SlingPlayer app arrives for Windows 8, costs $15 after free trial runs out

If you happen to own a Slingbox media streamer and a Windows 8.1/RT device, it’s your lucky day. After announcing last month that a SlingPlayer app for Windows was on the way, it’s now in the Windows Store, ready for download. Like the iOS and Android versions, which have been…

Posted on: December 13, 2013 5:00 pm

BlackBerry Gives Lenders More Time to Decide on Debt

BlackBerry Ltd. (BBRY), the strugglingsmartphone maker, extended the deadline for its lenders to buyas much as $250 million in convertible debt, letting them seeits latest financial figures before making a decision. The investors, including Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (FFH),now have until Jan. 13 to commit to acquiring the debtinstruments, BlackBerry said…

Posted on: December 13, 2013 12:00 pm

The detachable keyboard that gives your iPhone a Blackberry makeover… and …

Typo Keyboard costs $99 (60) and will be available on iPhone 5 and 5SIt will launch at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month US presenter Ryan Seacrest is a founder and said to invested $1million Keyboard fits over the bottom of the phone adding an inch to ByVictoria Woollaston PUBLISHED:…

Posted on: December 13, 2013 12:00 pm

Video: iPhone Air, iPhone 6c concepts that may never be

Even though the new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c have only been available in stores for a few months, fans are already trying to imagine with help of concept renders and videos what the future iPhones may bring that’s exactly what the designers at SET Solution did in the iPhone…

Posted on: December 13, 2013 12:00 pm

Twitter’s MoPub Fires Up An In-Stream Native Ad Product, Launches On Tango

Twitter’s recent acquisition of MoPub has fired up a native advertising business that will launch with in-stream ads on the Tango messaging platform and with other partners. The product is obviously taking some cues from Twitter’s own ad products, which take the form of promoted tweets and trends. The new…

Posted on: December 12, 2013 5:00 pm

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Lands on iOS

Heads up GTA fans, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas a much-loved entry in the smash hit game series has landed on iOS, its first mobile platform. The game is priced at $6.99 and will also come to Android, Windows Phone and Kindle devices in time. Initially we are just seeing the…

Posted on: December 12, 2013 12:00 pm

Nokia’s Android smartphone is ‘full steam ahead’ for 2014 release… but what …

According to a recent and fairly reliable source, Nokia is preparing to launch an Android-powered smartphone in 2014. Judging by the latest leaked images, Nokia’s Android phone code named Normandy will look just like a Windows Phone Lumia, with Nokia’s customary colorful polycarbonate unibody shell, but without the capacitive buttons For…

Posted on: December 12, 2013 12:00 pm

Citigroup Slaps ‘Sell’ Rating on BlackBerry Amid Dwindling Options

Shares of BlackBerry (BBRY) retreated another 2% Wednesday morning after Citigroup (C) issued a "sell" rating on the struggling smartphone maker due to a lack of options for a turnaround. The bearish analyst research underscores the extremely difficult position BlackBerry finds itself in due to bleeding cash, a depleted market position…

Posted on: December 12, 2013 12:00 pm

Meet Valkyrie: NASA’s Superhero-Like Walking Robot Unmasked

The newest humanoid robot from NASA just might be mistaken for a superhero. The space agency’s new Valkyrie a 6 foot 2 inch tall (1.9 meters) robot with a glowing NASA logo on its chest bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel’s superhero Iron Man, but this space age automaton was The robot was…

Posted on: December 12, 2013 7:00 am

Google Releases Its Find My iPhone-Style Android Device Manager App In The …

Google launched Android Device Manager back in August, but it curiously made the tool web-only, eschewing a native Android app and causing a lot of confusion in doing so. The Android Device Manager is now in the Play Store, and does most of the things that Apple’s Find My iPhone…

Posted on: December 11, 2013 5:00 pm