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Ford EcoSport bows at the Delhi Auto Expo

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:35 PM PST

Ford EcoSport bows at the Delhi Auto Expo


Ford EcoSport bows at the Delhi Auto Expo
Filed under: MPG, Ford, India Ford has officially unveiled the EcoSport ahead of the Delhi Auto Expo. The vehicle wears a CUV version of the company's Kinetic design language with a large octagonal grille and discreet headlights. Despite its concept looks, Ford says the vehicle could be in production in as little as six months. Under the hood, the EcoSport boasts the smallest Ecoboost engine ever created....

MSI launches Big Bang-XPower II motherboard for militant overclockers

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:35 PM PST

MSI launches Big Bang-XPower II motherboard for militant overclockers


MSI launches Big Bang-XPower II motherboard for militant overclockers
Motherboards sporting Intel's X79 chipset are finally starting to make a decent dent in the marketplace and, after showing off a pair of options at IDF, MSI is back with a model for the serious builders out there. The Big Bang-XPower II comes packing the features you'd expect of any gamer-friendly MoBo, including four-way SLI and CrossFire support, PCIe 3.0, eight DDR3 slots and plenty of extra power connectors for hooking...

Adobe's Todd Teresi to lead Apple's iAd unit, fully purge himself of Flash reliance

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:35 PM PST

Adobe's Todd Teresi to lead Apple's iAd unit, fully purge himself of Flash reliance


Adobe's Todd Teresi to lead Apple's iAd unit, fully purge himself of Flash reliance
It had to happen at some point, right? Adobe and Apple -- two names in a similar field -- would inevitably end up hiring someone that worked at the other firm in a past life, and unsurprisingly, the world is up in arms about an acquisition that would go unreported if not for the past drama between the two outfits....

Must See HDTV (January 4th - 8th)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:35 PM PST

Must See HDTV (January 4th - 8th)


Must See HDTV (January 4th - 8th)
While we're disappointed about some of the instant-classic bowl games we missed including in the listings during our extended New Year's break, we figure also skipping over on the premieres of Work It and The Biggest Loser evens things out. Check below for the highlights remaining this week, followed after the break by our weekly listings of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames. Portlandia If you're looking for a...

Internet Explorer 6 usage in the US dips below one percent, Microsoft celebrates...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:47 PM PST

Internet Explorer 6 usage in the US dips below one percent, Microsoft celebrates with a t-shirt


Internet Explorer 6 usage in the US dips below one percent, Microsoft celebrates with a t-shirt
It looks like the web browser that wouldn't die is finally on its last legs. While it's not quite dead yet (especially when you consider the worldwide usage figures), use of Internet Explorer 6 in the United States has now officially dropped below one percent for the first time, which is apparently good enough for Microsoft to do a bit of celebrating....

Soundmatters foxLo subwoofer adds umph to your FoxL v2 Bluetooth speaker, 'fits...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:47 PM PST

Soundmatters foxLo subwoofer adds umph to your FoxL v2 Bluetooth speaker, 'fits in your palm'


Soundmatters foxLo subwoofer adds umph to your FoxL v2 Bluetooth speaker, 'fits in your palm'
Soundmatters may not be the first company to ever introduce a subwoofer with a small footprint, but at this year's CES, its new foxLo is taking the claim of being the "world's first palm-sized" on. The 25-watt unit can hook into the subwoofer output of foxL V2 Bluetooth speakers or any other devices with 3.5mm outputs, thanks to its "full pass audio out" jack....

This Is Why You Buy a Ford Boss 302

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:47 PM PST

This Is Why You Buy a Ford Boss 302


This Is Why You Buy a Ford Boss 302
440 hp? Check. Great chassis? Check. Cool box in the mail? Score.

Lincoln Expands Presence at Detroit

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:47 PM PST

Lincoln Expands Presence at Detroit


Lincoln Expands Presence at Detroit
Ford luxury brand will debut MKZ on an art-filled display stand.

Chevy Volt has best month ever, but Nissan Leaf still wins 2011 plug-in sales co...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:58 PM PST

Chevy Volt has best month ever, but Nissan Leaf still wins 2011 plug-in sales contest


Chevy Volt has best month ever, but Nissan Leaf still wins 2011 plug-in sales contest
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, Nissan And the numbers are in. For December, the Chevrolet Volt sold 1,529. units, putting the plug-in car's 2011 total at 7,671. While that overall number fell well short of the announced target of 10,000-12,000, December 2011 was the Volt's best sales month ever and the positive trend positions the car in a good place going into 2012. The other mainstream plug-in vehicle that was available all year,...

SugarSync updates Android and iOS apps, brings auto sync technology to videos

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:58 PM PST

SugarSync updates Android and iOS apps, brings auto sync technology to videos


SugarSync updates Android and iOS apps, brings auto sync technology to videos
If you're jonesing to get your photos and movies from your smartphone back to the home computer without futzing around with cables, the folks at SugarSync have a new spoonful of sweetness for Android and iOS devices -- and with its free price, it should be easy to swallow. In the latest version, the company has applied its AutoSync technology to videos, which means that all media files can now be...

