Samsung Galaxy S4 corning GG3 vs. iPhone 5

There seems to be a huge amount of evidence that points to the fact the Samsung Galaxy S4 is going to be a superb handset. It might not have a new form-factor, but the hardware more than makes up for this oversight. From the limited number of Galaxy S4 reviews, this is a more than capable phone, and even though I’m an iPhone 5 owner, I know when Apple’s latest handset has been beat. One subject that...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today announced the introduction of the GALAXY Tab 3 – 7-inch tablet featuring sleek design and enhanced capabilities that bring capabilities that bring better performance and multimedia experiences to your fingertips. With the new GALAXY Tab 3, Samsung has evolved its range of innovative tablets,...

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What the Heck Is P-Commerce?

First there was ecommerce, a term developed in the early '80s to abbreviate "electronic commerce," or sales made possible through electronic funds transfer (and later, the Internet). Since then, marketers have gleefully affixed various letters to the word "commerce" to describe sales (or the potential for sales) made through different platforms: m-commerce for mobile, f-commerce for Facebook and p-commerce,...

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LG Launches the World's First 55-Inch Curved OLED TV

Well, that came sooner than expected. Two weeks after LG's announcements it will launch a curved OLED TV "later this year," the first such 55-inch device here, available for pre-order in South Korea. The 55EA9800, as it's called, brings what LG calls an "IMAX-like" experience of the home, with the entire screen surface being equidistant from the viewer's eyes. We haven't thoroughly tested a curved...

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iPhone 6 release date uncertainty damages

Time for Apple to innovative further – We’ve owned every iPhone generation since the first, but it has become apparent that the market has changed and Apple has not. Users want diversity in screen size and a growing number of people want the smartphone to become their tablet and phone, aka phablet. Apple needs to launch an iPhone 6 with a bigger screen size and even better if they had a couple of...

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Rugged Samsung Galaxy S4 to dominate market in July?

Not content with dominating all smartphone interest in May, Samsung is rumored to be plotting an ambitious effort to come up with a rugged version of their popular Galaxy S4 superphone, for consumers that like that extra layer of protection when out and about on adventurous activities. We first informed you about such rumors in a previous report here, but now the Wall Street Journal has taken it upon...

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A Decade of iTunes: an Interactive Timeline by Apple

iTunes about to turn 10. Birthday wishes include downloading more songs and buying an iPhone or iPad. Ten years ago, Apple was gearing up to release its iconic music player and database, iTunes. Now, with April 28 only days away, the company is getting ready to celebrate its second lustrum with a timeline that looks back on all the triumphs of the past years. Apple has made it impossible...

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This new Web mod shows you Bitcoin prices for eBay auctions

We know PayPal is thinking about adding Bitcoin support to its payment service, but if you can’t wait to check the Bitcoin prices on those eBay auctions you’re sniping, website modding service BetterInternet has got you covered. BetterInternet, which debuted at Techono.me last October, acts as a real-time filter for any website, allowing interested parties to develop modifications for their...

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Sports News App Aggregates Tweets Related to Your Favorite Teams

Sports fans that use a tablet or smartphone — the "second screen" — during live game broadcasts are becoming more and more common these days. For this year's Super Bowl, a Century 21 Real Estate survey found that 36% of polled viewers said they would use a second screen to supplement the game-viewing experience. A Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup is catering to that trend with a new tablet app that aggregates ...

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Microsoft expands Surface RT availability to 29 markets and Surface Pro to 27, promises more stock for 128GB

Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is expanding the availability of its Surface RT device to 29 markets and the Surface Pro to 27 markets. All the launches will be taking place over the next two months, meaning by summer a significantly larger number of consumers will be able to buy the company’s computers. Currently, the Surface RT is available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark,...

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Facebook is testing a new prompt asking users to complete their profile, just like on LinkedIn

Facebook has started prompting some of its 1 billion users on the desktop version of the website to complete their profile. A source close to the company confirmed with TNW that this feature is currently being tested with a small set of users. I was quite surprised this morning to see this message at the top of my Facebook News Feed: Apparently my profile was 90 percent complete, meaning it...

