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Say what? In a group interview last week, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt made the following statement about Apple’s AirPlay and Apple TV: “I’m not sure I know what AirPlay is. Today we want to be on every screen. Today it’s a little bit clunky to get programming from the Internet onto the TV — not…
LightSquared has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy status, according to a report from Bloomberg. The company once heralded for attempting to bring high-speed wireless access to as many as 260 million Americans met tough criticism from the FCC, which found that LightSquared’s technology had the potential to essentially unleash fury on GPS networks akin…
The US Postal Service has announced a ban on international shipments of devices that contain lithium-ion batteries, such as phones, tablets, cameras, and most other electronic equipment. USPS claims that lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or spontaneously combust if not fully charged or stored/packed incorrectly. Two separate fatal cargo plane crashes since 2006 have been…
Popular professional social media service LinkedIn has launched a Windows Phone application. The application went live over the weekend (May 12th, to be exact), and has already amassed some positive reviews on the Windows Phone Marketplace. It seems Windows Phone users are happy to finally have a client that is markedly better than using the…
Texting while walking has been banned in the northern New Jersey town of Ft. Lee since March, but officers are now strictly enforcing the measure after three fatal pedestrian-involved accidents this year. Police Chief Thomas Ripoli states that texting while walking is “a big distraction,” adding that “pedestrians aren’t watching where they are going and…
U.S. Senator Al Franken (D – Minn.) has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asking the DOJ to provide information on the practices it uses to request location information from carriers. The move follows news that some law enforcement agencies are requesting this information without proper warrants in place. The Supreme…
There’s a new iPad mini rumor going around the internet today, and this one doesn’t come out of Digitimes. Today’s rumor is brought to us by iMore, which actually has a solid track record for spot-on rumors. iMore reports that Apple is in fact working on a 7″ iPad which will feature the same 2,048 by…
In a me-too move, RadioShack has announced that they too will be offering a $50 discount on the iPhone. Yesterday, RadioShack started selling the iPhone 4 (8GB) for $49, and the iPhone 4S for $149 (16GB), $249 (32GB), and $349 (64GB). The move comes after multiple smaller, regional retailers started selling Apple’s iPhones at these lower rates,…
The 3rd installment in the popular sci-fi first-person shooter N.O.V.A. line is now available on the App Store. N.O.V.A. 3 brings even better graphics and intense first-person shooter fun to iOS devices, and quickly finds itself on our short list of must-have games for the iPhone and iPad. The storyline in N.O.V.A. 3 is reminiscent…
Samsung may have built the Galaxy S III exclusively for humans, but Apple was thinking a little more broadly when they created the iPad. The new iPad is apparently designed for all primates, not just us elitist humans. At least, that’s what employees of Miami’s Jungle Island Zoo have recently discovered. Zoo employees decided that…