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barney · barney

Apparently the iPhone 5 will enter production in September of this year meaning the device will likely be on sale at the end of the year, or early next year according to a company named "Avian Securities." The post, which comes from Business Insider, reports that the news was leaked during...

barney · barney

Soon after the Apple iPad 2 hit Verizon stores on March 11, users were reporting problems connecting to the Verizon 3G network. The problem most often cited in a 7-page discussion at Apple's Support forum is that users can't turn on their tablet's 3G antenna without rebooting the device. For instanc...

estraya_01 · estraya_01

I am putting this under the How-To only because it isn't necessarily related to computers. Does anyone know about cell phone boosters? e.g. Zboost We recently went wireless for computers around the house. Lovin' it by the way. The person that did the installation recommended that we should look at...

barney · barney

The first Android 3.0 tablet, the Motorola Xoom, has been available for more than a month now. On February 24, Verizon Wireless began selling a 32GB version for $599.99 with a two-year contract or $799.99 without a contract. The 10.1-inch tablet received generally positive reviews (here is CNET’s...

barney · barney

In the latest mobile health scare to hit the Interwebs, the Journal of the American Medical Association is reporting measurements of mobile use on brain chemistry. Although the research is currently of “unknown clinical significance”, it’s bound to feed a frenzy of new stories threatening death...

Vindicated · Vindicated

Where’s My Windows 7 Phone Update? -- Edited by Vindicated on Wednesday 30th of March 2011 06:41:55 PM

barney · barney

Windows Phone 7, perceived as the day-late-dollar-short smartphone competing against the iPhone and Android devices, continues to trip over itself. A month of missteps with phone updates led Joe Belfiore, a Microsoft corporate vice president, to try to explain the problems in an upbeat video on...

barney · barney

Reader: Install at your own risk. Below are the instructions and software links to install Gingerbread on your Droid X.Droid X Gingerbread (2.3.3) - PreRelease Thread Installing Firmware 1. Download this file from the TBH app or one of the mirrors below 2. Use Bootstrap to get your phone into recove...

barney · barney

Apple has never been one to throw the latest brand of CPU into its Macbook line; the Macbook has always been the 'value' edition of the Macbook Pro (MBP). But over the last several renditions of the Macbook, it had grown closer to the MBP in specs, making the two products far less distinguishable. But wh...

barney · barney

Right now, there are a lot of angry comments floating around the web in regards to Microsoft's first "major" update for Windows Phone 7. A few different people have come out with methods to get the NoDo update early, but it seems that one user on xda-developers has nailed it down for HTC devi...

barney · barney

With the “Nodo” WP7 update fiasco finally reaching its unceremonious and unhappy conclusion, it’s hard to be optimistic about Microsoft’s stake in the smartphone market. The expectation was that after a few months of intense marketing and time for users to get used to the differences and advantag...

Vindicated · Vindicated

[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382267,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]AT&T Buy...

barney · barney

Pad 2 is clearly a winner. But that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Here are my first impressions after a week of use. As like my ZDNet colleague and gadget guru Matthew Miller, I also bought an iPad 2 last week. Or rather, my very sweet spouse waited on line for me at Target and bought me one, since I refused to s...

barney · barney

Gathering intel on upcoming products is becoming a game of cat and mouse for companies and the media. Now that the iPad 2 has been released, the rumor mill is going full-tilt about Apple’s next device, the iPhone 5. An insider at Foxconn has shared information with 9to5Mac indicating that prototypes...

barney · barney

Does Google’s Android smartphone and tablet operating system violate Oracle’s patents? Who knows. I’m no software patent lawyer, but I cover intellectual property (IP) lawsuits far too often and I expect it will be years before the courts decide, or, as is more likely Google and Oracle will come to...

barney · barney

One of the most talked about tablets over the last year has been the Apple iPad. Originally announced back in January 2010, the first real mass-produced tablet hit the markets with impressively positive reviews from all the major media outlets. On March 2, Apple announced the next major release, th...

barney · barney

Microsoft General Manager Eric Hautala delivered the news on the Windows Phone Blog. The delay is necessary, he said, "to ensure the update process meets our standards, your standards, and the standards of our partners." The copy and paste update, originally scheduled for early March...

barney · barney

In case you haven’t noticed yet, tablets are pretty popular these days. Even since Apple unleashed its iPad, the “post-PC” phenomenon has taken the world by storm. Manufacturers are producing tablets that not only complement the idea of a PC, but ideally improve on it. As more companies join the fra...

