A team of students from the University of Belgrade in Serbia have come up with a smart idea for a solar-powered phone charging station on the street. Known to the locals as “the Strawberry Tree“, it looks more like an art installation than a public utility.
Below the solar cell there’s a wooden bench where members of the public can …
If hacker collective Anonymous dominated the headlines the first half of this year, the second half may belong to upstart Lulz Security, whose brazen and prolific hacking is unprecedented.
In the past 30 days its targets have run the gamut from PBS to Sony to the CIA, and LulzSec has recently set its sights on Anonymous itself. So …
Late last night news broke that Facebook was finally making its own iPad app. “An iPad app?” you say. “Haven’t iPads been around for, like, a year now?”
Yep. The iPad’s been without a native Facebook app since its launch in April 2010. But the New York Times is reporting that sources at Facebook will introduce their long-awaited iPad …
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.
Earlier this week I spoke at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition. The topic I was asked to address was related to connected TV. More …
When Apple’s OS X Lion debuts in July, it’ll only be available through Apple’s Mac App Store. No retail copies, no white-edged Apple-gray install DVDs—just an install file you’ll purchase and pull down by conjuring the App Store from your Mac’s dock and perusing “New and Noteworthy” for a picture of Apple’s new tawny-maned kitty. Oh, …
It’s sad, but it’s true: Spam is as spam does. It gets everywhere. It’s now found its way into Amazon’s Kindle e-book store.
One of the great things about the Kindle store is that anyone can sign up as an author, upload a manuscript, and “publish” it for instant sales to millions of Kindle owners, desperate to consume more e-ink …
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook just isn’t getting the love from wireless carriers.
In the United Kingdom, O2 has scrapped plans to carry the 7-inch tablet, reportedly telling customers that “there are some issues with the end to end customer experience.” O2 hasn’t ruled out selling the PlayBook down the line and may work …
Google’s big bet on web-only laptops has now been fully realized with the consumer availability of Chromebooks. There are two models—one from Acer and one from Samsung—each available either with a 3G cellular connection built-in or as lower-priced Wi-Fi-only versions.
The Acer AC700 starts at $350 for the Wi-Fi version, with the …
Apple’s 2011 back-to-school deal ditches the free iPod Touch of years past and offers a $100 gift card instead, a move that some pundits are calling stingy.
In previous years, Apple has given a free iPod Touch to any student who buys a new MacBook, for a value of up to $299. This year’s gift is obviously much cheaper. Joe Wilcox of …
Apparently, cord-cutting may be real after all, according to a new study released by The Diffusion Group.
Despite countless real-world examples showing that television doesn’t seem to be negatively affected by online VoD services, Diffusion’s new study apparently finds 32% of Netflix users plan to cut down on – or cut out entirely – …
These are kilobots. Tiny three-legged microchips with infrared eyes that point downwards at the table.
One $15 kilobot on its own can’t do much that’s very interesting, except maybe flash its little light in your face. But they’re called “kilo” because you’re not supposed to use just one at a time. You’re supposed to use …
Warner Bros. has signed what could be a historic deal to make its movies available to homes throughout China on Video on Demand… as long as it turns out to actually be legit.
Warner Bros. Entertainment has announced a partnership with YOU On Demand Media to provide China’s “first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform,” …
