Facing  a future in which wireless adoption rates are expected to skyrocket, the FCC is beginning to lay down plans to deal with this ensuing wireless broadband crunch. One portion of the overall plan involves auctioning off the now stagnant D-Block, a portion of spectrum that failed to sell when ...

Original Post Link: FCC Prepares to Auction Off Additional Wireless Spectrum [The 700MHz D-Block May be Auctioned off in 2011 with T-Mobile as a Potential Buyer] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Earlier this week, Microsoft held its MIX10 developer conference and announced all the nitty gritty development details for its new Windows Phone 7 Series mobile operating system.  As part of its development strategy, Microsoft released a suite of free tools to entice developers to adopt the newly announced Windows Phone ...

Original Post Link: Windows Phone 7 Emulator Hacked, New Features Exposed [Hack the Windows Phone 7 Emulator to See What Goodies Microsoft Included in Its Latest Mobile OS] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

The April 3 launch date for the iPad is now only a few weeks away and Apple has recently put the call out for app submissions. The news comes by way of an email that was sent out to registered developers and not only announces that Apple is looking for ...

Original Post Link: Apple Now Accepting iPad App Submissions [iPad App Developers Need to Submit All Apps By March 27 To Make The iPad App Store Grand Opening] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

I don’t know about you but the list of much expected products for 2010 should include Google’s first computer OS, Chrome OS which will mark a turning point in the history of computing. Google is going to rely solely on the cloud to make Chrome OS work thus offering us ...

Original Post Link: Chrome for Windows to Get 3D Acceleration Thanks to Google ANGLE? [The Google ANGLE to Offer 3D Acceleration to Chrome; No Need for Extra OpenGL Drivers] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

The Xperia X10 is a pretty remarkable smartphone – we’ve had a hands on with the X10 and it impressed us immensely – and it would seem that we’re not the only ones to be impressed with Sony Ericsson’s up and coming flagship Android smartphone as Orange have now confirmed ...

Original Post Link: Exclusive White Orange Xperia X10 Release Date Confirmed [Orange X10 in Black & White Available from April, Free On Selected Contracts] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

MSI has taken the covers off of another business-market notebook. This one is named the P600 and uses Intel’s Calpella platform for both the chipset and processor. It’ll be coming with a decent processor in the Core i5 and it will weigh in at 2.41kgs. The 15.6-inch on the notebook has ...

Original Post Link: MSI Unveils P600 Business Notebook [New Business Notebook Features Core i5 Processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, ECO Engine, 15-inch Display] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

We’ve got a bunch of brand new LED-backlit LCD monitors for you folks, or better said, BenQ has them ready for you. They are the BenQ V2410T and the BenQ2410B and they happen to be 24-inch beasts prepared to offer you all the extra screen space you require. The V2410T ...

Original Post Link: BenQ V2410T & V2410B LED LCD Monitors Now Official [New LED-backlit LCD Monitors Available from BenQ; V2410T & V2410B to Retail for $319 & $279] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Did you ever want a rugged Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone? Airo Wireless has one and they call it the A25is. The handset has been quietly made public by AT&T and interested consumers will be able to get it in the near future. From the start I’ll ask this question: why not ...

Original Post Link: Airo Wireless A25is Windows Mobile 6.1 Rugged Smartphone Made Official by AT&T [AT&T Launches Rugged Windows Mobile 6.1 Handset a Couple of Years Too Late] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

What with the newest member of the TFTS writing team (welcome on-board Kelly, by the way) having only earlier today covered how Palm is, let’s not mince words here, not doing quite as well as it might like right now in terms of handset sales, we don’t doubt that Palm will be ...

Original Post Link: Palm Pre Plus & Palm Pixi Plus Headed to O2? [O2 Stocking the Pre Plus & Pixi Plus to Help Palm Shift Unsold Handset Inventory?] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

I don’t know if you’ve heard about this iPad thing, but it’s getting pretty big. We’re less than a month away from the iPad’s release date and excitement over the tablet is pretty high. Developers who wish to develop applications for the iPad before the big launch day are being ...

Original Post Link: iPad Developers Held To Strict Requirements [Development iPads Tethered To Tables, Locked In Rooms, Windows Sealed, Even Big-Name Partners Not Given Any Slack] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

This new Windows tablet, called the Ezy Tablet PC and coming out of an OEM in Malaysia is being universally hailed as an iPad clone, though I’m not so convinced. Sure, it’ll have a similar 10.2-inch multitouch screen, but it’s running a full desktop OS (Win7 or Vista) vs. the ...

