As someone who spends lots of time thinking about the future of music as an app phenomenon, it might surprise you that I do a lot of my listening on vinyl records. I'm not alone - reports abound of vinyl's surging sales numbers over the past five or so years. Though they make up a tiny per... Read more...
Companies like Google are developing head-up displays for the consumer market (Credit Sellingpix | Dreamstime.com)Mobile World Congress 2012 wrapped up today in Barcelona, Spain and from the looks of it, the latest crop of mobile devices failed to impress with their homogeneous displays, process... Read more...
Have you seen those barcode-looking things recently but haven’t got the slightest what they’re for? After this post, you’ll see how they might just end up making your life a little bit easier one day! Many of you reading this have undoubtedly seen a QR (Quick Response) code by now (the thing ... Read more...
Texting and driving don't go well together – though not in the way you might think. Computer hackers can force some cars to unlock their doors and start their engines without a key by sending specially crafted messages to a car's anti-theft system. They can also snoop at where you've been b... Read more...
The feds will mandate next month that all new cars be fitted with a black box, according to news reports. So-called black boxes record information about speed, seat belt use and brake application. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been involved in the use of black boxes s... Read more...
The wildly popular Apple iPhone tracks wherever you go, recording location data and saving it to a secret file that tech-minded sleuths could easily access, the Guardian of London reports. The file stores timestamped latitudes and longitudes, and is synchronized to a user's computer when t... Read more...
Priceline founder Jay Walker’s technology company, Walker Digital, filed fifteen lawsuits against more than 100 companies on April 11. Many of the suits are likely to bring to mind the lawsuits filed by Microsoft’s Paul Allen over methods of content aggregation and recommendation. However, W... Read more...
Nextel lives! The Motorola i1 is the first Android smartphone for Nextel and SouthernLINC's iDEN networks, and it's Nextel through and through, down ito its rugged body and super-loud speakerphone. More than 24 million people in 24 countries around the world still use iDEN, so Motorola – the on... Read more...
Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tuesday, melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz. Buzz, which will work through the popular Gmail service, will allow users to post status updates, photos and links to members of their network -- as well as pull ... Read more...