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Article | 4/01/2011 Opera previews browser for tablets
Norwegian company Opera Software will unveil the first public preview of its browser for tablets at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES),...
Article | 4/01/2011 LG announces 'flicker free' LW6500 cinema 3D TV
In what may turn out to be a sneak peek of CES 2011 HDTV trends, LG announced the newest entry to their 2011 HDTV lineup--and it's a 3D TV that doesn'...
Article | 5/01/2011 HTC EVO Shift for Sprint first of many 4G devices at CES
The tidal wave of 4G phones at CES is just beginning with this morning's launch of the HTC EVO Shift 4G from Sprint.
Article | 5/01/2011 Apple's great (and not-so-great) moments in 2010
Apple makes two huge announcements for the Mac: an ultrathin MacBook Air that swaps a hard drive for flash storage built into the motherboard, and a s...
Article | 22/12/2010 The Top 10 Video Games of 2010
Here's my obligatory list of 2010's top 10 video games, in no particular order. Yours would no doubt look different. That's the point of lists, after ...
Article | 22/12/2010 Kindle Sales 60 per cent higher than expected
Amazon is on track to sell eight million Kindles this year. That's 60 percent more of the electronic readers than analysts predicted would be sold, <a...
Article | 22/12/2010 Want Swype for Android? Now's your chance
It's a weird sort of paradox: One of the most popular apps for Android is also one of the hardest to get.
Article | 22/12/2010 Flash storage in post-PC devices advances
Solid-state storage has helped to raise the wave of portable PC alternatives that has hit the market over the past few years, and 2011 is likely to se...
Article | 22/12/2010 Microsoft 'sells' 1.5M Windows Phone 7
Microsoft has announced that its manufacturing partners have sold more than 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices since the mobile platform's launch six...
Article | 22/12/2010 Microsoft touts 1.5M Windows Phone 7 smartphones sold
Microsoft today said makers of phones running its new Windows mobile operating system had sold 1.5 million handsets since the October launch of Window...
Article | 20/12/2010 Toshiba to show no-glasses 3D TV at CES
Toshiba will show its no-glasses 3D television for the first time outside of Japan in January at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Ve...
Article | 20/12/2010 Intel's Atom chip: Can it take on ARM?
Intel will make a big splash at the Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 6 with its Atom chips featured inside a variety of tablet computers and netbooks...
Article | 21/12/2010 Smartphone Apps Are Betraying Us, Report Says
More than half of iPhone and Android apps routinely share the personal data of their users with outside companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation...
Article | 21/12/2010 Watch out Android marketplace! Here comes Windows
Nattering nabobs of negativism aside, the marketplace for Windows Phone 7 apps is doing quite well, thank you. A recent analysis from IDC shows that t...
Article | 21/12/2010 LG to launch first dual-core phone
Nvidia's much-hyped Tegra 2 CPU has finally found a home in a smartphone courtesy of LG's new Optimus 2X, which will be launched in Korea next month. ...