15. May 2012
HGST has announced a new family of CinemaStar 2.5-inch hard drives aimed at the A/V and consumer electronics market. The new drives have 500 GB or higher capacity, low power demands, quiet operation, and high reliability to target what HGST calls the “sweet spot&#[..]
15. May 2012
Acer has today announced its new range of Ultrabooks, the Aspire M5 series. Acer will offer both 14 and 15-inch models featuring Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors and discrete NVIDIA graphics. The company has gone back to the drawing board in terms of design, offering[..]
15. May 2012
Google has admitted that the view through its Project Glass wearable computer won’t quite be the Terminator-style augmented reality that its eye-catching demo video initially suggested. Rather than full-view overlays of context-based information and buttons, a [..]
15. May 2012
You’re a smart person, and you crave knowledge. You probably collect smartphone and tablet user manuals, in which case you’re in for a royal treat today. The full 181 page user manual for the Samsung Galaxy S III has been posted along, two weeks ahead of the phone
15. May 2012
Facebook has added a further 50m shares to its IPO this week, raising the expected public offering price to as much as $38 apiece, and potentially pushing the social network’s value to over $100bn. The decision, revealed in Facebook’s seventh amendment to it[..]
15. May 2012
Say what you will about Android, but one of the many benefits includes being able to throw it on cheaper hardware and offering it to the masses. Here’s yet another cheap Android tablet, this time from France. The Yzi is a 10-inch tablet with a five point capacitive to[..]
15. May 2012
Sony has pulled a new series of notebooks out of the shadows and tossed them into the light. The new machines are the E series Vaio notebooks, and they come in two different screen sizes. The new machines include the E Series 15 and the E Series 17. The main difference [..]
15. May 2012
HTC has officially revealed its latest Android smartphone, the HTC Desire C, toting Beats Audio and Ice Cream Sandwich for the entry-level market. Based around a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen and borrowing some of the micro-drilled style of the One S and One X, the Desire C[..]
15. May 2012
More and more laptops are getting updated with some juicy Intel Ivy Bridge internals, and Sony is the latest company is roll out refreshed lines. Both the VAIO S and Z series will receive updates, which includes faster processors and graphics cards. The S series is avai[..]
15. May 2012
Honda has unveiled a new personal mobility device called the UNI-CUB. The device is a unicycle that has its own motor and reminds me more the little of Wall-E’s girlfriend with a smashed head. The new version is the latest evolution of the U3-X personal mobility d[..]
15. May 2012
Maybe the Galaxy S III didn’t set your world ablaze, or maybe you just really like LG. They have a new top of the line smartphone too, you know. The LG Optimus 4X HD will be winging its way towards Europe very soon, in time for a June launch. LG has confirmed that Ger[..]
15. May 2012
Late last week it was discovered that if you asked Siri what it’s favorite smartphone was, the Nokia Lumia 900 would pop up. it was mildly amusing, and a good time was had by all. Now it looks like Apple has patched the possible answers. Asking Siri what the best smar[..]
15. May 2012
Nokia has revealed its new 1 Series of cellphones, a budget-minded line-up targeted at the “Next Billion” audience and, for the first time at the extreme low-end, featuring internet access and a camera. Four 1 Series variants will be on offer, the cheapest N[..]
15. May 2012
Plastic Logic has been running in quiet mode since their new funding and push for the education ereader market in 2011, but the company has a new color flexible e-paper panel with which to tease us this week. Using the same 10.7-inch plastic transistor technology as [..]
15. May 2012
Facebook has quietly increased the price range of its IPO to raise in excess of $12bn, insiders claim, with the social network still reportedly planning to close the fundraising two days early after strong demand. The per-share target price has jumped from the original [..]
15. May 2012
Editor’s Note – Though Noupe is affiliated with Smashing Magazine, this piece is strictly the opinion of the author.
When I was first contacted with a reviewer’s copy of The Smashing Book #3 I was both excited, and[..]
15. May 2012
There’s been a relatively large announcement made by Hillcrest Labs tonight in that they’ve turned their own “Kylo Web Browser for TV” over to the Open Source community. This announcement sets the Mozilla-based TV browser up for open-sourced mana[..]
15. May 2012
The next level powerhouse in workhorse Ultrabook has been revealed by Lenovo as being the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, complete with the claim that it is indeed “the world’s lightest 14-inch professional Ultrabook.” This Ultrabook “exceeds Ultrabook speci[..]
15. May 2012
It’s time for the 3rd Generation Intel Core update to Lenovo’s line of ThinkPad laptops including their T, X, L, and W series, these including software updates as well. What we’re dealing with here in this update is a series of upgrades for each of the[..]
15. May 2012
If you’ve been following the advancements in near field communication (NFC) technology and mobile payments, you know that one of the biggest selling points for using your phone to pay for your merchandise instead of a good ol’ credit card is that services li[..]
15. May 2012
Flash may have fallen out of favor in recent years, but AMD is betting on a resurgence of the technology with the prediction that Flash games will equal their console counterparts in quality within the twelve months. The chip manufacturer made the ambitious prediction a[..]
15. May 2012
AMD is back, and the company isn’t willing to take a back seat to Intel any longer. Trinity, AMD’s second-generation APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) is official, and it’s the mainstream platform the company expects to challenge Intel’s Ivy Brid[..]
15. May 2012
When you think of Ikea, you certainly don’t think of the latest innovations in consumer electronics. Or do you? If you’re familiar with the Uppleva TV, perhaps your perception is already starting to change. Originally announced earlier this year, the Uppleva[..]
15. May 2012
Confirming earlier reports that the sequel to Nintendo’s unique game Pikmin would finally be making its way to US store shelves, Nintendo has announced that it will be available for the Wii in North America on June 10. It will be available, alongside Gamecube-port[..]
15. May 2012
Social gaming giant Zynga has just added another notch to its belt. This one was created with a very specific niche in mind – targeting women gamers on mobile platforms. The company in question is Wild Needle, which was created by the co-founder of successful game[..]
15. May 2012
Usually, whenever there’s a story about more mobile phone service being added, it’s a good thing. Bringing reception to rural America, third-world countries, and underground subway stations are all fantastic. In fact, we can only think of one situation where[..]
15. May 2012
Now that we’ve covered setting your passive income goal and a bit about the mindset of passive income — I hope you enjoyed the humor in the last post — let’s explore the details of how to actually create passive income streams. We’ll start [..]
14. May 2012
A brand new gaming space has just opened up in PlayStation home, and it brings with it the opportunity to win your share of $25,000 in prizes, most of which are, of course, Sony electronic devices. Nevertheless, you can’t scoff at free stuff. And not only is PlayS[..]
14. May 2012
According to Bloomberg, Apple will be unveiling its new lineup of thinner MacBook Pros at WWDC, the company’s annual developer conference, which will be kicking off on June 11. Apple is also expected to announce the release date for Mac OS X Mountain Lion as well [..]
14. May 2012
Happy Monday, everyone. It’s time to pause and take a look at what made news today. The evening wrap-up today starts with the headline that Microsoft is offering $15 upgrade to Windows 8 Pro. And moving onto Microsoft’s bitter rival, we’re pretty sure [..]
