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Today's smartphones are energy-sucking devices that can rarely go for a day or two without charging. I fondly remember my Nokia 6210 that could go a business week without needing a charge, but enough of the reminiscing. If you do have a thirsty smartphone (or you get one for Christmas) and you find that the battery lets you down, you
Archos, makers of some of the best Android tablets that you probably don't hear about, today announced a little preview of their upcoming CES 2012 plans. The Archos 70b will be the first affordable tablet - i.e. under $200 - that will come out of the box running the Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. This is the successor to the
Ford is giving you the chance to "test drive" the new 2013 Ford Fusion via an Augmented Reality App for iPad, iPod and Andriod OS. The 2013 Ford Fusion will be revealed at the 2012 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in January and will also be the "Official Car" of the 2012 Consumer Electronic Show (CES). The App is
Regular readers will recall that I was quite taken with the integration of Pogoplug into the Buffalo CloudStation Duo, so I was very interested to hear that Pogoplug have released a new device, the Series 4. If you aren't familiar with the Pogoplug device, it's a network gadget that makes attached USB devices available across the Internet. In short, you
In a change to the mobile phone contract status quo, UK mobile telco O2 has announced a 12 month smartphone leasing service. For £55 per month, you get a 16 GB smartphone, 750 minutes, unlimited text, a paltry 500 MB of data and insurance. Allegedly unique in the UK market, both consumers and business will be able to take advantage of
The Android Market has officially exceeded 10 billion downloads. Yes, you read that correctly. That's a whole lot of Angry Birds. That's not bad for a store that opened October 22, 2008, and had only 1 billion downloads just over a year ago in August of 2010. To celebrate hitting the 10 billion download mark Google has announced a sale.
On test here is the 2 TB version of Buffalo's CloudStation Duo, a RAID-capable NAS with built-in Pogoplug, giving the user their own personal cloud. The CloudStation Duo is squarely aimed at the prosumer market, both in terms of the hardware and the software on-board. For the hardware, it is equipped with two 1 TB drives and the unit can