March 7, 2011
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform was fashionably late to the smartphone party, but in the slate shindig, Microsoft’s Windows platform is just going to be late. Citing “people with knowledge” of Microsoft’s plans, Bloomberg reports there won’t be a …
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February 1, 2011
Well, at least one of the hot new phones shown off at CES is getting an official launch date. The HTC Inspire 4G for AT&T has been given the green light, and the deal seems sound. The Inspire will be on sale February 13th for the suspiciously low p…
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January 31, 2011
A leaked PR schedule for the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2011 event managed to fall into the hands of Electronista, who posted the details to the Web. Assuming it’s real, the itinerary confirms Samsung is working on a pair of second-generation Galax…
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January 31, 2011
Sanho just introduced its second run of HyperDrive hard drives for the iPad, this time upping the storage ante to 1TB. The HyperDrives hook up to any iPad using the Apple Camera Connection Kit and then acts just like any normal USB hard drive would.
“H…
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January 28, 2011
Barnes & Noble insists the latest Nook Color firmware upgrade (version 1.1.0) is a minor update, but collectively it improves the eReader on multiple fronts. Here’s what’s included:
Improvements to Wi-Fi connectivity
Improvements to Home and Shop …
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January 28, 2011
Amazon’s “Kindle Singles” sounds like an online meeting place for like-minded romantics to hook up and talk about their favorite books, but it’s not a Match.com clone. So what is it? Amazon describes it as a new kind of “well researched, well argued, a…
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January 28, 2011
Full HD recording is quickly becoming a standard feature in new point-n-shoot digital cameras, and this, along with several other features, are packed into Panasonic’s new Lumix FX78 ultra-compact.
Despite its diminutive size, Panasonic equipped the FX…
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January 28, 2011
Jonesing for a BlackBerry Curve with a touchscreen display? You might just get your wish. According to CrackBerry.com, Research In Motion is planning to release the BlackBerry Touch Curve in late 2011 or early 2012. That’s still a long ways off, and so…
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