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Reports: Authorities removing iPads from stores in China, following trademark ruling

Dan A. — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:06 +0000

Government authorities and retailers have reportedly begun removing iPads from stores in China this morning, in apparent response to a ruling issued in December. In line with China’s Hebei Youth Daily, local representatives of the country’s Administrations of Industry and Commerce (AIC) have started confiscating Apple’s tablet from shops, with some merchants are voluntarily removing [...]

Google makes ‘next gen personal communications device,’ is testing it in employee abodes

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:00:13 +0000

We first heard about Google’s foray into home-based hardware late last week , when it asked the FCC for Special Temporary Authority (STA) to have employees test an “entertainment device” of their homes (in preference to a lab). In accordance with the brand new York Times and Wall Street Journal, it’s rumored to be a [...]

Yo-Yo Factory brings Hyper Scanner yo-yo gaming to Toy Fair, we go hands-on

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:00:03 +0000

We’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard of Hyper Scanner. The carnival style arcade game is seemingly all of the rage in Japan, though. Kids line as much as battle it for king of the yo-yo hill. Yo-Yo Factory came out to Toy Fair to expose off its customizable yo-yo system, designed for the intense [...]

How would you exchange the T-Mobile Springboard?

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:30:03 +0000

What’s in a reputation? That which we call a T-Mobile Springboard by the other name, just like the Huawei Mediapad, would smell as sweet. Multiple names aside, the Honeycomb slate was teasingly cheap because it coaxed you to a two year marriage with the pinky/purple (magenta, okay) mobile network. It had some great build quality [...]

Refresh Roundup: week of February 6th, 2012

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:30:04 +0000

Your smartphone and / or tablet is simply begging for an update. Every now and then, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and such a lot of of them are floating around that it is easy for a large chunk to wander away within the [...]

Google TV Facebook page teases new announcement at the way tomorrow

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:00:03 +0000

Since Eric Schmidt made the rather bold proclamation that “most” new TVs would have Google TV embedded by summer 2012, we’ve all been looking forward to something “big” from Mountain View. Well, in the event you can believe the services’ Facebook page, “big announcements” are only what we are able to expect Monday. A post [...]

Switched On: The fit and the pendulum

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:30:04 +0000

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. In the pre-smartphone era, the industry thinking about making mobile phones smaller. Within the 2001 movie Zoolander, the title character played by Ben Stiller uses a humorously diminutive flip phone in the direction of the dimensions of a Bluetooth headset than the [...]

Force Flyer accelerometer-controlled RC helicopter, we go gloves-on

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:00:07 +0000

Being ready to wave your hand throughout the air and control a physical object — as though by magic — is everyone’s dream. And in the event you say it isn’t yours, you then sir or ma’am are a liar. That’s why we needed to stop on the Regal Elite booth at the floor at [...]

LG Miracle appears in real life, we commence to believe

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:03 +0000

LG’s smartphone workshop is keeping itself busy. Alongside the manufacturer’s try to out-Note Samsung, its latest Windows Phone has resurfaced . A kindly mole has offered some better focused (but unfortunately watermarked to heck) shots of LG’s first Mango-laced Windows Phone. Skinnier that we expected, we will now make out a front-facing camera, paired up [...]

zAPPed board games hands-on

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:00:04 +0000

Alright, zAPPed is not any GameChanger but, where Hasbro’s line of iOS-integrated board games falls short within the pun department, it shines in cleverness. The Game of Life launched only a few days ago with a different edition designed for use with an iPad app, while other classics Battleship and Monopoly are scheduled to follow [...]

Microsoft Store hacked in India, leaked passwords stored in plain text

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:30:03 +0000

Frequenters of India’s online Microsoft Store were briefly greeted with the suspicious visage of a man Fawkes mask this morning, following a hack that compromised the site’s user database. In accordance with WPSauce, Microsoft Store India’s landing page was briefly taken over by a hacker group called Evil Shadow Team, who, along with putting a [...]

NERF Lazer Tag hands-on

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:00:04 +0000

We just came from Hasbro’s off-site Toy Fair show room and, keep in mind that, we made them take us straight to the NERF Lazer Tag installation. The guns are still clearly within the early prototype stages and handcrafted — with numerous hot glue and header pins serving as evidence. Still, they felt solid and [...]

Nokia Public Transport for Symbian shows you how, can’t guarantee a seat

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:03 +0000

Nokia’s free turn-by turn navigation is excellent when you are lost, but what if you would like to barter an unfamiliar train or bus system? Perhaps Espoo’s new Public Transport app with its journey planning information for just about 80 cities and concrete areas (including London, Helsinki, Austin and Toronto) will see you right. What’s [...]

AT&T prepares internal systems for shared data, launch date still TBD

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:30:03 +0000

We’ve known AT&T’s had shared data plans within the works for a healthy amount of time, because the GSM carrier let the cat out of the bag many seasons ago. And while Ralph de la Vega hasn’t hid his company’s aspirations from view , the network hasn’t exactly been forthcoming about when the party goes [...]

Acer Aspire One D270 netbook up for pre-order

Dan A. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:00:03 +0000

Still not convinced by the total Ultrabook thing? Well neither’s Acer it kind of feels, because it refuses to drag the tubes from its netbook division. The newest such offering on your pre-order delight? The Aspire One D270. Sure, there is not any HSPA+ just like the recently revamped Aspire One 722 — a fact [...]