In a word, yes , although most people may just choose to bring their iPads when they drive rather than leave one mounted in the car. read more

I’ve got a pretty strong opinion about 3D televisions, which I’ll share with anyone ready to listen . But if you’re going to be in Sydney next Tuesday night and want to check out the technology for yourself, Samsung’s going to have some of their brand new sets on display at Byteside. (more…)

Filed under: iPad During CES 2010, HP gave the public a slight tease of its upcoming slate device. The touchscreen device, which runs Windows 7 , sports a form factor similar to Apple’s iPad , as well as similar uses; it supports eBooks, music, videos, and of course, the Internet. But wait, there’s more. According to a post on HP’s Voodoo blog , the device will give you a “full Web browsing experience,” not a “watered-down Internet” with “sacrifices.” In other words, the HP slate device supports Flash and, well, the iPad doesn’t. While the blog posting didn’t mention the iPad by name, it was fairly clear that the statement in question was an indirect jab at it. Accompanying the post is a short, 30 second …

Section: Apple , Communications , Cellular Providers , Mobile , Computers , Mobile Computers Although the iPad’s 3G version is targeted for AT&T users only, Verizon is seeing a golden opportunity in the device’s upcoming release. Sales documents leaked to Engadget show Verizon is prepping it’s staff to encourage customers to buy the WiFi only version instead and then pick up a MiFi and data plan It’s a savings of $130 for the customer and a sweet deal for Verizon. There’s one hitch though-Verizon’s data plan costs a hefty $60, $30 more than AT&T’s unlimited iPad only plan. Of course that $30 AT&T …

In its annual list of the world’s billionaires, Forbes this year ranked Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a tie with six others for 136th place with a net worth of $5.5 billion. Jobs’ net worth is up from $5.1 billion in an October 2009 Forbes ranking…

FROM GAMERTELL – Polk Audio wants to help add even more realism to your grand at-home jam illusion with its HitMaster stage monitor. And if you try to smash it The Who style, it may win. Check out Gamertell’s review of the HitMaster… MORE

Intel this week previewed its forthcoming 32nm Core i7-980X processor, a six-core CPU codenamed “Gulftown,” and a new rumor has suggested the chip could find its way into Apple’s Mac Pro line as early as next Tuesday.

It’s not like director Tom De Nolf doesn’t have 35mm film cameras and a bunch of other video-making tech at his disposal; no, De Nolf was so surprised by the video capability of his recently purchased 3GS that he chose to shoot the above music video using just three iPhones. “Wow, this takes a really great

Filed under: Gaming , Retail , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was one of the first big brand hits on the App Store — it successfully brought a game mode from one of Activision’s Call of Duty console games …

ZDNet reports that it has received information from tipsters claiming that Apple will release new Mac Pro models next Tuesday, adding a hexacore Core i7-based model to its lineup. I’m gett…

Apple was able to achieve dominance in the MP3 player arena by closely marrying hardware and software, a formula that it has extended to its success with the iPhone and the App Store. As the company gets ready to ship the iPad, the next phase in that evolution, Amazon, Dell, and Google are teaming up on the Dell Streak tablet, which will run the Android OS and have access to 300,000-plus e-books in the Kindle store, the more than 11 million songs available in Amazon’s MP3 store, and in excess of 50,000 movies and TV shows for rent or purchase.

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Icarus Studios on Wednesday announced the release of the Mac version of its massively multiplayer online game Fallen Earth, offering a Beta of the software to anyone who wants to download and test it. Gamers without current Fallen Earth subscriptions can sign up for a 10-day trial plan.

A comparison of streaming video via the Adobe Flash and HTML5 formats with numerous different browsers on both Mac and Windows produced wildly different results based on the operating system and browser, making neither a clear winner.

The latest smartphone subscriber numbers are out , and the last three months have been kind to Google. Android’s still a relatively small player, but its usage base more than doubled since October. The iPhone, meanwhile, keeps on treading water. (more…)