Shown off at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, Ion Audio’s Guitar Apprentice iPad accessory has already been a fixture on every local, regional and national broadcast news outlet’s segment, the formula being that the anchors …
SOPA: Reddit Confirms Jan. 18 Blackout; Wikipedia, Others May Follow
It’s on — at least partially: Reddit has announced that it will go dark for 12 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that he hopes to coordinate with the site so that …
Is Google’s Social Search Anti-Competitive? FTC Complaint Looms
Google’s ‘Search plus Your World’ is less than a week old, and already a privacy watchdog group has the company in its crosshairs over potential antitrust and privacy issues.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) …
Highlights from Day Four of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
We’ve reached the home stretch, also known as the day before the last day of CES; a day when everybody goes home despite there still being another day.
At around 11pm, I received a disturbing automated e-mail from Fitbit, the …
The Looming Cloud-Streaming Game Wars: OnLive Partners with Google TV
Forget “what’s in your wallet,” what’s in your TV? If you’re looking to pick up one of these newfangled Google TV-based televisions, make that OnLive, the cloud-streaming game service that lets you play high-end video games over …
Up Close with Nikiski, Intel’s Concept Laptop of Tomorrow
Although Intel doesn’t build laptops, the chip maker showed off a bit of design flare at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with Nikiski, a concept notebook that folds up into a touchscreen virtual …
Photos: Day Four of the Consumer Electronics Show
Samsung’s 5.3-inch Galaxy Note: Giant Phone Meets Tiny Tablet
When it comes to smartphones, apparently big is the new small. Thin is still in, to be sure, but screen sizes have been steadily inching their way into the weird limboland between phones and the current crop of 7-inch tablets. …
6 Slightly Ridiculous Celebrity-Endorsed Headphones from CES 2012
Just because Dr. Dre had a hit on his hands with his line of “Beats” headphones doesn’t mean other celebrity-endorsed audio gear will fare as well. Here’s a look at some of the new contenders and the celebrities that have endorsed them.
Only One-Third of TV-Watching in the U.S. Is Realtime
Cord-cutting may be an unproven myth, but new research suggests that people’s television habits are changing in a way you wouldn’t expect: Only a third of all television viewing nowadays happens “live,” without the Internet, TiVo …
AOL’s Hyperlocal ‘Patch’ Network Triples Traffic in 2011, but What Does That Mean?
AOL’s network of hyperlocal blogs, Patch, may have become more than a little controversial for its use of unpaid writers and rumors it’s lost ridiculous piles of money, but it’s possible that the audience doesn’t care — new …
Video: Brains-On with Haier’s Mind-Controlled TV
With just a small wireless headset and a lot of concentration, Haier’s BrainWave TV lets users play mind-controlled video games.
The BrainWave’s headset hangs over the head and has one extension that presses up against your …