Want a little bit more Autobot in your PC’s life? While everybody was busy making a big deal out of Habro’s trademark lawsuit against the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime – ourselves included – another manufacturer quietly showed off some Transformer-related PC hardware of its own, and these components look like they may actually be licensed! Late last week, ASRock plopped concept pics of Optimus Prime- and Bumblebee-branded X79 mobos up on its Facebook page [......]
With CES 2012 just around the corner, we can expect to see a handful of product announcements trickle out ahead of the convention. Take for example LG's 55-inch OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) TV panel, the largest of its kind in the world, according to LG Display, which announced the TV panel today. LG hopes this will help popularize the OLED TV market[......]
Fitness watches are one thing, but how about a fitness watch that lets you play a few levels of Angry Birds in between wind sprints? Motorola’s MotoACTV debuted alongside the Droid RAZR not too long ago, and one developer has finally taken it upon itself to unleash its full potential. [......]
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not an ultrabook was whirring, not a touchpad nor mouse . The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, With hopes they were stuffed with Thunderbolt MacBook Airs [......]
If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Mind control would be my answer (I hope to be an evil genius when I grow up)[......]
Under intense pressure from an Internet-wide boycott, domain registrar GoDaddy has given the open Internet an early Christmas present: it's dropping its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act. [......]
It's as if the last four years hadn't happened. In 2007, Google's legal dispute with a coalition of authors and publishers over Google Books was put on hold while the parties hashed out a settlement agreement. That agreement was announced in 2008 , but it attracted a massive backlash that convinced Judge Denny Chin to reject the settlement earlier this year. [......]
"Patent lawsuit filed against Android" has become a distressingly familiar headline for Google and its hardware partners. With Microsoft signing license agreements covering more than 50 percent of Android phones , Apple working the courts to block sales of HTC and Samsung devices, and various lawsuits launched by rivals from Oracle to BT, the Android mobile operating system is stumbling through a legal minefield. It's fair to complain that the patent system itself is broken, as we've done on numerous occasions. [......]
Good news! The Kindle Fire's working properly now! Amazon's issued an automatic software update that adds a raft of new features including Buttons Reacting When You Press Them, Touch Commands Being Detected and Your New Gadget Actually Bloody Working Properly. It's free and came out quickly, so hurrah for that, but it's yet another example of what I like to call "the tech industry taking the proverbial out of its customers"[......]
The Nest Thermostat is a gorgeous piece of eco-friendly electronics. But like your mom always said, it’s what’s inside that counts. Well then, she’ll be pleasantly pleased to find out that the inside of the Nest is as equally beautiful as the sleek exterior[......]
10 tech trends to watch for in 2012 Predicting the future is a tricky business. Some of our picks for 2011 didn't turn up - Augmented Reality remains a potentially great thing rather than a popular, useful thing - and others were damp squibs, such as Google's supposedly world-conquering Chrome OS. [......]
Here’s a product announcement that should come as a surprise to, well, no one. [......]
A new song, "Firewall," protests to the SOPA Copyright bill. Read More: YouTube , Cnet Read the comments on this post [......]
The TechRadar Christmas wishlist The weather outside may be frightful but the tech around these days is so delightful that we simply had to share with you just what's on our Christmas wishlists this year. We hope Father Christmas understands that we're not really and truly expecting £9,000 TVs and expensive cameras in our stockings – we haven't been that good – but hey, a tech writer can dream. So, in the spirit of Christmas and mass consumerism, and on the off chance that a wealthy benefactor is waiting in the wings of our lives to swoop in and spoil us with all the tech our hearts desire, here it is: the TechRadar Christmas Wishlist 2011[......]
Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Meet Swivl, The Motion Tracking iPhone Dock That Always Keeps You On Camera Kickstarter: spnKiX Are Motorized Shoes – Yes, Motorized Shoes Hands-On With The 4Moms Origami Stroller Kindle Fire Display Doesn’t Stand Up To Nook, iPad 2 In Tests In Which We Reveal The Top CES 2012 Trends Without Breaking Embargoes [......]
