Archive for April, 2011

Amazon proprietary tablet coming summer

Amazon is in development of new tablet device that may launch as early as this summer. According to reports, Amazon has chosen Samsung to help design and build the tablet, which may run Honeycomb or even a custom operating system based on Google’s Android platform. Rumors of an Amazon tablet have been around for quite [...]

Google Docs Android App Launched, Uses Phone Camera For OCR Text Capture

It’s surprising how long it has taken for some of Google’s primary products to get an app version for their Android platform. Today, the Google Docs product of services has finally gotten its app launched and will bring easy editing and sharing of documents to your mobile device. Now you really have no excuse for [...]

White iPhone Needed Sunscreen – Challenges Explained

Color goes more than skin deep, at least for the iPhone. Apple has explained some of the challenges that caused delay after delay for the device. Apple had announced plans to make the iPhone 4 in both black and white, and in fact had the white phone on hand at the product announcement, but found [...]

Pepsi Unveils a Social Vending Machine, Gift Drinks To Friends or Strangers Via Touch screen

To be in the game these days, companies are all going social. From Google’s many attempts and continued attempts in the online social platform realm to now Pepsi applying the social model to their physical vending machines. Pepsi has just unveiled its Social Vending Machine today at a trade show in Chicago that will let [...]

Sony Issues Update: PlayStation Network Account Information Compromised

After many fits and starts, we finally have the real story of the the PlayStation Network outage. We had heard that there was an “external intrusion” into the network, we had heard that there had been rampant piracy, and we had been assured by Anonymous that they had nothing to do with it. Now Sony [...]

Mobile Phone Safety for your Children, thanks to Samsung

Nowadays there are many filters available that can by used by parents to protect their children from viewing any online pornographic material and other undesirable online images on their home computers. These filters are very effective and almost foolproof. However with advancing smartphone technology a new danger has arisen; viewing pornography on an internet enabled [...]

Stealth launches mini-PC with Intel i3-i5-i7 onboard

Stealth Computer, manufacturers of industrial-grade rugged computer systems, has announced its most powerful small form factor PC to date. The Little PC 670 has been designed with Intel’s Core i3, i5 and i7 mobile processors, and packs numerous I/O connectivity options into a 6.54 x 6.18 x 1.89-inch (166 x 157 x 48 mm) durable aluminum [...]

Sharp LC-70LE732 U is a 70-inch bad motha

Last week Sharp announced the LC-70LE732U, a massive 70-inch LCD TV, the biggest on the market.  In other words, that’s 62% more viewing space than a 55-inch set.  On board is Sharp’s Quattron four color pixels, full LED backlighting, and the ability to stream CinemaNow, Netflix and access Vudu apps (Facebook, Pandora, Twitter, etc) along [...]

Kohler’s $6400 Numi Luxury Toilet (video)

The latest from Kohlers, the Numi ultra lux toilet, is the ultimate in pampering, with a cost that reflects sheer vanity at $6,400.  The lid stays closed and opens automatically when it’s time for you to use it. The included touchscreen remote allows you to turn on music, set the flush cycle, turn up the seats [...]

iPhone 5: iPod touch-slim, MBA-styled, 3.7-inch and NFC?

More iPhone 5 whispers this weekend, as speculation about the fifth-generation smartphone – already tipped to be an all-encompassing World Phone with perhaps even support for T-Mobile USA 3G – prompts a new mockup with a distinctly iPod touch flavor to it. Contrary to recent suggestions that the iPhone 5 would be similar in specs [...]