By Jon Rettinger |
Apple had a rough week last week following its latest quarterly earnings. The question now is what it can do to recover. Despite making $13.1 billion in profits last quarter, Apple missed its estimates and it paid the price in the form of a massive…
By Adriana Lee |
Recently, actor Ben Curtis told Bloomberg that he could turn the troubled Dell computer company around. Well, maybe not Curtis himself, but his alter-ego, “Steven, the Dell Dude,” a popular character in a string of commercials that ran over a decade ago. (If you don’t…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Walt Disney company has confirmed that J.J. Abrams is officially the director of Star Wars Episode VII. Rumors began circulating on Thursday that J.J. Abrams – known for his recent tenure directing films such as Star Trek and Super 8 – will be taking…
By Todd Haselton |
This is so bizarre, especially because we own the devices, but apparently it will be illegal to unlock phones starting on Sunday. I always unlock my phones, especially if I have a carrier locked unit that I want to use overseas with a cheaper SIM…
By Todd Haselton |
Every new platform needs time to grow its legs, but it’s really important for Microsoft to make a big push for its Windows Phone platform right now. We’ve already seen the first introductory devices, but where are the new handsets? As it stands, we don’t…
By Joey Davidson |
Today, Nintendo announced that they will remake The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker for the Wii U. The game will be in HD and should drop this fall. Nintendo will be updating the graphics into HD, but they’ll also make it playable on the Wii U…
By Todd Haselton |
If there’s one thing that makes a tech writer bang his or her head on their keyboard repeatedly, it’s covering rumors. The stories change seemingly every day, and the matters get worse when it comes to a big flagship devices such as the Motorola X,…
By Sean P. Aune |
Do you have a hankering to own a LG Optimus Vu? Then step right up as TechnoBuffalo is giving one away! Tegra Tuesdays are back! Thanks to our friends at NVIDIA, TechnoBuffalo is teaming up with them for a series of giveaways called Tegra Tuesday.…
By Todd Haselton |
We’re going to switch things up a bit around here. You’re our dedicated viewers, so you deserve a choice in what sort of content we provide you. That’s why we’ve decided that it’s time to let you vote on what smartphone head-to-head battles you’d like…
By Todd Haselton |
We’re just about a month away from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where we’re expecting a bunch of news. What’s around the bend from Samsung? We recently stumbled upon a product portfolio that contains the firm’s first half 2013 products, including new devices such as…
By Todd Haselton |
RIM is set to unveil BlackBerry 10 and its new devices, including the Z10, on Jan. 30. We have a good idea of what to expect, especially on the software side, but we also have had enough leaks to develop a near-final idea of what…
By Adriana Lee |
Facebook’s new Graph Search has set the Internet abuzz since it was unveiled this week, as business pundits and social media experts weigh in on what this could mean for the nature of online privacy, the company’s own monetization strategies as well as for the…
By Jon Rettinger |
We’ve been skeptical about BlackBerry 10, and whether it’ll be able to compete against the likes of Android and the iPhone. And for good reason. After countless delays and a large executive shakeup, RIM had a huge task ahead of itself as other companies continued…
By Brandon Russell |
Disney on Tuesday announced an ambitious new gaming initiative, known simply as Infinity (very fitting), that intends to merge the many different Disney IPs into one open world. This is easily the biggest thing the company has ever attempted in gaming, and it actually sounds…
By Sean P. Aune |
Do you have a hankering to own an 16GB Nexus 7? Then step right up as TechnoBuffalo is giving one away! Tegra Tuesdays are back! Thanks to our friends at NVIDIA, TechnoBuffalo is teaming up with them for a series of giveaways called Tegra Tuesday.…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode of Ask the Buffalo, Jon and Aaron talk about what it’s like to cover a big show like CES. They share their own previous experiences, and…
By Todd Haselton |
Shares of Research In Motion jumped on Monday in anticipation of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, which is due out on Jan. 30. We also have an inkling the company’s stock price had a little help on the earlier news that Apple was cutting orders…
By Aaron Baker |
The HTC Butterfly is essentially the international version of the DROID DNA on Verizon Wireless. It will work on AT&T’s HSPA+ network in the United States, although it doesn’t support AT&T’s 4G LTE bands. Our buddies at Negri Electronics swung by our offices at CES 2013 and…
By Todd Haselton |
I’m ready to buy a BlackBerry 10 device. Why? Because yesterday we had a chance to meet with Research In Motion and check out a still unfinished build of the operating system. I already explained a lot about why I’m excited in yesterday’s article, but to…
By Roy Choi |
Do you have a burning question about tech? Well, it’s time to ask Jon Rettinger and hear him answer one of your pressing queries on video. Until 1 PM PST on Thursday, January 10, leave a comment with your question for him, and then you’ll…
By Brandon Russell |
I’m staring at a map of North Hall, but I might as well be looking at nothing, or ancient hieroglyphics. The You Are Here indicator is big and red, but I can’t quite make out where I am—my sense of direction is nonexistent. I push…
By Sean P. Aune |
Gorilla Glass is pretty much an industry standard for mobile devices, and while the previous generations have been great, Gorilla Glass 3 promises to be three times more scratch-resistant than its predecessor. We know the pains of a busted screen and how that seriously inhibits…
By Joey Davidson |
At 8pm local time on January 8th, 2013, Nintendo held a small Nintendo Direct presentation in Japan. The topic of the Direct was set to be specifically Pokémon. You can watch the entire thing in English above (find just the new trailer at the base of…
By Joey Davidson |
I woke up this morning fully relaxed. I had the weekend off with my wife and son, and the only gaming I did was a brief session of FTL: Faster Than Light during one of the little boy’s afternoon naps. When I fired up my…
