April, 2011

• 18 April

  Verizon ends termination fees for DSL, simplifies plans

  

  Verizon is eliminating early termination fees for its DSL service as the company also simplifies its plans for broadband customers. The company on Monday announced that it would now offer just two tiers of DSL service: basic and enhanced. The new basic service will offer between 500 kbps and 1.0 Mbps download speed service for …

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• 18 April

  iOS 4.3.2 is the latest update to Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

  

  It’s time to update your iThings, folks. iOS 4.3.2, the latest software for Apple’s mobile devices is now available to give your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch an extra-tasty shot of Apple juice. Improvements include new security updates, while it also fixes a couple of problems. The update takes care of occasional glitches in the FaceTime video calling software that …

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• 18 April

  Rumor: Samsung prepping smartphone with 2GHz dual

  

  Samsung expecting desktop-like performance out of their mobile devices with dual-core 2GHz processors. Samsung If you thought this year’s dual-core smartphones were fast and powerful, wait until you hear what Samsung has cooking. According to an unnamed official, Samsung is planning to go a step further and release a 2GHz dual-core smartphone by next year. Yes, that means that your …

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• 18 April

  Angry Birds gets a free Easter update

  

  There’s a major holiday approaching, and that can mean only one thing: a new Angry Birds Seasons update! Sure enough, version 1.4.0 just roosted in the App Store, bringing with it 15 new levels for everybody’s favorite chocolate-infused holiday (besides Halloween): Easter. As Angry fans know, this is becoming a regular happening. After Angry Birds Halloween made its debut last …

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• 18 April

  iPad as sketchbook: Hands

  

  Sketching on an iPad 2 with the Wacom Bamboo Stylus: Feels great, but will the precision satisfy? Sarah Tew/CNET Can the iPad be a valid artist’s tool? Wacom, maker of professional digitizer tablets and computer peripherals for artists, has gone ahead and put its vote in the affirmative, with the upcoming release of the Wacom Bamboo Stylus for the iPad. …

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• 18 April

  Telstra adds Xoom, Optimus Black, Bold Touch to database

  

  A leak from within Telstra has revealed that the company today added several high profile new products to its internal database. The Motorola Xoom with its dock accessory. (Credit: Motorola) The unnamed source told ZDNET Australia that the company has added the Motorola Xoom tablet alongside the Android-powered LG Optimus Black and the as-yet unannounced BlackBerry Bold Touch to its …

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• 17 April

  Toshiba tablet momentarily priced and named

  

  Click to enlarge. Newegg (Update: Toshiba has since announced their tablet’s official product name — the Toshiba Thrive.) We may finally have a price and a name for Toshiba’s Android Honeycomb tablet, thanks to a product listing on Newegg (pictured right) that has since been taken down. The listing showed the tablet in three capacities: 8GB (for $450), 16GB ($500), …

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• 15 April

  HTC Sense 3.0 won’t come to Desire HD and other older Android phones

  

  One of the more impressive features of the new HTC Sensation smart phone (pictured) is the latest version of HTC’s Sense user interface that sits on top of Android. Bad news for owners of older HTC Android phones though: Sense 3.0 will not be coming to your mobile in its full form. We asked at the launch last week and …

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• 15 April

  Samsung Galaxy Prevail review: Surprisingly elegant

  

  Take a look at the Samsung Galaxy Prevail and you may agree, it’s one classy-looking smartphone. A silky-smooth 3.5-inch touch screen is rimmed with metallic gray, and the phone’s sides and back are robed in soft-touch material. However, this is no premium Android phone, and that’s OK. The handset runs a respectable Android 2.2 Froyo operating system (sans TouchWiz), has …

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• 15 April

  Ask Maggie: Flipping out over recent Flip purchase

  

  What do you do when you buy a cool new gadget, and the company that makes it suddenly and without warning announces it’s canceling it, even though that device is the hottest one in its category? That’s what millions of Flip camcorder customers are asking themselves this week. Despite being ranked as the No. 1 mini camcorder on Amazon, Cisco …

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