Media center software maker Boxee announced the public launch of its Boxee Beta software, today, after only a month in private beta.
The downloadable software allows users to connect their computers to any TV and instantly stream different types of …
Not only is it official that Tesla Motors has chosen Panasonic to supply battery packs for its electric vehicles, the two companies will also be working together to build more affordable and efficient lithium nickel batteries for green cars present …
Plastic Logic finally launched its Que eBook reader for business people today at the Consumer Electronics Show – after a ten-year development cycle. The company spent a long time pioneering plastic transistors, electronics that use plastic instead of silicon chips …
What to read on your new tablet computer? USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are among the hundred or so American publications available for reading in an ad-free, newspaper-style format on gadgets …
Like many of you reading this post, more and more of my media consumption is moving online, where I get most of my news, movies, music, television, and even some of my books. One of the last areas where I’m …
Toshiba is debuting a new laptop at the Consumer Electronics Show that has one very cool feature. You can open up any file and view it on your TV. For instance, you can watch a YouTube video on the big …
Mere days after Google launched its own phone, the Nexus One, it has come out with another big announcement: the creation of Google Energy, a subsidiary that it will use to buy and sell electricity on federally-regulated wholesale energy markets. …
Reworked versions of Palm’s touchscreen smartphones were unveiled today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Palm’s Pre, an impressive phone with a hidden QWERTY keyboard, and the slim Pixi, have failed to set the world on fire the …
By some accounts, 3-D technology has been one of the biggest stories of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (taking place this week in Las Vegas). Panasonic, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, and Sony have all launched 3-D televisions at the show, and …
Dutch startup Shapeways, which builds printers that let you design and print your own 3-D objects in a variety of materials including plastics and steel, debuted a color 3-D printer today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The …
Last night, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a short demo of an HP slate computer — “slate” is just another word for “tablet” — that runs Windows 7. But HP, the world’s largest technology company with over 300,000 full-time employees …
Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang declared that 2010 will be the year of the tablet computer.
Of course, that has a lot to do with the fact that the graphics chip maker has a new chip for use in tablet …
A medium-sized earthquake near San Jose sent social networks and real-time search aflutter this morning as micro-reports came in from up and down the Bay Area.
Google’s real-time search picked up tweets that were only 30 seconds stale. Meanwhile, Facebook’s …
Nvidia is today announcing its Tegra 2 processor, a second-generation chip for powerful portable web-connected devices.
The new chip, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, means that portable devices will not only be able to play high-definition video — which …
An acquisition announced today proves that social media marketing isn’t just for a few startups and loose-cannon brand managers who “get it.” It’s become as much a part of work as expense reports.
Jive Software, which makes a sort of …
Computer maker Dell announced a couple big moves into portable computing today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, demonstrating a small gaming laptop that’s supposed to have the graphics power of a much larger device, and the prototype …
Google and video bandwidth reducer On2 Technologies have amended their merger agreement that was originally announced in August. At that time, the search engine said it would be acquiring the company for $166 million.
Now the deal is being revisited …
After a couple of years on the market, Ford says its Sync car voice control technology has been a smash hit. Now the car company will use the system to add Wi-Fi and apps to your car.
Thanks to the …
Cool news for music geeks: Songza Media has launched a new internet radio service it is calling Songza Sets. Free to use, it organizes songs into playlists created by actual humans (“music curators” who work for Songza). The concept is …
What Google unveiled this week was not just a device, the Nexus One, but a vision for the way phones should be bought and sold.
Andy Rubin, who became Google’s mobile chief after it acquired his startup Android, said he …
