Facebook Has Spring Awakening With ‘Home’ Launch And Newsfeed Redesign
MENLO PARK, CA – APRIL 04: A Facebook employee holds a phone that is running the new ‘Home’ program during an event at Facebook headquarters during an event at Facebook headquarters on April 4, 2013 in Menlo Park, California. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Facebook, Inc. has been around for nearly a…
HTC Reminds Everyone What Made Them A Smartphone Leader
The release of the HTC First, which is a Facebook phone, but not the Facebook Phone, is a timely reminder of what brought HTC to prominence in the smartphone world. Namely white labelling smartphones. Could they return to that strength. The HTC First has made a number of concessions to…
Is Windows 8 Killing PC Sales? Read The Fine Print: The Report Of Windows …
On May 5, 1907, The New York Times published a column written that same morning by Mark Twain on the news of his death the day before. “You can assure my Virginia friends,” said Twain, “that I will make an exhaustive investigation of this report that I have been lost Everyone it…
BlackBerry seeks SEC review of report claiming high BB10 return rates
BlackBerry said Friday that it will ask the Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian officials to review reports that the company is seeing high customer return rates for its latest smartphone. In a release, the company specifically mentioned a report by an analyst at Detwiler Fenton, who said that returns…
BlackBerry Disputes Report on Z10 Phone
OTTAWA BlackBerry contends that a securities analyst’s report about its latest phone is not only wrong, it’s so wrong that it should be investigated by securities regulators. Andrew Winning/Reuters Ben Stephens, a BlackBerry sales manager, demonstrates a new BlackBerry Z10 to a prospective customer in London. The report, issued…
Twitter Preps Music App
Apple iWatch Vs. Smartwatches Past And Present(click image for larger view and for slideshow)Twitter is preparing to launch its own music app, just as most of the major platform players are looking to expand their own music offerings. Twitter is expected to introduce an iOS music discovery app…
University of Michigan’s GapSense may help WiFi harmonize with wireless …
WiFi is an unintentional bully in the wireless world: as it has to be powerful and respond quickly, it tends to drown out less demanding protocols like Bluetooth and ZigBee. The University of Michigan’s GapSense software could have the format finally learning to play well with others. By instituting a…
Wow, You Can Actually Afford This $1300 50-inch 4K LED HDTV
4K TVs are visual deliciousness in a box but are a little (to put it lightly) out of reach for peasants like us as they come with a price tag either equal to the cost of a car or are only considered cheap because they’re graciously not priced like a…
You Can Win! The Robot Uprising is Still Upon Us
If you haven’t already heard, IGN has teamed up with We Love Fine to find the best “Robot Uprising” t-shirt design from artists like you. We’re looking for the most creative and robo-tacular pieces you can assemble. What’s more, we have extended the deadline two weeks, to give artists even…
Clues Emerge to How Twitter Will Promote Music
Twitter, the service that put microblogging on the digital map, is introducing a music feature that could give its users more to tweet about and another reason to stay logged in. So far the company is keeping mum about exactly what that feature is; there is a page at music.twitter.com,…
