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T-Mobile Tuesday unveiled what it called its most powerful handset -- the HTC Sensation 4G. It will be available this summer, and T-Mobile is talking up a storm about the device. Among other things, T-Mobile repeatedly refers to the device as the "HTC Sensation 4G." However, HTC's own tech specs ind...
Adobe on Monday announced Creative Suite 5.5, a mid-point update between major releases of the suite. In a tip of its hat to the realities of browser display, Adobe has included HTML5 support in CS 5.5. With CS 5.5, Adobe is also targeting the mobile platform. Further, it has unveiled a subscriptio...
Acer's Iconia Tab A500 tablet is now available for pre-order exclusively from Best Buy at $450. Consumers will be able to pre-order the device from other stores beginning April 14, Acer said. It will hit retailers' shelves and be generally available online April 24. The Iconia Tab A500 currently sup...
Last week, another iPad competitor bit the dust, and so far no vendor has even come close to bothering Apple in the tablet space. In the smartphone space, the only thing that seems to hurt Apple is the carrier and the anticipation of its next phone, which is due shortly but rumored to be delayed.
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Pandora to produce documents in what could be an industry-wide investigation of smartphone apps. In an SEC filing, Pandora said the subpoena was served early 2011, and it was told it wasn't a specific target of the probe. However, it believes similar subpoenas hav...
Your cellphone, your digital camera and your color laser printer may be betraying your privacy without your knowing it, Eva Galperin, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told a sparse audience at the Web 2.0 Expo Thursday. The EFF classifies software or devices that act behind the u...
It's now official: Everything that the Federal Communications Commission has ever told us about the safety of cellphones is almost certainly wrong. When the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently reported that simply holding a turned-on cellphone next to the ear for 50 minutes ca...
Asus on Friday announced the first shipments of its Eee Pad Transformer, which are directed to Taiwan. The Eee Pad Transformer is so named because it uses an optional docking station that provides a full QWERTY keyboard with unique Android function keys. This tablet runs on an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-co...
There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth among vendors of mobile devices and computers since Apple launched the first iPad in 2010. Competitors frantically began announcing plans to bring out their own tablets, most of them running on Google's Android operating system. Since then, Google ha...
Microsoft has released the so-called NoDo update, fulfilling a pledge it made earlier to do so by late March. The ill-fated update had been originally scheduled for rollout during the first week of March. The release was put off after Microsoft ran into problems with its first update in February. M...
Winning regulatory approval may be a difficult battle for AT&T in its bid to buy up wireless rival T-Mobile. However, if it does indeed gain permission to purchase its GSM wireless competitor, the technological challenges could prove to be much less of a headache. AT&T will be able to transi...
Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced that its first 4G smartphone, the HTC Thunderbolt, will hit retail shelves Thursday. It will offer the device, which runs Android 2.2, at $249.99 with a two-year contract if purchased through the carrier's site or in its stores. However, questions have arisen re...
Once again, Microsoft has put off the unfortunately named "NoDo" update for its Windows Phone 7 operating system. This time, the company's Windows Phone blog said the update, which CEO Steve Ballmer had previously stated would be out during the first week of March, will be available in the later par...
Researchers at the University of Illinois claim to have made a breakthrough in phase-change materials technology that could lengthen battery life by up to two orders of magnitude, or 100 times. The team, led by Professor Eric Pop, used carbon nanotube electrodes, it stated in a paper published in Sc...
The turmoil surrounding Microsoft's efforts in the mobile market last year and the spectacularly rapid changes in this sector has raised concern about the company's hopes of ever catching up to the competition. Product miscues and a loss of high-profile personnel have contributed to the perception.
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