Apple gives away Life of Pi eBook today

Apple describes the book:

Samsung Galaxy Tab - Tablet PC (VIDEO)

Low battery Life on PlayBooks were pre-beta units

RIM has responded to a claim, via Reuters, about battery life on their upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet

Tablets to Replace 10% of Worldwide PC Sales by 2014

We know that tablets are coming to market full force this year and how much of the market they are going to occupy

HTC Tablet Trademark Names it the Scribe

There have been many rumours over the past few months about HTC and their tablet intentions.

Android Honeycomb is version 2.4, suggest website server logs

Earlier this month, sources at Android and me heard that the next upcoming Android, dubbed Honeycomb,

RIM: BlackBerry PlayBook battery life is still being optimized, won't cause delays

If you've been keeping an ear to the techie ground, you'll probably have heard some analyst chatter suggesting RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook

Woori Pad, the latest iPad clone from Korea

Korean company ‘Appeal System’ is the latest no name Asian company to end up with a funny name due to translation and one to succumb to iPad clone fever.

Skype video calling for iPhone is official, available now (update: hands-on)

All signs have been pointing to this release for a few days now, but we'll admit: we expected Skype to wait until CES next week to pull the covers off what could become its crown jewel service over the coming months.

Gigabyte updates product pages with new dual core N550 netbooks: M1005 and Q2005

This is pretty much how we’ve caught most of Gigabyte’s new releases, by checking out the company’s product

The best mobile devices for both business and personal use

I'm confident that 2010 will go down as the year that personal and professional computing officially merged,

Android 2.3 Gingerbread on Nexus S; Features

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of weeks, you probably know that the newly announced Google Nexus S is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and at a first glance, it looks like it’s a hell of a OS to go with.

Android Demo (VIDEO)

Android 2.0 Official Video

Nintendo 3DS Pre-Orders Confirmed at GameStop; No Word on US Pricing Yet

For those of you eagerly awaiting the Nintendo 3DS we have news that the console is available for pre-orders starting today in GameStop stores.

LG preps 72-inch and mobile ATSC TVs with 3D for CES

LG tonight gave another preview of its CES 2011 mix by showing what it said would be the largest 3D-capable TV yet as well as a portable 3D TV for the new mobile ATSC format.

Best work and play apps for your jailbroken iPhone

Jailbreaking an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch used to be a somewhat complicated process,

Sony Ericsson mystery handset leaks out, provides juicy rumor material

Do you recognize this handset? Neither do we, and that's kind of the point. We're looking at a never-before seen Sony Ericsson smartphone running Android --

Samsung said to be bringing a 4-inch Galaxy Player to CES 2011

Samsung Hub is reporting this morning that Samsung intends to introduce a new Galaxy Player to the tech gathering known as CES early next month.

WSJ's Mossberg: Apple products best of 2010

Technology reviewer for the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg, has revealed his top picks for the best -- and worst -- technology products of 2010.

BenQ rumored to debut 10.1-inch R100 Android tablet in early 2011

Chances are that we'll find out for sure next month at CES, but PC World has it on authority that BenQ will be throwing its hat into the overcrowded Android tablet ring early next year.

Logitech freezing Revue shipments for Google TV update

Logitech has suddenly frozen shipments of its Revue box for over a month while waiting for a major Google TV revamp, insiders said Friday.

Mini's Connected app for iPhone live with radio, Google Maps

BMW's Mini badge this week quietly took its Mini Connected app (free, App Store) live for the iPhone.

Dell Venue launched in Hong Kong, we go hands-on

Isn't it fun when you hit the right place at the right time? We just happened to be chillaxing in Hong Kong when Dell chose the city for the Venue's global launch (and it's actually hitting the shops slightly ahead of South Korea), so a quick hands-on is inevitable.

LG Optimus 2X dual-core Android phone hits Europe in January

We already knew that it was coming to its home country of Korea in January.

Indamixx 2 music tablet now on sale: $699 for beta hardware

So, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that $699 is $300 less than the purported $999 price tag we had originally heard would be affixed to the Indamixx 2 slate.

Millions affected as Skype goes down

WASHINGTON - Skype suffered an outage lasting several hours on Wednesday affecting millions of users of the Internet communications service.

