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This girly Android smartphone comes with liquid cooling, racing stripes 21
Liquid cooling is what hardcore PC overclockers use to keep their high-performance machines from failing...
Credit Suisse is bullish on wearable tech 3
Thanks to the progress made by Google Glass, which has gone from an eye-opening concept video in April...
Google+ Hangouts has some fun Easter eggs 6
We all know that Google loves Easter eggs. The company puts them in many of its products, and the newly...
Downloads vs installs: how Apple and Google count app numbers 16
Yesterday was a big day of news. Moreso for Google than Apple, but Apple did get in one interesting piece...
Apple's App Store hits 50 billion downloads 15 May 2013, 17:34 39
You knew that Apple would be swooping in to steal some of the spotlight from Google today, and the news...
Google combines Gmail, Drive, and G+ Photos storage into a single 15GB per user 13 May 2013, 12:54 8
Google has been shifting around how it deals with the various storage options it has for a while now....
Smartphone buyers prefer an ever-larger screen - 4.5" takes over 4.3" as the sweet spot 13 May 2013, 06:00 52
Given the trends this year (cough, Galaxy Mega line, cough), and the onlsaught of 5" flagships, SA might...
Texting while driving now the leading cause of teen death in the U.S. 11 May 2013, 15:11 17
Drunk driving has been replaced and texting while driving is now the leading cause of teen death in the...
Smartphone thefts in San Francisco mapped out 10 May 2013, 19:45 12
Smartphone thefts have been making the news lately. These devices are expensive and because they...
Survey: 30% of Airline passengers are forgetting to turn off their phones or tablets before takeoff 10 May 2013, 03:29 17
A new survey conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association finds that 30% of airline passengers are...
NVIDIA beats Q1 expectations with $77.9 million in profit 09 May 2013, 21:54 8
After seeing the quarterly numbers from companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung, the numbers...
YouTube paid subscriptions now live, starting at 99 cents per month 09 May 2013, 15:10 29
We knew it was in the works and today marks launch day for YouTube's paid subscription pilot program....
San Francisco abandons bid for cell phone warning stickers 08 May 2013, 16:39 3
Ever since cell phones first started making their way into the hands of consumers, there have been recurring...
University of California wants to give 1 million people a physical by smartphone 05 May 2013, 17:26 3
With it becoming more and more possible to get solid readings on the health profile of an individual...
Images from space, taken by NASA’s Android smartphone powered satellites 04 May 2013, 12:20 36
NASA’s PhoneSat project officially ended about a week ago, with the three Android smartphone powered...
Law enforcement officials blame carriers and OEMs for rising number of cellphone thefts 02 May 2013, 11:56 34
Despite a new nationwide database that tracks the unique identifier on every smartphone that is stolen,...
MorePhone is a flexible smartphone that curls up when it receives a call 30 Apr 2013, 17:12 5
Imagination is only limited by what can physically be accomplished at any one time, and a group of...
Study says that chat apps are more popular than SMS 29 Apr 2013, 18:42 12
This day seemed inevitable. SMS has always been something of a troubled technology. It rose in popularity...
Global phone shipments dip 1% in first quarter 2013; Samsung on top with 29% of the market 25 Apr 2013, 23:58 6
The latest numbers from Strategy Analytics are in and it shows that global mobile phone shipments dipped...
Meeting Tim Cook for a cup of coffee will cost you north of $180 000 25 Apr 2013, 07:20 84
Tim Cook is one of those people who many have heard about, yet few are ever going to have the chance...
MetroPCS reports first quarter results, operating income rises 10% over last year 24 Apr 2013, 21:58 1
The nation's fifth largest carrier, MetroPCS, released its first quarter earnings on Wednesday just hours...
Big data from smartphones and smartwatches named some of 2013’s top 10 breakthrough tech 23 Apr 2013, 08:42 5
With a smartphone in every pocket and Pebble finally arriving to its first backers, big data from smartphones...
This basic phone costs only $12, made in China 23 Apr 2013, 07:51 17
Quick, what's the most affordable phone you can think of? Loyal readers might remember the Nokia 105,...
Texting with your voice while driving as dangerous as the old-fashioned way, study shows 23 Apr 2013, 04:41 4
They placed 43 participants driving on a controlled track, and measured their reaction times during traditional...
Study links cellphone usage and ADHD in Children 22 Apr 2013, 10:15 23
It might not be a great idea to let your kids play around with a cell phone at a young age, according...
Video: Imagine an elastic touch screen that really lets you dig in 21 Apr 2013, 18:03 6
This certainly delves into the world of science fiction, except it will not be fiction much longer, not...
