Don’t tell the hordes swarming into the Apple Store every weekend, but the days of needing to spend over $1,000 to get a quality laptop passed by while most of them were still in high school. Even before netbooks came along sending manufacturers into a frenzy while chewing their own margins down to pennies just […]
Category Archives: Technology
More TV-Fee Fights Loom
Sunday night’s Oscar program almost didn’t happen for millions of TV viewers in the New York City area, in the latest high-stakes battle between media giants over the cost of TV programming. Why are these battles happening now, and who will ultimately win? If you happened to be one of Cablevision’s 3.1 million subscribers in […]
Google Adwords
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How much smartphones really cost
What Smartphones Really Cost Smartphones may be pretty uniform in price at the store, but what they cost to manufacture — and their price without a two-year contract — varies wildly. Apple iPhone 4 (16 GB) Component Cost: $187.51 Price Without Contract: $599 Price With Contract: $199 Lowest Available Price: $197 (Wal-Mart) Unlike other smartphone […]
Adult industry sees iPorn potential in new phone
It’s a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn’t take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist. With more than 3 […]
California man ‘beats’ Bejeweled 2
We thought we were pretty hot at Bejeweled 2. But we’ve got nothing on steel contractor Mike Leyde, of Riverside, CA., who managed to score so many points, he broke the game. Leyde became the first person in the world to reach the game’s maximum score of 2,147,482,575, after which the game simply can’t process […]
iPhone 4 vs. Android’s Best
We match Apple’s new iPhone 4 vs. the best Android phones on the market to see which comes out on top when they’re compared spec to spec. The battle between Apple’s iPhone and Android is beginning to look a lot like the age-old battle between Macs and PCs, except playing out on the mobile market. […]
The 12 Biggest iPad Competitors
Apple’s iPad caused a major stir in the tech community after its unveiling in February, but this year has been an exciting one for other companies entering tablet computer market. The International CTIA Wireless convention in Las Vegas will highlight the most important pieces of the moblie tech world, not the least of which is […]