Poor Google Wallet, hacked twice in 48 hours. Bad enough that Google has had difficulty getting the payment service approved by Verizon for its flagship Galaxy Nexus. Now, just as people are figuring out simple ways to get Wallet on their phones, a new scandal rocks the nascent world of Android mobile payments. Wednesday evening, […]
Samsung has gotten a lot of attention this year for its iPad challenger, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, but a lot of people forget about the company’s first foray into the Android tablet world, the simple Galaxy Tab. With a 7 inch screen and running Android 2.2 (Froyo) and carrying the Android Market, the original Tab […]
The high-end tablet market is mainly dominated by players we’re familiar with from the mobile industry. Apple, Motorola, HTC, Samsung, RIM, they’ve all made smartphones for years. Moving to tablets basically meant putting the same components those companies are familiar with into a larger case. By contrast, PC manufacturers haven’t had any noted success in […]
The last few weeks have seen tremendous outrage among consumers against a piece of smartphone software known as Carrier IQ. In all fairness, the reports sound like it does some pretty terrifying stuff, logging virtually everything you do on your smartphone, without your permission or even knowledge of its presence. It doesn’t sound like avoiding […]
Blackberry maker RIM has had a rough year with an evaporating market share, a plummeting stock price, the failure of their first tablet, and a nearly unending stream of media criticism. Blackberry fans have been holding out hope that Blackberry OS 7 will tide them over until the first BBX phones arrive next year, but […]
We’ve seen some impressive price drops on tablets this year. I’m not just talking about the explosive launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, $300 cheaper than the industry-leading iPad. Some of the biggest splashes have been made by tablets that foolishly set their retail prices in iPad territory, when they didn’t have the hardware, software, or […]
Using a fingerprint scanner for your computer feels like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the premise behind it is fairly straightforward. To keep you from having to remember an endless series of unique, strong passwords, you can store all your login information locked away and accessible only through your fingerprint. Nothing to remember, […]
The Samsung Stratosphere brings a combination of features to the table that I’ve been waiting to see all year. All I’ve been hoping for by the time my upgrade rolls around are the blazing fast LTE speeds on Verizon combined with a decent hardware keyboard like the one I remember so fondly from my Blackberry […]
Google has a history of leaving projects in beta testing for absurd lengths of time (Gmail lasted five years with a beta tag). So, when Google launched its long-awaited music service this summer under a beta tag, with the proviso that it was “free, for now” there was some concern about whether users could really […]
Amazon’s highly anticipated Kindle Fire begins shipping this week, and that means discussion in the tech world can turn to only one thing: comic books. Fine, maybe not just one thing, but Amazon has already dramatically changed the landscape of the comic book industry without even shipping its outrageously low-priced tablet. The Fire was announced […]
