Samsung will put apps on anything these days, from phones to tablets to TVs. And for a mere $3,500, Samsung will soon put apps on your refrigerator, too.
The RF4289 is a four-door fridge with an 8-inch touch screen, but it’s not just for boring stuff like climate control. Using a built-in Wi-Fi connection, the RF4289 can pull up …
Samsung pulled a cheap trick when it revealed the Galaxy Tab 10.1 at the CTIA trade show in March: Although the company provided a handful of specs, a price and a release date, the actual tablet was powered off and trapped behind glass.
So as far as I can tell, this Galaxy Tab 10.1 video posted by Tinhte.vn is the first time the U.S. …
If you listen really closely to this leaked ad for an HTC Windows Phone 7 handset with a 16-megapixel camera, you can hear the sound of compact digital cameras dying a sad, slow death.
HTC’s yet-unnamed Windows Phone 7 would top the Altek Leo’s 14-megapixel camera for the highest pixel count in a smartphone. HTC’s handset will also …
The next generation of Windows Phone 7 handsets will have to run a little bit faster, per Microsoft’s orders.
Microsoft has confirmed new minimum specs for Windows Phones. The tech jargon version: Qualcomm’s second-gen MSM8x55 or MSM7x30 Snapdragon processors will replace the MSM8x50 chips found in current handsets, and Adreno 205 …
I thought I could write a serious blog post about Asymco’s first quarter PC forecast, but no.
The conclusion is similar to every other sky-falling-on-Windows story you might have read: PCs are in trouble, Macs are doing fine, and the iPad is causing laptop vendors the world over to wake up in a cold sweat. Asymco’s version is a bit …
Apple, Comcast, MySpace, Skype and Verizon are most willing to throw users under the bus when it comes to privacy, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Looking to rally users around the issue of privacy, the EFF has drawn up a handy chart for how tech companies respond to government requests for data. The advocacy group has also …
Got $140,000 to spare? If so, the entire country of Liechtenstein can be yours to rent through Airbnb.
Airbnb is a website that helps travelers rent a place to stay from homeowners. Usually, that means a house, or at least a spot on someone’s couch, but now the scope has expanded to include six Austrian villages, three German towns, …
In Twitter’s perfect world, Tweetbot wouldn’t exist.
Like Tweetdeck, Twitterific and Echofon, Tweetbot is a third-party Twitter client, giving iPhone users access to their tweets, replies, retweets and direct messages. For $2, it also happens to be really good.
Tweetbot excels at the little things, like the ability to tap a tweet …
You know him as the “Can You Hear Me Now” guy, or perhaps the Verizon Guy, or the Test Man as he’s called within Verizon, but his real name is Paul Marcarelli, and he’s finally allowed to speak.
The Atlantic has written a rare profile of Marcarelli, who’s feeling comfortable about publicizing his other work now that Verizon has …
If you’ve ever used a traffic map on a smartphone to find the best way home, you know that it can be pretty unreliable. Road conditions are always changing, and a green line in Google Maps can quickly turn to red, signaling massive congestion.
Enter IBM, which is starting a research project to make commuting easier. The so-called …
We’ve all heard the stories about how location based services such as FourSquare are a potential tool for people who want to burglarize your house while you’re away and checked in elsewhere. It’s all useless fearmongering if you ask me. (Also, the website Please Rob Me is inherently bogus; it’s only a robbery if someone’s home.)
Carbon fiber iPods! No iPad 3 this year! A cable killer! Yes, the smell of Apple rumors is in the air today. Let’s take a closer look at this lovely trio and guess at each rumor’s likelihood.
Part of the classic “new rumor negates old rumor” genre, DigiTimes reports that there will be no iPad 3 this year. The original …
