The first computer I ever used in a classroom was the Apple II. My first grade teacher, Mrs. Hogan, would line us all up against a wall before walking the class over to the computer lab, a rusty bungalow tucked away in a dark corner of the school.
It was in that lab—which my elementary school shuttled us back-and-forth to for five …
Any hopes that Hurricane Irene might swing further east and somehow avoid smacking into the U.S. along the Eastern Seaboard have nearly vanished. While the storm’s weakened somewhat from a Category 3 (111 to 130 mph winds) to a Category 2 (96 to 110 mph winds), it could well strengthen again before it makes landfall in North Carolina …
Specs aren’t everything, but Microsoft has our attention after teasing a quad-core tablet at its Tech Ed conference in New Zealand, especially because this beastly slate might run Windows 8.
Microsoft didn’t say much about the hardware at the conference, Smarter Geek reports. Jeff Johnson, the company’s enterprise strategist, merely …
In a world filled with tablet computers, smartphones and the like, it can sometimes seem as if e-readers are yesterday’s news. But there’s one particular demographic who, according to a new survey, is gleefully embracing the device over any other—your mothers.
Nielsen has released the results of a new study of e-reader users and it …
As the launch of Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Mango” update approaches, the number of missing features keeps dwindling, with support for front-facing cameras and Wi-Fi hotspots now confirmed.
We’ve suspected that the next version of Windows Phones would support front-facing cameras, given that some upcoming Windows Phone handsets are …
The Internet now belongs to Facebook, apparently.
According to figures released for web traffic in June 2011, Facebook hit one trillion page views that month, with 870 million unique visitors for the same period, giving the site a staggering 46.9% reach among all web surfers.
Gauging the U.S. stock market’s like refereeing a game of psych-out, so caveat reader, but as short-term signals go, it looks like Apple’s misfortunes—say the world’s most illustrious CEO resigning—are not-so-disguised blessings for Research in Motion.
RIM shares surged more than 2% Thursday morning after the Blackberry …
Fear not, T-Mobileites. Following the Wall Street Journal’s report that Sprint may get the iPhone 5 this October, a new rumor says T-Mobile’s getting the next iPhone as well.
The source of this rumor isn’t the often-solid WSJ, but MacTrast, citing “a contact within T-Mobile.” Reportedly, the T-Mobile iPhone 5 will have 3G speeds–not …
He had hair. Hear the music. The crowd’s going positively nuts. This is the moment that Steve Jobs unleashed the Macintosh out into the world, and sealed his fate as one of the most well-known CEOs to date. Larry who?
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For those on the East Coast, yesterday’s earthquake might not have come as a complete surprise. According to The Hollywood Reporter, news of the quake reached Twitter before the quake itself hit certain areas, with the microblogging site seeing messages like “Haha! I was able to read about the earthquake on Twitter right before I felt …
Samsung is going to an interesting place in its attempts to avoid being found guilty of infringing on Apple’s tablet computer patents with its design for the Galaxy Tab Android tablet: Yesterday’s tomorrow.
Apparently, Samsung plans to cite the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey as proof that Apple didn’t invent the tablet as we know it …
A Federal court judge has done his part to fend off an Orwellian future, ruling that the government can’t collect citizens’ cell phone location data without a warrant.
The government had ordered Verizon Wireless to hand over 113 days worth of cell site location data for a criminal suspect without probable cause. In its argument, the …