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Huawei: US market no longer focus for its carrier business

After facing a congressional battering over security concerns, Huawei’s carrier networking group is no longer focused on the U.S. market, and instead expects to find ample business in other parts of the world. “Apparently, due to whatever the geopolitical reasons, we are not focusing on the U.S. market,” said Li Sanqi, Huawei’s chief technology officer for the group, on Tuesday. Last October,...

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Google Glass privacy concerns come to the head

When details about Google Glass began to emerge, I warned that the technology was going to make some folks uneasy. I predicted widespread bans by businesses and government agencies (think Homeland Security) over privacy concerns that are bound to come up when Google Glass is widely available. This future-looking article by colleague Jason Perlow is eye-opening but I think we may see problems far...

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ThingLink brings its interactive images for brands to Facebook Timelines

ThingLink, the company that brought interactive images to Twitter last year, has turned its attention to Facebook after adding support for the world’s largest social network to its service. Using ThingLink, Facebook users — and particularly brands — can now add images to Facebook Timelines that include embedded links, annotations, videos and, perhaps most interestingly, the option to share ...

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Firefox OS Smartphones Available From 23 April

The phones will be available for shipping to numerous countries. Tuesday, April 23, 2013:  Mozilla's revolution of Firefox operating system for smartphone is ready to rumble. Starting from 23 April,...

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Tim Cook admits that iMac launch should have been postponed to avoid delays for customers

When asked about staggered product launches during the Q&A of Apple’s Q2 2013 earnings call today, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that he wished Apple would have postponed the launch of the new iMac until after the holiday season in order to avoid the significant delays that customers experienced in the initial months of launch: I don’t spend a lot of time looking back… If we...

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Twitter Two-Factor Authentication is Obvious — And Necessary

Alongside the buzz about Twitter becoming our primary source of news is the realization that not everything you read on the microblogging network can be trusted. Usually, this is because people are too quick to tweet without verifying facts, but sometimes it's because the person behind the tweets isn't who you think they are. This is exactly what happened to the Associated Press on Tuesday, when...

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CISPA Amendment Banning Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords Blocked

Bad news, Facebook users. U.S. employers may soon be able to require employees to fork over their social media passwords. A last-minute amendment to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act -- known as CISPA -- banning such a practice was blocked by members of the U.S. House of Representatives, despite the passage of the broad cybersecurity bill overall. The provision, proposed by Rep. Ed...

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It’s Time to Kill the ‘Apple Doesn’t Innovate’ Argument

There’s an argument in the platform wars, and also on Wall Street, that goes something like this: “Apple doesn’t innovate anymore. It moves too slowly, and is being taken over by more nimble, more innovative rivals.” Any success Apple has is the result of slick marketing, rather than the newest technology. But now, Apple is a laggard and is being overtaken by more nimble companies. Apple has an...

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Anonymous calls for blackout against CISPA; a pity it won't work

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has passed the U.S. House and is winging its way to the Senate, but not without a fight. It was the dream of many that the controversial CISPA bill, having fallen before, would lie undisturbed in its grave after being uncerimoniously booted into the box by the enraged online community. However, now having passed the U.S. House with 288-127...

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Android malware scores nine million downloads with fake ad network SDK

Makers of Android malware have developed an ad network SDK that pushes malicious software through seemingly innocuous apps. Google has suspended several accounts associated with 32 apps on Google Play containing the malicious SDK which have been downloaded up to nine million times, according to mobile security firm Lookout. Legitimate ad network SDKs, such as Google's own AdMob SDK, offer app developers...

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Quickly test iOS icon designs on your home screen with Icon Strike

There are a number of ways to test designs on your iOS device — services like Scala View and Adobe Edge Inspect are likely at the top of your list. But as we’ve seen lately, sometimes a lightweight solution is the best way to stay efficient and inspired. Icon Strike, a simple app which lets you test icon designs on your home screen with little effort, fits this description perfectly. Created...

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