Shoot first, focus later. That’s the promise of a new point-and-shoot camera from Lytro. The rectangular gadget looks like anything but a traditional camera, which is probably a good thing since, well, this is anything but a …
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Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Priced at $200 Today After $50 Coupon Code
Barnes & Noble’s $250 Nook Tablet and Amazon’s $200 Kindle Fire have been duking it out since the holidays, each clamoring for a nice slice of the low-price 7-inch tablet market. The Kindle Fire’s $200 price tag has certainly …
Apple’s OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: The Mac Gets Even More iPad-Like
In October of 2010, Apple held a media briefing at its Cupertino campus. It called the event Back to the Mac, and one of the key pieces of news was the first public showing of OS X 10.7 Lion, an upgrade to its Mac operating …
Motorola Says Your Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade Isn’t Coming Soon
So you just bought the brand-new Droid 4 and you’re looking forward to your promised upgrade from Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The problem? You might be waiting for a long, long time.
Motorola …
Twitter Has iPhone Users’ Address Books, Too
After a developer discovered that the Path social-networking app was silently uploading iPhone users’ address books to its servers, a whole lot of other shoes — that is, other apps doing similar things — started to …
Coming Soon: Ultrabook Price Cuts
If you’re thinking about buying an Ultrabook–a thin and light Windows laptop that’s meant to rival Apple’s MacBook Air–you might want to wait until April.
That’s when Intel is expected to launch its Ivy Bridge processor …
Overpriced? AMD’s New HD 7770 and HD 7750 Graphics Cards in Reviews
AMD says it’s finally — finally — broken the 1 GHz chip speed barrier with its new budget-priced AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz graphics card. But wait, didn’t AMD already announce a 1 GHz GPU record, like three years ago? Note to …
Forget the Vita, I Want a Real PlayStation Tablet
On Monday, Sony’s PlayStation Vita showed up for review. I unboxed the system, popped in the cartridge for Uncharted: Golden Abyss and settled on my couch for a long night of handheld gaming (or rather, about three hours of …
50 Best iPhone Apps 2012
Whether you’re looking to load up a new iPhone or simply expand your collection, here’s our 2012 list of download-deserving apps.
Is Windows for ARM a Dead End?
Over at Cult of Mac, John Brownlee has an in-depth explanation of why it seems unlikely that Apple intends to ditch the Intel chips inside Macs for ARM-based ones akin to the processors it uses in the iPhone and iPad. His …
Apple Threatened with iPad Shipment Ban in China Trademark Fight
Apple’s trademark dispute with a Chinese firm over the term “iPad” is getting knottier by the day for the U.S. technology giant. Proview Technology, which says it owns the trademark for “iPad” in China, plans to ask Chinese customs authorities to ban all imports and exports of Apple’s wildly popular computer tablet, according …
Leaked BlackBerry 10 Images Show Android-Like Widgets, iPhone-Like Apps
BlackBerry 10 is looking a little bit like an iPhone and a little bit like Android in a batch of leaked screenshots.
Images of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, published by CrackBerry.com, apparently surfaced in a document …