barney · barney

In July of 2010, I wrote “The next generation iPad and what Apple needs to deliver.” Based on information gleaned from updates in iOS and information coming out of the semiconductor industry at the time, I updated that article in November and polished the crystal ball — in my usual purely speculative...

barney · barney

You may already know the basics of Internet security and keeping your personal data private while browsing the Web: Use a firewall, don’t open attachments you aren't expecting, and never follow links from strangers. But what about your smartphone? The ease with which security researcher Georgia...

barney · barney

Much like the company did when it suddenly dropped the price of its original iPhone, Apple is giving $100 back to those who purchased an iPad up to a fortnight before the March 2nd unveiling of the iPad 2. If our math is correct, that makes February 16th the cutoff date, and it's being reported that those...

barney · barney

Consumer Reports today said that its lab tests show the Verizon iPhone 4 suffers from a "death grip" problem similar to last summer's revelations about AT&T's model. Holding the Verizon model in certain ways can "cause the phone to drop calls, or be unable to place calls, in wea...

barney · barney

Microsoft Corp.'s flagging Windows Phone 7 software got a boost this month when Nokia Corp. agreed -- in return for billions of dollars -- to run the operating system on its next generation of mobile phones. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the phone maker selected WP7 over Google Inc.'s popular Android o...

barney · barney

Well, look what we've got here! Seeing that HTC just introduced the Incredible S -- a world phone only available in the UK -- it was only a matter of time before the phone hit the stateside. A trusted tipster just hit us with screen shots of Verizon's internals containing a device dubbed HTC ADR6350. The...

barney · barney

We're hearing from... well, let's call them "people familiar with the matter" that HTC's Thunderbolt -- a phone that's supposed to be Verizon's first with LTE -- is experiencing positively miserable battery life that's making it difficult for testers to avoid carrying a second phone a...

barney · barney

Is Apple finally ready to roll out its next-generation iPad? The Cupertino company will hold a media event on March 2--just over a week from now--to unveil its new tablet, according to a Tuesday report from All Things D. The Wednesday event will likely take place in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center...

barney · barney

If you find that your smartphone and other devices demand too much attention and generally drive you bonkers, industry experts agree. At Mobile World Congress this week, one of the biggest smartphone and tablet exhibitions, vendors unveiled hundreds of faster new devices and software features,...

barney · barney

As one new tablet PC announcement after another surfaces these days, you may be asking yourself, "What does a tablet give me that I don't already get out of my computer or smartphone?" At first, I didn't see why I would need a tablet. But after observing quite a few PCWorld editors using them...

estraya_01 · estraya_01

Does anyone have any advice on e-readers? In doing some research, CNET has their favorite, PC World has their favorite, etc. It didn't seem like there was any consistency. I was trying to see what Consumer Reports said, but you have to subscribe and I wasn't going to do that. I can e-read on my iPad, b...

barney · barney

Alright, we've just laid eyes on some internal Samsung documents and can bring you the official names and specs of the successors to the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab. Firstly, the Galaxy S II will tout a 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 Super AMOLED Plus display, a 1GHz dual-core Orion / Exynos processor, NFC, Bluetooth...

