The fabulous looking Avatar has given 3D a huge kickstart, and the tech has bowled into CES on a fresh wave of momentum. Every tech manufacturer (apart from Sharp, arguably) has put it front and centre as the next big thing to persuade you to upgrade your goggle box. Sony, with its massive investment in …

The PlayStation 3 is the Blu-ray player that just keeps giving. Smug owners have seen their console regenerate like a Time Lord to accommodate every new wrinkle that creases the face of the Blu-ray format. Britain’s car boot sales, by way of contrast, are knee-deep in first-generation Blu-ray decks so feeble they can’t play a disc that even vaguely smells of …

The Sony Ericsson Cedar is a new branch on the GreenHeart tree alongside other arboreally-branded phones such as the Sony Ericsson Elm. Like that guy from work who combines straggly dreadlocks and sandals with his suit, it’s just at home in the office as it is communing with nature. The Cedar is a 3G phone that’s aimed at balancing business …

T-Mobile USA has recently posted a message on its Twitter account that says T-Mobile customers can get the Motorola Defy for only $99.99 starting November 3. As a reminder, the Defy ships with Android 2.1 and Motorola’s new MotoBlur interface. Features include a 5-megapixel camera with flash, DLNA support, a Flash Lite-enabled browser, and Motorola’s CrystalTalk Plus technology that promises …

Thanks to our readers who generously gave their time to reply to our Handset vs. Telco survey. We wanted to know whether your choice of phone model is more important than your decision to stick with your current telco, with 60 per cent of CNET readers polled saying that they would choose the phone over a telco. (Credit: CBSi) We …

TapDisc for iOS combines a unique and challenging mixture of timing, strategy, and unique gameplay to create an interesting and fun new style of touch-screen game. The more innovative games on the iOS platform tend to take advantage of the more notable properties of a touch-screen interface. TapDisc attempts to do the same with a stylized “tap-to-save” gameplay that creates …

For the second time in as many months, Google has split one of its applications off from the Android platform. Following last September’s updated Gmail client, Google has released YouTube as a standalone application. Available for Android 2.2 handsets and above, the app adds new features such as in-page playback, which allows users to read comments while watching videos. Other …

AT&T’s third-quarter earnings were on target with estimates as the company activated a record 5.2 million iPhones amid a total of 8 million smartphones. The company reported third-quarter earnings of $12.3 billion, or $2.08 a share, on revenue of $31.6 billion, up 2.8 percent from a year ago. Those earnings were inflated by one-time gains that included a tax settlement …

Owners of an HTC Desire HD or Desire Z will soon have an alternative to the Google Maps Navigation sat-nav software, thanks to a partnership between the handset manufacturer and TomTom. HTC Locations, pre-loaded with TomTom maps, will be made available on the new Android smart phones soon, and is expected to be included in future HTC smart phones. All the maps will be locally stored, which …

CHICAGO – Two of the most popular next generation wireless technologies are close to getting their official 4G moniker from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU, which is an agency within the United Nations, is the International standards body that officially designates wireless technologies as 1G, 2G, 3G and now 4G. This week at a meeting in China the …