Google Play comes to Barnes & Noble's Nook HD and HD+, we go hands-on (video)
Barnes & Noble's refusal to open its ecosystem has long been one of our principle complaints about the company's tablet offerings. The Nook HD and HD+ are extremely nice pieces of hardware that have ...
This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun
Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world's first entirely 3D-printable handgun. Now he has. Early next week, Wilson, a 25-year University of Texas law student and founder of the non...
Take that, Apple TV: Smart TVs twice as popular as dedicated streaming boxes
14 percent of all broadband households owned an Apple TV, a Roku box or another kind of dedicated streaming device in 2012, but 25 percent owned a smart TV with an embedded app platform, according …
Massive Bitcoin Business Partnership Devolves Into $75 Million Lawsuit
Bitcoin, the virtual currency libertarian geeks expect us all to use to pay for pizza in the future, has had a rough few weeks. A series of booms and busts have sent shivers down the spines of Bitcoi...
Samsung defends 16GB S4's mere 8GB of usable storage
Samsung, BlackBerry devices cleared for use on U.S. defense networks
(Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday cleared BlackBerry and Samsung mobile devices for use on Defense Department networks, a step toward opening up the military to a wide variety of technology equipme...
Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Start-Up Machine
Michelle Crosby, an energetic 37-year-old lawyer in Boise, Idaho, applied for a loan last November from a local bank, Western Capital. She proposed to use the money, $10,000, to help start a new busi...
Fullscreen BEAM: The first YouTube app for Google Glass comes with public or private sharing
I picked up my Google Glass this week, and one of my first instincts was to share one of the cool POV videos out to YouTube and blast a tweet to my followers. I'm not always the most ‘on it’ when it ...
Google reveals Shawnee, Kansas, will be the fourth city to get its Fiber Internet service
Google on Thursday announced that Shawnee, Kansas will be the fourth city to receive the company's Fiber Internet service. Shawnee is located just south-west of Kansas City, meaning the technology …
AT&T planning June launch of ‘All In One’ prepaid brand
AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) is planning to launch new prepaid services under the “All In One” brand June 15, according to people familiar with the matter. The carrier will likely offer a $35 per month ser...
Horace Dediu on the bad habits of Apple analysts and why Tim Cook shouldn't be fired
“I have few average days,” says Horace Dediu, one of the most well-respected watchers of the mobile industry, and Apple in particular, when asked about how he fills his time while running the Asymco b...
Apple's U.S. Smartphone Usage Share Approaches 40%
comScore today released the results of its monthly rolling survey of U.S. mobile phone users for the January-March period, showing that Apple's smartphone market share rose 2.7 points from December to...
Google lets you add Calendar events directly from Gmail by clicking on a date and time, English-only for now
Google on Thursday announced a small Gmail update that lets you create Google Calendar events directly from your email. The new feature is rolling out to everyone with the English …
Maybe the Low-End iPhone Is Really a Mid-End iPhone
What if Apple's long-rumored low-end iPhone isn't targeted at the smartphone market's lower reaches? What if it's targeted at the middle? — What if it isn't low-end at all, but simply mainstream? ...
Digital doorkeys and more: Meet New York's latest start-ups
Opening doors with the push of a button: Traditional doorkeys may be a thing of the past — That's a problem that the founders of Kisi hope they have solved, by coming up with a way of using your sma...
Facebook settles Timelines trademark suit
Facebook and Timelines Inc. have reached a settlement in the trademark case against the social network, according to a document Facebook filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Timeline...
Google Glass Will Soon Also Let iPhone Users Access Navigation And Text Messages
To use text messaging and navigation on Google Glass, users currently have to pair it with an Android phone and install the Glass companion app on their phones. This will change very soon, however …
The Intel Opportunity
A new CEO has taken over Intel. Their core business, upon which the company has been built, is floundering. Does the new CEO, who is not really new at all (he's the current COO), have the vision to ...
Spotify Takes a Page From the Twitter Playbook, Buys Music Discovery App Tunigo
Last fall, Twitter bought We Are Hunted, a “music discovery” startup that made a popular app for Spotify. — Apparently Spotify is paying attention: It just bought Tunigo, another music discovery sta...
‘Introverted’ Evernote pairs with messaging app Kakao Talk (and its 90 million users)
It's not all WhatsApp and LINE. If you're in Korea, then your messaging app of choice is most likely to be Kakao Talk, and Evernote hopes that allying with the app will expand its remit and boost its...