Meet The New Spray-On Battery That Comes In A Can
Scientific American reports that a team of scientists from Rice University in Houston and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium have been working on a…
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Toshiba Hit With $87 Million Fine Over LCD Price Fixing Scandal
A Northern California jury on Tuesday found Toshiba guilty of conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal displays. Customers brought a civil lawsuit against the…
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Bill Gates To PC Makers: Don't Be Mad About Surface
Microsoft may be going it alone in making its first tablet but company chairman and founder Bill Gates says that Windows PC original equipment manufacturers…
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Tablets Are (Slowly) Taking Over For Paper Books And Magazines, Gartner Finds
Paper-based books aren't in any danger of becoming vinyl record-style novelties anytime soon, but Gartner says that they're increasingly being read less frequently in favor…
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Apple Stock Hits $600 For First Time Since April
Shares of Apple's stock hit the $600-mark on Tuesday for the first time since April 27th. The company's stock price sky-rocketed earlier this year after Apple…
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Google+ Is An Uninviting Digital Man Cave, Say Female Technologists
Google+ was apparently designed by guys who have never lived with a woman. Or, at least that's the impression that five female technologists gave during…
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How A Century Of Telephone Expertise Doomed Ericsson
The mobile phone industry is used to vendors flaming out, sometimes just a couple of years after companies peak. Yet few handset companies have self-destructed…
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Apple's 'iPad Mini' To Launch Soon For $249-$299, Report Claims
Apple's "iPad mini," a smaller version of the company's popular iPad tablet, will soon launch at a price point that may send shockwaves through the…
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Google Joins Samsung In Patent Dispute With Apple
A new player has entered into what seems like a never-ending patent war between Samsung and Apple. After the United States District Court for Northern California…
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Mozilla's HTML5-Based Firefox OS Coming In Early 2013
Mozilla on Monday revealed that its Boot to Gecko mobile platform has been rebranded as Firefox OS. The HTML5-based OS will power smartphones built to…
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Apple Testing New Genius Bar Setup To Boost Capacity
The next time Apple fans head to their local stores for a Genius Bar consultation, they might notice some slight changes. ifoApplestore writes that Apple stores are…
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And The World's Most Popular Browser Is... Who Knows?
Computer World's Gregg Keizer writes that two firms have put out two wildly different sets of numbers for which browsers were the most used in…
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Siri Still Can't Match Old-Fashioned Google Search, Analyst Says
Fortune reports that Piper Jaffray has conducted a little study comparing Siri and Google in terms of both query comprehension and response accuracy, and has not surprisingly…
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HP Ditches Windows RT Tablet Plans, Microsoft Surface To Blame
Hewlett-Packard originally planned to release a Windows RT-powered tablet later this year. Due to Microsoft's recent Surface announcement and the high cost of licenses, however, the…
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Apple Wins Injunction On U.S. Galaxy Nexus Sales
Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction banning sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the United States. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh…
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South Carolina Clamps Down On Municipal Wi-Fi Menace
Ars Technica has a steller report on the South Carolina state legislature's recent passage of a bill that "effectively makes it difficult, if not impossible" for…
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NPD: Ultrabooks Are Saving The High-End Notebook Market
For people who want super-thin computers and who don't feel like paying more than $2,000 for a Retina MacBook Pro, ultrabooks are a blessing. And…
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Adobe Won't Support Flash In Jelly Bean, Installs End On August 15th
The late Steve Jobs famously predicted the death of Flash more than five years ago, and barred it from the company's iPhone and iPad. One…
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Chrome For iOS Hits No.1 In Apple's App Store
Google's Chrome browser quickly became one of the most popular desktop Web browsers in the world, and now Google has its sites set on mobile.…
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Microsoft To Launch 'Xbox Music' Spotify-Like Streaming Service This Year
Microsoft is reportedly working on a new streaming music service that will tie in to its Xbox suite of gaming and entertainment services. Bloomberg on…
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Google Chrome Coming To iPhone, iPad
Just one day after releasing the final version of Google Chrome for Android, Google announced that it is releasing Google Chrome for iOS on Thursday…
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Google Teases More Details About Its Glass Project
Google Glass, Google's tantalizing glasses headset that projects images and data directly onto users' eyes, got its own segment at Google I/O Wednesday even though…
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Google Chrome For Android Hands-On: Asses Kicked, Names Taken
Google has effectively ended the debate over which mobile browser Android fans should use on their smartphones and tablets — the answer is Chrome. And…
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Sprint's LTE Network To Go Live In Five Cities July 15
Sprint has been selling 4G LTE smartphones for weeks now and soon it will finally have LTE services to go with them. The company on…
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Nexus Q: Social Streaming Media Player Announced [Video]
During its annual I/O Developer Conference on Wednesday, Google announced the Nexus Q. The device is labeled as a "social streaming media player" that can stream entertainment…
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Google Announces Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Google showed off some killer new features for its Android operating system at Google I/O on Wednesday with its rollout of Android 4.1 ("Jellybean"). The…
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iOS Users More Loyal To Apps Than Android
Good news has come to light for app developers: according to a recent study from Localytics, app retention rates are improving, increasing 19% over the…
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