By Adriana Lee |
Some people long for small-town life — to live in a heartwarming place where everyone knows your name and your neighbors have your back. But these days, one could argue that the whole world is like one, well-connected community. At least that’s what a New…
By Joey Davidson |
Remember River City Ransom? The sprites in that classic NES brawler were part of the Kunio-kun line of characters who played roles in classics like Super Dodge Ball and River City Soccer Hooligans. They, for a slice of gamers out there, defined an age of gaming. Combit Studios…
By Adriana Lee |
Who didn’t see this coming? When the nail in the coffin was announced for Google Reader, another service was bound to rise up from the ranks and take the crown. And now word has come in — the heir apparent seems to be Feedly. We…
By Adriana Lee |
Social media can be a tremendous force for good during an emergency. News agencies and local governments can disseminate urgent alerts in an instant, providing valuable information to a distraught public. Unfortunately, as services like Twitter are user-driven and unfiltered, plenty of errant info can…
By Brandon Russell |
It’s unclear how, or why, or what protocols were ignored, but shredded confidential documents were apparently part of the confetti in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade last Thursday. I guess whoever is responsible didn’t think anyone would notice, but someone always notices. The documents originated from…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon answers one of the more asked about topics regarding last week’s ATB episode – What’s up with the legal documents hanging in his office? What’s…
By Todd Haselton |
Google already sells its own mobile phones and has its own mobile operating system, so why doesn’t it take the business a step further? Well, that’s exactly what it might be trying to do. The Wall Street Journal said on Thursday evening that Google was recently…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung, Apple and Nokia are the world’s three largest mobile phone makers, but Samsung and Apple alone are responsible for a stunning 46.5% of all smartphone sales around the globe. The two firms were followed by RIM and HTC. The news is from a report…
By Brandon Russell |
Who would’ve thought that a simple source of online entertainment would be officially recognized by the Oxford University Press? As it turns out, the GIF, which turned 25 this year, has been named word of the year here in the U.S. That’s pretty ridiculous/astonishing considering…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple just announced its fourth quarter 2012 earnings $8.67 billion versus street estimates of $8.85 billion in revenue. The company also reported $8.8 billion in net profit. Apple said it sold 25.9 million iPhones during the fourth quarter, 58% more than it sold during the…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft just released its fiscal first quarter 2013 earnings, which missed analyst projections. The company said its profits were $4.47 billion for the quarter, down from $5.47 billion during the same time period last year. The company reported sales of $16.01 billion, down 8 percent,…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just posted its earnings, apparently somewhat accidentally since they were scheduled to go out after the market closed today, and things aren’t looking great. The company posted revenue of $11.33 billion and earnings per share of $9.03, which missed Street estimates of $11.86 billion…
By Todd Haselton |
One might automatically assume that Nokia, HTC, Samsung or any one of Microsoft’s other Windows Phone 8 partners would be upset with the potential idea of Microsoft creating its own smartphone. The company recently introduced its Surface tablets and there’s been plenty of speculation that…
By Todd Haselton |
We heard a rumor over the weekend that Softbank was interested in acquiring a majority stake in Sprint and, Monday morning, that rumor became a truth. Softbank said that it is in a series of “definitive agreements” under which it plans to invest $20.1 billion…
By Todd Haselton |
HP just recorded a net loss of $8.85 billion for the third quarter of 2012. Ouch. The company also reported net revenue of $29.7 billion for the quarter, down from the $31.8 billion it brought in last year and $30.6 billion it reported last quarter.…
By Todd Haselton |
A United States Judge has overturned an initial ruling that found Research In Motion guilty of infringing on patented technology owned by Mformation Technologies. RIM was originally found guilty in July when a federal jury decided the BlackBerry maker owed Mformation $147.2 million in damages,…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile USA reported its second quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, in which the carrier noted that its service revenues totaled $4.4 billion for the quarter, down 5.2% from the $4.6 billion recorded during the same period last year. Those revenues, however, remained on a par…
By Todd Haselton |
Seth Horvitz, a Washington, D.C. resident, recently took to Amazon to order a brand new 39-inch Westinghouse LED HDTV from one of Amazon’s third-party retailers. He didn’t get a television. He didn’t accidentally get a monitor. He didn’t get an empty box (which might have…
By Todd Haselton |
Best Buy founder Richard Schulze is offering between $24 and $26 per share for the big-box retailer. Schulze stepped down from his position as chairman of the board earlier this year. “I have been actively exploring all available options for my ownership stake,” Schulze said. “That exploration has…
By Adriana Lee |
The masses have been holding their breath, waiting for the day when they can post funny cat pics and register to vote all in one place. Well, social media users in Washington can exhale now, as the state will be the first to officially allow…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just announced its second quarter earnings for 2012 in which it said it generated $12.21 billion in revenue and $2.79 billion in profit on $8.42 per share. Wall Street originally projected the firm to record a lesser $8.41 billion in revenue. The company’s revenues…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s unbelievable, what a tech genius has to go through these days just to get a chicken wrap: Professor Steve Mann said he and his family were at a McDonald’s in Paris when employees accosted him, trying to rip his camera away from him before…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just announced that it has updated its Google Currents application with embedded Google Translate support. That means you can open up your favorite news site and quickly change the language to your native tongue. It works in just seconds and, during Google’s I/O demo,…
By Killian Bell |
Following several weeks of exclusivity on the Samsung Galaxy S III, social news reader Flipboard is now available to download from Google Play. The free application, which initially made its debut on the iPad, now includes the Google+ integration that we reported on earlier this…
