Back in December, the FCC approved the first white space device and database for the lucky city of Wilmington, North Carolina. Last week, the program bore its first fruits, when database operator Spectrum Bridge finally launched its TV White Space (TVWS) network in Carolina, as part of Wilmington’s ongoing “Smart City” initiative… Tweet This Post

Well, that didn’t take very long. Just four days after launching a beta trial, Time Warner Cable has decided to bring HBO Go and Max Go to its HBO and Cinemax subscribers, fulfilling its promise to launch the services this month… Tweet This Post

Those with a PS3 in the United Kingdom might have gotten a sneak peek at a placeholder, but according to The Guardian, apparently its proper “early 2012″ launch isn’t far off. Purportedly the video streaming service is close to signing rights to content from Sony, Disney and Paramount, which’ll join existing agreements with Lionsgate, Miramax [...]

This time last year we witnessed the Meizu M9 madness in Shenzhen, so we decided to pay our favorite gadget city another visit for the MX launch today (still the 1.4GHz dual-core model, of course). Surprisingly, the lines in Huaqiangbei this time were significantly shorter, but we were told that this was due to tighter [...]

What comes after Honor and Glory? Mercury, apparently. That’s the American moniker of choice for Huawei’s latest smartphone, which has just been launched on Cricket’s network. Powered by a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, this Android-juiced handset boasts a four-inch FWVGA (854 x 480) display, packs 2GB of internal memory and sports an eight megapixel shooter, along [...]

Despite a troubled European economy, and a major attack by hackers in April, Sony has revealed it is still on track to sell 15 million Playstation 3 consoles worldwide, in the financial year to end-March… Tweet This Post

As per Meizu’s usual elusive ways, this morning the company quietly opened its Hong Kong flagship store — the first-ever official Meizu shop outside mainland China. And like its mainland counterparts, we’re told that the new shop will be offering the MX Android handset on January 1st as well but with one significant difference: due [...]

Want to be an Ice Cream Sandwich champ before you even have a Galaxy Nexus in hand? Big Red’s just opened the e-freezer, launching its Samsung Galaxy Nexus support simulator, complete with programed hands-on tutorials for navigating menus, launching apps, taking beautiful food pictures with creamy bokeh and browsing various single-page Verizon sites… Tweet This [...]

Kvetching about your PND’s inability to get a proper lock could soon become a thing of the past, thanks in large part to a fresh breed of GPS satellites designed by the whiz-kids at Lockheed Martin. The program — which is estimated to eventually cost around $5… Tweet This Post

Oh no, it isn’t just about the 5-inch tabletphone today. Announced at the same event in Beijing just now are a couple of larger tablets from Lenovo: the LePad S2007 and the LePad S2010. Interestingly, the latter 10… Tweet This Post

You may recall that last week we had a cheeky peek at Lenovo’s upcoming tabletphone, and now our brethren at Engadget Chinese are actually touching one in Beijing! Dubbed the IdeaTab S2005 aka LePad S2005 in China, this Android 2… Tweet This Post

It’s been described by the scientist in charge as “the most complex mission that has ever been undertaken to the surface of another planet,” and NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is now well on its way to Mars… Tweet This Post