5 great tricks every Gmail user needs to know
Google changed the game when it launched Gmail almost exactly 10 years ago. The service offered a terrific minimal interface, plenty of storage and best …
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Is Samsung’s Oscars selfie worth $1 billion?
Hollywood Reporter quotes a stunning claim made by the CEO of Publicis, which handles the international marketing for Samsung. According to Maurice Levy, the famous …
2014: The year Samsung copied Apple and Apple copied Samsung
An interesting plot twist is playing out in the smartphone industry this year. In a scramble to identify new catalysts as smartphone sales growth continues to slow, Apple and Samsung …
Top secret document suggests Samsung knowingly lied about tablet sales
New evidence from the second Apple vs Samsung U.S. patent lawsuit reveals that Samsung grossly misrepresented its Galaxy Tab sales when it first started selling Galaxy-branded …
Video: This awesome robot is actually a tiny mobile printer
Israel-based Zuta Labs has been developing a very interesting product meant to fix the one thing users can’t do on the go, despite the plethora …
Amazon acquires Comixology, the world’s most popular digital comics platform
Amazon announced on Thursday that it will acquire Comixology, the most popular digital comic platform on the market. Comixology shot up the download charts when it …
France bars bosses from bugging employees with email after work hours [updated]
While email has made our work easier in many ways, it’s also made it hard for us to really escape the office, particularly now that …
Facebook is rolling out privacy-guarding features for a change
Facebook has long been slammed for breaching the privacy of its customers in the past, but the company seems to be interested in introducing more privacy-guarding …
The three worst phone names the world has ever seen
We live in an age of miracles for true connoisseurs of awful phone names. We have always been able to enjoy spectacularly dumb handset branding, but …
Comcast’s case for merging with TWC is an insult to our intelligence
Comcast thinks very, very poorly of our intelligence. That’s the only conclusion I can come to after reading up on the company’s testimony in the …
How a careless text message cost one man $53,000
One careless text message ended up costing a Buffalo, NY-area man $53,000, Buffalo News reported earlier this week. Louis J. Billittier Jr. dumped his fiancee with a …
AT&T may beat Google Fiber to the punch and bring 1Gbps Internet to North Carolina
Is North Carolina about to become a major battleground in the fight to bring 1Gbps Internet service to fiber-hungry Americans? AT&T on Thursday announced that …
Video: Your unwanted electronics may soon self-destruct
If you are in possession of any old cell phones, you know how difficult it can be to find a proper way to dispose of them. Certain …
Facebook will force you to install another one of its apps
Facebook plans to remove the chat features from its main mobile app and force users to install Messenger on their iOS and Android phones in order …
Video: You can now control your Parrot AR drone with Oculus Rift
Berlin-based developer Diego Araos was able to connect an Oculus Rift headset to a Parrot AR drone and actually control it by simply moving his head. …
Comcast says it’s ‘bothered’ that its customer service is terrible
During a Senate hearing on the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger Wednesday, Comcast executive vice president David Cohen finally addressed what multiple customer satisfaction surveys have said …
Meet the man anointed to lead the new Motorola
Now that Motorola is no longer a Google company (well, almost, as the Lenovo acquisition is not yet final) and Dennis Woodside, the former Googler named …
Uber takes on Amazon’s drones with bike riders and footmen
Uber is not happy simply “shipping” people from place to place with its transportation services. As it turns out, the company may also be interested …
Facebook thinks you want even bigger ads on your news feed
Facebook on Wednesday announced new changes to the way it displays ads – its bread and butter – on the desktop, revealing it wants to …
Apple’s Ive ousts Greg Christie, designer of the iPhone’s most iconic feature
Greg Christie, a longtime Apple engineer who spearheaded the design of the iPhone’s slide-to-unlock feature, is apparently leaving Apple after repeated clashes with Apple senior …
Comcast makes its case for the TWC merger, says millions of Americans will benefit
The proposed $45 billion merger between pay TV and Internet service giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable has been met with staunch opposition from consumers, rivals and …
The best evidence yet that Apple has gotten too greedy in its war against Samsung
The Apple vs. Samsung patent showdown has mostly been a one-sided affair so far, as juries have regularly awarded Apple massive sums of money at Samsung’s expense. …
Hollywood is suing the now defunct Megaupload and its former employees
Megaupload might be dead, but that doesn’t mean the movie industry is done rifling through its corpse. TorrentFreak reports that Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Universal, …
One surefire way to help kick depression: Quit using Facebook
If you’re feeling down lately, you should try spending more face-to-face time with your friends and less Facebook time with them. Pacific Standard directs our …
Video: Watch the Navy’s futuristic railgun blow stuff up
The United States Navy is set to deploy its electromagnetic railgun on one of its joint high-speed vessels (JHSV) in 2016. According to the Navy, the weapon uses “an …
The comeback trail: An inside look at HTC’s One (M8) launch
The launch of HTC’s new flagship smartphone was accompanied by some of the most enthusiastic reviews I can recall seeing in recent history. In my …
Comcast named Worst Company in America on the same day it files TWC merger paperwork
Talk about incredible timing! On the same day that Comcast and Time Warner Cable are filing their merger proposal paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission, …
Samsung reportedly sues newspaper over negative Galaxy S5 press
Careful what you say about Samsung’s latest smartphone — the wrong thing could apparently cost you a fortune. Korean-language MediaToday is reporting that Samsung has filed …
Don’t panic: Your Twitter profile will soon look just like your Facebook profile
Now that Twitter is a publicly traded company, it seems to be looking to neighboring social network Facebook for inspiration at every turn. We know …
Twitter may have just bought its own answer to Facebook Home
If no one wants to own a Facebook-centric phone, why should we think a Twitter-centric phone would fare any better? Nonetheless, it seems that Twitter …
