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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iPhone data caps got you down? Onavo offers a solution by compressing all your data so you don’t use as much of it.
The free iPhone app claims to save up to 80 percent on a monthly data allotment. Just run the app in the background, and Onavo gets to work on crunching those bits.
It’s a useless app for the Verizon iPhone, given …
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Hulu Plus comes to Xbox Live toady, and Microsoft let me have an early look along with a Kinect loaner unit to check out voice and motion controls.
If you’re not familiar with Hulu Plus, it’s an $8 per month streaming movie service focused mainly on …
It’s been a busy week in the world of on-demand entertainment. YouTube’s reported plan to unveil a video on-demand service was stunted by a few fussy movie studios who refused to license their material, and even Netflix looks like they’re moving away from maintaining physical inventories. Earlier this month, GameStop made a few key …
The big event itself may be over – and, hey, the internet is still apparently standing after all! – but that doesn’t mean that Royal Wedding fever isn’t going to continue all through the rest of the day on your social media of choice (That dress isn’t going to discuss itself, people).
A man returns home with his newly-purchased white iPhone. Ten months of waiting—HE THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD NEVER COME!
His trembling hands struggle to remove the cellophane surrounding Apple’s minimalist, yet irresistible product packaging. “I wish my fingers were knives!” he sputters to himself, breathless with …
Huzzah! Google’s spiffing up their Android phones by adding Google Talk video and voice chat capabilities. It also might be time for me cheat on my iPhone, with a hot, newer number.
The calls can be made over 3G/4G and Wi-Fi. It doesn’t matter if the other party is on their Android phone or sitting behind a clunking computer – …
The nose knows, you know. After years of suspecting that animals with better senses of smell can detect illness in odor, scientists in Israel have gone ahead and built an artificial nose capable of sniffing out whether or not you have cancer.
The Nanoscale Artificial NOSE (or NA-NOSE for short) was built by Professor Hossam Haick and …
YouTube may be moving ahead with plans to stream Hollywood movies on demand, but not all of the major studios have signed on. According to the Wrap, Fox, Paramount and Disney have all refused to a deal so far, with Fox and Paramount even confirming that their intention is to “not move forward with any deal at this time.” The reason: …
Nokia is building a tablet, which shouldn’t surprise anyone. But don’t expect this tablet to be another me-too tablet. It’ll be different!
That’s what they all say, right?
When asked about his company’s tablet plans on a Finnish news show, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the following:
“We have a number of options in the tablet
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Confirming rumors that started to surface yesterday, Microsoft has confirmed that Hulu Plus will debut on Xbox Live tomorrow, with a free trial period for all Xbox Live users until May 6th.
Pete Thompson, General Manager, Xbox LIVE is quoted in the official release as saying “Hulu Plus is an important addition to support our continued …
When it comes to camera phones, the iPhone 4 is hard to beat. Sure, there’s the HTC Inspire 4G and its 8 megapixel sensor (compared to the iPhone’s slightly more modest 5), but in terms of augmentative apps, photo quality and the fact that megapixels only matter to certain degree, Apple’s handheld stands alone.
What’s more, …
