Evangelion comes to Android: hands-on with Sharp’s NERV edition SH-06D
Today at NTT Docomo’s summer lineup event we finally saw the company take the wraps off a working version of its NERV edition SH–06D Android handset, inspired by (and designed alongside) the upcoming third film in the ...
Fujitsu’s Arrows Z ISW13F: hands-on with Japan’s first Tegra 3 phone
We’ve been following Fujitsu’s quad-core Tegra 3 smartphone from Las Vegas to Barcelona, and today we’re finally getting a look at the finished project in Tokyo at AU’s summer launch event. Long story short...
Tokyo Hotaru: Panasonic floats 100,000 LED ‘fireflies’ down the Sumida River
Beginning at 6:30 PM last Sunday night, 100,000 glowing blue orbs were poured into Tokyo’s Sumida River as part of the Tokyo Hotaru (firefly) Festival. The display was part of an art installation named Hikari no Symphony (sy...
Dish’s Hopper DVR adds commercial skipping for prime time broadcasts
Dish Network’s Hopper DVR is making it easier to watch prime time shows without commercial breaks. A new feature called Auto Hop lets users watch archived "Primetime Anytime" shows completely commercial-free, beginning at 1A...
Facebook testing new Highlight feature; pay to promote your posts
Facebook is testing a new feature called Highlight that allows users to pay a nominal fee to promote their posts, making them more prominent in others’ news feeds. Last year Facebook raked in $1.14 billion in revenue, about ...
ACLU wins right to record on-duty police in Illinois
Do freedom of speech and freedom of the press imply a right to film police officers doing their jobs? It's a contentious issue, with some claiming that police ought to be able to serve the public without interference from the cell...
AT&T to start testing small, short-range cell sites this year to boost network coverage
AT&T is going to start testing small cells "later this year and into next year" to improve its network coverage and capacity, the company reiterated at CTIA. The miniature, short-range cell sites can be deployed at a fraction ...
HP Envy Spectre XT ultrabook leaks on US site, along with Envy 4 and Envy 6 ‘Sleekbooks’
HP’s new ultrabook lineup is live on its site, and in addition to the Envy 4 and Envy 6 we saw uncovered a few weeks ago, the company is also beginning pre-orders for an Ivy Bridge-powered Envy Spectre XT laptop.
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T-Mobile preps for 2013 LTE rollout with AT&T’s spectrum and equipment from Ericsson, Nokia Siemens
T-Mobile is beginning to cultivate the spectrum it was awarded in its failed merger with AT&T, naming Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks as partners for the company’s LTE deployment. The rollout is scheduled for 2013, a...
Verizon’s Droid 3 update improves autofocus and fixes bugs, but isn’t Android 4.0
A couple of weeks after its Motorola Droid 4 update, Verizon is releasing a 224MB update for the older Droid 3, adding a bunch of bug fixes and a Google Security Patch to the hardware-keyboarded handset. We weren’t big fans ...
Adobe CS6 on sale today, Creative Cloud coming May 11th
Adobe is announcing that the latest version of its professional design suite, Adobe CS6, is available for purchase today, May 7th. The company is also giving a date for the launch of its Creative Cloud distribution platform &mdas...
Canon’s fix for the 5D Mark III light leak issue is black tape
Canon’s fix for the top LCD light leak issue affecting some of its 5D Mark III DSLRs is a piece of black tape on the underside of the offending display (pictured top right). While it’s a perfectly good fix, it may come...
