Archive for December, 2010

2010 In Review: The Fortunate Winners And The Pathetic Losers

Oh, 2010. It was glorious, but thank the almighty prancing unicorn in the sky that it’s over. It was the year of the iPad, really. Steve Jobs took to the stage of Moscone Center, sat down, and proceeded to show the world how he wanted us to interact with the Internet — several million consumers followed suit [...]

McAfee: Apple, Google TV, Facebook and iPads all key 2011 cybercrime targets

As 2011 prediction pieces go, McAfee Labs‘ threat report for the coming year is on the depressing side. The company’s security researchers reckon that Apple kit along with mobile devices and geolocation services will be the most popular targets for threats in 2011, though smart TV systems like Google TV are also suggested as likely [...]

McAfee’s 2011 Cyber Attack Targets: URL Shorteners, iPhones, Geolocation Services

Intel acquired McAfee has just released its forecast for the top targets for cyber criminals in 2011, and a number of popular platforms have made the list. The antivirus and security software company’s labs group, McAfee Labs, says that Google’s Android, Apple’s iPhone, Foursquare, Google TV and the Mac OS X platform, are all expected [...]

The Daily Slash: December 27 2010

What’s all going on in the tech and gadget world today? Let’s have a look, shall we? First, take a look with yours truly at a hands-on and unboxing of the Lenovo IdeaPad U260, again with yours truly in a final installment in a “Week With” series on the L1 v2 Laser Pico Projector (iDevices [...]

Logitech Says Nothing’s Wrong with Revue, Will be at CES 2011

Over the last few days, there’s been a lot of rumors and speculation regarding Google TV. We’ve heard it being said that Google TV would miss CES 2011 altogether, while companies would be freezing their plans for the Internet-on-your-TV idea from Google entirely. Further, it was being said that Logitech was freezing production of their [...]

Logitech says Google hasn’t asked it to halt Google TV production

It was a bit too late to fend off a more than 3% drop in its stock price, but Logitech has finally come out and refuted those rumors that it was asked to halt production of its Google TV hardware until a significant update could be rolled out. As VP of corporate communications Nancy Morrison [...]

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: December 27 2010

Welcome back! Did you get any sweet gifts over these past few holiday days? Or did you treat yourself to something sweet? Either way, if you’re a brand new (or old, but could use a refresher) user of Android devices, take a look at our 2010 holiday guide on Android Community! Then for all you [...]

Logitech freezing Google TV shipments for Google TV update

The Google TV project doesn’t look like it’s going to have an enjoyable Christmas. Report reports indicated that Google had pushed a last-minute delay on many manufacturers due to some upgrades that needed to be implemented on its Google TV software, causing disappointment to many folks who are slated to head to CES next month. [...]

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 51 2010

Welcome to the first post Christmas Week in Review! I hope you had a great Christmas, let’s get right to it. We heard Monday that wireless carriers were openly looking at ways that they can charge users a fee per service. It seems like a scheme to get user to take advantage of the sponsored [...]

Sony debuts Music Unlimited service

When it comes to purchasing music online, what are some of the “brand” names that most people think of? iTunes would be first and foremost be on peoples’ minds, no doubt about it. Well, apart from that, folks still purchase albums from Amazon, but no doubt about it that iTunes is the undisputed king of [...]