New iPods: Touch Gets FaceTime, Nano Gets Multitouch, Shuffle Gets Click Wheel
Apple’s (AAPL) refreshed lineup of iPods, introduced by Steve Jobs today, looks pretty much as anticipated. The iPod touch–the No. 1 portable gaming machine in the world, Jobs said–is getting the...
View ArticleApple TV Tuned to Improve Reception
Steve Jobs may call Apple TV a hobby, and it certainly hasn’t met with the runaway success of some of the company’s products. But Jobs is an avid collector of both users and cooperative media...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7: It's Now or Never
“In the short run, people gotta want these phones. I think they’re going to look pretty good. That’s the most important thing. If we start the popularity chain, and start kind of the buzz around these...
View ArticleVast Majority of TV Viewing Still in Standard Definition
Do you watch most of your television in HD, or standard definition? Even though 56 percent of U.S. households have high-def, more than 80 percent of television viewing is still done in standard...
View ArticleIPhone App iTeleport Wants You to Get Excited About VNC
In app store terms, iTeleport is as old as it gets. In fact, it actually predates the app store, according to founder J Sherwani. Today, iTeleport’s update will offer the product free for 30 days, and...
View ArticleIn 4G Race, Verizon Pulls Ahead With Pricey Speed
One of the biggest technology trends in 2011 will be the expansion of new, faster cellular networks called 4G, or fourth generation. These networks promise a big increase in speed and capacity to...
View ArticleVerizon Wireless Touts 4G Network, Shows Off Devices
Well, we didn’t learn much new about Verizon Wireless’s new network or devices at the Ivan Seidenberg keynote on Thursday, but he did say that the company would have a preview of its LTE device lineup...
View ArticleFinally, a Quick Way to Check the Codex Sinaiticus on the Go
Here’s a new app that’s sure to class up the reference folder on your phone. The British Library today released Treasures, a mobile multimedia look at more than 100 prized items from its collections,...
View ArticleMotorola Goes After Apple's iPad in Super Bowl Teaser Spot for Xoom Tablet
In its iconic “1984″ Super Bowl ad for the Macintosh, Apple went after IBM, pitching itself as an alternative to a monoculture of cookie-cutter computers. Fast-forward 27 years and Motorola is trying...
View ArticleMacBook Pro Refresh This Week?
Rumors of an impending update to Apple’s MacBook Pro line gained further credence over the long weekend with an innocuous change in the Apple Store. The MacBook Pro had been shipping within 24 hours of...
View ArticleNintendo Set to Launch New HD Gaming Console?
Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. in HD? Maybe, if rumors are correct about the company working on a new gaming console. Game Informer reports that an announcement could come as soon as E3, the big gaming...
View ArticleTouchscreen vs. Keyboard, the Sequel
Last week, I wrote about how touchscreens are forcing the reinvention of keyboards, looking into how touchscreen keypads are easily updateable, yet can be cumbersome to type on. The post also...
View ArticleSamsung's Smart TV Isn't as Smart as It Thinks It Is
More and more people are using their big, flat-panel TVs to watch Internet video, view photos, play music and casual games, and access apps, social media and Web sites. The trouble is, this is...
View ArticleThe Price of Amazon's 4G LTE Kindle Fire Tablet, Compared to New iPad
Amazon unveiled three new versions of its Kindle Fire tablet today, with two of the three boasting a bigger screen than the original seven-inch Fire tablet, and one device built with 4G LTE...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Takes Aim at Amazon With New HD Nooks
Yesterday, Barnes & Noble revealed its plans for a Nook-branded online video store. Today, the company is showing off the products it hopes you’ll be watching that video on: New Nook tablets,...
View ArticleAmazon Says Kindle Withstood iPad Mini Assault
With a starting price tag of $329, Apple’s new iPad mini may indeed be too expensive to attract budget-conscious consumers. In response to a question about how Kindle sales were faring following...
View ArticleSizing Up the New iPad Mini
The iPad has been a true tech phenomenon. Apple has sold 100 million of the tablets in just 2½ years, even though many people doubted they needed a $500 device that’s in between a smartphone and a...
View ArticleThe Droid DNA: It's Not a Phablet, It's a Smartphone
Verizon and HTC on Tuesday rolled out one last Android smartphone ahead of the holiday rush, the latest hero device of the pair’s successful Droid franchise. At an invitation-only event in New York...
View ArticleWalmart's Cloud Movie Service Shapes Up
Last year, when Walmart debuted a service that let you store digital copies of movie DVDs you owned in the cloud, it had several flaws. One of them was very big: In order to get your flicks on...
View ArticleTalking TVs With an Imaginary Consumer at CES
4K. Ultra HD or USD. OLED. 4K plus OLED. 3-D. Don’t really know what it all means, do you? It’s okay. You’re not dumb. You might be well-informed on tech topics. You might even be a member of the...
View ArticleAllThingsD's Week in Review: The Chromecast's Enemies and AT&T's Record...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: “Orange Is the New Black” is the new “Arrested Development”: In its Q2 earnings call, Netflix...
View ArticleNokia Lumia 1020 Nudges Smartphone Cameras to the Next Level
Smartphone cameras have improved a great deal since the birth of the smartphone, but photos captured in certain settings — people in dark bars or wedding reception halls, your kid across the soccer...
View ArticleGoogle's Hangouts to Go High-Def
File this under “pretty cool”: Google announced Wednesday that it plans to bring high-definition quality to its Hangouts video chat product. The company first plans to introduce HD to its live “On Air”...
View ArticleHere's How the Oculus Rift Will Work on Mobile
Oculus Rift, the much-hyped virtual reality gaming console interface that debuted at E3 2012, is still seemingly some time off from a consumer release. But at PAX Prime, the gaming convention being...
View ArticleSony Plans a 4K Fest for CES
Sony may not use the term “4K” 4,000 times during its CES press conference and keynote. But it will surely come close. The electronics giant is betting heavily on the next big-screen technology to help...
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