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...
Wish you could send that cute picture of your kids at the beach to your friends back home … but maybe in more of a classic, old-school way than as a picture message? Enter Postagram, an iPhone and (as of today) Android app that plucks snapshots from your...
Remember Palm? The legendary mobile company built one of the original, pre-iPhone smartphones, the Treo, and made some serious waves a couple years back with its gorgeous but slow-selling Palm Pre. Well, Palm is no more—it got gobbled up by Hewlett-Packard last...
Netflix unveiled a dramatically revamped home page Wednesday that “provides more focus” on its streaming movies and TV shows—and it looks like this latest site makeover is about as popular as the others (which is to say, not very). The redesign, which...
Turns out that a full 82 percent of gamers are adults, according to a new survey from the gaming industry (which, of course, has a vested interest in promoting video game sales). Among the other findings from the Entertainment Software Association’s survey: the...
Remember how hard it was to track down a spare Nintendo Wii gaming console just a few short years ago? Well, guess what: there’s a new Wii on the horizon, and your kids will almost certainly be desperate to get their hands on one. That’s the bad news—or at...
Have any trouble making Skype calls this morning? If so, you weren’t alone, with Engadget reporting that Skype users from the U.K. to Australia had trouble logging into their Skype accounts early Tuesday. The good news is that Skype appeared to be back up for...
Beyond the obvious question of, you know, why he was sending pictures of himself in skivvies to women who weren’t his wife, the sad, sordid saga of (still) New York Congressman Anthony Weiner raises another nagging issue: how did the wayward lawmaker manage to...
Sorry, folks: Apple didn’t have any new iPhones to show off at its big software event Monday. That said, the software that powers the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch is due for a major overhaul, including a new feature that makes it easier to use an iPhone without...
We’ve been hearing chatter for weeks about Apple’s plans for the “cloud,” and now we finally have the official details. So, what is “iCloud,” exactly—what will it do, when will it arrive, and more importantly, how much will it cost?...
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