Month: February 2011

TigerDirect.com offers the Sony BRAVIA 60″ 120Hz 1080p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. KDL-60EX500, for $1,599.99. Coupon code “LRI20533″ cuts it to $1,349.99. With free shipping, that’s $350 below our December mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s also a current price low by $238.) It features a built-in light sensor, 1920×1080…

I do so solemnly swear on my Marvel Superhero drinking glasses that this fan-made trailer for Marvel’s “The Avengers” is exactly how the movie looked in my five year old imagination when I was a kid. Read the original post by GadgetMadness

Adorama offers the Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 in Blue, model no. D5D00025, for $13.99 with free shipping. That’s the lowest total price we could find by $9, although it was a buck less a week ago (since expired). This 2.4GHz wireless mouse features a 4-way scroll wheel. One AA battery is required and included….

Amazon.com offers the Samsung 55″ 1080p Widescreen LED-Backlit LCD HD Television, model no. UN55C5000, for $1,182.76. (This price will show at final checkout.) With free shipping, that’s $117 under our November mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s also a current price low by $614.) This ultra-slim (1.2″ deep) TV features a native…

The demand for smartphone and tablet remote access technical support is growing. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy explains why users, mobile handset manufacturers, application developers, enterprise IT and wireless operators are all going to benefit from the growing number of remote access technical support services being brought into the mobile…

Apple’s new subscription service for content-based apps features a rule for in-app subscriptions, similar to a rule governing e-books that sparked trouble with Sony. – In a widely expected move, Apple is rolling out a subscription service for content-based apps such as magazines, videos, music and newspapers. The service is already present in News Corps…

News Analysis: As rumors continue to swirl around the iPhone 5, its becoming clearer that Apples upcoming smartphone could take a bite out of Android adoption this year. – Apples iPhone has been nothing short of an unbridled success in the mobile market. Since its launch in 2007, Apple has sold millions of smartphones to…

AppleInsider reports that production of the new MacBook Pros are already underway and that volume shipments will begin as early as the first week of March. A person familiar with the matter said the Mac maker currently antic… Read the original post by San Jose Mercury News

IBM supercomputer Watson closed the pod bay doors on its human competition Tuesday night in the first round of a two-game Jeopardy match designed to showcase the latest advances in artificial intelligence. The contest concludes Wednesday. By the end of the Tuesday’s shellacking, Jeopardy’s greatest champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, were sporting decidedly sour…

An interesting report surfaced on Tuesday, one which outlined the extent to which Apple will do its best to “punish” jailbreakers. The report, from Social Apples, told of the author’s issues with iBooks on his (gasp) jailbroken iPhone. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks

For it’s newsletter subscribers only, newegg.com offers the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5″ Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive model no. HD103SJ, for $64.99. (You may need to click through to newegg.com to see this price.) Coupon code “EMCKHJE48″ lowers it to $54.99. With free shipping, that’s $0.05/GB and the lowest we could find by $10,…

Game one of the Jeopardy Man vs. Machine match is over, and the computer, or more precisely, a computer plus its software, beat the humans soundly in the second day of the extended Jeopardy match, aired Tuesday, Feb. 15. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks

This morning HTC announced its 7-inch Flyer tablet , and unlike the hoards of Android tablets we’ve seen in the last couple of months, it’s got something that frankly reminds us a bit of Microsoft’s original tablet push… a stylus! The Flyer doesn’t come with just any old capacitive stylus, however — HTC has worked…

This morning HTC announced its 7-inch Flyer tablet , and unlike the hoards of Android tablets we’ve seen in the last couple of months, it’s got something that frankly reminds us a bit of Microsoft’s original tablet push… a stylus! The Flyer doesn’t come with just any old capacitive stylus, however — HTC has worked…

Triplenet Pricing via Amazon.com offers the Sennheiser OMX 60 VC Street II Ergonomic Earbuds for $21.70 with free shipping. (Ace Photo Digital charges pennies more.) That’s $1 under Amazon’s current Goldbox Deal and it’s $8 less than the lowest total price we could find elsewhere. They feature flexible ear hooks and the Sennheiser Basswind sound….