Rumors that Microsoft’s next incarnation of its smartphone platform might not support the current hardware lineup have sent a ripple of anger, confusion and incredulity through the Windows Phone community. Is Microsoft getting ready to reboot its smartphone platform again? And if so, why? Microsoft is no stranger to such…

A new service that grades how each of Facebook’s top third-party apps respects consumers’ privacy was released late Sunday by research firm PrivacyChoice. The free tool, Privacyscore for Facebook, spells out privacy policies and tracking practices of more than 200 top Facebook apps, including games, work-related programs and sharing apps. AP…

There’s a constantly spinning mill of rumors about Apple products, most of which turn out to beuntrue. What’s unusual now is that talk has been revived of a smaller iPad model, an idea companyfounder Steve Jobs derided pub- licly a year before he died. Apple and its suppliers aren’t commenting….

We’re all familiar with Apple’s love affair for thin devices. Although the third-generation iPad surprised many by gaining about half a millimeter of thickness, it looks like Apple could be back to trimming product dimensions by using a new kind of display technology in the next iPhone. Instead of using…

Now that you’ve got an HDTV, you may want to start saving up for a super-high definition one. Television manufacturers, ever eager to shore up their business with new technology, are gearing up to roll out sets with so-called 4K screen resolutions. These TVs, which should start to hit store…

Home ” Technology ” UPPLEVA HDTV launched by IKEA as all-in-one home entertainment solution It’s a leap ahead and a leap backward in home entertainment systems for everyone in the world with the launch of the UPPLEVA. The UPPLEVA HDTV was just launched by IKEA and aims to simplify your furniture, Blu-Ray…

Caracas While in Cuba undergoing his latest round of cancer treatment, the normally talkative Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been silent, speaking only through Twitter messages and written statements. The lack of any appearances on television has Venezuelans wondering about what his unusual silence might say about his struggle with…

Need some game play this Earth Day? Guide Slippery the Harbor Seal as she swims from San Francisco to Alaska eating yummy clams and avoiding dangerous predators like sharks and jelly fish. But don’t worry: Slippery can keep her enemies at bay off by shooting pearls from her mouth. The…

First Twitter, now hip-hop. Is female superstar Nicki Minaj throwing in the towel on her two year plus rap career? A week back Nicki shocked her millions of fans when she shut down her Twitter account and now just a few weeks following the release of her sophomore album Pink…

If you’re teetering on the edge of what robots should look like, you’re not alone. Most people lean more towards those science fiction robots in iRobot or Philip K. Dick’s 1948 science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which more people probably know as the 1982 film, Bladerunner. Literature and…