If we learned anything from the riveting 1980s drama Footloose, it’s that music (and dance) should be available everywhere. So when Google announced its subscription service, Google Play Music All Access, and made it an Android-only affair, more than a few iOS users were bummed. But never fear, Apple acolytes,…

Google remade its annual developer conference, I/O, to focus even more on programmers this year, eschewing the usual barrage of consumer product announcements. So what did this audience of hard-core software geeks want to hear about? Ways to talk to Google hardware, judging by audience size at various panels,…

Digitimes reports that Apple will soon begin trial production on its fifth-generation iPad, with full production said to be planned to begin in July. Based on that schedule, Apple could hit monthly production of 2-3 million units by September as it prepares to launch the updated version of its full-size…

At Microsoft, operating income at its entertainment and devices division, which houses the Xbox and its Windows smartphone efforts, plunged 71% in its fiscal 2012 year to $ 364 million, and below what it was in 2010. As the Xbox has aged, the number of …Keep reading…

Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday. Jacob Dismont, 18, and Michael Solid, 21, were booked Saturday into the Clark County jail on charges of open murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. According to investigators, Marcos Arenas,…

Despite Microsoft Microsoft shipping more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses, Redmond’s newest operating system is not making much headway in the enterprise world, with IT decision makers deciding to give it the cold shoulder. So, what’s holding Windows 8 back? Forrester Research analyst David Johnson believes that the problem lies with the…

“What to Watch Now” Combines Personalization with Bringing Viewers the Content They Want as Soon as They Turn on Their TV TiVo is preparing to launch “What to Watch Now” for iPad. Part of TiVo’s whole-home, multiscreen solution, “What to Watch Now” significantly improves the tablet experience by offering users…

There’s a new kid on the Arduino block, and it’s called the Arduino Robot. Launched yesterday at Maker Faire Bay Area, it’s the company’s first product that extends beyond single microcontroller boards. The Roomba-like design, which we first saw in November 2011, is the result of a collaboration with Complubot. The…

A “high tech rave”-like performance piece happening tonight at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is actually designed to help campus roboticists create algorithms based on human behavior that can better control large swarms of robots, researchers told the Herald. Doubling as an experiment, “UP: The Umbrella Project” is the…

Those 15 minutes before the previews start in the theater are about to be taken over by something other than local ads. Twitter and Foursquare have partnered with National CineMedia, responsible for selling pre-show ads to show theater goers, to highlight movie-related tweets and topics. The specific details of how this…