Former Vice President Al Gore apparently forgot that Apple board members aren’t supposed to talk about unreleased Apple products. Either that, or he figured word wouldn’t travel very quickly from South Africa.
Gore, who joined Apple’s board in 2003, was speaking at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in Johannesburg, where he …
Three things, they say, are certain in life: death, taxes, and Facebook redesigns. The social network, notorious for tinkering with its home page, has just introduced changes to the Facebook news feed with an emphasis on “top stories” instead of recent posts.
Facebook users who don’t regularly visit the site will only see these top …
HTC and Verizon Wireless are getting in touch with their feminine sides with the HTC Rhyme, an Android smartphone ostensibly aimed at women.
Originally rumored under the name HTC Bliss, the Rhyme skimps on specs in favor of style and accessories. Its Plum-colored unibody frame has gentle curves all over and houses a 3.7-inch display, …
Recording life’s precious moments on video seems like such a good idea—until the time comes to boil down an hour of raw, mostly worthless footage into something watchable.
A new, free video editing service called Magisto claims to solve this problem by automatically editing long videos or multiple clips into a short, YouTube-able …
Netflix is losing in the court of public opinion after announcing plans to rebrand its mail-order DVD service as a separate business, called Qwikster. On Facebook and Netflix’s own blog, the vast majority of comments about the shake-up are negative.
If you missed the news, Qwikster will replace Netflix’s mail-order service and will …
Samsung’s banking on home-field advantage to get the iPhone 5 banned in Korea, even as Apple gains the upper hand in smaller patent battles overseas.
Samsung executives told Korea Times that it will seek a sales ban against the iPhone 5 once it launches in Korea. “For as long as Apple does not drop mobile telecommunications functions, …
Google is rumored to be making a news reader app, called “Google Propeller,” that’s kind of like Flipboard. And if unnamed sources are to be believed, it’ll be a leader in the field of Flipboard clones.
That’s right. “Flipboard clones” is pretty much a genre of apps now. AOL has “Editions.” CNN recently bought Zite. Yahoo is working …
These days, you’ve got to be crazy to sell a tablet for the same price as Apple’s iPad, so it’s no surprise that Research in Motion is planning to slash the price of its ailing Blackberry Playbook tablet.
RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said that the company will soon offer rebates on the Playbook, according to Boy Genius Report. For …
I’ve been optimistic about Windows 8 ever since Microsoft revealed a glimpse of the operating system in June, and that hasn’t changed now that I’ve played around with the developer build on a prototype tablet.
But not everything’s peachy with Windows 8. With the caveat that the software I’ve seen is an early build that’s subject to …
On Tuesday, Microsoft showed off the first tablets running Windows 8, and provided a bunch of new details about the operating system. I’ve already ogled the hardware, so now let’s look at the big takeaways from the Windows 8 software, at least from what Microsoft has disclosed so far. Here’s what you need to know:
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Microsoft is getting serious about tablets with Windows 8, and we’ve got hard proof. Pictured above, and in the slides that follow, is the first tablet running Windows 8, built by Samsung. It’s just a prototype, and may never hit store shelves in its current form (a version of this hardware will launch as a Windows 7 tablet), but it …
Microsoft’s got a big week ahead at its Build conference, where the company is expected to drop lots of new details about Windows 8. Ostensibly, the conference is a place for application developers to learn about Microsoft’s new software, but for the rest of us, it’ll hopefully be a place to get some key details and hands-on time with …