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Reviewers got a chance this week to take a closer look at AT&T's new Mobile TV service, which debuted on LG's new iPhone imitator, the Vu. Feelings about the phone were mixed— some liked the touch screen interface, while...
POSTED Sunday, May 4, 2008
Canon announced its newest entry-level DSLR, the Canon Rebel XSi in January, but reviewers have just gotten to put it to the test over the past couple of weeks. Their overall impressions have been similar to those in most...
POSTED Sunday, April 20, 2008
This week the Hollywood Reporter reported that movie-rental chain Blockbuster is going to announce a set-top box for streaming movies sometime later this month. Its sourcing was anonymous, but PR for the company issued a coy non-denial, making it...
POSTED Sunday, April 13, 2008
This week at CTIA, the wireless conference in Las Vegas, Samsung and Sprint unveiled what they hope will become an iPhone killer: the Samsung Instinct. It's a familiar-looking candy-bar shaped smartphone with a large touch screen and no keypad....
POSTED Sunday, April 6, 2008
This week Comcast, everyone's favorite neighborhood Internet service provider, announced that it would work with peer-to-peer download service BitTorrent to try to speed up network download speeds during peak hours. More importantly, Comcast said that it would stop slowing...
POSTED Sunday, March 30, 2008
We visited the New York International Auto Show this week and found ourselves wishing that more car companies would introduce real eco-friendly cars instead of concepts. We weren't alone: many critics thought that this year's show was a sort...
POSTED Sunday, March 23, 2008
hulu, the NBC Universal and FOX-owned website that offers ad-supported movies and network TV shows, launched to the public this week. We should first note that NBC Universal also owns DVICE: in December we even gave out logins for...
POSTED Sunday, March 16, 2008
Yesterday Apple introduced its iPhone software development kit (SDK), and we at DVICE had a lot to say about it: Charlie White imagined 14 new applications for the phone, while Kevin Hall devised plans that would bring six of...
POSTED Sunday, March 9, 2008
Lenovo had been developing its new tiny but powerful ThinkPad, the X300, for a year and a half when Steve Jobs announced that its MacBook air could fit into an inter-office envelope. What a letdown! Though Lenovo's ultra-portable with...
POSTED Sunday, March 2, 2008
So HD DVD is officially dead, and we're more than a little pleased— as of a few months ago there was no end in sight for this tiresome format war. Last week teary commenters were bemoaning the death of...
POSTED Sunday, February 24, 2008
Just last year we were touted the benefits of getting your loved one an old-fashioned Polaroid camera for Valentines Day. After all, the cameras only cost $30, and they're so much fun. Today, those same cameras cost $140— scarcity...
POSTED Sunday, February 17, 2008
This week an Israeli company called modu introduced a new modular phone, also called modu. The phone is smaller than a credit card, and is meant to fit into "jackets," larger, cell-phone like devices that have different core functions,...
POSTED Sunday, February 10, 2008
Early Friday morning Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. The goal? Microsoft wants to bring Google down and thinks that Yahoo's huge traffic numbers might help. How does all this affect us, the web...
POSTED Sunday, February 3, 2008
A few special, privileged news sources got review copies of the MacBook Air this week. When the reviews first came out, we published a list the machine's five biggest drawbacks: strong criticisms that nearly every reviewer agreed on. What...
POSTED Sunday, January 27, 2008
We here at DVICE were all over MacWorld this week. But we weren't the only ones. While there are some writers (and many commenters) who are vehemently positive about every announcement Apple makes, the general consensus about Steve Jobs's...
POSTED Sunday, January 20, 2008
As many have noted already, there were few ground-shaking announcements at CES this year. But most analysts don't go to CES for the 150-inch concept TV, they go to predict future technology trends. And the press likes to help...
POSTED Sunday, January 13, 2008
At the end of every year technology writers stop reviewing gadgets and start making top ten lists. Headlines that contain numbers are, after all, Digg magnets. We've combed through all sorts of top ten lists, from "best gadget," to...
POSTED Sunday, December 30, 2007
Apple fans mourned Thursday when Think Secret, one of the Internet's most popular Apple rumormongering websites, agreed to shut down in a legal settlement of an Apple-filed lawsuit from 2005. In exchange for shutting down, the site's owner Nick...
POSTED Sunday, December 23, 2007
Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has been around for a few years now, but it is only in the last couple of months that real, live OLPC laptops have been shipping, not just to third world...
POSTED Sunday, December 16, 2007
This week, members of the press finally started getting test versions of Pleo, the long-awaited, much-delayed robotic dinosaur. Here at DVICE, we had our own unique take on Pleo's arrival. Others weren't so cruel.
POSTED Sunday, December 9, 2007
Earlier this month, Facebookintroduced a new "feature" called Beacon that tracked its users' activity on 44 websites. It took information like purchases at Overstock.com, recipe favorites at Epicurious, and movie ticket choices at Fandango.com and then broadcasted the information...
POSTED Sunday, December 2, 2007
There was one hot gadget that you definitely couldn't find in stores this Black Friday: Amazon's new ebook reader, the Kindle. You couldn't even get one shipped overnight from Amazon. But the company made sure that plenty of journalists...
POSTED Sunday, November 25, 2007
Microsoft announced its new line of Zunes in early October, eliciting a flood of opinion about the gadget's future. But only now are the reviews of new Zunes rolling in. Everyone agrees on one thing: the new Zunes are...
POSTED Sunday, November 18, 2007
Not long ago, we posted a host of mockups by designers of the ideal Google phone or "gPhone." This week, our hopes for a gPhone were quashed (for now) as the company instead announced Android, Google's open-sourced, ad-supported, Linux-based...
