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| May 6, 2014 | 5 Things To Consider Before Wiring Up Your Smart Home | ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes. If you don’t already live in a smart home, odds are good that you will before long. When that day comes, your connected residence will be like a mem... |
| May 5, 2014 | Nokia lauches $100M fund to fuel the connected car | Nokia will use the money to further HERE, its connected driving platform launched last year Now that Nokia is officially out of the mobile phone business, the company is free to pick any path it wants to choose going forward. With that weig... |
| Mar 19, 2014 | Will Apple Healthbook Consumerize Our Vital Signs? | [via 9to5Mac] 9to5Mac leaked screenshots on Monday of the Healthbook, a long rumored project by Apple. Healthbook is a fitness and health tracker, but the screenshots suggest that counting calories and monitoring your heart rate are just sc... |
| Mar 12, 2014 | Corruption Index: If A State Moves To Ban Tesla Direct Sales, It's A Sign Of Corruption | A year ago, NPR’s Planet Money podcast had a show detailing one of the most horrific consumer experiences around: buying a car. The main reason it was deemed that the process was so ridiculous and unpleasant was a variety of state laws that... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | Google to Soon Release Developer Kit for Wearable Devices & Launch a Google Watch this June Categories Search | Smartwatches are among the first wearable computing devices, but Pichai said that Google hopes its software platform will help developers create many types of wearable devices. He threw out the possibility that one day, Google's software wo... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | Google to release Android SDK for wearables in 2 weeks | With a rumored smartwatch in the making, Google wants to jumpstart the wearables landscape Google may be gearing up to unveil its very own smartwatch later this year, but when has it ever bogarted its own OS? Google executive Sundar Pichai ... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | LG G Pro 2 preview: Gadget Watch | In the lead-up to the Mobile World Congress, LG announced it was releasing a new 6-inch phablet called the G Pro 2. (For the unfamiliar, a phablet is simply a large smartphone, featuring a display larger than a 5-inch smartphone but smaller... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | Apple's "iPhone in the car" gets a new name: CarPlay | Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will show off CarPlay integration this week Stop me if you've heard this story before: iOS and Android are going head to head in the same space, each trying to get a heads up on the other. This time it is in... |
| Feb 26, 2014 | Is BlackBerry finally getting its act together? | Don’t look now, but BlackBerry (BBRY) is on a bit of a roll. To be sure, the company, whose products were once so popular that it earned the nickname “CrackBerry,” has a long way to go before it can reclaim any lost ground. But the worst, a... |
| Feb 23, 2014 | What to expect at Mobile World Congress 2014 | Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Virgina Rometty, CEO of IBM, will deliver keynote speeches; Samsung is expected to unveil the highly anticipated new Galaxy S5; and Nokia might finally be going Android. We'll know for sure on Monday, but som... |
| Feb 19, 2014 | Jolla smartphone review: Gadget Watch | When it comes to the tech sector, a Finnish smartphone start-up called Jolla produced one of the feel-good stories of the summer. Jolla was founded by a group of engineers originally from Nokia’s elite MeeGo-N9 smartphone unit. Back in 2011... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | CircleUp Lands Virgin America Partnership | CircleUp, a crowdfunding service for startup consumer goods companies, has landed Virgin America as a partner for the food and beverage companies it backs. It’s the latest example of how corporations increasingly are embracing the wisdom of... |
| Feb 8, 2014 | In 3.5 Years, Most Africans Will Have Smartphones | Jon Evans Contributor Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010. More posts by th... |
| Jan 29, 2014 | The BlackBerry-style Typo keyboard case for iPhone: Gadget Watch | The troubles facing smartphone pioneer BlackBerry are many and well-documented. Delays in getting the all-touch BlackBerry 10 operating system out, a lack of apps, and businesses adopting BYOD (bring your own device) policies have seen many... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Samsung curved-screen 4K TVs: Gadget Watch | During the recent International CES in Las Vegas, tech giant Samsung demonstrated a range of new curved-screen, 4K televisions. The curved screen technology on display has been notoriously difficult to develop and put into mass production, ... |
