Archive for May, 2011 - Page 18

It has been a terrible, terrible month to be Sony. Between the disaster in Japan doing huge amounts of damage to their physical plant and property, to the repeated and ongoing outages and hackings of their various network properties, it’s beginning to look like Sony’s been outright cursed. And now, [...]

Remember when we in the United States were all sad when the Chinese announced they’d eaten our lunch and stuck us with the check in terms of supercomputers with their Tianhe-1A? Well, with the release of the Cray XK6, we not only just keyed their car with a key the [...]

I’m really growing to enjoy the all in one PC concept. While previously I was skeptical of this relatively new form factor, it’s beginning to grow on me; the thought of saving space by putting all the guts of a tower directly into the monitor itself has a certain appeal, [...]

A move sure to cause controversy and division of opinion has landed at the Honywood Comprehensive School in Coggleshire, Essex: the school has announced plans to offer up an iPad 2 for every student. And while some are, not surprisingly, calling this a huge waste of money, there’s a growing [...]

One thing is clear: for years, Consumer Reports has long been the journal of record whenever you want information and product testing done on most everything under the sun. So when Consumer Reports hands most of your product line top marks across all its tested subjects, it’s time to break [...]

While many of the TweetDeck users have already heard the news that the app was purchased by Twitter, there is a bit of good news coming this morning. It seems that the crew at both Twitter and TweetDeck have officially announced the sale on their respective blogs, and at risk [...]

While we are still not entirely sure what that “confidential project” for the Droid X was all about, we can tell you this — the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update will begin rolling out for Verizon users on May 27.

It looks like the iPhone 4 is finally going to launch in India, and while those outside of the country may not find that interesting enough — the launch does come with a rather interesting subsidy. Almost like a reverse subsidy, except the reverse part does not come back in [...]

While there still seem to be some missing details, it looks like HP has given a free phone and free printer to at least some Best Buy employees. That being said, the part that has us scratching our head is whether this has happened just at this one location or [...]

We had known that AT&T was planning to begin the LTE network roll out sometime around the middle of this year. And well, it looks like they are planning to go live in five markets this summer.