Month: February 2013

Official movie tie-in apps are a dime-a-dozen these days, with every film studio looking to every avenue possible to promote their multi-million-dollar blockbusters. The latest is for the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness, which while not due in theaters until May of this year, has launched an app that attempts […] Read the original post…

Gartner’s Carolina Milanesi likes a lot about the BlackBerry 10 platform, “but no one ever bought RIM for the sexiness of the handsets.” Read the original post by Tris Hussey

Great companies evolve. In 2007, Apple redefined the smartphone with the release of the iPhone. Read the original post by Gizmag

Mobile Monitor Technologies’ Monitor2Go is an external display designed with the iPad in mind. Its physical design is much like a laptop; it has two parts attached by a hinge, with the external display on one side, and an iPad docking space on the other. You slip the iPad into […] Read the original post…

I was standing at the Gigsky booth on the floor at Macworld/iWorld when a middle-aged man walked up and told a plaintive tale: He’d flown to Japan, turned on his phone quickly to check his mail—and got hit with a $50 roaming charge for the split-second decision. The story brought a […] Read the original…

A court has rejected Oracle’s appeal of a judge’s ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle’s decision to stop porting its software to HP’s Itanium server platform. Read the original post by CIO

CowBoom offers the used 3rd-generation Apple iPad 16GB WiFi 9.7″ Tablet in Black, model no. MC705LL/A, for $369.99. Coupon code “iPad330″ cuts it to $339.99. With free shipping. That’s the lowest total price we’ve ever seen for an iPad with Retina display. (Apple charges $40 more for a refurb.) Sales […] Read the original post…

I got a sneak peek of the Cisco Nexus 6000 switch series at Cisco Live. It’s packed with 40GbE ports, multicast support and solid core Ethernet capabilities that will translate into speed, simplicity and scale. The Nexus 6000 means Cisco finally “gets” cloud networking. Read the original post by Greg Ferro

BuyDig via eBay offers the Samsung 500GB 840 Series Serial ATA 6Gb/s 2.5″ Internal SSD, model no. MZ-7TD500KW, for $299.99 with free shipping. That’s $20 under our mention from last week and the lowest total price we could find by $19. It features read speeds of up to 540MB/s and […] Read the original post…

Best Buy offers the 3.57-lb. Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display Core i5 Dual 2.5GHz 13″ Widescreen Notebook, model no. MD213LL/A, for $1,799.99. Choose in-store pickup and grab it by February 2 for a free $20 Best Buy credit usable on your next online or in-store purchase. Including the credit, […] Read the original post…

Path was quick to mend its ways after a dust-up over collecting contact information from iOS users without their consent, but it wasn’t quick enough to avoid FTC claims of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Read the original post by Engadget

Today kicks off the very first day of Mobile Nations Fitness February. When we think fitness we typically think of eating better being one of the very first steps to a healthier lifestyle. There are many apps in the App Store that provide nutrition information about the foods you eat, […] Read the original post…

If you’re outdoors with your iPhone, a gorgeous bright, sunny day can turn into a trying challenge if you want to shoot photos or video. Often the sun is not only in your eyes, but worse, obscures your view of the screen. A washed-out view is no fun, but Sig […] Read the original post…