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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 08, 2013
I'll admit it -- I've rolled my eyes and filled up my e-mail's trash can and the hundreds and hundreds of mentions of "augmented reality" -- that technology that uses your ph...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 08, 2013
One of the more esoteric toys NVIDIA brought to CES this year is its new NVIDIA Grid server rack. For a good many of use, there might as well be little green hamsters running on little green wheels ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 08, 2013
AT&T this morning announced that it sold a record number of Android and iPhone smartphones each in the fourth quarter of 2012. The U.S. carrier didn't give specific numbers for the platforms, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 08, 2013
Here we are, finally, with our first look at the Ubuntu operating system on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. It's certainly a vast departure from Android, but it is running on Android hardware, and we&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the HTC One SV. One S, meet the people. What you see before you here is the second of a pair of entry-level(ish) phones from HTC in recent weeks. This one's on ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2013
We get our first look at NVIDIA's Tegra 4 processor, and the future of Android gaming
It's hard not to get excited about NVIDIA's "Project Shield," the Android-based ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2013
We're live this afternoon from Samsung's official CES 2013 press conference. Expect a slew of non-smartphone news -- TVs, washers and dryers, etc., but chances are mobile won't be comp...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2013
There's a good chance if you're reading this that the Pantech Discover is not for you. And that's cool. It's for your mom. Or your granddad. It's a first-timer device, with ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2013
ASUS today at CES in Las Vegas officially announced the ASUS Qube -- a Google TV device that's been strongly suggested for the past few weeks, both from the FCC as well as Google. ASUS is prom...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2013
Good morning from the Palms, people! We're here on the ground at the 2013 AT&T Developer Summit. What's in store? Dunno. Faster LTE? More devices? Only one way to find out. Hit the liv...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2013
We didn't get to see NVIDIA's new Tegra 4 system running on any new tablet hardware tonight at CES, but we did see it in a highly controlled demonstration by president and CEO Jen-Hsun Hua...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2013
That's it, folks. NVIDIA dares you to top it this CES. Having thrown Tegra 4, the NVIDIA Grid and Project Shield our way tonight at the Palms in Las Vegas, we're more than a little excited...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2013
OK, boys and girls. We're actually still some 36 hours short of the start of CES, but things get really cooking tonight. We're here at Rain nightclub at The Palms with none other than graphi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2013
The HTC One VX looks to be a great (and cheap) way to get an entry-level LTE smartphone on AT&T
This may be one of those rare instances in which we know too much. For those of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2013
In case you've been living under a rock the past week or so, CES -- the Consumer Electronics Show -- is this week in Las Vegas. And, yes. We're here. Or we're on our way here. You g...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2013
Our Windows Phone-loving pals at WPCentral have found themselves in quite the pickle. First there's the whole to-do over YouTube and the fact that Google's not opening up its metadata to Win...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2013
Looks like I just found my new calendar app. Agenda -- long a favorite on iOS -- has made its way to Android. (It's currently $1.99.) It ties into your Google calendars, of course, but it's ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2013
Apologies for the wonky video. It was a 2013 bug. Or something.
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2013
Looks like Facebook might finally be about to make available its "Facebook Pages Manager" application for Android, which, as the name implies, will let those with Facebook Pages manage sai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2013
And the first U.S. smartphone announcement of 2013 belongs to ... HTC and Cricket Wireless. The HTC One SV, last seen making its way through Europe SIM-free, and before that in Asia, is coming to Cr...






















































