The streaming video market is about to get a little more streamier. The Redbox/Verizon collaboration, Redbox Instant will enter the public beta phase by the end of December as it gears up to challenge Netflix.
Apple could be testing out different designs for television sets, according to executives at some Apple component suppliers.
Oppo, a little-known Chinese company that makes Blu-ray players praised by audio and videophiles, is bringing a 1080p Android smartphone to the U.S. next year.
A detailed video running down all the features of the L-Series BlackBerry 10 phone we’ll see early next year has appeared on the internet. Unfortunately, its in Vietnamese. Still, the video, posted by the Vietnamese site Tinh Te, provides one …
Viddy, a popular social video app hoping to become an Instagram-for-video, launched an Android app on Wednesday. The company is hoping that Android users will flock to the app, which would help stem a decline in daily users, despite an …
Facebook is pushing a suite of privacy products and tools designed to help users better understand and manage its notoriously difficult to understand privacy and security settings.
There are a few actions I find myself constantly doing on my iPhone: looking up the day’s biggest news, places to eat in the area and the weather. A new search app for iOS called Grokr aims to put this …
Flickr announced a new iOS app today for shooting, editing, sharing and discovering photos. Based on the demo Wired saw, this is exactly the kind of gorgeous application that Flickr users have been longing for and that Flickr has always …
The law of averages demands that most of the stuff we get will be lame. For every Kindle Paperwhite, there’s an uninspired Android smartphone, iPhone case with a bottle opener and a rushed-to-market Windows 8 tablet. To much of the …
Microsoft is boosting its efforts to sell its Surface RT tablet. The company has already increased production for Surface RT, and the tablet will begin appearing on third-party retail shelves as early as mid-December.
In the first major announcement since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO, Yahoo has launched a redesigned Yahoo Mail experience, along with the addition of new iPhone and Windows 8 apps.
The 2012 Year on Twitter shows all the things we love to talk about online. And one thing is clear: We love to talk about what’s on TV.
Instead of having to go out of your way to the weekly farmers’ market, Farmigo wants to bring local produce to where you already go — to workplaces, schools and community centers. And it plans to do it with the …
Brad Leong and Sam Gordon have a perfect 3-0 record for successful projects on crowdfunding sites. The duo have brought an app store-like model to platforms like Kickstarter, and are heralding in a new way to do business as a …
Samsung is aiming to make the S III easier to use, and better for photography in its upcoming Premium Suite software update. The Korean electronics maker detailed the last half of the 14 new features due for the S III …
Twitter added Instagram-style photo filtering to its app on Monday.
The troubles with iOS 6 Maps are so great in the Outback that Australian police officials are urging drivers to use other mapping services until the product improves.
Samsung teased seven new features for the Galaxy S III smartphone on Friday, dubbing the collection as its Premium Suite. The features include the ability to reach your Facebook Newsfeed in your lock screen.
A key Apple multitouch patent dubbed “the Steve Jobs patent” has been tentatively invalidated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office through a preliminary ruling.
Pepper the parrot wouldn’t shut up, and owner Andrew Gray was determined to do something about it. So, Gray built a small buggy for Pepper to drive by beak.
TSA agents sure are accruing a reputation for being unscrupulous thieves — particularly when it comes to Apple products. Case in point, a TSA agent at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport has become the latest to be arrested and …
John McAfee cast his lot with reporters from Vice, who blew his location, lied to readers, and led to his downfall.
Apple’s iPhone will finally land on T-Mobile in 2013, putting the coveted smartphone on par with Samsung’s Galaxy S III in terms of reach across the top four U.S. carriers.
It’s not so much a robot as a motorized stand, but at $250 it is a far more practical solution to being there without being there.
Sorting out the Samsung v. Apple verdict is gonna take awhile, even if the judge presiding over the trial might trim the $1.05 billion award and said Thursday that it’s time for the tech giants to make peace.
As much as we don’t like it, Apple does need to litigate against its competitors to protect its IP. But if we don’t continue to see industry-leading innovation, Apple’s image could be tarnished.
The sixties were a defining decade in almost every way. These are the scientific, technological and cultural events that defined the decade and set a course for the future.
December is lousy with impersonal gift guides, but this one’s different: Wired staffers have spent quality time with all the items in this gallery and found them to be indispensable.
John McAfee was taken into police custody in Guatemala on Wednesday for being in the country illegally, police there have confirmed.
Google updated its Google Search app on Wednesday with new Google Now features that should make travel a bit easier for those using Android Jelly Bean.