| Jan 13, 2014 | Monster’s Keys To CES Success Are Celebrities, Style, And Hype | If you check out CNET or Engadget‘s top-ranked headphones, you won’t find many Monster products on the list. And yet, Monster is responsible for some of the most popular headphones in the world. But why? Celebrities. Monster understands tha... |
| Jan 11, 2014 | The best of CES 2014, in case you missed it | Yahoo went mobile first, Google put Android into cars and Michael Bay had a meltdown For anyone who is into technology and gadgets, the Consumer Electronics Show, which took place in Las Vegas from Tuesday to Friday this week, is basically ... |
| Jan 6, 2014 | Google forms new organization to bring Android to cars | Other members of the Open Automotive Alliance include Audi, GM, Honda, Hyundai and Nvidia Remember those reports of Google and Audi partnering up to create an Android connected car? They were true, but they did not tell the entire story, wh... |
| Jan 6, 2014 | Epson Debuts Smart Glasses For Enterprise And Sports Stadium Fun | Epson is going after Google with its own heads-up display glasses. The Moverio BT-200 is a head-controlled device with a screen that overlays a transparent computer monitor in the center of the user’s field of vision. The clunky, conspicuou... |
| Dec 30, 2013 | Report: Google and Audi develop Android in-car system | The announcement excepted to come at CES next week, will let Google take on Apple's iOS in the Car Apple and Google are such fierce rivals, it seems, that whenever one of them decides to get in on some new piece of technology, be it smartph... |
| Dec 19, 2013 | Netflix to stream season 2 of House of Cards in 4K | Too bad 4K TVs currently cost several thousand dollars. But not for long. As if it wasn’t cruel enough to tease me with the trailer for season two of "House of Cards"—which doesn’t come out for another TWO MONTHS—now Netflix is ru... |
| Dec 10, 2013 | Apple wins patent for curved touch-screen | Apple seems to have its eye on the curved display market, at least as evidenced by a newly awarded patent. Granted Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent dubbed simply "Curved touch sensor" outlines a technical pr... |
| Dec 4, 2013 | Asus Transformer TF701: Gadget Watch | Back in 2011, the original Asus TF101 Transformer tablet was a revelation. Long before Windows 8 and the first Microsoft Surface, Asus offered consumers a 10-inch Android tablet featuring an optional keyboard dock. Since then, the tablet ma... |
| Nov 27, 2013 | How to talk your family out of bad consumer electronics purchases | Black Friday reader comments 172 with 116 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Somewhere between the turkey and the eggnog, someone in your family is almost certainly going to mention the... |
| Nov 25, 2013 | Apple buys 3D sensing company PrimeSense, brains behind Kinect motion sensor | A week after reports began circulating that Apple had purchased PrimeSense, Apple has confirmed the acquisition of the 3D sensing company behind Microsoft's Kinect sensor. Apple spokesperson Kristin Huguet on Sunday confirmed for CNET the d... |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Motorola aims new Moto G smartphone at budget-conscious customers | Motorola's new Moto G aims to be a great phone for a great price, the company's CEO said. The new model, out today, is designed to sell for $179 or less without a contract, making it much more affordable than its predecessor, the Moto X, as... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | GADGET WATCH: Google Nexus 5 smartphone with Android 4.4 KitKat | After a lot of hype and anticipation, Google has released the latest version of its smartphone and tablet operating system, Android 4.4 KitKat. And, for those looking for new features, the update didn’t disappoint. Among the many changes, t... |
| Oct 30, 2013 | iPad Air: Apple’s made the best 10-inch tablet ever — again (review roundup) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Apple’s media event last week made a pretty compelling case for why your next tablet should be the iPad Air. But in case you weren’t br... |
| Oct 22, 2013 | Study: How Apple’s new iPad inches us closer to a post-TV video watching era | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Matt Pasienski is chief data scientist at Ooyala. Ever since Apple introduced the world to the iPad, connected viewers have flocked to ... |
