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All News for October 2011

It didn't take long for Motorola to take a second stab at the Atrix. The Atrix 2, officially announced two weeks ago (press shots found their way to the Web back in September) is now available for order for just 99 from AT&T with a two-year... Read more...
One of the frustrating things about Rage is the tremendous difference between the game's visuals. Some areas and scenes are simply gorgeous, particularly if you use a customized configuration file to further improve graphic fidelity. Others are pig-ugly, with textures that apparently crawled... Read more...
Questions regarding the future of Yahoo have swirled around the company since it fired its CEO and began negotations with potential buyers—but you wouldn't know it to judge by the behavior of Ross Levinsohn, the company's executive VP. At... Read more...
Google and Samsung have a play date later this evening, but Motorola's the one kicking the Android action into high gear this week with the introduction of... another RAZR? That's right, the phone that redefined what a flip phone could be is... Read more...
Research in Motion hasn't had the best of months, particularly with that nasty service outage marring their otherwise outstanding record of uptime, but they're trying hard to put the past behind them at BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011. The... Read more...
Until Intel's next-gen, high-end Sandy Bridge-E and its companion X79 chipset launches sometime this quarter, Sandy Bridge-based family of second generation Core processors and the Z68 Express chipset remain Intel’s premiere desktop... Read more...
ViewSonic is expanding its 3D display lineup with the addition of the new V3D231 LED monitor. This 23-inch 3D-Ready LED monitor touts a video response time of 2ms and supports a native resolution of 1920x1080. The monitor also has a 20,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and integrated SRS Premium Sound audio speakers. One pair of polarized 3D... Read more...
While Siri has been on the tip of the tech world's tongue lately, it's Sirius XM making moves today. The company has released their first piece of hardware in quite some while, with the new Edge radio becoming the first to receive an expanded lineup of commercial-free music channels, sports... Read more...
Are bezel wars the next great war in HDTVs? First it was flat-screen. Then it was the race to HD. Then it was 3D. Now... bezel size? Truth be told, bezel size has been important to both companies and discerning consumers alike for some time now, and LG Display is hoping to capitalize on the... Read more...
Whoa. Get ready to bust out the wallet. Or, perhaps, the entire college fund. Canon has just introduced a bombshell of a camera, the EOS-1D X. It's consider a high-speed multimedia juggernaut replacing both the EOS-1Ds Mark III and EOS-1D Mark IV models in Canon’s lineup, and the company... Read more...
Tomorrow could be a very good day for Android fans. First up, Motorola is holding a press conference where the Xoom 2 tablet and a phone called the Droid RAZR are expected to be announced. Then, later in the evening, Samsung and Google have scheduled a press event in Hong Kong where the Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich are expected to be... Read more...
Polycom is putting its money where its mouth is in terms of attempting to deliver the best possible video communications solutions. The company has now acquired ViVu, Inc. for an undisclosed cash sum. The deal closed on Friday, and Polycom expects that its earnings won’t be affected either way in the wake of the deal. ViVu made software... Read more...
Senior vice president and head of global research at Gartner Peter Sondergaard revealed Gartner’s forecast for enterprise IT spending in 2012 at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. The firm believes that enterprise IT spending worldwide will hit... Read more...
The Windows Task Manager has historically been a vital (if boring) workhorse in an OS not generally described with adjectives like "sexy." Windows 8 has set out to change that, and the preliminary information available suggests the new manager... Read more...
The iPhone 4S has been criticised by some for being little more than a speed bump. Device sales have been incredibly strong—buyers clearly aren't concerned about this issue—but evidence also suggests that there've been more changes... Read more...
Having trouble with your "virtual personal assistant," as Apple likes to refer to its Siri voice recognition software? You're not alone. Here we are three days after the iPhone 4S launch and users are still taking to Twitter and Apple's support forum to voice their frustration that Siri is... Read more...
No one likes to be surprised by insanely high mobile bills. Or any bills, really. But with those mobile bills, at least there's a governmental agency watching out for Americans, right? Sheers and jeers aside, the CTIA and FCC has announced... Read more...
Nintendo is refreshing its Wii console in time for the holiday shopping season -- Huzzah! It's going to sport a slimmer, sleeker design and be part of a holiday bundle that includes the New Super Bros. Wii game, a special Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack CD that isn't available anywhere else, a... Read more...
Remember when that huge hack put Sony's PSN users out of a connection for what felt like an eternity? Sony offered some gifts as a peace offering, and now, it looks like Research In Motion is taking a note out of a book that no company looks forward to reading. Earlier this month, RIM's... Read more...
T-Mobile and LG announced the LG DoublePlay. This smartphone features a split QWERTY keyboard and dual capacitive touch screens. The phone is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). The 3.5-inch main display and 2.0-inch sub display can operate independently or in tandem. With these screens, users can... Read more...
Cooling their jets? No way. While pundits were quick to declare Apple's iPhone 4S as nothing more than a rehashed iPhone 4 with a few new tricks, the general populace hardly sees it that way. While the company has sold 1+ million phones on... Read more...
In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Iyaz, Marco and Dave discuss Logitech's Wireless Bluetooth Boombox and the state of wireless connectivity, AMD's new FX-8150 8-Core Bulldozer CPU, id Software's Rage game, NVIDIA's 3D... Read more...
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