If someone up and asked you “who invented the computer,” how would you respond? Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Al Gore? Or say you’re more historically savvy, might you venture Alan Turing? Perhaps Konrad Zuse? Turing is the guy who, in …
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Android’s Fragmentation Mess–and How to Fix It
The next version of Google’s mobile operating system looks impressive. But it may not be coming to an Android phone near you any time soon.
Ask Techland: What’s the Deal with 4G? Is the New iPhone 4G?
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What’s the deal with 4G? It’s different from each company, right? My friend said the new iPhone …
Glowing Pillow with Heartbeat Connects Long-Distance Lovers
Long-distance relationships are hard. Maintaining creepy, intimate contact during a long-distance relationship is even harder. Introducing Pillow Talk, the new device that lets you hear the real-time heartbeat of your long-distance lover, even if he or she is across the country.
Scottish designer Joanna Montgomery developed the …
Is Microsoft Bullying Device Manufacturers with Patent Claims?
Microsoft has declared a quiet war against Android, using patents to try and drive competitors out of business – or at least, out of competition. That’s the claim being made by Barnes & Noble, which is asking U.S. regulators to …
Kindle Fire Getting Netflix, Facebook and More at Launch
Amazon is flexing the Kindle Fire’s app muscle ahead of next week’s launch, promising apps for Netflix, Facebook and Twitter, and plenty of games to boot.
Apps are the biggest advantage the Kindle Fire has over Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet. Although the two tablets have similar specs and similar prices (the Nook Tablet is $50 more …
Asus Transformer Prime Is the First Quad-Core Android Tablet
Android tablets are old news, I know, but Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime hopes to get your attention again with its quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chip.
The Transformer Prime, which got a quick tease last month, now has a December …
Apple Reportedly Says Siri Won’t Be Coming to Older Devices
Time to nip it in the bud, apparently. For all of you who were hoping to upgrade your not-quite-the-latest-model iPhone to include the wise-cracking Siri, it appears you may not get it any time soon. According to a report, Apple …
Mobile Flash Abandoned for HTML5: Adobe Surrenders, Apple Wins?
You can look at this one of two ways: Steve Jobs was right on the money about Adobe Flash, or Steve Jobs shrewdly worked to ensure he’d be right about Adobe’s mobile multimedia plugin by using Apple’s leverage to put the tool in a stranglehold. However you view it, it’s death seems all but assured: Adobe’s reportedly killing mobile …
Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: A Guide to Decide
If it’s a cheap tablet you’re after, Barnes & Noble and Amazon want your business. Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s $249 Nook Tablet both look promising on paper—the former with its suite of Amazon services, and …
Republic Wireless: $19 per Month for Voice, Text and Data
A new carrier called Republic Wireless is enlisting the help of Wi-Fi networks to sell insanely cheap smartphone service.
Republic Wireless offers voice, text and data for $19 per month, with no annual contract. That’s roughly a quarter of the price of coverage plans on AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
(MORE: T-Mobile’s No-Contract 4G …
Top Five Tuesday Tech Deals
It’s Tuesday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: $55 plus $20 credit at Buy.com
Oh boy, is Buy.com going big with this Modern Warfare 3 deal. You can get the new game—available today—for $55, and you’ll get $20 worth of credit to spend at Buy.com on a future purchase.
The deal is good today only
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