Nokia today partly sided with and partly disagreed with Apple’s antenna explanations at its media event today. In a statement, it acknowledged that a tight grip could affect the signal strength of most cellphones today, including its own, but repeated its stance that the freedom to hold the phone [...]

This interactive map, zoomed in on the U.S., shows locations of smart-meter deployments around the world. Red icons show electricity, green shows gas, blue is water, triangles are trials, and circles are projects. (Credit: Energy Retail Association) In a rush to take advantage of U.S. stimulus money, utilities are quickly deploying thousands of smart meters [...]

The Amazon Kindle is by far the most recognized e-book reader, but not the one most people are hoping to buy in the near future, a study from PriceGrabber suggests. The comparison shopping website notes that between February 8th and the 25th, it conducted an online survey with 1,631 [...]

Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. By Neil Hughes Published: 03:40 PM EST The LCD screen on the iPhone 3GS is far from perfect, but it’s also significantly better than the much-touted AM-OLED display on the Google Nexus One, a scientific comparison [...]

Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. IDC as part of a wave of mobile market share updates has again given the crown to the BlackBerry Curve as the top selling smartphone in the US. Despite the [...]

Roll over Apple ipad, the big dog is in town! Lenovo’s amazing Tablet/PC Hybrid brings a tablet and a PC together in an amazingly elegant way. It’s a tablet. It’s a notebook computer. This amazing technology marvel from Lenovo – shown at CES 2010 for the first time — combines an Apple-killing tablet with an [...]