A long-overdue overhaul to Apple’s iPhone voice commands may arrive with the next version of iOS, at least according to the rumor mill.
Nearly two years have passed since Apple introduced voice commands for the iPhone, allowing users to place calls and play music by holding the iPhone’s home button and speaking. But next to Android’s …
You probably paid $250 for that sleek cobalt black or aqua blue Nintendo 3DS you snatched up Sunday. Now guess what Nintendo’s paying.
Try $103 and change, or less than half your bill. That’s what analyst iSuppli estimates the company’s forking over in manufacturing costs for every 3DS that rolls off the line, though cautioning the …
The cloud? Good. No girlfriend? Bad. A cloud-based girlfriend? Better than no girlfriend, apparently.
The idea behind Cloud Girlfriend is simple: You pay a yet-to-be-determined price to have your ideal (yet not for real) girlfriend leave you loving messages on your Facebook Wall for all to see.
It’s an easy four-step process, says …
A Yahoo Research study found that only 20,000 people are pretty much responsible for half of all tweets on Twitter. How many of those people actually make up Twitter’s user base? Less than one percent.
Over a billion tweets pass through Twitter each week, but the study only analyzed a select sample of 260 million tweets. Half of …
Do you remember the music video for This Too Shall Pass by OK Go? It’s basically three and a half minutes of an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine captured in a single shot—no small feat whatsoever.
The company behind the contraption, Syyn Labs, was recently approached by Google to devise a Rube Goldberg machine to kick off the opening …
British Member of Parliament Kerry McCarthy made history last night, becoming the first to make a speech in the House of Commons with notes on an Apple iPad.
Big deal, you might say. Why the fuss?
In many parliaments and assemblies around the world, this wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow. But in the UK, Parliament still inhabits its …
It wasn’t enough to trawl the Titanic or craft the film industry’s best looking azure-blue E.T.’s, filmmaker James Cameron wanted to put a high-resolution 3D camera on NASA’s Mars rover, too.
Alas, ’tis not to be, says NASA, who admitted the zoom camera couldn’t be thoroughly tested in time for the rover’s launch later this year–a …
Can’t say no one saw this one coming. Yesterday, Sprint made it known they aren’t happy about the pending AT&T and T-Mobile merger. At all.
General predictions forecasted that Sprint would be on the losing end if regulators approve the deal. If it happens, Sprint will have to play the role of lone wolf in its fight against Verizon …
Having trouble finding an iPad 2? YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Stock is depleted just about everywhere and people have had to resort to using common laptops and even—gasp!—first-generation iPads.
RadioShack is hoping to help with some of the iPad 2 frustration by selling the new tablet in many of its retail locations across the …
With the launch of Cloud Drive and Cloud Player (see our earlier report here), Amazon has jumped the gun and pulled attention away from its rivals Google and Apple.
The details of the Cloud Drive service are a dream come true to a lot of geeks: 5GB of storage for free, a great starting point and sufficient for a handful of albums …
Everybody loves Apple, but with a love so apparently volcanic that the company’s selling developer conference tickets faster than some rock stars and “winning” bad-boy celebs sell out concerts and “comedy shows.”
Tickets for one of 5,000 seats at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 were gone just 10 hours after registration …
The online retailer just beat everyone to the punch and launched Amazon Cloud Player, a cloud-based media streaming service for web browsers and Android. What’s that, Google and Apple is playing catch up to Amazon now? Yup.
Amazon Cloud Player is a free music locker service for the web, and all songs purchased from Amazon’s MP3 …