POSTED Sunday, November 11, 2007
Every once in a while a new technology comes along that's impossible not to love, though it has many serious drawbacks. The Eye-Fi wireless SD card that hit stores this week falls into that category. The card sends images...
POSTED Sunday, November 4, 2007
Have you heard? Mac's newest OS, Leopard, hit stores on Friday. It's the biggest product launch since Apple's last product launch, and so far Leopard has garnered the same swooning reviews the press so frequently gives Apple products. Putting...
POSTED Sunday, October 28, 2007
The HD DVD and Blu-ray format war has been going on for an exhaustingly long time. We've been hoping for a definitive resolution (go Blu-ray!) since both formats debuted more than a year ago. There have been several developments...
POSTED Sunday, October 21, 2007
Palm's new smartphone, the Centro, hits Sprint stores today. Palm's pitch: it's the fun smartphone for the masses. The Centro is smaller than Palm's Treo, and it's significantly less expensive: $100 (with a two-year contract and after the mail-in...
POSTED Sunday, October 14, 2007
Microsoft announced some new Zunes this week, a kind of afterthought to Apple's big announcements a few weeks ago. This generation of Zunes is better than the last, with clear improvements both inside and out. Still, the question on...
POSTED Sunday, October 7, 2007
Gateway introduced an iMac-style "all in one" computer called the One at Digital Life yesterday. Our editor thought it looked promising, and he wasn't alone. Desktop computers, even other all-in-ones rarely garner so much attention (unless they're iMacs, that...
POSTED Sunday, September 30, 2007
This week The New York Times killed its "paid content platform," Times Select, effectively making all its online content free for the taking. For the past two years, news and editorials on the site had been free, but all...
POSTED Sunday, September 23, 2007
Last week we looked at some comments about Apple's iPod announcements. This week, the professional reviews began to appear. Results aren't conclusive on the iPod Touch, since it's only just becoming available (though PC Mag has already called it...
POSTED Sunday, September 16, 2007
This week, Apple announced the iPod Touch, while new iPod Nanos and "Classics" hit stores. More controversially, the company slashed the price of its iPhone by $200, enraging early adopters (until they were promised a $100 Apple credit). Those...
POSTED Sunday, September 9, 2007
Google phone rumors have been circulating for months, but speculation crescendoed (we hope) this week, with Engadget reporting that Google will announce its "mobile platform" in the "very near future." CrunchGear hears that the phones will be produced by...
POSTED Sunday, September 2, 2007
Way back in January, we guessed that Google's next mapping project might include the universe. We were right: this week Google introduced its latest version of Google Earth. In the new download, users can click a "switch to sky,"...
POSTED Sunday, August 26, 2007
Helio introduced another phone this week that's designed to woo customers away from networks with more familiar names. The Helio Fin's quick gimmick description is that it's the thinnest flip phone available in the United States. The phone is...
POSTED Sunday, August 19, 2007
Who is Fake Steve Jobs, and why does every tech article this week seem to mention him? If you go to the Fake Steve Jobs website, it doesn't look alike anything special: Just a very simply designed Google-hosted blog,...
POSTED Sunday, August 12, 2007
Second Life banned gambling this week in a preemptive move to avoid running up against American and international regulations. Casino owners were furious, as it was unclear what would happen to their virtual assets (many of which were acquired...
POSTED Sunday, August 5, 2007
A new Series 3 HD TiVo went on sale this week — it's a pared down version of the first HD DVR that TiVo started selling last year, and sells for $300 instead of $800. The critics are convinced;...
POSTED Sunday, July 29, 2007
Are you exhausted by the barrage of iPhone stories out there? Even complaining about them has become cliché. There just aren't many other new gadgets to write about in July (like TV pilots, most gadgets launch in the fall)....
POSTED Sunday, July 22, 2007
T-Mobile launched its HotSpot@Home service a couple of weeks ago, but because of all of the recent iPhone mania, reviews are only coming in now. The service costs $20 a month on top of the cost of your normal...
POSTED Sunday, July 15, 2007
Few gadgets in history, if any, have commanded the attention that the Apple iPhone has. Lineups that began almost a week in advance, major media outlets upset over getting snubbed by Apple, people who got advance units becoming 5-minute...
POSTED Sunday, July 1, 2007
A few weeks ago everyone was wondering whether Helio's Ocean would be an iPhone killer. This week, reporters are asking the same question about the HTC Touch, which was released in Europe on June 5. The verdict? As with...
POSTED Sunday, June 10, 2007
On Thursday, Dell announced that it will begin selling two of its low-end PCs at Wal-Mart beginning June 10. Some greeted this development as an important one because Dell doesn't traditionally sell its computers through retail outlets, and this...
POSTED Sunday, May 27, 2007
Yesterday Amazon announced it would open a digital music store sometime later in the year. This was a move that analysts had been expecting, but the exciting aspect of the company's announcement was that the songs sold from Amazon's...
POSTED Sunday, May 20, 2007
Helio, the alternative, lesser-known cell-phone service provider run by wacky Earthlink founder Sky Dayton introduced the Ocean this week. It's the world's first "dual-slider" phone, which basically means that the base slides vertically for the cell-phone keyboard, and horizontally...
POSTED Sunday, May 13, 2007
A few days ago, some users of Digg.com began posting a code that can help hackers break the copy protection built into HD DVDs. The code's discovery wasn't particularly newsworthy: Wired had posted the code back in February. But...
POSTED Sunday, May 6, 2007
Image via Ridiculopathy.com "I quit smoking 28 years ago," one executive told The New York Times, "and that was easier than being without my BlackBerry." Since the BlackBerry outage a couple of weeks ago, the press has been going crazy...
POSTED Sunday, April 29, 2007
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