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If you’re not an HBO subscriber and you don’t know someone who’s willing to give you their HBO Go login credentials, then you’re pretty much locked out of the pay cabler’s walled original content garden. But as of Monday, HBO’s granting access to seven of its most popular series via Google Play. Pricing for the Continue Reading →

Close your Foodspotting app and put your phone down. Marketing professors have confirmed what many of our dining companions say all the time: Instagramming dinner ruins the meal. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Psychology says over-exposure to food photos on Instagram ruins enjoyment of food for everyone at the table. Participating in Continue Reading →

It may be the weekend, but the world’s biggest companies don’t take time to rest and — to that end — Samsung spoke up to deny speculation that it is planning to invest in US retailer Best Buy. The Korea Times reported that senior executives at the two companies — which partnered in April to Continue Reading →

Only 98,600 people wrote messages on Twitter about the two-hour season premiere of “Grey’s Anatomy” last month. That’s a tiny fraction of the 9.3 million who, according to Nielsen, watched the show that night. But the posts, 225,000 of them in total, were seen by millions of Twitter users, some of whom might have fired Continue Reading →

An Apple iWatch may not be a huge revenue booster but it could still capture as many as 10 million customers. Based on a Piper Jaffray survey of 799 US consumers, analyst Gene Munster believes Apple could sell between 5 million and 10 million smartwatches during the initial launch year. The recent poll asked people Continue Reading →

With the iPhone 5s launch behind us, industry watchers are now turning up the heat as they sniff around for details on next year’s iPhone 6. We have already seen a few early reports from multiple solid sources suggest Apple will finally make the move to a larger display in next year’s iPhone 6, and Continue Reading →

With the Galaxy Gear and new Note out of the gate, a rumor from Eldar Murtizan has it that Samsung is now developing a competitor to Google Glass. Glass is Google’s yet-to-be-released take at wearable computing: an accessory that pushes your content into the view of your eye. There’s no actual detail on what Samsung’s Continue Reading →

Flexible displays could potentially open the door for a variety of exciting (and not so exciting) new form factors for smartphones and other devices. The emerging wearable computing category is perhaps where the most intriguing possibilities lie, but smartphones will apparently be the first device category to see a mass-market device launch featuring a new Continue Reading →

Well here it is, Instagram is getting ads and it’s starting with users in the US. In a blog post on Thursday, Instagram says that users in the country are going to start seeing video and image ads. Instagram says that the ads will start appearing over the next couple of months and will come Continue Reading →

Personal assistant app Cue has been acquired, we’ve confirmed with a person who should know. The app has sold for between $40 million to $60 million, we’re hearing from two sources, including TechCrunch tips, who posit that Apple has picked up the company for over a $35 million price tag. While we’re hearing that the Continue Reading →