Apple May Bump iPhone 5S Storage up to 128GB

While rumors suggest that Apple may launch a cheaper, plastic iPhone and a smartwatch for the first time, a new report reveals another potential first for the iPhone family. The next flagship iPhone, reportedly dubbed the iPhone 5S, may come in a 128GB variant, according to Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, who is known for his Apple predictions....

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Samsung’s 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega Coming to U.S.

Are you looking for a new smartphone, but have hands the size of Butterball turkeys? Then you’ll be happy to know that Samsung’s gargantuan Galaxy Mega 6.3 is finally coming to the U.S. for AT&T, U.S. Cellular and Sprint. Packing a 6.3-inch display, the Mega is already available in Europe, and it’s every bit the hulking behemoth you’d imagine...

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AT&T to Offer 6.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega for $149

AT&T has announced that it is bringing Samsung’s massive 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega phablet to the U.S. for a relatively wallet-friendly $149 with a two-year contract. The handset, which is the largest in Samsung’s stable of smartphones can also be had for $24 per month on AT&T’s Next early smartphone upgrade service.From a design standpoint,...

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How to Run a Web Server on Your Android Device

Whether you have a $50 mini PC that you leave plugged in all the time or a 5-inch smartphone that you carry with you, you can use any Android device as a full fledged web server that’s accessible either on LAN or from anywhere on the Internet. With an Android web server, developers can easily test their code without paying for a hosting service....

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Sony Patents 3D Head-Tracking Glasses For Future PlayStation Consoles

Forget controllers– the future of gaming could be all about wearable tech. Your future video game console may integrate with glasses that would be just as crucial to gameplay as your controller. At least that’s what Sony and Microsoft are hoping to accomplish. A recent patent filed by the PS4-maker described a set of 3D glasses that can track your...

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Androidly Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Android Smartwatch

While smartwatches such as the Pebble Watch and Sony SmartWatch make a quality companion to your smartphone, they can’t necessarily replace it. The folks behind Androidly aim to change that, as they’re building an Android smartwatch complete with access to a 2.5 GSM network for making calls and pulling data from the web. Androidly needs your help...

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Samsung Users More Likely to Switch to iPhone Than Other Smartphones

A new study by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners has found that Samsung smartphones owners are more likely to switch to Apple’s iPhone than any other handset. The study indicates that among smartphone buyers who switched brands, 33 percent went from Samsung to Apple, while only 11 percent went from Apple to Samsung.According to Fortune, the...

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Deal of the Day: Save 15 Percent on an HP Envy 15 Quad-core Multimedia Laptop

Sponsored Content: Each day, LogicBuy brings you the hottest technology sales and coupons on the web. Whether you’re shopping for a new Ultrabook, looking to grab a new tablet or just want to see the biggest discounts online, we’ve got them 7 days a week.We let our deal hunters rest a little over the weekend, but it’s Monday now and we are hot...

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How to Use Your Android Device as a Security Camera

If you want to monitor your home or business while you’re away, you’re going to need an Internet-connected camera. However, if you have an old smartphone that’s sitting around gathering dust, an old tablet that has lost its luster or an Android stick with a webcam like the Measy U2C, you can turn it into an always-on, wireless camera with minimal...

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Wacom Reveals Standalone Cintiq Companion Lineup

Wacom has been providing artists with digital drawing accessories for years, but its electronic canvases haven’t gone mobile . . . until now. The company just unveiled the Cintiq Companion and Cintiq Companion Hybrid, two standalone tablets packed with everything users need to create art in any environment. Powered by Windows 8, the Cintiq Companion...

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DO-RA Is An Environmental Sensor That Plugs Into Your Phone & Tracks Radiation Exposure

There’s a thriving cottage industry of smartphone extension hardware that plugs into the headphone jack on your phone and extends its capabilities in one way or another — feeding whatever special data it grabs back to an app where you get to parse, poke and prod it. It’s hard to keep track of the cool stuff people are coming up with to augment...

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Week in Reviews: ASUS Zenbook UX51V, Kyocera Hydro Edge, ASUS N550JV and more

Based on this week’s reviews, this has been quite the summer for storage. We tested and critiqued three external hard drives: The 64GB SanDisk Wireless Connect Media Drive, 1TB Patriot AERO and the OWC Envoy Pro EX (240GB). We’ll let you guess which two of those three offer wireless streaming. When it comes to laptops, we reviewed both the high-resolution...

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Forrester Finds That Despite The Tablet Invasion Of The Workplace, Workers Would Prefer A Keyboard, Too

Tablets! They’re everywhere you look, and fast replacing PCs, which are suffering dwindling sales. But just because tablets are rising in popularity doesn’t mean enterprise IT departments should go all-in on touch based interfaces. A new Forrester report suggests that people want keyboards with their tablets, however, which makes sense because...

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YC-Backed Amulyte Is Building A Better Lifeline For Seniors On The Move

Commercial catchphrases like “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” have become the stuff of legend, but it’s not funny when one of your grandparents have been in that same situation.University of Waterloo alumni Jaclyn Konzelmann and Perry Haldenby have been there with their own grandparents, and after discovering that most senior monitoring systems...

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ShopAdvisor Closes $5M Funding Round As It Grows Roster Of Magazines Using Its Comparison-Shopping Tech

ShopAdvisor has closed a $5 million investment round led by Pittco Capital Partners, with participation from Seavest Capital, Rationalwave Capital Partners, and the Boston-based investors Rob Soni and Bob Davoli. The company, which originally launched as an app to help consumers remember and shop for products later, has moved in a B2B direction...

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Canvsly Rewards Parents For Saving Photos Of Their Kids’ Art

A new mobile app for iPhone called Canvsly wants to encourage parents to photograph, save and share their children’s artwork by snapping pictures of it with their phone. Yes, just like direct competitor Artkive, which has caught the attention of more than a few mommy bloggers already. But this latest entrant has a slightly different take on the...

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Announcing Disrupt SF’s Startup Alley, Hardware Alley, And International Pavilion Companies

Startup Alley is the loud and boisterous marketplace of Disrupt. Young companies, huddled around cocktail tables demoing their wares, are vying for attention and a spot on the Disrupt stage. All of these startups are amazing and we invite you to visit this amazing group at Disrupt SF early next month. As in years past startups covering nearly...

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Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better

In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the next generation of mobile applications still heavily prefer the iPhone, not only as their personal smartphone...

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Beddit, The Sleep Sensor You Tape To Your Bed, Looks To Build Cloud App With Indiegogo Stretch Goal

Smart pedometers are just the beginning. Sensors of all kinds are emerging to track the way we move, what we do at home and the way we sleep. Last week, I wrote about a Helsinki-based company called Beddit that ran an Indiegogo campaign for a sleep sensor you attach to your bed. They say it is so sensitive, it can pick up a person’s heart-rate....

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Waywire CEO Nathan Richardson Departs As Company Shifts Focus From Content Creation To Curation

The CEO of Waywire — the startup co-founded by Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker — is stepping down, TechCrunch has learned. The resignation comes as the company is in the midst of a strategic shift from content creation to content curation, according to a source familiar with the company’s strategy.Richardson was one of three founding...

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