In the ever-escalating and bloodthirsty fight between Apple and Samsung, it would seem that almost daily a new lawsuit or patent claim is filed - and today is no exception. News fresh in from Bloomberg states that Apple, still bruised from having it's "Appstore" patent rejected, have filed a new trade complaint in the United States seeking to block imports of Samsung's Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab devices. This ...

Samsung have confirmed via press release that it's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet will be reaching UK retailers on August 4th. This date applies for both WiFi and 3G models which are expected to land in "a range" of stores, with actual launch partners being revealed closer to the date. The Tab 10.1 brings a 10.1-inch WXGA screen, dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, 3MP rear and 2MP front-facing cameras, 1080p recordi ...

Huawei today announced their 7-inch MediaPad tablet, and it's packing some pretty impressive specs. Sitting at the small end of the spectrum for tablets, alongside the Galaxy Tab and Blackberry Playbook, what the MediaPad lacks in size it makes up for in it's internals. First off the bat is the announcement that this will be the world's first Android Honeycomb 3.2 device, however, there are no differences t ...

Another day, another company experiencing a data security breach. Sega, and more specifically it's online web portal Sega Pass, has been the latest victim in the recent wave of hacking crises, seeing 1.29 million of it's users being affected in Thursday's breach. The extent of the damage is, well, extensive. User names, real names, birth dates, passwords, email addresses, and most everything except credit a ...

Yes, you read that correctly. Sony's much-maligned Xperia X10, the company's first big Android phone, has been confirmed to receive an update to Android Gingerbread (presumably 2.3.3 or 2.3.4) this August. Launched back in early 2010, the X10 had a lot of promise, with it's 4-inch touchscreen, 8.1-megapixel camera, and 1GHz processor putting it at the top of the Android stable for hardware. However, Sony dr ...

Sony has once again been caught out in the security stakes, with it's Sony Pictures website having been apparently hacked by group LulzSec (Lulz Security). Apparently the groups has illegally obtained "1,000,000 users' personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts" and has posted this information on it's we ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvaDtshLY8&hd=1 Just as dual-core processors are becoming the norm in the smartphone and tablet worlds, NVIDIA has taken it upon itself to already render them obsolete. It's released a video through its Youtube channel demonstrating the incredible power of it's new quad-core Tegra processor (codenamed Kal-El), teamed with a twelve-core GPU. Created in-house, it's Glow Bal ...

http://www.viddler.com/explore/sceablog/videos/1842/ With the renown E3 happening next week, details are leaking thick and fast on Sony's upcoming announcements. First comes from their own Playstation Blog in a series of preview videos demoing the gaming chops of the PSP successor, the NGP. With a quad-core CPU and quad-core GPU, the NGP is expected to blow all other handhelds out of the water, helped by it ...

The Samsung Galaxy S II carries a lot of expectations on its slender shoulders. The world’s fastest and slimmest dual-core handset has to follow the trailblazing path laid by it’s predecessor, the Galaxy S, a phone that has managed to sell 10 million units, and who’s specs still hold up well today (1GHz processor, 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, 16GB memory, Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread). The Galaxy S II needs to ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZML1LzClT4&hd=1 In a VIP Press event today, Microsoft unveiled just a few of the 500 new additions to the Windows Phone 7 OS. The update, codenamed "Mango", has the overarching goal to "make the smartphone smarter and easier", with the main focus on communication with contacts, software and apps, and the internet experience. Full information after the break. Sources: Wind ...

Microsoft set out some pretty rigid chassis specs for it's Windows Phone devices, in an effort to ensure standardization and to make it easier for developers to create apps that would work on every handset. The only problem was that what was considered to be at the top end of the market in 2010 - 1GHz Snapdragon, 5MP camera, 256MB RAM - is now distinctly average in a world of dual-core processors, 12MP came ...

Augmented Reality. It's never really taken off, in the way we'd all have liked it to. Promises of interactive objects coming to life via a camera never really bore the fruit that the promises carried, but Sony has taken it upon themselves to prove that AR can be smooth, intuitive, and downright awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCEp7udJ2n4&hd=1 For more information, follow the break. Source: Techr ...

Leaked details on HTC's rumoured 10.1-inch Tablet have dropped, courtesy of renown HTC Rom leaker, 911sniper. From what he has discovered, HTC's sibling to it's recently released Flyer tablet looks set to land with a 10.1-inch 1280x800 WXGA display (much like every other Honeycomb slate so far released), a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, built-in LTE support for US carrier AT&T, support for HTC's ' ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tHl6O5Sp8w&hd=1 Sony has announced firmware version 3.61 is available to download now for your Playstation 3. The update prepares machines for the reactivation of PSN services, and will prompt users to change their password upon logging in. They have also stated that a "phased restoration" has begun of Playstation Network services, and is being rolled out region-by-region ...

In a press statement issued today, Microsoft have announced a definitive agreement with Skype to buy the renowned voice- and video-call company. In a deal valued at a staggering $8.5 billion in cash (or, more than the domestic output of the island of Madagascar), Skype will join Microsoft's growing portfolio of products, and benefit from the software giant's global scale and funding. Microsoft plan to proli ...