Archive for December, 2010 - Page 4

Looking back on your holiday shopping this year, where did you go most often? If you were anything like me, you did about eighty-odd percent of your shopping online, and chances are pretty good that you, also like me, did a lot of that through Amazon or its many, many, [...]

Earlier this year, during an earnings call, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was pretty adamant that 7-inch tablets would be “dead on arrival” and went on to say that basically, they were just manufacturers creating a format that nobody wanted. Now, we’ve had the Samsung Galaxy Tab and we (and others) [...]

While the Nintendo 3DS is expected to be the next big thing in the video game world, Nintendo wants you to know that the portable game system isn’t for everyone. Yesterday the company issued a warning on its Japanese language blog saying children under the age of six should stay [...]

Planning your drive can be cumbersome, especially if you’re going somewhere unfamiliar. Fortunately, there are map and navigation applications that help you through your trip.

It’s always good to bring out a story involving robots, and the folks at the Daejon Museum of Art in South Korea (what, you thought it was going to be North Korea? No way.) are more than willing, apparently, to oblige me as they wheel out the Docent robot, their [...]

The AMOLED screen has given us a whole lot of news this year, and so, it’s downright fitting that it should be part of the new year in tech news as well, with Samsung’s announcement that they’ll be showing the next generation of AMOLED screens out at the 2011 CES [...]

It’s not hard to see how some people might think the netbook is a dead product line. When you consider a laptop will do so much more and a tablet is so much more portable than a netbook, it’s really easy to see that the laptop / tablet concepts should [...]

The folks at IntoMobile are reporting that they’ve gotten a tip that next week, during CES, AT&T will announce the Motorola Olympus. The Olympus has been rumored for a while, and the alleged specs are impressive – 4.3-inch screen, 1Ghz dual-core processor, NVIDIA Tegra SoC. Do you believe this one?

If you’ve got an older model television–it’s okay, you can admit it. We’re all friends here; even I have one. It’s five years old but it still works and I can’t bring myself to throw out a working television in this economy.–then you know that it’s not going to do [...]

An HTC Android tablet has been rumored for a while. At first, we thought that the HTC EVO Shift would be that tablet, considering that HTC produced a ultra-mobile computer in the past named the HTC Shift that was sort of tablet-like and was running Windows Vista. But, that’s just [...]