By Adrianne Jeffries
Well that didn't take long. A week after its $1.049 billion victory against Samsung, Apple has accused four more products of infringement in its other case against the electronics giant. It's the same lawsuit that targeted the Galaxy Nexus — for which Apple received a temporary injunction...
Apple smells blood in the water
Amazon is widely expected to be releasing at least one new Kindle Fire tablet and a new Kindle e-reader. There will be an event on September 6th and we have exclusive...
We've just come across a few images of an HTC Android device that looks like it could be a new hero phone for the manufacturer. Unfortunately, other than than a particularly persistent rumor appearing to match up with these images, we don't have a lot to go on. The red accents on the metal rails on the side are a Verizon-favorite for its HTC line of devices. There's a Beats Audio logo too, plus...
The team responsible for open sourcing webOS — composed primarily of HP employees — has hit the beta milestone for Open webOS 1.0 today, which is on track with the schedule HP originally announced for the platform in January. Though there's no specific hardware compatibility mentioned, we already have a sense of the plan here: the project is trying to align the kernel with Android's so that it can draft off of hardware that's been designed to run it. In the meantime, the package ships with an ARM emulator.
All told, Open webOS now has 54 open sourced components under its belt totaling some 450,000-odd lines of code. The original plan was to hit version 1.0 in September — but obviously, that starts tomorrow, and the team's latest verbiage seems to be hedging a bit: "...with the September release we will announce our future plans...
"...with the September release we will announce our future plans for Open webOS." Open webOS Project
A group of US Army soldiers-turned-terrorists was partly inspired by Ubisoft's upcoming Rainbow 6 Patriots, according to the prosecution in the murder case against members of the self-styled militia.
The group, which calls itself "Forever Enduring Always Ready" (FEAR), consists of current and inactive soldiers from the US Army post in Fort Stewart, Georgia. Prosecutors say that FEAR's leader,...
Terrorists allegedly inspired by a magazine article on an unreleased video game
It's Friday, and that means not a whole lot of news happened today. But don't worry, because a lot of news about next week happened. 90 whole seconds of news. And we're going to talk about it. To a camera. While video of things related to that news also plays. There will be some upbeat music. Then maybe we'll try and wrap things up with a joke, but we're not going to try too hard. Hell, we...
Most phone manufacturers have firmly decided the on-screen keyboard is the future. A few companies, like Pantech and Samsung, still make handsets with physical keyboards, but they typically feel like throwaway devices that were built just to use spare parts from 2006. Only Motorola remains committed to the form factor, and the company continues to churn out Droid after Droid with a full, sliding QWERTY keyboard.
The Motorola Photon Q isn't a Droid, but it might as well be. Its five rows of rubber keys slide out from underneath the device's 4.3-inch display, there to comfort BlackBerry...
Last year, Razer announced its expansion to the PC making business with the introduction of the Blade, a 17-inch gaming notebook with an aluminum chassis and thin profile comparable to a MacBook Pro. But despite garnering acclaim for its design and multitouch touchscreen trackpad, the Blade was criticized for being overpriced and underpowered. Now, Razer is taking those grievances head-on, refreshing the Blade with more powerful processors, more storage, and a $300 price cut.
While the exterior design remains unchanged, Razer has completely overhauled its internals. Instead of a 2.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i7, the Blade now features a...
As Microsoft's premier mobile hardware partner, Nokia has plenty at stake with the upcoming Windows Phone 8 launch. Can the company stage a...
When the Apple v. Samsung jury handed in its $1.049 bilion verdict last week, the man that delivered the form itself was jury foreman Velvin Hogan. We recently spoke with the 67-year-old engineer, who described his time participating in the trial as a personal high point — while also cautioning...
Rian Johnson almost didn’t make it into film school.
I first met the writer / director in 1993 at the University of Southern California, where we lived in a row of dorm rooms colloquially termed “The Cinema Floor.” The goal of nearly all the students residing there was to attend the...
Back to school can be a stressful time, and it's also when people typically refresh at least some of their gear. We're pulling together the best minds at The Verge to come up with our streamlined recommendations for back to school shopping. Keep...
You're undoubtedly aware of President Obama's Reddit appearance Wednesday, wherein he became the first sitting POTUS to ever participate in an Ask Me Anything thread. Reddit nearly buckled for most of the time President Obama was answering questions, although it never went...
Yesterday, we caught a few glimpses at what is expected to be the new Kindle Fire, and today CNET is reporting that Amazon actually has two Kindle Fire tablets in the works. We've heard this before — in fact it's been rumored for months that Amazon is planning to launch more than one Kindle...
Intel is taking a note from hardcore PC gamers by experimenting with oil immersion to keep its servers cool. As GigaOM reports, the company recently completed a year-long trial in which server components were immersed in oil, and found that there were no negative effects on the hardware. The technology — provided by Green Revolution Cooling — has the potential to make running data centers more efficient,...
While Samsung's Ativ hardware is relatively tame — especially compared to some other Windows 8 tablets we've seen this week — the company did section off a part of its IFA booth to show off a few experiments in industrial design. Quarantined...
The Verge staffers aren't just people who love technology. They're people who love stuff. We spend as much time talking and thinking about our favorite books, music, and movies as we do debating the best smartphone to buy or what point-and-shoot has the tightest macro. We thought it would make...
Facebook has released a new tool for app developers that means you could be receiving even more notifications soon. The new feature makes it...
Sony and DirecTV are once again teaming up to bring the satellite provider's NFL Sunday Ticket package to PlayStation 3 owners. DirecTV customers with an existing Sunday Ticket subscription can...
Although, yes, this is technically Samsung's first Google TV device, a more accurate description for what we saw today at IFA would be that the company is adding Google TV-related apps to its already expansive SmartHub suite. But those three apps arguably make up the entire Google TV experience: Chrome (without Adobe Flash support), YouTube...
Labor Day weekend is approaching, and you know what that means — it's time to play some PC games. Amazon is doing its part to help with a nice selection of PC downloads available at some pretty low prices. You can grab Mass Effect 3 for $15.99, The Darkness II for $9.99, Crysis 2 for $9.99, S...
The "multi view" concept isn't new, even if it still lacks a quick-and-easy description. In essence, it's two videos signals stacked on one another — using special polarizing glasses not entirely unlike 3D specs to "isolate" a (two-dimensional) signal and thereby allowing two or more people to watch different videos on the same TV. LG has it with Dual Play and Sony with PlayStation 3D Display.
Samsung's demonstration at its IFA 2012 booth didn't play up the multiplayer gaming aspect like the last aforementioned predecessors, but it did showcase the technology on gorgeous 55-inch OLED TVs. The special, very light headsets let you jump...
