It appears that Google hasn’t licensed Android to Augun and as such the Android Market will not work on this product. A Kmart circular came out last week with an uber-geeky product that perked up a few ears in the gadget community.  Augen’s 7-inch Gen-78 Android tablet which runs Android 2.1 –take that Sony (SNE) [...]

Android has overtaken BlackBerry and iPhone sales to hold the largest share of the smartphone market in the US, Canalys argued today. Collectively, the sales from HTC, Motorola and smaller Android producers amounted to 34 percent of American smartphones in the spring, or just enough to edge out RIM’s 32.1 percent and Apple‘s 21.7 percent. HTC’s [...]

The online edition of a Kmart flyer has revealed plans for what could be an unusual entry into competition against Apple in the still young tablet market. The Augen Gentouch78 should run Android 2.1 on a seven-inch screen and will keep simple with just 2GB of internal storage and Wi-Fi alone for Internet access. At $150, though, [...]

Three iPad users claim that because the iPad will shut itself off after remaining in direct sunlight for long enough, it fails to meet the promises Apple made about using the iPad as an e-book reader. The group has filed a federal class-action lawsuit in the Northern California district to “redress and end this pattern [...]

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DELL Inc is giving customers replacement parts for servers that were infected with a computer virus designed to steal private data. The company said it was not aware of any attacks as a result of the rare incident, and that it was replacing the tainted parts as quickly as possible. ‘We’re going after it very [...]

Just days after launching the Motorola Droid X — Verizon’s non-QWERTY follow-up to the massively successful Motorola Droid — a few issues have been reported by early adopters, the most serious being a bug with the screen that can render the device useless. Neowin posted videos that demonstrate the issues, which range from flickering screens to [...]

Like patients who enter the hospital for a simple tonsillectomy and end up leaving with pneumonia, it seems like customers seeking help from Dell’s service parts department may have made things worse for themselves, while trying to make things better. The company admits it may have sent out a number of motherboards with malware lurking [...]

So, first things first: We have no idea if these documents are real. They’re all plausible, if ambitious, and have the same layout as other Verizon documents we’ve seen. But we’ve had no confirmation from Verizon, so take everything here with a grain of salt.We’ve been hearing rumors about this forever, though, and these documents [...]

There is a big push for various 3D technologies in the current market. Whether you’re a fan or foe, the industry is pushing forward with 3D at a torrid pace. Recently, we had a chance to test 3D Vision Surround from NVIDIA and came away impressed by the experience. It was only a matter of [...]

Founded by Samsung, Sony, LG and others, HDBaseT looks to replace the HDMI standard while offering more bandwidth. LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Valens Semiconductor have been secretly conspiring to kill HDMI. And today they set their plans into motion, introducing a brand new audiovisual standard, HDBaseT. While that name may sound confusing, before [...]

Back in April, we first gave you a glimpse of the extreme Asus ARES dual-Radeon HD 5870 GPU powered graphics card, complete with some preliminary benchmarks. At the time, the specifications weren’t quite finalized and there was little word about availability in the U.S., but the card’s impressive configuration immediately piqued our interest. The ARES was, [...]

At its core, the home-theater dream can be distilled as follows: We want our movies to feel as cinematic as possible. And we want to be able to record and watch as many shows as possible on the biggest-possible TV screen. When we set about constructing this year’s home theater, we used the phrase “cutting-edge” [...]

Microsoft is set to release a series of Windows-based, tablet-style computers this year as it seeks to see off the challenge posed by Apple’s iPad. “This year one of the most important things that we will do in the smart device category is really push forward with Windows 7-based slates and Windows 7 phones,” he said. [...]

You’ve optimized your computer for maximum performance, with a speedy multicore processor, fast RAM, and a graphics card with more processing power than NORAD had during the Cold War. Now it’s time to add the pièce de résistance: a high-speed solid-state drive (SSD), so you can say goodbye to slow Windows boot-ups, lengthy application load times, and [...]

CUPERTINO, California-June 28, 2010-Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. The new iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, and Apple’s new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever [...]