The holiday season is upon us, and no gift keeps on giving quite like a smartphone. [......]
At first I thought the birds in the trees at the Foxconn’s largest plant in Shenzhen, China were fake. They sang so sweetly that I was sure my hosts had planted speakers for my benefit – a sort of Potemkin aviary high in the branches. The plant, called Foxconn City, is one of Foxconn’s 26 major and minor factories around the world. [......]
On Friday, a group of hackers operating under the banner of Anonymous' Operation AntiSec published the private e-mails of a California Department of Justice investigator. The hackers posted the entirety of the 38,000 e-mails in a Gmail account that appears to belong to Alfredo "Fred" Baclagan, a California Department of Justice special agent supervisor in charge of computer crime investigations, to a hidden site on Tor, as well as to a torrent listed on The Pirate Bay[......]
I hate these kind of videos. There’s enough waste in electronics that we don’t need to destroy stuff that is in already perfect condition (hence our refusal to post those ridiculous Will It Blend videos)[......]
With the holidays approaching, tech news has been heating up. This week, we reviewed the Kindle Fire from Amazon and covered the important Stop Online Piracy Act hearings in Congress. [......]
Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Motorola’s Droid XYBoard 8.2 Spotted Wearing Verizon’s Logo Review: Saddleback Leather Thin Briefcase Bag Week Review: Timbuk2 Swig Backpack Microsoft And TechStars Launch Kinect Accelerator For New Kinect-Based Startups The Big Bag Week Giveaway: An HP OfficeJet Printer, An HP Laptop, And, Obviously, A Bag [......]
Welcome to another exciting episode of the TechCrunch Gadgets Webcast. This week we talk about the Kindle Fire, the Nook Tablet, the Nexus, and SOPA. Plus, we have a special surprise for all those who prefer sound to moving pictures. [......]
What is it? So you’ve already heard about the Incase Alloy Series Compact Backpack , and perhaps you felt that the style was super slick but you tend to prefer messenger bags over backpacks. [......]
What is it? Whether your apartment walls are covered in pop art or not, this Shoulder Bag from Incase’s Andy Warhol collection brings an entirely new sense of style to the laptop bag. Granted, it’s not as durable as some of the other bags we’ve seen this week, nor does it protect your gadgetry as well, but it does have one thing that the other bags don’t: a banana. [......]
Last year Marshall took their iconic amps, enlisted the help of Wayne Szalinski who shrunk them down to something that can fit on your ears. The Major and Minor earphones hit the market last November , and here, one year later, they’re available in white just like the iconic white Marshall head used by Randy Rhodes. The white versions cost the same as the black models. [......]
I get asked the same set of questions at least a couple of times each week: What is 4G, anyway? Does "4G" mean the same thing across all of the carriers? [......]