Now’s apparently a good time to stop holding out for the iPad 3 or iPad 2 HD that was rumored to arrive later this year. According to DigiTimes, Apple has canceled its plans to produce a high-resolution iPad in late 2011.
It’s not really fair to call this a delay because, well, Apple never announced anything. The product, which …
Sony might have figured out a sneaky but ingenious way to increase sales of its next crop of e-readers: Cash in on the still-existent Harry Potter craze.
According to The Register, the next Sony Readers—to be released in November, in time for the holiday rush—will come pre-loaded with all seven Potter books, ahead of the 2012 …
Last Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) controversially shut down cellular service in its stations to curb the efforts of demonstrators protesting the police shooting death of Charles Blair Hill back on July 3rd of this year. Discontent with BART police has been festering for quite some time following the wrongful shooting death of …
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Apple buying T-Mobile. Microsoft buying Adobe. We’re all used to reading stuff by tech pundits talking about seismic, world-changing acquisitions in a somewhat fanciful manner. But Google buying Motorola Mobility, the recently-spun-off part of Motorola that makes phones and other consumer hardware, is real–and the most potentially …
It would appear that the strange journey of Paul Ceglia — the wood pellet salesman from upstate New York who claims that Mark Zuckerberg owes him a 50% stake of Facebook — has reached an unfittingly boring end.
And what a ride it’s been: We’ve seen everything from Facebook calling Mr. Ceglia (who reportedly has a history of fraud) …
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Question from Tim: My brother just lost his iPhone and is debating whether or not he can muddle through with a disposable until September or October or whenever the new iPhone comes out. This ALWAYS happens with the new Apple products, right? There’s a period where …
Now there will be no question about who is going to be the “mayor” of the White House. President Barack Obama has just made the official leap to Foursquare − and he is probably going to be checking in at more places than Carmen Sandiego.
According to the White House, Obama’s Foursquare account will feature the places he visits and …
Over the last few months, an unknown company called TabCo has teased a mystery product by posting cryptic videos to YouTube, hiring a skywriter to write “forget the fruit” outside an Apple developer conference and by sending pizza to journalists. Turns out, Tabco is a reboot of Fusion Garage, whose JooJoo tablet was an utter failure, and …
Raise your hand if you’re guilty! Or, you know, just avoid direct eye contact and continue to poke down at your iPhone instead.
In a new report from the Pew Research Center titled Americans and Their Cell Phones, you have your usual fare about how cell phone penetration is on the rise, people are sending more photos and videos, yadda …
Certain etiquette is quite straightforward. Always say please and thank you, don’t speak with your mouth full, and hold the door for a lady. But when technology gets thrown into the manners mix, many of us find we’re in unchartered territory—Jane Austen never had to handle Facebook!
Techland is here to help, with a readers guide …
In an op-ed in the Guardian on Sunday, writer and editor Robert Levine makes the case that the internet “has all but destroyed the market for films, music and newspapers.” It’s a question we’ve encountered many times before. Here’s the crux of the argument, which states that the internet has diminished the value of traditional content …
Things You Probably Shouldn’t Do on Twitter #23: Tell your followers that if they want to be your intern, they should call a phone number that belongs to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Sounds obvious, right?
And yet, it’s something that rapper “The Game” didn’t seem to think about when he sent that very tweet out to his 580,000 …
