Good morning! Here are some of this morning’s interesting tech stories. More on these, and more besides, coming up later.
iPad 2 Will Keep The Top Spot
In a market analysis report that will surprise exactly no-one, some analysts from Gartner said the Apple iPad will continue to dominate the tablet computer market for some time to
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It’s a shame this prototype stand is not commercially available, but art student Andrew Kim just proved you can make a pretty nice looking stand by yourself. (Well, if you have access to a laser cutter.)
The stand itself is made from some acrylic plastic and birch plywood, and can hold up to three devices: mainly an iPad, an iPod …
Yesterday, both AT&T and T-Mobile announced that AT&T would acquire the latter in a deal worth $39 billion. Thoughts raced through millions of heads, wondering how the acquisition would affect them, mine included. As a T-Mobile customer, I wondered what options were now left to me.
What does the $39 billion deal mean in a nutshell? …
AT&T has proposed to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion, taking in a network competitor that’s also well-prepped for purchase. The potential buy has already raised questions about AT&T’s regulatory affects, and how the telecom giant intends to push through a doomed deal. Merging any two companies of this size and stature would be a …
It’s a skill that anyone who’s played a first-person shooter like Halo: Reach or Call of Duty: Black Ops relies on: the ability to know where the bullets heading your way originated. Knowing whether an assailant’s above you, behind you, to your right or left can literally save your life. When you’ve got that vital info, you know where to …
An entire generation of American girls got their aesthetics permanently shaped by the Sailor Moon animated series. The anime, though, was based on a series of manga by Naoko Takeuchi–the apotheosis of the “magical girl” genre. And, while the English translations of Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon manga volumes were immensely popular in the U.S. …
There’s a little trend in comics blogs that’s turned up over the past few months: Tumblrs devoted to a specific creator’s work, reprinting a single panel or a single page at a time, out of their original context. A Moment of Moore, one of the more prominent ones, is dedicated to Alan Moore’s work. Whoever’s maintaining it has been …
Once upon a time, jailbreaking our iPhones allowed us to be blissfully free from the clutches of Apple and AT&T’s official regulations. We used our data plans the way we wanted to, even if that included sharing it with our laptops and iPads. (All of this is rhetorical, of course. We would never actually do such a thing.)
But now it …
Does Netflix know too much? The video provider is facing a class action lawsuit that claims that the company is violating user privacy by keeping viewing and payment records after customers cancel their service.
The action, filed last week by attorneys acting on behalf of former customer Peter Comstock and others, alleges that Netflix …
Some people are just destined for bad luck, it seems. Consider the sad story of Richard Leon Barton Jr., a man who found himself arrested for putting photographs of his wedding on Facebook. Sure, there was that whole “he was already married, and it was his first wife who saw the pictures, hence his arrest” thing going on as well, but …
Another day, another pair of iPhone 5 rumors. Everybody loves a juicy Apple rumor, it seems, but the usual caveat applies: until a senior Apple exec has stood on a stage and announced it, either or both of these should be taken with a pinch of salt. No, wait: make that a truckload.
Rumor 1: iPhone 5 will have NFC chip for wireless …
If you live in Massachusetts and you bought a Groupon deal for a sports bar, we hope you enjoy dollar tacos. That’s because deals that don’t stop at food, but also discount liquor, are now void in the Bay State.
Last month, the state’s Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission sent Groupon a letter telling it that deals that …
