Techie News

via:usatoday.com Last week’s security breach of Sony’s PlayStation Network, which has resulted in a system outage, may have resulted in PSN members’ credit card information being stolen, Sony says. “While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility,” said Patrick Seybold, senior director of […]

via:usatoday.com Google’s Android operating system is now the most desired smartphone OS, according to a survey of mobile consumers from Nielsen. The survey — conducted January-March 2011 — shows that 31% of consumers plan to buy an Android device as their next smartphone, compared with 30% of people wanting Apple’s iOS. The survey also showed […]

via:usatoday.com Sony is planning a tablet computer with a touch panel similar to Apple’s iPad for later this year that the Japanese manufacturer promises will make the best of its gadgetry and entertainment strengths. The product code-named S1, shown Tuesday in Tokyo, comes with a 9.4 inch display for enjoying online content, such as movies, […]

via:metronetwork.com Nintendo is working on a new version of its Wii [[ wee ]] video game console. The company isn’t giving many details about the device, but Nintendo’s CEO says it will, quote, “offer a new way of playing games within the home.” The original Wii introduced in 2006 offered uniquely interactive gameplay made possible […]

Happy Thursday Saints Everyone is talking about the new I-Pad.. Yup six months after the orginally one comes out the “newer/More Improved version comes out”. This got me to thinking. Was the I-Pad already out when the 1st one came out? Are the feeding us technology slowly because we’d abuse or misuse it? maybe we […]

Conditioned to politely hang up on telemarketers, Gail Davis followed form recently, only to find out she had hung up on a legit Apple giveaway of a $10,000 iTunes gift card for downloading Apple’s App Store’s 10 billionth app early Saturday morning, a milestone our own Suzanne Choney wrote about over the weekend. “I thought […]

Well, that’s that. After more than three years of rumors, speculation, and plain old wishful thinking, Verizon Wireless finally announced Tuesday that it will soon be offering its own version of the iPhone, bringing AT&T’s long monopoly on the wildly popular handset to an end. The long-expected news came at a packed press conference at […]

by JC Torpey via:yahoonews The 2011 CES international, being held Thursday to Sunday, is the biggest electronics trade show in the world. This year’s show will feature gadgets from over 2000 manufacturers, some from big name giants and others from smaller startups. No matter the size of the company involved, all of the gadgets at […]

By Sam Grobart via:yahoofinance Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, a 30-year-old illustrator in San Francisco, bought a point-and-shoot camera in May. But in July, she bought a smartphone, with a camera built in. Soon, whenever she wanted to take a picture, she found herself reaching for the smartphone, a Droid Incredible. She barely uses her point-and-shoot, a Panasonic […]

          via:christanscienceminitor   After a weekend of strong online sales, retail websites are rolling out the gimmicks on “Cyber Monday” to draw buyers. The sales promotions on the Monday after Thanksgiving got their name from a retail trade group, which promoted the idea that people, upon returning to work, would log […]