Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Display As Good as iPhone Retina
The display on the new Samsung S IV, launched in many parts of the world over the past two days, is a big improvement over the SIII and, with it, Samsung now challenges the Retina display of the Apple Apple iPhone, according to display experts DisplayMate. Discussing the pros and…
EverClip Automatically Imports Your iOS Clipboard To Evernote
iOS: If you’re in the midst of a research project on your iPhone or iPad, you don’t want to open the Evernote app each time you find something you want to save. EverClip solves this problem by monitoring and saving content from your clipboard in the background. You’d be forgiven…
A Week With Windows 8
Windows 7 was largely well received from the moment it was released. It looked and felt a lot like XP and Vista, but with some noticeable and useful tweaks including everything from Snap (aligning two windows side by side in a matter of seconds) to Snipping tool and decent SSD With…
Ask Engadget: best WiFi router for super-fast Fiber?
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Travis from Provo, who is a jammy individual, wants to replace his router. If you’re looking to ask one of…
Forecast: Android has peaked, Apple’s iPhone still growing
FORTUNE — “Samsung’s Radio City Music Hall launch of its Galaxy S IV smartphone made good headlines, but consumer buying data shows that at the checkout counter, Apple continues to eat Samsung’s lunch.” So writes the Yankee Group’s Carl Howe, in defiance of conventional wisdom, summarizing the findings of a…
Scientists Build Baseball-Playing Robot With 100000-Neuron Fake Brain
If you’ve been to the RoboGames, you’ve seen everything from flame-throwing battlebots to androids that play soccer. But robo-athletes are more than just performers. They’re a path to the future. Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have built a small…
RCN is bringing WiFi to Boston phone booths
In an effort to give old pay phone booths a fresh purpose, RCN Business Services is working with DAS Communications, LCC International Inc. and Pacific Telemanagement Services to implement free WiFi in downtown Boston. The unique partnership, announced at the WiFi and Small Cells North America Conference at the Hyatt…
BlackBerry diehards finally get a keyboard
This is for the BlackBerry die-hards. You know who you are. You’re the ones who scoffed at those newfangled iPhones back in 2007, and still do. You turned your back when BlackBerry launched its touch-screen Z10 phone earlier this year. Your motto is “You’ll take away my physical keyboard when For…
Apple loses more global smartphone market-share to Samsung
In its latest report, research firm IDC revealed Friday that even though robust iPhone 5 sales helped goose Apple’s total smartphone sales in its most recent quarter by 6.6 percent over the same quarter last year, it was not enough to keep archrival Samsung from extending its big-footed share of Thanks to…
Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg: $845 million a year USA Today
“The blunt truth is that men still run the world,” says Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook. Her new book, “Lean In,” is stirring a new debate about equality in the workplace.(Photo: David Paul Morris, Bloomberg)Story HighlightsCOO Sheryl Sandberg gains $822 million from vested sharesFacebook shares down 30% from…
