Month: April 2014

Breather makes finding a quiet place to work in Manhattan or Montreal as easy as ordering a car on Uber or a vacation rental on Airbnb. Read the original post by Caitlin McGarry

As one of its daily deals, A4C offers the refurbished Apple iPad 2 16GB WiFi Tablet in Black, model no. MC769LL/A, or White, model no. MC979LL/A, for $219.95 with free shipping. (NextWorth via Amazon charges the same for the white model.) That’s $10 under our mention from two weeks ago […] Read the original post…

The Uncarrier is striking again with a new bottom-tier plan: T-Mobile’s new Simple Starter plan starts at just $40 a month. For that rate, customers will get unlimited talk and text, plus 500MB of LTE data. The plans are set to be available starting on April 12, and customers will […] Read the original post…

My Blue(tooth) heaven Just when you think we’ve shown you every possible Bluetooth-enabled iOS accessory in existence, we’ve found even more. And chargers and lenses and filters, oh, my. Adorama The $70 Prong PocketPlug Charger + Case for iPhone 5/5s (pictured) is an iPhone case with an integrated plug that lets you recharge […] Read…

EFX Digital via eBay offers the refurbished Apple MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz 13.3″ LED-Backlit Widescreen Notebook, model no. MC207LL/A, for $339.99 with free shipping. That’s $89 below yesterday’s mention of a used model and the lowest price we’ve seen for this MacBook. (It’s also $360 less than the […] Read the original post…

Adobe Systems addressed two remote code execution flaws, including one demonstrated at the Pwn2Own hacking competition last month. Read the original post by Lucian Constantin

As one of its daily deals, Best Buy offers the Insignia 28″ 720p LED-Backlit HD Television / DVD Combo, model no. NS-28ED200NA14, for $169.99 with free shipping. That’s $10 under our February mention and the best price we’ve seen for this combo. It features a 1366×768 native resolution, edge-lit LED […] Read the original post…

Every day dozens and dozens of new and updated apps and games hit the iOS and Mac App Stores. It’s impossible to keep up with them all, but it’s not impossible to pick out the very best. Today we’ve got updates to Microsoft Office on the iPhone, a popular gaming […] Read the original post…

With a goal to overhaul the online payments industry and a new revolving credit facility worth $200 million, analysts and technology pundits are wondering where Square is headed next. At least one theory proposed by Re/Code explores the possibility of an Apple acquisition. Both Apple and […] Read the original post by Kelly Hodgkins

In this week’s look at the doings surrounding Apple and its environs we address a number of burning issues of the day, starting with the allegedly smoldering tempers of some Apple executives. Specifically, we pay one-of-many-visits-to-come to the most recent Apple/Samsung legal wrangle, discuss Amazon’s Fire TV and what it […] Read the original post…

TinyCo’s Family Guy game for mobile devices official release date isn’t until April 10, but some savoy mobile gamers were able to download it a few day early from the New Zealand App Store. According to TouchArcade, this was a legit download, and no one used any tricks or […] Read the original post by…

Apple needs another iPhone-class product or they’re doomed. We heard it right after the iPhone was released. We heard it right after the iPad was released. We’re hearing it now. From shoddy journalists to market mad-people it’s the single most consistent, most bullshit Apple narrative of the last half-decade. What […] Read the original post…

Apple needs another iPhone-class product or they’re doomed. We heard it right after the iPhone was released. We heard it right after the iPad was released. We’re hearing it now. From shoddy journalists to market mad-people it’s the single most consistent, most bullshit Apple narrative of the last half-decade. What […] Read the original post…

NEW YORK — A boom in leveraged loans issued by large and regional banks, or low-rated debt used to finance private-equity buyouts, is drawing alarming comparisons to the subprime mortgage boom in 2006 and 2007. Read the original post by TheStreet.com

MediaFire cuts 50% off select cloud storage plans. 10GB storage plans remain free, but they’ve lowered the price of monthly storage plans to $2.49 per month for 1TB (a $3 drop) and $24.99 per month for 100TB (a $25 drop). That puts the 1TB plan at $8 under Google Drive’s […] Read the original post…