Archive for April, 2011 - Page 23

Apple has recently filed a lawsuit against Samsung for alleged patent infringement, in what seems to be a proxy attack against Google. Samsung has retaliated, filing copyright infringement cases against Apple in Germany, South Korea and Japan.

They say that April showers bring May flowers, but the forecast for May is looking decidedly stormier thanks to some early word that says the MacBook Air lineup will be getting Thunderbolt ports next month.

If you’ve been out to a restaurant lately, you’ll know first hand the perils that come along with such an act. The wait for a waiter to show up and give you a menu, then another wait for said waiter to return and take your order, then another wait to [...]

Just after we found out about HBO’s plans to expand its HBO Go streaming service and in the process snub Netflix, we find that HBO delivered yet another snub to Netflix by offering the valuable content to Netflix’s new primary rival, Dish Network. Now, Dish Network subscribers can use the [...]

You may already be aware that the space program has given us a lot of hardware that we use every day. Things like cordless tools, television satellite dishes, and even certain kinds of ball point pens came out of the space program. Well, this time, the military’s throwing in a [...]

A surprise emerges from the folks at Fujitsu, who likely aren’t the first name you think of when you think of laptops. But in an era increasingly marked by not having physical possession of your media, thanks to the great amorphous entity known as “the cloud”, it’s clear where Fujitsu’s [...]

We’re all dying to save a little money these days. We’re cutting back on the lattes, canceling the cable, reducing our Netflix accounts and so on. But if you’re looking to pick up a new tablet PC, and you want to feel that sweet joy of saving money, then the [...]

We have seen a few rumors up till this point and have even had the devices come available for pre-sale with Best Buy Canada, however these recently leaked documents seem to have officially confirmed the pricing for the Xperia Play and Xperia Arc smartphones with Rogers.

The HTC Sensation has been long rumored, though we should note that it began as the HTC Pyramid. Needless to say, its not-yet-available-for-purchase life began as a series of rumors. Thankfully though, the Sensation has since been officially announced by HTC and T-Mobile here in the US and now it [...]

I cannot imagine many people liking mail-in-rebates, but at the same time they are probably better than one of the alternatives — no rebates. On the flip side, there are also instant rebates and Sprint has been offering those since back in late-March.