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Boeing: We zapped a UAV with a laser

Jonathan Skillings — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:13:00 +0000

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

The motorcycle that thinks it’s a stealth bomber

Jonathan Skillings — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:39:00 +0000

(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 "...

Report: Telstra eyes new HTC Android phone

Jonathan Skillings — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:47:00 +0000

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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New limo awaits Obama

Jonathan Skillings — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:17:00 +0000

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 ...

New Year’s hangover for Zune users

Jonathan Skillings — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:28:10 +0000

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

Another rumored ‘iPhone Nano’ photo

Jonathan Skillings — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:13:29 +0000

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?

(Credit: MacRumors.com)

The latest to surface -- or resurface -- involves a purported concept photo of what's said to be an "iPhone Nano," ...

Report: Garmin eyes Android phones for 2009

Jonathan Skillings — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:54:13 +0000

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 ...

Dell’s superthin Adamo – due in February?

Jonathan Skillings — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:22:00 +0000

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 ...

‘SimCity’ arrives on the iPhone

Jonathan Skillings — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:10:00 +0000

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 ...

Report: Android phone on tap for China

Jonathan Skillings — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:38:00 +0000

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"

(Credit: ModmyGphone)

The site ModmyGphone is showing off a ...