Connor Livingston — Two Takes contributions

Line, the mobile messaging app from Japan with 500 million registered users, is putting its public listing on hold after revealing that it won’t seek an IPO this year as previously planned. The decision was initially confirmed in a statement to the Wall Street Journal. It emerged in August that Line

Samsung’s Galaxy S-series of handsets tend to be very popular and the Samsung Galaxy S5 that was announced earlier this year isn’t any different. In fact Samsung seems to be pretty confident about the handset and has expressed their hopes at being able to ship at least 35 million Galaxy S5 handsets

A new patent filing by BlackBerry reveals the company is possibly preparing to manufacture a smartphone with touchscreen and a physical QWERTY keyboard. This is not a reincarnation of the Torch, but a new device that has a “storable keyboard with a pivoting cover.” The patent, filed June 14th, 2012

Amazon’s Prime membership program may have as many as 50 million members worldwide, RBC analyst Mark Mahaney said in a note to investors. According to a report by Re/code, Mahaney estimated that the company has between 30 million and 40 million Prime subscribers in the US, and a total of 40 million

Sony’s mobile unit is heading for trouble, after the electronics giant cut the unit’s outlook amid falling smartphone sales. Chief executive Kazuo Hirai announced on Tuesday a massive impairment charge of about $1.7 billion. But he said Sony remains committed to the business, keeping it

Roku is more than happy – in fact, they are darn proud with the fact that they have already managed to sell a whopping sold 10 million Roku players in total over in the U.S., what an achievement that is! This is one huge milestone that Roku is thankful of achieving, and they are more […]

If you are a fan of the BlackBerry product lines, you’ll probably know that in ten days time, the Waterloo company will be officially announcing their new flagship handset which will be known as the BlackBerry Passport. The new device will replace the BlackBerry Z30 and before that, the Z10 as the n

It was rather big news when earlier this week, it became known that up to 5 million Gmail usernames and their corresponding passwords were published over at a Russian Bitcoin forum. Google has continued to maintain that they have strong reason to believe that the security breach was none of their fa

Internet Slowdown Day is here. While the Internet itself won’t be slowing down, expect to see the dreaded “spinning wheel of death” loading symbol featured prominently on some of your favorite websites, including Netflix, Foursquare, Etsy, and more. The group of websites have bande

General Motors will introduce in two years its first car that can communicate with other vehicles to help avoid accidents and ease traffic congestion, Chief Executive Mary Barra said on Sunday. In the same time frame, GM also will introduce more advanced technology allowing hands-free driving in som

There have been many reports of Dish debating a potential acquisition of T-Mobile U.S. and the latest from Bloomberg suggests that Dish honcho Charlie Ergen has reached out to Deutsche Telekom for precisely this purpose. Deutsche Telekom is the majority stakeholder in T-Mobile U.S. It is still open

Nest will launch its smart thermostat and smoke detector in parts of Europe in late September. During a presentation at the IFA 2014 tech conference in Berlin on Saturday, Nest — which was acquired by Google for $3 billion in 2013 — announced it will roll out its products to France, the Netherlands,

The TI-84 Plus graphing calculator has a 15 MHz processor, 24 kilobytes of RAM, and a 96×64 black and white screen. It has an Amazon list price of $190. The Kindle Fire HD has a 1.5 GHz processor, 8GB of memory, and a 1280×800 color screen. Amazon list price: $140. And yet the TI-84 keeps

Recently, Stephen Colbert lampooned gadgets that track what you drink and other seemingly inane metrics. But the trend may have just found its ideal market. The Chinese search giant Baidu just introduced a pair of “smart chopsticks” designed to alert users to the presence of “gutte

Samsung’s Galaxy is growing today, as the company has revealed two new Note smartphones and a co-branded Oculus virtual reality headset at simultaneous press events in New York City, Beijing, and here in Berlin at the IFA 2014 show. The new Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Note Edge are both Andro

Alleged press images of Sony Xperia Z3 Compact made the rounds online. The photos showcase the unannounced successor of the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact in all its glory. Unsurprisingly, the design of the upcoming device is quite similar to that of the model it is bound to replace. The most noticeable dif

If reports and rumors are to be believed then September is going to be a very good month for gadget lovers. Not only do we have IFA 2014 in the first week, where countless manufacturers like Sony and Samsung are going to unveil new flagships, but in the second week we have Apple with its […]

Gripes about internet speed are common across the country, but in certain towns the complaints have a special twist: the fact that local utilities want to offer faster broadband infrastructure, but state governments, at the apparent behest of the telecom industry, have passed laws to prevent them fr