| Oct 15, 2013 | Deal Aggregator 8coupons Acquires Clipless App To Aid In Move To Mobile | Only a few months after its debut, mobile couponing app Clipless for Android has already been acquired by deal aggregator 8coupons, which had previously served as a data source within the app, along with other providers like Yelp, Groupon, ... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | Microsoft introduces new Surface tablets | Microsoft introduced its next-generation Surface tablets on Monday, including a professional model that allows people to use it more like a laptop or a desktop. The new tablets were unveiled at an event in New York City that tried to captur... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | DEFCAD Launches ‘The Pirate Bay’ of 3D Printing | Late last year the 3D print website Thingiverse decided to ban 3D gun designs, citing their terms of service which clearly prohibit files used to make weapons. In a response Defense Distributed, the people behind the first 3D printable gun,... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | Here’s what reviewers are saying about Apple’s fancy new iPhones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. It’s iPhone launch season again, and this time it comes with a twist: Unlike previous years, tech blogs have not one but two new iPhone... |
| Sep 16, 2013 | KLD claims it has a more efficient motor for electric cars | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Mass-market plug-in cars have only appeared in sh... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Apple won't buy your smashed old iPhone, but iCracked (YC W12) will— and they'll pick it up from you too | Apple is expected to announce iPhones this week, and some people are already lining up to get them. The mania surrounding the anticipated iPhone 5S and 5C will prompt many to upgrade their phones, but what if yours is in less than pristine... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Apple won’t buy your smashed old iPhone, but iCracked (YC W12) will— and they’ll pick it up from you too | Apple is expected to announce iPhones this week, and some people are already lining up to get them. The mania surrounding the anticipated iPhone 5S and 5C will prompt many to upgrade their phones, but what if yours is in less than pristine... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | Your Turn, Apple | I’m sold. One picture did it. The one above by Josh Miller at CNET. I want the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch. It doesn’t matter if the UI is sluggish. I don’t care if it requires charging once a day. I don’t even care if Samsung overloaded... |
| Sep 3, 2013 | With Android 4.4 KitKat, Google has made every tech blogger an advertiser for Nestle | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. I can’t remember the last time I had a Kit Kat candy bar, but I’ve thought of eating one at least five times in the last half hour. Thi... |
| Aug 23, 2013 | Self-driving cars right around the corner thanks to Google partnership | The automotive business is conservative. Outside of a few visionary companies, most motor-vehicle corporations need to be dragged into the future kicking and screaming. Even something as simple as adding stereo systems to cars was resisted ... |
| Aug 21, 2013 | GADGET WATCH: LG G2 | LG has been a quiet achiever in the smartphone market of late, recently becoming the world’s third largest smartphone manufacturer by volume, after Samsung and Apple. While their marketshare has been boosted by manufacturing Google’s Nexus ... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | iOS puzzler Dots now available for Android and Kindle Fire | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Developer Playdots just released its brain-teasing puzzler Dots for Android devices. You can download the game now for free from Google... |
| Aug 13, 2013 | Fitbit raises $43M to fuel global expansion | Creator of mobile health devices like the Fitbit Flex has now raised $66 million When it comes to working out, I am lazy. For a long time I tried to counter this fact by making excuses; when I was in college it was because I had class all t... |
