"iPhone Killer" BlackBerry 10 is here: iPhone is Dead!
While the many "stoked" BlackBerry executives and supporters on hand for their big BlackBerry 10 splash today happily patted each other on their backs, I had to look to social media to find anyone...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy S4, BlackBerry 10 & Megan Fox bathing with her Motorola phone...
Smartphone vendors such as BlackBerry, Motorola and Samsung will swamp Super Bowl 47 TV coverage with ads funny and serious.
View Article9th grader signs $200 contract to let dad kill her Facebook account
A Wellesley, Mass., dad has agreed to pay his 14-year-old daughter $200 if she ditches her Facebook account, in an effort to extract her from "the 24/7 comparison of experiences and clothes" with other...
View ArticleTaking Facebook vacations quite common among U.S. adults
Facebook can really wear a guy or gal out, according to findings from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Six in 10 users surveyed say they've taken a voluntary break from...
View ArticleWireless industry by the #s: Millions, Billions & even Trillions!
Headlines have been catching my eyes left and right this week regarding the utter enormity of the mobile technology market. A sampling: *Nexus 4 Owners Estimate One Million Handsets Have Shipped Since...
View ArticleI, for one, am going to miss implosions
One of my great memories of living in Boston back in the 1980s was going downtown early one morning to watch the 30-story Travelers Insurance Building imploded in March of 1988, as shown here. But a...
View ArticleEDUCAUSE/Internet2 call on college students to create security awareness...
Why do I have the feeling there might be more than one Harlem Shake-related video in this contest? EDUCAUSE and the Internet2 Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) are holding a contest...
View ArticleThe real reason you got an iPhone: To zoom in on fruit flies and cockroaches
Greg Gage returns to TED, the annual conference in Long Beach, Calif., for big thinkers and talkers, and this week is showing off Backyard Brains' RoachScope -- a device that enables you to use your...
View ArticleFrom dictator to spectator: How BYOD is upending IT leaders
Aside from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, the renowned anti-telecommuter who last year sort of got out in front of the BYOD movement by informing employees that the company would supply them all with...
View ArticleAmanda Palmer TED Talk on "Art of Asking" has me asking questions about...
Amanda Palmer readily acknowledges that her punk cabaret style of music isn't for everyone (though I, for one, like a lot of her Dresden Dolls stuff), but the nearly 14-minute talk that she gave on...
View ArticleWelcome to Google: Time to update the all-time Google song list...
Fink, a 25-year-old hip-hopper and Google employee in New York City, has a semi-hit on his hands, with more than 111K views of his "Welcome to Google" music video on YouTube.
View ArticleMIT seeking tech startups to showcase at CIO Symposium in May
MIT is putting out the call for early stage enterprise tech startups that want a shot at showing their stuff at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on May 22 in Cambridge, Mass.
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy S IV live web broadcast: Watch it here on Thursday, March 14
Our colleagues at IDG News Service will provide a live web broadcast of the Samsung Galaxy S IV (or S 4) launch on Thursday, March 14 from New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event is scheduled to...
View ArticleApple's Steve Jobs: Stanford commencement speech transcript
I'm on the hunt for 2013's techiest college commencement address speakers, with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak being among the first to show up on my radar. Melinda Gates...
View ArticleLongtime Google Android chief Andy Rubin handing over the reins
Squeezed in between Wednesday morning's superfast sellout of the annual Google I/O conference and Thursday night's formal announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S IV Android smartphone
View ArticlePi Day sales: Well, it's not quite Black Friday, but....
The marketing geniuses are starting to catch on to international Pi Day, the annual March 14 (3.14...get it?) celebration of the the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. [10 Awesome...
View ArticleStudy exposes impact of second-hand cellphone use
Those juicy tidbits gleaned from one-side cellphone conversations you happen to overhear are even more distracting than those juicy tidbits gleaned from accidentally overhearing conversations between...
View ArticleBlackBerry band is back to sing praises of the Z10 coming to the U.S.
The smartphone business has increasingly become all about the song and dance. Samsung last week tortured viewers of its Galaxy S4 announcement with a seemingly never-ending musical number at Radio City...
View ArticleSurprised this penguin is settling for an iPad, not holding out for a Linux...
Apparently even penguins are gravitating toward tablets these days, as seen in this video released by the Aquarium of the Pacific.
View ArticleFunny or Die to beat other Steve Jobs biopics to the punch with "iSteve"
The yucksters at Funny or Die say they will release the "world's FIRST Steve Jobs biopic" on April 15, beating the Ashton Kutcher-led "jOBS" and out the door. The 60-75 minute film is described in a...
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