NFC chips haven’t really taken off in the US yet. Overseas people use the Near Field Communication technology to use their smartphones as credit or debit cards. But in the US, they aren’t common enough to use very often even if you have a phone with an NFC chip and Google Wallet installed. But Barnes […]
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RIM launches BlackBerry 10, courts developers with $10,000 guarantee
Research in Motion officially launched the BlackBerry 10 operating system for smartphones and tablets today. While you can’t buy any devices with the new software yet, RIM did start handing out BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha smartphones to developers. But that’s just one of the things the company is doing to try to get developers to […]
Skype abandons peer to peer technology (update: abandons *some* P2P tech)
Skype has been using peer to peer technology to route voice and video calls over the internet for nearly a decade. The P2P network helped keep the company’s bandwidth bills down while allowing millions of people to make free or cheap calls to friends, family, and colleagues across the world. But after Microsoft acquired Skype […]
Tizen 1.0 SDK released (OS for phones, tablets, netbooks)
The developers behind the Tizen Linux-based operating system for smartphones, tablets, and netbooks have released version 1.0 of the software developer kit. It’s code-named Larkspur, and it’s an important milestone for the project as Tizen hopes to encourage developers to write applications optimized to run on the operating system. The Tizen project emerged from the […]
Hena Android 4.0 tablet hits the FCC
If you look closely enough, you’ll probably find a new Android tablet at the FCC website nearly every day.* Today’s edition: The Hena MID-1107CM. I”m not familiar with this company — and the website mentioned in the user manual doesn’t seem to exist. But the tablet looks like it could be a solid entry in […]
Huawei offers Android 4.0 update for the MediaPad tablet
The Huawei MediaPad was the first 7 inch tablet to ship with Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb when the tablet launched. But Android 3.2 is so 2011… fortunately Huawei has released a software update for the tablet that allows it to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. You can find the new software in the downloads […]
Kernel patch lets OS X on run an Intel Ivy Bridge Hackintosh
Want to build a computer with the latest Intel processors and the latest version of Apple OS X? There’s a patch for that. While Apple only officially makes the OS X operating system available for Apple laptop and desktop computers, hackers have been finding ways to run the OS on third party systems ever since Apple […]
Intel shows off full-fledged PC board that fits in your hand
If you thought that the mini-ITX system boards found in small form factor computers like those offered by Shuttle were small, Intel has something to show you. It’s a new smaller computer board it called NUC, or Next Unit of Computing. The NUC platform measures just 10cm by 10cm, or about 4 inches by 4 […]
B&N to spin off NOOK business, Microsoft to invest $300 million
Barnes & Noble has announced it’s creating a new subsidiary which will house the company’s digital and college businesses. That means that the NOOK eReaders and tablets and digital book divisions won’t be under the same roof as B&N’s nearly 700 book stores in the US — but NOOK eReaders will still be tied to […]
Origin PC EON 11-S: big gaming in a little laptop
Origin PC has unveiled an 11.6 inch gaming laptop called the EON 11-S. If it looks familiar, that’s because it’s nearly identical to the Maingear Pulse 11 introduced a few days ago. Both laptops are manufactured by Taiwanese PC builder Clevo. The biggest difference is that the cheapest version of the EON 11-S will be $999, […]