Sprint loss widens on iPhone costs
Sprint Nextel posted a wider quarterly loss because of the higher costs of selling Apple Inc’s iPhone and the popular device delivered a smaller-than-expected boost to subscriber numbers, sending the company’s shares down 2 percent. While the company’s loss was not as big as Wall Street feared, Sprint’s quarterly results and financial targets did little [...]
Facebook could be a source of depression
According to a new study conducted by sociologists Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Nicholas Edge at Utah Valley University, research showed a correlation between a Facebook user’s disposition about their life and the amount of time spent on the social network. Approximately 425 students were asked to identify how much they agreed or disagreed with statements [...]
Is iPad 3 worth waiting for?
Tablets are shaping up to be THE big-ticket gift item this year. Fifteen percent of respondents to a ChangeWave survey said they want one. Top on the tablet wish list is the iPad 2, with 65% of respondents voting for it over the next contender, the Amazon Kindle Fire. What’s more, analyst Gartner Inc. predicts [...]
Users seeing yellow over iPhone 4S
Even as it racks up record sales, Apple’s hot iPhone 4S is getting panned by a few users who report “washed out” or yellow displays on the device’s vaunted 960×640 Retina touchscreen. A thread on Apple’s Support Communities forum titled “iPhone 4S tint” included 32 posts from users discussing the problem as of Tuesday morning, [...]
Facebook faces rumors of membership fees
False rumors that Facebook is about to implement a plan to charge for profile pages have been burning up email accounts and Facebook pages. But the social networking giant, which just announced a series of new features, says charging for profile pages and use of the site is not among the changes.To make sure such [...]
Apple has already won against android
The war between Apple and Android has supposedly been going on since the first Android handset, the T-Mobile G1, was rushed to market in 2008. But in fact, the two were never even fighting — at least not directly. Because both Apple and Android are gaining market share, at the expense of things like RIM’s [...]
Sony Online entertainment goes dark
First the Playstation Network, now all of Sony Online Entertainment has been taken offline in the wake of a fresh invasion by hackers. Citing an “issue that warrants concern,” SOE made an announcement on Monday that it would be taking their servers offline for an unspecified length of time while they addressed the problem. Initially [...]
Could gene tests tell if kids can be sports stars?
CHICAGO – Was your kid born to be an elite athlete? Marketers of genetic tests claim the answer is in mail-order kits costing less than $200. Some customers say the test results help them steer their children to appropriate sports. But skeptical doctors and ethicists say the tests are putting profit before science and have [...]
Man ties machine on Day 1 of “Jeopardy!” showdown
A man-versus-machine showdown on popular U.S. quiz show “Jeopardy!” ended in a tie on the first day of a three-day challenge, when an IBM computer showed off its knowledge of the Beatles, as well as a few glitches. The machine, dubbed Watson after International Business Machines Corp’s former president Thomas Watson, is the computer and [...]
Meet T-Mobile’s first 4G tablet, the Dell Streak 7
Yes, T-Mobile will be getting its own, LG-made Android “Honeycomb” tablet to go head-to-head with Motorola’s sexy Xoom. But the G-Slate made only a fleeting cameo during T-Mobile’s CES press event Thursday; instead, the story was more about 4G-ready but non-Honeycomb Dell Streak 7. Set for release in the “coming weeks,” the seven-inch, Android 2.2-based [...]
