WiMAX Lights Up Bay Area, LTE-Enabled HTC Thunderbolt 4G

From DailyTech: As promised, Sprint has lit up its 4G WiMax service in San Francisco today. “The Bay Area is responsible for creating so much new technology and today we are bringing the power of 4G to our customers in that region who are hungry for fast mobile broadband,” Sprint 4G...

LG to Show Monster, Mobile 3D TVs at CES

From PC World: LG Electronics will unveil 3D televisions at both ends of the size spectrum at next week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it said Tuesday.

The company plans to debut a 72-inch 3D LCD television that ranks as one of the largest on the market. It...

AT&T ramping up public Wi-Fi access in NY, SF

From CNET News.com: AT&T is expanding Wi-Fi access in New York and San Francisco where customers have run into trouble with the carrier's overcrowded celluar network, according to the Associated Press.

The company is due to announce today that it will expand its Wi-Fi hot zone this...

Mozilla Loses Users Names, Email Addresses, Hashed Passwords

From DailyTech: These days internet firms seem to be having a tougher and tougher time holding on to your private data. Following lost emails databases at Walgreens, McDonalds, and others; Microsoft's leak of business users' contacts from the cloud; and Gawker's loss of users names...

McAfee: Smartphones, Apple top 2011 crime targets

From CNET News.com: Security firm McAfee expects malicious activity in 2011 to target smartphones, geolocation services like Foursquare, URL shorteners, and Apple products across the board, according to a new report released Tuesday.

"We've seen significant advancements in device...

Intel: Why a 1,000-core chip is feasible

From CNET News.com: Chipmaker Intel has been investigating the issue of scaling the number of cores in chips through its Terascale Computing Research Program, which has so far yielded two experimental chips of 80 and 48 cores.

In November, Intel engineer Timothy Mattson caused a...

COD: Black Ops players fire for effect 87 min a day

From CNET News.com: Activision wants to make sure you know just how popular the latest version of Call of Duty really is.

Call of Duty: Black Ops, released in early November, has a bigger audience than Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and other late-night talk show hosts...

Samsung Galaxy Player Confirmed, Ready for CES

From DailyTech: Samsunghub is reporting that Samsung has confirmed a new, Android-based media player based on the popular Galaxy S line of smartphones.

The device, dubbed the Galaxy Player, is set to make its debut next weekend at the CES conference. The music and media player is a...

Get Radeon HD 6970 for Price of HD 6950 Via Firmware Unlock

From DailyTech: Graphics card maker NVIDIA was infamous for frequently selling identical hardware in its GeForce (consumer) and Quadro (commercial) lineups, while charging 2-5 times more for Quadros. It didn't take long for some clever users to figure out how to soft mod certain...

Samsung to Show iPod Touch Killer at CES

From PC World: Samsung went after the iPhone with the Epic 4G, the iPad with the Galaxy Tab, and now Samsung has its sights set on the iPod Touch with the Galaxy Player. Samsung is expected to announce American ship dates for its Android-based entertainment player during the Consumer...

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