If you were hoping to watch last weekend’s Coachella concert on your iDevice, you just missed your chance: although the event was streamed live on YouTube for free, the iOS YouTube app doesn’t support live streaming. It does now. (Cruel timing, Google!) YouTube 1.3 for iOS, released today, adds a handful of new features and …
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April, 2013
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15 April
Nokia’s next flagship to have 41
Nokia could at long last migrate the gigantic lens from its 808 PureView Symbian smartphone over to a more modern smartphone design. Related stories Successor to Nokia Lumia 920 reportedly in the works Pictures of possible early Nokia Lumia 950 leaked Nokia Lumia 520 review: One of the best budget phones around According to the latest Nokia smartphone rumor, obtained …
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15 April
Get Facebook Home and Chat Heads on any Android phone
Facebook Home has landed on US phones, and now you can try it out for yourself — no matter what Android phone you have. Whether you want Facebook to take over your whole phone or just fancy fun Chat Heads popping up all over the shop, read on for how to try it out right now. Facebook Home is a …
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15 April
Cell service hit in Boston following bombings
Shortly after at least two bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line today, reportedly killing at least two people and injuring dozens, cell phone service in the heart of the city was severely disrupted. An Associated Press report initially claimed, citing an anonymous law enforcement official, that “cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent …
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15 April
Dish’s ‘Seinfeld’ play: Sprint ties it all together
Dish founder Charlie Ergen is clearly a massive “Seinfeld” fan. Ergen wasn’t shy about providing a shout-out to Jerry Seinfeld’s classic situation comedy in discussing Dish’s proposed $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel. In fact, Ergen compared his strategy to an episode of Seinfeld: 28 minutes filled with a lot of scenes that don’t make sense, and a final two …
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15 April
Sydney train commuters to get tunnel reception
Telcos and the NSW government have worked together to upgrade mobile reception across Sydney’s City Circle tunnel line. (Cityrail Millennium Train image by Jason Antony, CC BY 2.5) Sydney commuters who are used to reception blackspots when travelling the City Circle tunnel line will find themselves pleasantly surprised, according to AAP. The NSW government has worked with Telstra, Optus and …
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15 April
New Facebook Home ad stars Zuckerberg and yelling goats
A new ad for Facebook Home stars the social network’s previously camera-shy founder Mark Zuckerberg. But it’s not a stilted, dry talk about the merits of Home. Or rather it is, but one employee zones out, using the home screen replacement to see what his mates are up to. And they’re having way more fun, racing quad bikes, playing racketball, …
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15 April
Poll: What’s stopping you from getting a plasma?
Despite countless reviews and articles proclaiming plasma TVs as having better picture quality, and costing less money, LCDs continue to dominate sales charts. So the question is, why did you, or will you, choose LCD (or LED LCD) over plasma? Despite what some say, the predominance of LCDs sales over plasma sales isn’t quite as simple as it first appears. …
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15 April
Roku shutting down VideoBuzz channel for streaming YouTube on the sly
Roku has over 750 official channels, but YouTube is still missing. Sarah Tew/CNET One of the biggest shortcomings of the otherwise excellent Roku 3 is its lack of an official YouTube channel, although savvy users can get around that limitation with a variety of workarounds, including the “private” VideoBuzz channel. Or at least used to be able to. Related stories …
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14 April
Microsoft reportedly considering selling a smartwatch of its own
Microsoft is reportedly exploring the idea of joining what promises to be a crowded smartwatch market. The tech titan has asked suppliers in Asia to ship components for a potential touch-enabled watch device, executives at the suppliers told The Wall Street Journal. One executive told the Journal that he had met with Microsoft’s research and development team in Redmond, Wash., …
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