New Photos Of The Next BlackBerry With Keyboard Have Leaked (RIMM)
Last week saw the leak of some blurry photos of what appeared to be the new BlackBerry N-series phone.Now N4BB has the goods again, and they're in focus.Despite its designation as "N-series," Engadget...
View Article5 Totally Odd Tech Predictions That Will Probably Come True Next Year
It's the time of year when everyone in the tech industry becomes a soothsayer.Our email is full of predictions for the coming year. Most of them are obvious things that don't require a crystal ball....
View ArticleNow PBS Is Making A TV Show About Silicon Valley
Bravo's reality series "Silicon Valley" seemed to mostly fall flat as it followed entrepreneurs taking their ideas from conception to completion.Now PBS is taking a different approach, producing a...
View ArticleACT FAST: Lightning Adapters Are $5 For The Next 30 Minutes (AAPL)
We learned about a killer deal on Lightning adapters via this tweet from TUAW.They're not official Apple products, but they'll work.Head over to CellPhoneShop to scoop up an adapter for just $5, much...
View Article9 Lessons The Tech World Learned In 2012
LESSON 1: Tweet in haste, repent at leisureWho would have thought that an elderly Tory peer would become a leading innovator in internet law? Yet that is what Lord McAlpine has become. It's not clear...
View ArticleAcer President: All Those People Who Hate Windows 8 Need To Spend More Time...
In an interview with DigiTimes, Acer president Jim Wong spoke about Windows 8 and its future with different kinds of touchscreen laptops, traditional computers, and tablets.Despite the fact that Acer's...
View ArticleForget 4G – 2013 Could Be Wi-Fi's Year
With all the hype around the rollout of 4G mobile broadband, it’s easy to forget that 2012 was a big year for public Wi-Fi access. Figures released by The Cloud, the Wi-Fi operator owned by BSkyB, bear...
View ArticleEven Die-Hard BlackBerry Fans Don't Like The New Keyboard Phone (RIMM)
A few more photos of RIM's next keyboard-equipped BlackBerry leaked out today.The phone will run BlackBerry 10, the new mobile operating system from RIM that will formally launch on Jan. 30.Now take a...
View ArticleA New Michigan Law Tells Employers To Keep Out Of Your Facebook Profile (FB)
A new Michigan House Bill prevents schools and employers from requesting info about people's social networking presence, reports The Verge.The takeaway line from the bill is that "potential employees...
View ArticleUber Warns Customers New Year's Eve Pricing 'Is Not For The Faint Of Heart'
Uber, the startup with an app that lets you summon a town car limousine with your smartphone, has gotten a lot of grief in the past for something it does called "surge pricing."How it works: During...
View ArticleHow App Makers Can Earn More Money In A Post-PC World (GOOG, FB)
The sands are shifting under tech industry heavyweights like Facebook and Google.Users are spending more time with their smartphones and tablets and less time on their desktops and laptops.This...
View ArticleKRUGMAN: Even Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Has Been Conned By The Republicans
Paul Krugman gently chides Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in his New York Times column today.Specifically, Krugman says that Schultz is either willfully distorting the Fiscal Cliff situation or has been...
View ArticleNow Intel Is Trying To Beat Apple To A TV (INTC)
Intel is reportedly working on a set-top box for your TV that will let you stream video and audio content, record shows online, and watch a few select cable channels.We've been hearing rumblings of...
View ArticleA 15-Year-Old Reveals Everything You Need To Know About The State Of...
The rise of Snapchat, an app that allows you to send self-destructing messages, mirrors the rise of Pinterest, a digital scrap book site.Pinterest got big with "normal" people before the tech press and...
View ArticleFab, A Design Site That Raised $156 Million To Compete With Ikea, Now Has 10...
Fab's CEO and co-founder, Jason Goldberg, put together a year-end review of the design sale site.Fab now has 10 million members and its products are sold in 26 countries. Goldberg also says that...
View ArticleGoogle Is Attacking Apple From The Inside Out—And It's Working (AAPL, GOOG)
After years of hammering away at Apple's share of the smartphone market with cheap-to-free Android phones, Google has lately adopted a new tactic to win mobile.Call it "the worm strategy"—because...
View ArticleOne Theory About Why The Tech Startup Scene Is Boring Right Now
Technology's loudest, and most entertaining, blogger, Michael Arrington has been pretty quiet all year.Arrington, as you may recall, was forced out of TechCrunch, the tech site he founded, when he...
View ArticleHere's How HP Computers Were Almost Sold To Iran, Again (HPQ)
(Reuters) - A major Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies offered to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator in...
View ArticleBII REPORT: Here Are The Major Players In Mobile Advertising
We are in the post-PC era, and soon billions of consumers will be carrying around Internet-connected mobile devices for up to 16 hours a day. Mobile audiences have exploded as a result.Mobile...
View ArticleEveryone Thinks Samsung Will Show Off A TV With A See-Through Screen Next Week
Samsung has yet another teaser for its big TV announcement during the Consumer Electronics Show next week.This time it's for what many are saying will be a prototype television that stands vertically...
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