Adriana is the resident writer-slash-culture vulture who has written about everything from smartphones, tablets, apps, accessories, and small biz technology to cooking, fashion, pop culture, newsmakers and the arts. She has appeared on Fox Business News, and her work has been published in Time Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. All of this gives her a unique view on her passions, technology and modern lifestyle. You can find her where the two intersect, at TechnoBuffalo, or follow her on Twitter at @Adra_La
By Adriana Lee |
Microsoft wants Android users, and it wants them bad. And so, hoping they defect to Windows Phone, the company will be appealing to them directly where they live — on an Android device. Toward that end, the company will be launching an Android app called “Switch…
By Adriana Lee |
Want to know what’s going on at your company? The best way may be to hit up Twitter, because when pink slips go down, former employees always seem to turn up there. In this case, it was AOL that was doing the axing. And this…
By Adriana Lee |
So what will you be able to do with Google Glass, other than shoot pics and vids hands-free? Well, The New York Times is hoping you’ll read headlines on the go with merely a tilt of your head. The news organization released its Glass-ready app…
By Adriana Lee |
Yahoo Chairman and board member Fred Amoroso has resigned from the company. According to a statement from Amoroso, who was appointed to the role last May, his stint as chairman was only intended to last one year. And so, almost to the day, he is…
By Adriana Lee |
Promoting its new super-cheap Los Angeles to Las Vegas direct route, Virgin America has debuted “Seat-to-Seat Delivery,” a feature that lets travelers send unsolicited drinks or food using the in-flight seatback system. Airline President Sir Richard Branson can’t help but get a little cheeky in…
By Adriana Lee |
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. And when it involves Facebook, the truth is often even stranger: Reportedly five people have been arrested in India in connection to the Facebook sale of a baby — including the boy’s grandfather. Ferox Khan, 47, kicked off a bizarre…
By Adriana Lee |
Nothing like a little competition to ratchet the broadband envy up a few notches. It’s not enough that Austin, TX, is getting Google Fiber — which alone is turning geeks everywhere green with jealousy (except perhaps Kansas City and Provo) — but soon they’ll also…
By Adriana Lee |
Pizza and gaming are like a dynamic duo. They’re two great things that just work great together, no? And now, thanks to the Pizza Hut ordering app for the Xbox, that pairing just got even better. The Xbox Live “Create Your Pizza App” lets users…
By Adriana Lee |
So what do you do after you hack the most infamously closed consumer platform on Earth, join the tech company you once plundered and then get released from service? If you’re Comex, the answer is simple: You join the other side. Apple’s loss might be…
By Adriana Lee |
Torrenters and other piracy fiends, take note: Software security firm McAfee has patented a technology designed to discourage people — possibly even block them — from getting hold of illicit torrent files and ripped movies or music. According to the patent filing titled “Detect and…
By Adriana Lee |
The New York Times has busted its videos out from the paywalls that guard its written content. The company announced Tuesday that the streaming content will be free, and will no longer count toward the 10-article limit for its online web visitors. Good move, NYT.…
By Adriana Lee |
The Australian Federal Police apprehended a 24-year-old man who claims to be the leader of the global hackers group Lulz Security on Monday. An investigation into a hacked government website led authorities to the unnamed Point Clare man, a senior IT professional with the Australian…
By Adriana Lee |
Thanks to an erroneous tweet from the Associated Press Twitter account, @AP, people far and wide were panicked over an alleged bombing at The White House and the supposed injury of President Barack Obama. It only took a moment to set things straight and reveal…
By Adriana Lee |
One of the perks of shopping online is the ability to get your goods tax-free at times. But that may be coming to an end soon. The U.S. Senate has agreed to move forward with a bill that would empower states to impose sales taxes…
By Adriana Lee |
Somewhere in Los Gatos, CA, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings must be doing a happy dance. According to Netflix’s first quarter results, the company not only beat Wall Street estimates, but in terms of subscribership, it has breached the 29 million mark in the U.S. Do…
By Adriana Lee |
Is Apple secretly CEO shopping? That’s what anonymous “Wall Street” sources tell Forbes writer Gene Marcial. Of course, a healthy dose of skepticism is always warranted whenever unnamed sources are involved, and concrete evidence of a Tim Cook–overthrow is hard to come by. Even so,…
By Adriana Lee |
Google extended its charitable branch, Google.org, to mobile last Friday with the new One Today Android app. From the looks of it, the core, social-driven mechanisms could prove to be a rather effective fundraising tool. Users choose a charity and agree to match any $1…
By Adriana Lee |
What’s the cheapest phone you’ve ever seen? I’m not talking about those zero-down, subsidized phones offered on contract — believe me, those “free” phones do wind up costing you. No, I’m talking about a functional phone with the tiniest overall monetary footprint. Give up? Well Andrew…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s Earth Day, which means we’re supposed to take this time to consider how we treat this spinning orb we call home. And while some mark the occasion by doing exactly that, others just can’t help but throw down a little planetary supremacism. its earth…
By Adriana Lee |
There were rumblings that Google Glass would be ready for a late 2013 release, and that was certainly the presumption that most of us in the tech biz had. But now new remarks from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt are pegging a later timeframe in 2014.…
By Adriana Lee |
Does it get more ironic than this? Apparently the Great Place to Work conference in Los Angeles last week had a really fascinating choice of guest speaker: Marissa Mayer. If you recall, the Yahoo chief drew fire for killing the company’s telecommuting privileges a couple…
By Adriana Lee |
Last week, the rumors over Twitter #Music panned out, as the company finally had its coming out party for the Web and iOS. Twitter called it a tangible grid of trending artists, so naturally, we wanted to see what kind of trends it would yield.…
By Adriana Lee |
Smartphone saturation has reached an all-time high. These days everyone, rich or poor, teens to grandparents, are rocking these advanced handsets. But are they so attached to these devices that they’d actually forego sex for a week before giving them up? If they’re young women,…
By Adriana Lee |
Why this wasn’t called Google Crashers is beyond me, but even so, the new Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn flick still looks like fun. Take two aging salesmen, stick them on the Mountain View campus among young, hotshot tech wizards, and watch the wackiness ensue. The premise…
