Some of us measure our daily lives according to point releases: This-dot-that, or that-dot-this.
Well, those of us with iPhones, anyway–especially those of us with inexplicable battery troubles, or who gnaw our nails to nubs over security bugs.
Buck up, Apple’s next iOS update may be near. The rumor patrol at BGR claims iOS …
You’ve got your Toys “R” Us Geoffrey Giraffe umbrella, your Buzz Lightyear talking action figure, and your Sassy ring-o-links, but wait–aren’t you forgetting something? Your know, like an Apple iPad 2?
If you’d rather grab your toys and totable tech all at once, it looks like you’ll soon have the option: According to ModMyi.com, …
David Lynch says you’ll never really watch a movie on your phone, but what about full-on 24/7 ESPN sports events?
ESPN already breaks off bits of its live shows for occasional phone-based palm-gawking via an app drably dubbed ESPN Mobile TV. So what do you call the app that lets you simply stream ESPN live?
WatchESPN, of course, …
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When a brick-and-mortar retailer decides to go digital, one possible strategy goes something like this: Buy a smaller digital company or two, and hope to make them big.
That’s what GameStop did last week when it acquired Stardock’s Impulse game download …
Whether the world’s slimmest or simply Seagate’s trimmest, the GoFlex Slim packs an awful lot into a pencil-thin package.
Take 9 millimeters of black anodized metal casing, drop in a 320GB Momentus notebook/netbook hard drive, crank the rotations-per-minute up to 7,200 (conventional desktop speeds), and you get less than six ounces of …
You loved Dragon Age II to the tune of 1 million unit sales in under two weeks, and now BioWare wants to love you back–by handing out free downloadable copies of sci-fi roleplaying epic Mass Effect 2. The PC version, that is.
(More on TIME.com: ‘Dragon Age 2’ Review: Heavyweight Champion)
The Canadian game studio responsible for …
SpaceX‘s ‘Falcon Heavy’ new commercial super-rocket isn’t messing around: It’ll be the most powerful private rocket ever built, twice as roomy as NASA’s Space Shuttle, and second in size only to the Apollo program’s mammoth Saturn V.
“This is a rocket of truly huge scale,” said SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk during a press …
Imagine a video game that got better as you did, or that could turn your pro thumb-hook, wrist-twist moves against you. Imagine another that added a little zest to your opponent’s less-than-exemplary game by making it harder for a pro like you to play.
Imagine games with dynamic handicaps, in other words, but don’t mistake that for …
Update: It looks like the International Space Station astronauts are safe, and that NASA’s declared the six-inch piece of space junk a non-threat, reports the Associated Press. Our original story follows:
It’s a piece of space debris from a destroyed Chinese weather satellite and it’s due to fly dangerously close to NASA’s …
Apple’s heady days as one of the Nasdaq’s ruling indexes may be over–for the moment, anyway.
The world’s largest electronics trading market, Nasdaq OMX, announced plans to cut Apple’s weighting in a massive rebalancing of its indexes on May 2.
Rebalancing’s relatively rare, but not unheard of for a capitalization-weighed index …
Space Shuttle Endeavour’s swan song will have to wait an extra 10 days, after a scheduling conflict with a Russian spacecraft forced NASA to delay the shuttle’s final launch from April 19 to April 29.
It’s a matter of who gets to go first, or actually how many get to go at the same time: In this case, an unmanned Russian cargo ship …
Apple can pat itself as well as the iPad on the back for helping pull its iOS family into first place and ahead of Android for overall web use, according to SEO firm ROI365.
Analyzing data from four million unique visitors and multiple websites, ROI365 found that while Android users enjoy a slight “web visits” lead over Apple’s …