Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also REVIEW: The iPad Mini REVIEW: Google’s Latest Smartphone, The Nexus 4 Review: The Microsoft Surface Tablet I got really excited when Nokia unveiled its first flagship Windows Phone, the Lumia 900, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. It was unique, not just another black slab with rounded...
AP See Also This Trend Is Very Worrisome For Apple Where 16 Of The Strangest Company Names Came From HTML5 vs. Native Apps: It Is Not All Or Nothing Smartphones and tablets powered by Google’s Android software are devouring the mobile gadget market, eating into Apple’s turf by feeding appetites for innovation and low...
USA Today, Avast Anti-virus company Avast conducted a survey of Windows-based PC users the day before Windows 8 was released. The results were devastating for Microsoft and non-Apple PC makers. They were excellent, meanwhile, for Apple. Byron Acohido wrote up the results for USA Today and filmed a short video with charts. You can...
Windows Phone 7.8 may not be the lame duck session of smartphone congress that we have long expected. Quotes out recently – as reported in TechRadar - have Microsoft singing what could be a new tune for the coming software refresh for older Windows Phone hardware. Terry Myerson, the head of Windows Phone, said the following...
Hacktivist group Anonymous today claimed to have leaked the personal information — including home address, phone numbers, and email addresses — of over 3,000 individuals who are said to have donated to pro-Israel group, Unity Coalition for Israel. This move comes after they attacked over 650 Israeli sites on November 17th, wiping their databases...
A new mobile phone network is launching in the UK today, one that’s promising to shake up the status quo and offer an ethical alternative for those looking to steer clear of the big-name incumbents. The People’s Operator (TPO) will be flicking its switch to ‘on’ later this morning, offering a quarter of its...
As baby boomers age and retire, they’ll be confronted with a really tough choice: Pony up for extremely expensive assisted-care or full-care facilities or stay at home and rely on family or outside help as needed. Ask any aging person their preference, and you’ll see that the “age in home” option is the winner...
Given all the vendor action in the cloud file-sync-storage-and share arena, it’s a booming business. Dropbox has netted a phenomenal $260 million in investment for a service that is probably not close to profitable. It now also claims 100 million users, double the year-ago figure and that it is storing one billion (with a...
Two recent incidents raise questions about how the law should respond when social media wrongly labels someone a paedophile. The incidents, which took place on different sides of the Atlantic, also showed why free speech laws are better in America. In case you missed it, the first incident involved a BBC television show that claimed...
Ideum has built a platform for developers to create complex gestures for apps that can run on 100-inch table top displays or the small screens of Ultrabooks running Windows 8. Ideum’s GestureWorks platform shows how developers will increasingly have the freedom to think beyond developing apps that are limited to those that require a keyboard...