Archive for April, 2011 - Page 27

Every year, the Federal Trade Commission conducts an undercover shopper survey that test various businesses in the United States in order to find out which entertainment industry is best at self-regulating the sale of mature content to minors. And every year since 2000, the video game industry has made strides [...]

Maybe some of you have owned a portable television at one point or another. I did, actually–it was a high school graduation present. Lasted through most of college before finally burning out. And it got plenty of use, too–my mother loved it on long car trips. But portable television is [...]

The HTC Sensation is the new sensation from the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer. Announced just a few weeks ago, the phone will hit various markets soon as we already have a bunch of carriers lined up to start offering the phone to their subscribers.

Remember when, just a couple days ago, we brought you word about the iHub from the folks out at MIC Gadgets? How happy we were at the thought of being able to add four USB devices’ worth of capability to our iPads and Macbook Airs and such? Well, Apple has [...]

Last year an iPhone 4 prototype was forgotten in a bar around this time and while Apple has probably learned from its mistakes, the word on the streets is that iPhone 5 prototypes are already available for certain developers.

It’s enough to make a person wonder if maybe Cisco pulled the plug too early on the Flip Video line, because we’ve got reports of another pocket camcorder making its way onto the market. It’s the Toshiba Camileo BW10, and it doesn’t seem at all worried about smartphones and their [...]

For those of you who were hoping to get some video with your new Blackberry Playbook, there’s some sad news to report. Apparently the Blackberry Playbook has been put on a long blacklist of devices that Hulu just plain old won’t play with. But word is there’s a way around [...]

Putting an end to another series of rumors, Verizon and Samsung have announced the upcoming availability of the 4G capable Droid Charge smartphone. The handset is set to arrive in just about a weeks time, on April 28th and it will come priced on-contract at $299.99.

An interesting report has emerged from what’s being described as sources inside Apple, saying that the consolidated.db tracking application in iPhone and 3G iPads wasn’t some kind of Orwellian Big Brother-esque tracking system, but rather a bug in a much different kind of application.

Acer has recently unveiled a rather interesting device, its the DX241H which is going to be better known as the Web Surf Station. And while it looks like a standard monitor, the Web Surf Station is noted as being “the first monitor that lets you surf the web and enjoy [...]