Touch-screen Capabilities Coming to Four Lenovo IdeaPad Laptop Lines By Brad Chacos Published 7 January 13 While Windows 8 has yet to woo consumers over to its finger-friendly interface en masse, Lenovo seems to have caught touch-screen fever in full force. A new, touch-equipped version of the ThinkPad X1 ...
Lenovo IdeaPad U510: 15-inch Ultrabook Sports Nvidia GPU, Just $679 By Brad Chacos Published 31 August 12 Lenovo's U Series Ultrabook line is growing in more ways than one. The newly announced IdeaPad U510 Ultrabook follows the same general aesthetic and build of Lenovo's U310 and U410, but adds a 15.6-in...
Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 and Y500 Let You Add Second Graphics Card By Brad Chacos Published 31 August 12 With the steady stream of Windows 8 hybrids and thin-and-light Ultrabooks being trotted out these days, you have to wonder: have manufacturers forgotten about good old fashioned multimedia and gaming ...
New Lenovo IdeaPad Z Series: 25 Percent Slimmer, Still Lots of Power By Brad Chacos Published 31 August 12 Traditionally, you could have a sleek laptop or you could have a powerful laptop, but not both. Lenovo thinks it has found the happy medium with the IdeaPad Z400 and Z500, which the company claims are...
Leaked Photos Show Upcoming Droid RAZR HD in Action By Brad Chacos Published 2 August 12 A new and improved version of the Droid RAZR is slowly working its way out into the world: the Droid RAZR HD. Motorola's kept mum about the handset, but a series of leaks have shed some light on the p...
$50 Favi SmartStick Plugs into HDMI, Brings Jelly Bean to the Living Room By Brad Chacos Published 28 September 12 The battle to turn your dumb TV into a smart TV is heating up mighty fast. Favi's newly announced SmartStick brings the full Android 4.1 Jelly bean experience -- complete with support for Netflix, Hul...
Motorola Mobility Devices Infringe Microsoft Patent, Munich Court Finds By Brad Chacos Published 24 May 12 It's hard to single out winners and losers in the ongoing patent wars ravaging the technology landscape, but the flow of battle seems to have turned against Motorola Mobility. Earlier this week, the U...
Samsung Wants $1 Billion Verdict Scrapped, Alleges Jury Foreman Misconduct By Brad Chacos Published 3 October 12 Did the jury foreman in the $1 billion Apple vs. Samsung court case withhold information that would have brought his neutrality into question? That's exactly what Samsung claims in a new request to di...
Growing Nexus 7 Sales Approach 1 Million Per Month: Can it Continue? By Brad Chacos Published 31 October 12 Frequent stock shortages, the introduction of new variants and healthy third quarter bottom lines for both Asus and Google all suggested that the companies were shipping a steady flow of Nexus 7 table...
RIM Considering Selling Off Its Handset Business, Newspaper Reports By Brad Chacos Published 25 June 12 When you say "Research in Motion," most people think "BlackBerry." A new report claims that the two terms might not stay synonymous for long, however; Britain's Sunday Times newspaper (paywalled) says...
OTA Fix for Windows Phone Random Reboot Issue Coming in December By Brad Chacos Published 28 November 12 Being an early adopter means putting up with occasional headaches as companies work the post-release kinks out of their products, and Windows Phone 8 buyers weren't immune to launch window woes. Sever...
Report: Motorola Kills Webtop Technology and Lapdock Accessory By Brad Chacos Published 14 September 12 Motorola's Webtop technology is an interesting idea that just never seemed to fully work out all its kinks. Now, it might never have a chance to: PhoneNews reports that Motorola plans to kill both Web...
European Phone Retailer Accidentally Puts LG Nexus 4 Up for Preorder By Brad Chacos Published 25 October 12 If the flood of system dumps, photos, videos and hardware information didn't convince you that the LG Nexus 4 handset is a sure-fire lock to show up at Google's Android event, the latest accidental le...
The Next iPad: Thinner, More mini-Like, and Coming in March? By Brad Chacos Published 24 December 12 When the fourth-generation iPad launched earlier this fall, mere months after the release of the original Retina-sporting iPad, many Apple devotees expressed extreme discontent that the company shippe...
MetroPCS Outs First Android ICS Phone, Low-Cost Unlimited 4G LTE Plan By Brad Chacos Published 21 August 12 Note to everyone who thinks 4G LTE is prohibitively expensive: MetroPCS begs to differ. Today, the company announced that it's adding the LG Motion 4G to its Android lineup later this week, and at jus...
Office 2013's SkyDrive Integration Combines Local, Cloud Storage By Brad Chacos Published 31 July 12 SkyDrive and Office 2013: two great tastes that taste great together? SkyDrive is the cloud storage service holding Microsoft's "anywhere, everywhere" vision of Windows 8 together, and in a recent pos...
Teacher-Friendly Splashtop Whiteboard Lands on the Kindle Fire By Brad Chacos Published 19 September 12 It's time to drag learning into the mobile era: Splashtop, maker of the popular remote desktop app, has announced that its Splashtop Whiteboard educational app is now available on the Kindle Fire tabl...
Kindle Fire 2 Could Appear On July 31st By Brad Chacos Published 26 June 12 The Kindle Fire has been lighting up the Android tablet sales charts, but if you've been slow to pick one up, you might want to wait another month or so before deciding to buy: a "credible source" has...
Samsung Unveils Its Latest High-Speed CPU, the Exynos 5 Dual By Brad Chacos Published 10 August 12 The high-powered cat is out of the bag: Samsung has released a whitepaper detailing the company's upcoming dual-core Exynos 5 Dual mobile CPU, the first chip based around ARM's beefy Cortex-A15 archit...
Woz on Apple's Legal Victory Over Samsung: 'I Hate It' By Brad Chacos Published 14 September 12 Apple's accountants might be eagerly anticipating the billion dollar patent damages check Samsung is slated to send the company's way, but the only surviving Apple Inc. co-founder thinks the jury made...
Broadcom Unveils Mobile-Friendly 802.11ac Wi-Fi Chip By Brad Chacos Published 25 July 12 The new and improved 802.11ac Wi-Fi protocol hasn’t even been made an official standard yet, but that hasn't stopped forward-thinking companies from releasing devices based on the current, near fina...
Amazon to Unveil 'Five or Six' Tablets, Including a 10-incher By Brad Chacos Published 23 July 12 Rumors of a successor to the Amazon Kindle Fire have been swirling around for a while now -- no doubt stoked by the launch of the much more powerful Google Nexus 7 -- but a new, highly credible report...
Facebook is Adding the Ability to Edit Comments By Brad Chacos Published 22 June 12 Every Facebooker has experienced that "Oh no!" moment that occurs when, a split second after you leave a comment on a post, you realize it has a glaring spelling or grammatical error smack dab in the ...
AMD Licenses ARM CPU And Hardware-Level Security For Fusion APUs By Brad Chacos Published 13 June 12 AMD names its Fusion Developer Summit for the company's Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), which marry a CPU and a Radeon graphics processor together on a single chip, but this year's Fusion Summit ...
Facebook Out $10m in Settlement Over User-Using 'Sponsored Stories' By Brad Chacos Published 18 June 12 Now that Facebook's a public company, it's obliged to start making some money for its investors. One of the more recent money-making schemes landed Facebook in hot water with its actual users, however...