By Adriana Lee |
Somebody, get this kid a gig at a mobile tech company, stat! Eesha Khare, a student from Lynbrook High School in California, earned the Young Scientist Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for an intriguing new invention. The 18-year-old developed a supercapacitor…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back with an all new show where he rants and raves on various topics in and out of the tech world. On this week’s episode, Jon rants about people who don’t understand new media. The way we consume media has changed, there…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile’s Nokia Lumia 521 Windows Phone 8 device is now available online and in T-Mobile stores for $29.99 down. The phone can be purchased with T-Mobile’s new Simple Choice plans, in which you’ll pay 24 monthly installments of $5, or a total of $150 before…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry said during its BlackBerry Live conference last week that it will soon deliver standalone BBM applications to Android and iOS users. It’s a bizarre move on the surface, especially considering that BlackBerry is known for two things among consumers: BBM and its keyboards. Why…
By Adriana Lee |
Will Microsoft’s new YouTube app update for Windows Phone appease Google and end the bickering between the two tech companies? Well, let’s just say it’s a start. Google issued a cease and desist letter earlier this month, calling for Microsoft to pull its YouTube Windows…
By Ron Duwell |
Microsoft and Turn 10 announced Forza Motorsport 5 at the Xbox Reveal conference yesterday. The latest in Microsoft’s premiere racing series will bring the franchise into the next generation for the first time. Today, we have a full trailer. The Forza Motorsport racing series has been Microsoft’s…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The long-rumored Nokia EOS may finally be in sight following a series of reports in the past few weeks, including leaked prototypes, and now a July release date has been pegged for the Windows Phone. According to Mobile Geeks, the EOS will probably launch on July 9.…
By Ron Duwell |
Battlefield 4 will be available for purchase on October 29th, and to nobody’s surprise, it will be gracing the Xbox One. EA confirmed the release shortly after the console’s reveal yesterday. EA and DICE had already confirmed a PlayStation 4 and PC launch for the…
By Todd Haselton |
Dozens of high profile Twitter accounts have been compromised over the past year or so. Jeep, the Associated Press and Burger King are just a few of them, and the consequences for both brands and the fans that follow them are far-reaching. In an effort…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Google is rolling out a new update for it’s Drive app on Android, promising a smoother cloud storage experience and a few new exciting features. First off, Google Drive on Android is getting the same “card-style” UI that Google has been rolling out across its…
By Roy Choi |
Overall, I’m pretty excited about all the cool features the Xbox One is bringing to the living room. Most intriguing to me is the integration of everything (music, TV, fantasy sports, communication, gaming) coming together into one device that not only replaces multiple devices, but changes the…
By Jacob Kleinman |
It looks like Apple‘s Cold War against Google may finally be heating up. Apple typically targets Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers that rely on Android software with its patent infringement claims. Now, however, the Cupertino-based company may finally have Google in its crosshairs with a claim…
By Joey Davidson |
It looks like the brand new Kinect announced during yesterday’s Xbox One presentation will eventually make the jump from being exclusive to Microsoft’s new console. The next-gen Kinect will eventually see a release on the PC platform, as well. The news comes from two separate…
By Brandon Russell |
Your Google search history is probably embarrassing—I don’t want to know it. What about the entire world’s? Less so, according to Google’s own charts, which breaks search trends down by cities, movies, scientists, animals and more. The top trending food right now? Pizza. Lionel Messi…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Internet and fan fiction – stories written by fans of a given source material – go together like peanut butter and jelly. Until now, however, it has been a gray area of potential legal headaches for the authors of the work. While they could…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released its yearly customer satisfaction rankings for various industries yesterday. Apple is still holding on to the number one spot among mobile phone makers, but the Cupertino-based company lost points from last year while its biggest competition gained ground. Apple…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung said Wednesday that it recently acquired a 10 percent stake in Pantech for about $48 million. While that may seem like a bizarre move, especially since the two firms compete in the lower-tier Android smartphone market, Samsung said it will help its business relationship…
By Todd Haselton |
Google’s conversational voice search engine is starting to roll out in the latest version of Chrome, though some features are still missing. We just updated our Chrome browser to version 27.0.1453.93 and gave it a quick whirl, but found that it hasn’t changed that much from…
By Ron Duwell |
Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment announced their newest narrative packed game yesterday at the Xbox Reveal conference, a psychological thriller called Quantum Break. The last time Remedy worked hand-in-hand with Microsoft was with Alan Wake, a charming love letter to Stephen King novels and Twin Peaks wrapped up…
By Todd Haselton |
We’re loving all of the iOS 7 concept videos and photos that are being developed, and the latest imagines what a revamped Safari might look like. The video above was created by artists—Tim Nikischin and Marc Philip Haesen—who simply wanted to re-imagine Safari; this isn’t…
By Ron Duwell |
Following the announcement of the Xbox One, all of the major video game publishers quickly fired off in rapid succession which games they are working will be available for the console. Ubisoft, Activision, EA and SquareEnix are the biggest third-party names to have confirmed titles.…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Yesterday we reported on a rumor that the Motorola “XFON,” likely slated for an AT&T release as the XT1058, could also be coming to Verizon as the XT1060. Now a third “XFON” model, the XT1056, has surfaced. The XT1056 was first sighted passing through the FCC…
By Ron Duwell |
Call of Duty is making another setting change for its leap into the next generation. The series has evolved from a World War II shooter into a modern warfare shooter before Black Ops II finally closed out the console generation and a near-future sci-fi shooter.…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC hasn’t had a good year, certainly not financially, and its business woes are continuing. In the wake of the HTC One launch, a gorgeous device that CEO Peter Chou is betting his job on, several company executives have departed the firm. The Verge said it…
