It appears Apple plans to include NFC technology in future devices, but what does this mean to the average iPhone user? While nothing definite is known as of yet, it looks like Apple is preparing to include Near Field Communications (NFC) in the iPhone 5. If you are unfamiliar with NFC, don’t worry, you are far from being alone. The concept of NFC is that you have a chip in your cell...
Netflix ended the year with yet another increase in its subscribers, bringing the total to 20 million. In other words, Netflix is now a major player in the media world. To put Netflix’s soaring subscriber numbers in perspective, The Wall Street Journal compiled how man subscribers some of the big name cable companies have: Starz – 17.4 million Showtime – 18.5 million HBO – 28.3...
Here you have it, the next portable console from the makers of the PS3 and the PSP. This is codenamed NGP: Next Generation Portable. This device has been rumored and denied dozens of times over the last several years. Every time fans clamored for the next step in portable gaming, Sony answered with an upgrade to the PSP. We've seen several models, and each time we were excited and a...
HP’s Topaz tablet first got rumored last week, and now it got a little bit more real with a leak of a ton of specs. PreCentral has gotten its hands on the specs for the Topaz webOS tablet we told you about last week. The fact sheet looks legit and spells out everything we should expect. (click image for a slightly larger view) For those who just wish to see the specs, here you go...
There’s no way around it, I’m a geek. I wear my nerd-dom like a scarlet letter of pride. I’ve always been ‘into tech’ as my mom likes to say. During my High School and college days (University of Rochester), whenever I’d get stressed, or just wanted to unwind, I’d walk around Best Buy, and just look at all the amazing gadgets I couldn’t afford. (Random tidbit, I remember when...
Apple is on its way to its ten billionth iOS app being downloaded, and with that goal in mind, they’ve announced the top iPhone & iPad apps of all time. During yesterday’s Apple quarterly earnings call, the company touted the fact that well over nine billion apps have been downloaded for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. In celebration of this milestone, they’ve launched a page in...
During the last quarterly earnings call, Apple predicted that it would have a $25 billion quarter for Oct. through Dec., but as the company is want to do, it once again broke through its own predictions. For the first quarter of Apple’s fiscal 2011 year, the company recorded a record income of $26.7 billion, which represented an increase of over $11 billion from the same quarter last...
People constantly complain that there is nothing to watch on the Netflix Watch Instantly service, but considering how much the company is spending on content as of late, it definitely looks like they are out to change your mind. According to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood has entered a bit of a love/hate relationship with Netflix. While the entertainment industry...
Samsung handset owners are getting more and more frustrated by the lack of updates to Android 2.2. Could there be a financial reason as to why these updates aren’t coming? Lets take the Samsung Fascinate, part of the Galaxy S family of devices, as an example. Ever since it launched last summer with Android 2.1 Eclair, there has been a promise of an upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo. ...
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