Harman Kardon SB 16 Review

Home speaker systems can be a complicated matter. Even with wireless speakers, surround sound setups usually involve bulky hardware spread across your living room. Harmon Kardon believes it has the answer, though, with the SB 16: a $599.99 soundbar system pairing a meaty subwoofer with a relatively discrete

T-Mobile reports customer growth for Q1 2012, tries not to think about Q4 2011

T-Mobile USA took a bit of a hit back in Q4, following its failed merger with Ma Bell, but things are looking up for the magenta network. It still took a 2.8 percent hit in terms of raw revenues, taking in $5 billion including service and equipment sales, but it’s still proud to report a net growth of

‘Anonymous’ Social Network Anybeat Is Getting Bought And Shut Down. Dmitry Shapiro Going To Google+?

Anybeat, a social network that launched last year as a kind of "anti-Facebook" to meet people you don’t already know, is getting bought by another company and is shutting down. The company posted a message to its users a few hours ago noting that it would be closing up operations in two weeks.

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Evernote Goes East With A Standalone Chinese Service: ‘Yinxiang Biji’

Evernote, the company that makes software to help people take personal notes and archive information about their daily lives, today debuted a new standalone version of its service specifically for the Chinese market called Yinxiang Biji (

Samsung shows off production 55-inch OLED HDTVs at the 2012 World’s Fair

We got an eyeful of Samsung’s stunning 55-inch OLED HDTV prototypes earlier this year at CES, but now Samsung is surprising the world by showing off production versions at the World’s Fair (which is apparently still a thing?) in Korea. Beyond the Smart Interaction voice and gesture control, Smart Content

Comcast Xbox 360 policy questioned by US Senator

Democratic Senator Al Franken is urging the FCC to start an investigation into the platform that allows Comcast subscribers to stream video content from their Xbox 360. Ever since the service went live, people have been questioning its implications on net neutrality. Comcast lets its existing cable subscribers

Fujifilm FinePix XP170 rugged camera pays a visit to the FCC, leaves raincoat behind

It was only a matter of time before Fujifilm’s latest ruggedized shooter, the FinePix XP170, made a quick stop by the FCC offices and, well, it’s about that time. The filings don’t reveal many details we didn’t already know, meaning you’re still getting those WiFi sharing features to Android / iOS and

Toshiba’s 55XS5 brings quad HD without the glasses-free 3D tech to Japan in June

While we’re still waiting for Toshiba to deliver its top of the line 55X3 HDTV with 4K resolution and glasses-free 3D technology here in the US, it just announced a step-down model in Japan. The Regza 55XS5 keeps the 3840 x 2160 LCD panel, but switches to edge LED lighting instead of local dimming and

Sony PS3 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 bundle announced

Even though Call of Duty publisher Activision is in bed with Microsoft and gives the Xbox 360 all kinds of early and exclusive content, Sony has decided to show that it still loves the company, and the call of Duty franchise, and will be offering a special edition version of the PS3 designed specifically

TiVo Premiere XL4 review

With the recent spring TiVo Premiere update we figured it was as good of a time as any to spend some quality time with the newly-renamed TiVo Premiere XL4. The highest model in the TiVo line, the XL4 costs $399 plus $15 a month, or $499 for lifetime service. For the money, it records four HD shows at