How Important Is Buying Used Games?
As I’ve said here before, I think that used games are an integral component in the value proposition presented to gamers. There are some people that don’t believe they should pay $60 for a game, and...
View ArticleFrom the Editor’s Discotheque: Thanks for coming out, y’all!
Holy crap, that picture is going to get annoying after a couple seconds. But I don't care. It sums up Thursday night's Talk Mobile 2013 Launch Party pretty succinctly. (And it's a great example of the...
View ArticleStock Talk: Those analysts, they be finicky folk
To close out last week's trading week, Samsung shares tanked, and everyone seemed to be talking about it. The short version: Samsung stock dropped 6 percent, which means $12 billion of market value...
View ArticleApple’s iOS 7 ‘copied’ everyone – and that’s a good thing
Some ideas are so good that they should be shared If you had Internet service today, you've no doubt heard about Apple's iOS 7 unveiling at WWDC. If for some reason you haven't, be sure to head over...
View ArticleMaking sense of the Galaxy S4 Zoom
Let’s call the ‘Zoom’ what it really is -- a Galaxy Camera Mini This morning Samsung announced a phone with a camera strapped to the back of it. The Galaxy S4 Zoom, as it’s called, combines the guts...
View ArticleThank you, Apple. You’ve outdone yourself on the Mac Pro 2013
I’m a complainer. I know it. My family knows it. And anyone who has read my repeated diatribes here on SlashGear knows it. I don’t like products that I feel could be better. And I can’t stand when...
View ArticleGoogle Play Music All Access will be my first paid music subcription service
It isn't perfect, but All Access is a step closer than anything else I've found Like many people this week, I received an email from Google Play as a gentle reminder that my free trial for Google Play...
View ArticleStock Talk: Google’s purchase of Waze reminiscent of when it bought YouTube
The naysayers were wrong in 2006 — is this Google's latest genius move? The rumors turned into official news earlier this week. Google has acquired Waze, a social mapping and navigation company. Most...
View ArticleYour Android device is not the place to store your photos
When (not if) you lose everything on your phone or tablet, you'll be thankful you backed up the important things We just got another heart-breaking email from a reader who has lost all their pictures...
View ArticleApple’s Mac Pro 2013 and the Form vs. Function War
We’re about to see another of Apple’s big experiments, and this time it’s pro-users who are under the microscope. The test machine: the Mac Pro 2013. The question: just how important is...
View ArticleSeven months after release, the Nexus 4 is still the best way to experience...
The Nexus 4 may not do everything some of the others do, but it has one thing going for it -- the Android Jelly Bean experience There are a lot of choices for folks looking for an Android-powered...
View ArticleHTC Butterfly S: So close, yet so far (away)
HTC’s original J Butterfly was a phone of firsts for the company, most notably the 1080p display. It may not have been the only phone to feature Full HD resolution, but it pushed HTC back into the...
View ArticleA broken Falcon Pro is just the start of the Twitter pain
If you paid for a Twitter client after August 2012, it's time to accept that you might eventually lose your $2 It's time to start facing the long, hard facts, folks. The writing has been on the wall...
View ArticleBeing mobile-ready: Google Hangouts will kill every webinar platform out there
With what we now know about the pace of mobile broadband penetration and mobile computing power, it’s pretty safe to say that people are going to rely more and more on mobile technology to do their...
View ArticleWhat Makes Apple Different?
I have a question for all of you that, for the life of me, I just can’t answer on my own: what makes Apple different? Yes, I know it’s a question that’s been posed before, and some have said in the...
View ArticleHey Samsung, we need to talk about plastic
You can’t accuse Samsung of not playing to form. The South Korean company didn’t stint on technology at its Thursday event in London, UK, and while there may not have been a single headline gadget like...
View ArticleFrom the Editor’s Desk: Welcome to summer
Has anyone come up with a way — short of moving to Sweden — that does something about that awful coating of sweat you get when you talk on the phone in the summer? I'm asking for a friend. OK,...
View ArticleI’ll Never Wear A Smartwatch. Never
With the news surrounding Sony’s possible plans to launch a smartwatch in the near future, I’ve been inundated with comments by the geekiest of the geeks, saying how they can’t wait to get their hands...
View ArticleCareful Sony, three SmartWatch strikes and you’re out
You can’t accuse Sony of lacking faith in the SmartWatch 2; in fact, the company is keen to point out that it has made a few attempts at the segment before. “Competitors are only now launching first...
View ArticleWhat is Stock Android?
There's Nexus and Google Play editions and experiences ... Just what exactly is 'Stock Android' anymore? (And does it even matter?) The term "Stock Android" gets thrown around quite a bit —...
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