Apparently not content with e-mails and video chat, a Japanese lab is trying to enhance long-distance relationships with electronic kissing.
Yeah, Kajimoto Research Laboratory’s Kiss Transmission Device looks as gross as it sounds. As demonstrated in a video from Diginfo.tv, both users hunker down in front of their respective devices, …
Motorola’s laptop dock for the Atrix 4G smartphone is a taste of the future that’s way too expensive for the present at $500. Thankfully, that hasn’t discouraged Motorola from working on newer, cheaper versions.
Motorola Chief Executive Sanjay Jha told investors to expect more laptop docks in the second half of this year, covering a …
Did you just write something stupid on Facebook? Delete no more, my friend, because Facebook comment editing is finally here.
The ability to edit Facebook comments extends only to replies for existing status updates and wall posts. It won’t work for status updates themselves.
To edit, just click the “X” next to the comment, as if …
Sleep well, my precious. I know where you live.
That’s the gist of a new warning sticker that Verizon Wireless plans to slap on its smartphones. Verizon revealed its plans in a letter to Congress, as noted by Forbes. Here’s what the warning label actually says (I may have enjoyed some creative license above):
“This device is …
iPhone data caps got you down? Onavo offers a solution by compressing all your data so you don’t use as much of it.
The free iPhone app claims to save up to 80 percent on a monthly data allotment. Just run the app in the background, and Onavo gets to work on crunching those bits.
It’s a useless app for the Verizon iPhone, given …
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Hulu Plus comes to Xbox Live toady, and Microsoft let me have an early look along with a Kinect loaner unit to check out voice and motion controls.
If you’re not familiar with Hulu Plus, it’s an $8 per month streaming movie service focused mainly on …
A rare outage has hit Yahoo Mail, with service down for a subset of users.
Yahoo has acknowledged the outage. Here’s the statement, as posted at The Next Web:
“Yahoo mail is currently inaccessible to some users. We are working to correct the issue and restore all functionality immediately. We know that this may have caused some
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AT&T is finally making good on its promise to enable 4G uploads for Motorola’s Atrix 4G.
For reasons not entirely clear, AT&T was holding back upload speeds on the powerful smartphone, and was doing the same for HTC’s Inspire 4G. Although both phones are are capable of High-Speed Uplink Packet Access, or HSUPA, uploads were handled …
In a move that should surprise no one, Apple is testing iOS 5, the next version of its iPhone operating system, ahead of a big reveal in June.
App Store developer FutureTap discovered a mention of iOS 5.0 while looking over crash reports, according to 9 to 5 Mac. After a bit more digging, FutureTap found that an iPhone 4 and …
While Apple’s Facetime languishes with no new features, and Google’s Android continues to lack a native video chat app, Fring has gone ahead and added four-way video calls to its iPhone and Android apps.
The app is free for iOS and Android, as are video and voice calls to other Fring users. Fring makes its money by selling a FringOut …
Sounds like DirecTV has a bit of Netflix envy.
In a recent web survey, revealed by Zatz Not Funny, DirecTV asks customers how they’d feel about “a streaming-only Netflix-like service for a flat fee per month, which would appear as a line item on your monthly bill.”
The service would offer thousands of movies and TV shows for …
Just when you thought touch screen smartphones and tablets couldn’t get any thinner, a new development has paved the way for slimmer gadgets — possibly even the iPhone 6.
Toshiba and Sharp are both developing a touch screen technology called low-temperature poly-silicon TFT LCD. Instead of putting sensors and signal processors on a …
