Here’s one way Apple might make you care about iTunes again
Can iTunes stay relevant in the era of Pandora and Spotify? That’s a key question that Apple is trying to answer as it mulls a …
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Samsung’s long-awaited Galaxy S5 now on sale in 125 countries
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 was one of the most hotly anticipated smartphones of 2014. In fact, considering last year’s Galaxy S4 fell well short of expectations …
HTC: Here’s why the HTC One (M8) is better than the Galaxy S5
After leaked Samsung training materials explained why the Galaxy S5 is better than the HTC One (M8,) HTC Source has obtained a similar document that …
Apple: iOS, OS X and ‘key web services’ aren’t heartbleeding
Following the revelation that hundreds of thousands of websites are susceptible to attacks based on the “Heartbleed” flaw in OpenSSL, Apple told Re/code that its …
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 …
How to keep Windows XP alive by running it through Windows 8
Some longtime Windows XP users are having a hard time letting go of the operating system that has served them so well over the years, …
OnePlus to launch its highly anticipated Android phone in 16 countries
With less than two weeks to go until the OnePlus One CyanogenMod-running Android handset will be officially launched, the company has started sharing more details …
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 …
The Galaxy S5 has a built-in kill switch that can brick the phone if it’s stolen
There are plenty of terrific new features in Samsung’s soon-to-be-released Galaxy S5 but the one that’s gone unheralded is a built-in kill switch that you …
Sprint scores exclusive edition of the HTC One (M8) [updated]
It appears that not all HTC One (M8) handsets are created equal, at least in the U.S., where Sprint has apparently scored an exclusive version of the …
The Last of Us, one of the PS3’s best games, is coming to PS4
Naughty Dog announced on Thursday that the critically acclaimed action-adventure game The Last of Us will be coming to the PlayStation 4 this summer. One of …
Video: New teardown shows that the Galaxy S5 is a huge pain to repair
The most highly anticipated Android phone of the year is just days away from release, but no smartphone launch would be complete without a detailed …
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 …
66% of players quit free-to-play mobile games after a single day
The Candy Crush Sagas and Clashes of Clans of the app market appear to be the exceptions to the following rule: A majority of smartphone gamers don’t …
New iOS app eliminates everything you hate about managing email on your phone
Do you have friends that send you long-winded emails that take forever to get to the one point that you actually want to respond to? …
Video: Star Trek-like communicator does Siri and Google Now, but no teleportation
Inspired by the Star Trek communicator, CommBadge is a new Bluetooth-enabled accessory for smart devices that’s currently in Kickstarter phase and is looking to raise …
Get ready to meet the sleekest smartphone of 2014 – but you can’t buy one
The brand new HTC One (M8) features what is hands down the most beautiful design we’ve seen on any widely available smartphone. If Xiaomi’s short …
Google to allow anyone in the U.S. to buy Glass for one day only
Whatever your opinions are on Google Glass, you’ve probably never had the opportunity to pick one up for yourself. The Explorer Program has been closed to …
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 …
Samsung’s latest tablet innovation is… a hole?
Samsung has been sued by Apple several times over claims that the company’s Galaxy tablets have stolen the iPad’s design identity. Back in 2011, one …
Google will give your Android phone routine checkups to ensure it’s malware-free
Google is going an extra step to help make sure all of your Android apps are behaving exactly as they’re supposed to. The company announced …
The iWatch will apparently be another big-margin win for Apple
Apple will launch several iWatch models later this year, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who on Thursday also wrote in a note to clients that one …
Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone just got real
Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone has always been an interesting idea for the future of smartphones, although it never really seemed like a commercial product …
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 …
Redesigned iPhone 6 seemingly revealed by third-party case maker
There has already been enough Apple news this week to last us the month, from reports of an Apple TV with motion controls to an iWatch that …
Android 4.4.3 KitKat reportedly launching in coming weeks
Various reports have detailed several Android 4.4.3 KitKat sightings and suggested an update was imminent, but it looks like Google is not quite ready to release …
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 …
Study shows why Apple absolutely needs a bigger iPhone 6
A new survey from 451 Research’s ChangeWave service shows that a bigger iPhone 6 model would be a huge hit with buyers, revealing that even more …
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 …
