New WiFi Standard?

If your not a techy, then you are probably already confused by the whole Wireless A, Wireless B, Wireless G, and Wireless N,  or, more accurately, 802.11 (wifi under the IEEE) a/b/g/n deal.  However, a new WiFi standard has been finalized recently and several home routers running this new standard were announced yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES).

4G LTE Phones will not work Abroad

Marguerite Reardon of CNET explains in her most recent article in "Ask Maggie" that LTE phones from the United States, as of right now or the near future, will not work in other countries.


http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-57355741-266/world-travelers-beware-4g-lte-phones-wont-work-abroad/?tag=mncol;topStories

CES Stories

With CES under way, I plan on doing several stories on products or services that are announced during CES with my snarky comments after the main story.  :-)

Hiatus Over

I apologize for the unannounced hiatus.  I had conflicting issues with school and work.  I hope to resume to daily posts soon.  Thanks, and again, I welcome any and all comments (except for trolling).

Vint Cerf: SOPA means 'unprecedented censorship' of the Web

Vint Cerf, the legendary computer scientist who's known as one of the fathers of the Internet for his work on TCP/IP, is the latest technologist to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Toshiba AC100 – Toshiba’s first Android Smartbook

Toshiba AC100 Netbook is Toshiba’s first smartbook as well as its first Android product.

FAQ: CNET's "Trojan" installer

CNET is under fire for downloading more than just open source software with the open source software that it makes available on its Web site.

RIM drops BBX OS moniker in favor of BlackBerry 10 after court loss

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has changed the official name of its next-generation mobile operating system after a judge blocked it from using its original name, "BBX."

First Android 4.0 Tablet Before Galaxy Nexus in US?

Ainol, a Chinese company responsible for many of the MP4-based portable media players you've probably seen in budget shops is releasing NOVO7, the world's first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-based tablet. But is it any good?

Apple loses iPad trademark case in China

Apple could face disruption to its iPad sales in China after a court rejected its claim to own the iPad trademark in the country and a rival sought to halt sales of the tablet device in two Chinese cities.

Intel Still Considers AMD a "Serious" Competitor

Ever since Intel gave up on the Netburst architecture and instead transition to Conroe - Core 2 the company has been on a hot streak.

Windows 8 Beta for late February 2012

Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it will release a public beta of Windows 8 in late February, 2012.

Verizon DROID XYBOARD 8.2 and 10.1 official

Verizon has made the DROID XYBOARD Android tablets official, the 4G LTE versions of Motorola’s XOOM 2 and XOOM 2 Media Edition slates.

Consumer Reports Ranks AT&T Worst U.S. Cell Carrier

AT&T has found itself at the bottom of the Consumer Reports annual customer satisfaction survey for a second year in a row. Verizon earned the number one spot again, just as it did in 2010.

$9.4 million iPhone 4S?

Anyone who bought this $2.5 million iPhone should consider upgrading to the latest lavish technology, the iPhone 4S Elite Gold from bling king Stuart Hughes.

Apple to Samsung: Don't Make Thin or Rectangular Tablets or Smartphones

Apple proffers design advice on how Samsung could avoid stepping on Apple’s design patent toes, in a legal brief filed as part of its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit against its competitor.

Sprint says 4G LTE devices coming in second half of next year

Sprint Nextel is going to be a little late to the game when it comes to 4G LTE devices.

Asus Padfone to sport a quad-core Tegra 3 CPU, coming in early 2012

Remember the Asus Padfone? The phone that docks into a tablet and powers it? Asus did’t forget about that phone at all. As a matter of fact, they’re working on it, and they’re making it better than what we thought it was going to be. According to the guys over at Engadget and NetbookNews, Asus is planning on launching the Eee Padfone at Mobile World Congress 2012 in February. Instead of the phone/tablet being powered by Qualcomm’s Krait S4 processor, it will be powered by NVIDIA’s new quad-core Tegra 3 processor.

There’s still no word on which OS it will be running. Now that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is available, we’re betting that it will be the OS. After all, Ice Cream Sandwich was designed to be run on both phones and tablets, and the Padfone is both, so it makes perfect sense!

More Fun Than a Blood Test: Researchers Want Diagnosis To Be as Simple as Spitting On Your Screen

What’s the News: If two South Korean researchers have their way, the days of needing specialized equipment to test whether someone has strep, the flu, or other common illnesses may soon be numbered.

Details emerge about Intel Ivy Bridge desktop PC processors

More information has been revealed about the successor to Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors.