Boeing is seeing a glimmer of progress in its work toward fielding laser weapons.
The defense industry giant on Monday said tests of its Laser Avenger system in December marked “the first time a combat vehicle has used a laser to shoot down a UAV,” or unmanned aerial vehicle. In …
Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge
(Credit: Northrop Grumman)Remember how Tom Cruise’s flyboy character in Top Gun seemed as at home riding the roadways on a motorcycle as he was jockeying an F-14 in the air?
Maverick is probably the kind of guy Northrop Grumman had in mind when it came up with the “…
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HTC, the company that made the G1 phone for T-Mobile, reportedly is working on a new Android-based touch-screen phone for Australian carrier Telstra.
The gadget-focused Smarthouse writes Monday it heard that word from a senior Telstra executive at the just-ended Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas:
The Open Handset Alliance
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This limousine carried President Bush on a visit to New Delhi in March 2006.
(Credit: White House photo by Paul Morse )
Meet the new ride, same as the old ride.
Inauguration Day for Barack Obama will also mark the first day of service for a new presidential limousine–a Cadillac, just …
A leap-year issue with Microsoft’s Zune music player is still leaving many users cold, despite the company’s reassurance that all would be well by sometime on New Year’s Day.
Postings on Zune message boards Thursday morning, as people tried out Microsoft’s recommendations and fellow Zune users’ …
Originally posted at News – Microsoft
With Macworld coming up in just two weeks, the parade of Apple-flavored rumors, wishes, and murmurings continues.
Guess which one is the rumored iPhone Nano?
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The latest to surface — or resurface — involves a purported concept photo of what’s said to be an “iPhone Nano,” …
A couple weeks after Garmin signed up as a member of Google’s Open Handset Alliance comes word that the company has plans for an Android phone next year.
(Credit: Open Handset Alliance)Details, however, are scant. Here’s the extent of the report from DigiTimes, citing Tony An, Asia …
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You can never be too thin, the saying goes, and that’s apparently the guiding spirit as Dell contemplates the success of Apple’s MacBook Air.
(Credit: Adamobydell.com)Reports in the last day or so have offered up some tidbits about an “Adamo” laptop purportedly in the works at …
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To the stable of games for the iPhone, you can now add the legendary SimCity.
Electronic Arts’ city-building game, priced at $9.99, is now available for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Users can take advantage of the touch-screen technology to design and construct their vision of an …
Once there was just a single Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. Coming soon, in Australia, is the Kogan Agora. Now reports are pointing to an emerging gadget for China, known for the moment as the “OPhone.”
The Lenovo-badged "OPhone"
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The site ModmyGphone is showing off a …
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