RIM's troubles continue: BlackBerry Playbook costing company $485 million

RIM can’t catch a break. Not only is the company coping with dismal PlayBook tablet sales, it’s also taking a near half-billion-dollar hit for sitting inventory that must now be sold at rock-bottom prices. RIM announced on Friday that the company wouldn’t be meeting its financial targets for the year, primarily due to the...

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Acer: Ultrabooks will spark 'stalled' Windows platform

Acer Aspire S3 ultrabook.(Credit: Amazon)  Ultrabooks will become mainstream in the coming years, spurring the sputtering Windows platform, according to a Taipei-based report. Speaking at a conference in Taipei, Acer Chairman J.T. Wang said specifications that define the emerging category of ultrabooks will become the "mainstream...

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Google Tests Ice Cream Sandwich Update on Employees

Ready for a little Ice Cream Sandwich – that's Android 4.0 – for your smartphone? Keep waiting, although you can now complement your patience with a little bit of hope. New reports from company employees indicate that Google has started to roll out Ice Cream Sandwich internally,...

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Intel's Ivy Bridge Roadmap (and Benchmarks) Leak Out

Here comes the Ivy Bridge! For the uninformed, that's the codename of the latest iteration of Intel processors, a die-shrink of the company's current Sandy Bridge lineup...

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iPhone multitasking gesture concept leaves us wanting more

The release of iOS 5 saw Apple address two of the biggest shortcomings of the operating system: dependence on a computer and notifications. It also took tentative steps towards improving its multitasking capabilities by adding four-...

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Korean app Juspot brings the best of Twitter, Foursquare together

Since Foursquare made it big, an increasing number of location-based apps and services have been appearing on the scene. South Korea has its fair share of ‘clone’ apps and this concept can initially cause one to be skeptical of...

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Google Release Galaxy Nexus Factory Image, For Easy Stock Restore

Google has this week released a new factory image for Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone running, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The new image now allows anyone to reset and easily restore their locked/bricked Galaxy Nexus smartphone, back to its original stock factory settings. So if you have been tweaking and developing apps and mods...

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New Xbox update aims to put Microsoft at the heart of TV viewing

The new home screen for the Xbox 360 dashboard.(Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft will push out an update to Xbox consoles Tuesday, designed to get consumers to turn on the device every time they flip on their televisions, not just when they want to play games. Though most gamers will notice a dramatically different interface, and some...

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Microsoft's Voice Search for Xbox, Content Deals Go Live This Week

Microsoft said Sunday night that it plans to launch its fall update for its Xbox 360 game console, complete with voice search via Xbox Kinect, this week. Microsoft also announced a significant number of related...

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2012: The Year of Disruption

  Normally at this time of the year, I predict tech trends for the New Year. I have been doing this for over 20 years and may still do a list at some point. But as I think about 2012, I realize that over...

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Motorola Droid Bionic gets an alpha Ice Cream Sandwich ROM

By Jared DiPane   03 Dec 2011 1:59 pm Fear not Motorola Droid Bionic owners, you are no longer left behind and can join the cool kid party with a taste of some Ice Cream Sandwich. Developer dhacker29 of the TH3ORY ROM team has released a mostly functional ICS build for Bionic users to play around with, and while not...

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Samsung Transform Ultra review: Solid QWERTY slider

by Jessica Dolcourt December 3, 2011 8:00 AM PST The Samsung Transform Ultra is about as close as you can get to a pure Android experience on a slide-out QWERTY keyboard phone. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, of course, over which its most notable overlay is Sprint ID. If you use it, Sprint ID will let you download preconfigured packages...

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Apple, Amazon, Asus: Three awesome tablet choices

by Brooke Crothers December 3, 2011 5:26 PM PST My two tablets, which I use regularly: iPad 2 (top) and Kindle Fire.(Credit: Brooke Crothers)Apple made the tablet viable. Amazon showed that a populist concept can work. Now Asus may bring the latest wrinkle to the market. Before we get to Asus, let's look at two of the most prominent...

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Android Central Editors' app picks for Dec 3, 2011

By Jared DiPane   03 Dec 2011 6:04 pm Don't worry loyal Android Central readers, we are back with only our favorite applications again this week. So, join us past the break and let's take a look at some of our favorites! Alex Dobie - World of Goo ($2.99) World of Goo is an highly polished physics-based puzzler that's ...

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Week on the Web: Kindle vs. Nook, AT&T vs. the FCC, IE10 vs. Windows 7

By Ars Staff | Published about 16 hours ago US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook: Luxury goods maker Chanel has convinced a judge to order the seizure of hundreds of Internet domain names and to order the names blocked from "all" search engines and social media networks. Startup...

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U.S. Judge Denies Apple's Request to Ban Samsung Smartphones, Tablet

A U.S. judge on Friday denied Apple's request for a preliminary injunction against four Samsung products that Cupertino claims infringes upon its patents. As a result, the Galaxy S 4G, Infuse 4G, Droid Charge, and Galaxy Tab 10.1 will remain on store shelves in the United States while the...

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New Android App Finds Carrier IQ Fast, Free, and Easy

Whether you believe Carrier IQ or not that its software, embedded on certain smartphones, is a malicious, keylogging entity or a tool that helps operators improve the smartphone user experience, you have a choice. Namely, there are ways to eliminate this question from the equation by detecting...

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Browser wars: Chrome takes the number two spot, but ET readers still love Firefox

By Sal Cangeloso on December 2, 2011 at 5:20 pm The browser horse race is something that every internet user, especially those of us that work on the web, can follow with all the glee of a presidential run, the console wars, or a good, old fashioned distro battle. At the start of each month we get the numbers from organizations that...

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