We all had a good laugh a couple of weeks ago when Lenovo and HP announced laptops that were capable of eclipsing 30 hours of battery life on a single charge. Think of all the overworked office drones slumped over in their $49.99 task chairs after a 30-hour mail merge marathon!
Hilarious stuff, to be sure. But Lenovo won’t quit. It …
When it comes to download speeds, a series of independent tests claim that the Verizon iPhone can’t compare to its AT&T counterpart.
Wired reports that on average, AT&Ts 3G network is twice as fast as Verizon’s. Still, while AT&T had the advantage in terms of download speed, Wired’s Brian Chen says that there were times when it …
Back in 1999, Epitonic was one of the first major sites to offer free MP3s as a way to sample up-and-coming artists’ work. It went into mothballs in the mid-2000s, but more recently co-founder (and Atombombpocketknife singer/guitarist) Justin Sinkovich has been working on reactivating the site, with the help of a Kickstarter campaign. …
Well, well, well. Looks like we have some more fuel for the ages-old Google Music rumors. An enterprising developer shoehorned the new Motorola Xoom Android tablet’s music application onto his plain old Android smartphone and went he went into the phone’s settings menu, he was surprised to find a feature labeled “Sync Music” sandwiched …
If you’re planning to visit London for the Olympic Games next year, you need to register now to book your tickets. But don’t worry about tickets for the famous London Underground transport system, because you might already have one in your wallet.
Banks are already rolling out next-generation contactless bank cards, which can be used …
Facebook is stepping in to help users who post messages suggesting they want to hurt themselves. The social network has partnered up with with U.K.-based Samaritans, a group focused on suicide prevention, in order to make it easer to notify professionals if someone is showing worrisome behavior.
“Through the popularity of Facebook, we …
It’s no big revelation that the successors to the current generations of PlayStation, Wii and Xbox are in development. The graphical and processing functionality of the present-day consoles will max out eventually and no platform holder wants to be the laggard in a tech arms race. Recent rumors offer up some tantalizing hints as to when …
What’s that? You haven’t seen that movie that all of your Facebook friends have “liked”? Well, Warner Bros. has become the first movie studio to offer an immediate fix for such social network faux pas, by launching a test program allowing users to rent and watch movies on Facebook itself.
Facebook users in the US will be able to rent …
For sale: gorgeous node in a well-connected area. Excellent up/down bandwidth, with average download speed of 20 megabits per second, and 99.6% uptime over the last 12 months. Yours for just $300,000. Comes with free family home.
No wait, stop and think for a moment: Does broadband speed matter to you so much you’d consider it during …
Gamers and comic fans all agreed: Batman: Arkham Asylum was not only the best Batman game ever made; it was the best superhero game ever made. Many of the classic Bat-elements were there in the game’s detective sequences, hand-to-hand combat and glorious gadgets.
Still, one thing was missing: Gotham City itself. The sequel to B:AA aims …
Whoa, Microsoft! Big spender! Nice cufflinks! And are you wearing $108 sweatpants from Lululemon? You must be doing really well for yourself.
The backstory: Microsoft and Nokia struck a partnership wherein Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform will be used on Nokia’s many, many smartphone handsets that ship all over the …
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Flash vs. HTML5. HTML5 vs. Flash. Whatever your take on the respective merits of the two high-profile technologies for creating splashy Web content, you can’t deny that the rivalry between Adobe’s venerable Flash and the assortment of evolving open-source …
