Author: matt buchanan

If you consider where Android was when it started versus how far it’s advanced in 18 months with Android 2.2, you might get brain freeze. More »










Android – Google – Handhelds – Video Games – Games

Barnes & Noble’s free eReader app is here, and shockingly, it’s probably the best ebook app on the iPad, for now. Better than Kindle, and better than iBooks. More »










Barnes & Noble – IPad – E-book – nook – Apple

So, it’s happened. By at least one metric, for at least this very moment—it could change tomorrow—Apple is now bigger than Microsoft. Apple’s market cap passed Microsoft’s today, just two months after edging under Walmart. The latest showing from Google Finance puts Apple’s market cap at $225.98 billion to Microsoft’s $225.32 billion. More »










Apple – Microsoft – Business – Monopolies and Oligopolies – Economic

Hello college students. Artsy ones. It’s summer, that most magical of seasons. You want an awesome art internship with a website you love. We have one. More »










Education – Colleges and Universities – College Life – Art – College

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M is the steroidal notebook graphics card you’ve been waiting for (if you’re a huge nerd): The world’s fastest notebook GPU according to Nvidia, it’s the first mobile chip using Nvidia’s ridiculous Fermi architecture. More »










Nvidia – GeForce – Video card – GPU – Hardware

The WSJ solidifies an intriguing post by Mary Jo Foley last week that J. Allard, the guy behind the Xbox, Zune and Courier—or more formally, the Chief Experience Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft’s E&D division—is leaving after Steve Ballmer killed the Courier tablet project. More »










Microsoft – Xbox – J Allard – Mary Jo Foley – Steve Ballmer

Android 2.2 is out, and it’s pretty nice! But what’s next for Android? A better keyboard? More sexy? And how exactly does Google decide what goes into each version of Android anyway? Let’s ask Lead Android Andy Rubin. More »










Android – Google – Apple – Handhelds – IPhone

Well, that answers that. At the Android Fireside chat at Google IO, the Android team says that Android 2.2 won’t be coming to the G1, simply because there’s not enough space for the OS to fit in the flash space. Of course, your friendly developer community will probably whip something up. More »










Android – Google – Handhelds – Searching – Search Engines

The Hulu icon shined so brightly in the Google TV demo. Hulu, on our TVs, finally? Well, maybe. More »

The CEOs of Google, Sony, Adobe, Intel, Logitech, Best Buy, Dish stand (or rather, sit) together. More »

Android 2.2 is here. We’ve been using it with Flash 10.1 and it is nicer than 2.1 in some small, but key ways. Like built-in tethering and Wi-Fi hotspot powers. Oh, and Flash.
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Honestly, there’s not much to say about Flash 10.1 on Android that you haven’t already seen, given how hard Adobe’s been pushing the Flash-on-phones message. There’s a few things. More »

Ginormous. That’s the EVO 4G in a word. The 4.3-inch screen. The 8-megapixel-photo, 720p-video-recording camera. It’s the first ever phone with superfast WiMax wireless. It has a kickstand. Like I said, huge. More »










HTC Corporation – WiMax – EVO 4G – Video Games – Games

A rounded, plasticky take on the iPad. That’s how Nvidia’s latest Android tablet prototype struck me. It’s pretty nice. But not as nice as the inside. More »

There’s a lot of under-the-hood changes to Wave to make it faster, more stable and more extendable with new APIs, among other improvements, but the big news for most people is that now anybody can use it with their standard Google (or Google Apps) account—it’s just going to live in Google Labs for the time being. [Wave] More »

Canon’s Rebel T2i is an incredible camera—everything a first DSLR should be. It takes fantastic photos (and, crucially, video) for the price, it’s easy to use, and perhaps most importantly, it’s a camera you can grow with. More »










Digital single-lens reflex camera – Canon – Photography – Camera – Digital camera

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a radical overhaul—or even fully functional, since it’s missing search and QR codes—but Google’s Android Market site is definitely more pleasant and navigable than before. [Android] More »










Android Market – Google – Android – Handhelds – Searching

The iPad 3G is the iPad I’ve been waiting for. It’s got two things the regular iPad doesn’t: 3G internet from AT&T and assisted GPS. The results we got from testing might surprise you, I think. More »

The weekend officially starts with this video: Cupcakes hurled at people’s faces with a 120psi cupcake cannon, captured at 700 frames per second. Repeat: Super slow motion cupcake EXPLOSIONS. [Johnny Cupcakes] More »