Aereo is a New York based startup that allows people to pay for their service and then receive clear streams of live broadcast television stations on their smart phone, tablet, computer or other connected device and record them. The company has been fighting lawsuits tooth and nail against the major networks, and for the most [...]
IDC released their Android vs Apple numbers at the end of October. It's no surprise that Android has surpassed iOS as an operating system for smartphones. BGR and several other sites report that the latest IDC number show that Android revenue from sales of tablets has finally beat the iPad. Now that fact may be [...]
If you're like me ThinkGeek is one of the first places you go to create a holiday gift list for yourself and find those one of a kind gifts for the nerd or geek on your list. Whether you're into old school retro gaming, Doctor Who, Star Trek, cool t-shirts or the latest gadgetry ThinkGeek [...]
While Sony was celebrating their sale of 1 million PlayStation 4 units on launch day, there were several customers that weren't as happy. As early as Saturday morning reports started surfacing that Sony had shipped a number of bricked PlayStation 4 consoles. Meaning that customers took their PlayStation 4 out of the box whether it [...]
Numerous outlets reported Sunday that Apple has acquired Israeli tech company PrimeSense for $345 million. Steven Scheer, a Jerusalem based reporter for Reuters reported that this was Apple's second Israeli startup acquisition, with Anobit being it's first. Many hard core tech enthusiasts and gamers know that PrimeSense is the company behind the 3d technology found [...]
Microsoft has announced that they will officially end support of Windows Server 2003 (WS 2003) in July of 2015. However, Network Admins needn't worry, today, Microsoft announced its collaboration with AppZero - the makers of powerful application migration software - in which AppZero is the recommended migration software provider.
After five years of writing and reporting about Android some consider me an authority on platform debate. While I've never (and I'll repeat this again), in 35+ years I've never owned a PC (only Apple) I was quite the Android and Google loyalist for a long while. In fact there are some Google products that [...]
Since taking over as CEO of yahoo in July of 2012 Marissa Mayer has been turning heads in the tech community. She's re-focused Yahoo by bringing the site back to what it was known for, streamlining some operations and making bets on startups. Mayer stunned the tech community when she announced that she was pregnant [...]
The United States, and to a degree Canada, are the only countries in the world that offer outrageous phone subsidies to stay with a certain cell phone carrier. Overseas things are done a lot differently. In Europe, Asia, and even the Middle East you buy your cell phone, or smartphone, from a phone retailer not [...]
Just last week we reported that Facebook was opening up a satellite engineering office at the Cambridge Innovation Center building in Kendall Square. The Cambridge Innovation Center serves as part incubator, part co-working space, part educational space, part startup space and part accelerator. Twitter has now also taken up residency at a similar space in [...]
