Techie News

  via:mashable(yahoo)   Facebook’s sliding stock price has at least one hedge fund manager predicting a dismal decade ahead for the social network. “In five to eight years they are going to disappear in the way that Yahoo has disappeared,” Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson told the CNBC show Squawk on the Street on Monday. […]

via:christianpost Amazon is planning to launch an 8.9-inch Kindle Fire tablet later on this year, according to a new report from Reuters. This new larger Amazon device will be created to go head-to-head with the king of the tablet market, Apple, whose iPad currently dominates that arena. Read More

via: cnn.com (CNN) — If you want to salute, race or flirt with other drivers in Nevada, you could soon be out of luck with some cars. That’s because on Monday, Nevada became the first to approve a license for “autonomous vehicles” — in other words, cars that cruise, twist and turn without the need […]

    via:christianpost Samsung debuted the long awaited Samsung Galaxy S3 at its “Mobile Unpacked” event that took place in London, England yesterday and also showed off the device’s impressive new feature, S-Voice.  S-Voice is similar to Apple’s Siri voice recognition system that comes on the iPhone 4S.     Read More

  via:christianpost   The iPhone 5 could be launching at this year’s WorldWide Developers Conference, set to take place in June, according to a report received by tech blog YouMobile yesterday.  The report also revealed that the handset will be 20 percent thinner than the current iPhone and will feature a 4-inch display with a […]

  via:christianpost The first flying automobile manufactured in the U.S. has completed its first official test flight, bringing it one step closer to the showroom floor.  The car was created by the Massachusetts based Terrafugia Inc., who hopes to be able to sell the flying car within the next year.  Read More

via: cnn.com (CNN) — Seriously, iPhone fans? Just hours after Instagram, a mobile app that lets users layer pre-programmed filters over their photos to achieve maximum hipness, launched on Google’s Android operating system Tuesday, the snark began. Read More

via:christianpost After the iPad 3 release conference Wednesday, many iPad 2 owners looking to upgrade are stuck with one looming question: how do I sell my iPad 2 and get an iPad 3? There are a number of ways to trade up the year-old iPad 2 for the newer iPad 3 come it’s release date […]

via:christianpost Best Buy seems to have dropped the price on the iPad 2 in anticipation of an early March release of the iPad 3.  Rumors have been circling since the middle of last year regarding the iPad 3’s release date with most publications now agreeing that there is a strong chance the device could launch […]

via: click2houston.com HOUSTON – Memorial Hermann Hospital performed the first live feed of an open heart surgery on Twitter. The procedure is expected to last about two hours. The patient, who is a 57-year-old man, was prepped at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and the cameras are started rolling at 8:30 a.m. See More