November 11, 2013 Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won Apple’s maps have turned out to be a hit with iPhone and iPad users in the US – despite the roasting that they were…
October 30, 2013 NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to…
October 30, 2013 Wrist wars: Samsung Galaxy Gear vs. Qualcomm Toq vs. Sony Smartwatch 2 The smartwatch buzz — if you could call it that — began picking up steam when it was rumored that Apple was looking to…
October 30, 2013 MIT Wristband Tricks You Into Feeling Cool, Without A/C Here’s a scary statistic: In 2007, 87 percent of households in the U.S. used air conditioning, compared to just 11 percent of households in…
October 30, 2013 Google gets into Halloween spirit with spooky ‘Easter eggs’ Google has injected a few fun Easter eggs into its search for Halloween including facts about what witches eat and how to defeat the…
October 30, 2013 Samsung Shipped 130.1 Million Phones Last Quarter – Beat Apple, LG, and Nokia Combined – Droid Life Whether you hate it or love it, Samsung has pretty much single-handedly grown Android by an immense amount over the last couple of years….
October 30, 2013 You’re Just Too Monetizable for Google+ to Ever Go Away The snark surrounding the relative unpopularity of Google+ makes it easy to dismiss the service as an also-ran — another failed attempt by Google…
October 29, 2013 Visually, The Infographics Marketplace, Launches Its New Cloud-Based Collaborative Project Center Visually, best known as a marketplace for infographics, has launched its new Marketplace and Project Center to grow the audience for its cloud-based collaborative…
October 25, 2013 2 major solar flares Friday — the second twice as intense as the first The sun shot out a pair of gigantic solar flares early Friday — the second one even bigger than the first, a NOAA expert…
October 25, 2013 The Craziest Multi-Tool Ever Made Kills in 100 Different Ways This multi-bladed folding knife was made in Germany around 1880. Image: Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History The F.W. Holler Company manufactured it to…