The netbook may be dead, but there’s no escaping its legacy
The netbook was the first real reinvention of the PC since the laptop, but in the last couple of years the form factor has been selling less and less well and fewer manufacturers have been willing to offer the devices.RIP the netbook? Image: CNET In a piece over at…
After Vodafone fix, BlackBerry service resuming in Mideast, Europe, Africa Add …
BlackBerry users across the Middle East, Europe and Africa experienced data disruptions on Friday in a service outage that Research In Motion Ltd. said was caused by Vodafone Group PLC’s network, not RIM’s own servers. The outage, one of several that has affected BlackBerry users over the past two years,…
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BlackBerry users across the Middle East, Europe and Africa experienced data disruptions on Friday in a service outage that Research In Motion Ltd. said was caused by Vodafone Group PLC’s network, not RIM’s own servers. The outage, one of several that has affected BlackBerry users over the past two years,…
Remember, Dennis Crowley Could Have Sold Foursquare For $120 Million
PrivCo, a research company, claims Foursquare will “fail by the end of 2013” and sell for “less than $50 million.” While that prediction seems like a stretch, Foursquare is clearly in a heap of trouble. What’s worse, CEO Dennis Crowley had multiple opportunities to cash-in on the app back when things looked…
Facebook lets some people email Mark Zuckerberg for $100
Facebook is apparently offering some users the opportunity to shell out $100 to email CEO Mark Zuckerberg and make sure their message lands in his main inbox rather than the box where spam-like messages to non-friends usually end up. Sound enticing? For most people, if you want to email President Barack…
Revolve Robotics’ KUBI spins your tablet around for teleconferences, we go …
We’ve been covering telepresence robots for years, but those that have materialized aren’t exactly within most people’s budget. However, if all you need is some way to rotate your view on the other end of the line, then you may consider Revolve Robotics’ KUBI. With six days left and just…
The Netbook Isn’t Dead
Two models brandish Eee PCs at an Asus press conference in October 2008, back when netbooks were at least sort of glamorous Remember netbooks? Back in their golden age which was around four years ago I wrote about them a lot. I liked having them around as a computing option and…
iOS 6.1 Golden Master Or Beta 5 Ready For Developers, Public Release …
In a bid to come up with possible fixes for the bugs, Apple seeded the first beta of iOS 6.1 in November last year, and since then as many as four betas of the mobile OS have been issued by the company to its registered developers. And now, if the German…
E-Ink on a Smartphone? This Android Phone Has 2 Displays
You can use the rear of the YotaPhone as a clock, or to display wallpapers. Click here to view this gallery. [More from Mashable: Hands On With Pebble, the Internet’s Favorite Smart Watch] LAS VEGAS — What if your phone had two displays? Announced in mid-December, YotaPhone aims to change…
Madware nuisance ads escalate, plague Android users
Story HighlightsEarly PC adware swarm recurring on smartphones and touch tabletsApp developers, ad networks step up experimentation with few constraintsInfestation expected to spread to all mobile platforms SEATTLE Remember when pop-up advertisements inundated your PC browser? It’s beginning to happen again, this time on smartphones and touch tablets. Adware for…
