T-Mobile Cuts the Bull: No More Contracts and iPhone 5 Release Date!
You know it’s a huge shake-up when the CEO of a company starts cussing. Last Tuesday, T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere stood before a crowd of tech journalists in his bright magenta T-Mo shirt and slammed the wireless industry. Two year contracts? Ew. Confusing plans? Gross. AT&T? Old news. If you’ve purchased a smartphone in […]
New BlackBerry 10 Has Arrived, Z10 Available Through AT&T
The all new BB10 mobile operating system has officially arrived in the USA! The first device to showcase the new from-scratch OS is the Z10, a touchscreen slate smartphone similar to many popular choices like the iPhone 5, HTC One series, and Motorola’s Droid X line. AT&T released it last Friday for $199.99 with 2-year […]
Sim City: A Lesson in Failure (DRM Problems and Bad Reviews)
Note: this is not intended to be a comprehensive technical guide regarding DRM, nor is it a review of Sim City. I didn’t have a home computer in elementary school; they were just too expensive, and my parents feared I’d spend all my time on it. So while my friends were at home surfing the […]
The New BlackBerry Z10 Preparing to Invade America on March 22nd, Q10 to Follow
I have been known to proclaim BlackBerries as a dying breed, but when they unveiled the new Z10 and Q10 devices on my birthday, they really impressed me. I mean, I actually wanted to get one of these in my hands. That’s a huge accomplishment in itself! Bravo, Thor. Bravo. The new Z10 is already available in […]
Facebook News Feed Gets Facelift. Photos of Redesign and How to Join the Waitinglist
Facebook is getting a redesigned News Feed. Why, you might ask? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says their goal is to “make the world more open and connected.” Their idea is to make the user experience as streamlined as possible, by having the news feed function like a newspaper. Zuckerberg says there are three […]
31 Years Ago Today, the Computer Virus Was Born
Happy 31st birthday to me! No, really. I’m a human, and it’s my actual birthday. Thirty-one years ago today, I was unleashed unto this world. It wasn’t until a few days ago, however, that I learned I wasn’t the only demon spawned on January 30th, 1982. That same day, in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, […]
“Android, iPhone meet Ubuntu” or Why ‘Ubuntu’ Will Be a Household Name by the End of the Year.
Next week marks the beginning of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show or CES. It’s the time where electronics manufacturers get to tease their audiences with the products they expect to debut in the following year. We’ll see TV’s, tablets, smartphones and the like, but the dark horse may be from a product called “Ubuntu”. Linux […]
The End of Two Year Contracts! T-Mobile Goes to $30/mo Plan
Disruption is a powerful term in business. Microsoft disrupted the computing market when it introduced Windows, Apple disrupted the tablet computer market when it introduced the iPad and T-Mobile may have just disrupted the cell phone market by doing away with two year contracts and removing subsidized pricing from it devices.
Apple introduces the SSD/HD “Fusion Drive”
With the introduction of a slew of new products, one element that may get lost in the shuffle is Apple’s new Fusion Drive. Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has popularized the notion of a solid-state and spinning hard disc hybrid drives, however they have failed to take off in the larger consumer market. Typically used in […]
Apple Announcements: iPad Mini, iPad 4, 13″ MacBook Pro w/ Retina and new iMac
Apple Announcement Rundown iPad Just a few months after releasing “The New iPad” (iPad 3), Apple has announced the new, New iPad. This fourth generation iPad sports a dual core A6X processor with quad-core graphic capabilities and introduces the iPhone 5’s Lightning connector. Pricing remains the same, starting at $499 and will hit stores in […]