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	iPhone 5 to begin production in September, low cost version may follow (Preview) Apparently the iPhone 5 will enter production in September of this year meaning the device will likely be on sale at the end of the year, or early next year according to a company named "Avian Securities." The post, which comes from Business Insider, reports that the news was leaked during...	barney	0	432	Apr 12, 2011 by barney
	Report: Apple Acknowledges iPad 2 Connection Issues (Preview) Soon after the Apple iPad 2 hit Verizon stores on March 11, users were reporting problems connecting to the Verizon 3G network. The problem most often cited in a 7-page discussion at Apple's Support forum is that users can't turn on their tablet's 3G antenna without rebooting the device. For instanc...	barney	0	498	Apr 10, 2011 by barney
	Cell Phone Boosters (Preview) I am putting this under the How-To only because it isn't necessarily related to computers. Does anyone know about cell phone boosters? e.g. Zboost We recently went wireless for computers around the house. Lovin' it by the way. The person that did the installation recommended that we should look at...	estraya_01	11	856	Apr 3, 2011 by Vindicated
	What's happened to Honeycomb? (Preview) The first Android 3.0 tablet, the Motorola Xoom, has been available for more than a month now. On February 24, Verizon Wireless began selling a 32GB version for $599.99 with a two-year contract or $799.99 without a contract. The 10.1-inch tablet received generally positive reviews (here is CNET’s...	barney	0	467	Apr 2, 2011 by barney
	Mobiles really do fry your brains: JAMA (Preview) In the latest mobile health scare to hit the Interwebs, the Journal of the American Medical Association is reporting measurements of mobile use on brain chemistry. Although the research is currently of “unknown clinical significance”, it’s bound to feed a frenzy of new stories threatening death...	barney	0	497	Apr 2, 2011 by barney
	Where's My Windows 7 Phone Update? (Preview) Where’s My Windows 7 Phone Update? -- Edited by Vindicated on Wednesday 30th of March 2011 06:41:55 PM	Vindicated	0	467	Mar 30, 2011 by Vindicated
	Microsoft VP apologizes for Win Phone missteps (Preview) Windows Phone 7, perceived as the day-late-dollar-short smartphone competing against the iPhone and Android devices, continues to trip over itself. A month of missteps with phone updates led Joe Belfiore, a Microsoft corporate vice president, to try to explain the problems in an upbeat video on...	barney	1	363	Mar 29, 2011 by Vindicated
	Gingerbread leaked rom for Droid X (Preview) Reader: Install at your own risk. Below are the instructions and software links to install Gingerbread on your Droid X.Droid X Gingerbread (2.3.3) - PreRelease Thread Installing Firmware 1. Download this file from the TBH app or one of the mirrors below 2. Use Bootstrap to get your phone into recove...	barney	0	509	Mar 29, 2011 by barney
	Hey Apple, what's going on with the MacBook? (Preview) Apple has never been one to throw the latest brand of CPU into its Macbook line; the Macbook has always been the 'value' edition of the Macbook Pro (MBP). But over the last several renditions of the Macbook, it had grown closer to the MBP in specs, making the two products far less distinguishable. But wh...	barney	0	477	Mar 29, 2011 by barney
	How to get NoDo for your Windows Phone 7 now (Preview) Right now, there are a lot of angry comments floating around the web in regards to Microsoft's first "major" update for Windows Phone 7. A few different people have come out with methods to get the NoDo update early, but it seems that one user on xda-developers has nailed it down for HTC devi...	barney	0	519	Mar 29, 2011 by barney
	Windows Phone 7: Why it's failing (Preview) With the “Nodo” WP7 update fiasco finally reaching its unceremonious and unhappy conclusion, it’s hard to be optimistic about Microsoft’s stake in the smartphone market. The expectation was that after a few months of intense marketing and time for users to get used to the differences and advantag...	barney	0	405	Mar 25, 2011 by barney
	AT&T Buys T-Mobile: Great For Them, Bad For You (Preview) [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382267,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]AT&T Buy...	Vindicated	4	747	Mar 23, 2011 by Vindicated
	Nitpicking the iPad 2: Things I wish Apple had done differently (Preview) Pad 2 is clearly a winner. But that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Here are my first impressions after a week of use. As like my ZDNet colleague and gadget guru Matthew Miller, I also bought an iPad 2 last week. Or rather, my very sweet spouse waited on line for me at Target and bought me one, since I refused to s...	barney	1	525	Mar 20, 2011 by Vindicated
	Rumored iPhone5 prototype has metal back and larger screen (Preview) Gathering intel on upcoming products is becoming a game of cat and mouse for companies and the media. Now that the iPad 2 has been released, the rumor mill is going full-tilt about Apple’s next device, the iPhone 5. An insider at Foxconn has shared information with 9to5Mac indicating that prototypes...	barney	0	410	Mar 20, 2011 by barney
	Does Google's Android violate Linux's Copyright? (Preview) Does Google’s Android smartphone and tablet operating system violate Oracle’s patents? Who knows. I’m no software patent lawyer, but I cover intellectual property (IP) lawsuits far too often and I expect it will be years before the courts decide, or, as is more likely Google and Oracle will come to...	barney	0	477	Mar 20, 2011 by barney
	iPad 2 now available in the United States (Preview) One of the most talked about tablets over the last year has been the Apple iPad. Originally announced back in January 2010, the first real mass-produced tablet hit the markets with impressively positive reviews from all the major media outlets. On March 2, Apple announced the next major release, th...	barney	0	548	Mar 12, 2011 by barney
