Last month Acer started taking pre-orders for its Iconia Tab A700, and today the tablets are finally starting to ship. You can grab the 10.1-inch device directly from Acer in either black or silver, and both options will run you $449.99, though overnight shipping is free. The A700 is very similar...
The question is: black or silver?
Nintendo's "Nintendo Direct" livestream revealed new details about Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, New Super Mario Bros. 2, Animal...
While traditional hard drive pricing remains inflated after last year's Thai floods, the cost of SSDs continues to drop. The Tech Report took a look at the average cost of a number of popular solid state drives over the past year and charted the falling prices over a series of graphs.
The site found that the price for drives from OCZ, Corsair, and Crucial have fallen dramatically over the past...
Smile Software’s TextExpander, one of the most popular productivity apps on OS X, is getting a major version upgrade that makes it easier to generate long documents like form letters, among other enhancements. TextExpander 4 adds pop-up menus, optional blocks of text, and multi-line fields (b, c, and d below), letting you create more flexible document templates. The update also adds a pop-up interface that makes it easier to add fill-ins to your snippets.
The basic idea behind apps like TextExpander is that you can use a few keystrokes as a shortcut to type something longer, making it easier every time you have to enter a common phrase, URL, or block of text or code. TextExpander 4 is available now from Smile's site for $34.95. The upgrade is free if you bought the app after January, or $15.00 for those with older licenses. Another...
Smile expands the app's feature list
With Sony's traditional businesses such as TV making heavy losses, new CEO Kaz Hirai has said that the company will prioritize stronger areas such as digital imaging in order to return to profitability. We're seeing the first fruits of that promise today, as Sony has announced plans to invest ¥80 billion (about $997 million) in its CMOS sensors. The move will increase production capacity of...
TV out, cameraphones in
Quantum Conundrum is fruit of the same family tree that produced Valve’s popular Portal. Airtight Games’ Kim Swift was the lead designer on Portal before leaving Valve to work on this colorful new game. With that shared parentage, one might hope for Quantum Conundrum to capture some of Portal’s quirky magic.
Comparisons like that put Quantum Conundrum in danger of disappearing under P...
The Software Development Kit (SDK) for SmartGlass, Microsoft's new interactive video platform, is now ready for download. SmartGlass will provide remote control functions and additional interactive content for movies, TV shows, and Xbox 360 games via your PC, tablet, or smartphone. The SDK is currently only available to Microsoft employees and partners signed up to the Microsoft Game Developer Network. It includes the SmartGlass studio, along with a JavaScript library for cross-platform development and a sample application to show what the platform is capable of. Microsoft SmartGlass will...
The GSM Association, organizer of events like Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Expo, has announced an initiative to help wireless customers become aware of possible roaming fees when travelling outside of their coverage areas. With the support of 24 mobile operators, including AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, China Unicom, and others, the organization will devise a system that alerts customers with detailed information about voice and data roaming tariffs while also providing tools to establish spending limits. The GSMA plans to roll out the first phase of the initiative to the supporting carriers' 4 billion customers by the end of...
AMD has pulled back the curtain on the Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition, a 28nm graphics card based on its Southern Island family of GPUs. The name says it all: the original Radeon HD 7970 was clocked at 925MHz, and this update brings that base clock speed up to 1GHz. The Radeon HD 7970 was supplanted by the GeForce GTX 680, Nvidia's first entry in the 28nm GPU arms race. AMD hopes to regain the performance crown with this performance bump, but the...
AMD dials it up to 1GHz
Bloomberg's anonymous sources say that the Microsoft Surface tablet will just ship in a Wi-Fi only version for launch. Verizon's shared data plans are finally making it (relatively) affordable to have both a cellphone and a cellular tablet, too, but Surface buyers will apparently not be able to...
Today at its Windows Phone Summit, Microsoft showed off its vision for the future of its mobile platform with a glimpse of IE 10, a shared core with Windows 8, NFC technologies, and more. Check here for everything you need to know on the new OS that's set to ship "this holiday."
Nintendo's stereoscopic 3D portable will get an all-new, extra-large model this summer with the release of the Nintendo 3DS LL in Japan, a hardware update that introduces larger screens and a redesign to the system's exterior.
Nintendo president...
While most of us wouldn't know where to start if we were given access to a satellite, the ArduSat Kickstarter project aims to enable people who would. The project involves designing a CubeSat — a standardized satellite form factor measuring just under four inches per side...
Belkin has been on a tear lately, expanding its products in areas like home automation and routers. The latest is the @TV Plus, a media-streaming box that will let you stream media over 3G or Wi-Fi. The @TV Plus comes with an IR blaster to control media components along with custom channel guide...
The unusual stock split (and Larry Page's lost voice) isn't the only news to come out of Google's shareholder meeting. Speaking to said shareholders, CFO Patrick Pichette reiterated Google's intention to hold Motorola at arm's length and allow it to "stay on its own battlefield." Just as that messaging is not at all different from what Google broadcasted before the acquisition was completed and the new CEO...
Nike already has plans to put its fitness brand on your wrist and in your living room, but now it'll be found in a lot more pockets — the company just launched its GPS-powered Nike+ Running app for Android. The release coincides with the iOS...
Samsung is taking the Galaxy S III to the US in a big way, with the device launching on a wide variety of carriers in June. Due to large demand there have been problems stocking shelves for the launch, but follow this StoryStream for all the news on pricing, release dates, and pre-orders on...
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to edit their own comments on the site. Instead of deleting and reposting comments,...
Twitter had a rough go of it today, and the company has now posted a blog entry describing exactly what caused its on-again, off-again ride. In the post, the company's Mazen Rawashdeh describes...
Included in Google's Q1 earnings statement last April was a letter expressing the company's desire to split its stock, but in a way that is slightly unusual. Today at its annual shareholder...
Thunderbolt has been extremely slow to gain traction, but Buffalo Technology is joining the fray with a new low-cost external hard drive that supports the high-speed port. The MiniStation...
We've just had the opportunity to take a look at Pentax's new weather-sealed DSLR, the K-30. If you're not familiar with the camera itself, it has a 16-megapixel APS-C sensor, 6 FPS continuous...
Bally Technologies and International Game Technology will now be able to take their casino gaming businesses online, courtesy of new licenses from...
HP's traditional market is business customers, and it's now hoping to appeal to a new segment: owners of hotels, internet cafés, or other public spaces whose customers only need to check email and upload photos. The Passport 1912nm Internet Monitor, announced today, is a very light all-in-one desktop running an undisclosed build of Linux. Its 18.5-inch screen shows only large icons for music,...
When Sharp broke its own record for the world's largest LED TV with a Wi-Fi-enabled 90-inch behemoth, many were skeptical: would a nearly bed-sized television really be viewable in only 1080p resolution? At a recent Pepcom showing, we were able to put Sharp's smart TV to the test. Although it...