Archos' Android-based 70b e-reader up for pre-order in Europe

There are various eReaders on the market; these include models like the Nook Color and the Amazon Kindle. The Kindle actually reported profits for the year being 60% higher than they expected.

Touchless Gesture User Interface for tablets (VIDEO)

BlackBerry keeping growth up, but losing US market

RIM's fall BlackBerry results showed signs of a turnaround but masked problems with growth in the US, Cera CEO Michael Mace showed in an unofficial analysis on Wednesday. It successfully kept its average phone price up and managed to increase its net new subscribers, but its dependence on sales beyond North America has become evident in the long term.

New Apple TV Sales To Top 1 Million This Week, iTunes TV Show And Movie Rentals Soaring

Apple just issued a release announcing that it expects to sell one million units of its newly released Apple TV later this week. Apple also announced that iTunes users are now renting and purchasing over 400,000 TV episodes and over 150,000 movies per day.

Pantech Vega Xpress comes with DDR2 memory, extravagant performance claims

Pantech's bringing a new wrinkle to the mobile hardware space with its newly announced Vega Xpress handset.

Judge Sides With Google, Throws Out Android Trademark Suit

Back in April 2009 — before the incredible rise of Android had really picked up steam — Google’s mobile operating system faced a challenger that had almost nothing to do with cell phones. Erich Specht, a man who ran a data company called Android Data from 1998 through 2002, came forward to say that Google was infringing on his trademark by using the name ‘Android’, and he wanted a payout of $94 million from Google, Android Inc, and the Open Handset Alliance.

Samsung Bada 2 to get multitasking, NFC, more

At the developer day held recently in South Korea, Samsung highlighted some of the features of its upcoming Bada 2.0 OS for smartphones. The operating system is currently in version 1.2 and was first introduced in the Wave. The update is coming next year and will bring with it Near Field Communication (NFC) support for payments, a new multitasking ability and support for Macs and Linux in the SDK.

Windows Phone 7's Marketplace grows faster than Android did at launch, doesn't mean much

An analyst note released by research firm IDC yesterday points out that in the nearly two months since Windows Phone 7's retail release, the Windows Marketplace has swelled to 4,000 applications --

Kno's 14-inch tablets

Did you happen to pre-order a single- or dual-screen 14.1-inch Kno tablet textbook? Alright, we're assuming that schools and wealthy students were the only ones that actually did, but regardless, the monster-sized tablets are starting to ship out this week. According to the press release after the break, both the single- and dual-display versions are being boxed up and will be sent out to those early pre-orderers over the next couple of weeks.

Sell Mobile Phones: The Geek Way to Dispose Damaged Phones

Out of the different gadgets today, mobile phones have become one of the necessities. It has become a must for easier communication and for easier completion of certain tasks –

Samsung nabs Tegra 2 for Galaxy Tab 2, Google makes Tegra the Honeycomb reference platform?

It sounds like all of NVIDIA's wrangling and cajoling finally paid off, if a couple of analysts are to be believed --

Listen and Control Your iPhone Music with a-JAYS Four Earphones

When it comes to music and iPhone, stock earphones won’t just do it for any audiophiles. It pays to spend the extra bucks for a feature-rich performance earphone especially if you’re going for the new award-winning a-JAYS Four earbuds. Featuring flat tangle-free cables, three-button remote designed for iPhone, and signature JAYS customized sound made to match your iPhone, this pair of new earphones let’s you experience the best for your music phone.

Coolest Gadgets of 2011 (VIDEO)

Apple's Mac App Store leads the way

Apple’s iPhone has already shown the way – app stores are clearly the future of software. Adobe’s flagship CS5 may still be so vast it comes on four DVDs, but eventually even software of its calibre will simply be downloadable too. Seven billion Apple downloads can’t be wrong.

News: Trillian IM app hits Android Market

Instant messengers are quite popular nowadays on both desktops and smartphones, and only problem with instant messengers is that there are several of them available on the market.

Facebook intern maps world via online 'friends'

WASHINGTON - A Facebook intern interested in seeing how political borders affect friendships around the globe has created a map of the world by sampling data from the social network's 500 million user base.

Apple to open Mac App Store on January 6

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is planning a January 6 opening for an online shop stocked with software applications that add entertaining or functional features to the firm's Macintosh computers.