	Microsoft Delays Copy and Paste for Win7 Phone (Preview) Microsoft General Manager Eric Hautala delivered the news on the Windows Phone Blog. The delay is necessary, he said, "to ensure the update process meets our standards, your standards, and the standards of our partners." The copy and paste update, originally scheduled for early March...	barney	0	465	Mar 12, 2011 by barney
	Microsoft may lose up to $1.28bn in tablet wars (Preview) In case you haven’t noticed yet, tablets are pretty popular these days. Even since Apple unleashed its iPad, the “post-PC” phenomenon has taken the world by storm. Manufacturers are producing tablets that not only complement the idea of a PC, but ideally improve on it. As more companies join the fra...	barney	1	439	Mar 9, 2011 by Vindicated
	The iPad 3 and what Apple needs to deliver (Preview) In July of 2010, I wrote “The next generation iPad and what Apple needs to deliver.” Based on information gleaned from updates in iOS and information coming out of the semiconductor industry at the time, I updated that article in November and polished the crystal ball — in my usual purely speculative...	barney	0	426	Mar 5, 2011 by barney
	Simple Steps To Secure Your Smartphone Against Data Theft (Preview) You may already know the basics of Internet security and keeping your personal data private while browsing the Web: Use a firewall, don’t open attachments you aren't expecting, and never follow links from strangers. But what about your smartphone? The ease with which security researcher Georgia...	barney	0	904	Mar 5, 2011 by barney
	Apple confirms $100 refund for those who recently purchased an original iPad (Preview) Much like the company did when it suddenly dropped the price of its original iPhone, Apple is giving $100 back to those who purchased an iPad up to a fortnight before the March 2nd unveiling of the iPad 2. If our math is correct, that makes February 16th the cutoff date, and it's being reported that those...	barney	0	472	Mar 5, 2011 by barney
	Verizon iPhone suffers 'death grip,' says Consumer Reports (Preview) Consumer Reports today said that its lab tests show the Verizon iPhone 4 suffers from a "death grip" problem similar to last summer's revelations about AT&T's model. Holding the Verizon model in certain ways can "cause the phone to drop calls, or be unable to place calls, in wea...	barney	0	476	Feb 26, 2011 by barney
	Microsoft spends billions to get WP7 on Nokia phones (Preview) Microsoft Corp.'s flagging Windows Phone 7 software got a boost this month when Nokia Corp. agreed -- in return for billions of dollars -- to run the operating system on its next generation of mobile phones. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the phone maker selected WP7 over Google Inc.'s popular Android o...	barney	0	447	Feb 26, 2011 by barney
	HTC Droid Incredible 2 shows up in Verizon's system (Preview) Well, look what we've got here! Seeing that HTC just introduced the Incredible S -- a world phone only available in the UK -- it was only a matter of time before the phone hit the stateside. A trusted tipster just hit us with screen shots of Verizon's internals containing a device dubbed HTC ADR6350. The...	barney	0	483	Feb 26, 2011 by barney
	HTC Thunderbolt said to have terrible battery life, might explain delay? (Preview) We're hearing from... well, let's call them "people familiar with the matter" that HTC's Thunderbolt -- a phone that's supposed to be Verizon's first with LTE -- is experiencing positively miserable battery life that's making it difficult for testers to avoid carrying a second phone a...	barney	0	472	Feb 26, 2011 by barney
	Apple iPad 2 Launch Coming March 2, Report Says (Preview) Is Apple finally ready to roll out its next-generation iPad? The Cupertino company will hold a media event on March 2--just over a week from now--to unveil its new tablet, according to a Tuesday report from All Things D. The Wednesday event will likely take place in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center...	barney	0	489	Feb 23, 2011 by barney
	Smartphones driving you nuts? Industry execs take note (Preview) If you find that your smartphone and other devices demand too much attention and generally drive you bonkers, industry experts agree. At Mobile World Congress this week, one of the biggest smartphone and tablet exhibitions, vendors unveiled hundreds of faster new devices and software features,...	barney	0	479	Feb 20, 2011 by barney
	The Top 5 Reasons to Buy a Tablet (Preview) As one new tablet PC announcement after another surfaces these days, you may be asking yourself, "What does a tablet give me that I don't already get out of my computer or smartphone?" At first, I didn't see why I would need a tablet. But after observing quite a few PCWorld editors using them...	barney	0	473	Feb 20, 2011 by barney
	E-readers (Preview) Does anyone have any advice on e-readers? In doing some research, CNET has their favorite, PC World has their favorite, etc. It didn't seem like there was any consistency. I was trying to see what Consumer Reports said, but you have to subscribe and I wasn't going to do that. I can e-read on my iPad, b...	estraya_01	14	711	Feb 16, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Samsung Galaxy S II and 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab II confirmed for MWC, 4-inch 3D display (Preview) Alright, we've just laid eyes on some internal Samsung documents and can bring you the official names and specs of the successors to the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab. Firstly, the Galaxy S II will tout a 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 Super AMOLED Plus display, a 1GHz dual-core Orion / Exynos processor, NFC, Bluetooth...	barney	0	477	Feb 13, 2011 by barney
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