“What is that?” I heard my 7-year-old shriek from his room. I ran in to find him and my younger son watching a video of a woman giving birth. It was shocking to them — and especially shocking to me because I thought we had all …
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ReadyCase iPhone Case Features USB Drive/Kickstand, Multi-tool and More
I’m not really an iPhone case guy, but this ReadyCase makes a compelling argument.
It’s only about a tenth of an inch thick, yet the backside houses an interchangeable photo lens ring, 8- or 16-gigabyte USB thumb drive that …
Voice Recognition’s Future: Hands-Free Siri Could Someday Be Possible
Controlling your phone by voice is great, but it’d be even better if you could do it without ever laying hands on the device.
Nuance Communications, the maker of Dragon dictation software, is working on it, according to a …
Why PC Companies Fear Amazon
Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market-intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to Big Picture, an opinion column that appears every Monday on Techland.
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Foxconn: Riot Strikes Chinese City Where iPhone 5 Was Reportedly Made
The melee was sparked by security guards assaulting a worker who failed to show his identification when entering a dormitory, according to local NGOs.
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How Amazon Plans to Tackle a Lack of Tablet-Optimized Android Apps
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets have a lot to offer that vanilla Android tablets don’t–lower prices and a larger media selection, for example–but a huge selection of tablet-optimized apps isn’t one of them.
Still, Amazon has a …
iPhone 5 Mania Descends on New York City
Year after year, launch after launch, Apple fans continue to show their unending fanaticism, lining up overnight – and some even for days – to get their hands on the company’s latest.
Are You Upgrading to iOS 6? A Twitter Symposium
The shaky state of iOS 6’s maps — at least in some parts of the world — leads to an interesting question: If you already own an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, should you hold off upgrading it in order to preserve the old …
Kickstarter Aims to Make Gadgets Less of a Gamble
For the new dead-tree issue of TIME that comes out today, I had fun profiling Kickstarter, the highest-profile site enabling crowdfunding of creative projects. (Subscribers can read the article here.) I write about some of the …
HTC’s Windows Phones Knock the Wind Out of Nokia
Nokia is in trouble. That was my first thought when HTC announced the Windows Phone 8X and Windows Phone 8S on Wednesday.
The phones, which launch in November, look good, particularly the flagship 8X. It has an outer casing …
New iOS 6 Maps: The Data Seems to Be Messy
Apple debuts its all-new Maps app, but users are reporting difficulty in navigating with the program