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Sorry to burst your high-flying dreams, but Funny or Die is behind HUVr, the mysterious tech company claiming to have invented the first hoverboard. The truth behind this massive viral campaign came out after a costume designer who worked on the shoot posted the experience on her online resume, which has now been removed. The Continue Reading →

T-Mobile incurred the wrath of BlackBerry CEO John Chen and some of the phone’s loyalists by making an upgrade offer encouraging BlackBerry owners to trade in for a new iPhone. Aiming to make amends — and really calling the BlackBerry bluff — T-Mobile launched an upgrade offer that gave BlackBerry owners the choice of sticking Continue Reading →

Flipboard announced Wednesday morning that it is acquiring Zite, a competing news-recommendation and content-sharing app currently owned by CNN, and will use that acquisition to create a broad advertising and content partnership with the news giant. The two companies didn’t release the details of the acquisitions, but according to a report CNN Money the deal Continue Reading →

When we reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 back in October, we noticed that it was doing something funny. Launching most benchmarking applications would kick the phone’s CPU into overdrive, forcing all CPU cores to run at their maximum rated speeds for as long as the application was open. Maxing out the CPU frequencies threw a Continue Reading →

Target Corp.’s Chief Information Officer Beth Jacob is resigning, effective immediately, in wake of the massive data breach during the holiday 2013 shopping season which saw as many as 70 million customers having their personal information stolen, including 40 million debit and credit card accounts. The retailer also said would be overhauling its information security Continue Reading →

Verizon Communications is in talks with content providers to deliver web-based TV services to mobile platforms, chief executive Lowell McAdam, said at an investor conference on Tuesday. A day earlier, Dish Network Corp and Walt Disney Co announced a landmark deal that will allow the No. 2 satellite TV provider to deliver Disney-owned network content Continue Reading →

I love viral marketing. There’s something awesome about a company bucking the traditional path of advertising their product and going in a completely new direction. Whether you’re pushing a hit TV show, deodorant or a pointless movie remake, there’s something inherently charming to me about doing your own thing. (EDIT: It turns out the campaign Continue Reading →

Google Chromecast, you’re not the only stick in town. Roku announced the Roku Streaming Stick on Tuesday, which manages to pack nearly all the functionality of a full-size Roku box into a device not much bigger than an USB flash drive. It’s actually a new version of Roku’s old MHL-based Streaming Stick, but there are Continue Reading →

RadioShack said Tuesday that it would close up to 1,100 poorly performing stores amid widening losses, or roughly 20% of its locations, as part of an effort to remake itself for a more competitive era of electronic retailing. The store closings will leave about 4,000 locations in the U.S. The company has been trying to Continue Reading →

Intel has won the Basis auction, we’re hearing, at a price of around $100 million, according to one source. A second source pegs the deal at closer to $150 million. Basis makes wristwatch health trackers, capturing 7 percent of the market versus competitor Jawbone’s 21 percent. As Intel was all about the wearables this year Continue Reading →