Archive for August, 2011 - Page 19

We’ve heard how research shows how addicted the Internet and smartphones can be. Those addictions can have a strong influence on the decisions we make. Question is, are we so addicted that we are willing to sell our very souls to the Internet? One article explains how we have perhaps [...]

If you live in Canada and would like to test out a smartphone for a few weeks, you may want to head on over to the Virgin Mobile website and apply to join their Tester Team. The current crop of test phones are all running Android and include the HTC [...]

It’s been a strange few weeks for HP. Not only did we just watch HP pretty much abandon the dream of being cooler than Apple by dumping a substantial portion of its hardware lineup, but we also got the thrill of a lifetime, watching the prices on HP TouchPads fall [...]

Ever sit around staring at your one or two terabyte hard drive and think, man, if only there were some decently-sized storage systems out there? Well, if you’re finding yourself lamenting the meager state of terabyte storage we’ve got now, you’ll be absolutely delighted to know that IBM is working [...]

RIM recently unveiled a few new BlackBerry Curve models and at the time they gave the fairly standard sounding release news. In other words, they announced the handsets and offered a teaser as to when and where they would be available but left out the pricing and specific launch dates.

News has it that Facebook attempted to acquire Instagram but failed. Instagram is a mobile (iPhone) app which makes it simple to snap pictures, add some interesting filters, and share them with social networks. Facebook’s attempt to purchase the company has apparently fallen through so Facebook plans instead to release photo filters [...]

In a world where HP decided to stop selling a tablet that few were buying in the first place to only have it become super popular we should go in understanding that craziness will soon follow. Of course, the super popular part came as a result of the TouchPad being [...]

The one great thing about back to school time–aside from the movie theaters clearing out so I can watch a matinee in peace as nature intended–is that new computer releases really get cranking in the start of the run-up to Christmas shopping. And LG is offering up a pair of [...]

We saw some details leak a short while back about the LG Enlighten smartphone. The handset had been tipped as coming to Verizon and launching on August 25th. And well, as we can see from the calendar, that date has since passed us by — however some new information suggests [...]

As the frenzy over the $100 TouchPads comes down to a close after overselling upsets many consumers, news yet again emerges that another unit purchased is found to have come with Android as its main operating system rather than webOS. More news comes out as to how this anomaly has come to pass.