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Businessweek: new Apple TV to include Netflix streaming

Well here’s an interesting wrinkle to the next-gen iOS-based Apple TV rumors in the leadup to tomorrow’s event: Bloomberg Businessweek says the new box will offer Netflix streaming, presumably in addition to whatever cheap TV content deals Apple’s planning to offer through iTunes. That would be a first of sorts for Apple; although Netflix has [...]

Prepaid Droid, BlackBerry and Palm phones coming to Verizon? (update: confirmed, box spotting)

We’d heard a few rumors of some new prepaid offerings from Verizon recently, but it now looks like the carrier could really be about to expand things in a big way — at least if some purportedly authentic leaked documents are any indication. Apparently received by Android Does from a helpful tipster, the documents list [...]

HP Labs teams up with Hynix to manufacture memristors, plans assault on flash memory in 2013

The memristor‘s come a long way since being hypothesized back in 1971. If you ask HP Labs, the history of this particular memory technology didn’t hit its next milestone for almost four decades, when the company produced the very first memory resistor chip. Just last month, the Labs group proved its little transistor could handle [...]

iFixit goes beige with RCA Studio II teardown

The RCA Studio II is already a pretty rare sight as is, but rarer still is a detailed look inside what’s been described as one of the worst game consoles of all time. Thankfully, the folks at iFixit have now come through once again, and followed up their dissection of the Magnavox Odyssey 100 with [...]

Motorola Milestone 2 makes official, albeit unintentional, debut

Sometimes it takes a crafty, steel-nerved individual to leak an unreleased phone’s details ahead of time. And then sometimes all it takes is a negligently uploaded video. An official promo for the Milestone 2 has popped up on YouTube before quickly being yanked by Moto. The Droid 2‘s international sibling unsurprisingly looks to be its [...]

Archos unleashes five (five!) new Android Froyo tablets, we go hands-on

“How do you tablet?” Oh yes, that’s Archos’ new tag line when it comes to its growing number of Android tablets. Good timing since, you know, it just went ahead and released a quintuplet of new gadgets. The offerings range from small PMP-like devices with 2.8- and 3.4-inch screens to higher-end 4.3-, 7- and 10.1-inch [...]

Prepaid Droid, BlackBerry and Palm phones coming to Verizon? (update: box spotting)

We’d heard a few rumors of some new prepaid offerings from Verizon recently, but it now looks like the carrier could really be about to expand things in a big way — at least if some purportedly authentic leaked documents are any indication. Apparently received by Android Does from a helpful tipster, the documents list [...]

T-Mobile G2 official shots break loose, corroborate rumors of wanton awesomeness

The T-Mobile G2 — which will likely be known as the HTC Desire Z outside the States — is shaping up to be one of the more anticipated Android launches of 2010, and a handful of smaller-than-we’d-like official press shots that have just leaked over on Cell Phone Signal are doing nothing to make us [...]

Palm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting today

Palm fans, get your party hats on. Today the company is announcing the beta release of its SDK for webOS 2.0, which means we’re getting dangerously close to a proper 2.0 release for devices. And who knows… maybe the phone-maker will decide to throw a new device our way to go along with the OS. [...]

Finis Swimsense swimming performance monitor can tell a butterfly from a breaststroke

In the water, we’re such natural swimmers that we sometimes forget what stroke we’re using to propel ourselves through that clear, chlorinated cocktail at the Y. If only we had the Finis Swimsense wrist-worn performance monitor that wouldn’t be a problem. Using internal motion sensors plus a little information from you (such as pool size) [...]

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