Archive for May, 2011
WHO Says Mobile Phones Are a Cancer Risk
It’s an oft-debated topic. Are mobile phones a health hazard? The World Health Organization has recently published a study that finds mobile phones to be a possible source of cancer risk.
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ECS Tablet Shell Dock Turns Your Smartphone Into a Tablet
The Asus PadFone concept might not exactly be unique, as ECS plans to sell a $200 dock for converting your iPhone or Android smartphone into a tablet.
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Computex 2011: Intel Atom Powered Android Tablets Make an Appearance
Intel promised to debut at least 10 Android tablets at Computex, and they’ve made good on that promise, with devices running the Medfield platform.
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Google Maps to Be Used In iOS 5 Maps Application
A few weeks ago, we reported on a rumor that that Maps application in iOS 5 would still use mapping data from Google Maps, despite the increasing competition and animosity between Apple and Google. Dr. Eric Schmidt, at the AllThingsD D9 conference announced today in a fireside chat that Apple [...]
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Computex 2011: Acer TravelMate 8481 Announced
Acer has introduced a new series of notebook computers at Computex. While it’s not as thin as your MacBook Air, it has a thin screen with slim bezel from LG.
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HTC Sensation Release Date Gets Official
In a press release dated “June 1”, T-Mobile US has announced the release information for their upcoming, hotly anticipated Android superphone HTC Sensation. Turns out this ‘sensational’ phone will be coming out June 15th, with it coming to Walmart ‘as early as June 12th’.
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Computex 2011: MSI Wind Box DC100 & DC450 Nettop Computers Announced
Tablets, smartphones, netbooks and hybrids are not the only stars of the show at Computex 2011. MSI has introduced two products that are not necessarily portable, but are space-savers.
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Buy One, Get One Half Off on Select DS & 3DS Games at Amazon
I don’t know about you, but today the temperature made it up to 90 degrees where I’m at. Yep, summer’s here at last, and that means two things: more hot weather and the summer game drought (July is looking particularly desolate). With such a shortage just on the horizon, it’s [...]
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CMIT TransPhone Is a Smartphone-In-Tablet Hybrid
Hybrid gadgets seem to be the rage in portable devices these days. Asus just announced its PadFone at Computex, but apparently they were not the first.
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Age of Empires Online Given A Release Date
It’s been almost a year since Gas Powered Games announced Age of Empires Online, the MMO version of the awesome real-time strategy series (well, excluding AoE 3), and today Microsoft finally dropped a release date for the freemium game in our laps. You won’t have to wait too much longer [...]
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