Wi-Fi-only Xoom launching March 27 for $599

It took a while for Motorola Mobility to confirm it, but the Wi-Fi-only Xoom is now official. On March 27, the tablet will launch in the U.S. for $599, Motorola Mobility announced today. The device will feature the same 10.1-inch display as its 3G-equipped counterpart. It will also come with Android 3.0 Honeycomb, 32GB of onboard storage, and a 1GHz dual-core processor. Motorola Mobility currently offers a 3G version of the Xoom that retails for $799.99 without a contract and $599.99 with a two-year commitment with Verizon Wireless. With the upcoming launch of the Wi-Fi-only Xoom, Motorola Mobility is taking a page out of Apple's book....

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How to Connect iPad or iPod Touch to iPhone Personal Hotspot?

Curious how to connect your iPad, new iPad 2, or even an iPod touch to iPhone personal hotspot? Thanks to iOS 4.3 (or iOS 4.2.6 on the Verizon iPhone) if you have a tethering plan you can save $130 on an iPad 3G, get an iPad Wi-Fi, and jump on the internet pretty much anywhere you want. We’ll show you how after the break! iOS 4..2.6 and iOS 4.3 lets iPhone 4 act as a Wi-Fi personal hotspot. In other words, it turns it into a tiny internet access point and mobile router. You can connect up to 3 devices to an AT&T/GSM iPhone and 5 devices to a Verizon iPhone — including the iPad. Here’s how:  Turn on Wi-Fi personal hotspot on your iPhone...

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Google Tests NFC Payment Machines In NY/SF Stores

Google may be opting out when it comes to joining the social networking game, but they're saying yes to mobile payments. The Samsung-built Nexus S was one of the first NFC-enabled smartphones to ship in America, and now Google is reportedly ready to start testing a mobile payment trial at stores in NY and SF. The Bloomberg article on the matter suggests that the trials could begin in four months, and it will let shoppers use their phones to buy items at those stores. NFC and contact-less payments have frequently been used to pay for mass transit, but particularly in America, it's still rare to see stores setup to accept NFC payments. Google...

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Top 5 Reasons not to Upgrade to Windows’ Internet Explorer 9

This Article is written by J. Vaughan-Nichols on Zdnet.com After a couple of weeks on tinkering with the newly released Internet Explorer (IE) 9, and a host of other Web browsers, I have to say that while 32-bit IE 9 is much better than any other version of IE to date, it’s still not my first pick for a Web browser. Here’s why. 1. Operating system incompatibilities When it comes to desktop operating systems, IE 9 works only with Windows 7 and Vista. That’s it. XP users? You’re out of luck. There’s no IE 9 for XP. Yes, according to NetMarketShare, the majority of Windows users are still running XP, 55%, to 23% running Windows 7 and 11% with...

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Berkeley Lab Scientists Create Nanocrystal Hydrogen Storage Matrix

  If you could run your celly on hydrogen you'd have power for days and days -- but, you'd also need to lug around a high-pressure tank to store the stuff. That's no fun, and that's why we're still using Li-ion batteries and the like. But, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory look to have found a way to possibly ditch the tank, creating a gas-barrier polymer matrix out of polymethyl methacrylate, allowing the H2 gas in but keeping oxygen and everything else out. That matrix contains magnesium nanocrystals that react with the hydrogen to form MgH2, enabling safe, (relatively) low-pressure storage. The H2 can then be released...

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A Solid Media Dekstop With Touch Screen

The Dell Inspiron One 2305 (Blue-ray) is an all-in-one dekstop PC with a touchscreen, blue-ray, and solid performance. Its 23-inch wide secreen (with 1,920-by-1,080 resolution) and terabyte of hard-drive space make it a good choice for those with lots of multimedia files. Its touch interface is essentially a dock bar that sits on the Windows 7 dekstop; you can use it to launch touch apps from there. It's enjoyable to use, but not as smoothly integrated into the whole computing experiences as the touch interface on HP touchSmart 310. With its powerful components, including a 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon II X4610e processor, the Inspiron One (Blue-ray)...

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The Sophisticated Watch with the Great Features

Are you a fashion lover? For those of you who like to follow fashion trends with high-tech accessories, you should consider using the Slyde HD3.  If you ever wondered when you'd get a super watch, it is here. Dvice.com reports that the Slyde HD3, designed by Jorg Hysek Jr, has a touchscreen display with swappable digital watch dials. It has an LED screen, a sapphire crystal cover, water-resistant titanium body (up to 30 m) and a battery indicator on the side of the watch head. The style HD3 also has a calendar and photo viewer. The Slyde DH3 are equipped with features that allow you to access Internet via the docking station easily....