Westinghouse 2012 CES HDTV lineup unveiled, plenty of LCDs for all

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:58 PM PST

Westinghouse 2012 CES HDTV lineup unveiled, plenty of LCDs for all


Westinghouse 2012 CES HDTV lineup unveiled, plenty of LCDs for all
After teasing its CES HDTV lineup a few days ago Westinghouse has revealed the full line of TVs it will be showing off. As promised, it's packing a few LED lit models including the 70-inch UW70 and 55-inch EW55 models, packing standard 1080p, 120Hz refresh rate spec sheets. Also new for the show is its first slim-bezel HDTV model, the 46-inch UW46 series seen above that makes sure there's very little...

Microsoft, OEMs Pledging $200 Million For Windows Phone Marketing Push

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:10 PM PST

Microsoft, OEMs Pledging $200 Million For Windows Phone Marketing Push


Microsoft, OEMs Pledging $200 Million For Windows Phone Marketing Push
If you're not a Windows fan, then these next few months may not be too pleasant for you. WinSupersite's Paul Thurrott reports that Microsoft and OEM friends like Nokia and Samsung will be spending around $200 million in order give Windows Phone a big U.S. marketing push in early 2012. It's quite a handsome sum, but the platform is in dire need of a shot in the arm....

The Kodak Moment it never wanted: company reportedly prepping for Chapter 11 filing

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:10 PM PST

The Kodak Moment it never wanted: company reportedly prepping for Chapter 11 filing


The Kodak Moment it never wanted: company reportedly prepping for Chapter 11 filing
Tough to smile in times like these, folks. Barely three years after yet another staple in the photography business filed for Chapter 11, Kodak is reportedly getting its paperwork in order to do the same. The Wall Street Journal has it that bankruptcy protection is looking all the more likely in the coming weeks, as its efforts to hawk a "trove" of digital patents proved to be in vain....

Comcast, Disney TV deal opens up access on multiple screens, tightens VOD strings

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:10 PM PST

Comcast, Disney TV deal opens up access on multiple screens, tightens VOD strings


Comcast, Disney TV deal opens up access on multiple screens, tightens VOD strings
A renewal of the carriage agreement between Disney and Comcast has extended the cable company's "TV Everywhere" model, allowing it to offer customers access to "70 services" including all the ABC, Disney and ESPN channels you can name on their TVs, computers and mobile devices. Comcast's blog post notes this access extends both in and outside of the home, a major sticking point for most of the live TV streaming apps...

Spotify CEO shows off iPhone voice integration hack, love for Siri, Coldplay

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:10 PM PST

Spotify CEO shows off iPhone voice integration hack, love for Siri, Coldplay


Spotify CEO shows off iPhone voice integration hack, love for Siri, Coldplay
Voice integration for the iPhone? Spotify's working on it. The streaming service's CEO Daniel Ek showed off a little "hack" his company has been working on, while proclaiming his passion for the 4S's sassy assistant Siri, telling his handset to serve up some Coldplay. The phone, naturally, obliged. No word yet on whether such a feature might work for groups not directly tied to Gwyneth Paltrow.Spotify CEO shows off iPhone voice...

Mercedes-Benz developing E Superlight as its new carbon fiber halo sedan

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:21 AM PST

Mercedes-Benz developing E Superlight as its new carbon fiber halo sedan


Mercedes-Benz developing E Superlight as its new carbon fiber halo sedan
Filed under: Hydrogen, Mercedes Benz, Lightweight Automakers need halo cars. They bring people into the showroom and demonstrate just what their engineers can do. Typically those range-topping vehicles come in the form of sports cars - think Audi R8, Dodge Viper, Lexus LFA et al - but Mercedes-Benz is reportedly taking another direction....

IRL: Logitech Y-R0026 Bluetooth keyboard, Apple MacBook and a Virgin America fli...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:21 AM PST

IRL: Logitech Y-R0026 Bluetooth keyboard, Apple MacBook and a Virgin America flight with the Series 5 Chromebook


IRL: Logitech Y-R0026 Bluetooth keyboard, Apple MacBook and a Virgin America flight with the Series 5 Chromebook
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. In this, the last IRL until after we get back from CES, we've got a tale from Brian, who spent his Virgin America flight home to the west coast playing with his first Chromebook....

Insync: Wave 'Bye, Bye, Bye' to Dropbox

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:21 AM PST

Insync: Wave 'Bye, Bye, Bye' to Dropbox


Insync: Wave 'Bye, Bye, Bye' to Dropbox
There's another cloud based storage service planning to knock DropBox from its perch, only this one's also got the benefit of an amusing name. Insync offers all the same online-file management and sharing facilities that you'll be familiar with, but the company's tooled up for a price war. It's using Google storage as a backbone, charging only $0.25 per GB/year rather than DropBox's $2.00 -- with the hope that people follow...

eBay Find of the Day: Fisker Karma for just $100*

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:31 AM PST

eBay Find of the Day: Fisker Karma for just $100*


eBay Find of the Day: Fisker Karma for just $100*
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Fisker Want a super-sleek plug-in hybrid 2 1/2 ton subcompact sports sedan capable of going 0-60 in under six seconds while still managing at least 32 miles on pure electrons... before it starts slurping up gasoline at 20 mpg? Of course you do. Want to pay $95,000 for the base model?...

