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Horizon Keeps iPhone Video Shooting on the Level

Even if you've never been guilty of sharing one of those annoying vertical videos, you may have run into a situation where you've been filming and moving around at the same time -- and because you were scrambling over a rock or playfully wrestling while recording, your fun little video perspective s...

HOT TECH RUMOR

Microsoft May Breathe New Life Into Halo’s Cortana AI

The hottest rumor for Microsoft Xbox Halo fans has taken on a life of its own: The voice and text-based virtual assistant service -- code-named "Cortana" and planned for release with Windows Phone 8.1 -- actually might be created with the real-life voice behind Cortana, Jen Taylor. While there is no...

OPINION

The App Store and Children, or Tim Cook’s Latest Crock of Bull

I was pleased last year when Apple finally took a proactive stance and reached out to 28 million App Store customers who might have been bamboozled by shady in-app purchases in games designed to take advantage of children. However, even that action had dubious beginnings stemming from a class action...

CROWDFUNDING SPOTLIGHT

InAiR Gives TV a Breath of Fresh AR

Forget second-screen TV viewing with a tablet or smartphone -- so-called second screens are a kludgy, old-school method of extending a show. What's new? SeeSpace InAiR: The World's 1st Augmented Television. SeeSpace InAiR is a Kickstarter project that intercepts your TV content stream, analyzes it, ...

HOT TECH RUMOR

All Rumors ‘Go’ for the Widely Anticipated ‘iPad Pro’

Rumors of a super-duper, amped-up, big-screen "iPad Pro" have been floating around at least as early as this summer, and that's before Apple surprised the tech community with its 64-bit A7 processors in September. Overall, most of the rumors seem to surround speculative predictions, where a financia...

OPINION

Amid Shrinking Market Share, Apple’s 2014 Challenges Loom Large

In my mind, 2014 is shaping up to be Apple's wildest year in the post-Jobs era. Last year, we saw a lot of incremental innovations from Apple but no thunderous new products. Sure, the new Mac Pro is insanely small, quiet and super sexy -- not to mention manufactured in America, which is no small fea...

BOOK REVIEW

Video Game Guide a Sturdy Handbook for the Pragmatic Parent

Scott Steinberg is up to something important: He's trying to break down the walls raised by technology that have sprung up between children and their sometimes hapless parents. More importantly, he seems to trying to build a set of books and resources that will not only help parents understand the i...

WEB SITE REVIEW

Clicker Cuts Through Web Video Chaos

Let's put this simply: If you want to stream free, professional videos online, Clicker makes finding the video easier than most other solutions I've seen. In fact, it's one of the few online television and video search guides that I've felt compelled to create an account with. Why? Easy. It targets ...

Samsung Crams SLR Soul Into Little Camera Body

Getting a head start on the PMA '09 photography conference, which officially kicks off in Las Vegas Tuesday, Samsung has announced a new so-called hybrid digital camera. The new camera, the NX Series, is designed to provide the photo quality of large pro and prosumer DSLR cameras in the body of a sm...

Marvell Offers Mini Plug Computer for Consumer, Network, Appliance Designs

Marvell has created a new Plug Computing initiative to help developers build high-performance, always-on, always-connected and environmentally friendly little computer devices that plug into electrical wall sockets and act like embedded or appliance computers in the home. The little plug-in computer...

Microsoft Jumps Into Mobile Mall Melee

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the opportunity at the Mobile World Congress to announce three new ventures the company will take in the smartphone space. Microsoft will offer a new, upgraded Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, a new Windows Mobile application store, and a Web-based service for ac...

Big Search Sites Push Canonical Tag to Sweep Up Link Clutter

Search engine giants Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all announced on their respective official search engine blogs that they would begin utilizing a new so-called canonical tag that will help their search engines cut through the clutter of the Web. More specifically, the announcements are a signal to ...

Google Sync Puts User Info on the Same Page

Google has announced a new beta version of Google Sync that lets iPhone and Windows Mobile users synchronize their Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events with the Web, PCs, Macs and, of course, their mobile phones. The key innovation with the new Google Sync is that it will let users transfer dat...

Did LG Enter the Right Arena?

LG Electronics has released some teaser information about its upcoming LG Arena, model LG-KM900, a touchscreen multimedia phone with a 3-D user interface. It will be formally unveiled by LG next week at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. LG says the Arena's 3-D S-Class UI was specifically ...

US to Enlist 20-Petaflop IBM Supercomputer for Nuke Management Duty

The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has tapped IBM to build a massive new supercomputer that will deliver a record-breaking 20 petaflops of computing power. The proposed supercomputer is nicknamed "Sequoia," and it'll come with 500 teraflop sidekick, Dawn. Both comput...

Is Dell Dialing Up a Smartphone?

Dell may be gearing up to launch one or more new smartphones, possibly based on Google's Android operating system and/or Windows Mobile software. The prototypes, according to a report that cited anonymous sources, might include a touchscreen-based model and another with a slide-out keyboard. Apparen...

Verizon Offers Pint-Sized Personal Cell Tower

Verizon Wireless has introduced a new device that routes its cell phone traffic over a consumer's household broadband connection, effectively creating a mini cellular service network inside the user's home. The new box, called "Verizon Wireless Network Extender," is designed to let Verizon Wireless ...

Verizon Launches VoIP House Phone Hub

In an effort to rekindle some love for the old-school kitchen telephone, Verizon Wireless is getting set to roll out a brand-new touchscreen VoIP phone that offers visual voicemail, calendaring, text alerts, local traffic, weather reports and the ability to send turn-by-turn directions to Verizon Wi...

Massive Mashup Gives NYC Tourists High-Tech, 3-D Planning Tools

New York City has unveiled a new state-of-the-art information center designed to help both residents and tourists explore New York City through interactive maps and 3-D views of the city's five boroughs. Designed with Google Maps, the interactive facility is focused on cultural events, museums, dini...

YouTube Ushers In Change With Obama Videos

YouTube has started to dabble in downloadable videos, offering a new download option for President-elect Barack Obama's ChangeDotGov channel on YouTube. Some of the videos, particularly the "Weekly Address" series, now sport a "Click to download" link below the play button. Previously, all videos we...

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