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LL Cool G: Ladies Love Cool Gadgets Too, Says Study
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As the only girl on the Gadgets team, I often get asked to write what I call “lady-rants” about products targeted toward women. I have a problem with most of them, as the products themselves are either being forced into a demographic by marketers (like the HTC Rhyme, which would’ve...
HTC shows off stunning 5-inch 1080p J Butterfly phone in Japan
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The rumors were true: HTC has been working on a new flagship phone with a 1080p display, and we got to see it in Tokyo today. It's the HTC J Butterfly, and it's set for a release this December on AU / KDDI. A follow-up to the previous HTC...
HTC confirms upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich updates for 16 devices
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HTC is joining Samsung in its Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) party after the Taiwanese handset maker announce a slew of devices that are set to get upgrades to the latest Android 4.0 operating system. In a new post on its blog, HTC revealed that no fewer than 16 of its smartphones...
BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV
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Television is going the way of the dinosaur, and the deadly comet is called BitTorrent Live. Today, Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol, demoed his latest creation at the SF MusicTech Summit. BitTorrent Live lets any content owner or publisher stream video to millions of people...
NEC's Medias X smartphone for DoCoMo features first-ever liquid-cooled CPU
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NEC's just broken some new ground with the Medias X, the world's first liquid-cooled smartphone that was launched as part of DoCoMo's summer lineup. Rather than aiming it at the propeller-heads usually associated with that tech, though, NEC and DoCoMo are marketing it toward women in the same patronizing...
Apple is Trying its Best to Kill HTC (And Doing a Pretty Good Job)
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There is blood in the water, and the big fish are circling to put the struggling, wounded little fish out of its misery. The little fish, which has some good qualities to offer the world, is having more and more trouble keeping the big fish away. This is happening...
Sony Xperia P hands-on
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Without revealing the rhyme or reason behind its seemingly arbitrary Xperia naming convention, Sony's newly minted Mobile Communications arm unveiled its middle ground NXT series entry, the P, at this evening's MWC event.Gallery: Sony Xperia P hands-onDeveloping...Sony Xperia P hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Feb 2012...
One Tweet Can Kill A Market, Many Tweets Have Little Effect
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One false tweet from a hacked Associated Press Twitter account wiped $200 billion off the stock market, but most tweets don't move markets one way or another. In fact, there appears to be little rhyme or reason for Twitter's effect on individual stocks. Take Google. While its stock has...
HTC J hands-on (video)
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We got our first chance to check out the HTC J in person today at KDDI / au's summer lineup launch event. The J is essentially a Japanese variant of the One S — it's got a 4.3 inch qHD Pentile display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and an 8-megapixel...
Microsoft unlocks Socl, a puzzling social network that looks a lot like Pinterest
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Microsoft’s fledgling social network is a bit of a puzzler. Pronounced “social,” Socl debuted to the public Tuesday with a fresh coat of paint, new features, and no clear purpose. The product of Microsoft’s Fuse Labs research team, Socl was originally intended to appeal to educational communities — design...
Verizon Releases List Of Devices Getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
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Despite the fact that they rarely ever get to use the newest version of the OS when it’s launched, Android fans are still patiently and enthusiastically waiting for their Ice Cream Sandwich updates. The latest version of the OS was released alongside the Samsung Galaxy Nexus back in December, and...
HTC reveals 16 smartphones getting Android Ice Cream Sandwich update
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Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has confirmed that 16 of its smartphones will receive the update to Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, the company said in a blog post today. Ice Cream Sandwich includes a much more beautiful design and new features like a better web browser and facial recognition...
More HTC phones, but no tablets, getting Android 4.0
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Just a day after rival Samsung began to update phones with Android 4.0, hardware maker HTC expanded its list of devices that will see the Ice Cream Sandwich software. In a blog post, HTC announced 12 phones that will follow the four HTC Sensation upgrades in the near future. No...
Which Verizon devices get Android 4.0? The LTE ones
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Verizon Wireless published the list of devices it plans to upgrade to Android 4.0 and all but one share a common feature: LTE. Several tablets and many recent smartphones will all see the software update, which brings improvements in the software interface. With the news, it’s clear that Verizon is...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2: Android 4.0 tab with old specs
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If the 7-inch tablet market was like a wedding, Samsung would be the best bride out there. Along the lines of the old rhyme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, ” Samsung has reportedly announced the Galaxy Tab 2 which is old and new at the same time....
