to Microsoft told Gizmodo that the quasi-smartphones would be shelved. Not only are plans for any Kin Three not coming, but the Kin One and Two won’t be making their scheduled release in Europe.

If you’re into building your own PC hardware, then you’re very much aware that overheating is the enemy of pretty much everything you’re out to do. And if you want to make a powerful PC, you’re going to run into lots of opportunities for overheating. Thus, the folks at Cooler [...]

For those of you who, like me, are vaguely annoyed that the future has utterly crapped out so far on delivering things like jet packs, death rays and flying cars, take heart–at least one of those is now available.

A new netbook will be hitting the streets this August, the MSI Wind U135DX. It’s a lot like the original MSI Wind, but with some extra power.

You’ve got two days left, folks, to bid on one of five custom-built lightcycles from Parker Brothers Motorcycles on eBay. In case you’re not familiar with a lightcycle, it’s one of the motorcycles used in the movie Tron. We’re not talking about props here, either…we’re talking about actual, working, to-spec, [...]

Well stop the presses everyone, as it looks like there’s a new player in Android Ville! We call it Gingerbread and it’s the next Android version which is supposed to hit at some point by the end of the year. This is not the first time we hear Gingerbread is [...]

Before Apple made the iPhone, Motorola was unquestionably the #1 American mobile phone manufacturer. After the success of the iPhone, Motorola’s been playing catch up with their various Android devices. The iPhone 4′s reception issues is a pretty serious misstep for the top dog in the smartphone space – and [...]

Let’s face it–printers are not what you’d call interesting. Necessary they may be, but interesting? Almost never. At least, until the announcement of the HP Photosmart e-All-in-One D110a, which is going to make you think twice about printers.

Although some of us doubted it, OnLive’s cloud-based gaming service has ‘gone live’. It’s been up for 10 days, officially, and on Day 10, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman (of WebTV fame) has given a blog posting outlining the state of affairs at OnLive. Sounds like the service is running smoothly.

If you’ve ever bemoaned the storage capacity for your USB thumbdrive–and I think we’ve all been there before–then you’re going to be happy to hear about the “infinite USB drive” coming from Infinitec (more specifically called the IUM) this August.