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With U.S. citizens getting shot on U.S. borders -- and the folks investigating them literally losing their heads, with Facebook and Twitter friends using location information to determine when your home is vacant and available for looting, and with the U.S. being named as botnet capital of the world...
Logitech unveiled and demonstrated its Logitech Revue Google TV controller in New York on Wednesday. The device is a box that plugs into a TV sets via an HDMI port, along with a keyboard controller that appears to be about the size of a full-sized PC keyboard. Logitech also offers several accessorie...
Google has announced more content providers for Google TV, which it introduced in May. While many of Google TV's content partners are major names -- HBO, TNT, CNN -- the three major networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, are so far not part of the mix. Turner Broadcasting is optimizing websites for viewing on ...
Toshiba on Monday announced what it claims are the world's first LCD TVs that render three-dimensional images without the need for glasses. The new Glasses-less 3D Regza GL1 series was unveiled at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies in Tokyo. They use technology similar to that employed...
Samsung may begin building televisions with the Android operating system built in, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Yoon Boo Keun, head of Samsung's TV business line, reportedly said the company is reviewing whether to use Android, an OS more commonly found in various smartphones, in a new line of TV ...
The entire future of a company or industry can hinge on one little deal. The $50,000 IBM paid to license Windows was the foundation for Microsoft and the technology industry for the last couple of decades. Apple's licensing contract with Portal Player to create the iPod was nearly as big -- and ce...
Toshiba has reportedly confirmed it is working on technology for a 3-D television set that won't require viewers to use special glasses. However, details are scant, and the company declined to say when such TVs will hit the market. Toshiba isn't alone in working on technology that will let viewers w...
Samsung on Wednesday announced a portable Blu-ray disc player with 3D capabilities for the United States market. This was one of a slew of Blu-ray announcements that included new products and an expanded selection of 3D Blu-ray content. Samsung also announced a line of 3D-capable high-definition tel...
DECE has announced more details about a concept that would ultimately give consumers the ability to legally access the digital content of a slew of providers for use on multiple devices -- from smartphones to personal computers to Web-enabled television sets. The crux of this concept, which DECE has...
The auditorium darkens, the audience members put on their 3-D glasses, and a screen fills up with point-of-view images of sci-fi warfare -- futuristic soldiers leaping from one military platform to another in special weaponized jetpacks, raining death and destruction. A scene from a potential sequel...
Microsoft once again demonstrated its motion-controlled video game interface at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. It also announced a new version of its Xbox 360 gaming console. Project Natal, said Microsoft will now be known by its new official name: "Kinect." The Kinect is an array of sen...
It's a 3-D world, at least according to Hollywood. All the new kids' movies are doing it: the last in the "Shrek" series, "Alice in Wonderland" -- you name it, you need glasses to watch it. And in the world of video gaming, 3-D is something of a Holy Grail. Gamers have been waiting for the rich, imm...
TV viewers may soon be able to watch videos without interruption over wireless networks as they move from their television sets to their PCs to their handheld devices, with the signing of an agreement Monday between the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, the WiFi Alliance and semiconductor developer SiBeam....
Microsoft has given manufacturers the tools to make Windows the operating system for a host of consumer-oriented devices -- from video game consoles to TV set-top boxes that serve as full-blown home entertainment centers. Windows Embedded Standard 7 is the proposed platform. Microsoft announced the ...
The market is in a planning cycle, and analysts are being asked to take a look in their crystal balls and describe what 2013 will look like. Clearly, we will have more bandwidth, 3-D TV will be ramping, and most of us will either be using tablet devices for something or moving to the next big thin...