Apple has plans in mind for its new sapphire crystal plant that promise to "enhance and improve" its consumer devices. Emails from Apple to U.S. Foreign Trade Zone officials point to a manufacturing processs called "Project Cascade." Uncovered by 9to5Mac with help from analyst/investor Matt Margolis, the emails give some clues as to the work that will be done at the Arizona-based plant. This high-tech manufacturing process...
Friday, February 28, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Get 100GB of Microsoft OneDrive storage for free
It's pretty easy to get the Bing Rewards points you need for Microsoft's 100GB OneDrive offer. (Credit: Microsoft) I can't pass up an opportunity to make fun of Microsoft, so let's dive right in. Bing Rewards: Microsoft's blatant way of bribing users to use Bing instead of Google. OneDrive: Microsoft's admittedly decent cloud-storage...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Jimmy Wales joins The People's Operator, looks to US launch
Wales joins MVNO The People's Operator as co-chair. (Credit: Jimmy Wales / The People's Operator) LONDON -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is joining The People's Operator, a UK-based mobile provider focused on raising money for charity, as co-chairman. The company plans to expand to more countries, with the US first on its list....
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
What the tech business hasn't yet grasped about human nature
Genevieve Bell, Intel's anthropologist, speaking at Mobile World Congress. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) BARCELONA -- It's pretty clear from Facebook's ascent that businesses nowadays understand our need to connect with friends and family is a big deal. But what about our need to be bored, to be surprised, and to get...
Monday, February 24, 2014
Microsoft's okay with Nokia using Android. Kind of
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore kicks off the company's event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. (Credit: Shara Tibken/CNET) BARCELONA, Spain--Things got awkward for short moment on stage when Microsoft executives were asked about the possibility of Nokia using Android. Joe Belfiore, vice president of operating systems for...
Monday, February 17, 2014
Get a refurbished Roku 2 XS Angry Birds Edition for $49.99
A red Roku? With two remotes? For 50 bucks? Yes, please! (Credit: Woot) Desktops, Blu-ray players, and the iPod Touch -- people still love 'em! Every time I think the death knell has sounded for certain seemingly outdated products, readers rally to remind me what made those products so great in the first place -- and why...
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Smartphone charging: Toward a faster fill-er-up
Here's what makes our mobile devices ever more spectacular: larger screens, higher resolutions, faster modems, and speedier processors. And here's the oft substantial cost of all that: big-time battery consumption. Handset makers constantly strive to squeeze more milliamps into a phone battery. The challenge of so while keeping a slim profile is clear to anyone who has used a charging case. But even here there is a tradeoff...
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Be one with Flappy Bird: The science of 'flow' in game design
When the smartphone phenomenon Flappy Bird took off not so long ago -- and before it morphed into something uncontrollable and became its own hard-to-swallow lesson for the game industry -- it was as if everyone you'd ever known had suddenly stumbled on mobile gaming's most brilliantly manufactured drug. Facebook and Instragram...
Friday, February 14, 2014
Snowden nicked NSA docs with common tool, raising more concern about agency -- report
Edward Snowden (Credit: Laura Poitras/The Guardian/screenshot by CNET) Edward Snowden used common "web crawler" software to grab top secret NSA documents, according to unnamed intelligence officials cited in a New York Times report, a revelation that raises further questions about the efficacy of the agency's internal security...
Thursday, February 13, 2014
A classic slow cooker with a few welcome extras
The $59.99 Hamilton Beach Set 'n Forget 6 Qt. Programmable Slow Cooker is a very straightforward slow cooker. It isn't full of innovative tech, and it doesn't appeal to modern design sensibilities, but this is one of those rare times when I don't think that's a terribly bad thing. It offers the basics and a handful of special features, like a thermometer probe for cooking to temperature and lid clips for safe and easy transport....
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Microsoft accused of censoring Chinese search results in US
A search for the Dalai Lama on Bing's Chinese language search engine in the US. (Credit: Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET) Is Microsoft censoring searches of certain Chinese terms in the United States? One Web site is standing behind its original accusation. Microsoft's Bing allegedly delivers different results for English-language...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
A dual Windows-Android machine: PC industry savior or non-starter?
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, speaking at CES 2014, says there will be a big push for machines that run both Windows and Android. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) It's pretty grim days for the PC industry, and the sector's next hope -- machines that run both Windows and Android at the same time -- may not be enough to save it. The...
Monday, February 10, 2014
Jac Holzman: From vinyl to apps to what comes next (Q&A)
Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra and Nonesuch Records. (Credit: Getty Images) Jac Holzman is legit. His track record in the music stretches back nearly 65 years -- that's the lifespan of about 12 iTunes -- to when he founded Elektra Records out of his college dorm room in 1950. He went on to sign acts like the Doors, Carly...
Sunday, February 9, 2014
CEO: Rdio's problem? Not enough people use Rdio (Q&A)
If you build it, they will come? Rdio's new Chief Executive Anthony Bay believes so. Rdio, one of a myriad of streaming music services, launched four years ago by the billionaire founders of Skype and Kazaa. It's a subscription service with a catalog of millions of songs available on demand, and gets widespread kudos for its design...
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Missed connections: Limbo in high tech's culture clash
Benito Santiago, a San Francisco resident, is getting evicted from his home. Many attribute the rise of Ellis Act evictions to the influx of highly paid tech employees. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) On a recent Friday afternoon, Tammy Vaitai stood at a dais at the Bayview Shipyard in San Francisco. Unless you've walked into the...
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