Tech Biz

Barnes and Noble just posted a notice informing customers that PIN pads 63 stores across the country have been tampered with. The compromised PIN pads could have recorded your PIN number. Not good. If you’ve shopped at a brick and mortar Barnes and Noble over the last couple of months, keep a closer watch on Continue Reading →

Price was perhaps always the most anticipated feature of the iPad mini, and now it’s proving the most controversial. My Twitter stream has been filled with arguments back and forth on the iPad mini’s $329 price tag, with many weighing in saying it’s too expensive and that Apple missed the mark. It’s a funny discussion Continue Reading →

Players are spending 20 percent less on Zynga games, which means Facebook is receiving less money from those games as well. Overall, gaming on Facebook isn’t doing as well as I’d like,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company’s third-quarter earnings conference call today. He said the rest of Facebook’s gaming network has been Continue Reading →

In order for Apple to get the iPad mini to a thin and light form factor that’s comfortable to hold in one hand, the bezel surrounding the display had to be reduced. If you look carefully, the bezel flanking the left and right side of the iPad mini is half as thin as the bezel Continue Reading →

Windows 8 is the biggest risk Microsoft has taken in decades and the company’s decision to square off against the very hardware vendors that propelled its meteoric rise adds a whole new dimension to this latest endeavor. Here, BGR reviews the Surface tablet, a device that ushers in a new era at Microsoft that could Continue Reading →

So you bought a new iPad. Are you feeling burned by the fact that Apple unexpectedly announced a fourth-generation tablet six months after the third generation, making its predecessor obsolete in record time? Do you now resent iPad 2 owners, whose device is at least still on sale? Well, Apple is apparently trying to make Continue Reading →

Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, oversees technology strategy for Amazon Web Services- the world’s largest provider of web-delivered infrastructure services to developers. In Tel Aviv for this week’s AWS Summit, Werner shares his approach to innovation, biggest strategic mistake and how AWS strives to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company.” Amazon Web Services began in Continue Reading →

Apple’s new iMac announcement on Tuesday included an interesting bit of information on an upcoming technology Apple calls “Fusion Drive.” According to Phil Schiller this morning, the technology takes a relatively small solid state disk and a relatively large spinning hard disk drive, then “fuses” them together into a single drive. Speculation in the Ars Continue Reading →

For Apple’s iPad and its tablet rivals, there are three major markets: Education, Enterprise and Consumers on the couch (or in the plane, or on a train, et cetera). It’s easy to forget those first two, but they undoubtedly are the largest market opportunities for the tech company. I’ll save the enterprise for another post, Continue Reading →

Microsoft’s Surface tablet debuted on Friday. It’s going to run Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system and Microsoft is making a big deal out of it. Is the Surface a Tablet or a Laptop? Perhaps it’s somewhere in the middle. Will you love it or hate it? So much depends on your Windows needs and Continue Reading →