Tech News
21
Dec
2011
by
Peter Pachal -
To anyone who doesn’t read the business pages, T-Mobile may seem like a powerhouse mobile company. Its clever holiday ad campaign has been ubiquitous this fall, touting the carrier’s impressive selection of smartphones and value-driven service plans. T-Mobile stores are everywhere, and winsome Canadian Carly Foulkes has become almost...
14
Dec
2011
Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help. A program launching Tuesday enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor through Facebook's "chat" messaging system. The service is the latest tool from Facebook aimed at improving safety on…
09
Dec
2011
by
Stan Schroeder -
Samsung is developing an 11.6-inch tablet with a 2560×1600 pixel display, which might put the display of Apple’s next generation iPad to shame, Boy Genius Report claims, citing a “trusted source.” The tablet will reportedly run Android 4.0 with a 2 GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 CPU, and it’s likely to…
09
Dec
2011
by
Zachary Sniderman -
Two new PlayStation games are blurring the line between music software and video games. Sound Shapes, for the soon-to-be-released PlayStation Vita is like a Super Mario — if all of your actions in the classic game painted its unique soundtrack. PixelJunk 4am, for PlayStation 3, uses the gesture-based Move controller…
03
Dec
2011
by
Lance Ulanoff -
Look out! Your phone knows what you’re doing. It has your contacts, email messages, SMS text, pictures and video. It gets worse. Your carrier — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon — has to handle some of this information. You hit “send” and then their networks pass along personal email messages to…
03
Dec
2011
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Pocketnow -
If you’re a heavy Facebook user on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed every now and then that comments are displayed wrong. For instance, when you’ve just uploaded a new picture, sometimes Facebook displays comments on it that were received for other ones, mixing content up. An update is now available…
03
Dec
2011
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Daniel Alves -
Daniel Alves is the design director for the small business web design division at the digital marketing and web design company, 352 Media Group. If you’re like most business owners, getting leads online is the main reason you created a website in the first place. Sure, you may have a…
03
Dec
2011
by
Peter Pachal -
Siri Comes Out Against Abortion When a blogger asked his readers to see how Siri responded to questions about abortion clinics, he had no idea what he was starting. Siri's unhelpful answers to questions about where to go for an abortion led to widespread condemnation, forcing Apple to eventually clarify…
25
Nov
2011
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Lauren Indvik -
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. Black Friday Deals Go Live Black Friday sales have begun in the U.S.,…
25
Nov
2011
by
Stan Schroeder -
Apple’s Black Friday sale is less surprising than ever this year, since a leaked brochure informed us on all the discounts two days in advance. As usual, the discounts are nice, but far from amazing, with most price cuts being in the 10-15% range. Now, Apple Black Friday is officially…
25
Nov
2011
by
Stan Schroeder -
Microsoft has announced its Black Friday sale over at Microsoft Store, offering decent discounts on the Kinect, Xbox, select PCs, software and games. The Kinect sensor is available as a part of the Kinect Sensor Holiday Bundle, which comes with Fruit Ninja, Gunstringer and Kinect Adventures, for $99. The Xbox…
25
Oct
2011
by
Chris Taylor -
Few events can boast headliners like Tim Cook, Norah Jones, Jonathan Ive, Al Gore and Coldplay. But Apple‘s campus-wide celebration of the life of Steve Jobs last Wednesday was hardly an ordinary event. The entire Cupertino-based company was crammed into its outdoor amphitheater; Apple stores shut around the world as…
