After showing phone makers how it’s done with the Nexus One and Nexus S smartphones, Google may be moving on to a Nexus tablet.
The Google-branded tablet would be manufactured by LG, CrunchGear’s John Biggs reports. However, the rumor says nothing about the hardware or software inside. Presumably, it would run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, …
A music industry veteran claims that Apple is pushing hard to launch a digital music locker service in April. This service would allow iTunes users to store their music online and access it from any compatible device.
The report comes from Wayne Rosso, the former president of Grokster and record label consultant. Citing anonymous …
American Express has just announced “Serve,” which the company touts as “a digital payment and commerce platform that gives consumers a new way to spend, send and receive money with services that go beyond the existing global payment networks.”
You set up an account online at serve.com and dump money into it from an existing bank …
Well, that’s what the Angry Birds movie would probably look like if it’s directed by Michael Bay. Only because, um, the Rooster Teeth video spoof is actually directed by Michael Bay.
Besides, given how I’m bombarded by Angry Birds advertisements even just sitting on the bus, it’s only a matter of time before Rovio cashes in. Then, …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Magellan 5-inch GPS with free traffic: $120 at Amazon (today only)
Amazon has cut $50 off the regular price of the Magellan RoadMate 5045-LM GPS system. The deal is good today only. There’s a lot to like for the price here. A big 5-inch touchscreen? Good. Free lifetime map updates
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You gotcha iPhone? Check. You gotcha Instagram app? Check. You gotcha sleek wall-mounted instant photo printer? Hmm, maybe soon…
Instaprint is the latest rider on the bandwagon that is Instagram, the filter-tastic social photo app for iThing owners everywhere.
The premise is this: you’re at a party, or some big corporate shindig, …
Webvan. eToys. Infonet. The Globe. Any of these names ring any bells?
In the late 1990s, they were the Facebooks and Twitters of their day. The hot properties that everyone wanted a part of. They were worth billions, and now they’re nothing but internet history.
If the thought of that bothers today’s tech investors, they’re not …
In the future, you better not lose your Android phone. Google is teaming up with MasterCard and Citigroup to turn your Android phone into a portable wallet, allowing you to pay for purchases simply by waving your phone around.
It would basically enable Citigroup credit and debit cardholders to pay for purchases easily using NFC …
Just like clockwork, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will begin in early June—June 6th to be exact. It’ll run until the 10th and cost you $1,600 if you wish to attend as a software developer.
The show is billed as an unveiling of “the future of iOS and Mac OS,” but it’s what also usually gets unveiled to kick off the yearly …
The chances are you’ve never heard of him, but without his pioneering work in the 1960s, you wouldn’t be reading this web page, because there wouldn’t be a web for you to read it on.
His name is Paul Baran, and he died yesterday aged 84.
Baran, along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock, invented one of the most fundamental …