HTC Shows Off Its Japan-Only J Butterfly Smartphone And Its Crazy 5-Inch, 1080p Display
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Remember the rumors of a new HTC flagship Android phone that started making the rounds last month? The ones bolstered by questionable leaked image after questionable leaked image? As it happens, the device that inspired all those rumors — now known as the HTC J Butterfly — was officially...
Fitness Tech Needs to Pick Up the Pace
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Branching out is hard to do. Once a company is set in its ways, turning and doing something different is always a challenge. Take Jawbone’s first effort to leave the audio market, the Jawbone Up, which served as a warning to the rest of the fitness industry. In a world filled...
Verizon taps nine phones, five tablets for Android 4.0 upgrade
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ALT TITLE: Android 4 will come to nine phones and five tablets with Verizon's blessing Verizon announced a short list of phones to be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in a press release today. The carrier is vague about whether it plans to add to the list....
Ice Cream Sandwich updates coming to 12 Verizon phones and tablets
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Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced that the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, will be coming to 12 smartphones and tablets currently offered by the carrier. No details regarding release timing were provided, however the carrier stated that Ice Cream Sandwich updates will...
Apple to ITC: Can We Just Get a Ban on HTC's Entire Handset Portfolio?
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says the patent battles the company is mired in are a “pain in the ass.” But that distaste for litigation isn’t stopping Apple from suing those it feels have violated its IP or dragging them before the International Trade Commission. Earlier this week, Apple filed...
Here Are All The Phones HTC Will Upgrade To The Latest Version Of Android
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Not a mere 24 hours after Samsung announced it will soon allow Galaxy S II owners to update their Android systems to the 4.0 version (Ice Cream Sandwich), HTC announced which of its devices will be getting Google's latest OS. The company says the HTC Sensation and HTC Sensation XE...
Verizon confirms at least twelve of its devices will get Android 4.0, doesn't say when
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Verizon has just posted a list to its website to help let people know which devices are destined to get Android 4.0. The list includes the HTC ThunderBolt, Incredible 2, Rhyme, and Rezound, as well as the Motorola Droid Xoom, RAZR, RAZR Maxx, Bionic, Xyboard 8.1 and 10.1. The...
HTC lists 16 devices which will be getting ICS over the next months
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Here’s the scoop. HTC’s updating most high end devices that have existed over the past year and a half. Would have been nice to see the original EVO on this list. We’re checking our Sensation daily as rollouts have already begun, though T-Mobile might not be the quickest carrier to...
Verizon Promises To Upgrade These Android Phones ... Someday ... Maybe (VZ, GOOG)
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Verizon released a list today of a handful of Android devices it says will get the latest version of Google's mobile OS, Ice Cream Sandwich. Based on all the Android phones Verizon has churned out over the last year and change, the list of devices is pitifully small. Verizon's...
Verizon lists phones & tablets getting Android Ice Cream Sandwich
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Verizon Wireless has released a list of devices that will be receiving an update to the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. Motorola already let its ICS-specific roadmap out of the gate, but its estimates were disappointing. Verizon does not say when these devices will actually get the...
Troll-Hunting
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The internet is all crazy over Adrian Chen's expose of Reddit mega-troll ViolentAcres. Here's Chen going all "The Next Rhyme I Write Might Be About You" on some of Reddit's more odious characters:Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company...
The New New Tech Writing: Straight Up Penning Poems About Stuff
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How much do we love thee, Drew Houston? Let us count the ways. (Photo: wiki.smu.edu) There’s the gadget liveblog, the multimedia-heavy feature and the bloggy, snarky take. But as we near the end of 2012, we may have reached the last possible evolutionary stage of tech writing: just fucking penning...
These Verizon phones will get Ice Cream Sandwich updates
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There aren’t many huge surprises on the list, but Verizon has made things official for users wondering if their device will be getting an update to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Verizon didn’t however provide any specific dates for when the updates might be rolling out. If you’re still...
When being better doesn't equal victory: Samsung's curious overshadowing of HTC
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In a lot of things, being the best generally leads to victory. Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the London Olympics? He wins the gold. A hosting company has the best recorded uptime? It takes home an award. Google launches the fastest consumer broadband available in the US?...
HTC Desire X review: one last hurrah for a former flagship?
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Before we go into more detail on HTC's Desire X, cast your memory back to a time before the outfit announced the "One" line of Android phones. You may remember names such as Wildfire, Sensation, Rhyme and, of course, Desire. Likewise, you may also remember a certain amount of...
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