Last Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) controversially shut down cellular service in its stations to curb the efforts of demonstrators protesting the police shooting death of Charles Blair Hill back on July 3rd of this year. Discontent with BART police has been festering for quite some time following the wrongful shooting death of …
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Ten Questions About Google Buying Motorola
Apple buying T-Mobile. Microsoft buying Adobe. We’re all used to reading stuff by tech pundits talking about seismic, world-changing acquisitions in a somewhat fanciful manner. But Google buying Motorola Mobility, the recently-spun-off part of Motorola that makes phones and other consumer hardware, is real–and the most potentially …
Ask Techland: Replace a Lost iPhone Now or Wait?
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Question from Tim: My brother just lost his iPhone and is debating whether or not he can muddle through with a disposable until September or October or whenever the new iPhone comes out. This ALWAYS happens with the new Apple products, right? There’s a period where …
TabCo’s Grid Phone and Tablet Look Like Train Wrecks Already
Over the last few months, an unknown company called TabCo has teased a mystery product by posting cryptic videos to YouTube, hiring a skywriter to write “forget the fruit” outside an Apple developer conference and by sending pizza to journalists. Turns out, Tabco is a reboot of Fusion Garage, whose JooJoo tablet was an utter failure, and …
Awkward: 13% Use Cell Phones to Avoid Human Contact
Raise your hand if you’re guilty! Or, you know, just avoid direct eye contact and continue to poke down at your iPhone instead.
In a new report from the Pew Research Center titled Americans and Their Cell Phones, you have your usual fare about how cell phone penetration is on the rise, people are sending more photos and videos, yadda …
Rapper ‘The Game’ Scores Legal Trouble with Twitter Prank
Things You Probably Shouldn’t Do on Twitter #23: Tell your followers that if they want to be your intern, they should call a phone number that belongs to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Sounds obvious, right?
And yet, it’s something that rapper “The Game” didn’t seem to think about when he sent that very tweet out to his 580,000 …
Is Disney Interested in ‘Angry Birds’?
With cookbooks, toys and a rumored movie spinning off from their successful Angry Birds app, some have thought of Rovio as a wannabe Disney. But if rumors are true, Disney might actually be looking at the app maker with a view to helping it on its way to world domination.
How an ‘Apple Wireless’ Provider Could Sell You More Hardware
Apple’s huge successes with the iPhone and iPad have allowed the company to amass $76 billion in cash. While no one outside Apple knows what the company will do with this Scrooge McDuck-like money pile, Jean-Louis Gassée has an interesting theory: Apple should buy a wireless carrier, such as T-Mobile.
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Top Five Monday Tech Deals
Its Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Westinghouse 60-inch 1080p TV: $800 at Best Buy
Remember 20 years ago when people would be like, “Hey, guys, who wants to watch the Quebec Nordiques game on my new 32-inch TV?! It’s huge!”
Nowadays if you have a 32-inch TV, people feel bad for you. That’s the brilliance of …
Someday, There Will Be a Great 7-inch Tablet
With all due respect to Steve Jobs, I’ve never been convinced by his stance that 7-inch tablets are a bad idea. But I haven’t been able to mount a convincing case that he’s wrong, either.
The original 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab suffered from using a version of Android meant for phones. RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBookhad even bigger …
Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility (for a Few Obvious Reasons)
Google dropped a bomb this morning by announcing that it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. Motorola Mobility, which became independent from Motorola earlier this year, currently builds Android phones such as the Droid 3 and Android tablets such as the Motorola Xoom.
Android will remain open to other handset …
Why Chrome OS Is More Important to Google’s Future than Android
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.
There is a debate happening in the industry about whether or not we are heading toward a future where all computing takes place in the browser or …