The blue light makes it look futuristic! (Chris Ratcliffe – BLOOMBERG) I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I still have a BlackBerry. I’ve been trying unsuccessfully for several months to pretend that this was not the case. I keep it in an iPhone case and address it as Siri. “Siri,”…

Apple’s new iPad will go on sale March 16 and sellouts are widely expected, but the real hero will be the company’s supply chain. It’s a juggernaut that can move 1 million units in a product launch without blinking. Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, is already projecting that Apple will…

Austin (Texas) – Foursquare’s co-founder Dennis Crowley aims to take Foursquare from an app used primarily to tell your friends where you are to a tool that any smartphone owner can use for relevant recommendations and discounts at restaurants, coffee shops and museums. If done right, that would mean plenty…

Just when you think they had run out of ways to shock us, Archie Comics delivered some startling news last week: The latest twist in the Life With Archie series is that Cheryl Blossom, the pretty, flirty, wealthy girl of Riverdale, has run up against a problem she can’t take…

Buying the new iPad on launch day this Friday is a tricky task, but it’s not impossible. Apple says demand for the new iPad is “off the charts,” so if you want to pre-order one online now, it won’t reach you until next week at the earliest. That means your…

Popular mobile photo-sharing app Instagram announced it now has more than 27 million users on iOS, and is hinting the company plans to release an Android app soon. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom showed off a forthcoming Android app, currently in a private beta period, at the music, arts, and tech Rumblings…

ROME Italian authorities say they are planning to use “sophisticated robot-like equipment” to help rescuers find the bodies of seven people still missing in the wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise liner. The Italian Civil Protection agency says the goal is to use the machines to search areas that divers…

While the debate over native apps versus mobile websites rages on, new data from Nielsen suggests that the top retailers got better reach from their mobile websites during the holidays than through their native mobile apps. Based on metering of 5,000 smartphone phones, five of the top retailers Amazon, Best The…

The iPhone is the top smartphone in most markets around the world except in China. The top platform remains Android in most places, but the single most popular smartphone in the majority of areas is the iPhone. Apple is making a big push into China since the country is the…

In 2003, it seemed like the shopping technology of the future: portable computers that could scan bar codes and let customers ring up purchases as they strolled through supermarket aisles, without having to wait for a cashier to check it all out at the end. Surely, millions of Americans would soon…