Apple engineers contacting iPhone 4S owners to solve battery life puzzle
Short battery life may be affected by corrupted contact details or background services - but solutions vary widely, and Siri apparently not to blame — Apple engineers are contacting some iPhone 4S o...
Google's Big Video Push Is Here: YouTube Getting More Than 100 New Channels
Google is launching more than 100 new YouTube channels with exclusive video content commissioned from media companies and celebrities. — Providers with their own channels will include Thomson Reuter...
Bye, bye $99 TouchPad: HP says tablet officially out of stock
Hewlett-Packard sent out notices today that it is officially out of TouchPads, meaning there will be no more shipments of those popular $99 tablets. — The notice says, “As you signed up for updates ...
U.S. Firm Acknowledges Syria Uses Its Gear to Block Web
A U.S. company that makes Internet-blocking gear acknowledges that Syria has been using at least 13 of its devices to censor Web activity there—an admission that comes as the Syrian government cracks ...
Kindle makes for heavy reading
It has been revealed that the Amazon e-book reader weighs more when it is fully loaded. How come? — One of the original selling points of Amazon's Kindle was that the device weighed no more than th...
CBS, Warner Bros. Sell “Gossip Girl” Again — This Time to Hulu
This Time to Hulu — CBS and Time Warner's Warner Bros., who just did a large re-run deal with Netflix for their CW network shows, have sold the same programming again. This time the buyer is Hulu, w...
Steve Ballmer Torched This Ex-Microsoft Employee's Chance To Work On iCloud For Apple
In April news broke that Apple had poached Microsoft employee Kevin Timmons to help build out its cloud-computing services. — Then in October, it turned out Timmons wasn't at Apple.
It Looks Like The Nook Color 2 Launches On November 7
Three Barnes & Noble employees have all but confirmed that the company will release its new e-reader, the Nook Color 2, on November 7, reports The Digital Reader. — Its most direct competitor will b...
Xbox Companion app for WP7 shown off at Nokia World, leaks Vudu integration (video)
Even if you're not planning on picking up one of Espoo's latest handsets, Microsoft is also on the scene at Nokia World 2011 giving live demos of the upcoming Xbox Companion remote app for Windows Pho...
The bulls**t Samsung smartphone numbers
The Internet is buzzing this morning with news that Samsung has overtaken Apple as the worlds leading smartphone vendor. The problem is, there are no numbers to actually back up the claim. — Here's...
An Update on Google TV
In the 1970s, there were just a few networks on TV. Cable changed things by adding hundreds of new channels like HBO, ESPN, and MTV. The Internet marks a new chapter for television. This chapter is...
HP to hold on to PC division - but sources say it will finally kill webOS
Internal review decides not to spin off world's largest PC maker, but operating system developed for short-lived TouchPad to be closed along with 500 jobs — Hewlett-Packard is to keep its PC divisio...
Samsung Beats Apple, Becomes World No. 1 in Smartphone Sales
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co. overtook Apple Inc. in the last quarter to become the world's largest smartphone vendor amid a widening technology and legal battle between the two compan...
Gates to students: Don't try to be a billionaire, it's overrated
Bill Gates made a rare appearance at the University of Washington this afternoon, talking about how qualitative and measurable advances in technology are coming together for major advances in the area...
Dear Apple, Please Make My iPhone 4S Battery Life Suck Less
I think I figured out what the “S” stands for in the iPhone 4S. Now, to be clear, I love my new iPhone 4S. I talk to it even when there isn't a human on the other end of the line. Sometimes it talk...
Surprise: You Can't Make Apps on an iPad
Click here to view the embedded video. — In some ways, some critics were wrong, when they said the iPad offers little to creative people who make things as opposed to merely consuming them, as prove...
Exclusive: First Pictures of the DROID4 by Motorola
Keyboard lovers, get ready - the DROID4 by Motorola is coming and according to our sources, has the best slideout they have “ever seen on a smartphone.” In this set of glamour shots we received, you ...
Here's why Apple's TV needs to be an actual television, and not just a cheap add-on box
One of the most frequently asked (and smartest) questions about the supposedly forthcoming Apple television is: Why does it need to be an actual TV set? Why can't it just be an accessory like today's...
The next disruptive iPhone feature? High definition audio calls
Not every new feature of the iPhone is a major shift, many are just refinements of what have come before. But some few definitely are and I think that the iPhone is poised to gain another hugely disr...
$150 HP TouchPads coming to Best Buy... with purchase of a PC
Best Buy will begin selling dirt cheap HP TouchPad tablets again on Tuesday, November 1st. You'll be able to pick up a 32GB model for $149.99. — That's the good news. — The bad news is that in or...
Samsung to Sell Phones With Flexible Screens Next Year
Samsung Electronics said Friday that it is aiming to launch mobile phones with flexible displays next year, with tablets and other portable devices to have these displays soon after. — The company s...
Apple contacts man whose home was searched by employees
A San Francisco man whose home was searched by Apple security officials hunting for an unreleased iPhone is in discussions with the computer maker, his attorney said. — Two Apple employees claimed t...
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Apple's ‘Slide to Unlock’ patent worries Taiwanese government, forces investigation
Apple's recent success in patenting the ‘Slide to Unlock’ gesture used on its iOS devices has the Taiwanese government worried, causing the country's Premier (Prime Minister), Wu Den-yih …
How to justify Groupon's valuation
Henry Blodget has a smart post on how to value Groupon today. Is he right that it's vastly overpriced at a $10 billion valuation? — Blodget's main thesis is that revenue growth at Groupon is slowin...
Microsoft holding Windows Phone ‘backstage’ event Nov. 7
It looks like Microsoft is gearing up for another big Windows Phone event. — The company just sent out invitations for a “backstage” event held in New York on November 7. Microsoft's Windows Phone ...
Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo's Livestand and Google's Propeller Set to Launch Next Week
Memo to Flipboard, as well as Pulse, CNN's Zite and AOL's Editions: You might want to make some room in the already-crowded news and social reader space, because you're about to get some bigfoot compa...
Judge Dismisses Class Action Lawsuit Over Facebook's Friend Finder Feature
A class action lawsuit filed against Facebook over its FriendFinder feature was dismissed yesterday by a California federal judge. In the case of Robyn Cohen, et al. v. Facebook, a group of the netwo...