Siri Finds Your Face wi...

One of Siri ‘s best features is the ability to “raise to speak,” which activates the voice-commanded personal assistant when the phone is raised to your face. But how does Siri know when the iPhone 4S is close to your face? iFixit decided to answer that question and...
Read More
10 Tips and Tricks for Better Google+ Brand Pages

10 Tips and Tricks for ...

1. Access Your Brand Page Once you’ve set up your brand page, you access it through your personal Google+ profile. On your home page below your name and avatar pic is a drop down menu. Open this menu to see your page, click on it to access it. Click here to view this gallery. Using...
Read More

Up Close With Nest: The...

Nest Thermostat Box Probably some of the nicest-looking thermostat packaging you’ll ever see. Click here to view this gallery. Nest is just a thermostat — a wall-bound device capable of helping you manage the climate in your home. That’s it. It doesn’t travel with...
Read More

Nintendo May Enable Two...

One of the big disappointments at E3 was the news that Nintendo’s weird new console, the Wii U , would only support one of their tablet controllers at once. But recent losses have made them reconsider their situation and the opportunities presented by allowing a second controller...
Read More

Griffin’s Beacon Lets...

A handful of new Android tablets can take control of your television thanks to their built-in IR blasters, but Griffin has just come through with a solution for those of you stuck with less versatile hardware. Enter the Beacon, a standalone IR transmitter that helps turn your Android...
Read More

Schmidt: Motorola Mobil...

Eric Schmidt is continuing his Asian tour, speaking today in South Korea. Two sensitive topics came up: first, the question of whether Motorola Mobility would be getting special treatment if and when the deal closes. His response, as reported by Reuters : “we will run it...
Read More

Twitter Rolling Out Act...

Twitter has begun the rollout, or at least a significant spot test, of the Activity and @USERNAME streams it announced in mid-August. The @USERNAME stream replaces the @Mentions and Retweets streams, combining those with stories about new followers, people favoriting your tweets, and...
Read More

PayPal Updates Its Andr...

PayPal updated its Android application today and has added one notable new feature: support for NFC payments. Using NFC, or near field communication, two PayPal users with NFC-enabled phones can send and receive money using the mobile app. The feature, which was previously announced...
Read More

Scanadu Raises $2M: “...

Meet Scanadu , an innovative health tech startup I daresay you’ll be hearing a lot more from in the future. It’s not the easiest of tasks explaining what the company is building at this point, but let’s call it a personal, mobile, auto-diagnostics product – they...
Read More

Republic Wireless Offic...

Over the last week I’ve been following the emergence of a previously-stealthy mobile carrier called  Republic Wireless very closely. The story so far: Bandwidth.com, which provides the VoIP backbone for services including Google Voice and Twilio, is launching an alternative mobile...
Read More

« Previous Entries Next Entries »