Earning $100,000 a year from making YouTube videos isn’t as fun as it sounds
If ever something sounded like a dream job, it’s making $100,000 a year just from creating your own YouTube content. However, as a New York …
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PS4 fan gives best response to Microsoft’s ‘Ditch your PS3’ offer
Microsoft probably thought it was being clever with its plan to offer PlayStation 3 gamers $100 toward the purchase of an Xbox One if they …
Video: Steve Jobs biographer takes back Apple criticism after calling Google more innovative
Walter Isaacson, who is best known for writing the authoritative biography of Steve Jobs, is walking back some of his criticisms of Apple. A couple …
What can we learn from the iPhone 5c and Windows 8 flops?
Whenever an exciting new trend in the tech world arises, analysts are quick to declare that every other company must quickly follow this trend or …
Microsoft finally realizes that people hate Windows 8’s live tiles
It’s official: Microsoft realizes that most desktop users have no use for the Live Tiles interface. The Verge reports that the next update of Windows …
Video: Just in time for the Super Bowl, T-Mobile unleashes best ad yet
To indoctrinate more Americans into its “Uncarrier” cult, T-Mobile has enlisted the help of Tim Tebow, the legendary college football quarterback who really, really, really …
Amazon plans to kill brick-and-mortar stores with kindness
Amazon has been not-so-secretly trying to put brick-and-mortar stores out of business but now it looks like the company is planning to launch a charm …
Microsoft to reportedly name next CEO, may oust Gates as chairman
Big news broke late on Thursday as Bloomberg reports that Microsoft will name cloud and enterprise boss Satya Nadella as its next CEO and is considering ousting …
Google’s Q4 profit spikes 17%, but badly misses estimates
Google faced lofty expectations for its fourth-quarter earnings and the company missed by posting earnings of $12.01 per share on revenues of $16.86 billion. The …
Samsung-Lenovo looks like the next Android battle royale
Remember how much fun the Android phone market used to be, back before Samsung completely stomped out the competition and back when HTC, Motorola and …
Could future Apple devices actually come with… a stylus?
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was always very vocal about his dislike of styluses, the electronic pens that Samsung has brought back into fashion with its …
Lenovo CEO: ‘We don’t have an effective plan yet’ to fix Motorola
Was the Lenovo-Motorola merger a shotgun marriage? It certainly caught many people by surprise when it was announced on Wednesday and now Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing …
This may be the most important reason Google bought Nest
When Google first announced that it was buying Nest, most of the chatter revolved around how Google’s software would affect Nest’s smart thermostats. However, one …
Microsoft’s epic CEO search might finally, for real, be almost over
Could we finally see white smoke billowing out of Redmond over the next few days to signal that Microsoft has at long last found its …
On BlackBerry 10’s 1st anniversary, BlackBerry’s U.S. market share hits 0%
BlackBerry has become the Bluto Blutarsky of the American smartphone market because, as Dean Wormer once said to Bluto, its market share is now “zero… …
New individually targeted political ads look to ruin TV for everyone
It’s sad that many of us have come to dread election years since it means we’ll get bombarded with nonstop propaganda telling us to vote …
The boom times appear over for the tablet market
It seems like only last year when tablets were seen as a magical growth product that were destined to pick up the slack for stumbling …
Developers beg for lawsuits, flood app stores with ‘Candy Saga’ games
The mobile game developer community hasn’t taken too kindly to King trademarking the words “candy” and “saga,” and it’s decided to respond the best way …
Google and Samsung need each other more than ever
There’s a lot to digest in the shocking news that broke Wednesday that Google plans to unload Motorola onto Lenovo for $3 billion. But when …
Lenovo to reportedly take Motorola off Google’s hands for $3 billion [updated]
Google won’t have the Motorola albatross hanging around its neck for much longer. Unnamed sources tell Reuters that Chinese computer vendor Lenovo is close to …
New patent gives first glimpse at how Google might make our cars safer
As we’ve said recently, the next big battle between Apple and Google will most likely be over your car. Phandroid draws our attention to a …
Google reportedly strong-arms Samsung into ditching storage-clogging gimmick apps
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 was one of the best smartphones released last year but it contained one major flaw: Samsung decided to lard it up with …
Windows Phone looks set to blow past iOS in several key markets
The chances of Windows Phone overtaking iOS in the United States are slim to none. In other countries, however, the story is much different. Jana …
Meet the mapping tech that even Google Glass’s No. 1 fan calls ‘freaky’ and invasive
You can’t exactly accuse Robert Scoble of being a privacy alarmist, especially since he’s gone out of his way to assuage some of the privacy …
Is Apple preparing a siege on Microsoft’s most important stronghold?
Apple has traditionally not overly concerned itself with marketing its products to businesses. Rather, it’s usually focused on getting its products into consumers’ hands and …
Sprint-T-Mobile merger might be DOA
Regulators at the United States Department of Justice don’t sound very keen on the idea that America’s hottest wireless carrier should get bought up by …
Intel’s voice recognition tech set to leave Siri in the dust
Siri, Apple’s voice-enabled personal assistant software, was very cool when it first came out but it hasn’t exactly aged gracefully. For one thing, it’s slow …
Rovio denies selling out Angry Birds players to NSA
Although we’ve come to expect the National Security Agency to spy on Internet users by hacking into Microsoft, Google and Facebook’s data centers, even the …
T-Mobile trolls AT&T again, calls carrier ‘Darth Vader’ of wireless
T-Mobile CEO John Legere never, ever stops trolling. On the same day that AT&T released its Q4 2013 earnings report, T-Mobile put out a press …
AT&T rakes in $5.2 billion Q4 profit but ‘Uncarrier’ takes its toll
AT&T on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $0.53 per share on $33.2 billion in revenue, thus beating the consensus estimate of $0.50 per share in …
