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A product listing for the Retina iPad mini with a release date of November 21 has appeared on Target.com, suggesting Apple’s new tablet could make its debut on the Thursday before Thanksgiving. Thus far, Apple has not provided a prospective release date for its iPad mini with Retina Display, offering up only broad November launch Continue Reading →

The launch of Google Inc.’s Android KitKat, the next version of the most widely used operating software for smartphones and tablets, is drawing near. Google executives haven’t announced a release date but people who have been briefed on KitKat say that it is coming soon. There have been several reports about KitKat’s likely features based Continue Reading →

Apple already has a number of solar power inventions to its name, but Thursday’s filing is one of the first to propose a solution that can be made viable in the near term. As noted in the patent, titled “Power management systems for accepting adapter and solar power in electronic devices,” Apple is not looking Continue Reading →

Just in time for the winter holidays, we’ll now finally be able to use our gadgets during takeoff and landing. On Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration—following the approval of its advisory panel and nearly a year of pressure from a United States senator—announced that “passengers will eventually be able to read e-books, play games, and Continue Reading →

Apple will start selling the on-an-Atkins-diet iPad Air Friday. And with the reviews positively gushing — perhaps an understatement, with powerhouses like the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg calling it the “best tablet I’ve ever reviewed” — consumer competition might get heated. How can you get one? Let’s count the ways. Stand in line. How Continue Reading →

How I lost 50 pounds using my smart phone, changed my blood chemistry and saved my life!  You can learn all about it at www.smartphonediet.info Continue Reading →

The iPad Air is 80 percent faster than the fourth-generation iPad, say new benchmark tests. Running the new iPad through the paces via Geekbench 3 tests, Primate Labs found that the tablet comes close to reaching Apple’s promise of doubling the speed of the iPad 4. The iPad Air is powered by an A7 processor, Continue Reading →

People love New York City partially because it’s the city that never sleeps. But a city active 24 hours a day also means it’s producing noise 24 hours a day, making it for many the city that can’t sleep. Traffic, construction, loud guys playing dominoes. Sometimes, silence in the city is like a permanent parking Continue Reading →

As most active Twitter users undoubtedly noticed, Twitter on Tuesday added a new feature to its website and mobile apps that is definitely making waves. In a move that pushes the service one step closer to the likes of Facebook and Tumblr — and makes ads much more valuable as well — Twitter now displays Continue Reading →

The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions Continue Reading →