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GeChic On-Lap 1302 is a ‘Secret Tool’ to give your smartphone dual screens (video)
Mar 17th
If you’ve ever felt the burning urge to mirror your smartphone’s display onto a larger screen, then you might consider stuffing GeChic’s portable, 13.3-inch monitor into the ol’ man purse for your next wayward outing. We’re not promising that it’ll be simple, but in addition to supporting laptops, game consoles and digital cameras, you can also rig up your smartphone to the On-Lap 1302 monitor — with the assistance of a tangle of adapters, batteries and cords, that is. The product is said to be just 8mm thick, but most importantly, this 1366 x 768 display can be powered either from your laptop’s USB port or an external battery pack.
Whitman expects HP Windows 8 Intel tablet this year
Feb 25th
Looks like old Fujitsu isn’t the only PC-maker looking to get into the Windows 8 tablet business before year’s end. Addressing a conference in Northern California, HP CEO Meg Whitman let it be known that her company plans on pushing out an Intel-packing tablet running the new Microsoft operating system in 2012.
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Dropbox app drops the beta: automatic photo upload goes official on Android, coming soon to iOS
Feb 25th
While those lucky beta testers managed to get a healthy lump of extra Dropbox storage for their efforts , the mobile app’s new auto-upload feature has officially arrived. The update is now available on Android devices and we’re promised that the Apple-flavored update will appear very soon. We’ve been playing with the beta for the last few weeks, and it’s pretty simple stuff, maintaining the file size of your mobile shots and delivering them to Dropbox’s storage in the sky.
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Intel joins the Document Foundation, pimps LibreOffice
Feb 25th
You’re forgiven if you missed this little blip on the news radar: Intel has joined the advisory board of the Document Foundation and added the coalition’s LibreOffice to the AppUp market. What’s more, Chipzilla actually worked with SUSE to help optimize the free and open source office suite for Intel hardware and, as part of the advisory board, will be providing the project with significant monetary support.
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Fraunhofer’s Full-HD Voice brings high fidelity VoLTE to Android smartphones
Feb 25th
The audio nerds at Fraunhofer are set to raise the bar for Voice over LTE next week in Barcelona, as the company has announced a new technology known as Full-HD Voice.
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M3 Android NFC Communicator mixes something old, something new for prepaid subs
Feb 23rd
Malaysia may not be on the tip of anyone’s tongue when wireless comes to mind, but that’s not stopping local outfit DMD Mobile from attempting to make its mark.
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SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon off
Feb 23rd
SanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership in the exclusive 128-gigabit club . Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather than 20-nanometer cells in the production process. Shrinking the size is one thing, but SanDisk’s new chips also use its X3 / three-bit technology.
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Last chance to clear out Google Web History before the great data convergence
Feb 23rd
The end is nigh! For about 59 different Google ToS documents at least. After today, the new consolidated privacy policy will go into effect, which will also consolidate much of your data across Google’s properties.
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Video: PlayStation Vita’s AR game trio
Feb 23rd
With the retail launch of the Vita hardware comes the arrival of three augmented reality games, using a set of six cards that look an awful lot like the ESP test cards Dr. Venkman used in Ghostbusters.
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HP reports Q1 2012 financials: $30 billion net revenue, $1.5 billion net earnings, big drop in PC sales
Feb 23rd
HP reported results for its first fiscal quarter of 2012 this afternoon, including $30 billion in net revenue (down seven percent from the previous year), and net earnings of $1.5 billion (down a full 44 percent). Partly contributing to that drop is a slump from its Personal Systems Group, which saw revenue slip 15 percent year-over-year, and total desktop and notebook units decline a rather drastic 19 and 18 percent, respectively
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