• Microsoft Dives Deep to Surface a Hit

    Nobody asked me about my Surface. I tried flashing it all over the place. But despite my best efforts, no one seemed curious. At Victrola Coffee Roasters in Seattle, I sat in the front window, with a hot pink Touch Cover attached, intentionally conspicuous…
  • ASUS Unveils Android 4.0 Padfone 2 With 4.7" Screen

    ICS smartphone can be transformed into a tablet using the Padfone Station accessory. ASUS has unveiled a second iteration of its Padfone in Taiwan. Dubbed the Padfone 2 , this smartphone changes into a tablet when you dock it with an accessory called…
  • HP's new ElitePad 900 tablet enables easy disassembly, self-support

    IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced the new ElitePad 900 tablet with Windows 8, and said the device can be easily disassembled to replace components in order to save hardware and support costs. The tablet, targeted at businesses, has…
  • Where to watch the London 2012 Olympics live online & on your mobile device

    All eyes are on London these days, where athletes of the world are getting ready to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games. And there’s some good news for sports fans: Not only are the main competitions scheduled to happen during times when most of us in North…
  • NBC Olympics to stream games live on mobile devices

    NBC Sports and Adobe Systems have teamed up to give fans two apps that stream the Olympics live on mobile devices, record footage for playback, and share the experience through social media. The apps -- a live-streaming app for the more than 3,500 hours…
  • How to Optimize Your Mobile Website for Search

    Making your company website more SEO -friendly requires strategic effort. At the current rate of on-the-go users, it’s important not to neglect the mobile version of your site. More than 70% of marketers plan to spend more money on mobile in 2013, and…
  • Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad Look Obsolete

    Microsoft has guts. It's what you get when you're the underdog; either that or you curl into a RIM and die. Microsoft is the underdog because no matter how many hundreds of millions of people use its software, the cool and the future belong to Apple …
  • Nvidia: Smartphone graphics to best Xbox 360 by 2014

    For now, mobile devices still can't match game consoles in graphics quality. Nvidia thinks that could change, and soon. The company last night sent over a slide to enthusiast site Anandtech charting the graphics performance progress across the console…
  • 2011 Tech Rewind: This year in Latin America

    This year may be remembered as the one when Latin America finally showed up on the radar – not only in geopolitics, but also in tech. This was certainly true for us, with the launch of The Next Web’s Latin America Channel back in May. While other foreign…
  • Freescale Launches "Freescale Mobile" for Smartphone Platforms~

    AUSTIN, Texas, Dec 12, 2011-- Freescale Semiconductor is putting its website into customers' hands with the launch of "Freescale Mobile," now available on selected mobile browsers. Design engineers or anyone who needs immediate access to Freescale information…
  • “Gone are the days where you wait 5 years for new tech to appear in devices”~

    i.MX 6 quad-core reference board flexes processing muscle at Freescale Technology Forum Freescale answered our power prayers with the introduction of its i.MX 6 processor suite at CES earlier this year, but left us longing for a demo. Well, the outfit…