Month: December 2013

The Hybrid may be the perfect multi-touch pen tablet, despite its bulk. But if you rely on smaller gadgets for the road, you may be disappointed. Read the original post by Serenity Caldwell

Shimizu’s Luna Ring proposes an an array of solar cells around the moon’s equator to harvest solar energy and beam it back to Earth A Japanese firm has come up with the idea of constructing an array of solar cells around the Moon’s equator to harvest solar energy and beam […] Read the original post…

IBM reported that consumers are using mobile devices more than ever for holiday shopping, with mobile traffic up 62 percent over last year. Read the original post by Gautam

Like your portable drives with a splash of color? Check out the USB 3.0 bus-powered SSD2go from Angelbird. Angelbird’s online store lets you choose between eight different colors for its case and a second of those colors for its backplate. The thin, 0.4 inches thick, SSD2go is similar in size […] Read the original post…

Amazon offers the SanDisk ReadyCache 32GB 2.5″ Serial ATA 6Gb/s Internal SSD, model no. SDSSDRC-032G-G26, for $29.99 with free shipping ($0.94/GB). That’s $10 under our March mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s a current price low by $7.) It features read times of up to 450MB/s, and […] Read the original post…

When I began this column a little more than a year ago, content-rich multimedia apps, designed primarily for the iPad, seemed like an increasingly innovative section of mobile app stores. Some iOS developers were coming up with new ways to present plays, books, photos, artwork, music, magazine content, and other […] Read the original post…

Shazam has been updated, adding Rdio support and other improvements. Connect Shazam with Rdio to listen to tracks on Rdio, and create a playlist out of the music you discover. Just tap Listen on Rdio to start. Other, smaller improvements have also been made with this release. Sharing tags with email […] Read the original…

Newegg offers the Rosewill 74-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5″ Internal Card Reader, model no. RCR-IC002, for $4.99 with free shipping. That’s $10 off, tied with our mention from a year ago, and tied as the lowest total price we’ve seen for a 74-in-1 3.5″ internal card reader. (It’s also a current […] Read the original post…

The Mac App Store offers downloads PrivacyScan for Mac for $1.99. That’s the lowest price we could find by $13. Read the original post by dealmac – Today’s Edition

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp will hire at least 10,000 people in the United States over the next three years, the IT services firm’s president, Gordon Coburn, said. Read the original post by Reuters

Information technology and consulting services provider Wipro proved Monday the mortgage industry consolidation trend is not going away by announcing a $75 million agreement to acquire due diligence and risk management provider Opus CMC . Read the original post by Housing Wire

Those conscious in an age when we carried around bandoliers of gadgets rather than a single device to text, surf the web, make and receive calls, take pictures, and shoot videos may recall Cisco’s Flip video pocket camcorders. Small, affordable, and—in later models—capable of shooting HD footage, Flip cameras were […] Read the original post…