Editor's Pick Walter L. Shaw is someone you've never heard of. But he invented big chunks of your world, and then died, almost penniless, living on the charity of his international jewel thief son, a made man in John Gotti's New York mob.
James Bond cannot possibly use the same gadgets, tools, or automobiles as you and I. It's just a law of nature.
Telecom startup textPlus raises $18 million to morph any device into a free phone.
So I finally picked up an iPhone 5 yesterday. Astonishingly, it did not instantly take five pounds off my middle, make me devastatingly witty, or give me movie-star looks.
Someone needs to bring our islands of identity together in a comprehensive, universal way ... or provide a DNS-like identity service that connects them all. I just don't think it's going to be StarStar Me.
Would you get better results from phone calls if you knew more about the people at the other end of the line?
In his new book The Fine Print, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston tell us, among other things, what's wrong with the Internet in America. The answer is fairly depressing: It's too slow, too expensive, and too controlled by a duopoly of AT&T and Verizon.
Nokia ran a poll on its blog that suggests almost half of consumers prefer full hard QWERTY keyboards to any other input method, including virtual keyboards on a touchscreen.
Memo to early users of Windows Phone: all those juicy new features unveiled today at Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 press event in San Francisco are not for you. Microsoft has decided not to offer a full software upgrade for Windows …
Sponsored Post It’s said that with all of our technological advancements, the world is getting smaller and smaller, but it sure doesn’t feel like that when you have to travel for business frequently...
VoIP provider Ooma announced today that its VoIP box, which costs $250 and allows for free phone calls, can finally take advantage of wireless networks with the launch of its $50 Telo Air adapter.
The company claims that it’s the …
Apple’s iPhone operating system is now more popular than Research in Motion’s BlackBerry smartphone operating system, according to the latest usage statistics from comScore.
Both take a back seat to Google’s Android, which has a growing lead as the most …
In a bid to help those trying to reach friends and family in Japan following the country’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have all announced today that they will be offering free calls and messaging to Japan…
Ifbyphone, a provider of web-based services that interact with phone calls, has raised $8 million in its second round of funding from Apex Venture Partners, Origin Ventures and Spring Mill Ventures.
The company has a web-based service that lets its …
Cox Communications, the third-largest cable provider in the US, announced today that it’s launching a mobile phone service that it will bundle with its cable and internet service, Bloomberg reports.
The cellular service is launching today in Orange County, California; …
