For anyone out there still excited for BlackBerry 10 smartphones, a new product rendering of the so-called “BlackBerry London” is now making the rounds. The image, from a leaked product roadmap, first appeared on …
Microsoft Takes Aim at Google’s New Privacy Policy with Ad Campaign
A couple of weeks ago, Google unveiled a large ad campaign called “Good to Know” extolling the virtues of its new, simplified privacy policy. It did not go over well. Now Microsoft smells blood in the water and is releasing its …
Is Google In Danger of Being Shut Out of the Changing Internet?
The upcoming IPO of Facebook, the flak surrounding Twitter’s decision to censor some tweets, and Google’s weaker-than-expected 4th-quarter earnings all point to one of the big events of our times: The crazy, chaotic, idealistic days of the Internet are ending. Once, the Prairies were open and shared by everyone. Then the farmers …
Super Bowl Tech Ads: Survivors and Casualties over the Years
Every season, 32 teams hope to make it to the Super Bowl. In that spirit, here are 32 tech companies from Super Bowl ads over the years. Just like NFL teams, some of these companies have flourished; others haven’t fared nearly as well.
WATCH: Swarm of Autonomous Robots Flies Complicated Formations
Forget the Blue Angels — these nano quadrotors from the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory can fly in some pretty stunning formations. You might remember these robots from other YouTube videos where they’ve …
Congressman Proposes Legislation to Outlaw Mobile Device Snooping
If your immediate reaction to the secret monitoring of mobile devices is something along the lines of, “Shouldn’t that be against the law?” then you might be interested in a new proposal from Rep. Edward Markey, co-chairman of …
Pirate Bay Founders Lose Supreme Court Appeal, Going to Jail
Well that’s it then, everyone out of the pool — Sweden’s Supreme Court just announced it won’t agree to hear an appeal by The Pirate Bay’s founders, meaning the jail sentences and fines imposed by the Swedish Court of Appeals …
Don’t Expect an Apple Television Anytime Soon
Apple is just now looking into display capabilities for an Apple television, according to the latest scuttlebutt, which means a product launch may not happen until the end of this year or early 2013.
Gene Munster, an analyst …
Steam for iOS, Android Devices Won’t Play Games, but Lets You Chat
Fingers crossed Steam operator Valve might have found a way to plonk stuff like Skyrim, Rage or Sins of a Solar Empire onto your mobile phone? Alas, the new freebie Steam client for smartphones won’t do anything like that. What …
EFF Launches ‘MegaRetrieval’ Site for Megaupload Users
With just two weeks before everything stored on Megaupload potentially gets deleted, help is at hand for those who can’t access legitimate, legal files stored in the now-frozen cloud service. The Electronic Frontier Foundation …
Putting the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx’s Battery Life to the Test
As Verizon Wireless tries to push a broad lineup of 4G LTE smartphones on its customers, the company omits an important fact: LTE destroys battery life. This may improve some day, when tech companies figure out how to optimize …
The Basics Behind Google’s New Privacy Policies
Last week, Google announced new privacy standards that essentially created a single, unified policy across all of its properties. What’s so bad about that? Well, users kind of freaked out when they realized that Google would be …