Silk ported from Kindle Fire to rooted Android devices, other web browsers now j...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:31 AM PST

Silk ported from Kindle Fire to rooted Android devices, other web browsers now jealous


Silk ported from Kindle Fire to rooted Android devices, other web browsers now jealous
Give it time and eventually someone will port your favorite browser to everything, even your toaster, if you're lucky. A group of developers on the XDA-forums has begun sharing how to port the Silk web browser found on the Amazon Kindle Fire to various Android devices. To accomplish this, you'll need a rooted Android device, whereupon you can download a package file and install it to the /system/lib directory with permissions...

Quanta sues AMD, claims it sold defective products

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:31 AM PST

Quanta sues AMD, claims it sold defective products


Quanta sues AMD, claims it sold defective products
Yikes. Quanta -- also known as the planet's largest contract maker of laptops -- has just slapped a nasty lawsuit on the world's second-largest chipmaker. According to Bloomberg, Quanta is alleging that AMD and ATI sold chips that "didn't meet heat tolerances and were unfit for particular purposes." Those chips were then used in NEC-labeled machines, and caused them to "malfunction" in some regard....

Android Market’s “Featured Apps” Seeing Explosive Download Numbers

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:42 AM PST

Android Market's "Featured Apps" Seeing Explosive Download Numbers


Android Market's "Featured Apps" Seeing Explosive Download Numbers
Getting featured in the Android Market is starting to have a meaningful impact for mobile app developers. According to the recent news from fitness app maker RunKeeper, the company saw a 637% increase in downloads since November after just a few days of being a featured app in the Android Market "Health & Fitness" section. But is RunKeeper seeing the boost because of the New Year's resolution-making crowd?...

More photos of hybrid Lexus LF-LC Concept hit the web

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:42 AM PST

More photos of hybrid Lexus LF-LC Concept hit the web


More photos of hybrid Lexus LF-LC Concept hit the web
Filed under: Hybrid, Lexus, Detroit Auto Show Thanks to our friends over at Road & Track jumping the embargo gun, we received our first sneak peak of the Lexus LF-LC Concept. Now the rest of the story has been published, with R&T taking a thorough look at how Toyota's California-based Calty Design Research facility came up with the look of the racy hybrid 2+2 coupe. "Only a few written attributes were given as...

Samsung Series 7 Chronos review

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:42 AM PST

Samsung Series 7 Chronos review


Samsung Series 7 Chronos review
Thin and light may be the name of the game for many when it comes to mobile computing, but there's still plenty of folks who need a full-featured portable machine. Samsung's Series 7 Chronos is just such a PC, packing an optical drive, numpad and discrete graphics beneath a brushed aluminum façade....

Is This the New World's Cheapest Car?

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:42 AM PST

Is This the New World's Cheapest Car?


Is This the New World's Cheapest Car?
The Tata Nano may soon be considered a luxury.

Best Box Mixes

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:42 AM PST

Best Box Mixes


Best Box Mixes
We pulled together a roundup up some of our favorite box mixes to help get you through winter's doldrums. They're fast, easy and most of the times very reasonably priced. 

The Tiny Ford Crossover You Can't Buy in the U.S.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:42 AM PST

The Tiny Ford Crossover You Can't Buy in the U.S.


The Tiny Ford Crossover You Can't Buy in the U.S.
Small family car for emerging markets.

Building a Backyard Ice Skating Rink

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:42 AM PST

Building a Backyard Ice Skating Rink


Building a Backyard Ice Skating Rink
A backyard skating rink instantly brings back the magic of outdoor ice skating-and it's a great way to get the kids out of the house.

AT&T’s Pantech Element LTE Tablet Leaked, Arriving January 8

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:52 AM PST

AT&T's Pantech Element LTE Tablet Leaked, Arriving January 8


AT&T's Pantech Element LTE Tablet Leaked, Arriving January 8
AT&T is slowly and steadily building up their portfolio of LTE-capable devices, and it looks like yet another has just broken cover. Due to be officially unveiled on January 8, the Pantech Element is AT&T's newest LTE tablet, and is the first in AT&T's lineup not to cost an absurd amount of money with a contract. According to BGR, Pantech's Honeycomb-powered tablet features an 8-inch display, a dual-core 1.5GHz processor of unknown...

Nokia: 'No solar cellphones from us'

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:52 AM PST

Nokia: 'No solar cellphones from us'


Nokia: 'No solar cellphones from us'
Nokia's finished its research project to see if it's worth jamming solar panels onto cellphones. A customized C1-02 (with a panel for a back cover) was tested in the Arctic circle, Sweden, Kenya and on the Baltic Sea. Due to the small size of the average device, however, the prototypes couldn't collect enough energy to properly recharge the battery in most scenarios....