Twitter Eyes Foursquare’s Territory With Spindle Purchase
In recent months, Twitter has embraced video and even photo filters, but the micro-blogging service has now set its sites on location with the acquisition of Spindle. Until today, Spindle offered an iOS app that sought to answer the question, “What’s happening nearby right now?” The app is now longer…
‘XCOM’ brings console-quality gaming to iPad, iPhone
Last October, 2K Games and studio Firaxis launched XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a stellar turn-based strategy game for PCs and video game consoles that delivered incredible depth, smooth controls and intense combat. Now, it’s available on your iPhone and iPad. No, this isn’t a streamlined game, or a completely different entity…
Fred Wilson: For Foursquare, it’s not about the check-in. It’s about “maps …
When most people think of Foursquare, they immediately think of the “check-in.” And yet observers have been predicting the check-in’s demise since at least 2011. Whether due to faded novelty or general anxiety over leaving a digital footprint wherever you go (are you listening, NSA?), Foursquare has fallen out of So…
BlackBerry’s new phone is perfect
The new BlackBerry smartphone is here, and it’s a fine piece of work light, sleek, and thin, and featuring the classic pushbutton keyboard. It’s exactly the phone I needed two or three years ago. But today? Not so much. I speak of the Q10, available from Verizon Wireless and AT&T…
‘The issues have shifted’ says the judge in the Apple e-book trial
FORTUNE — U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who played her cards close to the chest throughout the proceedings of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Apple (AAPL), opened up a bit on Wednesday. It started with the declaration of her feelings for her iPad, and ended with something…
Getting The Most Out Of Your HDTV
Whether you bought a new TV last week, last month, or last year, chances are it can look better than it does. All it takes is a few simple tweaks, a menu setting adjustment or two, and unleash its full potential. OK, “unleash its full potential” is a little over…
New MacBook Airs experiencing WiFi connectivity issues?
Apple’s refreshed MacBook Airs introduced earlier this month at WWDC certainly bring some major improvements over previous generations thanks to Intel’s 4th gen Haswell processors, 802.11ac WiFi, and other internal upgrades. However, while reviews have been quite positive and focusing on the up to 12 hour battery life, it appears A…
BlackBerry Q10: Hardware QWERTY and long battery life have a place in mobile
Long-time BlackBerry users were excited for the launch of the Q10 and reports indicate it is doing pretty well. I was pleased to see BB10 on the Z10 and didn’t think there was really a place for a hardware QWERTY device in today’s smartphone world. After more than two weeks…
Video: Google launches wifi-carrying balloon in New Zealand
Google has launched a balloon emitting an internet connection, which could connect to remote parts of the world to the web. “Project loon” came to fruition on New Zealand’s south island, where the giant helium-filled balloon, carrying antennae, computers, batteries and navigation equipment, and powered by dangling solar panels, was…
Electrical burns may burst surgical robot’s bubble
The da Vinci surgical robot is so precise, promotional videos show it carefully peeling a grape. It’s so popular that most so-called “keyhole” hysterectomies are done using the machine, and it’s used in four out of five operations to remove the prostate, according to the non-profit ECRI Institute. But a…
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