By Tom Moccia |
It seems iTunes has become the music-playing application of choice for Windows and Mac users alike; it may be the only thing they agree upon. Linux users on the other hand seem to have been left out in the cold in terms of music management.…
By Sean P. Aune |
As 2010 is winding down, it was inevitable that we would start hearing rumors about the next iteration of Apple’s iPhone. Despite the fact that we are probably eight months away from the release of the handset, that doesn’t stop the rumor mill from getting…
By Tom Moccia |
It seems like yesterday that Sergey Brin and Larry Page posted the sign outside their Menlo Park, California garage stating “Google Worldwide Headquarters”, but once you do the math you realize that day in 1998 is over 12 years ago. Now we “Google” everything from…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would seem that the reports of Android’s explosive grown in the third quarter may not have been as out of line as some people originally thought. Yesterday we brought you the news of a report from Canalys about smartphone sales that left blogs such…
By Tom Moccia |
Over the last few weeks we have been reporting on the FOX blackout of Cablevision customers in the New York area. The disagreement had been going on for 14 days in which 3 million Cablevision subscribers were deprived FOX programming. The dispute arose due to…
By Sean P. Aune |
There is one statistic that social media sites love to crow about and that’s how many users they have. Nothing says success like being able to walk around gloating about the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of users a service has as…
By Winston Sih |
Everybody likes an upgrade, and the Xbox Dashboard is due. Today, Microsoft released its fall Xbox 360 Dashboard update. Recently, Microsoft released a round of new upgrades for the Xbox 360. The release visually upgrades the 360 interface, speeds it up, and introduces a number…
By Tom Moccia |
Believe it or not election night is upon those of us here in the United States, and although it seemed the political commercials, mailings and phone calls would never end, it will all be over in about 36 hours. With all the time you have…
By Sean P. Aune |
In what is shaping up to be the first big tech fight of the 21st century, Apple and Google are constantly raging a war of words over who is shipping more mobile phones, and also who is activating more of them. Every time Google says…
By Tom Moccia |
The last few weeks have proven very interesting in the tablet and ultra portable laptop arenas, specifically speaking the announcement of the HP Slate 500 tablet and the release of the new Macbook Air. It definitely seems as though the tablet market and the ultra portable…
By Sean P. Aune |
Sprint has not been having a good weekend when it comes to its femtocell device, the AIRAVE. On Saturday night at 10:19 PM EST, all of Sprint’s AIRAVE devices started having their system system lights blink red, which means the device is down, and hence…
By Sean P. Aune |
It isn’t often that I am struck speechless by a development in the tech industry, but that’s exactly what happened to me this week with the release of the Firesheep extension for the Firefox Web browser. For those of you haven’t heard about it yet,…
By Sean P. Aune |
One way I can always tell when Walmart is deep into a product rollout is when my store finally receives it. Living in a town of 17,000 – and being the largest city for a 90-mile radius – we aren’t exactly a high priority location…
By Sean P. Aune |
Do you gave a spare 40-inch LED LCD screen laying around? Do you have a way to work really, really fast? Well, then you have a solution for tonight’s Halloween costume. John Savio has been upgrading his iPhone costume each year as Apple updates the…
By Tom Moccia |
Nearly three million Cablevision subscribers in the New York area have been living without Fox programming for almost three weeks now. Just to refresh, Fox has pulled its broadcast from Cablevision in the ongoing dispute in which Fox is demanding Cablevision pay $150 million for…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that all of the big name tech companies are on a spending spree as of late. It doesn’t matter how obvious the reasons may be for the acquisitions, but you know they all make sense to an executive somewhere in the hierarchy of…
By Sean P. Aune |
There is no doubt that Twitter has become a key service of he Internet, but I’m not sure I’ve seen any other site that felt the need to tell people how to capitalize words, or even how it should be worded. In a very short…
By Sean P. Aune |
With 28,900 kiosks to its name, Redbox, a division of Coinstar, is finding it harder and harder to find locations for its rental machines. The red beacons of home entertainment have become ubiquitous at pharmacies, grocery stores, Walmarts and more locations, so the company is…
By Tom Moccia |
Mobile banking has come a long way in the last three years, and the introduction of the iPhone and other popular Android devices have done a lot to move financial institutions to adopt a more feature rich application set. Finance has come a long way…
By Sean P. Aune |
A man posted the above video clip to YouTube on Oct. 23rd, and … we aren’t sure what to make of it. The clip is from the world premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Circus at Mann’s Chinese Theater in 1928. A woman walks by…
By Tom Moccia |
Last week I received word from one of my favorite accessory companies stating that they will no longer be selling a popular accessory as of November 2, 2010. Hypermac stated that they will no longer be selling their Macbook charging cables that have implemented the…
By Winston Sih |
It’s extremely rare for Apple to fail at releasing something they’ve announced, but that is exactly what has happened with the white version of the iPhone 4 thus far. Originally it was supposed to have shipped with the black version this previous June, and then…
By Sean P. Aune |
One of the biggest questions in social media is if you open up as a free service, and you build good will with your users, how do you finally monetize your site so it actually becomes a money making proposition? This was a question that…
By Tom Moccia |
The evolution of keyboards has come a long way since the first iPhone was introduced in 2007. Not to give Apple too much credit, but virtual keyboards were simply just a novelty before the iPhone, and now, all the popular mobile devices either implement a…
