Review: Republic Wireless and its $19/month cell service
Republic Wireless is an upstart taking on some of the biggest behemoths in American industry—the major cell carriers—armed with WiFi as its main weapon. Republic keeps costs low by encouraging the use of WiFi o......
Family data plans may finally arrive from Verizon
Verizon may be preparing to launch shared data plans, according to a post on Engadget and some speculative phrasing on the company's recent earnings call. The "account level data plans" would give customers a chunk of data that...
Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months
The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...
Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months
The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...
Following fine, Apple alerts Italian customers to their free 2-year warranty
Apple has begun alerting its Italian customers that they have a right to a two-year warranty on Apple's products as provided by Italian law. The move comes after Apple was issued a $1.2 million fine for allegedly......
Google already knows you’re a 24-year old woman who loves wombats
Despite the controversy over Google's new privacy policy, the company already has you wrapped up into a neat little demographic package, as I was reminded yesterday when looking at my Google account settings. How accurate...
AT&T: iPhone made up 80% of smartphones, 66% of all phones sold last quarter
AT&T sold 9.4 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, but 7.6 million of which were iPhones, the company reported today. According to those numbers, the iPhone made up a whopping 80 percent of AT&T's smartphon...
Google’s new privacy policy could anger FTC
Google announced on Monday that it would be enacting a new privacy policy that, when customers agree to it, will allow the company to collect and store information across all of its services. Not only that, but Google will...
Tablet and e-reader ownership jumped 60 percent after holiday season
E-reader and tablet ownership nearly doubled over the 2011 holiday season, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. The percentage of people who reported owning a tablet jumped to 19 percent from December 2011 to J......
"Ultra" in name only: the failures of Intel’s Ultrabook rules
Ultrabooks were the fashionable product to launch at CES this year. But the new Ultrabooks, meant to be PC competitors to the MacBook Air, seemed suspiciously fat. And heavy. And lacking in solid-state drives. Despite...
XBox Live update produces color issues, poor video resolution
Microsoft's recent XBox Live update has led to washed-out colors and sub-1080p playback in certain videos, and the company plans to release a fix—but only for one of those problems. XBox Live liaison Major Nelson says a up...
