Mint.com , the financial service we first mentioned at TechCrunch40 in 2007 (wow, that seems like a long time ago), announced that they have launched a new native app specifically for 9 and 10 inch Android tablets running Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich. This new app, available in the Android Market, will join the previously available versions for iPhone, iPad and Android mobile phones. [......]
Intel is to buy "a significant number" of patents (approximately 190 patents and 170 patent applications) and video codec software from RealNetworks for a purchase price of $120 million . Under the terms of the deal, RealNetworks says it retains certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and future products. [......]
In my home office sits a 27-inch iMac with a secondary 24-inch LED Cinema Display attached to it. It’s a glorious vision of screen real estate[......]
Congress is trying to wrap its collective head around Amazon's new Silk Web browser . At a privacy hearing yesterday, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) expressed outrage at the way Silk's "split" design can funnel all user browsing data through Amazon's backend servers[......]
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), opened his remarks on Internet privacy today with a colorful analogy—companies who use your personal Internet information without first obtaining consent are like the Redcoats, quartering in your home against your will. "I'm going to read the Third Amendment to the Constitution of the United States," Barton began. [......]
Richmond, Virginia lawyer D. Wayne O'Bryan runs, as his website puts it, "a small law firm designed for personalized and professional legal services for dog attack injury and negligence claims." O'Bryan is quite clearly a personal injury lawyer, which is why it made perfect sense for him to file federal copyright lawsuits this summer on behalf of the pornographic film Gangbang Virgins ... or not. [......]
In a typically detailed post on the Building Windows 8 blog Monday, the Windows 8 team underlined the advantage of using a Windows Live ID to sign into different Windows devices. According to Katie Frigon, the group program manager of the You-Centered Experience team at MS, doing so will let users have “a truly personal experience that seamlessly bridges their online and offline tasks, is simpler to set up and use, and persists across their set of Windows 8 PCs.” Hit the jump for more[......]
Don't point the finger at Acer or Asus if Intel's Ultrabook initiative fails to gain traction. These are the same two companies largely responsible for popularizing netbooks a few years ago, and now the two are turning their attention to the Ultrabook category. Both companies will look to ship 200,000 Ultrabooks a month in the fourth quarter. [......]
Sony has shown off some remarkable kit at IFA 2011, including its eagerly anticipated tablets and a refreshed personal 3D headset. [......]
It was 30 years ago to the day when IBM released it's first personal computer, the IBM PC 5150. Two days ago, an IBM executive essentially declared the PC a fossil , saying he recently made the switch to a tablet as his primary computer (good luck with that). And today[......]
Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Multi-Pinhole Technique “Paints” Objects With Photographs From Life Huge LED Wall For Playing Games On At Hungarian Festival You Know, For Triathlons: Polar RCX5 Heart Rate Watch Review Kinetic Space Framework Allows PCs To Read Dance Moves, Sign Language Mini RFID Device Stores Personal Medical Data, Makes It Instantly Accessible[......]
Android is hot from a device sales perspective -- 550,000 activations per day. However, even though apps for Android phones are surging in the marketplace, it does not yet appear that the same is true for Android tablets. As popular as Android is, it is my personal opinion that iOS and Windows 8 should be the focus of future development[......]
Rapid updates, manageability gaps make Chrome and especially Firefox tough to accept for large businesses with managed networks and stability concerns. In my experience dealing with businesses, it's rare to find them using anything other than Internet Explorer as their preferred web browser, and no surprise why. The other major browsers make life really hard for IT support[......]
The "lulz" for LulzSec may be about to end as worldwide authorities begin a push to apprehend those responsible. [......]
Kinect Fun Labs: Try Out Crazy Kinect Experiments Android Malware Rears Its Ugly Head… Yet Again Post-Apple Palate Cleanser: More Swiss Army Axes! Nintendo Admits Hack, But Says No Personal Data Stolen Everything You Need To Know About iOS 5 [......]
