Liquidware is an open-source hardware company, and they've got an offer for you: if you're willing to do some of the work putting it together, they'll sell you a tablet for $400.

This iPhone outfitted with a prototype RFID media player promises to turn your smartphone into a device that can actually react to world around you. Essentially, it turns the iPhone into an augmented-reality gadget.

As HTC is finding out with its EVO 4G, a high-speed wireless network needs lots of power to send and receive data fast. This will impact everyone else, too.

Ordered your iPhone 4 yet? Tough - you've already missed the boat, if this afternoon's latest missive from Apple is to be believed.

E3 kicks off this week, and with it will come news of the most exciting innovations the video game industry has in the works. Microsoft will likely use the chance to show us one more Natal demo before the device actually goes on sale. Sony might give us some hints about what to expect from the PlayStation 4. And Apple may make its presence known as a mobile gaming powerhouse.

This week alone, Motorola is promising to leapfrog HTC with a roadmap heading towards a 2GHz phone; Sprint and Verizon are both talking up the success of their Android flagships; and LG has promised 20 'Google phones' by the end of this year.

It's not every week that Apple ignites a controversy. Okay, maybe that's not true, but it's not every week that Apple ignites a controversy that pits physicists, astronomers and neuroscientists against one another. But that's what happened with the introduction of the iPhone 4 and its high-resolution Retina display.

Steve Jobs has lifted his outright ban on iPhone interpreted code, allowing some developers to interpret, but not others. The move is yet another indication that Jobs is restricting iPhone development not so much to control security and performance, but to keep particular applications from particular companies off Apple handhelds.

Moto has fallen afoul of supply shortages similar to those constraining Droid Incredible inventory, with Jha saying about the Moto Droid, "if I could build more, I'd sell more." And if you could get Android 2.2 on them, you'd have some really happy customers too.

It's not in just the OMAP application processors that Texas Instruments is putting ARM's microprocessor designs to good use, it seems. TI has managed to crank up the clock speed of the Cortex A8 design to 1 GHz in its latest line of Sitara embedded microprocessor units (MPUs).