I confess, I’m intrigued by BlackBerry 10. Surprised? So am I. It’s been easy to pre-emptively count BlackBerry out of the smartphone wars based on its performance over the last two or three years, but there’s an element of mystique and personality t…
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OUYA developers sound off: successes and failures of the dev kit, one month out
You still can’t touch an OUYA. Not until March, at the earliest, and that’s only if you’re a Kickstarter backer. However, one lucky group of folks already has access: game developers. Those among us who shelled out $700 — as well as the 10 lucky stu…
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Outlook.com appears to be down, some users reporting an Office 365 service outage as well (update)
Well, happy Friday to you too, Microsoft. It appears that the company is wrapping up the week with an outage: Outlook.com appears to be down, and many users are reporting that the Office 365 subscription service is unavailable as well. From our vanta…
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Google files patent application for touch-based, full-finger keyboard layout
Tapping on glass… it’s not the future — it’s the present. Except software-based touch typing solutions haven’t really extended beyond the cramped confines of mobile phones and tablets. But what if there were a touch type experience that mapped to …
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OpenKit aiming to fill OpenFeint-sized hole, launches in private beta tomorrow
OpenFeint seed investor Peter Relan is fed up with his former creation’s lack of existence — the open source software once powered the social integration behind many mobile games. After Japanese social gaming giant GREE bought OpenFeint in April 201…
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Java, Silverlight left in cold as Firefox disables all plugins by default — except Flash
In an effort to prevent “drive-by exploitations,” upcoming versions of Firefox will have Java, Adobe Reader and Silverlight disabled by default, according to a recent Mozilla Security blog. All other third-party plugins except Flash will also be disa…
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Microsoft releases Bing-powered apps for Office 365 Home Premium
Because no corporate monolith can resist a good play at synergy, Microsoft’s leveraging its properties to intro a suite of free Bing-powered apps for Office. If you’ve signed up for the company’s recently released, cloud-based Office 365 Home Premiu…
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Pocket for iOS gets native sharing to Facebook, simpler option to delete articles
Good news are in for those who are avid users of Read it Later Pocket on iOS, as the handy application’s been updated with some social tools and a few UI improvements. For starters, version 4.3 now allows readers to share content directly to Facebook…
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Google tweaks Google+ and Play Music apps for Android
Nobody can accuse Google of being lax with its recently-booming social network or Play Music Android player, as updates seem to be arriving at healthy intervals. Another one just dropped for each that fixes a Galaxy SIII freezing issue in Music, whil…
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Splashtop’s Configurable Shortcuts & Gamepad feature lets tablet users create virtual controls and more
Whether it be its iOS, Android or Windows 8 users, Splashtop does a pretty good job at keeping them happy by introducing new things here and there, and the very latest may be no exception to that — well, at least to some. Dubbed Configurable Shortcu…
