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Amazon To Put Roots Down With Bookstores?
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 10:00am | 558Read More...E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been blamed for falling sales at brick and mortar competitors like Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M). The company's dominance in the retail market was often attributed to the convenience of online...
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Is BlackPhone 2 Replacing BlackBerry?
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 11:57am | 265Read More...Silent Circle claimed at a launch event that its new secure smartphone, the Blackphone 2, it is going to replace BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY), according to a Gizmodo report. The company's security specialist, Mike Janke, said, "We don't care that BlackBerry's CEO is throwing...
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Sensor Issues In Apple's 5S May Be Linked To A New Supplier
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 7:45am | 485Read More...After a story in Gizmodo seemed to prove that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) had a motion sensor issue, one tech blogger believes he found the answer: the accelerometer. Originally, reports began appearing on the internet noting that the new iPhone’s motion sensors were wrong specifically when it came to...
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'Jobs' Movie An iFlop
Monday, August 19, 2013 - 9:42am | 652Read More...Maybe we’ll get iLynched for declaring Jobs a failure, but it will take some digging to find reviews singing the praises of the movie that starred Ashton Kutcher as Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs. First, the stats. The movie finished the weekend in seventh place, grossing $6.7...
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Landmark Surgery for ALS Patient Ted Harada Set for Today
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 7:50am | 315Read More...When Neuralstem (NYSE: CUR) announced that it had been successful in reversing the progression of ALS in 39-year-old Ted Harada, many wondered if researchers were finally on the cusp of a cure. Gizmodo chronicled the impressive story of the man, who showed signs of recovery last year after...
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Is Apple Killing Off the MacBook?
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 1:46pm | 326Read More...The iPad is slowly taking over the laptop market. Does this mean the MacBook's days are numbered? Last year, there were mountains of reports suggesting that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) would cease development of its old-school white MacBook due to slowing sales and the rise of the MacBook Air. Now rumors...
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Google Wants to Destroy the iPad 3
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 12:56pm | 990Read More...The Android maker is getting ready for a full-scale assault on the tablet industry's leading manufacturer. And by May 2012, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will have its own tablet on store shelves. That's the word from company exec Eric Schmidt, who said that the new device will be of the highest quality....
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iPad 3's Biggest Competitor Will Be…
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 10:45am | 406Read More...A company that rhymes with “oogle.” According to Gizmodo, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will release its own iPad 3 competitor within six months. The news comes from Google's own Eric Schmidt, who told this Italian publication that the company is getting ready to produce a tablet of the “highest quality...
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Netflix Already In Trouble as @Qwikster Gives Company a Bad Name
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 12:48pm | 214Read More...Remember when we thought Netflix was having a bad week? It's about to get worse. Following the mind-boggling announcement that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will sever its DVD business and apply a new name, Qwikster, Gizmodo has come across one stumbling block the corporate execs surely missed. On...
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Proof the Government DOES NOT Create Jobs!?
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 3:13pm | 168Read More...In fact, it actually kills them – 70,000 applicants at a time. During a four-day server outage last week, the government job website USAJobs.gov lost 70,000 applications. That's according to the Federal Times (via Gizmodo), which reports that many job seekers couldn't even submit a new application...
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Orange Juice a Luxury Item? REAL OJ Already Is
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 1:27pm | 948Read More...It turns out that the reports were right – orange juice has become a luxury. In fact, real orange juice became a luxury several years ago when Tropicana, the fruit juice producer owned by PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), decided to market “not-from-concentrate” orange juice as a premium product. Or so the...
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Bitcoin: Too Good to Be True?
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 2:45pm | 394Read More...Bitcoin, the digital currency that has been sweeping the internet, appears to have hit a bit of a roadblock in recent days. For those unaware, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer technology and digital currency. Users trade Bitcoin files over a peer-to-peer network for tangible goods and services. The...
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Airport Scanners: When Will Enough Be Enough?
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 2:26pm | 492Read More...It's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the possible pitfalls and dangers of the new airport scanners being installed across the country. Thus far, the news isn't good: for the last several days, MSNBC has highlighted the disgusting alternative to the full-body scan. What was once a simple,...
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Apple To Host "Back To The Mac Event" Oct 20
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 11:36am | 72Read More...According to Gizmodo, Apple is Scheduled to host an event titled "Back To The Mac". the event is to reveal the new OS X. The logo for the event shows a silver with a lion peaking out. I think it is safe to assume its new OS will be called Lion. Rumors also include a new revamped MacBook Air....
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Is Apple Already Taking Action On iPhone Antenna Problem?
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 10:42am | 291Read More...According to an article on 9TO5Mac, there are rumors of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) already taking action to fix the much-discussed iPhone antenna problem. A reader on Gizmodo has mentioned, “Well, when I got the new phone it was different. It was different hardware. The black [plastic] bezel isn't as...
