Microsoft has its own Project Glass - augmented reality glasses/wearable computer combo
Microsoft has it's own Project Glass cooking in the R&D labs. — It's an augmented reality glasses/heads-up display, that should supply you with various bits of trivia while you are watching a live e...
Apple's international Black Friday sale goes live, $100 off MacBook Air/Pros, savings on iPads and iPods
Update: , Black Friday sales are now available on UK, Finland, France, Poland, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands Apple Stores. — Apple's Black Friday deals are now officially live …
Is the Saudi Government Monitoring Women?
An uproar broke out on Twitter last week when some Saudi women discovered that their male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them that the women under their custody have...
Windows 8 store adds 7,000 apps in two weeks to pass 20,000 mark, almost 18,000 are free
The Windows Store in Windows 8 has passed 20,000 apps. It's not clear exactly when it happened, but Win App Update, which keeps track of the totals, posted on Thursday that the milestone was likely r...
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip. — Northside Independent School District in San Antonio beg...
DreamWorks Releases Software Used in ‘Guardians’
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., after spending years developing specialized software used to make one of its most expensive movies ever, is giving it away free to competitors. — The studio released o...
Yahoo's Ad Sell-Through Rate on its Log-in Page Has Plummeted
A Huge Display Unit to Appeal to Brand Advertisers — One of Yahoo's prime pieces of ad real estate has been awfully ad-free of late, according to a report from financial research firm Macquarie Equi...
The Shrewd Shopper Carries a Smartphone
This Black Friday, to the tech-aware go the spoils. — Retailers are trying to lure shoppers away from the Internet, where they have increasingly been shopping to avoid Black Friday madness, and back...
Media bigs flock to YouTube power players
Why MCNs like Fullscreen, Maker are luring investors — Above: Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos, right, holds a meeting with staffers in Culver City, CA. — There may be no better sign that there's ...
iPad mini Review
Over the last two months, Apple has updated almost all of its core product lines, with the addition of a 13" model to the Retina MacBook Pro line and new silicon for the iPad and Mac mini to go with g...
IBM: Thanksgiving Sales Data Shows Mobile Commerce Jumping, iPhone/iPad Driving 19% Of Traffic, Social Nets Only 0.2%
ComScore yesterday predicted that e-commerce sales would jump by 14% this holiday season compared to last year, to $42 billion, and some numbers just out from IBM's Benchmark service …
Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure Big Audiences
Search engine optimization, Google AdWords and email lists are all essential components of online campaigns, but several e-commerce companies are giving mass media a whirl. — Slightly ahead of the h...
Following Netflix and Hulu, Amazon brings over 140,000 movies and TV episodes to the Nintendo Wii U
Following Netflix and Hulu Plus, Amazon on Wednesday announced the launch of its Instant Video app for Nintendo's Wii U console. You can now download the app now on the Wii U home screen or grab it f...
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop
Very soon in the United States, letters will be sent out to Internet account holders informing them that they should stop sharing copyrighted material on BitTorrent. — The message in the US from mai...
Apple's Big Problem: Google Is Getting Better At Design Faster Than Apple Is Getting Better At The Internet
Apple's biggest problem is that Google is getting better at what it does poorly faster than Apple is getting better at what it does poorly, says Patrick Gibson in a blog post.
Hard drive maker OCZ says facing SEC probe
OCZ Technology Group Inc said it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and it received a subpoena requesting certain documents and information related to its Sep. 5 and Oct....
Australian tax crackdown to target Google, other multinationals
(Reuters) - Australia released draft revisions to tax laws on Thursday, which it said were designed to stop big firms, including the local arm of Google, from shifting their income to countries such a...
B&N NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ arrive in UK
Barnes & Noble's NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ tablets have gone on sale in the UK, taking on the iPad and iPad mini with competitive price tags. The two Android-based slates use B&N's latest customized versi...