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Google updated its Chrome Web browser today to include voice search, a feature that lets you speak naturally to your computer to get search results.  The feature not only does your searches by voice but responds to questions and allows you to engage in follow up questions thereby allowing you to have a conversations with Google. Its a product which takes mobile search...

The Saturday Evening Post has a prominent spot in the history of American magazines. It's where artist Norman Rockwell made a name for himself, and it has published classic American authors like Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But if you had no idea that it was still around, you're not alone — the magazine's technology director Steve Harman said that many people...

First Airline Alliance to Introduce Customised iPad App - - Star Alliance has expanded its mobile device offer by introducing the customised Navigator app for the iPad. The new app complements the exi...

Your cat gets to do whatever it wants everywhere else in the house, so why not give it control of the iPad, too?

Apple’s fifth-generation iPad will hit mass production in July and launch "as early as September," according to supply chain sources. Digitimes reports that the next iPad will still have a 9.7-inch 2048 x 1536 resolution display, albeit one which is built on a glass substrate thinner than its predecessor (0.2mm versus 0.25mm on the fourth-generation iPad). The...

Sensopia, a company which actually uncovered a practical application for augmented reality, has raised a $1.2 million Series A round for its floor plan capturing application called “MagicPlan.” The app allows users to hold up their phone and then scan the dimensions of the room around them in order to create an instant floor plan that can be exported to various formats,...

According to investigators, Marcos Arenas, 15, was walking down a Las Vegas street with the iPad when a passenger got out of a vehicle and tried to steal it.

A Las Vegas boy was killed Thursday after being run over when two men attempted to steal his iPad.According to the Las Vegas Sun, Marcos Arenas, 15, was walking on the side of the road with his iPad when an SUV pulled up. A suspect jumped out, accosted the boy and attempted to steal his iPad. Police investigators told the newspaper that the suspect dragged the teen, who...

With a workforce of more than one million, the electronics giant Foxconn has enough workers in its Chinese factories to fill a small country. So it's fitting...

Canadian photographer, Todd McLellan, has spent more than ten years dismantling everyday objects and then photographing the pieces.

The whole hip pocket notebook fad is getting a little tired, but DODOcase—the makers of some gorgeous premium cases for the iPhone, iPad, and other devices—might have just revived it with its new DODOnotes iPhone-friendly notebooks.Read more...    

WheezyJoe writes "A story on NPR reports that the TrackingPoint rifle went on sale today, and can enable a 'novice' to hit a target 500 yards away on the first try. The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display (video). The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger... But here's where it's different: You pull the trigger...

Google+, the social layer that Google introduced almost two years ago, has evolved quite a bit since its launch. Today, the company announced a complete redesign, taking cues from the mobile experience that has drawn positive feedback from those who don't even use the service. In total, Google has launched 41 new features for Google+, including a completely revamped Photo...

Offered by Amosu for around $4,300, this iPad wears a 24-karat jacket and a Apple logo made of 360 Swarovski crystals, and is otherwise just like every other iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity.

iPads and other tablets are being used every day for productivity tasks once reserved for laptops. Walt Mossberg looks at apps that attempt to emulate the features of Office.

On the eve of Google I/O 2013, let's take a look back at what the company has accomplished (or not) since last year's conference.

- Customers Can Now Access Their Favorite NOOK Comics™ with Zoom View and Receive a Free DC Comics 2013 Superman Sampler with Download of Free NOOK for iOS App and New NOOK Account Registration - - New...

A handwritten note is becoming a lost art in the age of email, Facebook, SMS, and more messaging apps than you can count. But if anything, that rarity has only led to increase its value and perceived thoughtfulness, even as our penmanship skills decline. Today, a startup called Postable is bringing back the "handwritten" note with a service that allows you to type in handwriting...

An Australian computer-security expert has created an application that lets anyone see the locations of the last three Wi-Fi access points used by an Apple iPhone or iPad — information that could be used to deduce where the iOS device user lives. Melbourne-based researcher Hubert Seiwert's iSniff GPS, now freely available for anyone to download and use, combines three...

Pegatron already makes older iPhone models for Apple (the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S) and even the iPad mini    

Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based startup behind a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch that helped to discover patterns in live data streams, has been acquired by Twitter. Terms of the deal were not immediately available, but the company has announced via its website that it will be shuttering its service in the coming months, and several members...

A video glimpse into a 30-year relationship that is the definition of frenemies. FORTUNE -- Steve Jobs was pretty sick in Nov. 2010 when CBS (CBS) debuted its 60 Minutes app on the iPad, so it's hard to know how involved he was in the negotiations that got Apple (AAPL) the exclusive. But he probably would have got a kick out of what the venerable TV newsmagazine managed...

Groupon is once again expanding its portfolio of mobile payment services, putting it in closer competition with the likes of Square and PayPal's here targeting local merchants: today it has released Groupon POS, which appears to be an iPad-specific version of its mobile payments service aimed at local merchants, working as a dashboard to make and track payments.

We’re just a few days away from the start of Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference, and while we actually know very little about what Google plans to announce during its massive, 3-hour keynote on Wednesday, there is something brewing in Mountain View that has Microsoft’s Office division on edge. Over the course of the last week, Microsoft started...

Just about two years ago, I went off the deep end. I had come home early from an event in an effort to do something responsible: email. I was on the road and knew the situation would be dire (since I had not been checking my email all day). I was wrong. It was a disaster. It may as well have been Inbox Trillion. There was no way I could get through it all with...