Anonymous celebrates Guy Fawkes Day with reported PayPal hack [UPDATE]
In case you don’t remember, today is Guy Fawkes Day. Anonymous is trying to make sure that you remember the fifth of November, taking to Twitter today to announce that it has hacked PayPal and made off...
View ArticleAndroid turns 5 today
It may be hard to believe, but Google‘s mobile operating system, Android, turned just five years old today. It feels like it’s been around forever, but it was only five years ago when the Open Handset...
View ArticleSamsung brand reboot reported for CES 2013
The blue oval may be headed out the door sooner than later if those “in the know” with Samsung are to believed about a full brand reboot around the time of CES 2013. Reports come from Channel News in...
View ArticleGoogle Maps for iOS approval not likely, claim sources
We’ve known for quite a while now that Google was working on their own Google Maps app for iOS. We’ve seen leaked screenshots, and we’ve even heard rumors that the app is expected to arrive within the...
View ArticleRovio launches “official gameplay trailer” for Angry Birds Star Wars
The release day for Rovio’s latest Angry Birds installment is quickly approaching, and we’re finally within just days of the launch of Angry Birds Star Wars. Rovio has released several teaser trailers...
View ArticleEvernote teams with mysms for text messaging storage
If you ever wondered what it’d be like to keep every single bit of communication you had with other people on the web to yourself in an archive, today is your lucky day – so says Evernote. In a team-up...
View ArticleInstagram profile pages official, but not for everyone quite yet
Those of you addicted to Instagram know good and well the limitations of the platform – many of them placed there by design to keep the community mobile and “exclusive”, so to speak. Now Instagram has...
View ArticleAmputee climbs Willis Tower with mind-controlled bionic leg
Zac Vawter, a 31-year-old who lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident, became the first person to scale the 103-story Willis Tower in Chicago with a mind-controlled robotic leg. The artificial leg...
View ArticleIs Dragonborn the Shivering Isles DLC Skyrim fans crave?
For many, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion served as an introduction to DLC. Bethesda had its misses (horse armor anyone?) but it also some hits, one of which being the beyond excellent Shivering Isles...
View ArticleHTC DROID DNA rumored for December 6 release
We’ve heard a little bit about HTC‘s rumored 5-inch phablet-style smartphone recently. The company plans on calling it the DROID DNA, and we last heard that it would be out sometime in December....
View ArticleWisconsin tosses Apple vs Motorola court battle early
It would appear that the courts in Wisconsin do not have a taste for gadget wars as this week they’ve been reported to be tossing out the Apple vs Motorola case that’d be brewing for some time. This...
View ArticleHalo 4 reintroduces us to Master Chief tomorrow
Just a reminder for all of you Halo fans out there: Halo 4 will be launching in the US just a few hours from now. Starting at midnight local time, Halo 4 will become available all across the country,...
View ArticleHulu welcomes aboard CBS shows starting in January
As it stands, Hulu already has a huge selection of TV shows to choose from and watch, but it certainly doesn’t have every single TV show under the sun. That’s to blame on the fact that CBS didn’t have...
View ArticleApple rumored to be ditching Intel in future Macs
Apple has used three different processor brands for its Mac line ever since the first Macintosh debuted in 1984. They first used Motorola’s 68000, then switched to Power PC chips, and finally made the...
View ArticleMobile Internet Explorer 10 flash workaround discovered
Depending on who you ask, Windows 8 and Windows RT are either awesome or terrible. We happen to fall in the former group (at least as far as Windows 8 is concerned), but there’s one thing that is an...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface RT teardown shows giant retail profit margin
The folks that see how inexpensive an item is to produce and feel that the manufacturer should have little to no profit over this cost are certainly not going to enjoy what they’re hearing from IHS...
View ArticleVerizon will begin shutting down its app store in 2013
Verizon Wireless has announced plans to begin closing down its app store starting in January. Presently, Verizon’s marketplace is available on BlackBerry and compatible Android phones. The shutdown...
View ArticleBluegrass Cellular begins roll out of LTE network
In an effort to get LTE broadband access to those in the US located in smaller cities and towns, Verizon created the Verizon Wireless LTE in Rural America, aka LRA, program. As part of that program,...
View ArticleAmerican Suzuki to file for bankruptcy, stop selling cars
American Suzuki Motor has announced that it plans to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and that it will begin focusing its attention on selling ATVs and motorcycles, rather than cars. According to its...
View ArticleVerizon to release Lumia 822 and HTC 8X in time for Black Friday
Verizon has announced that it will be releasing the Nokia Lumia 822 and the HTC 8X Windows Phone smartphones by Thanksgiving, giving Black Friday shoppers a chance to nab them for Christmas. Both these...
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