The home of the future will be insanely connected–everything talking to everything else. And while I don’t really care if my toaster is able to network with my coffee maker just yet, one of the things that intrigues me the most is the concept of a refrigerator that would be able to sense volume levels of certain containers and, when …
The Opera Mini web browser has finally been approved by Apple and is available through the app store. Features include server-side page compression, tabbed browsing, and bookmark synchronization. I’ve been playing around with Opera Mini for the better part of the morning and here are some early thoughts.
The Good
It’s very …
Apple unveiled its updated line of MacBook Pros this morning. The 13-inch model starts at $1199, the 15-inch at $1799, and the 17-inch at $2299.
Highlights include ten-hour battery life and NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics on the 13-inch model. The 15- and 17-inch models feature GeForce 330M graphics paired with an Intel HD graphics chip, …
Best Buy will begin selling Barnes & Noble’s NOOK eBook reader starting this Sunday, April 18th. Aside from merely selling the $260 device, Best Buy will also be preloading Barnes & Noble’s free “BN eReader” software on “select PCs (laptops and desktops), netbooks, tablets and smartphones,” according to a recent press …
Funny how we didn’t hear much out of Google when the Apple iPad launched. If there’s one company that could legitimately compete by bringing a tablet with similar specs to market, it’d be Google and its Android operating system. While various Android tablets are available with 5- to 7-inch screens and 800×480 resolutions, it seems …
Happy Monday, everyone. Is there such a thing? I guess we’ll find out. Here are some handpicked deals to get your week started on a positive note.
There’s a pretty insane deal on a Samsung wireless color laser printer from Office Depot. It’s just $125. Remember when color laser printers used to cost more than your first car? And …
Netflix just hammered out new deals with both Fox and Universal movie studios. The big news is that new-release DVDs from those two studios won’t be available right away on launch day any more. Instead, there will be a 28-day window in the interest of granting the studios “a dedicated time period for sales of its physical and digital …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
Your salary doesn’t allow …
Aw, that’s no good. Lenovo’s sub-two-pound, handsome, interesting Skylight Smartbook was supposed to be available this month but Laptop Magazine is reporting that the ship date has been pushed to July.
The Skylight is supposed to be the first real-life smartbook on the market. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and …
New Star Wars MIMOBOT thumb drives, folks. Gather round, gather round. Aside from the previously available Royal Guard, Wicket, C-3PO, Captain Rex, Darth Maul, and Darth Vader, we can now say hello to five new additions to Mimoco’s line of USB storage collectibles.
There are a couple must-haves in R2-D2 and Obi-Wan—pivotal players …
Shopping for a cell phone service plan presents a dizzying array of options, add-ons, and pricing structures. Here’s a look at several plans from the four major cell carriers. We’ll take a look at the cheapest personal voice plan, cheapest personal voice and texting plan, cheapest personal everything plan, and a couple of family …
The iPad isn’t even a full week out of the gate and already a DigiTimes analyst is hearing from “upstream component sources” that Apple may be planning a 5- to 7-inch iPad for the first quarter of next year.
Apparently it “will be priced below US$400 and will target the highly-portable mobile device market and consumers that …
