Google's New Field Trip App: a Tour Guide in Your Pocket By Brad Chacos Published 28 September 12 Cities are more than just gridded streets to be navigated via a mapping application; they're living, breathing places chock full of restaurants, shops and landmarks that make every town unique. Field ...
Dell Outs Business-Friendly Windows 8 Tablet, Ultrabook and AIO By Brad Chacos Published 20 September 12 Dude, it's a Dell. Actually, it's three Dells; with the Latitude 10 Tablet, Latitude 6430u Ultrabook and Dell OptiPlex 9010 All-in-One, Dell is covering its business bases with a trio of Windows 8 dev...
Sprint Considering High-Dollar Counteroffer for MetroPCS (Reports) By Brad Chacos Published 5 October 12 The deal might be signed and sealed, but until T-Mobile's shares in the new combined company with MetroPCS are delivered, the multibillion dollar merger is far from final. The companies still need to ...
What Annoys Users the Most in the Very Best 7-Inch Tablets? By Brad Chacos Published 18 December 12 Small slate lovers have more reason to cheer than ever before, with a quadruplet of top-notch 7-inch tablets to choose from: the Google Nexus 7, Amazon's Kindle Fire HD, the Barnes & Noble Nook HD...
Samsung's 10-inch Nexus Tablet Boasts iPad-Beating Display (Report) By Brad Chacos Published 9 October 12 When a filing in the Apple vs. Samsung court case suggested that Samsung has plans torelease an 11.8-inch tablet with a Retina-slaying 2560 x 1600 resolution display, people's ears perked up. Now, an ...
Microsoft Reportedly Working on Hush-Hush 7-Inch Xbox Surface Tablet By Brad Chacos Published 6 November 12 New reports suggest that Microsoft's tablet hardware strategy may just be taking a distinctly mullet-like approach designed to appeal to professionals and casual users alike. The Surface RT and Surfac...
LG's $99 Spectrum 2 for Verizon: Wireless Charging, 4.7-inch HD Screen By Brad Chacos Published 30 October 12 Verizon's new LG Spectrum 2 smartphone leans on an arsenal of technologies that you won't find in the iPhone 5 in order to create a completely wire-free mobile experience. Available for $99 after a $5...
Lenovo Exec: Windows RT Tablets May Cost $300 Less Than Windows 8 Slates By Brad Chacos Published 17 August 12 The old saying about secrets and the lifespan of closed-lipped conspirators hasn't quite held true when it comes to Windows 8/RT tablet pricing; Microsoft and its OEM partners have managed to keep rem...
Do the Math Before Leaping on AT&T's $100 Tablet Discount By Brad Chacos Published 9 November 12 AT&T killed off its tablet subsidies earlier this year, but the company's resurrecting the program in promotional form just in time for the holidays. If you buy a tablet through the carrier and si...
BlackBerry 10 Gold SDK To Hit Developer Hands December 11 By Brad Chacos Published 15 November 12 After what seems like an eternity of stalling, delays, and plummeting RIM stock prices, BlackBerry 10 is now hurtling towards the world at full speed. The Canadian company recently pegged January 30th...
13.3-Inch Archos FamilyPad: Fun for the Family or Destined to Flop? By Brad Chacos Published 21 November 12 Archos already caters to kids with the child-friendly Child Pad; now, it's looking to appeal to moms, dads, and bigger siblings alike with the appropriately named FamilyPad, a gargantuan 13.3-inch And...
Head of HP's PC Business Disses Microsoft Surface By Brad Chacos Published 15 November 12 Microsoft's Surface may have sent Acer executives into apoplectic fits of fury, but the biggest PC manufacturers in the land don't seem to sweat Microsoft's dive into the hardware side of things. In f...
Senator Threatens Legislative Action if FAA Slows Gadget Use Study By Brad Chacos Published 13 December 12 The push to allow wider in-flight electronic use on airplanes reached new heights this week, when Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill threatened to “pursue legislative solutions” if the FAA drags it...
Sony Snaps Up Cloud Gaming Company Gaikai for $380 Million By Brad Chacos Published 2 July 12 Are cloud-based gaming services ready for the big time? Up until now, streaming playable 3D games have largely been relegated to smaller companies such as OnLive, but today, that changed with the news...
Apple Patent Reveals Future Headphone-Speaker Hybrid By Brad Chacos Published 9 November 12 The iPhone 5's newly redesigned EarPods fit snug as a bug in one person's ear, but a newly granted Apple patent outlines intriguing next-generation headphones that can intelligently double as an ampli...
Report: Microsoft Considered Nokia Buyout Late Last Year By Brad Chacos Published 11 June 12 It's tough to be Nokia these days. The company's stock has been steadily slipping for a year and a half and is currently sitting at a 15-year low, and despite the Lumia 900's flagship beauty, all sign...
Will.i.am Unveils 'i.am+ foto.shosho' Camera Accessory for iPhone By Brad Chacos Published 28 November 12 When is an iPhone not an iPhone? When it's transformed into a 14-megapixel "genius-phone" capable of taking better photos than Apple's stock shooter can provide. Musician Will.i.am launched his new i....
IDC: Surging Android Tablets Still Far Behind the iPad By Brad Chacos Published 3 August 12 The numbers are starting to trickle in, and by IDC's count, it was an exceptional second quarter for Android tablets. Millions of Android-powered tablets flew off the shelves, and that doesn't even ta...
Steve Ballmer Works On A Wall-Mounted 80-Inch Windows 8 Tablet By Brad Chacos Published 25 May 12 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's taste for the big and bold isn't limited to his oversized antics; he apparently likes his gadgets large to match. Yesterday, Microsoft VP Frank X. Shaw told Wired UK that...
Staples to Offer 'Easy 3D' Printing in 2013 By Brad Chacos Published 30 November 12 Forget about making copies.Starting early next year, Staples stores in the Netherlands and Belgium will begin offering a new "Staples Easy 3D" service, bringing 3D printing to the masses with the help...
Italian Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Cause Cancer By Brad Chacos Published 19 October 12 Lawyers, get your briefcases ready: Italy's Supreme Court just ruled that a businessman's brain tumor was caused by frequent, long-term use of a cellular phone.Innocente Marcolini developed the tumor ...
China Labor Watch Accuses Samsung Supplier of Hiring Child Labor By Brad Chacos Published 14 December 12 After China Labor Watch accused Samsung manufacturing facilities of hiring underage workers, the electronics manufacturer conducted a four week audit of more than 105 of its suppliers. What it found w...
Leaked Droid RAZR HD Videos Hit YouTube, Quickly Get Deleted By Brad Chacos Published 20 August 12 Another day, another Motorola Droid RAZR HD leak. Over the weekend, a series of tutorial videos hit YouTube, showing off how to perform basic functions on a "Motorola XT926" -- a code referenced in ...
Pictures of RIM's QWERTY-Equipped BlackBerry 10 Phone Leak Online By Brad Chacos Published 24 December 12 RIM's BlackBerry 10 focus may center around the L-series handset, a.k.a. the fully touchscreen BlackBerry, the company isn't leaving staunch QWERTY conventionalists by the wayside. The N-series phone ...
Alleged HTC Flyer 2 Specs Appear on the Radar By Brad Chacos Published 6 September 12 Most of the talk these days may go to Windows 8 and the flood of hybrid devices heading our way in October, but a newly improved update to an early Android tablet has shown up on the radar: the HTC Fl...