PCMag’s Sascha Segan has created a slideshow comparison of iPad apps and Android tablet apps. The more enthusiastic you are about the potential of Android tablets, the more distressing the show is: with one or two exceptions, the …
Apps & Software
BlueStacks Beta Brings Android Apps to Your PC
If you’ve ever wished that your Android apps could follow you from phone to PC, BlueStacks has a way.
The BlueStacks software, which is now in beta, allows you to run Android apps on a Windows PC. It’s available as a free …
Sweet! A Much Nicer SugarSync for iPad
At the new iPad launch, Tim Cook took time out from saying glowing things about Apple products to say something critical about Android tablets: Many apps available for them feel like nothing more than smartphone software that’s …
MOG Launches iPad App Despite Uncertain Future
If you want a subscription streaming music service with a proper iPad app, MOG now gives you one more option to choose from.
There’s no shortage of companies vying for streaming music supremacy, including Spotify, Rhapsody, …
Goodbye ‘Card Case’, Hello ‘Pay With Square’
Square’s Card Case app is pretty nifty: It lets iPhone users pay for stuff at over 40,000 retail locations without even removing their phone from their pocket. It may be a sneak peek of the way we’ll all eventually pay for …
Adobe’s Photoshop CS6 Beta: Even a Little More Magical
Eventbrite’s New Card Reader Lets Small Events Sell Tickets at the Door
If you’re throwing a small event in an independent venue, using Ticketmaster doesn’t make a lot of sense. It takes a long time to set up and the costs are hard to swallow, especially if you’re talking about something like a …
CorelDraw Turns Sixteen
Corel’s flagship software product, CorelDraw, has been around since 1989, making it among the most venerable packages in the business. I’ve been using it nearly that long (since version 2 or 3, I think). Today, the company …
It’s On? Windows 8 Looks to Summer Finish, October Arrival
Until now, all we’ve known about Windows 8’s release timeframe is that we could probably expect it sometime in 2012 — late 2012, to place it more specifically within the ballpark. But today we have all but official word from …
Britannica Print Edition Kicks the Bucket, So Is Wikipedia Our New Lord and Master?
A moment of silence for the print version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the world’s longest running fact compendium, which passed away today at the ripe old age of 244. I grew up in the late 1970s with a full set my parents …
Company Tries to Make Airport Movie Rentals Fly
Digiboo might sound like an online dating site for hip-hop enthusiasts, but it’s actually one of the latest players getting into the video market. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company produces kiosks where people can rent or …
New Translation Software Lets You Speak 26 Different Languages
Forget Rosetta Stone — researchers at Microsoft have developed a program that uses speech recognition software to translate what someone is saying into another language using a modified version of the person’s own …