Acer unveils thinnest ever Ultrabook alongside new HD tablet
At CES today, Acer introduced a new Ultrabook model that it’s calling the thinnest Ultrabook yet, along with a high-definition Iconia Tab tablet. The company also announced a new cloud storage service named AcerCloud...
Lenovo puts Android 4 on 55-inch TV and 10-inch tablet
Lenovo announced plans today to release an Android 4-powered smart TV, an Android 4 10-inch tablet, and a new smartphone, along with its own cloud-based data services. The company is calling the 55-inch TV the first to run the...
When "good enough" just isn’t: LG Nitro HD review
The LG Nitro HD is big in every way on paper: 4.5-inch screen, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 8-megapixel camera. But while those stats are great, the Nitro HD falls short in many areas that other manufacturers...
Week in tech: state of the browser, hacking WiFi, and Wicca-free browsing
Modern Warfare 3 ads don't sanitize war, they reveal game's truth: The Modern Warfare series has found fame and fortune in selling us a safe version of armed conflict. That success says more about us than it does Activision.
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French court frowns on Google autocomplete, issues $65,000 fine
A court in Paris, France has fined Google $65,000 because its search engine's autocomplete feature brings up the French word for "crook" when users type the name of an insurance company.
Google had been sued by insurance compan...
Why quad-core iOS devices could launch within the next year
Deep within the latest iOS 5.1 betas are code references that appear to suggest that Apple is readying its mobile operating system for quad-core processors. According to "knowledgable and reliable" sources speaking to 9to5Mac, th...
Gigabit Wi-Fi chips emerge, will power super-fast home video streaming
The first wireless networking chips capable of powering gigabit-per-second speeds using the forthcoming IEEE 802.11ac standard are starting to emerge, with routers and other consumer networking products expected to launch i...
Nikon announces first camera to use new XQD cards
Nikon announced the Nikon D4, its newest flagship professional DSLR, on January 5. The D4 will be the first to use the latest XQD memory card format, the successor to the venerable CompactFlash. On the same day, Sony announced...
iPhone 4S users are big data hogs compared to iPhone 4 users
That new and improved antenna in the iPhone 4S is apparently helping its users download gobs of data. In fact, according to a new report from network management firm Arieso, iPhone 4S owners use twice as much data as...
Wind River enhancement module adds overlapping windows to Android
Wind River, an embedded systems company that is owned by Intel, has bundled its collection of custom Android frameworks and platform enhancements into modules that can be commercially licensed by Android device makers. Ther...
Next-gen Google TV to use ARM instead of Atom
A statement issued by Marvell Thursday revealed that the next-generation Google TV reference design ditches x86 in favor of ARM. The Google TV products that are going to be unveiled at CES use Marvell's ARMADA 1500 SoC, which has......
Worm steals 45,000 Facebook login credentials, infects victims’ friends
A worm previously used to commit financial fraud is now stealing Facebook login credentials, compromising at least 45,000 Facebook accounts with the goals of transmitting malicious links to victims' friends and gaining remote acc...
