| News of KitKat coming to more Galaxy Note 3 handsets is a good thing, unless you use a third-party case, that is. Asus showed off a pair of Nexus 7 docks while the Galaxy S5 home screen may have leaked, looking very different. Read More »TV fanboy with his own show; drugs and death in the Animal Planet, NSA and blackmail, death on a diamond and crazy A-Rod stories and more importantly, shadow banking. Oh, and why stories go viral. Read More »A colony of ants arrived at the International Space Station this month. Researchers are interested in how they react to microgravity, as robots could use similar behavior to better explore difficult places, such as a collapsed building. Read More »Competing directly with Uber is really hard. Maybe others that want to overthrow the traditional taxi system should try a few new tactics. Read More »Want to fly a drone or with your phone but don't have a big budget? If you can make a paper airplane, this $30 Bluetooth Smart module may be your ticket to blue skies above. Read More »A single connected device is less than the sum of its parts in an open ecosystem. Here's how Birdi is trying to make consumers see the value in a $119 smoke detector. Read More »Get a grip people. The same folks who say email is dead are the first to scream when email goes down. Am I right? Read More »SoundCloud has confirmed a new Series D round of funding that reportedly adds $60 million to the company's coffers. Read More »One of the big themes at our Structure Data conference in March is the advent of new techniques to make sense of new data sources. One of the most-promising is video, which had value well beyond capturing crimes and making us laugh on YouTube. Read More »Google's purchase of Nest shines a spot light on the crossroads ahead for utilities. Read More »The White House announced on Thursday that it will form a working group to study big data and report on its implications to privacy, policy and society. That might be easier said than done. Read More »Microsoft Surface revenues in its second fiscal quarter topped $893 million, the company said on Thursday. The figure is more than double the $400 million in Surface sales from the prior quarter and follow a $900 million inventory write-off of Surface devices in July, most of which […] Read More »Did you hear the reports? Apple's working on a bigger iPhone. That's not a huge surprise but people don't necessarily want a huge phone. And iOS developers don't want yet another resolution to support. Here's how Apple might address the challenge. Read More »Consumers complaining of poor Netflix and YouTube streams on certain ISP networks are the pawns in a fight over internet business models. Too bad knowing why this happens doesn't fix this problem. Read More »Following some extreme plans, Xtreme Power files for Chapter 11. Read More »According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is planning to introduce two new iPhones with bigger screens this year, and scrap the plastic iPhone 5c design. Read More »Amazon Web Services has dealt IBM blows in a couple important ways. Now Big Blue has to get down to fighting weight. Read More »Facebook has risen and it may fall, but using a disease analogy is tenuous at best. That hasn't stopped a piece of non-peer-reviewed modeling by Princeton researchers from, er, going viral though. Read More »Not all smartphone storage specs are created equal. Some 16GB phones come with barely half that amount in usable storage space. Read More »After investing in a sapphire glass plant last year, a new patent shows what Apple might be planning to do with it. Read More » | |
Android this week: KitKat for Galaxy Note 3; Nexus 7 dock duo; Galaxy S5 home screens, and more for Saturday, January 25, 2014
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