Court-appointed monitor slams Apple’s stonewalling in eBook case
Apple’s eBook price-fixing fiasco is being dragged kicking and screaming into the new year. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple’s monitoring lawyer, Michael Bromwich, …
Month: December 2013
Latest Month: December 2013
One of the web’s best stores for unlocked phones is getting even better
Try searching for online retailers that stock unlocked smartphones. Go on, I’ll wait. Chances are, the results that emerged took you to some dark, dark …
Meet the most important Windows Phone in the world
Outside of the Apple ecosystem, affordability reigns supreme. According to the latest data from AdDuplex, the budget-priced Lumia 520 has now taken more than 30% …
How a top Microsoft rival could make 2014 the year of Windows Phone
While we’ve been laser-focused on Samsung’s split from Android, another major electronics company has purportedly been exploring other options as well. The Information reports that …
The high-end phone market will be a chamber of horrors in 2014
Many news sites have reported perky news items about Flurry’s Christmas app download statistics. And most of them have been comprehensively out to lunch. The …
Google Glass’ direct-to-consumer feedback mechanism renders the focus group dead
In a few short days, I’ll be headed to the year’s most frenzied electronics gala — a little gathering known as the International Consumer Electronics …
5 things the tech industry absolutely needs in 2014
Given that it’s New Year’s Eve, I thought that I’d make a quick list of New Year’s resolutions that I’d like to see the tech …
Why your Galaxy Note may be jacking up your wireless bill
Are you an Android user who regularly blows through your monthly data cap sooner than you’d expected? If so then there’s a good reason for …
This is the one reason Android users are actually jealous of iOS users
Android users are a proud group and are typically not fond of admitting that they’re envious of iPhone users. However, there’s one area where even …
Samsung is building a metal smartphone… but it’s not the Galaxy S5
We feel pretty confident that Samsung’s Galaxy S5 will be a killer smartphone but one question remains: Will Samsung finally follow in the footsteps of …
Ballmer’s nightmare: Chromebooks saw huge business sales growth in 2013
Despite the rise of Android devices, Apple has managed to keep up its position atop the U.S. tablet market for years. But as 2013 draws to …
Yikes: NSA can turn on your iPhone’s camera, mic without you knowing [updated]
The National Security Agency (NSA) has apparently able to hack the iPhone since 2008, according to a Der Spiegel interactive report that looks at the …
Video: How to stream PC games to your Wii U GamePad
With the release of Super Mario 3D World last month, Wii U owners finally had a reason to plug their consoles back in for the …
Even tiny microSD cards have chips that can be hacked
Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross have discovered a way to hack even the small microSD cards that go inside current smartphones and tablets …
Forget TVs and watches, cars are the next big battleground for Apple and Google
While everyone expects Google and Apple’s next big fight to be over watches or TVs, it increasingly looks like cars will be the next big …
Video: Google chairman Eric Schmidt shares his predictions for 2014
Mobile, mobile and more mobile. Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt might not have a buzzy catchphrase for it like “post PC era,” but he is …
Video: NSA can hack your home Wi-Fi network from 8 miles away
This week began with a massive report detailing the NSA’s extensive spy operations in the United States, but the revelations didn’t end there. Jacob Applebaum, …
1,000 classic console games now available to play online for free
In addition to cataloging the Internet, the Internet Archive has launched a new project called Console Living Room that will let gamers play classic console video …
Netflix offers late Christmas gift to new subscribers with $1 price cut
Netflix has kicked off a new promotion that offers a standard-definition streaming service for $6.99, or $1 less than the popular $7.99 basic service, AdWeek reports. There …
This is the biggest Ultra HDTV on the planet… and it costs $150,000
The chalkboard is back. Samsung on Monday launched a new television that is without question the largest Ultra HDTV on the planet. Measuring a monstrous …
Brainlike processors coming from Qualcomm next year
Qualcomm is among several companies working on brainlike processors, The New York Times has learned, and the chipmaker is expected to come out with a …
BlackBerry CEO’s open letter is just a sad attempt to spin the company’s downward spiral
Brand new BlackBerry CEO John Chen has written a letter detailing BlackBerry’s strength and strategy for CNBC, and it was was published earlier Monday morning. …
Awesome tips from Reddit users on how to get the most out of your Apple TV
Flipping through the back pages of “the front page of the Internet” often yields some real gems, and a recently posted thread packed full of …
Training with the Polar Loop fitness tracker and H7 heart rate monitor
The wearables market as a whole began to gain steam long before fitness trackers were en vogue, but there’s no question that the likes of …
Video: This is Samsung’s vision of the future
Samsung’s display arm envisions a future where just about everything you see and touch — from the walls in your house and the floor you …
BlackBerry’s big jam: Foxconn manufactured phone won’t have a keyboard
This might be hard to believe… if it wasn’t BlackBerry. BGR is able to confirm that the company’s upcoming handset code-named Jakarta — the one …
Another secret weapon from Samsung’s Galaxy S5 possibly revealed
Shipments of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S4 may have fallen a bit short of the company’s lofty expectations in 2013, but 2014 is shaping up to …