| Aug 4, 2013 | Locked Down Endpoints | Of all the great points made by Bruce Schneier in his talk at Google, the one that bugs me the most is locked down endpoints. So much so that I've got not one but two Firefox OS phones coming to me in the next week. Through friends I connec... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | Was Promised Flying Cars, But Would Settle For Something Practical | After your laundry has been pressed and folded for you. After you’ve been driven to and fro in black cars, and flown in black jets. After you shopped online for weekends on end. After you’ve had your house cleaned, and dog walked, and food ... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | The great Ars Android interface shootout | Florence Ion / Aurich Lawson reader comments 132 with 92 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit It’s been quite a year of surprises from Google. Before the company’s annual developer confer... |
| Jun 26, 2013 | Nvidia delays Android-based Shield gaming handheld | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. On the eve of its release, graphics-chip maker Nvidia is delaying the Shield portable Android gaming device. Nvidia, best known for mak... |
| Jun 11, 2013 | iOS 7: Can Jonathan Ive save Apple? | (MoneyWatch) At its Worldwide Developers' Conference, Apple (AAPL) announced new versions of its iOS mobile and Mac operating systems, a new music streaming service, and some hardware that's been seriously improved on the inside. But one of... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | iRobot And Cisco Build A Roving Telepresence Rig So Remote Workers Can Still Roam The Office | It’s no secret that iRobot’s domestic cleaning machines can carry some interesting things while they putter around and wipe up your floors, and iRobot and Cisco have taken that notion to its next logical step. The two companies have just an... |
| Jun 5, 2013 | BlackBerry to introduce the A10, another touchscreen handset | reader comments 43 with 27 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit BlackBerry's next flagship handset will be the all-touchscreen BlackBerry A10, according to CNET. The A10 will follow in th... |
| May 22, 2013 | Xbox One: The Most Restrictive Game Console Ever Made | If the Xbox One is the future of gaming, then that future is as grim as everyone feared. In an event Tuesday morning that felt like a casual bar conversation compared to Sony’s brain-exploding extravaganza back in February, Microsoft unveil... |
| May 22, 2013 | Verizon partners with Jennifer Lopez-backed Viva Movil | Viva Movil will cater to the Latino community, with its own stores that have an bilingual staff (Updated to reflect comment from Verizon) If you watch the news, or pay attention to politics at all, you already know that Latinos are the fast... |
| May 18, 2013 | Facebook's rocky year as a public company | (CNET) Facebook's freshman year as a public company played out like an MTV drama in which Mark Zuckerberg was forced to navigate through an awkward accommodation with the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street. Even as Wall Street lectured l... |
| May 15, 2013 | GADGET WATCH: Fitbit Flex | While the wearable computing market has received a lot of attention lately thanks to Google Glass and the persistent rumours of an Apple watch, the reality is the category has had plenty of attention for some time. The Fitbit has found a ho... |
| May 10, 2013 | Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun | In late 2012 the 3D blueprint website Thingiverse decided to ban 3D gun designs, citing their terms of service which clearly prohibit files used to make weapons. Enter DEFCAD, a site dedicated to hosting designs that have been banned at Thi... |
| May 9, 2013 | What the future could hold for Firefox OS | reader comments 72 with 46 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit We've said this before, but launching a new mobile operating system is hard work, especially in today’s competitive mobile ... |
| May 8, 2013 | Is society ready for bitcoin? | Our society has been using digital money for years. Every time we pay online or with a mobile device, we are using a digital form of payment, though it is -- ultimately -- translated into dollars, euros, pounds or whatever currency we use t... |
| May 8, 2013 | GADGET WATCH: BlackBerry Q10 | BlackBerry hasn’t been having the best year. Although chief executive Thorsten Heins is trying hard to turn the company around, it can’t seem to shake the reputation of a once-triumphant business that is rapidly losing relevance. This year’... |
| May 3, 2013 | We’ve Heard A Similar Reaction To Google Glass Somewhere Before | Google Glass is finding its way to developers and others and the reaction has been, well, predictable. So far, there are those who think that Glass will absolutely change the world, that it’s our version of the flying car. Those people are ... |
