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First revealed in rumors last week, the Comcast Xfinity TV Store is now available, selling movies and TV shows. Until now the cable company has offered its traditional video subscriptions, PPV and video on-demand rentals, but now it’s offering more transactions of a more permanent nature. Pricing and content is similar to that of other Continue Reading →

Apple released an iPad version of its Apple Store app on Wednesday, just in time for the holiday shopping season. The new app is separate from the iPhone version in order to take advantage of the tablet form factor. With the app, you’ll be able to shop for Apple products, schedule Genius Bar appointments and Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the company plans to release Service Pack 1 (SP1) for its 2013 productivity suite of products, including Office, SharePoint and Exchange. SP1 will arrive “early next year” – the company wouldn’t give a more specific date. Microsoft did, however, share that SP1 will deliver performance enhancements, feature updates, and improve Continue Reading →

Hold on to your selfies, everyone. Some news coming in from Instagram: the hugely popular photo app is finally arriving in the Windows Phone Store on Wednesday — at 11am Pacific time, to be precise. There have been some murmurs and guesses that this would happen on Wednesday — and Nokia noted this timeframe last Continue Reading →

The LG G Flex is a phone unlike any phone you’ve ever seen. It’s a powerful phone, to be sure: it’s got a 2.26GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and a 13-megapixel camera all tucked inside a gigantic 6” 720p screen. That screen is what separates it from just about every other phone Continue Reading →

Amazon has begun sending out invites to select customers to try out the Kindle Fire HDX and other devices free of charge for 30 days. According to the invite, customers can choose among any of the Kindles Amazon current offers, including the latest Kindle Paperwhite and new Kindle Fire HDX and HDX 8.9. Amazon will Continue Reading →

The PlayStation 4 is great. I think. There aren’t really enough games out for me to say so definitively, but I think it’s great. So far. Available now in the U.S. for $399 (if you can find one), the PlayStation 4 took everything that was good about the PlayStation 3, got rid of (mostly) everything Continue Reading →

Over the last six years, Dropbox has emerged as one of Silicon Valley’s most promising startups on the strength of a simple idea—allowing Internet users to store such files as baby photos and Word (MSFT) documents in the cloud and to access them from any computer or mobile device. On Tuesday the company gathered journalists Continue Reading →

Last year Oxford University Press split its word of the year honors between the US and the UK, but for 2013 there’s one word to rule them all — and it is “selfie.” The term beat out contenders like twerk, bitcoin, and binge-watch, due largely to its remarkable uptick in usage. According to research conducted Continue Reading →

With more and more public places in China getting free Wi-Fi as part of the government’s efforts to promote Internet usage, McDonald’s is also jumping onto the bandwagon to attract customers. Sina Tech reports that by next year, more than 1,400 McDonald’s restaurants across China will have free Wi-Fi access. As of now, several McDonald’s Continue Reading →