Sure, we’ve read the specs and we’ve seen the press shots, but we didn’t expect to get up close and personal with Samsung’s Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070) until Mobile World Congress later this month. Fortunately, Filipino tech blog TechPinas was able to get a hands-on with the handset — complete with photos and video. The [...]

Gadget retailer Ebuyer has launched a Cyber Monday-style sale – the somewhat daft name US retailers give to the gadget-hungry follow-up to Black Friday – offering limited stock of popular products for just £1 each – but sadly neglected to shore up its server farm accordingly. Announced over the weekend, Ebuyer’s offer sees selected products [...]

The impending arrival of the latest chapter in the epic RPG series Elder Scrolls, Skyrim has got the whole RPG fan community all excited. The game is purportedly going to be amazingly large and feature a very robust quest system and have eye-popping graphics quality to boot. Although the bells and whistles of the current [...]

The original Battlestar Galactica series aired in 1978 starring Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo and Dirk Benedict as Lieutenant Starbuck. The show was short lived but lasted long enough to create a large following that held strong once the series was put into syndication. In 2003, NBC resurrected the series. This time starring William James [...]

If you’ve been shopping around for smart phones lately, then you’ve no doubt heard about Google’s new Ice Cream Sandwich. So, what exactly is this Ice Cream Sandwich, and how in the world does it have anything to do with technology? What’s more, if your smart phone comes equipped with Ice Cream Sandwich, will your [...]

Being the younger generation makes you think that you must know everything about technology. It’s entertaining to make fun of your parents and their lack of technology skills. But realize now that there are a lot more technological inventions to come our way and when they do come, we will be the ones confused while [...]

The HP Touchpad was doomed to fail from the start. They were overpriced and under-supported. Since they were not making any profits from sales, HP decided to drop support completely for the device and sell them at largely discounted rate. This made TouchPads available at Best Buy for an alarming $99. People flocked to the [...]

HP is finally pulling the plug on selling new units of its TouchPad tablet. Late on Friday, HP sent out emails to people (including folks at Neowin) who had signed up for updates about being able to receive the now discontinued webOS tablet. Unfortunately, those emails, as you can see above, stated that “we are [...]

While everyone was in a tizzy about Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire price point, the Indian government was busily working to help bring out the $35 Aakash Android tablet. The tablet was developed with similarly good intentions as OLPC’s XO laptop before it — an attempt to get low-cost computing devices into the hands of students. [...]

Imagine a computer that isn’t just designed to “deal” with the heat produced by its components, but one that actually uses that wasted energy to power some of its high-tech internals. That’s the potential of a new discovery out of the Physical and Technical Institute (PTB) of Braunschweig, Germany. Researchers discovered what they’re calling tunnel [...]