Google makes ‘next gen personal communications device,’ is testing it in employee abodes

We first heard about Google’s foray into home-based hardware late last week, when it asked the FCC for Special Temporary Authority (STA) to have employees test an "entertainment device" in their homes (as opposed to a lab). According to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, it’s rumored to be a

“We’re So So Sorry”: An Apology Form Letter For Startups

Sometimes it really does seem like we live in the Wild West of the digital age, the rules of the Internet get made up as we go along.

Due to the newness, it seems like there’s a scandal per week in tech startup land, and, because of social media, the default way of dealing with it for startups has

Fly Or Die: The Nokia Lumia 800 “Flagship” Windows Phone

Two weeks ago at the Crunchies, Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft’s top executive in Silicon Valley, came up to me and handed me a Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone. It was out of the box, fully charged, and ready to go—alive in my hand. It’s a beautiful phone. Thin, solid, bevelled, and bright. Later that evening,

Una punta resistente para la manipulación nanométrica

Un nuevo recubrimiento ofrece la posibilidad de convertir un microscopio de fuerza atómica en una herramienta aún más útil.

Se intensifican los ataques a dispositivos Android

El aumento de los incidentes de seguridad y del número de teléfonos con bajos niveles de defensa sugiere que 2012 podría ser un año arriesgado para los usuarios de dispositivos inteligentes.

Google TV Gets A New YouTube App

Last month, Google began showing the new versions of Google TV at CES, giving the press a taste of what was in store. One particular panel discussing Google TV’s new capabilities led Rupert Murdoch to take to Twitter, bemoaning the pirating ways of the search behemoth. Forbes has the backstory here.

Yo-Yo Factory brings Hyper Scanner yo-yo gaming to Toy Fair, we go hands-on

We’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard of Hyper Scanner. The carnival style arcade game is apparently all the rage in Japan, though. Kids line up to battle it for king of the yo-yo hill. Yo-Yo Factory came out to Toy Fair to show off its customizable yo-yo system, designed for the serious aficionado.

Uber Testing Begins In LA & Toronto; Edward Norton Gets Beaten Out For LA’s “Rider 0

Uber, that pesky on-demand car service that lets you request a ride at any time using SMS or the company’s iPhone and Android apps, has seen its fair share of struggles in providing a disruptive alternative to cab services. Uber has continued rolling on in spite of it, raising $32 million in December

How Big Data From Connected Machines Gets Used

"Big Data" is a hot topic these days, but there hasn’t been a lot of discussion about the specifics of what will most likely be one of the biggest sources of data: newly web-connected devices in the home and workplace.

I spoke this week with Bill Zujewski, Executive Vice President of Product Strategy

How would you change the T-Mobile Springboard?

What’s in a name? That which we call a T-Mobile Springboard by any other name, like the Huawei Mediapad, would smell as sweet. Multiple names aside, the Honeycomb slate was teasingly cheap as it coaxed you to a two year marriage with the pinky/purple (magenta, okay) mobile network. It had some great