Lenovo’s joining the tablet party this summer by launching its own tablet. To boot, it comes with its own custom, Lenovo-flavored version of Honeycomb. Over the weekend, This Is My Next got their hands on a document detailing the Thinkpad device. Also somewhere, a Lenovo PR rep is crying.
Lenovo’s 10.1-inch tablet comes with a …
Forget about passwords and fingerprint readers, Windows laptops of the future may authenticate simply by looking at you.
Using a leaked early build of Windows 8, the hackers at Windows8italia discovered a sensor programming interface with the ability to “detect human presence.” Presumably, this would allow the computer to power on …
It’s beginning to seem as if Google can’t help itself investing in green technologies. Not only has it decided to build a tower of solar power-collecting goodness and invested $100 million in an Oregonian wind farm, now the company has signed a power purchase agreement for wind energy in Oklahoma.
The agreement is for all power …
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.
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Magic Milk Straws: $2.50 …
The State Department isn’t the only governmental department thinking about how useful smartphones can be, as it turns out; the Defense Department is also working on making sure that every soldier in the US Army and Marine Corps can stay connected with their very own, custom-made, smartphones. And their choice of operating system? …
For the new wave of touch screen operating systems, a Kindle app is a status symbol. iPad? There’s a Kindle app for that. Android phones? Ditto. Blackberry Playbook? Sorry, no. WebOS? Nuh uh.
Now, you can add Android 3.0 Honeycomb to the list of platforms deemed worthy by Amazon’s app makers. The latest update to Kindle for Android …
Tweeting is a delicate balancing act: How to be amusing, informative or just plain not dull in 140 characters or less? Now those of us who fail at that task on a regular basis have something else to aspire to – the Humblebrag.
Created by comedian and Parks & Recreation writer Harris Wittels, the Humblebrag twitter feed calls out …
We’ve all been there. Does this sound familiar to you?
You’re at work and you realize you forgot to mow your lawn. You rush home in a panic. You miss several important meetings—or meetings that your company considers important, yet you’ve calculated how much it’d cost to build a lifelike dummy of yourself that lives in the …
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a little file on your iPhone called “consolidated.db” that records your whereabouts every so often.
Some people are upset about it and some people are saying it’s not a big deal. However you perceive it, you can take a simple step to ensure that the location information recorded by your iPhone doesn’t …
Earlier this week, we caught wind that Apple was suing its buddy Samsung, with accusations that the icon designs that Samsung’s been using for its line of Galaxy-branded smartphones and tablets represent “blatant copying” of the icons Apple uses for the iPhone and iPad.
Apple and Samsung have seemingly had a civil working relationship …
Yes, of course they do, or at least according to a massive survey conducted by a new suggestion website called Hunch.com.
According to a report on Yahoo News/Live Science, Hunch may be able to predict a person’s preferences in terms of movies, food, art and even politcal leanings based off their operating system of choice.
How does …
DishOnline, Dish Network’s subscriber-only streaming video service, may not have the success or scale of Netflix’s Watch Instantly, but it does have something that the VoD giant doesn’t: Exclusive HBO and Cinemax programming.
Dish’s online service will add 1,800 titles from the premium cable networks in a deal announced today giving …
