More than 70 percent of mobile users pay little for apps, big spenders make up for us cheapskates

We know smartphone and tablet owners like to buy games. But if you go by a new ABI exploration of user habits, most of us aren’t buying much of anything. More than 70 percent of the crowd spends little to nothing on mobile apps, dragging down the average of $14 spent per month among paying customers

Intel launches new Ivy Bridge Xeons, targets microservers

Intel is pushing out that delicious Ivy Bridge update to server chips and, interestingly, it’s not focusing purely on the high end to start. In total, 28 new Xeon CPUs were introduced today, including the E5-4600 and 2400 families targeted at four and two socket systems, respectively. Those tweaked mainstream

Cosm: Disappointing Redesign By Internet of Things Pioneer Pachube

Early Internet of Things innovator gets a makeover and a new name: Cosm. It’s attempting to become more social, but unfortunately it’s likely to turn normal people off – rather than turn them on.
When we first started profiling the emerging trend of Internet of Things back in 2009, one startup stood

HyQ is the latest all-terrain quadruped bot, tells Big Dog to bring it on (video)

You might not know this, but you can literally never have enough all-terrain quadrupedal robots… at least according to us (John Connor might disagree). So, while HyQ from the Italian Institute of Technology might bear more than a passing resemblance to Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog, we won’t hold it against

Kylo web browser for TV turned Open Source overnight

There’s been a relatively large announcement made by Hillcrest Labs tonight in that they’ve turned their own “Kylo Web Browser for TV” over to the Open Source community. This announcement sets the Mozilla-based TV browser up for open-sourced management for its many features, features

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook revealed

The next level powerhouse in workhorse Ultrabook has been revealed by Lenovo as being the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, complete with the claim that it is indeed “the world’s lightest 14-inch professional Ultrabook.” This Ultrabook “exceeds Ultrabook specifications” as Lenovo says

Lenovo ThinkPad laptops T, X, L, W series grab Ivy Bridge

It’s time for the 3rd Generation Intel Core update to Lenovo’s line of ThinkPad laptops including their T, X, L, and W series, these including software updates as well. What we’re dealing with here in this update is a series of upgrades for each of the unique series with one common

American Express brings social offers to mobile

If you’ve been following the advancements in near field communication (NFC) technology and mobile payments, you know that one of the biggest selling points for using your phone to pay for your merchandise instead of a good ol’ credit card is that services like Google Wallet and Isis promise

Console-quality Flash gaming in 12 months says AMD

Flash may have fallen out of favor in recent years, but AMD is betting on a resurgence of the technology with the prediction that Flash games will equal their console counterparts in quality within the twelve months. The chip manufacturer made the ambitious prediction at the launch of the new AMD Trinity,

AMD Launches Ultrabook-Ready Trinity Chips

AMD just unveiled its latest processor, called Trinity. Meant for Ultrabooks, regular laptops and all-in-one designs, the new chip boasts better…