When the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime launched in late 2011, the hope was that it would be the first tablet to have and hold Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the latest version of the Android OS. While the tablet eventually launched with Honeycomb, no other tablet has yet to be released running ICS (although, the …
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26 January
AT&T CEO blasts FCC bureaucrats for tanking its T
Clearly, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson had some things to get off of his chest. Stephenson made a rare appearance during the company’s quarterly financial conference call today, using part of his time to blast the Federal Communications Commission, which he accused of “picking winners and losers” in how it regulates and approves deals. “The rules are so fluid, you can …
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26 January
Shoot two
You know the old saying: necessity is the mother of invention. The necessity? film two sides of a conversation with one iPhone. The invention: the Love Box video mixer, a wood contraption that looks like it was born in shop class. The result: documentary filmmakers were able to record a real-time conversation between two people, one on either side of …
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26 January
iOS, Android apps that go on sale see significant revenue jump
According to app store analytics researcher Distimo, developers who put their iPhone and iPad apps on sale in Apple’s App Store see a significant jump in revenue, as do Android developers using the Android Market. For the report, Distimo examined 100 of the top apps in Apple’s App Store (for iPhone and iPad) as well as the top 100 for …
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26 January
Nokia Lumia 800 can’t stop Nokia losing €1bn at end of 2011
The hotly anticipated arrival of the Nokia Lumia 800 wasn’t enough to prevent the Finnish phone-flinger losing a whopping €1bn at the end of last year. Nokia’s Q4 results, announced today, reveal that the new Lumia Windows Phones arrived too late to turn around an £800m loss during the last three months of 2011, although Nokia says it has sold …
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26 January
Massive Motorola Droid Razr Maxx battery a ‘Eureka’ moment
Verizon and Motorola may boast that the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, on sale beginning today, has a boosted battery capable of lasting a full day and night. What they won’t tell you is that the Razr Maxx was an accident. A Motorola engineer was playing with the idea of packing on a higher capacity battery onto the original Motorola Droid …
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26 January
Why 4K TVs are stupid
A closeup of a plasma TV’s pixels. Geoffrey Morrison Editors’ Note: An updated article entitled Why Ultra HD 4K TVs are still stupid was published on January 28, 2013. The latest TV technology buzzword is “4K.” This magical alphanumeric represents a quadrupling of the now-standard 1080p resolution found on Blu-ray and most HDTVs. Have no doubt, manufacturers are going to …
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26 January
Yamaha’s budget sound bar passes your remote signals to your TV
Now playing: Watch this: Yamaha YAS-101 2:28 Yamaha basically created the sound bar category and continues to sell its best-in-class Digital Sound Projector line, but it can be hard to recommend the company’s sound bars when they generally cost in excess of $1,000. The YAS-101 ($250 street price) is Yamaha’s entry into the increasingly crowded budget sound bar field, and …
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26 January
LG TVs 2012: Thin bezels, motion remotes and lots of LEDs
Massive numbers of new 2012 TVs were announced at CES 2012 earlier this month, and digesting them all is easier with a table than umpteen blog posts. Hewing close to hoary CES tradition of yore, LG was the first major TV maker to hold its CES press conference. The company also gave CNET the most information prior to the show …
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26 January
How to use your TV as a computer monitor for gaming, videos, and more
So you want to share photos, watch videos, or play computer games on the expansive screen of your HDTV? On one hand, this is a really simple how-to: use HDMI! That, of course, isn’t the whole story. Not all computers, and not all TVs, can output or input a signal via HDMI easily. There are also a few tricks to …
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