Tired of waiting for Google Fiber? Take matters into your own hands
If you aren’t on the list of cities Google is considering bringing into its fiber-optic cabal, you’re probably wondering if there are any alternatives. High-speed …
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This could very well be the man who really created Bitcoin
According to Bitcoin lore, the cryptocurrency got its humble beginnings in a white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” written by a man …
iPhone 6 has Apple gearing up for the most massive iPhone launch yet
Apple is apparently getting ready for a massive iPhone 6 launch, at least according to Chinese publication Commercial Times (via Digitimes). According to the report, …
Here’s why Xbox One’s Titanfall might have been even more amazing on PS4
Titanfall is easily one of the mostly hotly anticipated Xbox exclusives of early 2014, but would this awesome mech-style first-person shooter have made an even better …
A costly mistake: Report claims unsold iPhone 5c inventory is piling up fast
A new report from Taiwan indicates that stock of the unsuccessful iPhone 5c is piling up with Apple’s suppliers and retail partners, as demand for …
Video: This smartphone ad isn’t just bizarre, it will actually give you nightmares
There is no magic formula for selling smartphones, but there are some things that can greatly increase a vendor’s chances of success. Great hardware is …
Preview: ‘Infamous: Second Son’ is a huge leap forward for the series
What really stands out about Infamous: Second Son is the fluidity of movement. Everything feels fast, almost in opposition to the beautifully detailed city of …
Google exec bashes Facebook for $19 billion WhatsApp buy
Google wanted to acquire WhatsApp but it couldn’t get the deal done. Now, Google is apparently venting some frustrations that Facebook beat it to the punch. While …
Apple awarded nearly $1 billion in huge court win, but judge won’t ban Samsung phones
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday delivered her final judgement on the damages awarded to Apple in its huge 2012 victory over Samsung. The …
Is Windows 9 Microsoft’s secret weapon to get people to dump XP?
As we mentioned earlier this week, Microsoft has a problem because a huge chunk of Windows XP stragglers still aren’t upgrading to Windows 7 or …
Best Buy is ready to sell you Xbox One Titanfall Bundles
Best Buy on Wednesday announced that it’s ready to welcome players early on Tuesday, March 11 with special Xbox One Titanfall bundles. Over 300 Best …
This health smart device wraps around your iPhone, not your wrist
Not all health and fitness smart devices launched this year will wrap around the user’s wrist (or even ankle for some products), but also around …
One graph shows the slow death of big box electronics stores
Amazon and other online retailers are slowly bleeding big-box electronics stores to death, a fact made all the more obvious this week when RadioShack announced that …
OnLive returns with enhanced functionality, new cloud gaming services
The last time we wrote a report about OnLive, the cloud gaming company was falling apart. A majority of the staff had been laid off, investors …
Samsung’s Google Glass rival might turn your whole hand into a keyboard
We’ve known for a while now that Samsung has been working on its own wearable computer headset that will be similar in a lot of …
New report suggests Ballmer screamed his way out of a job
By his own admission, outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is “big, bald and loud.” These are traits that have helped him impose his will at Microsoft …
Why Android users shouldn’t worry (too much) about malware
So we know that malware developers absolutely love targeting Android since it’s not only the most widely used mobile operating system in the world but …
Android 4.4 puts an end to Samsung’s benchmark games
Samsung was caught red-handed more than once last year as reviewers repeatedly discovered evidence that the company’s phones and tablets were artificially boosting benchmark scores. …
Legere: Study calling T-Mobile the worst network is ‘slanted,’ ‘out of date’
You didn’t think T-Mobile CEO John Legere was going to take a new study that trashed his company’s wireless network lying down, did you? RootMetrics …
The Sprint-T-Mobile merger has been put on ice
It figures: Just when we were starting to see one good reason for Sprint to acquire T-Mobile, the whole transaction has been put on ice. …
Here’s yet another way Samsung is stomping out all Android rivals
When people talk about Android phones these days, there’s a good chance they’re really referring to Samsung and one of its many, many, many Galaxy …
FreedomPop makes Galaxy S2 relevant again with exciting new privacy protection features
FreedomPop on Wednesday unveiled the Privacy Phone, also known as the “Snowden Phone,” or essentially a Galaxy S2 model that has advanced privacy-guarding features, while …
New leak shows All New HTC One’s dual cameras up close and personal
There seems to be nothing that HTC can do to stop detail pictures of The All-New HTC One from leaking out. @evleaks has now posted …
This awesome interactive map details the undersea cables that wire the entire Internet
If you’re reading this post right now, odds are good that you’re one of millions upon millions of people who access the Internet each day …
The one good reason to support a Sprint-T-Mobile merger
I’ve long been a skeptic about Sprint and T-Mobile merging, mostly because Sprint mergers have been the kisses of death for once-promising wireless carriers such …
Get ready for unbearable full-screen ads on your iPhone
You know those horrendous full-screen ads that pop up on some news sites? The ones that hover there for a while until you angrily click …
LG smartphone evolution timeline pretends the iPhone never existed
LG has released an interesting infographic that presents the history of the smartphone, including its past, present and potential future, at least according to the …
PlayStation 4 sales fall off in Japan after a stellar first week
PlayStation fever went international as the PS4 launched to huge sales in Japan last month, but after an impressive performance in its first week, the …
Google promises fix for pesky Nexus 5 bug that eats into battery life
Nexus 5 users who have noticed an annoying camera bug that often sees a software process called “mm-qcamera-daemon” eat up CPU resources and drain their …
Samsung pushed out of iPhone 6 chip production?
A new AFP report, which cites a Commercial Times story, says that A8 chip production for the iPhone 6 family of phones has started, with …
