Search Engine ChaCha Embarrasses Android App Developer With Hate-Group-Approved Results
It’s only been four months since Iris, the leading imitator of Apple’s Siri, was released to the Android Market, and Dexetra, the app’s developer, has a lot to crow about. The company claims to serve up to a million answers every day, and the number only seems to be increasing. Fortunately, the fledgling company and […]
Honeywell Makes A Beeline To Stir Up Nest
Honeywell Corporation stings Nest Labs and Best Buy retailers this week with a surprise patent lawsuit over the Nest learning thermostat. Honeywell claims their patents were infringed related to “controlling a thermostat with information stored in a remote location,” “a thermostat’s inner design,” “simplified methods for operating and programming a thermostat including the use of […]
HP Releases Source Code For Android Fork They Denied Existed
Back in the heady yesterdays of the HP TouchPad firesale, people claimed they’d purchased units that were running a device-specific build of Google’s Android operating system. HP repeatedly denied such an OS existed. Until yesterday. Not only has HP fessed up, but they’ve also released the source code. In fact, they handed it directly to […]
Verizon And Redbox Announce Netflix Killer
The number one wireless provider in the U.S. has teamed up with the number one DVD-rental machine company to take down the company that defined DVD-rental by mail and has been defining video streaming. Unlike the other big announcement this week from Redbox’s parent company Coinstar, this might seem like an odd bit of synergy […]
Techcitement Review: Samsung Double Time, And Now For Something Completely Different
If you’ve noticed that modern smartphones are beginning to look strikingly similar, this new budget handset from Samsung will be a breath of fresh air. The Samsung Double Time is an AT&T branded device that earns its namesake from the use of dual displays. That is, instead of having the keyboard slide out like other […]
UPDATE! Create Your Own High-Resolution Monsters, Maladies, And More In Skyrim Today!
UPDATE: The Skyrim Creation Kit is now available! The special surprise? The Skyrim High-Resolution Texture Pack for all PC users! Even if you don’t want to create mods, you can still enjoy better graphics in your game. Both the Creation Kit and Texture Pack are available for free through Steam right now! Oh, and Skyrim is […]
Xbox 720 Rumors: Won’t Play Used Games
Rumors are circulating the internet, like they do, about the next-gen Xbox console lovingly but stupidly dubbed the “Xbox 720”. Among those rumors is talk about how much more powerful the game system will be. Of course, it’s going to be stronger than the Xbox 360, but “six times more powerful” is a pretty vague […]
Construction Worker Wants Dislike Button For Fake Facebook Stock
Marianne Oleson was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of theft and forgery for the sale of fake Facebook stock. The Oshkosh, WI resident conned four men out of thousands of dollars, including Randy Stafford, a construction worker who did concrete work on Oleson’s house worth $18,000. After she couldn’t pay for the work, Marianne told […]
Will Google Continue To “Do No Evil”?
Privacy. Perhaps the most central worry to putting our lives out on the internet, the issue of privacy within email, social networking, and search has been put on center stage once again with Google’s revision and unification of its myriad privacy policies across services. Google’s new privacy policy, which will apparently have the same user […]
Federal Facebook Filing Finds Financial Flexibility
The big social media news this week goes to Facebook. Officials from the world’s biggest social network released required financial documents Wednesday in preparation for the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in a few months, which will transition the company from a privately held firm to a publicly traded company. This is the first time […]