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Samsung ATIV S smartphone launched in Canada
We first saw the Samsung ATIV S during IFA 2012, and in November its release date was bumped ahead to later in the year, with estimates for shipping falling sometime in January 2013. Now the phone is...
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Do Apple Fans Love Tim Cook?
Almost as soon as Steve Jobs became a household name decades ago, Apple fans loved him. They viewed Jobs as their fearless leader; someone that, in good times and bad, would find a way to help the...
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Twitter archive download option begins roll-out
Twitter has reportedly begun rolling out its “tweet archive download” option, allowing users of the micro-blogging service to save a cache of all of the messages they’ve ever posted. The feature,...
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You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Google
It’s a strange time of year to be of my ilk in America. The houses are mostly decked with lights, although I live in that rare North Texas neighborhood of refreshing ethnic diversity where the smells...
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Discovered Samsung Exynos exploit opens door to major malware problems
It isn’t that often we get to write about an exploit that is both awesome and horrible at the same time, but today we’re doing just that. A user over at the XDA Developers Forum has gone searching...
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iPhone 5 first weekend sales in China reach 2 million
We learned late last month that the iPhone 5 was arriving to customers in China on December 14, and tonight, Apple has announced that the new device has sold two million units throughout the past three...
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Samsung finds no evidence of underage workers at supplier HTNS Shenzhen
With so many companies recruiting outside factories to manufacture parts for their devices, we often hear about the working conditions at these factories. Samsung is something of an outlier in that it...
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Google enrages rivals with rumored FTC antitrust escape plan
Google is near a US antitrust settlement which would see the search giant escape without penalty or punishment, insiders claim, conceding greater transparency and agreeing not to scrape content for its...
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Facebook “sexting” app imminent tip insiders
Facebook is readying another standalone mobile app, this time taking on Snapchat with a photo messaging system that sends self-destructing images visible only for a predefined period of time. The new...
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Google UK chief blames LG for “scarce” Nexus 4
Google’s UK and Ireland chief has apologized for the Nexus 4 supply debacle, describing the paucity of stock as “unacceptable” and blaming LG for “scarce” supplies that have left many buyers waiting...
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Imagination Technologies raises bid to $100 million for MIPS
Imagination Technologies is a British company that designs computer chips for various uses. The company has been in a bit of a bidding war with another company called Ceva in an attempt to purchase...
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New research could yield the ability to detect fake tweets
I think most of us know that you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. This is particularly true of twitter and other social networks where things have a way of getting twisted as they are...
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Matrox DS1 Thunderbolt docking station now available
Back in June of 2012 we talked about the new Matrox DS1 Thunderbolt docking stations. If you were excited about being able to get your hands on a Thunderbolt docking station aimed at Mac computers,...
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Dell pushed Microsoft to use a name other than Windows RT for ARM OS
Microsoft’s new Windows operating systems have been out for a couple months now. One of the more intriguing operating systems that Microsoft rolled out in recent years is its Windows RT OS supporting...
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Feeling through your phone and a digital tongue: IBM predicts the five-year...
IBM has offered up its annual list of five innovations that will change our lives within five years. IBM calls the list the “IBM 5 in 5.” The list covers innovations that IBM believes that the...
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HTC kills big-screen Windows Phone over resolution restriction say insiders
HTC has reportedly axed plans for a big-screen Windows Phone 8 handset to counter the DROID DNA, after deciding that the maximum screen resolution limits of Microsoft’s smartphone OS would leave it...
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Twitter tried to buy Instagram for $525 million
At this point, most people know that Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion. More details on the deal between Facebook and Instagram have surfaced indicating that Facebook significantly outbid...
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Sprint grabs 100% of Clearwire in $2.2bn deal
Sprint will acquire 100-percent of mobile broadband network Clearwire in a deal worth $2.2bn, the carriers have confirmed, with Clearwire valued at around $10bn in total and Sprint planning to use the...
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Russians put Soyuz in place for ISS mission
Russian space officials put a Soyuz spacecraft on top of its launch rocket today. The rocket was put in place at the Russian manned-space facility in the frigid country of Kazakhstan in preparation for...
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Raspberry Pi app store launches
The Raspberry Pi team has launched the Pi Store, an app store for users of the low-cost code-tinkering boards, providing a place to easily find and share free and paid applications. Currently...
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