Move over McDonald’s, Angry Birds has you beat by a factor of eight: Developer Rovio says the popular bird-flinging, pig-pummeling mobile game for iPhone and Android mobiles has been downloaded over 500 million times across all platforms since it launched not quite two years ago.
Popping up my iPhone 4’s App Store, there it is, …
Hey parents, did you know Facebook has an age limit, or don’t you care? Turns out it’s the latter for most of you: Facebook sets the minimum age threshold at 13, a point I, too, was ignorant of until this study popped up, indicating that virtually all parents of underage kids that sign into Facebook on the sly are aware of and in fact …
From one spat to the next, the latest footnote to the chapter in the book that’s part of an ongoing legal series of thrust and counters involves Samsung demanding that Apple pony up the source code for its just-released iPhone 4S. Make this salvo number “I’ve lost count,” following Apple putting the kibosh on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
Apple iPhone 4S users are in the worst place Apple users can be: Somewhere between a possible iPhone 4S battery life pandemic and official acknowledgement of the issue by Cupertino with usage guidelines and a fix timeframe. Apple’s newest iPhone hit shelves in the U.S. on October 14, and since then threads have appeared across the web, …
We’ve heard a lot of analyst and supply chain scuttlebutt over the past year about the MacBook Pro folding into the MacBook Air lineup, or the MacBook Air outright supplanting the entire MacBook spread.
Power-wise, the Air’s already closing in, packing considerable power under the hood—enough to get me to switch one for the other. I …
What’s big and scary and orange and glows in the dark? If you said a jack-o-lantern, close, but not quite: Try Google’s latest, greatest doodle, a time-lapse video of a quirky pumpkin-carving jamboree.
And action: Six mammoth pumpkins—we’re talking the size of boulders here—rest on bales of hay in the middle of a grassy field, …
Alas, the Nexus One, we knew it well…back when Samsung was still updating the thing with the latest in Android finery. No longer: The Nexus One will apparently not enjoy an Ice Cream Sandwich along with last year’s Nexus S when Google’s Android OS upgrade arrives for the latter in the next few weeks. Mark your calendars: January 5, …
Just like that, Samsung’s the new smartphone king, overtaking Apple last quarter and snatching the coveted title “world’s largest smartphone” shopkeep. Not only that, but Samsung’s forecasting big numbers for the current quarter, October to December. Hey Samsung, intimidate much?
The numbers are certainly on Samsung’s side: The …
In a 1968 musical starring Dick Van Dyke, a vintage racing motorcar takes to the skies with helicopter blades perched on the ends of red and yellow batwings. The musical’s name: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. For some reason, those four words popped into by brainpan when I spotted MSNBC’s story about a “flying Humvee.”
Just look at that …
It certainly sounds ominous: Hackers meddling with satellites controlled by the U.S. government several times over the past four years. What’s more, claims a report by a U.S. congressional commission, the hackers behaved in ways consistent with Chinese military doctrine.
In a draft report due out next month and
When Apple switched to Intel chips back in 2006, reality almost imploded, and when Steve Jobs launched the iPad without an Intel microprocessor, you could almost feel the ripples through the time-space continuum. What you probably didn’t know, is that the iPad almost had an Intel chip under the hood.
And here’s the kicker: The guy …
Before there was Arnold (or AH-nuld), there were probably things like this: robots that can walk without sensors or other special means of propulsion. What would it say if it could talk? Probably “Look ma, no motors or electricity!”
The Center Lab at the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan put what amounts to robo-thighs, calves …