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  • News: CES: iLuv Vibro II iPhone dock shakes you awake

    iLuv is hoping to 'shake up' the iPhone dock market, using CES 2012 to show off its with its new Vibro II alarm system.

  • News: For $1000, a chance for tech glory in Vegas

    "When you've got a lot of angry zombies coming at you, you really don't want to have to look away from the screen..."

  • News: 5 Useful Laptop Accessories Spotted at CES 2012

    CES isn’t just a parade of giant TVs, razor-thin laptops, or variations of tablets. Accessories for your laptop and other useful peripherals are also making their debut at the electronics show. Here are a few of the most interesting yet useful ones you may be able to get your hands on soon.

  • News: CES: hands on with Ubuntu TV

    Canonical is showing here at CES Ubuntu TV: a version of its Linux OS aimed at televisions (as the sharper among you may have spotted from the name). Ubuntu TV is still in beta – a spokesman told us it was really ‘more of an alpha’ – but it could be available on retail products within the next 12 months.

  • News: Forget quad-core tablets; here's a quad-core smartphone

    While some tablet makers are talking up the benefits of quad-core processors in their devices, Fujitsu has put a quad-core chip in a smartphone -- at least for a prototype version on display at CES.

  • News: Nvidia shows quad-core tablet prototype running Windows 8

    Nvidia showed tablets using its Tegra 3 quad-core processors at CES, including a developer prototype that was running Windows 8.

  • News: iOS accessories on display at CES

    The International Consumer Electronics Show is a veritable electronics smorgasbord, full-to-brimming with televisions, tablets, telephones, and cameras. The iOS accessories market is no different, getting its very own dedicated pavilion at CES. Here are some of the standout products we’ve seen in both the iLounge Pavilion and the rest of the show floor throughout our CES travels.

  • HP Spectre Ultrabook makes grand CES debut

    Ultrabooks were popular at CES, but HP was the only manufacturer to launch a seethrough model. The glass-clad ultraportable has a 14in display, besting the 13in screens of most other Ultrabooks we’ve seen so far. It has sports NFC technology, USB 3.0 and SSD storage

  • News: At CES, Microsoft sets stage for lower Windows revenue

    Microsoft executives this week hinted at lowered expectations for Windows revenues in the fourth quarter of 2011, citing data from research firms that point to a stall in PC shipments at the end of 2011.

  • Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook lures business gadgeteers

    Dell has taken the wraps off its first Ultrabook, the 6mm thin Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook. it has a 13in screen, runs off Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3, i5 or i7 processors and should be onsale as soon as February

  • Blue Microphones Unveils 3 New Mics

    Looking to upgrade the audio on your Skype calls, video conferences, or iOS music recordings? At CES, Blue Microphones is showing three new microphones for people who don't want to settle for mediocre notebook or cellphone audio capture.

  • News: Hands on with Atom-based phones at CES

    Lenovo's K800 smartphone running the Intel Atom processor was put on display at the International Consumer Electronics Show next to a reference design smartphone that could be used by Motorola and other smartphone makers.

  • Video: Video: CES 2012: The reasons people scout CES

    There’s a wide range of experience among the attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show but all of these various color-coded ID’s made IDG News wonder: Just who is it that comes to the show?

  • Video: Video: CES 2012: Justin Bieber unveils a dancing robot

    The MRobo is designed as a speaker that can also dance to music uploaded from a USB. But the company proved to be not quite ready for prime-time for its announcement, with at least three microphone failures, and one screen failure that Justin was supposed to turn on, to start a video of the dancing robot.

  • Video: Video: CES 2012: Ultrabooks could succeed if the price is right

    Super thin and light, but with powerful processors, the computer industry hopes that Ultrabooks will help consumers pour money back into a market that has been severely damaged by tablets.

  • Video: Video: CES 2012: Thunderbolt hard drive zapped with 1,000,000 volts

    Showing off how rugged its hard drives are ioSafe followed up last year's hard drive shootout with an electrocution.

  • News: Hands-on at CES: Droid Razr Maxx sports big battery

    The new Droid Razr Maxx unveiled by Motorola during CES has a stunningly large battery that's nearly twice as powerful as others on the market.

  • Video: Video: CES 2012: HzO waterproofs phones' electronics

    Rather than create a waterproof case, HzO opens up the devcies and waterproofs the internal components. The device can even fill up with water and continue to work.

  • News: Ford Wants Vehicles to Monitor Your Health

    Ford Motors has announced a collaboration with Microsoft, Healthrageous and BlueMetal Architects to bring health monitoring into cars, an effort that signals the company’s intent to move away from the in-vehicle "infotainment" systems some auto makers announced at CES.

  • News: Microsoft the Sleeper Hit Of CES 2012?

    Microsoft's final Consumer Electronics Show keynote on Tuesday was criticized for not delivering much in the way of interesting news, but the software giant just might be the sleeper hit of CES. Alongside big trends at this year's show such as Smart TVs, new display technologies, apps, and Ultrabooks, new handsets from HTC and Nokia running Microsoft's Windows Phone software are impressing the crowds at CES.