DNSChanger malware set to kick 277,000 computers off the web Monday
Anyone who hasn’t scanned their computer for malware some time during the past year should seriously do so before this coming Monday. That’s because the …
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Tablets are (slowly) taking over for paper books and magazines, Gartner finds
Paper-based books aren’t in any danger of becoming vinyl record-style novelties anytime soon, but Gartner says that they’re increasingly being read less frequently in favor …
Motorola Photon Q LTE seemingly headed to Sprint
Engadget has found what appears to be a diagram of the Motorola Photon Q LTE listed as approved on the Federal Communications Commission’s website. As Engadget notes, …
Amazon’s next-generation Kindle Fire to launch in August, says China Times
Amazon isn’t taking Google’s Nexus 7 challenge lying down. Per UnwiredView, the China Times is reporting that Amazon has ordered 2 million new Kindle Fire units …
Meet the new spray-on battery that comes in a can
Scientific American reports that a team of scientists from Rice University in Houston and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium have been working on a …
RIM under pressure to slash carrier fees, which now account for one-third of revenue
When it rains, it pours. And in RIM’s case, it turns into a Noah-style biblical flood. Bloomberg News, via The Financial Post, reports that the troubled …
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden is in bed with the MPAA
The strange and amusing saga of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom took another interesting twist on Tuesday when Dotcom told TorrentFreak that none other than Vice President …
Tablet shipments to overtake notebooks in 2016, NPD says
Tablets may indeed herald the coming of a “post-PC world,” but that world won’t arrive for another few years, NPD said on Tuesday. According to …
Nexus 7 crushes Kindle Fire’s battery performance, says iFixit
The repair wizards at iFixit have gotten hold of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet and have found that it absolutely bludgeons Amazon’s rival Kindle Fire tablet …
Apple loses bid to ban HTC phones
Although Apple scored a big victory in its efforts to muck up Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales last week, it will have no such satisfaction …
Google+ is an uninviting digital man cave, say female technologists
Google+ was apparently designed by guys who have never lived with a woman. Or, at least that’s the impression that five female technologists gave during …
Bill Gates to PC makers: Don’t be mad about Surface
Microsoft may be going it alone in making its first tablet but company chairman and founder Bill Gates says that Windows PC original equipment manufacturers …
iMac with Retina display could launch in October
Everyone knows Apple plans on releasing its next-generation iPhone this fall, but its flagship smartphone could also share the stage with a next-generation iMac that …
RIM CEO: There’s nothing wrong with our company
5,000 layoffs? Delays of major products? Quarterly losses totaling more than $500 million? “‘Tis but a scratch,” says RIM CEO Thorsten Heins. Canada.com reports that …
And the world’s most popular browser is… who knows?
Computer World's Gregg Keizer writes that two firms have put out two wildly different sets of numbers for which browsers were the most used in …
Facebook will ‘look into’ its own sneaky email switching
Facebook royally ticked off many of its users last week when it made their @facebook.com email addresses the primary ones displayed on profile pages without …
Apple to report Q3 earnings on July 24th
Apple has scheduled its third-quarter earnings report for Tuesday, July 24th at 2 pm PT. Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will announce Q3 …
Best Buy discounts Retina-equipped MacBook Pro, still costs over $2,000
Best Buy has decided to give its customers a little bit of relief if they decide to buy a new MacBook Pro with Retina display, …
Microsoft offers $40 Windows 8 Pro upgrade
Business users who want a more enterprise-oriented version of Windows 8 can soon upgrade their current machines to Windows 8 Pro for just $40, Microsoft …
Nokia may sue Google over Nexus 7 tablet
Just what the tech industry needs: even more prospective patent lawsuits! The latest shocking twist in the patent soap opera comes courtesy of The Inquirer’s …
Android still has over 50% U.S. smartphone market share, says comScore
Android is still the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States by a wide margin, as comScore has once again found that Android …
Android OEMs give Jelly Bean the silent treatment
Although Google and its partners have rolled out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to less than 10% of Android devices, that hasn’t stopped the company …
Samsung Galaxy Note tipped for August T-Mobile release
Phablet fans who double as T-Mobile customers won’t have to wait much longer to get their hands on a Samsung Galaxy Note, according to TmoNews. …
Nokia has a secret plan to survive if Windows Phone fails
Just as Richard Nixon once touted a secret plan to end the Vietnam War, so too has Nokia acknowledged a secret plan to stay in …
Apple testing new Genius Bar setup to boost capacity
The next time Apple fans head to their local stores for a Genius Bar consultation, they might notice some slight changes. ifoApplestore writes that Apple stores are …
NPD: Ultrabooks are saving the high-end notebook market
For people who want super-thin computers and who don’t feel like paying more than $2,000 for a Retina MacBook Pro, ultrabooks are a blessing. And …
South Carolina clamps down on municipal Wi-Fi menace
Ars Technica has a steller report on the South Carolina state legislature’s recent passage of a bill that “effectively makes it difficult, if not impossible” for …
New Cydia tweak makes Chrome the default iOS browser
Chrome fans who have jailbroken iPhones, take note: there’s a new Cydia tweak that can make Chrome the default iOS browser. Per VeryRite, jailbreak app …
Siri still can’t match old-fashioned Google search, analyst says
Fortune reports that Piper Jaffray has conducted a little study comparing Siri and Google in terms of both query comprehension and response accuracy, and has not surprisingly …
LG Optimus Vu may be headed to Verizon
Engadget has found a Federal Communications Commission filing detailing what looks to be a new version of the LG Optimus Vu with radio specs tailored for …
