Does Facebook track your enemies as well as your friends?
Facebook announced an expansion to its Download Your Information feature, according to a post on its Facebook and Privacy page Thursday. New categories of information that users can download from the site include IP addresses......
Netflix never used its $1 million algorithm due to engineering costs
Netflix awarded a $1 million prize to a developer team in 2009 for an algorithm that increased the accuracy of the company's recommendation engine by 10 percent. But today it doesn't use the million-dollar code,...
Toshiba to make quad-core Android 4.0 tablets in 7, 10, and 13 inch sizes
Toshiba is launching a new line of tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in May and June, the company announced Tuesday. The "Excite" tablet family will come in 7.7-inch, 10-inch,...
RIM to pull BlackBerry PlayBook away from "chaotic Android cesspool"
Research in Motion plans to drop the ability to sideload Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook, Alec Saunders, vice president of developer relations, announced Friday on Twitter. Saunders said that RIM wanted to avoid "dupl......
Google Trends reveals clues about the mentality of richer nations
Countries that focus on the future tend to have a higher per capita GDP, suggests a study published in Nature's Scientific Reports. Using Google Trends, a group of researchers compared the number of searches conducted...
Feature: The Nokia Lumia 900 review
The Nokia Lumia 900 has the weight of two big names on its shoulders. It's Nokia's big re-entry into the US market; it's also the flagship Windows Phone Mango in this...
Feature: The Nokia Lumia 900 review
The Nokia Lumia 900 has the weight of two big names on its shoulders. It's Nokia's big re-entry into the US market; it's also the flagship Windows Phone Mango in this...
Samsung Galaxy S III product mockup emerges with 720p display
A mockup of the Samsung Galaxy S III appeared today on the Dutch site GSM Helpdesk along with some purported specs. The article cites an anonymous tipster as saying the phone...
Ad-supported apps leave smartphones in high-power states, drain batteries
If you find your phone is often low on battery, the free apps you use may be to blame, according to a new study. Using a monitoring tool they developed, the...
Hands-on: NetZero to offer no-contract 4G mobile hotspot service
Two things surprised us in the last few days: first, NetZero still exists. This is the company with ubiquitous ads for its dial-up Internet service in the early 2000s (and it,...
