Encrypting data on your hard drive can be such nuisance, what with all the special apps and public/private keys, and the whole thing might as well be a pound of slag if you forget the passcode.
What if you could just hide everything in plain sight?
Turns out you can. It’s called steganography, from the Greek steganos, …
HTC’s Thunderbolt will soon have some competition in the Droid Charge from Samsung, Verizon’s second 4G LTE phone.
The Droid Charge will cost $300 on contract when it launches April 28. That’s a steep price for a phone with a single-core 1 GHz processor — dual-core is where it’s at for today’s top-shelf handsets — but Verizon’s …
I actually like the idea of this—hear me out! Hear me out.
Google’s experimental Cr-48 laptop runs the company’s web-only “Chrome” operating system. It features instant-on startup, long battery life, and 100 megabytes of free Verizon cellular data usage each month. These are all nice things, to be sure, but you can’t just install …
My TIME.com Technologizer column this week looks at RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, a new tablet that’s frustrating in its initial incarnation: it’s full of promise, but feels like RIM simply didn’t have time to finish it before getting it out the door.
Despite the PlayBook’s software issues, the hardware is quite pleasing. With one …
And they say politics can be a slow-moving system. Within hours of it being revealed that Apple has been tracking the location of iPhones since the release of iOS4, Senator Al Franken had written to Apple CEO Steve Jobs wanting answers. Writing that “there are numerous ways in which this information could be abused by criminals and bad …
For those of you keeping score: We got the first iPad about a year ago, then nothing for a long time, then a brief and expensive blip on the radar called the Samsung Galaxy Tab, then nothing for a long time, then the Motorola Xoom, followed a couple weeks later by the iPad 2, and now all hell’s breaking loose. The BlackBerry Playbook is …
It’s a country with a population of over 1.3 billion, so this should surprise no one, but yes, China appears to be to the iPhone what flowers are to bees.
IDG News reports that in a conference call yesterday, Apple COO Tim Cook revealed that between January and March 2011, iPhone sales in “Greater China” surged nearly 250 …
Not so fast, Playbook owners. Your Adobe Flash-enabled tablets won’t be able to access the full web after all — not if Hulu has anything to say about it.
Playbook users, who over the last couple days were enjoying all the free streaming TV shows that Hulu’s website provides, have now discovered a big fat error message. “We notice …
Yesterday we mentioned recent predictions that solar power will be as cheap as coal by 2013; today, though, the word is that it will also be a helluva lot easier to generate too.
MIT scientists Vladimir Bulović and Richard Lunt have published a paper outlining a system of transparent photovoltaic cells which could be coated on to …
Well it only took a little over a year, but Android tablet makers have finally decided to compete against the iPad’s $500 starting price.
Acer is first out of the gate with its $450 Iconia Tab A500, slated for launch this Sunday, April 24th at Best Buy. It’s got a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor, one gigabyte of RAM, 16 gigabytes of …
If it wasn’t official before, it’s officially official now: Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer tablet launches on April 26, with a starting price of $399.
Asus announced the news on Thursday. The $399 price tag is for a 16 GB model, and there’s a 32 GB model available for $499. An optional laptop dock, which provides a keyboard, trackpad, two …
Correction appended: April 21, 2011
While Apple celebrates a surge in profits, a report by Greenpeace has ranked it as least “green” among tech companies.
Apple’s quarterly earnings have grown 95% to $6bn, but the company has also been accused of heavily relying on pollution-inducing coal power to support its banks of data …
