This year’s IFA has seen some manufacturers breaking the tablet mould, and doing it noisily too. Lenovo, on the other hand, has stuck with the formula of a big screen in a rectangular body, with its IdeaPad A1. The only noise here is the price. At first glance, the A1 seems distinctly average, with a 7-inch, 1,024×600-pixel display, a single-core …

MeeGo and webOS are for the chop. Intel is giving MeeGo the heave-ho, and now Samsung has poured water on rumours it’ll be buying HP’s moribund webOS operating system. Seems neither can get any love. A report today claims Intel plans to “temporarily discontinue development” of the MeeGo OS it launched in conjunction with Nokia last February, preferring instead to …

Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, and other gadget makers flock in late summer to Germany’s big consumer electronics show. Is mind control the future for TVs? China-based Haier demonstrates a prototype headset that would allow the wearer to change TV channels and control the volume with mere thought. (Posted in Crave by Philip Wong) September 6, 2011 11:46 a.m. PT Panasonic shows …