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New Wheels for off-Planet Rides

Future robotic missions to the moon could require heavy vehicles that can range over thousands of miles of extraterrestrial landscapes--demands that would overhelm the wire-mesh wheels used on Apollo-era buggies, none of which traveled more than 22 miles. NASA and Goodyear Tire recently teamed up to develop a tire made of 800 independent springs, any of which can fail without compromising the rest of the tire. Engineers tested the design on NASA's Lunar Electric Rover over rocky terrain at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Gooyear hopes the though, airless tires generate interest from fire departments, mine owners and other operators of indispensable...

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The Upcoming Verizon Wireless: iPhone 5 Coming July 2011

The iPhone 5 built for 4G is COMING!!! Lots of speculation is going around on the new iPhone 5... in HD!! Verizon Wireless is currently testing a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 and 5 and Verizon confirms they are making network changes to bring the iphone to their network. The new iPhone 5 is going to be loaded with awesome new features like video chat on 3g and 4g (no longer restricted to WiFi only), face recognition and extreme downloading. (List of possible features below). Just when you think there is nothing else to come up with, more and more and more technology comes out. And it is on the rise, and not just at Apple, Inc! This iPhone...

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The Best Free iPad Applications by Category

There are thousands of free iPad apps to help you work, play, communicate, or get informed. In compiling this list of the best free iPad apps, we focused on the ones that aren't just larger versions of iPhone apps, but deliver unique and compelling tablet-based experiences all their own. And to make finding apps even easier, we've broken them down by category: social networking, business, communication, entertainment, creativity, and news and information. So, where to start? Here are our top picks. 1. Top of Social Networking     AIM for iPadAIM for iPad has a few social networking issues--namely, you can't retweet or direct...

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A Complete Printer: Tablet and Ebook Reader

The HP PhotoSmart eStation is a multifunction printer (MFP) with one unusual feature: Its 7-inch touch screen, called the Zeen, can be undocked from the printer and doubles as a basic tablet and ebook reader. The eStation can print, copy, scan, and fax, as well as can to email. It has a 125-sheet main paper tray and a 20-sheet photo tray and includes an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. It can be used with either a USB or Wi-Fi connection. Unfortunately it has no port for a USB key, and its card reader is SD only. As a tablet, the eStation Zeen is primitive compared with the Apple iPad, The Samsung Galaxy Tab,...

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A Stylish, Very Smart Headset

 Aliph Jawbone Era: $129 Direct Pross: Good looking, excellent sound quality, especially  for A2DP, can run applications Couns: Sound quality can be just a touch muddy  The Era is the start of something new and exciting. It's the first Bluetooth headset with an accelerometer and a dedicated application processor, which  could turn it into anything from a game controller to a pedometer to a navigation unit.  Like all Aliph products, the Jawbone Era is a sharp-looking headset. It's slimmer and slightly longer than the most recent Jawbone Icon, and comes in four, low-key collors: black, white, brown,...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab's WiFi-only Version rumored to cost $399, arrive on April 4th

Shocking as it might be, we still haven't had a Galaxy Tab from Samsung that rocks nothing but the WiFis, though that seems about to finally change. The 3G-deprived 7-inch Tab, promised for Q1 2011, has slipped on its schedule a little and looks set to now hit retail in the first week of April, at the admittedly appealing price of $399. Now, we all know the tablet market of April 2011 is shaping up to be extremely rich on machines with high specs, large screens and inflated opinions of themselves, but there could still be a fine little niche for an affordable, well built slate, even if it does only run on Froyo.  Source: droid-l...

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Panasonic shows off solar-powered wireless charging table

Why settle for a simple solar-powered table when you can have a table that's solar-powered and a wireless charger? While you can't get one just yet, Panasonic will apparently be selling this stylish bit of tech-laden furniture by the end of this year or early next year (in Japan, at least), which will let you charge your Qi-compliant devices simply by placing them on the table. It'll also be supplying the requisite battery packs for some of its phones at the same time, though there's few other specifics to be had at the moment. Of course, even if it does actually hit the market it'll still no doubt be out or reach for most--there is always the...

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