Ubuntu Touch daily builds now based on 13.04 21 Apr 2013, 14:11 7
Ubuntu 13.04, codenamed Raring Ringtail, is in beta right now, and scheduled for full release next week...
Wikileaks posts the full transcript of Google's Eric Schmidt secret meeting with Julian Assange 19 Apr 2013, 05:33 2
Eric Schmidt has a book coming out, called "The New Digital World," for which he apparently sat down...
Microsoft's Q3 earnings down from last year, CFO stepping down 18 Apr 2013, 18:10 26
Just to erase any confusion over this, Microsoft deals with its earnings call a bit differently than...
Google's Q1 2013 earnings beat profit estimates, but Motorola still losing money 18 Apr 2013, 17:36 14
Google held its quarterly earnings call earlier today, and the news was something of a mixed bag for...
"Power felt" will allow your clothes to get electricity from you and the environment to power your devices 17 Apr 2013, 09:06 16
Technology has evolved so much in recent years - smartphones have brought a huge computing power to our...
Yahoo reports it passed 300 million active mobile users in Q1 16 Apr 2013, 23:00 3
When Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo, she promised that the company would refocus on mobile,...
Judge fines himself for contempt after his smartphone disrupts court 15 Apr 2013, 11:08 30
Here is something that doesn't seem too unusual on its face, a judge ordering contempt of court charges...
4 of the 5 highest-paid executives in the US work at Apple 15 Apr 2013, 08:51 22
2012 was an amazing year for technology, and understandably, it was also an amazing year for the executives...
New SMS scam snares 10 unwitting victims 15 Apr 2013, 02:29 5
If someone sent you an SMS message threatening to harass you unless you repaid money from illegal loan...
World's most expensive phone heading to China at $15 million, bound to raise eyebrows in the Party 12 Apr 2013, 09:15 42
Custom-ordered by an unnamed Chinese businessman, the iPhone 5 is dipped in 26 karat gold, a real black...
NYPD to fight crime with a new real-time Android tool 12 Apr 2013, 07:31 9
The New York Police Department may be one of the largest police forces for a city, but in the jungles...
Google wants to build the Star Trek computer and this is not just a metaphor 12 Apr 2013, 04:37 18
It’s no wonder Google is a place where there is a huge concentration of geeks. And not just any kind...
Next airplane hijackers might just be carrying Android phones 11 Apr 2013, 08:49 16
We knew that the Android platform is versatile, but this here security research takes the cake. At the...
iPad survives after being accidentally embedded in car bumper 10 Apr 2013, 09:35 43
Here comes a story, the kind of which we don't hear every day. According to a recent news report, an...
Fox TV threatens to go off-the-air, if Aereo's mobile TV streaming service is a keeper 09 Apr 2013, 04:16 13
Aereo avoids paying the hefty licence fees that cable companies do, and streams popular channels to your...
Number of teens driving while talking on their phone has doubled since 2010 09 Apr 2013, 01:58 1
With the NHTSA reporting that at any moment in time, 660,000 people are driving while talking on their...
California judge says drivers cannot check maps on their handset while driving; all excuses are now shot down 07 Apr 2013, 00:11 47
Judge W. Kent Hamlin has ruled that in California giving the cop who just pulled you over the ol, "I...
BlackBerry 10 kindly informs all of your friends that you are watching porn 05 Apr 2013, 08:10 48
Your phone might be called a smartphone for the myriad of things it can do, but telling all your friends...
FTC takes on 'Rachel from card services' robocalls with $25 000 blocking tech awards 03 Apr 2013, 08:42 1
The FTC gets about 200, 000 complaints of unauthorized robocalls a month, and that's from those who bother....
Mid-size phone screens still king, study shows, the phablet 'fad' just 2% of total 02 Apr 2013, 02:32 55
The mid-size commands a vast majority of devices owned, with the so-called phablets representing only...
95% of mobile phone users leave location data more unique than fingerprints 31 Mar 2013, 12:10 13
It's common knowledge that everyone has a unique fingerprint physically, but would you be surprised to...
China might have just declared cold war on Apple: here is why 26 Mar 2013, 07:02 65
“China is currently our second largest market. I believe it will become our first.” This is what Apple...
Japan finds rare earth materials that could lower the cost of electronics 25 Mar 2013, 18:23 30
Rare earth materials are an essential part of modern electronics, including our favorite tablets and...
Here is the phone that powers NASA space robots (hint: it runs Android) 25 Mar 2013, 09:24 34
NASA embarked on an ambitious project a couple of years ago - using a smartphone to power its space robot,...










