Like many post-holiday gift-getters, you may be taking more time out of your day to take more pictures with your new glitzy smartphone. Smartphone cameras came a long way in 2011, to the point where digital point and shoot camera sales began falling off.
2012's first meteor shower promises to be quite brilliant because the moon will not be up to outshine the event. The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak Jan. 4, and unlike the Geminid shower in December 2011, it won't be hard to see because of a waning moon that gives off too much light interference.
Apple, BlackBerry, Amazon, Nook and Android all have their own application stores for their mobile devices, but one man in San Francisco plans to open an app store for robotics software.
Two robotic probes began orbiting the moon Sunday in preparation for an unprecedented mission to map the lunar interior.
An app that acts like a musical postcard enables users to capture and share musical moments with friends and family and to discover great songs along the way.
British police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday.
Happy New Year! Before we actually get to the new year and all its promise of new gadgets and fun electronics, let's take a quick look back at the things in 2011 that made us wince.
T-Mobile missed out on the iPhone, but they do have the HTC Amaze 4G, and it promises to take the Android vs Apple fight to another level. That's because it is one loaded smartphone, and the $200 on contract price backs that up nicely.
The time has come to wish year 2011 adieu and welcome year 2012. Year 2011 had been an eventful year and the tech industry kept itself busy with new product launches.
Even as the world is getting ready to welcome 2012, the rumor mills are keeping themselves busy with trying to to figure out what features and release date of the next generation iPad - and the latest rumor is that the new iPad, dubbed iPad 3, will be thinner thanits predecessor because of IGZO panels.
The wave of rumors about Apple's next generation (and yet to debut) iPad seem endless. The latest rumor is that the new iPad, dubbed iPad 3, An unconfirmed photo from a Korean forum suggests that iPad 3 will boast of a better display panel than the current one.
Siri, the voice-controlled, intelligent, personal assistant that has become the most popular feature of iPhone 4S, is useful and will try to answer all your questions. But don't push it too far or else, it might hurl curses at you, as a 10-year-old British kid found out, to the dismay of his parents.
The iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak, released by iPhone Dev Team (Corona 5.0.1) and Chronic Dev Team (RedSn0w 9.10b) based on the French hacker pod2g's work, has been made available on iPhone3GS, iPhone4, iPhone4-CDMA, iPad, iPod Touch 3G and iPod touch 4G. Many people have downloaded and installed the untethered jailbreak, but some of them have encountered various kinds of problems.
The year 2011 was Britain's second-warmest ever, the Met Office said on Friday, although temperatures in December have in fact been close to average.
Two robotic NASA probes are due to arrive at the moon this weekend to resolve a long-standing mystery of what is inside Earth's natural satellite and how it got there.
An interesting and possibly life saving new safety feature is to be offered on new Ford Fusions in 2012, and it will warn drivers if they begin to drift out of their lane. The car will debut at the North American International Auto Show in January and it's the first time the feature will be offered on a non-luxury car.
Lest you fear Verizon has gone mad with power by trying to charge people $2 for paying their bills online, take heart because the Interwebz have spoken. Less than 24 hours after news got around that Verizon was going to institute the convenience fee in January, the company has retracted the fee.
A new study shows wild chimpanzees consider their peers level of attention when deciding if they need to alert them of danger, the BBC reported. Researchers found wild chimps that saw a poisonous snake were more likely to make an "alert call" if they were near a chimp that had not seen the snake.
As you think about what the new year will bring in 2012, try to imagine a whole new way to interact with your mobile devices. It was only 2007 when Apple brought us the touchscreen smartphone, and now, a program called Senseye will enable people to control their devices with their eyes.
HTC, makers of smartphones and tablet computers like the Rezound, myTouch 4G, Sensation and Flyer, will now allow user access to the unlocked bootloader on their devices. That means anyone with the technical know how or desire to highly customize their device can now do so with a new software tool from HTC.
Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless service carrier, will charge $2 “convenience fee” to its customers, who pay one-time bill online or by telephone, starting from Jan. 15.
The highly anticipated next generation iPad will come sooner than expected - in late January 2012, according to the latest rumor. And, hold your breath, Apple will launch not only one, but two new iPad models, which will target both mid- range and high-end market segments.
The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, saying their work carries significant risks and must be tightly controlled.
Verizon Wireless, which this month angered customers with three separate data service problems, said on Thursday it will add a $2 fee for one-time telephone and online bill payments.
Russia's deputy prime minister vowed Thursday to punish "sleepy" security officials after bloggers posted dozens of photos of an apparently unguarded strategic military rocket motor factory near Moscow.
A record number of large scale ivory seizures will be recorded globally in 2011, pointing to a surge in elephant poaching in Africa to meet Asian demand for tusks for use in jewelry and ornaments, a monitoring group said Thursday.
While it may appear that the government's document-leaking case against U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is strong, the defense could have some surprising leverage with prosecutors and force plea negotiations.
Steve Jobs famously left Apple for nearly a decade in the 90s, but when he returned, he not only helped revive the company he founded, he also donated a trove of Apple documents and photos to Stanford University's Silicon Valley Archives. In 1997, Stanford took charge of what was to become an Apple museum, and turned two truckloads of books, software, videotapes and more into Stanford's Apple Collection.
Deutsche Telekom AG, a Hungarian unit and three former executives were charged by a U.S. regulator in a corruption case involving bribery of government officials in Macedonia and Montenegro.
On Christmas Day of this year, activations of new Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices surged 353 percent over the baseline (the average from the first 20 days of December) of 1.5 million to 6.8 million, and more than 142 percent increase over last Christmas, according to mobile application analytics firm Flurry.
