The PlayStation Vita will be available from February 23, 2012 and will come in two varities. A WiFi PSV will be for AUD$349.95 for Australia, NZD$449.95 for our New Zealand readers and €249.99 for Europe. Meanwhile the 3G and WiFi version will be AUD$449.95, NZD$549.95 or €299.99. The prices are hefty, especially for a system that will likely be used exclusively for gaming, but this isn’t surprising from Sony. Anyone remember the PlayStation 3?
Last night Samsung did a big reveal of the Galaxy Nexus, while Google also used the event to roll out the next version of the Android OS codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, and from this day forward known as Android 4.0. The Nexus line of phones always heralds a new version of Android, but it also [...]
HP issued an update for the HP TouchPad this morning. It brings the now-defunct tablet up to version 3.0.4, and offers some performance enhancements for those who might be enjoying a heavily-discounted tablet. The update, which was detailed by webOS head Ari Jaaksi, adds better support for the camera, allows connection with non-HP phones, improves [...]
They say every cloud has a silver lining. Those free BlackBerry apps RIM is giving away are nice and all, but they’re nowhere near as nice as what police in the United Arab Emirates have reported: traffic accidents dropped 40% in Abu Dhabi during the three-day outage. It’s not an isolated occurrence, either. A smaller [...]
Right now there are three general types of laptops. You’ve got your ridiculously thin, not terribly powerful ones. There’s the desktop replacement laptop, where the power brick alone weighs more than the first category, but the system packs enough power that you don’t mind the chiropractor visits. Then, there are the mid-range machines. These laptops focus [...]
Here it is folks, Motorola’s self-proclaimed “ultimate fitness device.” It’s launching as the Motoactv, and we’d seen it previously rumored as the Motorola KORE — and the correctly-spelled MotoActive. And yes, it does look an awful lot like an iPod nano. Like the latest nano, the wrist-friendly Motoactv sports a touchscreen display. There’s a 600MHz [...]
It may be hard to believe, but the DeLorean Motor Company has said that it is developing an all electric version of the vehicle that was made famous by the Back to the Future films for release is 2013. Called theDMC-12 Ev, it is said to have a 260 horse power electric engine with a [...]
Android is getting some more love today with the official announcement in Hong Kong of the much expected Samsung GALAXY Nexus. Running on the upcoming Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the phone is the flagship developer phone and it isn’t sparse on the features.
The RAZR is reborn. One of its most successful smartphones ever, Motorola is bringing the name back but with some major hardware upgrades and running Andiron 2.3.5 Gingerbread while retaining its ever slim and lightweight design.
The Motorola Droid Razr was officially announced today in New York. The latest from Motorola will, as with all “Droid” phones, be exclusive to Verizon, and will run on Big Red’s LTE network. This marks the resurrection of Moto’s popular Razr branding of phones, which was previously associated with bringing an unprecedented level of thinness to [...]
Near Field Communication or NFC for short, has become one of the hottest developing technologies in the global mobile economy. NFC allows a user to tap their phone or device to make purchases, exchange info, or check in with social networking sites. NFC itself has been around since 2002, but with the explosion of smartphones [...]
Android geeks around the world sit poised to watch in unison as Google and Samsung stream an event live from Hong Kong in just a few hours. The expectation from the crowd is that Google will unveil the latest version of the Android operating system, the phone that will spearhead that OS, and maybe a [...]
With so much of our computing shifting from the traditional mouse/keyboard combo to multitouch interfaces over the last four years, it’s hard to imagine another big shift coming anytime soon. Yet researchers at the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute (along with Microsoft) are hoping they can spur on another revolution. While it’s far from [...]
Android geeks around the world sit poised to watch in unison as Google and Samsung stream an event live from Hong Kong in just a few hours. The expectation from the crowd is that Google will unveil the latest version of the Android operating system, the phone that will spearhead that OS, and maybe a [...]
Feross Aboukhadijeh, Stanford University computer science student and software developer, has discovered a new vulnerability in Adobe Flash that can silently activate your webcam and microphone when visiting a website. In so doing, the person in control of the website performing the hijack can both watch and listen to you. The vulnerability is to do [...]
