Like the idea of Acer’s $199 Chrome OS laptop… but with it came with Windows? Best Buy is selling the Acer Aspire One 756 for $230 today. It’s basically what you’d get if you took the Acer C7 Chromebook, replaced Chrome OS with Windows 7 and upgraded the CPU from a 1.1 GHz Celeron 847 […]
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals (2012)
If you’ve been following our daily deals updates, you’ll know that you don’t always have to wait until the weekend after Thanksgiving to get great deals on tablets, notebooks, eReaders, phones, and other mobile devices. But you probably won’t find as many things on sale from as many stores any other day of the year. So […]
Google TV update brings voice search, better program guide
Google is rolling out a software update to Google TV boxes such as the Vizio Co-Star, LG Smart TV, and Sony Internet Player. In a nutshell, Google TV is like Android for your TV. You can run some Android apps, stream music and movies from the internet, and navigate local  content and live content as […]
Deals of the Day (11-08-2012)
Humble Bundle is a website that occasionally offers pay-what-you-want pricing on a package of software, games, eBooks, or other content. The latest bundle is the 4th Humble Bundle for Android, and it includes 5 games, plus a 6th title that you can get if you pay more than the average price. That title is Machinarium, […]
Deals of the Day (9-24-2012)
The Vizio CT14 ultrabook features an Intel Core i3 Ivy Bridge processor, a 14 inch, 1600 x 900 pixel display, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB solid state disk. It weighs about 3.4 pounds and measures less than 0.7 inches thick. But it’s one of the cheapest ultrabooks around — you can pick one up […]
Nintendo’s $300 Wii U becomes a home media center with TVii
Nintendo’s next-generation video game console will launch in the US on November 18th for $300 and up. That makes the Wii U the most expensive game console Nintendo has released to date — but it may also be the most versatile. The Wii U includes a video game console with 8GB of storage (A 32GB […]
Brief review: AMP1000 Android Media Player – Video
The Diamond Multimedia AMP1000 is an Android Media Player. It’s about the size and shape of a USB DVD drive, but it has the guts of an Android smartphone or tablet. You can hook it up to your TV and use the wireless remote control to run Android apps on a big screen. That includes […]
Hisense Pulse $99 Google TV device coming in November
Pretty soon Vizio won’t be the only company with a $99 Google TV set-top-box to sell you. Â Chinese consumer electronics company Hisense has announced plans to bring a $99 Google TV box to the US starting in mid-November. The Hisense Pulse features an HDMI port, support for 1080p displays, and playback of H.264, MPEG-4 and […]
Diamond Multimedia launches AMP1000 Android 2.3 media center for your TV
Diamond Multimedia is best known for producing PC graphics cards. But today the company is launching a set-top-box that brings Google Android software to your TV. It’s a little box called the AMP1000 that you can hook up to a TV. It has a suggested retail price of $120, but there’s a limited-time $20 mail-in […]
Google TV to get AirPlay-like music and video streaming functionality
Earlier this month when I reviewed the Nexus Q set-top streaming device, I kept wondering why in the world Google needed to create a new product for this function when it would be so much better to make it a feature of Google TV. The Q allows Android phone and tablet owners to stream video […]