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Google will unveil a mobile payment service on Thursday in New York, according to a recent Bloomberg report. This will be available on Android smartphones from Sprint Nextel. The service will let Android smartphone owners with the NFC feature enabled pay for goods and redeem coupons through their ha...
Barnes & Noble has introduced its new Nook -- a more elementary, less expensive black and white WiFi e-reader device geared toward a simpler market and hoping to compete in the growing e-reader field. The new Nook unrolls with some key differences from its predecessors and competitors. Primarily...
Among its various new features, Mango has smarter Live Tiles that can carry notifications and offer Twitter and LinkedIn support. Windows Live Messenger and Facebook Chat are integrated into Mango out of the box. Mango will also add visual voicemail support. Mango organizes information around people...
Reports indicate Amazon may be poised to surge into the tablet PC market. In an interview with Consumer Reports, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos uttered what might be construed as a hint about the company's plans. In addition, in an article in PC Magazine, analyst Tim Bajarin insists the company is indeed wor...
AT&T Labs has demonstrated download speeds of nearly 29 Mbps on an experimental LTE network in Plano, Texas, according to a report in GigaOm. Upload speeds reportedly hit 10.4 Mbps in the demo. AT&T, however, is saying little publicly about its work-in-progress network. "The network is exper...
The Intel-Apple war has been on a break ever since Intel won and Apple moved its PCs to x86. However, Apple has clearly been itching for a rematch with the iPad, and it has been chewing up PC market share at an impressive rate while Intel's been caught napping. Well, Intel has promised 10, count the...
Two of the biggest names in the high-tech industry -- Microsoft and Intel -- have begun duking it out over the issue of tablet computers. Intel kicked off the row Wednesday when Renee James, head of its software business, mentioned that Microsoft will make multiple versions of Windows 8, four of whi...
Verizon Wireless announced Thursday that it will release its first Windows 7 smartphone, the HTC Trophy 7, for sale online May 26. Windows Phone 7 devices are the only smartphones that let owners play games with Xbox Live subscribers, Verizon said. This is the another smartphone in Verizon's lineup ...
Take a moment to visualize a physician traveling home in a cab from a long day. Stuck in traffic, our hypothetical physician sees this as the perfect time to catch up on email and or to do non-care-related administrative tasks. At the end of the cab ride, he or she puts the phone down to pay the d...
Samsung Electronics will demonstrate the first 10.1-inch tablet with a WQXGA PenTile screen at the SID Display Week symposium, to be held in Los Angeles May 17 to 19. The display offers a resolution of 2,560 by 1,600 pixels. The screen's resolution translates to 300 dpi, not too far behind the 326 d...
Microsoft has announced that it would hold a VIP preview of the next major release of its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system May 24 in New York City. This release is expected to be the one that's been discussed under the code name "Mango." The "Mango" update will contain several important updat...
Every now and then -- or possibly a great deal more often -- the FBI will plant a car-tracking device on someone's automobile to track their movements. How do we know this? Occasionally, these devices are found by the persons being monitored. Some incidents have found their way into the court system...
The phrase "In the beginning was the Word" may soon take on a whole new meaning for cellphone users, if work being done by a researcher at South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University pans out.The scientist, Sang-Woo Kim, has been working on converting sound into electricity. Among other things, the techno...
AT&T has announced that the 4G Samsung Infuse smartphone, which it is reportedly positioning as a "supermodel of smartphones," will be available to the public May 15. The Infuse runs Android 2.2, has a 4.5-inch super AMOLED Plus screen, can download data at up to 21 Mbps off AT&T's 4G networ...
Microsoft has warned owners of Windows Phone 7 devices who installed its delayed NoDo software update with a certain third-party tool that they won't be able to download its latest security update, the 7392 build. The NoDo update, officially titled the 7390 update, had been delayed repeatedly and is...
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