Archive for February, 2011 - Page 17

The home theater PC is a wonderful concept. Take a device that you’re already familiar with, that has been giving you access to the internet for years (where, I might add, a hefty quantity of entertainment options awaits), and shrink it down to the point where it will easily fit [...]

We’ve all been there, from time to time. We’ve taken our laptop out to a Starbucks or what have you, let it get clunked around in the trunk of our cars, dropped it, all those kinds of things. And sure, most of the time, they shrug off these minor slings [...]

Say what you will about the projector–there’s plenty you could say, make no mistake there–from the fact that they’re noisy and expensive to the fact that they require regular bulb replacements to be of any use, there are plenty of downsides to the projector. But one thing they do better [...]

Are you familiar with Instapaper? It’s an iOS app that lets you save web pages for reading later, and it’s one of the most popular paid apps on the App Store. Because the app’s popularity is so constant, developer Marco Arment says he’s able to correlate spikes in his own [...]

A few weeks ago, we saw shocking images out of Egypt as people took to the streets to both protest and support (though mostly protest) the reign of long-time Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Twitter and Facebook played a big role in the protests, and I’ve even some call them the [...]

This industry, folks…this industry. Things move so fast, that unless you’re watching everything like a hawk, it just slips right by. But that’s why you come here, for all the latest. And what we’ve got today is a new king of the ring in the ultra-thin smartphone arena. The Sony [...]

US Cellular has announced their latest take on a buy one get one offer and it looks like they have stepped things up a bit and are offering the ability to get five for buying one.

Oh, sure, we’ve all made gestures at the television before. Ball games, the State of the Union address…all of these are good occasions for a few angry gesticulations. But for the first time, or so say the folks at Panasonic, a television will react to your gestures. And that television [...]

Microsoft has announced that the first Windows Phone 7 software update has begun rolling out as of today. But this good news comes with a catch — this is not the update that many were expected. Instead, its an update to prep for that update.

Where is the Dell Venue Pro? The Windows Phone 7 device from Dell was announced last year and seemed to be finished. Yet, we hadn’t seen it come out anywhere. In fact, Dell promised an Android version of the Venue Pro without a keyboard (dubbed just the “Venue”) would come [...]