Original Post Link: Ezy Tablet PC Revealed Out Of Malaysia [So Called Windows iPad Clone Offers Atom N270 Processor, 10.2-inch Screen, Multi-Touch, Flash, 2GB of RAM] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

While Apple has been selling in hundreds of thousands of iPad units over the course of this past week the competition hasn’t been wasting any time. The main adversary of the iPad, is, at least until Microsoft decides to make its own Courier official, the HP Slate which has been ...

Original Post Link: HP Slate Tablet Specs, Features & Pricing Uncovered; iPad Beware! [HP Slate Specs, Features & Prices Get Leaked; Official Launch Dates Still Not Available] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

If you’re based in the Euro zone and you’ve been anxiously awaiting news concerning the pricing of Sony Ericsson’s new compact versions of their flagship Xperia X10, namely the Xperia X10 Mini and the Xperia X10 Mini Pro – then we have some good news for you as we can now ...

Original Post Link: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini & X10 Mini Pro Pricing Confirmed [Xperia X10 Mini & Mini Pro Phones Priced for European Market, Hardly Budget Handsets] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

How well did the iPad do in its first week you might ask? It looks like Apple’s first tablet sold quite well. We talked about unofficial numbers already and it was pretty clear that the device will sell very well even if customers haven’t actually had the chance to experience ...

Original Post Link: iPad Sales Rumored to be in the “Hundreds of Thousands” Already [Apple iPad Sales to Beat Corresponding Original iPhone Sales; Original iPhone Says He Couldn’t Care Less] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Qi Hardware has finally begun  shipping their open-source copyleft hardware ultra-portable “handheld laptop”, dubbed the Ben NanoNote. It’s a highly hackable, compact little computer that can be used normally with it’s base Linux operating system, or it can be easily modded to do just about anything you want. The ultra-small form ...

Original Post Link: Qi Hardware’s Ben NanoNote Handheld Notebook Now Shipping [Small Notebook Uses Open-Source Hardware, Software, Can Be Hacked To Do Just About Anything] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Palm reported its Q3 2010 earnings on Thursday and the results, as expected, are poor. The Sunnyvale, California company reported $349.9 million in  revenue for the third quarter of 2010 which ended Feb. 26, 2010. Palm reported a net loss of $22 million in Q3 2010 which is lower than ...

Original Post Link: Palm Reports Poor Q3 2010 Earnings [Palm Q3 2010 Financial Situation Tenuous, Outlook Grim, Future Acquisition Possible] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Ahead of Sprint acting to officially announce the 4G HTC Supersonic next week (we initially thought the Sprint HTC Supersonic would launch this week) its reassuring to see that the WiMax HTC Supersonic has gained an inventory listing with Sprint, thanks to an ‘indirect dealer’ having found its listing under ...

Original Post Link: Sprint HTC Supersonic Gains Sprint Inventory Listing [Sprint HTC Supersonic Listed as HTC A9292 WiMax Bar Phone, Pending Official Launch Next Week] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Samsung is fond of these little low-end touchscreen phones, as they’ve got several of them, and unfortunately, they all run Samsung’s dreadful TouchWiz UI. The new Samsung S3370 has been spied and while it isn’t running Android or packing a 1Ghz processor, it provides a touchscreen phone for those who ...

Original Post Link: Samsung S3370 Touchscreen Phone Leaked [New Samsung S3370 Appears To Be Another Entry-Level Phone With 3G, TouchWiz UI, Digital Camera] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Seagate just took the wraps off of it’s newest offering, a new drive in its Constellation series that is about as high-end as a hard drive can get, not only does it have 2TB of space (as big as you can get a commercially available hard drive these days) but ...

Original Post Link: Seagate Details 2TB Constellation ES SATA 3.0 Drive [New Drive Is World's First 2TB SATA 3 Drive, Offers Enterprise-Grade Best-in-class Construction] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

After months of speculation in the enthusiast community, pricing and further specs for Intel’s new bleeding edge processor has revealed. Info about the -980X Extreme Edition comes to us from (where else) European retailers who apparently posted sale pages for the item early. As you can imagine, the processor won’t ...

Original Post Link: Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Detailed, Priced [Extreme Edition Processor Gains Specs, +$1000 Price, 32nm Westmere Chip, Heading To Mac Pros?] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

It’s hard to imagine, but Microsoft was once in Google’s place – the unstoppable tech darling with enough cash on hand to start whatever project they wanted (Microsoft Bob?). But now, Microsoft has lost of a lot of mindshare, with them often falling behind competitors like Apple and Google in ...

