Verizon iPhone 4 Sales Now Open to Everyone

From DailyTech: Apple and Verizon officially announced the CDMA version of the iPhone in early January, and pre-orders (for existing Verizon customers) opened up on February 3. Those pre-orders quickly sold out within a few hours -- a JPMorgan analyst puts the pre-order sales tally...

Dell Reportedly Kills Adamo Notebook Line

From X-bit Labs: One of the world's largest computer makers, Dell, has reportedly decided to can its Adamo luxurious laptop line. The move can be explained by relatively low sales of Adamo systems and the fact that Dell has failed to upgrade them properly throughout the history of...

Intel to ship dual-core Sandy Bridge chips on Feb. 20

From InfoWorld: Intel will start shipping its dual-core Core i5 and i7 microprocessors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture for laptops starting on Feb. 20.

The new microprocessors will draw between 17 watts and 35 watts of power and run at speeds between 1.4GHz and 2.7GHz...

Android Outranks IPhone in Latest ComScore Data

From PC World: Google's Android outranked Apple's iPhone in total smartphone subscribers in the U.S. at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, according to survey data released Monday by market research company Comscore.

Android jumped to 28.7% of the 63.2 million U.S. smartphone...

HP Delays Shipments of Laptops With Intel's New Chips

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard has delayed plans to launch new laptops with Intel's latest Core processors, just a few days after HP stopped making PCs that previously paired the chips with Intel's faulty chipset.

HP originally planned to make new Pavilion DV6 and DV7 consumer...

Report: HTC invests $40 million in OnLive

From CNET News.com: HTC is looking to expand its ability to offer smartphone users multimedia content.

The smartphone maker has invested $40 million in cloud-gaming service OnLive, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Citing an HTC spokeswoman, the newspaper said that HTC's...

Olympus announces SZ-10, VR-320 compact megazooms

From CNET News.com: Long lenses sell cameras these days and, well, the 14-megapixel Olympus SZ-10 has one. The camera starts at 28mm and extends to 504mm (35mm equivalent). That's an 18x zoom in body that's only 1.5 inches thick for $249.99.

To put that in context, last year's 12...

Sprint Unveils Echo, World's First Dual-Screen Smartphone

From DailyTech: Yesterday, Kyocera officially announced the upcoming Kyocera Echo -- the first dual-touchscreen smartphone – which is coming to Sprint this spring.

"Until now, a single screen on a smartphone could only be used to complete one task at a time, even with limited...

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