Britain’s Trevor Prideaux liked smartphones but found he had a problem—born without a left arm, touchscreens were hard to use one-handed. Luckily Nokia stepped in and worked with medical professionals at the Exeter Mobility Centre to design a specially fitted prosthetic arm with a dock that houses his Nokia C7 perfectly.
The …
Amazon stunned the business world this afternoon with the announcement that third quarter profit had fallen 73% despite net sales rising 44% during the same period. The discrepancy was explained as an increase in spending on new products such as the Kindle Fire, due to be launched next month.
Profits for the quarter were announced at …
How bad is Netflix’s news that it lost 800,000 subscribers yesterday? Bad enough for financial analysts to start describing the company as going through a “nuclear winter” and “broken,” advising their clients to dump the stock and move on.
Netflix stock fell almost 28% yesterday in reaction to its earnings announcement, leading …
Google has ever-so slightly updated its “Chrome” web browser to include the option to view a list of your installed apps or your most visited sites when opening a new tab, along with a redesigned Chrome Web Store that brings a handful of new apps and extensions.
There are a slew of fixes going on under the hood as well, if you’re so …
Looking for a little inside info on the stock market? Try checking Yahoo. No, searching “Which stocks will go up?” won’t work; we’re talking about using search data to predict behavior in real life.
The appropriately named Institute of Complex Systems in Rome went through Yahoo searches looking for mentions of companies in the …
No doubt many see this Netflix debacle, in which the company admits it just lost 800,000 subscribers in its fiscal third quarter, as vindication. They balked when the company hiked its price a few bucks a month, and they absolutely howled when Netflix tried to separate DVD rentals and online streaming into two discrete services. The …
Amazon’s Kindle Fire may be a bigger deal than many were expecting, if J.P. Morgan’s about-turn on the device is anything to go by. Weeks after telling investors that the device was “noise” with a low price point that only reflected how much it lacked in terms of usability, the company is forecasting Kindle Fire sales of between 4.5 to 5 …
On the face of it, things look grim for Groupon right now. Its IPO offers a value around a third of what was originally expected, the Daily Deals business seems to be shrinking, and it’s facing multiple class action lawsuits from former employees. Luckily, it’s fighting back against bad fortune… by suing two former employees who are …
It’s Tuesday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Apple MacBook Air: Starting at $835 at MacMall
The cheapest MacBook Air model generally starts at $999 but MacMall has discounted several closeout models, with prices starting at $835 for the 11.6-inch version. These models come preloaded with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, but …
Cat lovers allergic to cats (but not robo-kitties), your day of bliss may be closer: IBM’s put together all the supercomputing parts and pieces to replicate the number of neural synapses inside a feline noggin. That, in short, means they’ve managed to simulate the essential pieces of Fluffy’s brain.
And not just a cat’s brain, but …
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Many years ago, Tony Fadell took an idea he had for a new gadget to Apple. It was a pocket-sized hard-disk MP3 player. Apple was impressed–and, just over a decade ago, released Fadell’s creation as the iPod. It was, as you may recall, quite popular.
(MORE: The iPod Turns 10: How It Shaped Music History)
Fadell went on to run …
In a message coming straight from the horse’s mouth (via something known as “Twitter”), Motorola has promised to update its Android handsets to the newest version of the software—4.0, or “Ice Cream Sandwich”—within six weeks of its official release by Google. The promise came in direct response to a Twitter user who was concerned …
