US ceding Internet control

You may call it a face-saving effort, but it looks like the Obama administration is taking some good measures to do damage control after the NSA disclosures fiasco. Presently, the … Continue reading

Tesla New Jersey ban response: “Gov. Christie has a bridge closure he wants to sell you”

After facing a ban on Tesla sales direct to customers in the State of New Jersey this week, Tesla Motors Chairman of Product Architecture and CEO Elon Musk wrote a … Continue reading

Target reportedly ignored credit card hack warnings

Target ignored warnings of the massive credit card hack from the $1.6m security system it had installed specifically to watch out for data thefts, insiders claims, with signs of abuse … Continue reading

Nokia X hits 1m China preorders

Nokia made no bones about the Nokia X being a play for the emerging smartphone audience, and it seems the Android-forked Windows Phone lookalike is off to a good start … Continue reading

Turtle Beach Titanfall Earforce Atlas Gaming Headset Review

While we’ve left “for Xbox One” out of the title here, we’ve done so for a (relatively good) reason. This is because, while this headset is aimed at the Xbox … Continue reading

Facebook’s Zuckerberg calls Obama over internet fears

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg called President Obama to complain about the US government presenting a threat to the internet, claiming to be “confused and frustrated” by the recent spying and surveillance … Continue reading

iOS 8 details leaked in WIP screenshots

A number of screenshots taken with an iPhone have leaked additional verification of several future apps for the platform this morning. These shots were taken by Weibo microblogger TD Beta, … Continue reading

Amazon smartphone tipped international with “Project Aria” codename

With a codename like “Project Aria”, we wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon was also trying to kick out the SEO of Motorola/Google’s Project Ara while they’re at it. This week … Continue reading

Amazon Prime price increase confirmed

Amazon is raising the price of Amazon Prime to $99 per year, with the subscription based package for unlimited two-day shipping of purchases along with streaming video access to Prime … Continue reading

That Creepy Camera: Lifelogging Lessons Learned

“What’s that you’ve got there?” the barista asks, tapping his chest. I don’t need to look down to know what he means. “It’s a lifelogger, it takes a picture every … Continue reading