A full 32 percent of streaming Netflix users—almost one in three—are mulling downgrading their cable or satellite TV service or cutting the cord altogether, according to a recent survey. Are you one of them? The new figures come courtesy of The Diffusion Group, which...
Now, hold on just a minute … didn’t we just get the iPad 2 just a few months ago? Well, yes, but that hasn’t stopped rumormongers from whispering that the iPad 3—complete with a sharper “retina” display—could arrive as early as this fall....
So says a recent report by the National Resources Defense Council, which found that pay-TV set-top boxes and digital-video recorders are costing U.S. consumers about $3 billion a year in energy bills. Why are DVRs and cable boxes so power hungry? Because most of them...
More chatter about new, probably LCD-screened tablet said to be on tap from Amazon, with researchers at Detwiler Fenton claiming that the color Kindle (or whatever the whispered-about tablet ends up being called) will stream movies from Amazon’s Instant Video...
Want to scour the web for a word or phrase without having to bother with the keyboard? Starting soon, you’ll be able to just say your search query into your PC’s microphone, and Google will take care of the rest. Also on tap: the ability to search on an...
Is your four-digit PIN for unlocking your iPhone “1234,” or “0000”? How about “2580,” “1111,” “5555,” or “5683”? If it happens to match any of those codes—or any of the other top-10 iPhone PINs,...
A recent report claims that Facebook—while still seeing meteoric growth worldwide—managed to lose about 6 million “active” U.S. users in May. That would represent Facebook’s first stateside user slump in a year. So, has the U.S. finally had enough of...
Mark writes: My HTC Evo 4G from Sprint has the worst battery life that I ever experienced from a smart phone. I have to manually stop running programs and applications in my application settings to conserve battery life. How can I further extend my phone’s...
Thousands of Netflix subscribers howled in protest last week after a controversial site redesign left movie lovers without the ability to sort streaming “watch instantly” movies by year, MPAA rating, or star rating. But a simple tweak to the Netflix URL...
The Apple rumor du jour has it that the U.S. will finally be getting an unlocked version of the iPhone 4 later this week. Before I launch into the details, though, you might be wondering: what is an “unlocked” phone, anyway? Update: Apple confirmed its...
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