It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
“Laptop Super Sale”: Prices vary at CowBoom.com (today only)
Best Buy-owned CowBoom.com is currently holding a “Laptop Super Sale,” with many of the machines selling out almost instantly. Most of them (maybe all of them) are pre-owned and don’t come with any software …
Stoking rumors that Apple’s iPhone 5 will at last magically appear in October, an analyst tells Apple Insider that iOS 5—the next iteration of Apple’s mobile device operating system—should be golden the final week of September.
That’s “between September 23 and September 30” to be precise, and “golden” meaning the final code …
Netflix on Android: It’s been a rocky, pot hole-filled road until recently. It wasn’t until May of this year that streaming video features made it to certain Android handsets and, even then, the initial number of supported devices sat at just five.
Netflix promised to “aggressively” add to that list, and we now find that the app is …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
This week, I will join around 5,000 others who will head to San Francisco to attend Intel’s Developer Forum. For Intel and much of the PC industry …
Say you’re a major cell phone carrier, sitting in third place behind AT&T and Verizon. Suddenly a major phone manufacturer like Apple gives you the go-ahead to sell their bestselling products at your stores, eliminating the unfair competitive advantage that’s kept you from taking on your rivals.
With the game changed, what would you …
Millions of people using Microsoft online services—including Hotmail, Office365 and SkyDrive—found themselves temporarily cut off for a couple of hours last night, as the company was hit by what’s being described as a “major service failure.”
The outage is thought to be related to DNS problems, with the official Office365 Twitter …
You’ve probably heard, Apple lost an iPhone 5 at a cocktail bar and wants it back. So far, efforts to unearth the wayward device have been, groan-inducing pun intended, unfruitful. In fact the company may (and I repeat may) be in hot water for posing with San Francisco police officers as police officers.
Enter Conan O’Brien, who’s …
Alas, the poor Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, we knew it well, but not in Germany, where a German district court ruled on Friday—it seems once and for all—that Samsung can no longer sell it, because, in so many words, it’s too much like Apple’s iPad 2. Worse still for Samsung, that means German retailers are banned from selling it …
Since I can’t turn on my laptop with the power of my mind, I guess I’ll have to live with waiting for it to boot up. You know, for eight seconds. It might be seven-and-a-half seconds too long, but since I can’t expect my phone to also cook, wash my clothes and let me travel into the future, I might have to recalibrate my …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
Inflatable X-Wing: $20
Let’s …
Whoa-hoa-hoa. Google quietly released its HTML 5-optimized Google Music web app a few moments ago on Twitter. And—surprise, surprise—it’s a thing of beauty, dare I say a bit Android-feeling.
It has a rich, responsive UI that allows users to access their Google Music accounts from iDevices and it’s surprisingly fast and easy to …
Whatever your stance on the current state of patent law—it’s essential to protecting intellectual property, it’s detrimental to innovation, or something in between—the fact is that there’s a whole lot of patent-related activity happening in the tech sector right now, much of it to do with mobile devices.
Google’s …
