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Get vehicle stats sent directly to your iPhone with Automatic Link

Get vehicle stats sent directly to your iPhone with Automatic Link
  • Posted March 12, 2013, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware With Video
  • A San Francisco startup called Automatic Labs is now accepting orders for a device designed to monitor your vehicle’s vital stats and send them directly to your smartphone. The program is able to keep track of a variety of parameters…

Latest Steam numbers show Linux, Mac gamers almost equal

Latest Steam numbers show Linux, Mac gamers almost equal
  • Posted March 5, 2013, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • The numbers from Steam's February hardware and software survey have been published and the results show an interesting development -- Linux platforms now accounts for about 2.8 percent of Steam's users. That may not sound like much, but to put…

Election Day 2012: live results and useful online tools

Election Day 2012: live results and useful online tools
  • Posted November 6, 2012, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Technologically speaking, this election year is poised to be the most sophisticated one ever. Candidates (and voters alike) have seemingly fully embraced social media, social networking and the virality of the Interwebs. The Internet is proving to be an increasingly…

Kitchen most dangerous place for iPhones, says SquareTrade

Kitchen most dangerous place for iPhones, says SquareTrade
  • Posted October 16, 2012, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Apple
  • According to data recently doled out by warranty provider SquareTrade, about 21 percent of iPhone-destroying calamities occur in the kitchen. While the kitchen is tops in terms of smartphone destruction, other rooms which come awfully close are the living room (18…

Spotify releases U.S. anniversary figures

Spotify releases U.S. anniversary figures
  • Posted July 23, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Internationally popular music streaming outfit Spotify has released an infographic which illustrates some interesting statistics since last year's U.S. launch. The Swedish company is celebrating its first anniversary in America and by all accounts it looks like a success chock…

PC shipments sluggish in Q2 despite ultrabook push

PC shipments sluggish in Q2 despite ultrabook push
  • Posted July 12, 2012, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
  • Market research firms Gartner and IDC released separate reports yesterday suggesting PC shipments slowed down during the second quarter of the year, as shifting technology trends and a shaky economy dampened demand. The firms estimate worldwide PC shipments fell 0.1%…

China overtakes the US to become the largest PC market

China overtakes the US to become the largest PC market
  • Posted August 24, 2011, 8:30 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Industry News Breaking News
  • For the first time China has surpassed the United States in terms of total PC shipments during the second quarter of 2011. The final results from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker show that 18.5 million PCs were sold in…

Apple sidesteps HP, tops mobile PC shipments (if you count the iPad)

Apple sidesteps HP, tops mobile PC shipments (if you count the iPad)
  • Posted August 19, 2011, 7:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • Apple overtook HP to become the top mobile PC vendor worldwide in the second quarter of 2011, according to stats released by DisplaySearch. The report, which includes figures for both notebooks and tablets, claims that Apple represented 21.1% of the…

90% of Americans own or want a tablet

90% of Americans own or want a tablet
  • Posted June 9, 2011, 7:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
  • To further push its Galaxy Tab line (the 10.1 is out this week), Samsung Mobile funded an online survey that found tablets are becoming popular: 90 percent of US consumers either already own a tablet or would consider buying one.…

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