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Facebook Home Could Be a Pain, Unless...
Facebook Home is something we’ve never seen before. It’s far more than just an app and beyond just a skin, but something less than an operating system. It doesn’t replace Android or skins like TouchWiz, but installing it will radically transform your Android phone — and not necessarily for the better.
What Home boils [...]
10 Compelling Ways People Plan To Use...
Google Glass is coming. Sure, the early adopters will be viewed as weirdos and the idea of a tiny head-mounted camera raises all kinds of creepy privacy questions, but Glass is cool.
Is Apple’s iMessage Killing Tex...
I was wondering when this was going to happen. As soon as Apple launched iOS 5 last year, many of us in the tech press took one look at its iMessage feature and thought the same thing: The carriers are screwed. This week, we saw the first sign that that prediction may be coming true.
What If Your Smartphone Could Read Yo...
Today’s smartphones are pretty darned smart. Yet we are only scratching the surface of what these devices might do. What if our smartphones were actually intelligent? Able to perceive our actions and intentions and act upon them on our behalf? That’s the goal of a startup called Kimera.
Apple’s Siri, the current standard be [...]
Sorry, Samsung, iPhone Is Not Your Mo...
The iPhone owes its ongoing success partly to Apple’s success at making it one of the coolest devices a consumer could buy. But perception is shifting, and now the iPhone is coming to be seen as “your Mom’s smartphone.” At least, that’s what Samsung wants you to believe.
The culmination of the crusty-iPhone meme is Samsung’ [...]
"iPhone Fatigue" – Wh...
Just five years’ time, and already the tech press is declaring the iPhone era waning. Or more accurately, some elements of the tech press weren’t too thrilled by the iPhone 5 announcement, and the rest fell asleep. Boredom is as contagious as the plague (just ask anyone at CNN). But the claim says a lot more about the tech press than it does [...]
AT&T to Spend Tens of Millions t...
Texting while driving contributes to nearly 100,000 crashes causing injury or death per year. Loathe to be held responsible for such a grim statistic, AT&T has announced a campaign to stop texting while driving as well as an app to help curb the practice.
AT&T announced a new public awareness effort
Poll Has Apple Gone Too Far?
The rise of Apple as the darling of the technology industry was a decade in the making. The company had fallen on hard times before its co-founder and guru Steve Jobs came back in 1997 and redefined what Apple computers stood for.
A decade later, in 2007, Apple released the iPhone, and love for the company as well as its revenue have skyrock [...]
Infographic What is Slowing Down Your...
Ever try to launch a mobile application and get nothing but a spinning wheel? You’re not alone.
Defining the Post-App Economy
Even as the battle rages over native apps vs. the mobile Web, the real question is already becoming “What comes next?” Developers are looking for ways to disrupt the so-called “App Economy,” especially as it pertains to Apple’s handling of the App Store. Assuming that the mobile Web [...]