[Update: Wall Street Journal is now confirming the report so we’re crossing our fingers that the news is true.]
Let the craziness begin. According to All Things D, the subject of the January 11 Verizon New York City press conference will likely be about the long-awaited Verizon iPhone. Insiders tell the blog that Verizon President and …
Toshiba’s leading the charge into glasses-free 3D. The company is showcasing both glasses-free 3D TVs and laptops here at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and while true glasses-free 3D TV is still more than a year from hitting the market, the glasses-free 3D laptops will be available later this year.
I’m still not sold …
The Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing here in Las Vegas and, as promised, there are tablets as far as the eye can see.
Just about every major manufacturer has been showing off some sort of tablet or line of tablets here but the general trend seems to be that most of them aren’t planning to release their respective products …
It appears that CBS boss Les Moonves wasn’t joking when he said that CBS was willing to talk to streaming VoD companies, as long as the price was right: relatively minor VoD company Boxee has announced that it will start selling individual episodes of CBS shows later this year.
The announcement was made at CES, and marks the first …
The Mac App Store has finally opened, and that means we can stop worrying about making that trip to the Mac store just for a program just to find out it’s been backordered. There’s no waiting in line, just waiting for your internet connection to finish the download and your computer to install the product. Now that you don’t have to …
Hulu Plus is continuing its slow journey towards being available everywhere, with the announcement that the paid streaming television on demand service is now available on Vizio Internet-connected HDTVs, and will soon be available on Vizio Blu-Ray players and select Android phones. Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced the partnerships at CES …
Amazon Web Services is feeling competitive in 2011. The company announced yesterday that it would be cutting prices on existing premium plans by 50%, as well as creating two new premium support plans for users, in response to moves from rivals like Oracle and Rackspace to enter the same space.
The first of the new premium plans is the …
Google Docs, the convenient tool for reading and writing documents and creating spreadsheets online, announced this week that it’s adding video sharing and playback to its ever-growing list of capabilities.
This means that videos can now be embedded and played in documents themselves. Videos can be up to 1GB in size, and the file …
Even though Apple’s new app store is only approaching its second day, hackers claim they’ve already cracked it. Members of Hackulous, who became famous for cracking the Apple DRM, have developed “Kickback,” a program that will allow you to download apps for free from the Mac App Store, according to Gadgets DNA.The catch is it won’t be …
Karl Stevens’ book The Lodger is so carefully and convincingly drawn from life that it’s tempting to assume the whole thing is fiction. Available from Stevens’ site and a few smart stores, it’s built around a year’s worth of the weekly comic strip Stevens draws for the Boston Phoenix, “Failure.” (The strip’s title is both a …
Yesterday, Citigroup announced that it would begin a trial run of a new smartcard that would give users control of their payment method.
More on Techland: Programmable Account Stores Multiple Credit Cards
Partnering with intelligent credit card producer Dynamics, Inc., Citi is set to release the Thank You Prestige 2G Card, a …
Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 Hybrid aims to offer those of us hemming and hawing between a tablet and a full-fledged laptop the best of both worlds.
It looks and behaves like a standard 10.1-inch Windows notebook with the key difference being that the screen pops out of the computer’s chassis to become a standalone touchscreen Android
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