Google’s search app for iPhone just got a big upgrade, with improved voice search that supports natural-language questions, just like Apple’s Siri. Yet, I don’t see myself using it.
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“We have not done anything yet.”
Netatmo Home Weather Station Kit Brings Out Your Inner Meteorologist
I took a meteorology class in undergrad as an elective because I’ve always been into the weather: tornadoes, hurricanes, derechos, ball lightning, supercells, squalls, you name it. Not enough to pursue it as a career, but let’s …
Are Tablets like the iPad Poised to Dethrone Game Consoles?
Thank you, Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, the guys behind the bleeding-edge PC shooter Crysis, for confirming in so many words what I’ve been saying for years: Tablet-gaming is here, and it’s a clear and present threat to console …
10 Best (and Worst) Batman Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android
With “The Dark Knight Rises” in theaters this Friday, here’s a check of the 10 hippest (and not-so-hip) Batman-themed apps for iPhones, iPads and Android devices.
Is Rovio’s Amazing Alex a Worthy Successor to Angry Birds?
Amazing Alex, Rovio’s touch-based mobile followup to Angry Birds (or in sequential-ese, Angry Birds Space) blindsided me. A new physics-angled game from the company that’s seen over a billion app downloads, with an estimated …
Musical DNA: WhoSampled iPhone App Scours Tracks for Borrowed Riffs
If you’ve heard all of the new Bruce Springsteen album, Wrecking Ball, you’ve probably wondered, listening to its final rousing track, “We Are Alive,” why that song sounds so familiar. Or maybe you got the riff right away on your …
Google Brings Chrome and Drive to iPhone and iPad, Docs Goes Offline
Google is launching versions of its Chrome browser and Google Drive app for iPhones and iPads.
The company also announced offline editing for Google Docs during its Google I/O developers conference on Thursday.
Chrome for …
iOS: Can We Declare a Moratorium On the Prison Metaphors, Please?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Micah Lee and Peter Eckersley have published a post about iOS titled “Apple’s Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms.” In it, they do what you’d expect the EFF to do in an item with …
Coming June 11: Our Live Coverage of Apple’s WWDC Keynote
It was already all but official. Now it is official: Apple will kick off its WWDC developer confab in San Francisco with a keynote on June 11.
It seems safe to assume that the keynote will feature Apple CEO Tim Cook and other …
Review: The Weather Channel’s Slick New (and Free) iPhone App
Cracks about meteorological accuracy aside, I’ve morphed into my family’s weatherman in recent years — partly because I’m the only one with a smartphone, partly because I’m obsessed with severe weather-watching. My wife has the …
Nielsen: Majority of Mobile Subscribers Now Smartphone Owners
If you’re immersed in the tech world, it can be hard to believe that there are still people out there without smartphones. The fact is that as recently as December, the majority of mobile subscribers were using plain old feature …