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(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Nomo-what? Nomophobia is the fear of being without mobile contact (who knew such a term or condition existed?), and according to a new study from the U.K., two out of three people suffer from it.
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Do you suffer from nomophobia?
Nokia Lumia 800, and friends. (Credit: Nokia) In a move designed to drive customers through Microsoft’s retail doors , and toward Nokia’s Windows Phone Lumia brand in particular, Microsoft will begin to sell the unlocked version of the Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone exclusively in its brick-and-mortar stores
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Nokia Lumia 800 pops up unlocked at Microsoft stores
Boeing sent one of its 787 Dreamliners on a special route over the U.S., tracing out ’787′ and the company’s logo in the sky. (Credit: Courtesy of FlightAware ) Now this is clever marketing
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Dreamliner traces ’787′ and Boeing logo in U.S. skies
Revel Importer is smart enough to know which photos you’ve already uploaded. (Credit: Screen capture by Lori Grunin/CNET) Adobe tosses a bone to Android users who subscribe to Revel (née Carousel ), its Apple-only photo-collaboration service.
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Adobe Revel gets Android importer
Verizon is cutting Motorola DROID BIONIC price to $99. Unfortunately, the device won’t come with MicroSD card as the previous sales. This offer currently available via Verizon’s website
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Motorola DROID BIONIC Price Drop To $99
The XtremeMac InCharge Auto BT crams a Bluetooth receiver and a 10W USB charger into one cable.
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XtremeMac InCharge Auto BT: complicating the cable (hands-on)
(Credit: NASA) Is this the beginning of end? Or perhaps the end of the beginning? Or could it be merely a handshake that presages the ultimate fighting contest between humans and robots
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Astronaut and robot shake hands in space
From the lock screen, one of four customizable shortcuts can be accessed. Also, a giant thumb takes control of the situation. (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) As I said last week in my First Take, there’s really nothing special about the Acer Iconia Tab A200.
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Acer Iconia Tab A200 review: The ‘Toll Road’ of Android tablets
Photoshop CS6′s content-aware move is shown here to move a woman in red.
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Photoshop CS6 puts photo manipulation on steroids
Casio Japan has announced the Exilim EX-ZR300, a high-speed CMOS-based 16MP 12.5x zoom compact. The ZR300 features a 24-300mm equivalent zoom and dual ‘Exilim Engine HS’ processors to offer autofocus in as little as 0.12sec and start-up in under 1 sec.
Do you like your cars smart ? Are you itching to drive something a bit more K.I.T.T. than KIA
The ONE Street Tweeter is kind of like a giant, mobile ink-jet printer, only way more political. It wasn’t around in time for the height of the Occupy protests, but made its debut at the G8 Summit
When we’re not looking up at the stars, we’re likely looking at a screen, so any chance to combine those two is greeted with open arms.
NPD DisplaySearch is declaring Apple to be the undisputed champion of the mobile PC business for the first quarter of the year. The fruity phone flinger shipped ( shipped , not sold) 17.2 million mobile PCs in the time, a figure that contentiously includes the iPad
Dell hasn’t been having the greatest of years, and the blows are still as heavy as ever in Round Rock’s fiscal Q1.
3D printing with ABS and other plastics that have a low-melting point are old hat. And, with the price of entry dropping below the $500 mark , soon enough anyone will be able print their own pirated 45s
Charitable entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox has teamed up with Microsoft , TalkTalk , and Simplify Digital to bring a cheaper option for cash-strapped folks in the UK. Starting today, you can buy a refurbished computer with broadband service for a year (with a 40GB monthly cap) for as little as £149 ($240) — and that price drops even lower for people on state benefits. The “Go On UK” initiative also throws in a WiFi router and Windows 7 to further spread that non-profit love around the nation — just like we have going on in the US .
In my view, smartphones are all about the future, and the best handsets are usually the ones with the wildest, slickest mobile technology. Sure, cutting-edge wireless computing rarely comes cheap, especially phones running Google’s latest and greatest version of Android software, Ice Cream Sandwich . Still it’s good to have a dream, and right now I’m fantasizing big time about the best phones money can buy
We’ve seen DNA flirt with computing and storage before, but a biological system that can record digital data? That’s something different
What some e-cigarettes look like.