Computers & Computing Category - Page 9

The world’s largest social network, Facebook, is by far one of the craziest places to be, therefore we’re not surprised to see that 107 friends decided to try to get a Guinness World Records with an impressive feature, a Facebook post with over 1 million comments. Yes, that happened on [...]

While it’s possible to engage in PC gaming without many of the peripherals we hear about out here, it’s often significantly less fun to do so. Just looking at some of these is a downright wonder, and the folks at Mad Catz are bringing out a couple of new items [...]

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard much of anything out of Habey–back in 2010, actually–but now they’re tipping us off about the upcoming release of their new BIS-6630 PC, a very small item built around an Intel Atom processor with a big surprise under the hood: namely, no [...]

RIM offered a hands-on look at BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 during CES and since then we have seen a fair amount of chatter. Of course, while some of the chatter was in regards to the current PlayBook getting an update, there was also talk of a PlayBook 3G+ coming available.

Every time I read one of these stories, my heart gets a little lighter and I get just a little extra spring in my step, folks…and today is no different. Seems that Barnes & Noble aren’t letting the Kindle Fire (not to mention the other Kindle devices already in play) [...]

The Kindle Fire has been a hot tablet during the Christmas shopping season, and while it wasn’t able to pose a serious threat to the iPad 2, it certainly become a best-selling Android device, chewing away at regular Android tablets’ market share.

We’re not really surprised to hear that another serious Android malware threat has been found as the security of Google’s mobile OS has been hit before by similar malicious programs. This time around it’s Symantec, a well-known security firm, that has discovered no less than 13 applications that can still [...]

A new book detailing the way Apple worked under Steve Jobs’ supervision, and not only, hit stores earlier this week, Adam Lashinsky’s “Inside Apple,” which offers a different angle on the iconic company following Walter Isaacson’s official probe into Apple from the “Steve Jobs” biography.

We’ve seen this story before: iPhone gets stolen, tech savvy person uses Apple’s Find My iPhone app to locate the device on the map and retrieve it, thief gets caught and iPhone is retrieved. Unfortunately not all stolen iPhones are found this way, as either some of the thieves out [...]

Back in December we heard that Samsung would launch a bigger Galaxy Tab model at this year’s Mobile World Congress edition and today we have one more report that backs up those rumors.