WhatsApp Reaches 500 Million Active User Milestone

Two months after Facebook announced that it would be acquiring WhatsApp, the messaging service has reached 500 million users. Privacy concerns regarding WhatsApp’s new owner were rampant when the acquisition was announced but those concerns didn’t slow down growth, and … Read More

Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Plans Expansion To 10 New Markets

Xiaomi has announced that it will be releasing some of its mobile devices in 10 new markets during 2014. The announcement was made by Xiaomi founder Lei Jun. Although some of the countries mentioned had previously been brought up as … Read More

Google Agreed To Help Samsung During Apple Patent Lawsuit

Newly unveiled documents show that prior to the start of Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung, Google promised that it would help with both the legal costs and part of the damages, if Samsung lost.

Since the beginning of this particular patent … Read More

Apple Ships iOS 7.1.1 with TouchID, Bug Fixes

Still having trouble with TouchID? Looking for more iOS keyboard responsiveness? Then by all means fire up your compatible iPhone, iPod touch and/or iPad to download iOS 7.1.1. There aren’t any new features, but there are plenty o’ bug … Read More

Large iPhone 6 Hits Delay, Might Launch In 2015

For some time now we have been hearing that the Apple iPhone 6 will come in two different sizes, one of which could actually be considered a phablet, as it is rumored to be 5.5-inches. Now, at least one report … Read More

MEVU Bracelet Provides New Way To Use Bitcoin

MEVU Labs has release a video showing off a prototype of a new bracelet that could allow people to pay for things with Bitcoin. Since the bracelet is Bluetooth-ready, it can connect to payment devices wirelessly and the user can … Read More

Expert Says Samsung Should Pay Apple $38m Not $2B

Judith Chevalier, a professor of economics at Yale who was also hired by Samsung, says that Samsung should only pay out–if the company is guilty–$38.4 million rather than the $2.2 billion that Apple is requesting in the courts.

The figure … Read More

Verizon Report Shows Money-Based Cyberattacks Rule All

Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations report has been released and looks at cyberattack trends that appeared during 2013. Based upon the report’s findings, cyberattacks are still becoming more common and the majority of them are carried out with the goal … Read More

LG G Watch Is Durable And Always-On

New details regarding the LG G Watch have been provided, with LG urging people to check out the updated product information on Facebook. Among the latest updates are that the watch will be both water and dust resistant–this should be … Read More

AT&T To Compete With Google Fiber, May Provide Gigabit Internet

AT&T says that it will be looking into the possibility of bringing gigabit internet to 100 cities around the United States in 21 different metropolitan areas. The high-speed 1GB per second speeds–you probably won’t actually attain these figures in the … Read More

Yep, Your ISP Probably Isn’t Giving You What You Paid For

In a new report on the Wall Street Journal, it was revealed that for many people in the United States, paying a premium for high-speed internet doesn’t necessarily guarantee the advertised speeds. The journalists relied on data from Ookla’s Speed … Read More

Comcast Responds To Netflix’s Criticism Of Comcast-Time Warner Deal

Comcast and Netflix have not been getting along recently as it is, considering the internet service provider (ISPs) was slowing internet speeds to Netflix subscribers. Although that issue has been temporarily fixed by the video streaming service agreeing to pay … Read More

Nest Thermostat May Soon Be Sold On Google Play

Google acquired the company behind the Nest learning thermostat in January of this year and now it appears as though the company will begin to sell the device on its Google Play store. For a short period of time Monday … Read More

WikiPlaces iPhone App Review: Useful Travel Reference

8

Great

WikiPlaces is an iPhone app developed by mifki. WikiPlaces gives you mobile access to Wikimapia.org, a collaborative mapping project.

