We’re getting a clearer picture of Samsung’s Galaxy S III as more leaks and rumors roll in. In the latest, Dutch site GSM Helpdesk claims to have a press photo of Samsung’s next flagship phone, provided by an anonymous …
Amazon’s $775 Million Acquisition of Kiva Systems Could Shift How Businesses See Robots
The only surprise about Amazon’s move to acquire Kiva Systems for $775 million is that it didn’t come sooner. Kiva is a robotics company focused on making warehouses more efficient. Amazon spent $4.6 billion on warehouses last …
Hoax: Man Flaps Android-Powered Bird Wings, Flies with Wii Remotes [Updated]
Imagine strapping on a pair of giant multicolored wings, except they’re not actually attached to your arms — you control them without actually touching them, waving your hands up and down in the air, birdlike, causing the wings …
Will Google Race to the Bottom with a $150 Nexus Tablet?
With every million iPads that Apple sells, Google’s Android tablet problem becomes more of a crisis. To date, not a single proper Android tablet has seen mainstream success, and even in aggregate they’re not nearly as popular as …
The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2012
TIME’s social media editor Allie Townsend & social media associate Amy Lombard pick the 140 Twitter feeds that are shaping the online conversation in 2012. Let us know what you think of our choices, using hashtag #Twitter140.
TechnologizerApps & Software
CorelDraw Turns Sixteen
Corel’s flagship software product, CorelDraw, has been around since 1989, making it among the most venerable packages in the business. I’ve been using it nearly that long (since version 2 or 3, I think). Today, the company …
Apple Sells Three Million New iPads on Opening Weekend
Apple’s new iPad boasts relatively modest incremental improvements from the previous version — most notably a sharper screen as well as faster computing and wireless speeds — but consumers proved over the weekend that …
Gadget Users Hungrier for News, but Media Still Lags in Profit
It’s a bittersweet tune for the news industry: Though Americans have a budding appetite for news, Silicon Valley is reaping the benefits of those cravings, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for …
Poll Finds Average Teen, Like, Totally Sends 60 Texts a Day
Back in my day, teenagers talked on the phone, often ones connected to long, stretchy things called cords. Today, it’s all about texting.
A new poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the average teen …
Your Next Game Machine Won’t Be a Tablet? Revenue Predictions Suggest Otherwise
Worldwide revenue from tablet-based gaming will surge from $491 million in 2011 to $3.1 billion by 2014, according to analyst firm Juniper Research (via Gamasutra). What’s more, Juniper predicts that a full third of all mobile …
Heat Test: New iPad Is Hotter to Handle by 10 Degrees
Apple’s new iPad is literally so hot, it’s — no, nevermind. No lame jokes. The fact is that infrared testing shows the new iPad running 10 degrees hotter than its predecessor.
Tweakers.net ran GLBenchmark on the new iPad and …
TechnologizerTablets
The New iPad Display, Tested and Praised
My friend Dr. Ray Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, has been evaluating computer displays for a long time. In recent years, he’s turned his attention to smartphone and tablet screens — and he’s published a piece …