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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My iPad is bursting at the seams with wonderful applications. If I had to pick just one of them as the romantic ideal of what a tablet app can and should be, it would be Flipboard.
This “social magazine”–which brings together stuff from Facebook, Twitter, and the entire Web into a wonderfully browsable package–simply …
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.
The desire to compete with Apple is widespread among many companies in the tech sector. The problem is that very few, if any at all, are well …
It’s no secret that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion needs to make some big changes to stay relevant in the smartphone game, but one company executive thinks that point is lost on the company’s leadership.
An open letter, reportedly written by a senior RIM executive and published by Boy Genius Report, pleads with RIM co-CEOs Jim …
I’m pretty sure this statement isn’t going to create a firestorm of controversy: HP’s TouchPad, in its initial form, isn’t going to keep Steve Jobs or anyone else at Apple up at night. I reviewed the tablet for this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, and while it has some good points–especially the WebOS interface–it’s remarkably …
Never mind digital bootlegging, the new wave of counterfeiting is all about 3D printing and the creation of replica props from movies and television. Don’t believe me? Then you’re obviously not lawyers for Paramount Pictures, and you’ve clearly never heard of Todd Blatt.
Blatt was served with a Cease & Desist letter by Paramount …
At last, Skype’s Android app supports video calling, but it’s only available on four phones for now.
Video calling works over Wi-Fi and 3G, and is supported on the HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro and Google Nexus S. The common thread among these phones is that they all run Android 2.3, but a Skype …
It’s been a surprisingly long time coming, but the majority of cellphone purchases in the U.S. are smartphone purchases. A new Nielsen study shows that smartphones have finally overtaken feature phones for American consumers… and that change may be thanks to Apple.
Nielsen’s May survey of U.S. mobile consumers found that 55% of …
Is LivingSocial about to follow Groupon’s lead, and go public? CNBC certainly thinks so, reporting that the site has met with bankers to discuss the possibility, and suggesting a surprisingly high valuation that may have come from said meetings.
CNBC cites an anonymous source “familiar with the matter” as claiming that the daily deals …
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.
As a technology consulting firm, our company has had the opportunity to work with most of the vendors in the PC market and for most of the last …
Today AT&T officially announced the HTC Status, aka the “Facebook phone” thanks to its deep integration with the social network, as perhaps best indicated by the big blue button sitting all by its lonesome in the lower right-hand corner. Weirdly enough, the announcement was made on Google+. Just kidding.
The Facebook button is in …
Research in Motion has never confirmed whether it was working on a 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, but now the project is reportedly cancelled.
An unnamed source tells BlackBerry enthusiast site N4BB that RIM has ceased production of the 10-inch PlayBook, and for good reason: The company wants to focus on building a new smartphone …
