Linkpost | 6.5.2013
[Note: Dwight is on vacation through this week. Technology Bytes host Peter Hughes will be handling the linkposts while he's out.] White House publishes executive order to rein in patent trolls – It...
View ArticleLinkpost | 6.9.2011
[Note: Thanks to Peter Hughes for handling the Linkposts while I was out on vacation! – D.S.] • U.S., company officials: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data – The director of...
View ArticleLinkpost | 6.25.2013
• PC Shipments Continue to Slide as Tablets Pick Up Steam – Globally, Gartner estimates that PC shipments will drop 10.6 percent this year, while tablets will increase by almost 68 percent. • Samsung...
View ArticleLinkpost | 6.29.2013
• The State of Google Reader Replacements – Google Reader dies on Monday. Alternatives have been in the works for some time, this item rounds up the status of the major ones. Also The Big Comparison Of...
View ArticleLinkpost | 7.10.2013
• How Dropbox Will Remake Itself (And Your Angry Birds) – Dropbox has its first developer conference, aimed at getting software creators to put hooks for its syncing service into their applications....
View ArticleLinkpost | 7.13.2013
• AT&T to acquire Leap Wireless in $1.2 billion deal – Leap Wireless is better known as Cricket. AT&T’s in it for the spectrum and getting further into the budget phone market. But AT&T...
View ArticleLinkpost | 7.16.2013
• AT&T’s “Next” Plan Offers A New Smartphone Every 12 Months, With Some Strings – Call it the T-Mobile Effect: AT&T offers an unsubsidized phone purchase plan pays off the device after 20...
View ArticleLinkpost | 7.24.2013
• Apple Earnings Tops Estimates on iPhone Sales, Sees A ‘Busy Fall’ With New Products and Apple sold 31.2m iPhones and 14.6m iPads in Q3 2013, up 20% and down 14.1% year-over-year respectively – Sales...
View ArticleLinkpost | 9.10.2013
• WSJ reaffirms ‘iPhone 5S’ to boast fingerprint sensor, ‘iPhone 5C’ left without and Photo of alleged ‘iPhone 5S’ user guide reveals ‘Touch ID sensor’ home button – The Wall Street Journal confirms...
View ArticleLinkpost | 9.26.2013
[While Dwight Silverman is on vacation, Peter Hughes (@geekmouth) of Technology Bytes will be sitting in for him on the Linkposts.] IDF 2013 Rant: Intel proves once and for all that PCs are not coming...
View ArticleLinkpost | 10.16.2013
• Square Cash lets anyone with a debit card send money instantly over email – Send an email to your friend with the amount you want to give them and cc cash@square.com and boom: You’ve sent money....
View ArticleLinkpost | 10.30.2013
• The iPad Air Review (AnandTech) and Speed and Power Packed Into a Thin iPad Air (Walt Mossberg) – Reviews of the iPad Air are out in advance of its going on sale on Friday. The general consensus: It...
View ArticleLinkpost | 11.9.2013
• Early Xbox One delivery reveals 500MB initial update, 17 second startup — then banned – Target ships pre-order Xbox Ones too early. One buyer set his up, put it through some paces, then was banned...
View ArticleLinkpost | 11.22.2013
• U.S. To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes – The FCC is considering allowing cell phone calls while in flight. And Everything you need to know about in-flight cellphone rules • Sprint dead last in...
View ArticleLinkpost | 11.26.2013
• TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It – Both broadcast and cable ratings are down. And there are some stats that show a significant number of people are dropping broadband Internet, too....
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