Could trademark disputes hold up the launch of the iPad 3?

Apple is embroiled in a trademark suit over ownership of the iPad name, and the battle has taken a dark turn for Cook and company. Apple might have to shell out anywhere from $38 million to $1.6 billion if Chinese courts don’t rule in its favor — and it’s looking like they won’t.

An image of the interface of Apple's 2010 Apple TV set-top box.

One day, Apple is purportedly sourcing parts suppliers for it rumored HDTV project. The next day, actual HDTV prototypes are in the hands of research labs in Canada. Such is the hurried development cycle of a product that currently lives only in rumorspace.

Google's signature browser finally makes its debut on the Android OS.

Android is finally getting Chromed out.

Google launched a beta version of Chrome for Android smartphones and tablets Tuesday, delivering a mobile version of the popular desktop web browser after a very long wait. Indeed, both Android and Chrome launched more than three years ago, and users have demanded unification ever since.

The current Apple TV is a set-top box, so pundits are using the term iTV to denote a speculated Apple-branded HDTV. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

News and rumors suggest an Apple-branded HDTV is somewhere on the horizon, but it’s hard to differentiate hard evidence from hype.

Hands eagerly pawed all over Windows Phones at CES 2012.

Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS is often criticized for lagging far behind iOS and Android, the other major operating systems in the mobile space. But on Thursday, a leaked description of Microsoft’s next big mobile OS, Windows Phone 8, came to light, revealing how the operating system will improve.

Apple's incredible iPhone sales may be forcing competitors to stop and think about release dates. 

A report from Taiwanese publication Digitimes says smartphone manufacturers Samsung, HTC, LG and Nokia are launching their new products in Q2 2012 instead of Q1 in order to avoid direct competition from Apple’s iPhone 4S. Digitimes sources said that sales of the iPhone 4S “will remain at peak in the first quarter of 2012 and then begin to decline,” so many handset makers will be waiting to unveil 2012 models at Mobile World Congress in late February — with launch dates after that.

Failed fixie fashion, or neat clothing accessory? You decide

Hey, “fixie” riders: You have the skinny pants, the Kryptonite Evo Mini lock, and you convinced your parents to let you have a sleeve tattoo. You even even managed to pick out a my-first-bike color-scheme more eye-searingly colorful than those of your friends.

Spigen's annoyingly-named GLAS.t gives your iPhone 4 some hot glass-on-glass action

The scratches on my iPad 2 screen drive me crazy, but floppy matte screen protectors drive me even crazier. They cut out light from the screen, lower contrast and move when you touch them thanks to their edge-only sticky strips.

Classic PortaPros with inline mic and controls? Yes please!

One of my favorite sets of headphones just got a little bit favorite-er. The Koss PortaPro dates back to those dark ages of stonewashed denim and shoulder pads, the 1980s. The simple folding cans, with their thin metal headband and amazing-sounding earpieces have always been a bargain at $50, both comfortable and open enough to still hear your surroundings. Now, they have been updated with an inline mic and controls.

I'm tempted to pull the trigger on this sweet Gadget Lab-themed incendiary device

Everyone knows that smoking is cool and awesome and all, and that the best way to spark up all that tarry goodness is to use a lighter filled with gasoline. But as iconic as the Zippo is, what if you could get it customized with, say, a picture of your kids so you could see them and imagine your future together, every time you light up?

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