Congrats to Ken W. of Tallahassee, Fla., for winning a Sonic Alert Sonic-connect 2 in last week's giveaway, and to Maher K. of Maple Grove, Minn., for winning a Grace Digital Ecoxbt Bluetooth speaker the week before that. This week's prize is for the HTC One owners out there. HTC's new flagship smartphone has generated lots of buzz with its all-metal design and revamped, love-it-or-hate-it Sense user interface. CNET reviewer...
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Ninja Ultima Blender BL810
My knowledge of actual ninjas is limited to obscure pop-culture references, but I generally think of them as being two things: quiet and lethal. The Ninja Ultima BL800 blender is hardly quiet, but as far as the other, if "lethal" means "ridiculously effective" in blender-speak, the Ninja is aptly named. It was a consistent top performer and kept pace with its more expensive competitors like the Vitamix 7500 and Blendtec Designer...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Apple iPad Air
!-- Thinner, lighter, faster, better (Credit: CNET) --> It’s been a long time since Apple delivered unto us a proper redesign of the iPad. The original, boxy, first-gen tablet lived for about 11 months, replaced in 2011 by a far slinkier version. The tapered design language survived, more or less unchanged, for a further...
Temple Run: Oz (iOS)
Temple Run Oz (iOS | Android) is another movie-themed version of the mega-popular running game, but just like Temple Run Brave, the developers managed to add enough original content to make it worth your money. In Temple Run Oz, you play as Oz while attempting to outrun the evil flying baboons from "Oz the Great and Powerful." Like Temple Run 2, you'll need to swipe to jump, turn, and slide under obstacles and you can tilt to...
Monday, October 28, 2013
Classics Corner: Citroen AX GT
Choosing the first car to feature on this dusty and shadowy part of XCAR was always going to be a challenge. With the preamble out of the way, which car would get the ultimate accolade of coming first? It could have been a super-luxurious German barge. Or a sleek Japanese sports car loaded with techno wizardry. It could even have been an Italian supercar. Actually, no it wouldn't, as that's way off brief. But instead, common...
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Qualcomm: Microsoft's Surface 2 can't compare to Nokia's Windows tablet
The Nokia Lumia 2520 runs Windows RT and uses a Qualcomm processor. (Credit: Andrew Hoyle/CNET) Nokia's new Windows RT tablet turns the Finnish handset maker into Microsoft's rival, but at least one Nokia partner says there's really no competition. Nokia earlier this week unveiled the Lumia 2520, the company's first tablet...
DC protestors stand with Snowden to fight surveillance
Saturday's Stop Watching Us rally in the US capital attracted a slew of people concerned by the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs and featured an appearance -- in words anyway -- by Edward Snowden, whose massive leak of agency documents touched off the current debate about national security and civil liberties. "This is about the unconstitutional, unethical, and immoral actions of the modern-day surveillance...
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Billion-dollar babies: Far-out pet projects of the tech elite
If you had as much money as Larry Ellison, you too could hold a gigantic sailing trophy over your head. (Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The amount of wealth concentrated in Silicon Valley and the greater technology industry offers no small amount of conspicuous consumption: owning a fleet of private jets, maintaining...
2014 Acura MDX Advance SH-AWD
As much as we'd like for every car that we review to be as exciting as the Jaguar F-Type that recently graced the Car Tech garage, the reality is that most of the time I'm driving regular sedans and dull SUVs. So, while there was a lot to look forward to with the 2014 Acura MDX's arrival -- it's handsome new design, jewel-like full LED...
Friday, October 25, 2013
Microsoft gives Bing a makeover
Bing's newly redesigned home page. (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is giving its Bing search engine an overhaul to better compete with Google. Like Yahoo earlier this month, Microsoft unveiled a redesigned logo for its search engine, along with a refreshed, modern homepage design. But Microsoft's changes go beyond the cosmetic...
ZTE Nubia 5
Though ZTE has plenty of low- and midrange devices under its belt, the number of high-end handsets that it releases for the US are few and far between. So when the Chinese-based manufacturer launched the impressively souped-up Nubia 5 and made it available to US consumers online and through Amazon, needless to say, I was excited. Compared...
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Get a 60-inch LG plasma HDTV for $699.99
The LG 60PN5300 is a bare-bones 60-inch plasma, but it's also insanely cheap. (Credit: Dell) Christmas shoppers still have two months to find the ultimate family gift, but for those of us who gather 'round the menorah, there's barely a month left. (Chanukah falls really early this year.) If the family's been clamoring for...
Qualcomm adds new high-tech luster to lowly electrical wires
The HomePlug standard is designed to convert homes' electrical wires into a high-speed network that can reach throughout homes better than Wi-Fi. (Credit: HomePlug Alliance) AMSTERDAM -- Electrical wires hardly have the glamor of 4G mobile networks or invisibly small microchip transistors. But Qualcomm hopes a faster new version...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
The perils of being 'the car guy'
Recently I was at a friend's house party. This in itself isn't unusual, but the fact I was having a genuinely good time certainly was. The atmosphere was convivial, the canapes moreish, and the company engaging, but there was more to it than that. For the first time ever, I was recognised by someone I didn't know. "You're the car guy, aren't you?" suddenly exclaimed the female partner of the couple I'd been chatting to....
Get your PC back in shape with AVG PC TuneUp 2014
AVG, one of the most trusted sources for virus and malware protection, has recently released the all-new PC TuneUp 2014 to help you speed up any computer. A comprehensive utility kit, PC TuneUp offers 35 tools to return your PC to tip-top shape in one convenient package. With new features such as Live Optimization and Program Deactivator,...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Future Firefox to deactivate most plug-ins by default
Firefox will ask users whether they want to run browser plug-ins such as Microsoft's Silverlight or Apple's QuickTime. The browser can be set to always permit a particular Web site to run a particular plug-in. (Credit: Mozilla) Mozilla has dealt another blow to the use of plug-ins to extend browser abilities, keeping all but...
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