Amazon Prime Music launched this week, giving subscribers access to a million songs as part of their regular Amazon Prime membership. While the catalog isn’t as big as that of rivals Spotify or Rdio, it probably doesn’t have to be:Â Prime Music is more of a perk for existing subscribers than a full-fledged, standalone music service. […]
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Hisense Sero 8 tablet hits America
The latest low-cost Android tablet from Hisense is now available in the United States… in limited quantities. After hitting Europe in April, we’re starting to see reports that the Hisense Sero 8 is now available from at least one Walmart location, and it sells for about $130. Update: Walmart confirms that the tablet is available in select […]
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Amazon Prime Music launches, gives subscribers a million tunes to stream
Amazon’s new music streaming service lets subscribers listen to a million songs. Just browse the Amazon music store, add albums, songs, or playlists to your library, and you can stream them. While Amazon Prime Music doesn’t have as many songs as rivals Spotify or Google Play Music, lacks access to recent hits, and has no […]
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Lilbits (6-10-2014): LG G Watch leaks edition
The LG G Watch will be one of the first smartwatches to run Google’s Android Wear software when it launches this summer (the Motorola Moto 360 will be one of the other first models). But LG has been a bit shy with detailed specs or launch dates. Now a series of reports suggest the wait is […]
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12 Intel-powered mini PCs for $300 or less
There was a time when small laptop computers cost a small fortune. Then netbooks came along and showed that miniaturization didn’t need to be expensive: Computers  makers could use cheap parts and sell the resulting mini-laptops at cheap prices. Over the last few years something similar’s been happening on the desktop PC space. Folks looking for […]
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Lilbits (6-06-2014): Will Google buy Songza?
Songza is a music streaming service which specializes in curated playlists with names like “A Michael Jackson Dance Party,” “Easygoing Alt-Country,” “Indie Sellouts,” and “Songs to Raise Your Kids To.” Fire up the Songza website or the the company’s apps for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, or Windows 8.1 and you’re greeted with a list of […]
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Lilbits (6-05-2014): AMD’s new G-Series embedded chips
It’s not just AMD’s notebook chips that are getting a refresh. The company also launched a new series of embedded chips aimed at low power machines such as thin clients, retail point-of-sales machines, industrial applications, or other environments where you might not need a traditional PC to do some computing. The new AMD G-Series chips […]
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Lilbits (6-04-2014): The future looks bright… with 1000 nit displays
Japan Display has been busy unveiling high-resolution screens recently. Now the company’s got something a little different: a crazy-bright screen. The company’s new 7 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel tablet screen supports peak brightness of 1000 nits for outdoor visibility, although it’ll probably run down your battery pretty quickly at that level. Indoors it can […]
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Lilbits (6-3-2014): Android Wear is coming
LG and Motorola are set to launch two of the first smartwatches running Google’s new Android Wear software this summer, and Google is likely to focus pretty heavily on the new platform at its upcoming Google I/O developer conference later in June. Ahead of the conference, Google has been busy posting plenty of tools for […]
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Lilbits (6-02-2014): The Motorola XOOM 3 that never was
Motorola was the first company to work with Google to release a tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb — the first version of Google’s operating system designed specifically for tablets. That was more than three years ago, and the Android tablet space is very different today than it was then. There are hundreds of models from […]