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.
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Acer’s newest tablet, the 7-inch Iconia Tab A100, is the first of its size out of the gate to run Google’s made-for-tablets “Honeycomb” version of the Android operating system. There are two versions of the tablet available—a 16-gigabyte model with an MSRP of $350 and an 8-gigabyte model with an MSRP of $330—which should begin …
Thirty years ago today, IBM announced its first PC, the 5150. It wasn’t the best PC of its era, or even the most interesting—but it was surely the most important one. That’s because it spawned a standard that quickly came to dominate the market, and which continues to this day. If you’re reading this on a Windows computer, you’re using …
The HiPhone 5 beats the iPhone 5 to market, death threats against Facebook, Apple tops Exxon, and more: Here’s a quick look back at some recent stories from the Land o’ Tech.
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Cell phones stolen during the London riots will be blocked by major cell networks, according to several news outlets. It’s an intriguing idea, but will it actually stop thieves from pilfering their wares?
Here’s how the system will work: Store owners will be able to report stolen phones to their appropriate carriers, as each handset …
Of all the companies to turn on the PC, you’d think ol’ Big Blue would be last. But no, it looks like one of the engineers who helped design IBM’s very first personal computer three decades ago is celebrating the anniversary (this Friday, August 12th) by announcing something of a paradigm shift: his main computer’s now a …
Following discussion on whether or not social media was “responsible” for the recent riots and looting in the United Kingdom, the British Government is looking at ways to reduce the likelihood of social media being used to organize riots or violent protest again.
Officials are considering both banning specific users from sites like …
The sad truth is that dialing 911 for emergencies has been in need of a major overhaul for quite some time, and from a technological standpoint isn’t only dated — it’s highly inefficient. If you place a call from a mobile device, for example, call centers are reportedly unable to do something as basic as
HP’s new TouchPad tablet saw a $50 price cut about a month after it was released. A few days later, HP announced a weekend promotion that brought the price down another $50. Now, the $100 price cut has been made permanent, pegging the tablet’s starting price at $400, per Engadget.
This is a smart, aggressive move by HP as it …
If you’ve been buying your MP3s from Walmart, I have some bad news for you: You won’t be able to continue doing so after August 28th (Well, bad news and also a question: Why were you buying MP3s from Walmart?).
The retail giant has sent notice to distribution and licensing partners announcing that it will close its Download Store …
Finally, one studio seems to have realized that no one really wants to pay $30 to watch a movie on-demand, even if it is available a couple of months after being released in theaters. Lionsgate may be planning to offer Abduction, a thriller starring Twilight wolfboy Taylor Lautner, on VoD three months after theater release for just …
Know what’s humbling? To realize I can’t read Chinese. It’s very hard!
If you’ve been waiting patiently for the iPhone 5 and you’ve decided that enough is, indeed, enough, there’s hope! While the rest of your dopey friends argue about whether the new iPhone will come out in August, September, October or at all, you could be busy …
