VoIP service Skype has had an application interface available for some time, but that API needed the company’s desktop software to function. With the new SDK Skype has released, a Skype client can be used with no visible user interface, allowing app and device makers to embed the service more deeply in a wide [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a guest appearance at a press conference here Wednesday where Google, Motorola, and Verizon Wireless unveiled the new version of the popular Android Droid smartphone.
Schmidt took the stage first and touted the importance of the smartphone category.
“This is not a toy or app engine,” he said. “It is a [...]
The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It’s a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery life, and sells for less than $800.
But the icon wasn’t Steve Jobs and the tablet wasn’t the iPad. It [...]
You may have heard there’s a new iPhone hitting stores this week. If you’re planning on buying one and still have your old iPhone, why not sell it?
There’s a good chance you can recoup much of what you originally paid and put it toward the new iPhone 4. Individuals, resellers, and retailers are willing [...]
The mobile web in China has loopholes where content could go under the radar of government censors, analysts say.
“It could be anything else the government normally frowns upon or does not consider healthy, which could be political content to pornographic content,” said Mark Natkin, managing director of Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting, a market research and strategy [...]
Microsoft has launched a slimmer and more powerful Xbox 360.
Slimmer Xbox 360 going on sale this week
The new console - to be launched this week - will have the same price as the old system, but comes with Wi-Fi and a 250 GB HD.
It follows a similar move by Sony, which released its own slimmer [...]
To anyone who uses Twitter, the word “tweet” is as natural as, well, a bird. But don’t expect to see it in The New York Times.
“Someday, ‘tweet’ may be as common as ‘e-mail,’ ” wrote Phil Corbett, the Times’ standards editor, in a memo this week, according to The Awl. But, for now, Corbett has [...]
Do you like James Bond, the 007? If yes, you will be surly in love with his watch also which is always there with him in every gathering and celebrity shows. It is the Rolex Day-Date. Like James Bond many other celebrities and high political officials love Rolex watches because the high prices, perfect [...]
Editor’s Note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a Bay-Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age.
(CNN) — World Cup time is almost here — but can your cell carrier handle it?
Beginning Friday, millions of sports fans in the United States and around [...]
During a recent commencement address at Hampton University in Virginia, Barack Obama described the way today’s internet-powered media environment “bombards us with all kinds of content.”
He warned students that iPads, Xboxes, and other popular digital gadgets can turn information into “a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment” rather than a means “of empowerment.”
As soon [...]