Those outdated billboards in Google Street View are not just outdated, but they’re an opportunity for Google, who has filed a patent entitled “Claiming Real Estate in Panoramic or 3D Mapping Environments for Advertising,”. The patent should allow them to cut out billboards shown in Street View and replace them with their own current ads. [...]

The creative minds at Ion have recently announced a new product named ‘iType’. The product holds your iPhone firmly in place, and converts it into a mini workstation of sorts. Note the full QWERTY keyboard in all its glory. The idea here is to give iPhone users a full QWERTY keyboard to punch out notes, [...]

The UL30Vt-X1 by ASUS was universally recognized as the best choice of laptop from those that feature Intel’s CULV technology. It features a Core 2 Duo processor and a switchable GPU. Consumers expressed disappointment by two aspects of the device though – the lack of color options, and the very short battery life, compared to [...]

Are you looking for some extra screen real estate on your laptop? Instead of upgrading to a larger laptop, why not just park another screen next to the one you already use? The Cinq is a 10-inch USB monitor that you can hang on the side of your screen, giving you some extra space. It’s [...]

Close on the heels of giving us an update on using AMD chips in its X100 e and Edge series ThinkPads, Lenovo has revealed an update on a handful of new devices that would use Intel’s new mobile Core i5 and the four-core i7 processors. Set for debut on January 7, the prices are expected [...]

As we told you yesterday, Google took a stand against the Chinese government by refusing to censor their search results. Well, it looks like some citizens are already in mourning.Chinese citizens have been placing flowers on the Google logo as if it were a gravestone. And it just may be if the Chinese government decides [...]

We’ve all played with and love (or hate) multitouch, and multitouch support probably one of the first things people ask when faced with touchscreen devices nowadays. So far multitouch has mostly been confined to mobile phones and similar gadgets (aside from a few notebooks here and there), but could it become an integral part of [...]

According to a recent study conducted by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), there are only about 2 million users in the country actively (at least once a month) accessing Internet through their mobile phones and other mobile devices. The association goes on suggesting that about 27% of all mobile phones — which [...]

Guru’board introduces the Miniguru mechanical keyboard that is designed to keep you fingers always on the home row, which means the index fingers resting on the F and J keys. The keyboard is customizable and buyers can configure their own keyboard including selecting the mechanical keyboard switches, clicky, tactile or linear, they prefer. Users can [...]

If you have an iPhone, it probably goes with you everywhere. But how many places do you take a cable to charge it? Since the iPhone is notorious for having less than spectacular battery life, it’s generally good to have a way to get extra juice to it when needed. Scosche was showing off their [...]