By Sage Lane |
It’s about that time of year again, the time of year when little technophiles the world over dream of new gadgets, and electronics companies trek from places far away to descend upon the desert to display their latest wares. Yes, it’s time again for CES,…
By Sage Lane |
There’s been a lot of press covering Samsung’s apparent penchant for all things Apple. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, one might conjecture that the Korean giant is infatuated with the folks in Cupertino. The patent and trade dress issues concerning the Galaxy…
By Sage Lane |
Something as simple as buttons should be easy to figure out, right? After watching and waiting for Android to mature, we’re finally seeing the right steps taken in a very fundamental part of the phone. However, there are still a few problems to clean up.…
By Adriana Lee |
As 2011 ticks that last digit over, it’s natural to take a moment and reflect. It’s perhaps the only time when being a bit sentimental isn’t corny or cheesy, but expected, especially after a year that made us laugh, scream, cry or cheer. At various…
By Joey Davidson |
I’m glad none of the other TechnoBuffalo staff know where I live, lest this post would become a practical warrant for my capture and slaughter. Nevertheless, it’s time to come clean… I am absolutely sick and tired of hearing about Angry Birds. The game has…
By Sage Lane |
Few video game franchises are as recognizable as Super Mario. Almost everyone aged five to fifty, geek or non-geek, can readily identify the titular character, and, in most cases, several of his sidekicks. Having debuted in 1981 as Jumpman in Nintendo’s Donkey Kong, Mario and…
By Joey Davidson |
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t get where all of this hating on the Nintendo 3DS is coming from. Head to the comment sections on news stories, features, editorials and reviews regarding Nintendo’s latest portable on almost any site (including our own), and you’ll…
By Sage Lane |
I remember when I was little and I went to the Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas. I must have been seven or eight. I saw a lot of great things on that trip, but nothing was so enthralling as the IMAX theater. The movie we…
By Emily Price |
The first cell phone I ever paid any noticeable amount of cash for was the Kyrocera V5. I believe I paid close to $200 for the phone while simultaneously signing a new 2-year agreement with Alltel, and thought I had quite possibly purchased the most…
By Sage Lane |
The first photograph was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. It’s a rather fuzzy and unimpressive image, but what can you expect from the first of its kind? It wasn’t until 13 years later in 1839 that the first photograph of a human being…
By Mike Perlman |
Since when did the cell phone become a digital Swiss Army Knife? Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that—hold your horses because there’s a caveat involved here. And before my ADHD takes hold and blasts me into 199 different channels in space, I’m going…
By Sage Lane |
I hope that J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz wears flame retardant briefs and slacks, because after his recent statement regarding the Kindle Fire and iPad, he’s going to need protection from the fire and brimstone Apple-haters everywhere are going to be spewing at him. According…
By Adriana Lee |
When GigaOM held its recent Roadmap conference in San Francisco, a number of tech visionaries were in attendance, weighing in on what the future of technology might hold. During this event, there was one theme that seemed to recur: That technology will advance and evolve…
By Sage Lane |
It surprises me very much whenever I learn that Company X is working on producing a portable media player. It’s not that I lack an affinity for those devices – I’ve owned more than a few – but rather that I feel their survivability is…
By Sage Lane |
About 6 months ago, HTC released a pair of Facebook branded phones, the Salsa and the ChaCha, for those dedicated to the social network. The rumor mill is now turning again, saying that the Facebook itself is working hard to refresh the idea of a Facebook…
By Mike Perlman |
In a world where darkness has fallen over everything, robots determine the future of the last remaining members of the human race. And only one cyborg can stop them before it’s too late. Same Make. Same Model. New Mission. Once he was programmed to destroy…
By Sage Lane |
I recently wrote an article discussing the survivability of multiple platforms within the smartphone industry. I opined that there is ample market share to capture, if the struggling platforms were willing to work to differentiate themselves in a meaningful way. One of those platforms is…
By Sage Lane |
The state of serious gaming involves two kinds of players: PC and Console. Despite the widespread adoption of mobile gaming, I’m still hesitate to involve any association of depth with it. Regardless of the popularity of smartphones and tablets, the games remain gimmicky, and the…
By Sage Lane |
The Droid X2, the Droid 3, the Photon 4G, the Droid Bionic, the Atrix II, the Droid Razr. Six phones, six months. Any one of them could be considered flagships based on their specifications, yet none have had the time to establish themselves as such.…
By Sage Lane |
With the departure of Eric Schmidt as CEO, and the ascension of Larry Page, Google has, over the past few months, been shedding its past businesses practices, and is becoming a much more focused company. In the beginning, Schmidt was brought in to shepherd the…
By Sage Lane |
Social networks such as Facebook and Google+ have continued to expand in both popularity and functionality. I am continually amazed by the amount of interactivity that can be accomplished at such sites: I can message, post pictures and videos, let people know what I’m doing…
By Sage Lane |
4G has been one of this year’s hottest buzzwords, and with the availability of LTE becoming more and more common, consumers are beginning to wonder why they haven’t upgraded to a phone capable of such download speeds. Faster is better, right? If it were a…
By Sage Lane |
The gauntlet has been dropped. The war has started, and in the oddest turn of events, a pair of booksellers are at each others’ throats. Even more surprising than the role that both are playing is the price of their prized offerings, the Kindle Fire…
By Sage Lane |
A common point of contention between fans of Android and iOS is that of market share. The contention seems to arise when analyzing Android’s grasp on the market, and the large margins that it has maintained over Apple’s OS. As a result of the constant…
