Archive for January, 2011

Well, that’s pretty much it for the rumors that Yahoo was looking to divest the Flickr site that it paid $35 million for not so long ago–Yahoo’s gone on record that they’re not putting Flickr up for bids after all.

It’s hard to look away from words like “biggest”, “lightest” or “most”, and that’s why it was downright exciting to hear about Panasonic’s move toward the lightest 15.6 inch laptop yet, the CF-B10.

Just earlier today we were following up on a story published on Sunday on the HTC Thunderbolt’s Mobile Hotspot feature at launch. At the time (earlier) we were looking at some pretty official-looking documents from Verizon that compared the 4G LTE phone with other Android devices and the iPhone 4 [...]

Bad news for some of you out there: if you recently ordered an Adam from the folks out at Notion Ink, you may well have already gotten a nasty surprise in your email inbox from them detailing how your shipment has been delayed, and delayed all the way back to [...]

We keep talking about the iPhone Dev Team launching Redsn0w 0.9.7 (Monte), the untethered jailbreak solution you’ve been waiting for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad but it looks like Geohot, the famous hacker, might also have something to say about that.

Call this one for the “probably should have thought of it sooner” files, but apparently, the folks out at Samsung have seen the value of adding Lovefilm streaming capability to their Blu-ray players sold in Great Britain.

We’re just about a week away from Superbowl XLV but we’re going to talk today not about the upcoming Pittsburgh Steelers vs Green Bay Packers game, but about some commercials that are going to be during it. Motorola’s Xoom is apparently going to star in one of them, and, spoiler [...]

Sony is planning to rerelease games that were already released for the PSP 1 on UMD for the NPG in the new flash-based memory card format that the NGP will use. The NGP will not ship with a UMD drive, partly because the disc format never caught on and partly to [...]

It’s always been something of a bad situation for folks who own both a Bloggie Touch camera from Sony and a Mac computer–while the Bloggie Touch was always compatible with the Mac, the software that runs the Bloggie Touch was not, meaning that Mac users had to improvise and find [...]

Admittedly, when this first came to light, it was looking like a full-on disaster for the folks out at Intel, who discovered and announced a flaw in the Sandy Bridge chipset, followed by reports of a recall effort. But quick reaction in Intel’s part might have spared them the worst [...]