August 15, 2014
What Studying Students Teaches Us About Great Apps
With over a million apps in each the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, there’s an app—or 10—for practically everything a consumer needs. So why is…
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August 15, 2014
Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You.
Somewhere, somehow, maybe less than a year after I got the latest version of my iPhone, its battery would mysteriously deplete in about half a day. I wasn’t…
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Powerbeats2 Review: Wireless Running Earbuds That Should Keep You On Pace
Beats rolled out a couple of new products immediately following the news that it would be acquired by Apple, and one of them is the new Powerbeats2 in-ear…
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Amazon Doubles The Storage Of The Existing Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon hasn’t introduced a splashy Kindle update this year, but the company did confirm to TechCrunch it has increased storage on its devices from 2GB to 4GB (of…
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Apple’s Sapphire iPhone Costs Could Be Lower Than Expected
Apple’s plan is to work synthetic sapphire into pricier next-generation iPhone models, according to the WSJ, provided they can get enough supply. While some analysts quoted expect this…
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Windows Phone, The PC Market, And Global Smartphone Shipments
Windows Phone sales aren’t doing well. According to the latest IDC data, 7.4 million Windows Phone units shipped in the second quarter of 2014. That’s down from 8.2…
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The Tech Behind 50 Cent’s New SMS Audio Fitness Tracking Earbuds
50 Cent’s SMS Audio is holding an event in NYC tonight, but the cat’s out of the bag: the product to be unveiled is a new fitness tracking…
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Square Wants You To Know Everything’s Perfectly All Right Now. We’re Fine. We’re All Fine Here Now, Thank You. How Are You?
Square just published a blog post outlining and refuting what it says are the “top 10 myths” about the payments company. In some ways, the post is like…
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Snapchat Could Be Stripped Of Valuable “Tap-And-Hold For Video” Patent
Snapchat has quietly been embroiled in an intellectual property interference proceeding that could revoke its lucrative patent for a design trick now widely copied by Facebook, Google and…
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The Firefox OS Flame Developer Reference Phone Is Shipping
Update: Apparently, Mozilla re-announced the shipping of the Flame, which actually began shipping last month after a pre-order period. So — it is still shipping, one way or…
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