One day, the little green humanoids with three eyes or the big purple tentacle thingies will come for real. And then, humans and giraffes and orangutans and fish and jam all over the Earth will exclaim: PHOTOSHOP! [ MakeUseOf ] More

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Sony barely mentioned pricing with their PlayStation Move motion controller , only noting that the combo pricing with PlayStation Eye and a game will cost less than $100. But by our back-of-the-envelope calculations, the experience is going to be really expensive . More

A disheartening chart from Ars Technica , if you’re a Firefox booster: That gentle downward slope indicates Firefox might never reach 25 percent marketshare. Why? Because companies with money care about browsers now. Or, in a word: Chrome. Chrome is the only browser that gained marketshare from January to February, bouncing .41 percent to 5.61 percent

We all love a good debate about how the tech giants of today are competing with each other, but rarely do we get a handy reference sheet like this to point people to. Nick Bilton of the New York Times has put together a segment-by-segment comparison between America’s tech heavyweights, which does a fine job of pinpointing who competes with whom and where. We find the gaps in coverage more intriguing than the overlaps, though, with Microsoft’s only unticked box — mobile hardware — raising habitual rumors of a Pink phone . Apple’s absence from the provision of mapping services might also soon be at an end, given the company acquired map maker Placebase in July of last year (see Computerworld). Anyway, there should be plenty more for you to enjoy, so hit the source for the full chart and get analyzin’. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo compared at the macro level originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:49:00 EST

Brazil is one of my favorite countries. Cool people, great music, heavenly beaches, and caipirinhas. But if you have to buy a Mac, you are screwed. And like this graphic shows, it’s the same in other places in the world. Brazil wins, however: The price of one MacBook Pro 17″ there buys you two identical models in the US. It’s the same with other Apple products, so if you can’t live without your Apple fix, you better move to another country

A big ol’ chart from AT&T: Wireless data ballooned more between the second and quarter of 2009 than most of 2006 and 2007 combined, or close to 7000 percent over the last couple years. That’s a little crazy.

A big ol’ chart from AT&T: Wireless data ballooned more between the second and quarter of 2009 than most of 2006 and 2007 combined, or close to 7000 percent over the last couple years. That’s a little crazy.

Look at all those apps people are downloading. On our network. Man, so many apps! Okay, I’ll let AT&T’s very orange PowerPoint tell the story. You would think AT&T’s an app company, not a phone company. Well, I guess that’s sort of the case. Though, I’d sure like a phone company sometimes.

Just in time for Google to unveil its own Nexus One smartphone , ChangeWave Research reports the public is more excited than ever to buy an Android based handset — at the expense of Apple, Microsoft, and Palm. ChangeWave surveyed 4,068 consumers in the first weeks of December and found that 21% of people looking to buy a smartphone in the next 90 days want to buy one running on Android. That’s up from 6% when ChangeWave asked people in September. Considering Verizon is spending tens of millions marketing the Droid , this shouldn’t come as a shock . Google is a popular brand unto itself, so it makes sense that people are excited about its smartphones. Apple remains the smartphone of choice for now, with 28% of the people saying they will buy an iPhone.