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It looks like owners of the Motorola Xoom WiFi are getting an update to the latest version of Google mobile OS, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, and the update is Android 4.0.3. A number of users are reporting that they have received the Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Motorola Xoom WiFi as an [...]

Many of the latest smartphones, with their larger higher resolution displays, faster processors and high end specifications don’t exactly have the best battery life and if you are a heavy user on some devices your battery may not last all day. Samsung has announced that they intend to change this with their 2012 smartphones, and [...]

Apple’s third generation iPad, the iPad 3 is expected to go on sale some time in March, and now it would appear that we may get some sort of official announcement from Apple on the iPad 3 early next month. According to the guys from Macotakara, Apple will announce the iPad 3, along with the [...]

Wikipedia and many other sites, which include Reddit, Boing Boing and many other sites around the web are today protesting against the controversial proposed SOPA and PIPA anit-piracy bills, which if passed could basically ruin the Internet. Wikipedia has blacked out its English language site today and will continue to do so for 24 hours, [...]

On the weekend we showed you Samsung’s new 46 inch inch Transparent Windows LCD display, which Samsung has been showing off at this years CES and now Samsung has confirmed that they are putting this interesting display into production. The Transparent Windows LCD display is designed to be used for a wide range of purposes, [...]

Nokia recently launched their first Windows Phone smartphone in the US, the Nokia Lumia 710, and the device has been available with mobile carrier T-Mobile for $49.99 when you sign up to a new two year contract with the carrier. The device hasn’t been available for very long in the US, and it scheduled to [...]

We are expecting the first Windows 8 tablets to be launched some time later this year, and now details have been revealed on the hardware requirements that manufacturers will have to use to produce Windows 8 tablets. The news comes from the guys over at Within Windows who have been analyzing the recently released Windows [...]

RIM launched its first tablet last year, the BlackBerry PlayBook, which hasn’t had the best response and has been met with disappointing sales for RIM, which has led the company to recently drop the price of the tablet. According to a recent report from N4BB, RIM isn’t giving up on its PlayBook tablet, instead the [...]

Huawei recently announced their latest Android smartphone, the Huawei Ascend P1, and now according to a recent report the company may be about to release an LTE enable version of the P1 along with a larger capacity battery. The new comes from the guys over at Blog of Mobile who have managed to get their [...]

Star Trek fans will love the latest invention for the guys over at Think Geek, the Star Trek Door Chime which is designed to replace you standard door bell with something a little more geeky. The Star Trek door chime is motion sensitive so when someone walks past it our approaches it, the door chime [...]

Apple and Samsung are engaged in a number of different patent lawsuits around the world, the most recent one being the case of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany. Last year Apple managed to get sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in Germany, Samsung changed the design of the device and it [...]

Many of the new smartphones that are being released at the moment are coming with NFC (near field communications) built in, Apple’s iPhone doesn’t have NFC and we have already seen a couple of different cases that will bring NFC to the iPhone. A company called DeviceFidelity Inc has developed an NFC based microSD card [...]