By Brandon Russell |
Your BlackBerry 10 may never know the sweet, sweet feeling of streaming Netflix content, according to a new report. The Los Gatos-based company confirmed to AllThingsD it won’t develop a native or port a Netflix app for BlackBerry 10. Not now, or even a few…
By Brandon Russell |
Evernote on Saturday issued a service-wide password reset following a security breach. The company said no content on the website was affected, though usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords were accessed by the hackers. Evernote said the attack was a coordinated effort, but the team…
By Brandon Russell |
Here’s yet another cautionary tell for parents who let their kids play with mobile devices. One young man in the U.K. managed to rack up $2,500 in in-app purchases through one free game—in ten minutes. In the time it takes to shower, or run a…
By Brandon Russell |
Hoo boy, I thought I was the only one. Multiple Chrome users on OS X are experiencing unexpected crashes, and it’s happening as many as 20 times a day. I checked with the TechnoBuffalo stuff who hadn’t noticed any issues, so I’m the odd man…
By Brandon Russell |
HTC Sense 5 won’t just be exclusive to the new One when it comes out in March. On HTC’s Facebook page last week, a company spokesperson confirmed Sense 5 will be available to other global handsets over the next few months, including: One X, One…
By Brandon Russell |
To help get consumers excited about HTC’s upcoming One, the company has made the Zoe Share website live to demonstrate the quirky new feature. As we explained in our hands-on from Mobile World Congress, the feature essentially captures short three second snippets of video, which…
By Brandon Russell |
Whether this is an honest admission or an opportunity at misdirection, Google CFO and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette on Thursday said Motorola’s upcoming product pipeline simply isn’t up to Google’s standards. You have to wonder how that kind of comment will change the working…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apple announced today that its iTunes U downloads have now topped one billion. With more than 1,200 universities and colleges, and 1,200 K-12 schools now using iTunes U, Apple has seen some hefty growth in its educational product. In a bit of a surprising revelation,…
By Brandon Russell |
When the MLB season kicks off on March 31, fans will be able to use Apple’s Passbook at thirteen different ballparks. MLB said demand for Passbook has been surprisingly high; the At Bat app from MLB.com currently allows fans to purchase tickets and then store…
By Brandon Russell |
Smartphones make communicating and consuming infinitely easier. But we’ve become so used to our devices, addicted even, that our life experiences are often interrupted or otherwise reduced to a tiny screen. Google wants to change that with Google Glass. At a TED talk on Wednesday,…
By Brandon Russell |
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston on Wednesday revealed that 1 billion files are saved to the service every single day. An astonishingly high figure, supported by a 100 million strong userbase that’s growing all the time. And always getting better, too. Houston also said of the…
By Brandon Russell |
Pandora on Wednesday announced non-paying mobile users will get cut off at 40 hours because of apparent licensing costs. In a post on the company’s blog, Tim Westergren, Pandora founder, said the company will begin asking mobile users who exceed that 40 hour mark to…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked on Wednesday what he thought of Android’s unstoppable growth in the smartphone market, and what he planned to do about it. Frankly, Cook said Apple doesn’t plan to adopt the more is better approach, and instead will tightly focus…
By Brandon Russell |
During Apple’s shareholder meeting on Wednesday, CEO Tim Cook confirmed the company is “looking at new categories” for the upcoming year. Cook admitted the company could go in new directions in the future, but stopped short of what he actually means by that. I can…
By Brandon Russell |
NVIDIA is proud of its Tegra 4 chip, confidently claiming its the fastest around. After you see the company’s benchmarks, you can see why NVIDIA is so pleased with its accomplishment. But the competition isn’t afraid. Qualcomm says its latest Snapdragon creams anything NVIDIA has to offer.…
By Brandon Russell |
For the first time in 14 years, music sales are up by the slimmest of margins—just 0.3 percent. Even better, piracy reportedly fell by 17-percent overall in 2012, meaning the music industry is getting a double-dose of good news. The changes are attributed, of all…
By Todd Haselton |
Golf is renowned as a sport where business deals happen. The folks at the GSMA apparently know this, because they actually built a putting green into the show floor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We found this to be pretty funny, and it was…
By Brandon Russell |
Razer, whose Edge device we saw at CES, is attempting to transition PC gaming into the tablet form factor. And those interested will be able to preorder both the Edge and Edge Pro as soon as the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. PST on March 1.…
By Brandon Russell |
Instagram is feeling no ill effects following its terms of service nightmare from last year. Instead of seeing a “max exodus,” the company is actually still growing, on Tuesday announcing the app sees 100 million monthly active users—10 million more than last month. TechnoBuffalo added…
By Brandon Russell |
BlackBerry is reportedly honing in on a new money messenger service through BBM, according to Bloomberg. A pilot project is currently planned for Indonesia, a country where BlackBerry has an enormous presence, that will allow users to transfer money between contacts with the greatest of…
By Brandon Russell |
Google’s Andy Rubin on Tuesday said there’s no need for retail stores, claiming consumers don’t need to try before they buy. An earlier rumor said the search giant had considered opening up retail locations to help push products like Google Glass during the holiday season.…
By Brandon Russell |
Your tabs are piling up, yet you keep opening more. We all do it. Suddenly a terrible, uninvited sound begins somewhere in your browser, and the only way to stop it is to rifle through your twenty or thirty tabs. It becomes a guessing game,…
By Brandon Russell |
PayWave, Visa’s mobile wallet app, will be preinstalled on the “next generation” of Samsung devices, Visa confirmed on Monday. The platform is part of the “Visa Ready Program,” which allows companies (banks, carriers, manufacturers) to connect to Visa’s network. To that end, future Samsung owners…
By Brandon Russell |
HTC has dropped out of the megapixel arms race—that’s what the headlines read last week—and is instead branching off to focus more on engineering an improved sensor for an ultimately better end result. Rather than introducing a new device overstuffed with needless megapixels (remember, smartphone…
