From DailyTech: BlackBerry really left us all scratching our heads when it revealed the upcoming 4.5” Passport smartphone with its stubby proportions and square display. Although packing in a relatively dense screen with a 1440x1440 resolution, the Passport flies in the face of conventional wisdom...
From InfoWorld: Firefox's user share on all platforms -- desktop and mobile -- has plunged in the last two months as its desktop browser continued to bleed and its attempt to capture users on smartphones failed to move the needle, new data shows.
Apple's Safari fared almost as poorly since April...
From PC World: The Transportation Security Administration has said it may ask air travelers headed to the U.S. on direct flights to power up some electronic devices, including cell phones, as part of enhanced security measures at certain airports abroad.
Under the regulations announced Sunday...
From CNET: The LG G Pad 10.1, the largest tablet in LG's G Pad series, has gone global.
Introduced in June, the family of Android-powered tablets includes features borrowed from the company's lineup of smartphones. The South Korean electronics giant announced the European availability in June of...
From DailyTech: The Kinect sensor might not be all its cracked up to be on the Xbox One — hence Microsoft’s decision to add a SKU for the console without the camera peripheral for $100 less — but that isn’t stopping the Redmond, Washington-based company from trying again with the PC market.
Early...
When QNAP sent over the TS-559 Pro+ to us for review in September 2010, I decided it was a wise choice to buy a new set of hard drives to go along with the NAS. My requirements were simple; I wanted something reasonably power efficient, reasonably fast, and reasonably priced to run in RAID 5. As it turned out, my "simple" requirements were actually not as simple as I thought. Apparently, regular desktop drives may have problems in RAID, and I was...
From InfoWorld: A new ARM mini-computer that could speed up the development of applications for 64-bit Android L smartphones and tablets will ship late next month.
The hardware, which is an uncased computer, is aimed at professional developers and large companies to help them write middleware...
From PC World: HTC posted a year-over-year gain in net profit for the second quarter, following the release of the company’s latest flagship phone, and new low-end handsets coming to China.
During the period, HTC’s net profit reached NT$2.26 billion (US$75.6 million), up 80.8 percent from a year...
From CNET: Mobile ad spending will grow faster than any other ad channel in the US this year -- up as much as 83 percent to reach $17.7 billion -- as more people spend more time on smartphones and tablets, according to eMarketer.
While advertising on mobile devices remains a small piece of total ad...
From DailyTech: The Galaxy S5 Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) flagship device enjoyed a nice spec bump recently, with the launch of the Galaxy S5 LTE-A. Sporting a Snapdragon 805 processor (with 3GB RAM) from Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), 3 GB of DRAM, and a fancy new 2560x1440...
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