HP’s Slate 2 is a rare product from an unlikely company. You don’t see many Windows 7 tablets these days, because most hardware makers are presumably waiting for Microsoft’s touch-optimized Windows 8 to launch next year. HP, meanwhile, is still licking its wounds over the failure of its TouchPad tablet, and only recently decided it was …
Watch Negative Tweets Disappear… on Facebook?
When it comes to advertisers trying to reach out into the world of social media, results tend to veer wildly between “inspired” and “oh please make it go away I can’t unsee that oh no.” Or, in the case of the new Mentos “Negative Tweet Eliminator,” just plain confusing.
Don’t get me wrong; the idea of an app that “destroys” tweets …
Judge Allows Sprint’s AT&T/T-Mobile Lawsuit to Proceed
The $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile may still be going ahead, but it’ll have to face a lawsuit claiming unfair competition from Sprint and C Spire before it can be finalized, with a U.S. District Judge allowing the companies’ case to proceed after dismissing some of their more outrageous claims.
Judge Ellen Huvelle ruled …
Worst Cyber-Criminals in the World: China and Russia, Claims U.S. Report
Forget Anonymous and LulzSec, according to a new U.S. report compiled from research by over a dozen spy agencies and area experts, the world’s worst cyber-criminals are China and Russia. The Chinese in particular are in the U.S.’s crosshairs, accused in the report of being “the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic …
WATCH: 16 Helicopters Form the ‘Multicopter’ Personal Flying Machine
It’s definitely more than meets the eye, as a team in Germany has connected 16 small, battery-powered propellers together to form the “E-Volo Multicopter”—described as “an innovative, vertically starting, human carrying transportation device” on the team’s website.
The machine has some important safety features, too, such as the …
Amazon ‘Prime’ Members Now Get Free Kindle E-Book Rentals
Amazon’s bringing free Kindle e-book rentals to Amazon Prime members, but a bunch of restrictions make the service less attractive than it could be.
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, as it’s officially called, lets Amazon Prime members check out one book at a time in one-month increments. If the member switches to another book when …
Surprise, Apple Will Reboot Entire Product Lineup Next Year!
I’m not sure this is actually newsworthy, but here it is anyway: Apple will overhaul its full product line over the course of 2012, including the iPad, iMac, iPhone and MacBook Air. That, according to a “source in the upstream supply chain” confabbing with DigiTimes. I know, it’s basically like shouting “Revelation! Computer manufacturer …
Apple Confirms Battery Issues for Some iOS 5-Enabled iPhones
Hold your horses before you update that phone. If you’re considering downloading Apple’s latest and greatest mobile software (specifically, iOS 5), you may want to rethink that for a second. Apple has admitted that some bugs are causing battery issues with certain iPhone models.
Some customers are finding that their iPhones are
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Apple’s GarageBand Gets a Gig on the iPhone
You’re walking out of the grocery store when the idea hits you: The Greatest Song of All Time. All the elements are in your head–drums, bass, guitar, vocals–and ready to be recorded into reality. But alas, you don’t have your iPad, so you don’t have GarageBand! And by the time you get home, the idea is gone.
That’ll never happen …
Google Can Now Index Your Comments Made Through Facebook
I know that you, fair Techland readers, are always civil in the comments section. Those who aren’t might want to think twice about saying something nasty, as Googlebots (a.k.a. Google’s infamous web spiders) can now index website comments from engines like Facebook, Livefyre and Disqus.
Before, the fact that those commenting engines …
Internet Explorer Finally Falls Below 50% of Web Browser Use
Web designers around the world, it’s time to celebrate: Last month, Internet Explorer’s share of global browser usage fell below 50% for the first time in more than a decade. Your long nightmare of having to make things work for people who still use IE6 is a little bit closer to coming to an end.
Microsoft’s iconic browser can still …
Gmail App for iPad and iPhone Now Available [UPDATE]
The rumors were true, and it’s finally here: a native Gmail app for your Apple device. You’ll get push notifications, inbox searching, autocompleting e-mail addresses, photo uploads and—if you’re an iPad user—a split view with your inbox on the left and your messages on the right.
You’ll also have access to Gmail’s “Priority Inbox”
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