Original Post Link: Microsoft: We’ve Been Too Slow Going Consumer [Microsoft Director Admits That Redmond Is Sometime Too Focused On The Enterprise Customer, Too Slow To React To Consumer Wants] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Sharkoon has come out with a new QuickPort Duo docking station for hard drives that has space for two hard drives, as well as using a USB 3.0 SuperSpeed connector to link up to your PC. The docking station can dock up with either the desktop-oriented 3.5″ hard drives, or ...

Original Post Link: Sharkoon QuickPort Duo HDD Docking Station Now With USB 3.0 [Sharkoon QuickPort HDD Docking Station Has USB 3.0 Connection, Fits Both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA Drives] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

The (in)famous Reggie Fils-Aime, CEO of Nintendo America, sat down with blog Kotaku and gave a candid interview on his opinions on the PlayStation Move, Xbox’s Project Natal, and the possibility of a high-def variant of the Wii coming anytime soon. While Nintendo is interested in high-def video, Reggie says, ...

Original Post Link: Nintendo: We Would Be Embarrassed To Be Sony, Microsoft [Nintendo CEO Says Their Goal Is To Innovate, Interested In HD But No Wii HD Coming] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Acer’s new Aspire 1825PT and Aspire 1825PTZ convertible netbooks seem to defy an exact description as they straddle the fine line between netbook and light notebook. At any rate, they definitely look handy by their specs. Details of the netbooks come by way of eRetailers accidentally posting their product info ...

Original Post Link: Acer Aspire 1825PT, 1825PTZ Sneak In [Acer Begins Selling 11-inch Touchscreen Convertible Netbooks, Core 2 Duo Processor, 4GB RAM] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Cisco Systems, a major networking hardware manufacturer, has decided to stop developing any future WiMAX hardware, specifically in WiMAX base stations and radios. While they’ll still produce IP platform hardware for WiMax (for carriers to use WiMAX), they’ve decided to cut consumer-orientated networking gear for WiMAX. WiMAX and LTE have been ...

Original Post Link: Cisco Cutting WiMAX Hardware Development [Cisco Cutting WiMAX Radios, Base Stations From Plans, Still Work On IP Platforms - Has LTE Won The 4G War?] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Dell has released a pair of new desktops for business, providing medium-grade processing power in slimline case builds.  The Dell Vostro 230 Slim Tower and Mini Tower desktop PCs are as inexpensive as they are small, starting in price at $389. The new Dell Vostro 230 Slim Tower and Mini Tower ...

Original Post Link: New Dell Vostro 230 Slim Tower, Mini Tower Desktop PCs Revealed [New Dell Business Desktops Get Slimline Treatment] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Although it was hinted at during CES, ASUS has showed off the official press shots for their new motherboard in their ROG line, the Rampage III Extreme. The ROG (Republic of Gamers) is ASUS’ brand for their high-end enthusiast parts and the Rampage III Extreme motherboard looks like it will ...

Original Post Link: ASUS Offers Pictures Of High-End Rampage III Extreme Motherboard [New ROG Motherboard Gets Press Pics, LGA 1366 Socket, Intel X58 Chipset, USB 3.0] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Apple is preparing a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display to coincide with a new Mac Pro workstation release.  The Apple 27-inch LED Cinema Displays will be larger than the current 24-inch LED-backlit model, Apple’s first featuring this technology. The new Apple Cinema Display is rumored to measure 27-inches diagonally, feature LED-backlit ...

Original Post Link: Rumors Out Apple’s 27-Inch LED Cinema Display [Apple's Larger LED Cinema Display Would Coincide With New 12-Core Mac Pro Workstation Release] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

The Microsoft Browser Ballot, a little pop-up that informs European users that they have a choice in their browsers beyond Internet Explorer, actually may be working, as Opera is reporting a huge boost in their downloads since the browser ballot was patched into EU versions of Windows. Following the European Union’s ...

Original Post Link: Opera Sees Huge Spike In Downloads Following EU Browser Ballot Screen [Many European Users Flocking To Opera Following Addition Of Browser Ballot To Windows, Opera Pushes For Global Roll-Out] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Last week at the Game Developer’s Conference, AMD held a little press conference to unveil what they call the “Gamer’s Manifesto”. Presented by AMD’s Chief Marketing Officer, Nigel Dessau, AMD revealed four promises to the gaming public and developers with whom they work. NVIDIA is pretty public with their marketing. They ...

Original Post Link: AMD Outlines Gamer’s Manifesto For Gamers, Developers [AMD Promises Rights To Gamers, Developers, Will Innovate and Support Industry Standards] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

This is not the first time we hear that T-Mobile USA is going to get the iPhone at some point later in 2010. In fact we did talk about this incredible move last year at a certain point in time when the iPhone was rumored to arrive either from Verizon ...

