Motorola’s next tablet, according to one rumor, will use the same 4:3 aspect ratio as Apple’s iPad, signaling that Motorola has soured on widescreen tablets.
The Motorola Xoom, like most other 10-inch Android Honeycomb tablets currently on the market, uses a 1280-by-800 resolution display. The iPad’s display resolution is 1024-by-768, …
The second lawsuit over Twitter squatting—someone claiming an identity on Twitter that isn’t actually theirs—is already over, a month after it was originally filed and way before the legal battle really got started.
Life Insurance company Coventry First has dropped its lawsuit against the anonymous user behind @CoventryFirst. But …
Alas, it’s looking like Thursday as D-Day for Mac OS X Lion’s official digital-only rollout was a bad call by the Apple news gossip club. As of today, July 14th, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Apple’s homepage is still pimping the company’s iCloud service, announced last month but not publicly available until sometime this fall. OS X Lion is, …
Last week, we told you about the Associated Press’ guidelines on social media that, basically, told staff that they couldn’t share their personal opinions online for fear that it might reflect badly on the AP. After outcry online over the issue, the AP has released an updated set of guidelines to allow for more freedom of opinion… …
Remember “Locationgate”? That one time everyone was up in arms about a hidden file in iPhones that fed location data back to Apple? If you don’t, that’s okay (in internet years that’s like trying to remember the ’60s). Here’s a kind refresher.
And although Apple’s privacy policy for iOS devices (which includes iPads equipped with 3G …
A Minnesota man just got sent down for 18 years for breaking into his neighbors’ Wi-Fi network and trying to “frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds or professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mails to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden,” reports Wired.
Angry with his neighbors, Matt …
Over at TIME.com, my Technologizer column this week is about cloud storage: ways to keep photos, music, movies, and other files on the Internet, so they’re available from all your computers and gizmos. I cover a bunch of ways to get the job done, but none of them are purely cloud based. In every instance, hard drives attached locally to …
Spotify is finally here in the U.S.!
I’ve been using the service over here in Europe for quite a while and it’s packed with lots of cool stuff: more music than you can ever reasonably listen to, social network features, and more. But one of my favorite features is the way Spotify links out to the rest of the internet.
We figured Spotify might be launching this week; but guess what, it’s already here! Time to slap on your headphones.
(MORE: Five Cool Websites for New Spotify Users)
Gadget blog Engadget got wind of the news last night from Spotify’s very own Kenneth Parks, the company’s chief content officer. It turns out all four major …
Latest news from the scantily-clad world of adult entertainment: websites under the new .xxx top-level domain will get a search engine all their own, at the disappointingly ordinary address of http://www.search.xxx.
They could have gone with something more suggestive, like desperatefor.xxx. Or helpmegetmy.xxx. Or even xxx.xxx. But no, …
“What!? Girls aren’t supposed to be good at science!” is what someone old and dumb would likely say regarding the above headline. Yesterday, the top 15 finalists in Google’s first ever Science Fair put their projects to the test in front of 1,000 attendees and a panel of judges. Taking first place across three age categories were three …
For those who feel that daily deals sites would be a lot more interesting if only they offered deals on something other than spas and local restaurants, Groupon has an offer for you: $500 off a brand new car.
Admittedly, you’d have to be in Detroit to take advantage of the deal—paying $199 to get $500 off a new or pre-owned vehicle …
