Googler Spots A Pair Of Prescription Google Glass; I Am Happy
As someone who is confined to wearing glasses on a daily basis, I’ve had my own (mostly ironic) personal prejudice against Google Glass; such a cool piece of technology that is off-limits to me simply because I possess the very thing that it was named for. So when I first saw pictures of…
Google invites Glass Explorer Edition owners to upgrade their eyewear
Google promised early Glass wearers that they could eventually upgrade to next-generation Explorer hardware, and that moment is finally at hand. The company is now inviting owners to swap devices through a free mail exchange before February 5th. …
Beats’ New Streaming Music Service Starts in January, Register Now
Will another music streaming service succeed in an overcrowded market? Beyond Headphones Beats, off their recent buyback from HTC has ventured beyond headphones and audio voodoo. The company is starting a new music streaming service in January that you can now register a username HERE….
Star Command On Sale For $0.99; The Chair Is Yours To Take, Captain
Star Command is one of the most lauded (and occasionally infamous) stories to come out of Kickstarter, but whichever way you look at it, the folks at Warballoon put together one compelling game for fans of both sc-fi and management games. Best described as a combination of The Sims and Game Dev…
Apple Finally Signs Deal With China Mobile for December iPhone Launch
Apple and China Mobile have finally reached a deal that will see the world’s biggest mobile carrier offering the iPhone on its network, reports The Wall Street Journal.
China Mobile, which has more than 700 million subscribers, is expected to begin selling the iPhone around December 18…
Mitsubishi cuts price of i-MiEV electric car by $5,000
When Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV plug-in first arrived in late 2011, the ES model was priced at a whopping $27,990. After a few fluctuations on the sticker amount, that version of the compact automobile is now rolling out for $22,995 before incentives wit…
Daily Roundup: Andy Rubin’s Google robotics, Microsoft completes Nokia acquisition and more!
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all ha…
Apple reportedly strikes deal to launch iPhone on China Mobile later this month
That was quick — just hours after China Mobile granted its first 4G licenses, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has reached a deal to launch the iPhone on the giant carrier. China Mobile would stock hardware later in December, likel…
Switched On: Banishing Bing
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
Much like George Orwell’s classic 1984, wars continue in the technology industry without seeming regard for who the enemy is or who it once was. Take, for example, …
NSA collecting 5 billion cellphone location records per day
Hey everyone, the government’s tracking you. Quelle surprise. In what has to be one of the least shocking pieces of news to come from the Edward Snowden leaks, The Washington Post is reporting that the National Security Agency has been gathering s…
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