A new Kickstarter project by the name of The Charge Cycle, is a bike equipped with a phone charging dock and a stand. Interestingly, the bike is not for sale but will rather be leased to Kickstarter backers around New York City. The Charge Cycle will be launched in early May 2013 with at least 30 bikes, if the...
With countless 3rd-party applications already offering free voice calls over Wi-Fi across multiple platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone and even BlackBerry, RIM has finally decided to push out the feature to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), with an open beta for the new service starting today, reports The Verge. There is already a wide variety of VOIP apps...
A couple of days back, a Korean source reported that Samsung has increased the price of manufacturing Apple’s iPhone and iPad processors by 20%. However, a new report published today by Seoul-based newspaper The Hankyoreh claims that this is not true, according to an unnamed Samsung official (via TechCrunch). The report says that Samsung official has denied reports of any manufacturing...
A new game by the name of Danny Trejo's Vengeance: Woz with a Coz is an upcoming iOS title that will bring Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and 'Machete' film actor Danny Trejo side by side as playable video game characters (via CNET). The game is due to be released around November 22nd on Thanksgiving. The 8-bit platformed, which is basically a promo for Trejo's film "Vengeance"...
JBL has just unveiled a new lineup of its premium headphones, that promise to deliver acoustic performance that outdoes competing models sold at twice the price. The new JBL J Series features the on-ear J55 and J55i, the over-ear J88 and J88i and the in-ear J22, J22i, J33 and J33i models. The "i" version of each model...
Popular online storage service Dropbox, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization and client software across multiple platforms, has announced that it has passed the 100 million users mark. The company claims to have quadrupled its user base in the last year alone (via NY Times). For a company aiming to stay neck-and-neck with tech-giants like Google, Apple, Amazon and...
Fender has launched a $199 USB version of its popular Squire Stratocaster series USB guitar, which is now available exclusively at the Apple Store. The new Guitar features USB & iOS connectivity, giving users access to a huge range of tones rom Fender, along with the convenience of a direct connection to their iOS devices (via 9to5Mac). The...
According to a report by AllThingsD, former president of Windows and Windows Live Steven Sinofsky is leaving Microsoft effective immediately, with rumours pointing out that the reasons for his departure were similar to Scott Forstall's recent departure from Apple. The source suggests that people familiar with the matter said growing tension between the Windows chief and other executives...
Apple has been granted patents for screen rotation feature found in all its iOS devices as well as three design related patents for iPad 2, reports Patently Apple via The US Patent and Trademark Office who published a series of 28 newly granted patents for Apple today. The report details that Apple lost its bid to nix a patent troll's...
A new data released by RetailSales after analysing more than 200 American retailers spanning 15 sectors, reveals that Apple is the most valuable retailer based on sales per square foot, earning more than double of what the country's second most profitable retailer Tiffany & Co. is making, reports AppleInsider. The analysis suggests that Apple's retail stores earn $6,050 per...
Earlier this month, the UK Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple to remove the misleading statement citing a judge comparing the designs of the Apple and Samsung products and replace it with a new notice. Apple showed compliance by publishing a revised notice, acknowledging that Samsung did not infringe Apple’s patents and therefore did not breach U.K....
Folks over at DisplayMate have ran an in-depth series of Mobile Display Technology Shoot-Out tests in order to examine the performance of the Microsoft Surface RT as compared to Apple iPad 3 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (for the best display among 10 inch Android Tablets). Find out who wins after the jump! DisplayMate's test revealed that Microsoft Surface RT's display outperforms all...