| Apr 27, 2013 | Will you buy HTC One? | The question is long overdue, particularly since I asked about Samsung Galaxy S4, the other major 1080p smartphone freshly released. After some delays, the One can now be purchased -- well, if you can find the thing -- and HTC is advertisin... |
| Apr 24, 2013 | BlackBerry Q10 review roundup: A great phone with a not-so-great app selection | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. BlackBerry’s new keyboard-equipped Q10 doesn’t hold many surprises: On the outside, it’s only slightly different from devices like the ... |
| Apr 24, 2013 | BlackBerry Q10 review roundup: A great phone with a not-so-great app selection | BlackBerry’s new keyboard-equipped Q10 doesn’t hold many surprises: On the outside, it’s only slightly different from devices like the BlackBerry Bold, and on the inside it’s running BlackBerry 10, which we’re already very well acquainted w... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Nokia To Follow Samsung’s Lead By Launching A Phablet This Year, Along With 40MP Lumia PureView & Lighter Lumia 920, Reports FT | Rumours that Nokia is working on a Windows tablet, to supplement its line of Windows Phone-based Lumia smartphones, have been doing the rounds for well over a year, with extra fuel poured on the speculative bonfire last year when Microsoft ... |
| Apr 3, 2013 | GADGET WATCH: Sonos Playbar | The audio-visual market has been having a good run over the past few years. But most of that success has been confined to Blu-ray players and DVRs. So far, there hasn’t been a mainstream sound system that has attracted the same attention as... |
| Mar 25, 2013 | 3 reasons Apple, Samsung watches could be a bust | (MoneyWatch) If reports are right, and that's always a question when discussing the future plans of companies, the next great battleground for consumer electronics companies won't be some improved version of television that will remove comp... |
| Mar 24, 2013 | West Virginia Lawmaker Seeks To Ban Drivers From Wearing Head Mounted Displays Like Google Glass | I don’t see a problem with this. In short, a West Virginia lawmaker wants to outlaw the wearing of head-mounted displays while driving in his state. The devices would join other banned electronic communication devices like cell phones. The ... |
| Mar 20, 2013 | GADGET WATCH: LG Optimus G Pro | The past few years have seen a number of entries in the smartphone scene which feature particularly large screens. Colloquially known as “phablets” (a mix of phone and tablet), these devices are becoming extremely popular. LG has gone into ... |
| Mar 15, 2013 | Samsung’s Galaxy S IV will mark the beginning of the end of Samsung’s smartphone dominance | I’m going way out on a limb here, and cutting it off behind me. But I have a theory. The more Samsung “adds value” to Android by customizing a version of it for the Galaxy line of phones, as it’s doing with its new Galaxy S IV, the more it ... |
| Mar 15, 2013 | Samsung’s Galaxy S IV will mark the beginning of the end of Samsung’s smartphone dominance | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. I’m going way out on a limb here, and cutting it off behind me. But I have a theory. The more Samsung “adds value” to Android by custom... |
| Mar 14, 2013 | Galaxy S4 Event was as Hip as a Broken Hip Categories Search | For a few reviews of the Galaxy S4, you could check out The Verge and CNET. |
| Mar 14, 2013 | Poll Technica: Where should we go when Google Reader is put out to pasture? | Aurich Lawson reader comments 336 with 239 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Google kills product Google is killing Android Auto for phones (if you even know wh... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | A look at Samsung’s handset evolution through the ages | reader comments 74 with 53 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit In just a few days, we're hoping to get a glimpse of what's next on the horizon for Samsung in the Android realm—the Galaxy... |
| Mar 11, 2013 | 3D printing gunmaker forms company to flout copyright law, à la the Pirate Bay | A still from Cody Wilson's latest video shows this example of 3D-printed handguns (these are mock-ups pictured, not actual handguns). Defense Distributed reader comments 164 with 109 posters participating, including story author Share this ... |
