Got tunes on your phone? Sure you do. But what if you could stream your entire music library—and I’m talking all your music, not just the cross section of tracks that fit in your phone’s meager memory—on your handset, anytime and anywhere? (Well, anywhere...
Just a few months ago, I was marvelling at how sales of Kindle books had managed to outpace those of paperback—all paperbacks, mind you, not only those available as Kindle editions—on Amazon. But while Kindle books had also been outselling hardbacks since last summer,...
Just a few days after Sony jump-started the hacker-plagued PlayStation Network comes word of another potential vulnerability, although it doesn’t appear that any additional PSN account info has been stolen (or at least, not yet). The deal, according to...
The successor to last year’s red-hot Motorola Droid X is set to arrive with a dual-core processor and a sharper display, but those hoping for a dose of speedy LTE data access should prepare for disappointment. Slated to land in Verizon Wireless’ smartphone...
It wasn’t all that long ago that Sprint was in the doghouse as far as the American Customer Satisfaction Index was concerned. What a difference a scant three years makes, with Sprint scoring a 72 out of 100 on the annual ACSI survey, up a eye-popping 16 points...
Turns out that the “vast majority” of Android smartphones are doing a lousy job when it comes to protecting the digital “token” that grants users access to calendars, contacts, and other Google-hosted services—or so says a team of wireless...
The long-awaited PlayStation phone—well, close enough, anyway—just got a U.S. release date, with Verizon Wireless announcing Tuesday that the gamepad-toting, Android-powered slider phone will arrive in stores on May 26, for $199 with a two-year service agreement....
From the makers of the notorious-but-groundbreaking “Grand Theft Auto” series comes “L.A. Noire,” a Dashiell Hammett-style whodunit set in the City of Angels and starring the motion-captured likeness of Aaron Staton, better known as Ken...
So says the Boy Genius Report, which claims that dual-core and quad-core (yep, quad-core) slates powered by Nvidia chipsets might be on tap before the year is out. Interesting … and totally unconfirmed. Then again (and as Boy Genius points out), it’s not...
Nearly a month after being brought to its knees by hackers, Sony’s beleaguered PlayStation Network finally clawed its way back to life over the weekend, although it’s still not quite feeling like its old self. In a video posted Saturday on the PlayStation...
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