WikiPlaces (and by extension, Wikimapia) is dedicated to providing descriptions of every notable site on the planet. To date, over 20 … Read More

More People Are Cutting The Cord, Especially Netflix Subscribers

Cord cutters–those that have gotten rid of their cable or satellite TV subscriptions–are becoming more and more common every year. A new report from Experian Marketing Services shows that while the overall percentage of cord cutting households has risen, the … Read More

Apple Focuses On Its Green Thumb With ‘Better’ Ad

Apple has released a new 90 second ad called ‘Better’ which deals with the company’s efforts to become eco-friendly and more sustainable overall. CEO Tim Cook narrates the advertisement–something that Steve Jobs only did a few times–while clips of the … Read More

Samsung’s Innovation Museum Celebrates 45 Years Of Samsung

Samsung has opened an Innovation Museum in Suwon, South Korea in order to celebrate its 45th anniversary. Though you’d expect the museum to be focused entirely on how great Samsung is and how far it has come, the museum–which is … Read More

Aereo To Fight Legal Battle Tuesday

Aereo, a live TV streaming service, will be fighting back against lawsuits in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Aereo is going up against broadcasting companies and possibly even the US Government, both of which think that capturing over-the-air TV signals … Read More

TidyUp! iPad Game Review: Perfect For Small Children

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Great

TidyUp! is an iPad game developed by Wirenode s.r.o. / 2014 TobiGames.com. If you need an iPad app to entertain your small children, this is a solid choice.

TidyUp! helps parents to introduce good habits to their kids at a … Read More

iShowU Studio Mac App Review: Video Capture & Editing

9

Amazing

iShowU Studio is a Mac App developed by shinywhitebox, a small internet based product development company founded in early 2006 by Neil Clayton.

This Mac App is part screen recorder, part video editor, and more than just “part” awesome. If … Read More

iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac App Review

9.2

Amazing

iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac is a Mac App developed by iSkysoft. This app is a powerful video converter that allows you to convert more than 70 popular video/audio formats.

iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac has great functionality. You can … Read More

Epica iPhone App Review: Make Silly Pictures

8.5

Great

Epica is an iPhone app developed by Wanman Inc. Featured on the Top 20 list of bestselling apps across ten different countries, this photography app is ideal for people who like to take memorable or funny photographs.

You can use … Read More

Edifier e25 Luna Eclipse 2.0 Review

8.3

Great

With a mix of futuristic style and acceptable sound quality, the Edifier e25 Luna Eclipse desktop speakers are quite interesting. For $199.00, they do sound pretty good and they also have great style (in our opinion) but that doesn’t mean … Read More

40 Steve Jobs Quotes: Freaky, Fun, Inspiringly Rude Words of Wisdom

Back in the day, people would line up and sleep outside in the cold just to hear Steve Jobs talk, well, about just anything and he rarely disappointed, turning any product into marketing gold. And, Tapscape has the Steve … Read More

Beats Music enables in-app subscriptions

Beats Music has taken to employing a new method for their iOS App in an attempt to boost subscribers. With an update to the iOS App on Friday, Beats Music, the music streaming radio service from Beats (yes the … Read More

Samsung Milk Music Basic Will Include Ads

Samsung Milk Music, the company’s music streaming service for Galaxy devices, will soon be updated to include basic and premium versions of the service. Since Milk was launched last month, the streaming service has been the same for everyone which … Read More

Google Glass Try-On Program Confirmed

Google is trying to get as many people as possible to provide feedback on Google Glass prior to a public launch and that is particularly true now that the company has confirmed a new pilot program.

Glass will now be … Read More

LinkedIn Reaches 300 Million Users

LinkedIn has reached one of the biggest milestones to-date, 300 million users. Last week, the social network–which is geared towards business professionals, unlike Facebook–announced that its mobile traffic had been steadily increasing as a result of a mobile push and … Read More

Game of Thrones Cost Per Episode: $80 in US, $49 in Australia

If you want to watch Game of Thrones legally, how much does it cost per episode? Forget all of the garbage that comes bundled and just reckon the per episode Game of Thrones cost and, wow, it ain’t cheap.

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General Mills Changes Legal Policy, Freaks Everyone Out

General Mills, the company behind Cheerios and dozens of other products, recently updated its legal policy in a way that has many customers freaked out. The change was first brought up in The New York Times, which published a story … Read More

Facebook’s All About New Ideas, Says Zuckerberg

During an interview with The New York Times, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company’s ability to innovate and said that it is always working on new ideas that aren’t directly tied to the main social network.

In his first … Read More

‘Titanfall’ May Be Huge, But The Xbox One Is Still Behind

Shortly after Sony announced that it had reached 7 million sales with its PS4 game console, Microsoft has come out with stats to show that it is far behind Sony. Even though both consoles were released around the same time, … Read More