IDG News Service - Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network. The suits were filed ...
Tags: Apple, RIM, US telcos, mobile network
IDG News Service - Perhaps taking a leaf from Apple's book, Nvidia kept its greatest surprise at CES for the end of its news conference: an Android-based portable gaming device based on its new Tegra 4 chip. A working prototype of the ...
Tags: Nvidia, Android, flat panel display, PC games
Sony has faced up to its recent failures and admitted it's forgotten how to "wow" an audience at the first official day of CES 2013 in Las Vegas today. "We used to make people say 'wow' all the time," announced a voiceover before the ...
Tags: Sony, USB 3.0 products, Computer Products
Think your high-definition TV is hot stuff - as sharp as it gets? At the biggest trade show in the Americas, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas, TV makers will be doing their best to convince you that HDTVs are old hat, and should make ...
With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, ...
Tags: CES Show, new products, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, smart apps
Corning, the makers of the ape-like Gorilla Glass for phones and other devices, has revealed that they plan to show off their new Gorilla Glass 3 technology at next week's CES. Gorilla Glass 3 is supposed to be three times more scratch ...
Tags: glass, CES, Gorilla Glass 3
The annual CES trade show in Las Vegas gets under way this weekend with big announcements from gadget makers keen to wow and convince us they have the next big thing. But it's worth remembering that some of the promises and predictions made ...
Tags: CES, Las Vegas, gadget makers, 2012
Toshiba is developing a tiny digital camera module similar to the Lytro camera, which shoots tens of thousands of individual photos and then allows the user to pick the point of focus. The new camera will have from 30,000 to 50,000 tiny ...
Tags: Toshiba, digital camera module, Lytro camera, individual photos
HTC has launched the Desire X smartphone, which has integrated cloud storage and a camera that can shoot video and take pictures at the same time, the company said on Thursday. Based on Android 4.0, the Desire X is powered by a 1GHz ...
Tags: HTC, smartphone, Android, Dropbox
Eastman Kodak has told a bankruptcy court that it is exploring alternatives to the auction of its digital imaging patents, including keeping the patents and setting up a licensing company to repay creditors. Kodak filed in June a motion ...
Tags: Kodak mulls, patents auction, licensing company, Computer Products
IDG News Service - Microsoft on Friday said it has fully restored its Xbox Live service after problems prevented an undetermined number of users from logging into the online gaming service. At 4:28 p.m. Eastern Time, Microsoft's Xbox ...
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox Live service, online gaming, company news
IDG News Service-An Arizona man has admitted his involvement in a May 2011 computer attack against the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment that was carried out by the now-defunct LulzSec hacker group. On Thursday,Raynaldo Rivera,20,of ...
IDG News Service - Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Sony and Qualcomm have formed the In-Location Alliance, which will work to improve the accuracy of indoor positioning, the companies said on Thursday. Indoor positioning is the next frontier ...
Tags: Nokia, Samsung, Sony, indoor navigation, mobile services
IDG News Service - At the CEATEC show that opens in Japan this week, the country's electronics manufacturers will show a host of products that are probably a few years from catching on, as well as a few design concepts that will need a bit ...
Tags: high-definition TV sets, new concept TV, Ultra High-Def TVs, Smart INSECT
IDG News Service - A new television format that has 16 times the resolution of current High Definition TV has been approved by an international standards body, Japanese sources said Thursday. UHDTV, or Ultra High Definition Television, ...
Tags: TV, HDTV, television format, High Definition TV