Archive for November, 2011 - Page 8

We have seen some bits and pieces in terms of which LG devices would be getting the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, however as of today we now have a bit more to go on. Of course, what we have at this point is still not the entire [...]

It looks like the Kindle has been good to Amazon this holiday shopping season. More specifically, the Kindle Fire has been good for Black Friday sales and not only for Amazon, but with other retailers such as Target and Best Buy.

Smartphones, tablets, notebooks, and other gadgets have a pre-defined lifetime, mostly because of battery chemistry. But a new technology being developed will last 10 to 30 years. Will our devices live that long, though?

Smartphone hackers and developers have been looking for a way to port Apple’s Siri speech recognition technology to older iPhones and the iPad. A recently-launched Cydia app gets Siri-like dictation on the iPhone 4 and 3GS, but is not quite the app that Siri lovers might be looking for.

Today has been a pretty busy day in the iOS jailbreaking universe. We just heard that the iPhone 4S can be unlocked, although the iPhone 4 will not have the same faith, and that there’s a new iOS 5 / iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak in town called Ac1dSn0w. Now it’s time [...]

Research says that iPhone users are most likely to upgrade to a newer iPhone model rather than switch to another platform, with most citing easy access to content and seamless integration of smartphone features. Does this mean it’s more difficult to get iPhone users to switch to Android than the [...]

While Ubisoft and its studios complain about the problem that is PC piracy, other companies like Devolver Digital and Bethesda are cleaning up thanks to PC gamers. Skyrim has consistently been at the top of Steam’s charts since it launched a couple of weeks ago, and Serious Sam 3: BFE [...]

Samsung is reportedly going to discontinue production of netbook computers by 2012, in light of the rise of smartphones, tablets and other ultraportable technologies. Does this mean the end of cheap and small notebook computers?

Black Friday shopping has been hectic, and there have been reports of shoppers going as far as pepper-spraying fellow patrons in an effort to do “competitive shopping.” But at Apple Stores, customer service is at its best, with employees getting your order ready even before you enter the premises.