Bitfenix, a known brand in the PC tower manufacturing industry, is releasing a follow-up to their popular Shinobi PC tower series with the Shinobi XL. The Shinobi XL is a full tower case that will feature XL-ATX compatibility, liquid cooling support, 4 USB 3.0 ports, 9 PCI slots, and something unique called the BitFenix SuperCharge port. The SuperCharge port is a port that supplies up to 2.5A of current, 5x more power than a USB 2.0 port, to allow for charging mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

It seems like a price hike is the center of the conversation almost every time there is a report about AT&T these past few years. Well today is not going to be any different as AT&T will be raising the price on all data plans for smartphone and tablet customers starting next week. Starting January 22, the new data plans will be $20 for 300MB (up from $15 for 200MB), $30 for 3GB (up from $25 for 2GB), and $50 for 5GB (up from $45 FOR 4GB). Existing customers are unaffected at the moment as they are grandfathered into their existing data plans unless they wish to upgrade for more data. The new prices only pertain to new customers or existing customers adding on new lines of service.

Apple held a press event earlier today, in New York City, that was centered around education. During the event Apple unveiled iBooks 2 with their addition of electronic textbooks for purchase. The new Apple book-stand will now include education related content for all those aspiring scholars. Apple has partners with some big names in textbook making that include Pearson, McGraw Hill, DK, E.O. Wilson Foundation, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The new iBooks 2 app is available today as a free download within the Apple App Store. Most titles will be priced at $14.99 or less. A new feature called iBooks Author, a free authoring tool, will allow any Mac user the ability to create iBook textbooks and publish them to the iBookstore.

Future Shop and Best Buy Canada have launched an investigation after news broke out that over 10 fake Apple iPad 2 tablets were sold to unsuspecting customers at stores located in Vancouver. Apparently, scam artists had purchased real Apple iPad 2s from the retailer and then successfully managed to return resealed iPad 2 packages. Only, the returned packages did not include an actual iPad 2 and included charger, but rather clay models that were made to replicate the weight and shape of the real thing. Since the returns were brought back in resealed boxes, the retailer placed the items back on shelf to sell as brand new and were unaware of the foul play. Unfortunately, several unsuspecting customers were the ones who purchased these swapped iPad 2s expecting to unbox a brand new Apple tablet only to find the clay fakes.

When I read about Steve Wozniak’s thoughts on Android reported by The Daily Best I was astonished. Apple CEO Steve Jobs hated Android so much that he vowed to use every last penny and up to his dying breath to destroy Android. Continue reading to see what Steve Wozniak thinks about Android.

Today LG Electronics unveiled their first Android tablet, the Optimus Pad LTE.The Korean based company included in this tablet LTE technology and a True HD IPS display at a 1280 x 720 resolution.

BMW, Porsche, and Nissan are among the new revolution of car brands that are getting into designing products for companies in the consumer electronics and accessories industry. Thermaltake is one of those companies to enlist the help BMW to help in the design of a concept gaming mouse. BMW has already assisted Thermaltake in the designs of their Level 10 PC chassis series.

Warning! The following post contains news of a political nature! SOPA, the short form of the proposed United States bill "Stop Online Piracy Act" has had a notable amount of opposition from everywhere and anywhere. The bill aims to protect items under intellectual copyright, but goes as far to allow the Department of Justice to file court orders against websites and organisations seen to facilitate any form of Copyright Infringement. As a response to the bill, Wikipedia, Reddit, and blogging sites such as those made by WordPress, ICanHazCheezburger, BoingBoing and a few others are blacking out in a few hours for 24 hours. (12 hours for Reddit)