Amazon is flexing the Kindle Fire’s app muscle ahead of next week’s launch, promising apps for Netflix, Facebook and Twitter, and plenty of games to boot.
Apps are the biggest advantage the Kindle Fire has over Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet. Although the two tablets have similar specs and similar prices (the Nook Tablet is $50 more …
Android tablets are old news, I know, but Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime hopes to get your attention again with its quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chip.
The Transformer Prime, which got a quick tease last month, now has a December …
Smaller, less expensive and running Windows 9 on an ARM processor—that may just be Microsoft’s next Xbox, according to a rumormonger known for getting predictions like this right.
Blogger MSNerd allots most of his “Clarity” …
Happy Wednesday! Here’s what’s going on in tech so far…
ZDNet reports that Adobe will be “stopping development on Flash Player for browsers on mobile” and will be reallocating resources to the more universally-compatible HTML5 standard. An official announcement is expected today at 10:00am …
Time to nip it in the bud, apparently. For all of you who were hoping to upgrade your not-quite-the-latest-model iPhone to include the wise-cracking Siri, it appears you may not get it any time soon. According to a report, Apple …
You can look at this one of two ways: Steve Jobs was right on the money about Adobe Flash, or Steve Jobs shrewdly worked to ensure he’d be right about Adobe’s mobile multimedia plugin by using Apple’s leverage to put the tool in a stranglehold. However you view it, it’s death seems all but assured: Adobe’s reportedly killing mobile …
Recent graduates in China want to be using iPhones, not making them, resulting in increased competition for the shrinking pool of workers willing to do factory work, which drives up wages. The minimum wage—about $207 a …
No contest here. The Kindle Fire will let you purchase or rent videos on demand, and includes access to Amazon’s MP3 store. Best of all, any content you purchase from Amazon is stored online for free, so you …
The beatification of Steve Jobs continues. It appears that students in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second biggest city, might soon be attending class at a school named for the late Apple founder.
The technical secondary school is currently named for another guy who has a reputation for being “revolutionary”—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The …
It sounds like the set-up for a joke, but it’s true; Groupon’s attempt to crack the Chinese market has been slowed by the discovery that the “luxury watches” its subsidiary was selling weren’t entirely legit.
Hundreds bought the Tissot watches offered by Gaopeng.com when the site offered them for only 690 yuan (Just over $100), …
According to a new Cisco study, 56% of college students and recent college graduates would refuse to work for a company that banned social media like Facebook and Twitter, demonstrating their awareness of just how important YouTube links and pithy updates from your favorite Adult Swim-friendly comedians are to actually getting through …
A new carrier called Republic Wireless is enlisting the help of Wi-Fi networks to sell insanely cheap smartphone service.
Republic Wireless offers voice, text and data for $19 per month, with no annual contract. That’s roughly a quarter of the price of coverage plans on AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
(MORE: T-Mobile’s No-Contract 4G …