Original Post Link: iPhone 4G Coming to T-Mobile This Winter/Next Spring? [T-Mobile USA Said (Again) to Carry Apple’s iPhone by the End of the Year or Early in 2011; Is It the iPhone 4G?] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Yesterday Andrew told us how Windows Phone 7 Series was not going to come with the Copy and Paste function which also happens to be one of my 8 reasons not to ditch your iPhone in favor of the first Windows Phone 7 Series handset that’s going to be available ...

Original Post Link: Windows Phone 7 to Get Copy & Paste Support Later [Microsoft Says Copy & Paste Function Will Head to WP7S Phones After Launch; Money Will Grow on Trees Thereafter] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

It looks like the first BlackBerry slider smartphone from RIM is going to become reality soon. We’ve talked about it extensively here on TFTS and we’ve gotten all sorts of leaked pictures to prove the existence of such a handset. And now we hear that the slider is going to ...

Original Post Link: BlackBerry T (Talladega) Slider Smartphone to be Launched Next Month? [RIM to Announce Its First BlackBerry Slider Handset in April; For Some Reason They Call It T (Talladega)] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

EVGA’s new motherboard, the Classified SR-2, is just about as high-end as you’ll find a motherboard, short of workstation and server grade equipment. It’s the newest entry into EVGA’s Classified series of mainboards and the board is specially designed for overclockers and it features two LGA 1366 processor slots, a ...

Original Post Link: EVGA Unveils High-End SR-2 Motherboard ["Classified SR-2" Motherboard Features Intel 5520 Chipset, Dual LGA 1366 CPU Slots, Twelve DDR3 RAM Slots, USB 3.0] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Sony has aggressively started to prepare its potential customers for the PlayStation Move, or the first attempt of the company at motion controlled gaming. And Sony knows for a fact a tough battle awaits them. Nintendo’s Wii is still selling strong and with Microsoft Project Natal motion controller coming later ...

Original Post Link: PlayStation Move Ad Takes a Hit at Nintendo’s Wii & Microsoft’s Project Natal [Sony Starts Advertising PlayStation Move Motion Control Gaming; Wii & Xbox 360 Consoles Won’t Really Care Yet] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Nokia’s CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo gave an interview with BusinessWeek and revealed some new opinions about Palm, as well as hinting at a possible new product coming with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor. He’s also talking about helping expand Nokia’s marketshare in the US with Microsoft. When Kallasvuo was asked about Qualcomm and the ...

Original Post Link: Nokia CEO Teases Snapdragon Nokia Phone [Kallasvuo Hints At Snapdragon-powered Phone, Expect Windows Phone 7, Sees Palm As Dead In The Water] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

Having earlier this month tipped you concerning Google Maps now offering directions for specifically catering for bikes, we can now advise you that Google Maps for Mobile has been updated to Google Maps for Mobile 4.1. The newly released Google Maps for Mobile 4.1, which is designed for Android based phone ...

Original Post Link: Google Maps for Mobile 4.1 for Android 1.6+ Released [Updated Google Maps App Offers Improved Search, Maps Live Wallpaper, Numerous Other Tweaks] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

We don’t even have Nokia’s Symbian^3 OS to play with and we’ve already gotten word that a Symbian^4-running handset has been spotted in the wild. We don’t know yet if the Nokia X9 in the picture below is the real deal of just another Photoshop image sent to tech blogs ...

Original Post Link: Nokia X9 Symbian 4 Handset Gets Leaked & Ready to Impress [Nokia X9 to Feature Symbian 4 OS, 12-MP Camera & 1GHz Processor] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

If you’re looking to transfer funds using PayPal whilst out and about you may be interested in the new iteration of the PayPal iPhone App V2.0 which, apart from offering a swanky new interface, comes with a new Bump feature that allows you to transfer information required to send payments ...

Original Post Link: New PayPal iPhone App v2.0 Released [iPhone PayPal App Now Allows 'Bump Transfers', Offers Split Check & Collect Money Functionalities] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities

While Sprint might be launching its first 4G Android phone, the HTC Supersonic, at some point in the following week, Verizon seems to be interested in a different HTC Android phone, and I am not referring to the Google Nexus One. The HTC Incredible, one of the most expected Android ...

Original Post Link: HTC Incredible to be Launched by Verizon in Two Weeks? [Rumors Suggest the HTC Incredible is Coming Soon; We Find it Incredible] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities