| Samsung Galaxy S4 Sales Hit 10 Million in 'Record' Time | | Galaxy S4 sales have topped 10 million in "record" time, Samsung announced Thursday. Less than a month after its global release on April 27, Samsung's flagship smartphone surpassed 10 million units, according to a release.
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| Foursquare Debuts 'Super-Specific' Search Filters | | Foursquare has refined its search capabilities to make it easier for users to look for particular venues. The location-based social network unveiled what it's calling "super-specific searches" for iOS and Android on Wednesday. "With today's update ... Foursquare helps you find exactly what you want, whatever that may be," it announced in a blog post.
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| New 'The Wolverine' Trailer Shows Hero Facing His Mortality | | Another full-length trailer for The Wolverine has debuted online, and it shows our surly superhero facing his mortality. Posted to YouTube on Tuesday, the two-and-a-half-minute video features Hugh Jackman playing the title role, Wolverine's love interest Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), as well as villains Silver Samurai (Will Yun Lee) and Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova).
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| 4 Ways to Find Your Brand’s Voice | | 12:56:32 AM | The Daily Muse |
| Ready to start marketing your new company, product or brand? Before you create a blog, draft content for your brand-spanking-new website or start tweeting, first define your “brand voice.” In a nutshell, this is the heart and soul of your communications. More than specific words and phrases, your brand voice is the tone in which you speak to and connect with your audience.
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| HP Thinks Giant Tablets Are a Good Idea | | Windows 8 has officially created a new category: the monster tablet. Last fall's Sony Tap 20 could have been dismissed as a one-off aberration, but others have since launched giant screens equipped with batteries, including HP, who just unveiled the Rove 20. Why Rove? Because it can do exactly that — the 20-inch display is fully portable with almost 4 hours of battery life.
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| Teen's Invention Could Create 20-Second Phone Charge | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:01 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Tech manufacturers that boast how fast their devices can juice up might want to listen up: A California teen has developed a super-capacitor that could lead to a 20- to 30-second phone charge. Super-capacitors are energy-storage devices that have a long cycle life, and have the potential to store a lot of energy per unit volume. Sounds dandy, right? Not quite.
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| 99.9% Of New Mobile Malware Targets Android Phones | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:00 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Android, the world's most popular smartphone operating system, has malware issues. We knew that already. But a new report suggests these issues are only destined to worsen. In fact, 99.9% of new mobile malware detected in the first quarter of 2013 is designed to hit Android phones, according to a new report released by online security firm Kaspersky Lab.
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| Vertus Makes Any Speaker Bluetooth Friendly | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:57 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Syncing audio to Bluetooth speakers is common, but sending it wirelessly to two old school speakers at the same time is a thing of the future.
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| Which Video Game Console Do You Want? [POLL] | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 7:58 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| It's official: Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One, its newest gaming console and entertainment system. While many of the features were met with positive reviews on social media, those loyal to other video game consoles also took the liberty of sounding off with their own opinions.
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| Quantum Dot Technology On Its Way to Smartphones, Tablets and TVs | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 7:29 PM | Charlie White |
| Just when you thought display technology could hardly get any better, along come quantum dots, making screens more colorful while consuming less power. This is not just some pie-in-the-sky dream of scientists and geeks. Nanosys and 3M have put this Star Trek-like tech to work, and it's gone way beyond the experimental stage, to where it's now almost ready to be built into smartphones, tablets and TVs.
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| Trunk iPhone Charging Cable Is Flexible Yet Rigid | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 7:02 PM | Charlie White |
| Trunk is a charging cable equipped with a USB connector on one side and a Lightning connector on the other, and it's rigid enough to hold your iPhone 5 or iPod in whatever position you desire. Made by a company called ILoveHandles, this $19.95 charging cable/holder can prove itself useful in a variety of circumstances. Sometimes you need your iPhone placed in a certain position — a task that can usually be accommodated with your hands.
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| See How Much the Next 'Call of Duty' Graphics Improve | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 6:19 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Call of Duty: Ghosts represents a significant graphical upgrade from the previous titles in the series, according to publisher Activision. To prove this, it showed a video during Tuesday's Xbox One unveiling that shows footage from the upcoming Ghosts compared to footage from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
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| Intellectual Property Commission: Pass CISPA Now | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 6:01 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A bipartisan and independent commission studying corporate espionage's impact on the American economy recommended passing the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its report released Wednesday. ". .Corporations need better information, and thus an open, two-way communications flow between companies and U.S.
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| Teens Getting Tired of Facebook Drama, Pew Survey Finds | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:39 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Though Facebook is still the most popular social network among teens, their enthusiasm for Mark Zuckerberg's network is decreasing, according to new findings from the Pew Research Center. Pew reports that 77% of online teens (ages 12-17) surveyed use Facebook. But while Pew's findings show that teens view Facebook participation as important for socializing, they have "waning enthusiasm for Facebook," as explained in the video above.
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| Storm-Penetrating Drones Could Fly Into Tornadoes | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:55 PM | Discovery News |
| Engineering students at Oklahoma State University (OSU) have designed three concept drones that could one day help storm trackers and researchers better understand tornadoes. Led by professor Jamey Jacob, three teams of students outlined plans for Storm Penetrating Air Vehicles (SPAVs) that would penetrate thunderstorms, including the supercells that generate tornadoes, to collect vital meteorological data for better storm forecasting.
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| ZZ Ward's App Uses Facebook to Plot When Fans Discovered Her Music | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:40 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| ZZ Ward, who Fuse TV recently proclaimed as one of 30 must-see artists at South by Southwest, just launched a web app that plots when fans first discovered her. How? The "365 Days of ZZ Ward" app uses Facebook's Open Graph to browse users' Facebook activity and plot their ZZ Ward-tagged status updates, photos and videos.
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| Watch Your Heartbeat on Xbox One’s New Kinect | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 3:49 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Two years and millions of units later, Microsoft Kinect motion and voice capture and control system for the Xbox 360 is an unparalleled success. So it came as little surprise that the powerful controller is now an essential part of the Xbox One console that Microsoft will ship sometime later this year. The new, somewhat larger — dare I say boxy -– Kinect is vastly more powerful than the one Microsoft had been selling for $99.
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| Twitter Introduces Two-Step Authentication | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 3:38 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to more securely protect accounts, the company announced Wednesday. The move comes after a number of hacks of high-profile Twitter accounts, including The Onion, the Associated Press and E! Online.
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| Giphy Wants to Make GIFs More Legit | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 3:05 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Giphy, a startup that recently launched out of Betaworks, aims to empower the community of GIF creators and consumers by making it easier to search for GIFs.
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| How 3 Brands Use Agile Marketing Tactics | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 3:01 PM | Adobe Marketing Cloud |
| This article was written by Elana Varon, and a version of it originally appeared on the Adobe-owned site CMO.com. For more information about BrandSpeak, click here. Agile management methods, experts say, provide a framework for making better decisions and improving overall productivity.
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| Bystander Live-Tweets Brutal London Machete Attack | | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:48 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Police shot two assailants Wednesday in a southeastern London neighborhood after they allegedly murdered a person in public with a machete. The victim is believed to be a solider from a nearby barracks, and the British government is treating the event as a terrorist attack. One bystander apparently live-tweeted the entire horrific event from start to finish.
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