Picture this: You’ve just ordered a tasty “$5 Footlong” at Subway and it’s time to pay up. But instead of pulling out your wallet or fishing around for the debit card floating around in your purse, you simply whip out your smartphone, type in a...
Were you one of the 77 million PlayStation Network or Qriosity subscribers who had their data stolen in last month’s massive PSN hack attack? If so, get thee to this webpage, where Sony is doling out codes for a free year of identity theft protection. Your free...
“This time, we’re ready,” pledges the Amazon MP3 Twitter feed—and so far, so good, with the “Born This Way” customer reviews page more or less focusing on the music rather than any frustrating server snafus. The 99-cent deal is for today...
A tablet with a stylus? How … well, 2005, right? Maybe so, but the stylus that comes with the HTC Flyer packs in a few unexpected delights. The seven-inch, Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”-powered Flyer ($499, available now from Best Buy) will work perfectly fine...
The invitation for a joint Sprint/Moto press event in New York just popped into my inbox, and all we know for sure is that the CEOs of Sprint and Motorola Mobility (Dan Hesse and Sanjay Jha) will be on-hand to show off the “latest collaborations” of the...
Barnes & Noble managed to make the Kindle look old hat Tuesday morning with its new, drool-worthy touchscreen Nook e-reader. By Tuesday night, however, Amazon had an answer: an ad-supported “with Special Offers” version of its 3G-enabled Kindle for...
Attention, Mac users: Have you recently installed an anti-virus app called Mac Defender—or alternately, Mac Protector, or Mac Security? If so, you’ll want to scrub it off your system, pronto. Apple warned Tuesday that the program is a so-called “Trojan...
Windows Phone users will gain the ability to quickly switch between running apps, chat with a group of friends simultaneously, and surf the web at “blazingly fast” speeds once a “major” update for Microsoft’s revamped smartphone platform...
Calling it the “simple touch reader,” Barnes & Noble showed off the latest version of its Nook e-reader in New York on Monday—a smaller, lighter, and touchscreen-packing competitor to Amazon’s ever-popular Kindle. Slated to ship next month for...
That’s an unofficial number, mind you (Apple is only saying “over 350,000” for now), but still—impressive. Nipping at the Apple’s heels: Google’s Android Market, which in March had an estimated 250,000 apps and (rapidly) climbing. Source:...
