Facebook ‘Likes’ reveal more about you than you think

A new study looks at whether Likes on Facebook correlate with intelligence and personality.(Photo: Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images)Story HighlightsU.K. researchers looked at dataset of U.S. Facebook usersFacebook Likes were fed into algorithmsStudy found highest accuracy for ethnicity and gender If you “Like” lots of people,…

Posted on: March 11, 2013 5:00 pm

TiVo Mini Hooks a Tiny DVR to Your Second TV For $100

The new TiVo Mini replaces your second DVR, but it won’t completely do away with additional subscription costs. TiVo Mini solves one of the great problems of DVRs they’re awesome for a single TV and less awesome when you want to watch TV in another room. That has always meant…

Posted on: March 11, 2013 5:00 pm

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley On Whether Hot Apps Can Still Be Born At …

Much like Twitter got a lot of its early traction at South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin back in 2007, Foursquare famously started off with a bang when it launched at SXSWi in 2009. So it was great to take some time with Foursquare’s founder and CEO Dennis Crowley in Austin…

Posted on: March 11, 2013 12:00 pm

Grandville robotics coach thought theft was a joke

(WZZM) – When he noticed his team’s truck and trailer missing, a Grandville robotics coach says he thought someone was fooling around. “My first reaction was that it was a joke one of the coaches was playing because there’s some practical jokers on this team,” said Doug Hepfer, coach of…

Posted on: March 11, 2013 12:00 pm

How to add Windows 8’s best desktop features to Windows 7

“Windows 8 on a desktop.” The very phrase makes some people recoil and instinctively mouse over their Start buttons. It’s too bad that the modern UI has proven so contentious, because aside from the eye candyor eye cancer, depending on your perspectivean abundance of welcome nuts-and-bolts changes makes Windows 8 the But…

Posted on: March 11, 2013 7:00 am

Samsung Tops China’s Smartphone Market For The First Time As Sales Triple …

Samsung Electronics topped China’s smartphone market for the first time in 2012, according to data from Strategy Analytics (reported by Yonhap News Agency). The Korean tech behemoth nearly tripled its sales in the world’s largest market for smartphones: in 2012, it sold 30.06 million smartphones in China, up from 10.9 Chinese company Lenovo took…

Posted on: March 11, 2013 7:00 am

Living with 4K Here is the 4K Content

As I mentioned in this article Sony announced at CES 2013 the near future availability of a 4K player and a 4K content distribution service, expected by mid 2013. People that have a 4K display today will have to wait for 4K content to arrive in some form to show the potential…

Posted on: March 11, 2013 7:00 am

UPDATE: Piper Jaffray Initiates TiVo at Overweight; Deals Catalysts for …

Piper Jaffray initiated coverage on TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) with an Overweight rating and a $16.00 price target. Piper Jaffray noted, “TiVo continues to ride the strength of its IP portfolio with recent, and likely future, settlements that are nicely padding the balance sheet, funding R&D, and enabling potential acquisitions. Additionally, TiVo…

Posted on: March 10, 2013 5:00 pm

Fastest Smartphone Ever Launches Thursday, It’s Not the Galaxy S4

A phone that is being dubbed the “Fastest Smartphone Ever” will be launching this Thursday, March 14th. However, it won’t be the Samsung Galaxy S4, a device that will also be launching on March 14th. Instead, it will be XOLO that will be announcing a new Intel-powered smartphone that will…

Posted on: March 10, 2013 5:00 pm

Smartphone app tracks papal drama

Conclave Catholic news appFree for iOS devices at Apple App Store and Android devices at Google Play Leaders of the Catholic Church are assembled in Rome to pick a new pope, in the first papal conclave of the smartphone era. You know what that means–someone’s cobbled together a new app…

Posted on: March 10, 2013 5:00 pm