Despite disappointing 3D ticket sales for a slew of recent blockbusters, the wheels haven’t fallen off the stereoscopic bandwagon just yet. At least, that was the message coming from movie makers at the recent Big Screen film festival in London. “It’s still early days; give 3D a chance,” assorted film makers moaned. But patience appears to …

If you have an iPhone you like Belle and Sebastian, foreign travel and sushi, and if you have an Android phone you like Harry Potter and staying at home. That’s according to a tongue-in-cheek infographic examining the differences between users of the two main smart phone operating systems. Recommendation site Hunch culled the data from 2,000 users. Sounds scientific enough …

Google wasn’t the only company interested in snapping up Motorola — Microsoft was one of several parties in talks with Motorola before the big G came along and snapped it up for a cool £7.6bn, according to a report from Gigaom. But why? Apparently Microsoft was courting the fair lady Motorola, lavishing her with sweetmeats and oaths of fealty, with …

The Acer Iconia Tab A100 runs the full version of Honeycomb flawlessly. Josh Miller/CNET As one of the first 7-inch Honeycomb tablets, the Acer Iconia Tab A100 attempts to make a case for the viability of 7-inchers, but does the fact that larger tablet alternatives are less than a hundred bucks away diminish its appeal? That depends. There are quite …

Google and Motorola Mobility’s impending nuptials may be grabbing a huge amount of newsprint this week, but Research In Motion is doing everything it can to assert its presence in the mobile world as well. First it released the first BlackBerry OS 7 devices with Verizon’s BlackBerry Bold 9930, AT&T’s BlackBerry Torch 9810, and Sprint’s BlackBerry Torch 9850, and tonight …

It looks a lot like a Wi-Fi-only Galaxy Tab 10.1, but its ability to access the Internet from virtually anywhere is what separates it. Josh Miller/CNET The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G LTE (Verizon) has the same thin, iPad 2-like design as the Wi-Fi-only version of the tablet. So the question is, are blazingly fast 4G speeds worth being stuck …

Google stock and the federal government now have something in common: they’ve both been downgraded by Standard & Poor’s. Of course, being downgraded by the ratings agency that famously whiffed on highly questionable real estate bonds might be considered a badge of honor in some circles. But the move by S&P does point to considerable market fears about Google’s gutsy …

The Vodafone 555 isn’t the first pay as you go phone with a Facebook button — the HTC ChaCha has it too, though it’ll set you back more than twice the price of the 555. The 555 is the first phone only available on pay as you go to feature the blue button though, and it’ll cost just £62.50. Bargain. …

A major Apple store may be testing 4G LTE equipment supplied by AT&T. That’s according to a report from Engadget, citing an anonymous source. Engadget posted an image of LTE equipment being installed at the store, although the picture was later removed. The equipment supports the 700 megahertz band of spectrum, which is what AT&T plans to use to roll …

BlackBerry Bold 9930 (photos) +5 more See all photos We’ve had the pleasure of playing around with the Bold 9930 for a day or so, so we’ll cut to the chase: the BlackBerry Bold 9930, and by extension, the Bold 9900, is the best Bold handset BlackBerry has ever made. It is a wonderfully sculpted device that marries curves with …