Get a load of this: hot off the assembly line, the 55-inch Samsung ES9500 OLED TV looks set to be the first OLED television to grace living rooms — for a princely sum, of course. OLED screens offer substantially better picture quality than on current TVs — and can be put together in some crazy …

Samsung has announced that its ES9500 OLED TV will launch in South Korea in the second half of 2012 at a price equivalent to $9,000 U.S. The TV, formally known as the Samsung Super OLED, will retail for 10 million won ($8,760 U.S.) and is expected to compete with LG’s own OLED panel, the EM9600. The LG is also due …

TiVo’s been on a roll with keeping its promises lately (though I probably just jinxed it by saying that). First, it updated large sections of the HD interface in January, and then it actually started rolling out Comcast Xfinity On Demand support, and now comes a software update with shiny new apps for Netflix and YouTube. Well, new to TiVo …

Now playing: Watch this: Blowing hot air with a Dyson engineer 4:24 It first hit the market late last year, but summer is not a good time to sell heaters in Australia. Now that it’s getting cooler, Dyson has kicked off a fresh look at the AM04 Hot+Cool Air Multiplier, featuring Dyson’s smart new take on the idea of the …

What feature have viewers been waiting for since the “beginning of television?” According to Dish, it’s commercial-free TV, and it’s added a new “Auto Hop” feature to its Hopper HD DVR system that allows you to jump over all commercials in recorded prime-time programs from ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC when viewed a day after airing. We’re not sure exactly …

Last week, I was reminded that cable-cutting can beat cable when it comes to a commercial-free TV-watching experience. Yesterday, an excellent story from Ars Technica reminded me why streaming often feels much more satisfying than watching Blu-ray. The U.S. government yesterday rolled out not one but two copyright notices, one to “warn” and one to “educate.” Six major movie studios …

What? No I can’t hear you very well, there’s people here rustling crisp packets. What’s that? Future phones could use your face as an amplifier? Clever stuff! Japanese tech giant and phone manufacturer Kyocera is showing off a new technology that vibrates the bones and flesh of your head to make a call sound crystal clear. Current phones have a …

NEW ORLEANS–After you’ve covered the big news and handled the new phones, it’s always fun to walk the CTIA show floor and seek out the weird and wonderful. There’s usually plenty of sights to behold, and you always can count on NTT DoCoMo to lead the way. The Japanese carrier’s booth this year was smaller than usual, and it lacked …

On your marks, get set, S3! The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the official phone of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Samsung and partner Visa have confirmed rumours that athletes heading to East London for this summer’s Olympiad will be issued with an S3 with Visa PayWave built in. That means they can pay for their coffees, newspapers and jockstraps with …

U.S. Cellular launched the Pantech Verse yesterday, a messaging phone with a vertical slide-up QWERTY keyboard. Phone like the Verse may seem a dying breed when you consider all the smartphones making a splash at shows like CTIA and on store shelves, but there’s an audience for those looking for simple and cheap. The Pantech Verse, for texting lovers (photos) …

NEW ORLEANS–Mark your calendars for May 18, Sprint customers. That’s the day that the HTC Evo 4G LTE goes on sale for just about $200 with a new, two-year contract. If you didn’t preorder the device on May 7, you’ll have about a week to make your move with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone. A variant of the …

If there’s one thing to be said about Google+ for the iPhone (iTunes), it’s that it hasn’t looked as good as its Web counterpart. With an update today, Google is hoping to change people’s opinions on that. In a new version of the software that went out to Google+ users for iPhone today, the company has overhauled the look and …

The iPhone 5 may well be arriving in September, according to Digitimes, which claims that Apple device manufacturer Pegatron has already been told to begin production of the next iPhone. This could mean an official unveiling in June, with a 10-inch iPad to launch later in the year. Apple doesn’t build its own products — instead, it uses companies like …

Samsung announced today that it acquired mobile cloud content service provider mSpot. This means that users will soon be able to access their music and video stored in the cloud via a pre-installed mSpot app on newly announced Samsung mobile devices. “MSpot shares our vision to bring a best-in class cloud and streaming entertainment experience to consumers,” senior vice president …

Now playing: Watch this: Hands-on Mozilla’s Firefox OS – Boot to Gecko 1:23 NEW ORLEANS–Mozilla may not be the first thing you think of when it comes to mobile technology, but that may change early next year. Its mobile operating system code-named Boot to Gecko is developing rapidly, but it will face challenges both technical and tech cultural. Judging from …