You’re wrapping up dinner at your favorite restaurant, but how do you reply to the maître d’ who hands you the bill and asks “paper, plastic, or semiconductor”?
With your phone, of course, and that’s just what Google’s hoping you’ll do when its new mobile payment service goes live sometime during the next four months, according to …
By the time I have children, they’ll be born with an internet chip in the head, constantly surfing the web. Looks like that future isn’t too far off: according to a report released, 80 percent of kids under the age of five use the internet weekly.
Non-profit organizations Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Sesame Workshop conducted …
It’s deceptively easy to get caught up in the buzz of South By Southwest Interactive; to get ahead of yourself and think that the future is now. Location-based services (LBS) are the talk of sxsw 2011, and yet I think for the vast majority of web users, LBS are best known for being the Foursquare spam in your Facebook feed.
Yet a …
If you’re tempted to complain about the latest iPad’s price tag, consider this: in Hong Kong, iPad 2s are easily selling for twice the price, and in some cases up to $1,500. (And that’s not in Hong Kong dollars, either.)
Even though the iPad 2 has yet to make it way to Hong Kong, the device is already sold out. It’s been …
Microsoft’s Zune has had a tough time lately. According to a Bloomberg report, Microsoft will be killing off the Zune, and no longer introducing new versions of the multimedia player, as a result of low demand.
While the “decision” hasn’t been announced, and Bloomberg’s source has refused to be identified, the company is expected …
You know you want to watch live TV on your iPad, because what else are you going to watch live on your iPad, right?
Well now you can, courtesy an app from Time Warner Cable Inc. — full disclosure, Time Warner Cable was divested from our parent company, Time Warner, in 2009 — that’ll allow your totable Apple slate with its glossy …
If you’ve never heard of “silicon art” before, prepare to be amazed.
In short, it is the practise of carving microscopic works of art on to the tiny circuit boards that sit inside the gadgets we use every day.
The people who design those boards have to work with the teeny and the tiny every day. And just like anyone else, they want
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Good morning! Want some tech headlines to chew on while you sip your coffee? You got it.
Have we reached peak animation?
Disney’s latest computer animated spectacular Mars Needs Moms has been spectacular in only one respect: the way it has flopped at the box office. Now, according to the New York Times, questions are being asked. …
Have you ever stopped to wonder what might happen to your digital stuff after you die?
The folk at Digital Beyond have, and they’ve been talking about it at the SXSW festival this week.
These days it’s easy to put stuff online thanks to dozens of free services offered by third party companies. Blogs, microblogs, social networks, …
Everywhere you turn this week at South By Southwest Interactive, there is the feeling of a countdown underway – the countdown to a new way of gaming, a new way of sharing things with your social network, a new way of shopping. No one quite knows how we’ll get there, or what shape it will take, but after sitting through three days of …
Remember Blogger? Of course you do. But do you still use it, or did you start using WordPress or Tumblr years ago?
Blogger is one of the oldest names on the blogging block, but hasn’t had a lot of love from its owners for a long time. Aside from a gorgeous and easy-to-use template design tool launched last year, its user interface
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Need yet another screen in your life? Starting April 17, Sprint will give you two for the price of one in Kyocera’s Echo.
The Echo, running Android 2.2, is the first Android phone to feature two touch screens, each measuring 3.5 inches and joined together by a pivoting hinge that lets you fold the phone into a single-screen handset. …