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Smartphones in the enterprise: A changing landscape

What many IT admins may have once thought impossible has happened -- the iPhone is now second place in terms of security behind only the BlackBerry

LG's dual-core Star official as Optimus 2X

LG confirmed the existence of the Starearly tonight as it has brought out the phone in its native Korea as the Optimus 2X. The phone is the first to carry NVIDIA's 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 and can both play and capture 1080p video with its eight-megapixel camera. An HDMI output also makes it one of the first phones to have 1080p video output as well as advanced 3D gaming.

iPhone app processes images for colorblind users

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has introduced a mobile app that processes images for users who suffer from red-green colorblindness. The utility, titled DanKam and available for iOS and Android, attempts to overcome the condition by processing images through several color-shifting schemes. Images can be taken in real-time from the device's camera.

Next iMac, MacBook Pro seen with redesigns in 1st-half 2011

Apple is planning refreshes of the iMac and MacBook Pro for the first half of 2011 that should include redesigns, part suppliers said Wednesday night. The iMac will reportedly get a "new panel size" and a "mainstream," presumably lower price to reach more users. Other details of the all-in-one weren't forthcoming from Digitimes' sources, although a jump to Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture for processors and newer graphics chips are both probable.

New Belkin Wireless Routers – Surf, Share, Play, and Play Max

Belkin, the California-based electronics company unveiled four new wireless routers a couple of months ago. These new Belkin Wireless N Routers are now retailed in all tech stores in the Philippine market at reasonable rates. Belkin’s Surf, Share, Play, and Play Max wireless routers are specifically designed for easy wireless home network installation and use.

Daily gadget deal: $100 Coupon HP G62x Core i3 laptop

Here’s LogicBUY’s latest gadget deal of the day for a HP G62x 15.6-inch Core i3 laptop for $499.99 after $100 coupon. Latest entry into the G series, the HP G62 offers “just right computing” to meet what you need everyday, with an affordable price and a worry-free computing experience.

New BearExtender for Your WiFi Network

Wi-Fi is a bit of a fickle thing. While it’s great when the single is strong, if you’re blocked by architecture or stretched to the limits of the router, your signal is going to be spotty at best. Enter the new BearExtender. Essentially it is a Wi-Fi antenna that allows you to capture a stronger signal and keep it even at great distances from the source.

Get free calls from your iPhone with Viber app

If you’re an iPhone user you might be familiar with the WhatsApp that allows you to send messages to other users with this app for free. Today we have something even better that will allow you to perform voice calls from your iPhone free of charge.

Daily gadget deal: RAZER TRON Gaming Mouse

Here’s today LogicBuy daily gadget deal of the ambidextrous RAZER TRON gaming mouse for $79.99 after $20 coupon. The TRON Gaming Mouse Designed by Razer is inspired by the world and vehicles of TRON, featuring light alerts based on in-game actions.

Apple mysteriously kills jailbreak detection API while hacker boosts iOS security, irony restored

It's no secret that Apple's been keen to monitor the lot of naughty jailbreakers, but it turns out the company has recently shelved iOS 4.0's jailbreak detection API with no explanation given. While this has little effect on the average user, Network World explains that this is bad news for enterprise IT and MDM (mobile device management) vendors, who will now have one fewer channel for checking whether a user's iOS device has been jailbroken and thus become vulnerable to attacks.

Geek was chic in online search for 2010

SAN FRANCISCO - Tech terms ruled when it came to queries on the world's leading search engine in 2010, with online stranger-pairing website Chatroulette and Apple's hip iPad tablet computer the hottest topics.

Internet gadgets and services displaced celebrities in a "Spirit of 2010" analysis of Google searches that went live online Thursday at google.com/zeitgeist2010.

Aigo's iPhone 4 battery case internalizes your charge cable, InCase Snap Battery lightens the load

Our quest for the perfect iPhone 4 battery case continues apace with the Exolife Exogear presently holding the lead, slightly ahead of the Mophie Juice Pack Air and the Mili PowerSpring. Just like these fine selections, the Aigo aiPower i616 claims to "virtually double" battery life, but it's got another trick up its sleeve: a hidden USB ribbon cable for both charging and data built right into the case.