Jobs suggests that competitors’ device activation tallies may be inflated, Google quickly responds

Jobs suggests that competitors’ device activation tallies may be inflated, Google quickly responds

Not satisfied to simply trump Google’s daily device activation numbers, Steve Jobs added insult to injury at the Apple press conference this afternoon, claiming that unspecified “friends” have been counting handset upgrades in their statistical totals and not just newly activated phones. As you might imagine, Google was not terribly ...

Confirmed: T-Mobile G2 will have Android 2.2, Flash and 800MHz CPU

Confirmed: T-Mobile G2 will have Android 2.2, Flash and 800MHz CPU

T-Mobile is calling it “the fastest smartphone experience in America,” but as it turns out, its Qualcomm Scorpion CPU is actually relatively slow — the cellular carrier’s insider newsletter T-Mobile Scoop states the phone’s MSM7x30 chip will be clocked at 800MHz, rather than the 1GHz we had hoped for. Of ...

Sony’s scheming a streaming music and video subscription service, too?

Sony’s scheming a streaming music and video subscription service, too?

Perhaps you have heard that Apple’s investing in digital video distribution at the moment? Perhaps you have read that Amazon’s working on a subscription video network, too? Sony makes number three, as the Financial Times is reporting the electronics giant is looking to launch a multimedia platform of its own. ...

Amulet voice-activated Windows Media Center remote hits the FCC

Amulet voice-activated Windows Media Center remote hits the FCC

Amulet Device’s intriguing voice-activated remote for Windows Media Center has long since missed its original ship date, but it just popped up at the FCC, complete with product shots and the user manual. Besides providing typical universal features like IR learning, as a package the rechargeable battery-powered controller, USB dongle, ...

Samsung Galaxy Tab headed to Verizon?

Samsung Galaxy Tab headed to Verizon?

We’ve already seen a Samsung Galaxy Tab in the wild with a not-so-subtle CDMA sticker on it, and now BGR has a leaked screenshot that shows the seven-inch tablet headed to Verizon. That certainly sounds like it could be the Samsung i800 tablet we have seen on Verizon’s well-leaked roadmap, ...

Roku lowers prices across the board: HD box now $69, $99 HD-XR to get 1080p support

Roku lowers prices across the board: HD box now $69, $99 HD-XR to get 1080p support

Looks like Roku’s going aggressive on price with its lineup of streamers in response to Sony’s new $130 Netbox streamer, the upcoming Google TV launch, and rumors that we will see that rumored $99 iOS-based Apple TV arrive on Wednesday. The SD box is down to $59 from $79, the ...

Joojoo lawsuit shocker! Court rules Fusion Garage and TechCrunch were business partners, tosses most everything else

Joojoo lawsuit shocker! Court rules Fusion Garage and TechCrunch were business partners, tosses most everything else

It’s been a few blissful months since we have thought about or had to interact with the Joojoo, but the court case Michael Arrington and TechCrunch filed against Fusion Garage just reached a significant milestone: the judge threw out several of Arrington’s claims while importantly holding that TechCrunch and Fusion ...

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: of pedal-powered submarines and soda-powered fuel cells

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: of pedal-powered submarines and soda-powered fuel cells

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. This week, California saw a tremendous boost for solar power as the nation’s first solar thermal plant in two decades was approved for Kern County. ...

Logitech’s ‘Lonely TV Part 3′ Google TV ad pulled, Part 4 steps up to the plate

Logitech’s ‘Lonely TV Part 3′ Google TV ad pulled, Part 4 steps up to the plate

After Part 3 of Logitech’s Lonely TV ad campaign (pictured above) did not get quite the reception the company probably intended, GTVHub points out the video has disappeared from YouTube and quickly been replaced by Part 4 in the series. Both are embedded after the break so you can judge ...

Snappy looking Fujitsu Lifebook AH530 GFX boasts 1GB external graphics

Snappy looking Fujitsu Lifebook AH530 GFX boasts 1GB external graphics

Fujitsu’s announced a new laptop, the Lifebook AH530 GFX. An update to the already available Lifebook AH530, this one’s got an external graphics card with 1GB of dedicated video memory. Other than that, it boasts the exact same specs as the previous model — a 15.6-inch glossy LCD, optional Core ...

Ricoh outs rather rugged, water-resistant G700 point and shoot

Ricoh outs rather rugged, water-resistant G700 point and shoot

Ricoh’s released a new point and shoot, the G700. This tiny camera’s water and dust resistant, it will supposedly withstand a drop of up to 2 meters, and its resistant to chemicals such as ethanol and hypochlorous acid, so shooting photos of the chemically-driven, zombie-infested apocalypse shouldn’t be much of ...

How would you change Apple’s iPhone 4?

How would you change Apple’s iPhone 4?

We know, half of you aren’t even going to read past the headline before you begin angrily banging away about Apple’s admitted antenna gaff and the still-not-totally-fixed proximity sensor, but we are urging you to look deeper. Think harder. Critique your criticisms. In all seriousness, Apple’s iPhone 4 garnered more ...

AIST’s i3Space tactile 3D interface: destroyer of (virtual) worlds

AIST’s i3Space tactile 3D interface: destroyer of (virtual) worlds

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, to friends) is responsible for a good many innovations that the denizens of the year 2030 take for granted, and the new i³Space certainly will not tarnish the institute’s record. Built on the foundation of AIST’s own GyroCubeSensuous for tactile ...

Ask Engadget: ideal multitouch / touchscreen-enabled laptop?

Ask Engadget: ideal multitouch / touchscreen-enabled laptop?

We know you have got questions, and if you are brave enough to ask the world for answers, here is the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Sid, who ain’t buying a laptop if it’s LCD doesn’t react to his digits, you ...

Nokia C7 gets an early look: ‘hardly a market leader’

Nokia C7 gets an early look: ‘hardly a market leader’

The upcoming C7′s been well-leaked at this point, but one thing it hasn’t undergone is the famously exhaustive Mobile-review once-over that takes weeks to read and even longer to digest. Actually, this is not so much a review as a “first look” based on prototype hardware — and as such, ...