May the 4X be with you! The LG Optimus 4X HD goes four to the floor today, bringing four cores and Ice Cream Sandwich. The 4X sports a hefty 4.7-inch screen. Inside is a 1.5GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, powering the latest version of Android. It is the follow-up to the LG Optimus 2X, …

AT&T is making two announcements in conjunction with the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that could help consumers reduce their environmental footprints. AT&T First, the company is announcing a new remote monitoring platform that will ultimately allow users to remotely and automatically adjust energy usage in their homes. The service and technology is being developed for international carriers, who …

Consumer advocates say the Obama administration’s blueprint for protecting consumers’ privacy online is a good first step, but they will be watching closely to see how it’s implemented. The White House and the Federal Trade Communications today unveiled the “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights,” which will serve as a policy outline for future legislation and public policy that will work …

Forget spending countless hours and dollars on a viral video–hello OK Go!–one band is doing viral the old fashioned way. You probably haven’t heard of Dry The River, but come this March you will, and if you’re in London it will be via the old fashioned “lover’s phone”: a tin can on a string. Twelve posters are scattered around London …

CNET Reader Dadar asks: Are the “lifespan” claims by manufacturers proper? I’ve read numbers ranging from 50,000 hours to 100,000 hours, often with plasma TVs at the higher end of that scale compared to LED and CCFL LCDs. I would have thought, being solid-state devices, light emitting diodes would have had a greater lifespan than their fluorescent counterparts. Hearsay also …

Now playing: Watch this: Boston Acoustics TVee Model 25 2:20 When Boston Acoustics first came out with its TVee line of sound bars , its modest pricing and focus on simplicity were a welcome addition to a market filled with overpriced models. A few generations later, the TVee Model 25 faces a much different set of competitors: tons of cheap …

Optus is beefing up the number of streaming television channels offered for its MeTV PVR (turned online media streamer), with a choice of four foreign-language packs. From this week, the company will offer streaming foreign language channels to its MeTV customers. The channels are divided into four different packs, targeted at different audiences: Chinese in Mandarin; Indian in Hindi; Korean; …

Next week, the city of Barcelona will again play host to the world’s biggest telecommunications expo, Mobile World Congress (MWC), and, as you’d expect, CNET Australia will be there to bring you all the latest news and announcements from the biggest players in the mobile space. (Credit: GSM) So, what can we expect in 2012? This year’s show is already …

We haven’t even left for Mobile World Congress yet and LG just keeps the news coming. On the heels of the LG Optimus Vu, Optimus 3D Max, and the three L-Style handsets, the company also has confirmed the Optimus 4X HD. The press release was in Korean, but thanks to Google Translate we got a rough, but very promising, look …

Mozilla changed the Internet once. Will lightning strike twice for the Firefox developer? That’s what the company hopes will happen at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona next week when it unveils the Mozilla Web Apps platform, a tripartite approach to app building that will level the playing field for building apps, the company said in a statement today. The …