Microsoft is reportedly trying out potential new names for SkyDrive after losing a legal battle with Sky, with possible candidates rumoured to include NewDrive, BingDrive and FetchDrive. Windows blogger Paul Thurrott claims the SkyDrive’s new name is NewDrive. LiveSide has reported that the URL www.newdrive.com pointed to SkyDrive, but the link is now dead. Before …

William Kentridge‘s “The Refusal of Time” (2012) creates its own environment through the ever-morphing, large-format videos depicting the collision of technology, social upheaval, and industry. The five videos display a series of scenes, texts, shifting diagrams and papers, and laborers shown in silhouette marching across the screens. Music and voices come from eight speakers — four large JBL studio monitors …

If there were any doubts that Intel wants to embrace Android as a Windows equal, they were erased this week. Speaking at the chipmaker’s investor meeting on Thursday, Kirk Skaugen, general manager of the PC Client Group at Intel, said the following: The reality is for the last decade we’ve been essentially 100 percent Microsoft on the client [but] we’re …

I’m a big fan of music documentaries, but “The Wrecking Crew: The Untold Story of Rock & Roll Heroes” is easily the best I’ve seen in years. The band was made up of LA studio pros who would show up for a 3- or 4-hour session, and produce hit after hit. Their biggest successes came in the 1960s and 1970s, …

I go way back with NAD amplifiers; I sold dozens of NAD’s 3020 amps in the late 1970s and early 1980s when I was working as a high-end audio salesman. The 3020 lacked the visual pizzazz of the Sony, Onkyo, Pioneer, and Yamaha amps of the time, but the 3020 was hailed by critics and consumers as the best-sounding budget …

No, LG isn’t giving up on the smartphone business. LG responded to a report by Korean publication ET News that it was shifting its resources away from the mobile business and towards televisions, dismissing it as “completely untrue.” Related stories TV in the Bathroom: Technically Doable but a Very Bad Idea Best Laptop for 2022: The 15 Laptops We Recommend …

Amazon is launching its own money, and handing out £4 to every Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX owner to get you started. Available in the US since this summer, Amazon Coins are a currency that you can spend on apps, games and in-app items from the Amazon Appstore and on your Kindle Fire. Owners of the current Kindle …

Microsoft will soon have its smartphone business. The Redmond, Wash., software giant is set to win unconditional regulatory approval from the European Union, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the matter. The deal is virtually done, with Nokia shareholders having already given it their okay earlier this week. Microsoft is also set to take over Nokia’s headquarters in …

Jason Cipriani/CNET For those Android users lucky enough to have already received Android 4.4 KitKat on their preferred device, changing the default SMS app is possible, but very hidden. After installing another SMS app you might be prompted by the app to set it as the default SMS provider. Doing so will allow the app to alert you to new …

The LG G2 CBS Interactive LG is testing mobile processors that could make their way into the company’s devices next year, according to a new report. Codenamed “Odin,” LG’s upcoming processors come in quad-core and octa-core versions, Korean-based DigitalTimes reported Thursday, citing people who claim to have knowledge of the company’s plans. The processors could be clocked at 2.2GHz and …