Though we played with ASUS’ Android-powered Eee Pad MeMO back at CES, the company spilled a couple new secrets here at CeBIT today: first, it’ll be running Honeycomb by the time it launches in June — current prototypes are running Gingerbread — and second, certain MeMO bundles will include the MeMic, a separate Bluetooth handset [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
First they leaked, then they became official, and now they’re at HP’s online store waiting for your name, address and credit card information. The new Pavilion dv6 and dv7 laptops borrow liberally from the higher-end Envy line’s aesthetics — not that we’re complaining — and offer quad-core Core i7 CPUs that max out at 3.4GHz [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
Though enterprise software and infrastructure tend to be the focus of the event, CeBIT always yields a few consumer-focused gems — and with all the tablet action lately, we’d be shocked if we didn’t see a few slates break cover here. We’ll be canvassing the fairgrounds all week looking for said gems… so be sure [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
When you’re the second-largest supplier of communications infrastructure in the world and your president is an ex-member of the Chinese military, suspicions of espionage — warranted or not — are pretty much a foregone conclusion. Indeed, Huawei has suffered a couple of high-profile business setbacks in the past year over vague concerns that the company [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
Expanding on some tidbits fleshed out last week, Fujitsu has dropped all the details on its Oak Trail-based Stylistic Q550 Windows 7 tablet here at CeBIT this week. Along with your choice of 30GB or 64GB SSDs, you’ll be able to select Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional atop a 10.1-inch WXGA IPS display capable [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
Some of our UK readers have woken up to the less than awesome discovery this morning that their phones have lost all connectivity to the outside world. 3G, 2G, SMS, and BlackBerry services on the Vodafone UK network are all down for what seems like a significant proportion of its user base — an issue [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
Those seeking the upper echelons of virtual guitar wizardry have a third option now — the You Rock Guitar, which is now compatible with Rock Band 3’s Pro mode. So long as you’ve also got Mad Catz’ MIDI-Pro adapter handy, the multi-touch fret board sounds like a solid middle ground between the uber-realistic Squier Stratocaster [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
If athletic events were accessorized with coffee, comfy pajamas, and a particular knack for sedentariness, well, we’d be champs. Alas, sports are more typically characterized by movement which, we’re told, increases the participant’s pulse, breathing, and likelihood of turning an arm into a tattooed sleeve. Nevertheless, we can’t help but be intrigued by the Under [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
It’s been a long road for the Karma to reach production, but now it finally has an end in sight: March 21st. That’s the date Fisker promises to start rolling its gorgeous PHEV off assembly lines, with deliveries to the first humans to reserve one coming up in April. The price for the 2012 Karma [...]
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February 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
A few third-party apps have been going after this market for a while now, but AT&T has just become the first American carrier to throw its weight behind location-based ads in teaming up with Placecast to launch the so-called AT&T ShopAlerts service in four markets. Residents of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco [...]