WowWee , a company that made its name with innovative robotic toys, will be showing off a new kind of tech toy at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (which starts next Monday, January 9): The AppGear toys will interact with free downloadable apps to combine virtual play with real-world fun.
Citi has launched an app that lets its customers share points with their friends on Facebook if they too are ThankYou Rewards members, allowing groups of people to pool their points toward a shared purchase or goal.
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The next Consumer Electronics Show is almost upon us: Next week, our electronics reporters and testers, including TV expert Jim Willcox, travel to Las Vegas to soak in the newest cutting-edge CE technology.
Along with other electronics categories, digital cameras are evolving to be smaller, lighter, and more feature-rich. And we should see lots of these new cameras at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, which starts January 9.
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Just one day after announcing plans to start charging customers a $2 fee for certain types of monthly payments, Verizon Wireless has killed the plan. After customers took to the Web to voice their opinions about the new fee, Verizon Wireless said it would drop plans for the $2 a month fee to customers who don’t enroll in auto-pay or pay directly from their bank accounts. In a statement, Verizon Wireless said that it had decided it will not institute the fee for online or telephone single payments, and that the decision was in response to customer feedback, “which was designed to improve the efficiency of those transactions.” Earlier today, The New York Times Bits Blog, reported that the Federal Communications Commission had announced that it would look into the nation’s largest cell phone service provider’s plan to charge the $2 fee
In order to free up more bandwidth for data-hungry mobile devices, the Federal Communications Commission will open up the unused frequencies, or white spaces, that exist between television stations. The FCC is calling the project “Spectrum Bridge.” In late January, the television white spaces database system will begin providing service in a designated area as a preliminary test, with national access slated to be made available over the following months. The spectrum to be opened up exists between television channels numbered one through 51.
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Ever since we got our hands on the first production OLED TV—Sony’s 11-inch XEL-1—three years ago we’ve been excited about this new display technology, which combines some of the best elements of both plasma and LCD TVs. The challenge has been making OLED TVs bigger and more affordable
CES 2012: WowWee to debut augmented-reality AppGear toys