Sharp has developed the first high-definition 3D camera for mobile phones, and says it plans to begin mass production by the end of the year.
The camera module can capture 720p 3D video images using a progressive scanning system, and incorporates functions to process the image data output from the left and right cameras.
These include Color [...]
You can’t do this on the iPhone: a new app is available on the Android Market that allows users to sync up their Wii controller to play games on any device running Google’s mobile OS.
Android Wii Controller IME is available as a $3.99 download. After installing, users simply change their input from [...]
After a teenage girl was faced with charges of child pornography, for sending out nude pictures of herself, Ohio lawmakers are looking into a new law that specifically addresses the growing issue of “sexting.”
To avoid a potential life sentence and being required to register as a sex offender, merely for sending [...]
An intrepid team of hackers has deployed openAOS dualboot to run Nokia’s Maemo on the Android-based Archos 5 Internet Tablet and Internet Media Tablet (IMT).
“For a happy, good, fun-time PROOF OF CONCEPT, here’s Maemo running on an Archos 5 IMT using openAOS dualboot,” Spz03737 explained in a YouTube video description.
“This has [...]
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam has announced that his company is working with Google to design a tablet computer.
“Tablets are part of the next big wave of opportunities,” McAdam told the Wall Street Journal.
“We’re looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to [...]
Nokia’s executive vice president at the helm of the company’s Mobile Phones unit is resigning from the position, after only 6 months of holding the job.
Richard A. Simonson, who has been with Nokia for nearly 10 years and was previously the company’s CFO, announced today that he was stepping down to [...]
Playing catch-up with Intel, AMD has announced its first triple-core and quad-core laptop processors as part of a major brand overhaul.
The lineup includes two triple-core and three quad-core Phenom II chips running at between 1.6GHz and 2.3GHz and drawing between 25 and 45W.
There are also new single-core and dual-core low-voltage http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/platforms/home/2010- [...]
Motorola is reportedly preparing to launch an Android-powered smartphone with a “flip-around” display in June 2010.
According to Brighthand (via Gizmodo Brasil), the Flipout will boast a 2.8-inch touchscreen that rotates to expose a small QWETRY keyboard and D-Pad.
The device is also expected to run Android OS 2.1 on a 700 MHz [...]
Digital Storm has debuted a new vertically cooled gaming rig. The PC – dubbed Black|OPS Assassin – is reportedly capable of minimizing heat buildup from a three-way SLI configuration of Nvidia’s GTX 480s with minimal fan noise.
According to Digital Storm spokesperson Rajeev Kuruppu, the Assassin is the company’s latest system to [...]
Sprint today crashed any hopes of a CDMA version of the Nexus One in the US. Following the same decision as Verizon, Sprint will not be offering service to its own version of Google’s in-house-developed phone.
The Nexus One is supposed to be the ultimate phone that uses Google’s Android platform to [...]
Twitter is back to normal after fixing a rather embarrassing security glitch that allowed users to forcibly add celebrity members of the popular social networking site to their “followers” list.
A number of publications – including Gizmodo – posted step-by-step guides on how to exploit the glitch before Twitter fixed the bug [...]
While most of the planet is excited to hear about McDonald’s being in line to be the first to use Facebook’s as yet unannounced geospatial tools (Ad Age), TechCrunch has the scoop on the tech based on perusing some not yet turned on code. Facebook confirmed there is a product (TechCrunch) [...]
Hackers have reportedly targeted a number of websites powered by the popular WordPress platform.
The attacks have affected sites hosted by various providers, including DreamHost, GoDaddy, Bluehost and Media Temple.
In addition, other PHP-based management systems – such as Zen Cart eCommerce – have also been targeted in the ongoing cyber offensive.
“The hacked [...]
A stealthware app that is reportedly capable of silently monitoring activity on jailbroken Apple iPads has been released into the wild.
The application – which was coded by Mobile Spy – allows users to clandestinely record a list of every website visited, every email sent and received, along with any contacts added [...]
Super-fast wireless video could get a touch more straightforward, with the launch of a new chipset from SiBeam which combines both the WirelessHD and WiGig specifications.
SiBeam has been shipping 60GHz chipsets based on the WirelessHD standard since 2008, but its new SB8110 WirelessHD/WiGig RF transceiver and associated SK8100 Development Kit [...]
Hewlett Packard (HP) is reportedly prepping a WebOS-powered tablet that could be released as early as the third quarter of 2010.
“We first speculated that since HP bought out Palm, they would come out with a webOS tablet,” wrote Daryl Deino of the Examiner.
“An insider at HP [now] tells us that a webOS [...]
US president Barack Obama has criticized the iPad and Xbox 360 for transforming relevant information into a “diversion” and putting “new pressures” on democracy.
“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, – none of which I know how to work – information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, [...]