| Mar 4, 2013 | Nokia is the media’s most-tweeted brand at Mobile World Congress 2013 | Top 50 list around the event shows which vendors were top of the media tweets March 4th, 2013- UK media intelligence company RealWire has used its Twitter-based influencer relations tool Lissted to analyse the media’s reaction to Mobile Wor... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | News.com Picks Best Of Mobile World Congress, But Leaves You Wondering Which CBS Lawsuit Partner They Didn't Review | Mobile World Congress, the big trade show for mobile devices, just wrapped up. It’s become sort of the go-to place for mobile device makers to announce their new products (even though two of the bigger Android developers, Samsung and HTC, d... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Samsung, Intel’s Tizen OS makes splashy intro at MWC | The operating system is seen as a potential alternative to the dominance of Android, and has been driven in part by demand by carriers for a more open OS that they can tinker with. Beyond the two key players, the night was a celebration of ... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | Tizen OS looks a lot like Android on Samsung demo phone (hands-on) | If you want to beat Android, try, try Tizen again. After years of false starts, we’ve gone hands-on for our first proper look at Tizen, an operating system backed by Samsung and Intel as well as other major mobile players, and one that coul... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Orange Throws Its Weight Behind Tizen OS, With Phones Launching In France In Q3 — Other Markets In 2014 | All the mobile OS underdogs are coming out to play at this year’s Mobile World Congress — from Firefox OS, to Ubuntu and Jolla’s Sailfish — rushing in to fill the void left by Google’s lack of any Android marketing mania. Now it’s Tizen’s t... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Sony jumps on Mozilla’s Firefox OS smartphone bandwagon | Sony has become the latest smartphone manufacturer to jump aboard Mozilla’s low-end Firefox OS smartphone platform, with the electronics giant announcing its first handset using the platform will be released in 2014. “Our engineers are now ... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Samsung Definitely has No interest in Mozilla’s Firefox OS | At Mobile World Congress this week the FireFox OS was presented to an eager world. Handset manufacturers Huawei, LG Electronics, ZTE, and Alcatel have already signed up. According to sources at CNET a high-level executive has confirmed that... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Samsung to launch first Tizen smartphone as early as July | BARCELONA, Spain–Samsung Electronics expects to release its first smartphone running on the Tizen mobile operating system in July or August, CNET has learned. The Tizen Association is scheduled to make the official announcement later this w... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | T-Mobile to bring Nokia’s new low-end Lumia 521 to the U.S. | T-Mobile has revealed that it will exclusively offer the Windows 8-powered Nokia 521 device on its 4G network in the U.S. T-mobile has yet to announce availability and pricing, but the 521 is expected to go on the market in late spring or e... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Firefox phones to be sold by four hardware makers and 17 carriers | Jon Brodkin reader comments 57 with 43 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Ars at MWC 2013 To cell phone builders, “Android” isn’t a feature Phones, caffeine, and ham (oh the ham!): a MW... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | T-Mobile to bring Nokia’s new low-end Lumia 521 to the U.S. | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. T-Mobile has revealed that it will exclusively offer the Windows 8-powered Nokia 521 device on its 4G network in the U.S. T-mobile has ... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Remember webOS? LG Acquires webOS From HP, But Only Plans To Use It In Smart TVs | Troubled operating system webOS isn’t defunct yet. According to CNET, LG just acquired software, licenses and the team working on webOS from HP. LG plans to implement it in its smart TVs — not in its phones. In yet another surprising event,... |
| Feb 23, 2013 | Huawei Prepares To Unveil Ascend P2 Smartphone — Smaller Screen Sibling To The Ascend D2 Android Phablet? | After unboxing a pair of phablets at CES, Chinese mobile maker Huawei looks to be lining up a new flagship smartphone in its Android-based Ascend P line ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show kicking off in Barcelona Monday. The comp... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | GADGET WATCH: BlackBerry Z10 | It doesn’t need repeating BlackBerry has had a tough few years – hence the reason for changing the company name Research In Motion to BlackBerry. But throughout the troubles, chief executive Thorsten Heins has been adamant the company will ... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | The Post Post-PC Era: Will Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon Or Microsoft Win? | Editor’s note: Peter Relan is a former developer and Oracle’s former VP of Internet Division, a serial entrepreneur since 1998, and a Silicon Valley angel investor. Relan founded YouWeb Incubator in 2007, spinning out a string of successful... |
