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Join our own Noah Kravitz tonight for a liveblog from San Francisco where we’ll get to know the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook a little better. We’re going to have a liveblog of the event going, as well as a chat room, so if you have any questions during the event you can shout them out

It seems that beginning February 1, not only will you have to wait 56 days after a Warner Brothers movie comes out on DVD to rent it, but you’ll have to wait 28 days to even be able to add it to your queue. To quote Lando Calrissian from The Empire Strikes Back, “This deal

Twitter has announced that it now has the ability to censor messages on its network on a country by country basis. In a post on the official company blog, Twitter has announced that it now has the ability to censor tweets – the name for the messages sent on the microblogging service – on a

Yesterday, headlines were made concerning the fate of the Resistance franchise. While the brand will likely continue to live on at the hands of Sony, Insomniac Games, creators and developers of the main console line, officially clarified that their last Resistance game would be the recently released third. They did so both inadvertently and abruptly. Insomniac Games

As the Korean electronics giant is suffers its second patent loss against Apple in as many weeks, it certainly seems as if it’s Samsung that’s coming off worse in the ongoing legal battles between the two companies. Two of its three patent infringement claims have now been ruled out by a German court, the latest

Research in Motion’s newly-instated CEO Thorsten Heins has confirmed that despite the company’s current struggle, BlackBerry will not be sold. Heins assures BlackBerry fans that he is not looking to take the easy route out of the company’s current situation, and that he believes BlackBerry can “really succeed in this market.” If there’s one thing we

Following speculation earlier this week that claimed the much-anticipated Galaxy S III would not be unveiled at Mobile World Congress next month, Samsung has confirmed that it is “still reviewing” a launch date for its next flagship device. The Korean company’s Senior Vice President of Marketing, Younghee Lee, said the company is “still reviewing several

The HTC Sense user interface is one of the most popular skins for Android, and one of the main reasons why Android users become attached to HTC devices. Sense 3.5 works wonderfully under the Gingerbread operating system, providing users with a seamless link to all of their favorite features directly from their home screen. So

When I came up with my 11 Sexiest Gadgets of 2011, some commenters agreed with my inclusion of the Porsche/RIM BlackBerry P’9981. But many others didn’t, calling the device nasty and kind of beasty (not in a good way). Well, I stand by my decision. Not only is it a full-fledged smartphone machined with precision,

In this weekly column, we’ll be selecting inexpensive, discarded titles from still playable consoles for your perusal. They may be games you’ve heard of and remember playing, or they may be games that have flown completely off of your radar. Just know that we love them and they’re available on the cheap. That’s a bonafide win/win situation. If

Andriasang has produced the Japanese hardware sales results for the week of 1/16/2012 through 1/22/2012. The numbers are, for most devices, lower than they were the week before. Here are the sales fixtures with last week’s numbers in parentheses: Nintendo 3DS – 80,960 (100,668) PlayStation 3 – 21,155 (30,332) PSP – 17,181 (22,538) PS Vita – 15,219 (18,361) Wii – 10,173 (14,179)

Apple posted some truly impressive Q4 figures recently, once again making the company the most valuable in the world. Among its top selling products, the iPad sold an amazing 15.43 million units worldwide, jumping 111 percent year-over-year and scooping up 58 percent of the market. Despite this, Strategy Analytics collected data that suggests tablets running

Valve has officially launched the Steam mobile app for both the Android Marketplace and iOS App Store. It’s available right now and is being sold for $0.00. That price appears to be permanent, of course. What will downloading the application give you access to? You’ll be able to browse and shop the Steam library and

The emergence of an automobile department on a tech blog like TechnoBuffalo may seem baffling to some readers. After all, Mr. Lakers got his start unboxing MacBooks and smartphones and we as a site have focused mainly on mobile technology since the incipience of TechnoBuffalo. But why have GM and Ford invited me out to

If you visit websites of a questionable nature, prepare to have your dirty secrets aired out for all to see. Members of Hawaii’s House of Representatives are currently weighing a measure, H.B. 2288, that would save “subscriber’s information” and “Internet destination history” for two whole years. Come on, Hawaii, do you not know what angry

Remember the good ol’ days when a mid-range phone lacked for features and sported a screen so small you could barely fit an entire 10-digit phone number on it? Those days are gone, kids. Long gone. Meet the LG Spectrum for Verizon Wireless, a mid-range device – $199 on contract, already down to $80 online.

Rovio’s riled up flock is about to take the world’s largest social network by storm. Angry Birds, as explained to Asian tech news site Penn Olson by Rovio’s head Peter Vesterbacka, will be launching on Facebook this upcoming February 14th, worldwide. The game was initially slated to fling onto the network last summer, but was,

HTC, one of the tech industry’s most prolific handset makers, revealed the company is reflecting on its current “more is better” approach, instead concentrating on moving toward “slow and steady.” Judging from last quarter’s figures, something obviously isn’t working for HTC; the company recently announced its net income dropped an appalling 26 percent last quarter,

A high-ranking source with a major electronics retailer has told TechnoBuffalo to expect the long-rumored Apple TV set this April, or possibly May at the latest. Speaking on conditions of anonymity, the source said they’ve seen “gorgeous, very thin” pre-production versions of the set in person, and that they employ OLED panels at various sizes

One of the most peculiar little urban electric vehicles is headed for production. The Dr. Seuss-like Hiriko, which means “urban” in the Basque language, is an electric vehicle that was conceived in Northern Spain and given life by MIT investors, private backing and numerous government loans. Unlike its rival, the Smart fourtwo, the Hiriko uses its Transformers