TechnologizerSmartphones
Over the weekend, a mini-controversy broke out when a Microsoft Store in Silicon Valley refused to declare blogger Sahas Katta’s Android phone as the victor in its “Smoked by Windows Phone” competition, even though it seems to …
If you’re hoping to get better customer service by posting questions to a retailer’s Facebook page, be prepared for disappointment, according to a survey released today. Major retailers including J. Crew, Victoria’s Secret …
The China Quality Certification Center has given the green light for Apple to sell the Wi-Fi version of its new iPad.
via China Welcomes Apple CEO Tim Cook, Approves New iPad for Sale | Business | TIME.com.
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PCMag’s Sascha Segan has created a slideshow comparison of iPad apps and Android tablet apps. The more enthusiastic you are about the potential of Android tablets, the more distressing the show is: with one or two exceptions, the …
Behold the latest installment in our hard-hitting series of practical innovations that have changed the world in immeasurably positive ways! This is a refrigerator magnet with a built-in Bluetooth connection that, when pressed, …
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How many GE employees does it take to screw in a hundred-year-old light bulb? Hundreds of ’em — and the neat part is, it’ll still work.
On March 25th, 1912, a bunch of General Electric employees placed a time capsule inside …
If you’ve ever wished that your Android apps could follow you from phone to PC, BlueStacks has a way.
The BlueStacks software, which is now in beta, allows you to run Android apps on a Windows PC. It’s available as a free …
Imagine if you could pay for parking with a few taps of your phone, and that you’d never have to pay for more time than you used. Imagine if, after you’re done eating a bag of chips or drinking a carton of juice, you could scarf down the perfectly edible packaging, too. Engineers and designers have been imagining these things, and …
J.K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter books have sold around 450 million copies worldwide — all of them made out of an ancient material your parents know as “paper.” Today, the entire series is entering the digital age, selling as …
Sometimes one industry’s bad news is cause to celebrate for… almost everybody else in the world. Return Path, one of the world’s biggest email certification companies, says the number of emails getting through to inboxes …
The Federal Trade Commission just released a kind of online privacy mission statement in the form of a 112-page document that calls on companies to pledge support for consumer privacy-bolstering policies. Employing the vernacular …
Social networking giant Facebook hopes to finally put an end to a bizarre lawsuit filed by an upstate New York former wood-pellet salesman who claims he owns half of the tech phenom.