When HP was getting rid of the last of its TouchPad stock in a $99 fire sale last year, it accidentally got rid of a few tablets running an unpublished, internal build of Android (the TouchPad runs webOS natively), immediately drawing the attention of the hacker community. Following complaints about the company not living up to its obligation under the GPL t […]
Microsoft's OneNote software has already seen mobile versions come to Windows Phone and iOS, and now Android users can get in on the productivity fun with an app just released in the Market worldwide. It looks to be functionally identical to other mobile versions, letting you create, edit, and sync your notes through SkyDrive, though it has a new visual […]
LG has posted a teaser for the Optimus Vu, a smartphone with a 5-inch, 4:3 aspect ratio display. Details from the video itself are scarce, but Datacider and Google Pad are reporting that the phone will feature a 1024 x 768 IPS display, a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, and an 8-megapixel camera. NFC support is also […]
Sony has just begun rolling out the 4.10 firmware update for the PlayStation 3, which brings some subtle naming changes, an updated browser... and a slight problem for movie lovers. Under the update, users' PlayStation Network accounts are renamed to Sony Entertainment Network accounts as part of the company's move to bring its full suite of digita […]
Sony has confirmed that there will be no UMD Passport program for the PlayStation Vita when it launches in North America later this month. The system supports digital PSP games, but drops the UMD drive slot; in Japan, UMD Passport allows owners of retail PSP titles to register their discs online for a discounted download. However, the program was seriously l […]
Olympus announced two compact cameras today, not that either should take any attention from the OM-D E-M5. The TG-820 iHS is a rugged compact with a 12-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor and a 28-140mm equivalent 5x optical zoom lens. The real standout feature is its 3-inch, 1,030,000-dot LCD, an anti-reflective, scratch-proof display that's as sharp as any came […]
Protracted extortion negotiations with a hacker threatening to release stolen source code for several Symantec products ended yesterday with the code for pcAnywhere surfacing on The Pirate Bay. While Symantec has claimed it never had any intention of paying the $50,000 fee, and that the negotiations were part of a law-enforcement operation, the hacker in que […]
Olympus went back to its roots today with the OM-D E-M5, a brand-new Micro Four Thirds camera that you'd probably guess was about 40 years old if it weren't so shiny. The E-M5 is the first in the company's new OM-D line, and even the name harkens back to the cameras of yore: the OM-1 was released in 1972, and was at the time one of the slimmes […]
Olympus has finally pulled the curtain back on what has been possibly the most leaked camera in recent memory: the OM-D E-M5. Just as the PEN cameras were inspired by the company's half-frame shooters of the '50s and '60s, the first camera in the OM-D line harkens back to OM-series film SLRs first sold in the '70s. So, the pentaprism bump […]
Facebook began testing a rather — ahem — inspired new design for its Photo Viewer earlier this month, taking significant visual cues from Google+. If you'd like to get a look at it for yourself, you may be in luck: the new viewer appears to be rolling out to a large number of Facebook users today. The main change is a shift to a landscape-oriented desig […]
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