Gadgets

What Is Google’s ‘Next Generation Personal Communication Device’?

Google is, apparently, developing a new music streaming service. But new reports suggest that it is also simultaneously trialling a “next generation personal communication device” with its employees.


February 10, 2012
Computing

Will New Apple Displays Optimise Themselves According To Surroundings?

Apple’s most recent screen successes have centered around the Retina display. But a new patent suggests that Apple has been working on displays that can react to their surroundings to dynamically improve the viewing experience.


February 9, 2012
Software

Siri Might Be Speaking Mandarin, Japanese, And Russian By March

Per a report from Chinese tech blog DoNews, the Siri voice-assistant may be speaking the three new languages by March. The website cites an unnamed Apple engineer working on the Mandarin version, which is reportedly already in testing.


January 17, 2012
Gadgets

Is Apple Set To ‘Digitally Destroy’ Textbooks This Week?

Ahead of Thursday’s NYC education event, Ars Technica reports via a leak source that Apple plans to announce a simpler way for authors to create and publishe e-books as well as iBook’s adoption of the ePub3 standard.


January 4, 2012
Mobile

New Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone Details?

We adore the Lumia 800. It has that historically lovely Nokia build, and is terrifically small. Like — the size is perfect. Now it’s getting a bigger brother.


News

Apple’s Mysterious New York Event Is Just About Books?

TechCrunch has an anonymous source in their ear, saying this month’s alleged Apple powwow is all about iBooks.


December 29, 2011
Mobile

What Are The 2012 Windows ‘Superphones’?

A leaked Windows Phone roadmap shows what we’ve got to look forward to in 2012. In the short term there’s a batch of cheapy phones for the masses, but by the end of next year we could be looking at “superphones”.


December 22, 2011
Mobile

Can The New Xperia LT28at Live Up To Its Leaked Specs?

Details have leaked about Sony Ericsson’s new “super phone”, and the specs sound impressive. But given the track record, can an Xperia even actually be a phone that really matters?


Computing

Ultra-High Definition Displays Coming To Macs—More Proof

Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.7.3 developer builds have revealed what we already suspected: ultra-high definition Macs are coming. This Get Info window capture reveals a HIDPI (Hi-Dots-Per-Inch) mode checkbox that may come in the next update of Apple’s desktop OS.


December 21, 2011
Mobile

Amazon Was Almost BlackBerry’s White Knight

As RIM continues to stumble down the long stairway to oblivion, Reuters reports that the company had an unlikely suitor this summer that could have saved them: Amazon. Wait, what? Or more importantly… why?