Motorola Mobility Shareholders Vote to Approve Google Merger
Motorola Mobility shareholders have overwhelmingly approved of a potential merger with Google, the next step in the deal that was first announced in August. Ninety-nine percent of all voting...
3 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/18/2011
Samsung Surface SUR40 Available for Preorder
First demoed at CES in 2008, Microsoft's Surface started as an idea for making it easier to interact with information, pictures, video, and other content. Imagine a touchscreen interface...
17 by Jarred Walton on 11/18/2011
Thailand's flooding and our HDD needs
This holiday season might be a big one for SSD manufacturers. Like most tropical regions, Thailand experiences dry and rainy seasons, which are somewhat predicable, with the rainy season...
10 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/18/2011
Cotton Candy: Funny Name, Dual-core Android on a USB Stick
Occasionally a product presents itself that seems to be so logical you're left stunned that no one thought of this before. So it is with the Cotton Candy, the...
17 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/17/2011
Roku expanding to U.K. and Canada in Q1 2012
Roku announced today that they intend on bringing Roku boxes to the U.K. and Canada in 2012. In tandem with this announcement, Roku also plans on supporting region specific...
0 by Amman Sood on 11/17/2011
Rambus Loses Major Antitrust Case Against Hynix & Micron
There are few companies in the tech world as infamous as Rambus, an IP-only RAM development firm. For the better part of 10 years now they have been engaged...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2011
Minecraft Pocket Edition Comes to iOS Tomorrow
Mojang's indie game Minecraft, which has sold more than four million copies on the PC, is coming to iOS on November 17th according to its page in the iTunes...
8 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/16/2011
Work Begins on CyanogenMod 9, ETA in January
Following the release of Ice Cream Sandwich's source code, Cyanogen announced via Twitter that work had begun on CyanogenMod 9, the Ice Cream Sandwich-based version of the popular community-developed...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/16/2011
Newegg Giving A 15% Discount on Any OCZ SSD
Update: Apparently, the sale was only valid for one day (November 16th), meaning that the coupon code no longer works. Newegg is having a sale and they are giving a...
37 by Kristian Vättö on 11/16/2011
Qualcomm Announces a Bunch of Krait Based Snapdragon S4 SoCs
In February at MWC, Qualcomm unveiled three SoCs based on its brand new Krait microarchitecture: the single/dual-core MSM8930, dual-core MSM8960 and the quad-core APQ8064. More recently, we dove into...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2011
Amazon Kindle Fire Teardown
Thanks iFixit for the image! As we work on our Kindle Fire review, iFixit dissected Amazon's first entry into the tablet space. The internals aren't surprising - there's an OMAP...
7 by Kristian Vättö on 11/16/2011
Backify Closes Free Accounts, Starts to Charge for Storage
Two months ago, we wrote about a new online storage provider called Backify. Backify got our attention because of their magnificent offer: 512GB of "totally free" online storage. I...
42 by Kristian Vättö on 11/16/2011
HP's Winter Refresh, With Business-Class Ultrabook
We recently went out to San Francisco to take a look at HP's winter product refresh and meet with their representatives, and there were a couple of interesting new...
21 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/16/2011
AMD Introduces New Socket FM1 Athlon, Price Changes
In addition to its new Opteron chips, AMD yesterday announced a few small changes to its processor line-up, including adjusted prices for several of its Llano-based APUs (and one...
35 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/15/2011
Netflix Updates User Interface For Android Tablet App, iPad coming
A completely revamped user interface was released by Netflix today for all Android tablets. The redesign has been available on the Kindle Fire and Nook, but is now expanded...
16 by Amman Sood on 11/15/2011
Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Line to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update
In a blog post today, Sony Ericsson divulged that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich would be coming to the entire Xperia lineup. This follows the recent news that ICS...
8 by Amman Sood on 11/15/2011
BlackBerry London Image Leaked: The First QNX Phone
First reported by The Verge and subsequently confirmed by Boy Genius Report, the first image of BlackBerry's first BBX phone has leaked, and it is a significant departure from...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/15/2011
Windows 8 Streamlines Windows Update
With every new Windows release, Microsoft promises to reduce the number of times we'll have to restart our computers. Things have gradually gotten better - today, many program installations...
39 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/14/2011
Android 4.0.1 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Coming to AOSP
Jean-Baptiste Queru, a software engineer working on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), just confirmed that Android 4.0.1 source is now available. This is the version of Android that...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/14/2011
Futuremark Announces 3DMark for Windows 8
Windows 8 will bring with it a variety of changes—all of our Windows 8 coverage to date will give you the quick overview, but features such as the new...
2 by Jarred Walton on 11/14/2011
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