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New details and specifications have surfaced concerning the webOS tablet HP is expected to unveil Feb. 9. Citing an unnamed source, Engadget has published photos, tech specs and features of the soon-to-be-revealed device. HP responded by sending out an updated version of its invitation to the Feb. 9...
HP has invited members of the media to what it describes as "an exciting webOS announcement." This will be held Feb. 9 in San Francisco. The invitation sparked new rumors that HP was at last going to unveil at least one webOS-based tablet. However, Alex Hunter of HP's Palm Global Business Unit decli...
Last week, I was on CES withdrawal and lusting after the latest Apple killer product, the Motorola XOOM, which like the Palm Pre years before was best of show. However, the Palm Pre failed in market and never became the iPhone killer it could have been. Given that Palm was full of ex-Apple emplo...
German hacker Thomas Roth's announcement that he used Amazon.com's cloud service to crack a wireless network security standard has left some security researchers scratching their heads. Others are merely shaking them in disbelief. That attack was launched against the SHA-1 hash algorithm. Roth's con...
Intel is turning on the lights, but without light. The chip maker will use copper instead of fiber in its new Light Peak optical interconnection technology, reaching speeds surprisingly better than the company expected, according to Intel architecture group director David Perlmutter. The copper achi...
This CES was full of surprises -- from Microsoft announcing Windows on ARM, to both AMD and Intel coming up with solutions no one had seen coming, to Nvidia building a Super ARM blended graphics/processor chip. And the TV company making most of the announcements wasn't Panasonic, Sony or Samsung -- ...
Attendance-wise, CES is having a fat year. Bloated crowds meander through the show floor's arteries, clumping around deposits of cool gadgets, blocking the flow for those not willing to get a little physical and squeeze themselves through. Press conferences overflow, locking out anyone who's not in ...
Verizon aims to populate its nascent 4G LTE wireless network with nearly a dozen new devices over the next six months, the company revealed Thursday at its press event at the Consumer Electronics show. It showed off four smartphones, two tablets, two small notebook computers and two mobile hotspots....
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show kicked into full swing Thursday as exhibitors threw open the show floor doors and let in the throngs of gadget gawkers gathered at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Larger vendors' booths were immediately swamped with attendees poking and prodding the newest wares.
Microsoft may have big things in store for the world of tablet computers. However, anyone attending CEO Steve Baller's keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show Wednesday hoping to see a parade of upcoming Windows tablet devices likely left disappointed. Instead of lining up an array of almos...
Motorola launched a salvo of mobile devices Wednesday at its press event at the Consumer Electronics show, including a new tablet device running Android 3.0, aka "Honeycomb." The launch comes a day after Motorola Mobility split into its own company, a move that the market reacted favorably toward Tu...
A couple of weeks ago, talk surfaced of a super-thin and super-bright phone in the works from LG. Despite whatever happens with the so-called "LG B," it won't be the only handset around with a bright smile and the thin waistline. At Samsung's CES event Wednesday, Omar Khan, CSO of Samsung Telecommun...
Sprint on Tuesday announced that it will offer the HTC EVO Shift 4G smartphone later this month. The EVO Shift was to be unveiled later this week at the Consumer Electronics Show; however, the early arrival of Sprint's announcement may be a bid to steal the thunder from Verizon, which is expected to...
It looks like this year's Consumer Electronics Show will yield a bumper crop of Android tablets, with news that Vizio, Lenovo and Toshiba will demo their products at the conference later this week. Vizio, known primarily for making flat-screen TVs, is apparently the dark horse here, with plans to an...
You'll see the weird, the wacky and the wonderful at this week's CES 2011, in addition to the standard array of bread-and-butter high-tech consumer electronics advances. One of the items to be displayed is what's claimed to be the world's first consumer 3D camera that can recognize gesture-based app...