| Feb 4, 2013 | Nokia CEO Hints At Tablet-Shaped, Windows-Based Hardware In Its Future | Nokia was an early mover in the tablet space — in 2007, years before the iPad burst onto the scene, it was unboxing its N800 Internet Tablet (which looks more like a phablet by today’s enormo-phone standards). But these days the Finnish hig... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | We’ll Publish Your Story If CNET Won’t | Editorial independence is kind of a polemic at TechCrunch. When our corporate parent, a sister or an advertiser might have an issue with a story, we write it anyway. So we have an offer to make to the writers at CNET. Its parent company, CB... |
| Jan 24, 2013 | Verizon Said To Be Getting A Flagship Nokia Windows Phone (Codenamed “Laser”) Of Its Own | Don’t get me wrong, HTC’s Windows Phone 8X is great and all, but the rest of Verizon Wireless’ Windows Phone lineup (think the Nokia Lumia 822 and Samsung’s ATIV Odyssey) is a bit lacking in the oomph department. If a new report from The Ve... |
| Jan 18, 2013 | To get ahead, Apple must leave Steve Jobs behind | Second in a series. My last column looked at Apple’s immediate challenges in the iPhone business, while this one looks at the company’s mid-to-long term prospects and how best to face them. The underlying question is whether Apple has peake... |
| Jan 14, 2013 | Weight loss: Smart fork watches how you eat | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — French engineers at HAPILABS last week unveiled their HAPIfork technology at the CES International conference. The fork is equipped with sensors that monitors a user’s eating pace, helping eaters slow down in efforts to... |
| Jan 14, 2013 | CNET reporter resigns over CBS censorship of DISH Hopper coverage | reader comments 59 with 54 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Greg Sandoval, a longtime reporter for the technology news site CNET, has resigned in protest days after CNET's parent comp... |
| Jan 13, 2013 | What Facebook Should Be Building | Facebook has a big launch event on Tuesday. Here are nine things I think it may be working on, or at least should be. We’ve heard tips that some of these are already in development and may be released soon, while the rest could fill big hol... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | Just How Dumb Is It For CBS To Block CNET From Giving Dish An Award? | As you may or may not recall, last year, pretty much all the TV networks sued Dish Networks over a new feature it had launched, PrimeTime Any Time (PTAT), with its Autohopper technology on its DVRs. PTAT is where it would automatically reco... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | Just Give The Dish DVR Its Nomination Back, CNET | Here we go again. There is a CONFLICT OF INTEREST in the tech news media. Well I just can’t believe how this could happen in an industry that pays bloggers to review products from companies that then get advertised on those bloggers’ websit... |
| Dec 26, 2012 | Inside Snapchat, The Little Photo-Sharing App That Launched A Sexting Scare | It started with an assumption, really. Snapchat, a photo-sharing application that auto-destroys images seconds after being opened, launched in September 2011 with zero media coverage. A homegrown product, built by two Stanford guys, grew to... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | MakerBot Boots 3D Printed Gun Parts from Thingiverse | (Photo: MakerBot) After the events in Newtown, the gun control debate has taken on a new urgency. Suddenly 3D-printed firearms look a lot less like a thought-provoking experiment and more like a danger to the public–and Makerbot wants nothi... |
| Nov 30, 2012 | Kngine Aims To Build A Natural Language-Driven App That Can Answer Any Question | Kngine (pronounced kin-gin, short for knowledge engine) is one of those startups with a goal that’s both straightforward and impressively ambitious — it wants to build an app that can answer any question. In fact, when you open the app, it ... |
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