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A couple of months back a leaked memo from BlackBerry revealed that the company is now on growth footing once again. Since then it has made a couple of acquisitions, including the one it announced today, of a virtual SIM startup called Movirtu. This startup, which is based in London, works on techno

Now here is a robot that will delight itself in transforming your home as it can turn into different kinds of furniture. For those who have had some poor experiences when it comes to assembling furniture, perhaps the future might be a whole lot different if the Roombot’s technology is extrapolated i

China’s top Internet regulator publicly challenged the president of Qualcomm saying half the company’s revenue comes from China and that “we should make money together.” The comments Wednesday from Lu Wei, China’s minister of cyberspace affairs, come amid an investigati

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

Twitter today announced its first mobile developer conference. Called Twitter Flight, the event takes place on October 22 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Tickets are priced at $140. Twitter says Flight is “built by developers, for developers.” The goal is to help mobile app cre

Philips claims to have released the first headphones that connect to iOS devices using the Lightning connector instead of the conventional 3.5mm headphone jack. At WWDC 2014 Apple did talk about headphones that will be compatible with Lightning connectors but it wasn’t revealed which accessory manuf

Bad news if you own Berg’s super-cute, internet-savvy Little Printer: it might not be not long for this world. The company is going into “hibernation” after it couldn’t sustain a business based on connected devices, and its current plan has Little Printer services shutting do

How do you upgrade a camera that everyone already loves when you don’t really have much new technology to stuff inside? With Fujifilm’s x100t, the latest iteration of the classic-styled fixed-lens shooter, the answer is to buff out some minor flaws, add maybe a feature or two, and of cou

Snapchat cofounders Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy have reached a settlement with former Stanford University colleague Frank Reginald “Reggie” Brown over an ownership dispute, admitting that Brown had originally come up with the idea for the app for sending disappearing picture messages. The settlem

While Qualcomm has focused its attention on the mid-tier and the high-end segments, MediaTek has managed to grab a significant chunk of the market share in the entry-level market. With the introduction of the LTE-enabled Snapdragon 210, Qualcomm is looking to remedy that and take the fight to MediaT

Australian solar power scientists are one step closer to making available a cheaper and faster way to print solar cells onto plastic. CSIRO’s senior research scientist Dr Fiona Scholes said the technology was almost at the commercialisation stage and could be used to power laptops to rooftops.

Tesco makes its own affordable range of everyday products for penny-conscious consumers, and last year the supermarket extended this concept to tablets. The Hudl slate wasn’t just cheap, but also the perfect vehicle for showcasing Tesco’s various streaming services. Despite a few hardwar

Home Depot already confirmed a few days ago it has been the victim of an elaborate cyber attack, without providing specific details about the number of users that may have been affected in this new credit and debit card data heist. The company on Monday again confirmed that hackers managed to get in

While planes are technological marvels in their own right, we guess technology can always be improved on which is what the folks at Nike and design firm Teague have done. Both companies have teamed up together to develop a plane which has been designed specifically for professional athletes in mind.

We guess it’s no secret that the Nintendo Wii U console isn’t exactly the hottest selling console at the moment. Nintendo executives have in the past offered many reasons as to why the console isn’t selling as well as it should, although recently with the release of Mario Kart 8, it did help to boos

A laser-based instrument being developed for the International Space Station will provide a unique 3-D view of Earth’s forests, helping to fill in missing information about their role in the carbon cycle. Called the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar, the instrument will be the fir

Smart light bulbs aren’t exactly new and companies such as Philips with their Hue light bulbs are probably some of the more well-known devices out there in the market at the moment. However if you’re looking for alternatives, you might be interested to learn that the folks at Stack Lighting have rec

A day before the launch of Apple’s iPhone 6, T-Mobile and Sprint unveiled their device trade-in programs to lure in subscribers who want to get their hands on the latest iPhones. In the past few weeks, the two companies have gone head-to-head in an aim to gain subscribers, by giving away switching i

Twitter is introducing e-commerce into its tweets. The “buy this product” button has been rumored for months, but Monday it was confirmed by the social media network. An initial test batch of mobile users will be able to purchase within a tweet itself, without ever leaving the application. Down the

Because nothing says “Our new product is selling great!” like dropping its price down by 99.5% two months after launch, Amazon has dropped the price of the Fire Phone from $200 to 99 cents. Before you head over to Amazon with nothing but a lone Washington in hand, remember: it’s 99 cents with a 2-ye

Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize “legacy data centers” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. The Xeon E5-2600 v3 chips are the company’s fastest server chips to date, said Diane Bryant, senior

How fast is Uber growing? Pretty darn fast, CEO Travis Kalanick claims the company adds tens of thousands of new drivers every month. “There are hundreds of thousands of partners connected to our system,” he said at TechCrunch Disrupt this morning. “We’re in the neck of 50,00

IBM is baking more security into its hybrid cloud pony SoftLayer thanks to a new deal with Intel. Announced just one day ahead of the annual Intel Developer Forum, SoftLayer is being equipped with bare metal servers powered by Intel Trusted Execution Technology, providing extra hardware monitoring a

Spotify’s video ads are coming. The music-streaming service will soon roll out its video ad products for marketers, including a mobile product that lets listeners watch a video ad in exchange for a half hour without any further commercial interruption. Spotify will start testing the video ads

What a time to be alive. We were all holding out for that perfect way to incorporate selfies into our hair-brushing routine — and behold, it has finally arrived: enter the Selfie Brush iPhone case. Never will your hair look less than excellent in a selfie again. The Selfie Brush is a paddle-like bru

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

When it comes to smartphone accessories, manufacturers tend to prefer creating for the iPhone because their designs tend to be fixed, at least for a couple of years, unlike Android phones that are of different shapes and sizes, meaning that it would be hard to create a one-size-fits-all solution. On

Technology has rapidly progressed over the past few years and consequently the debate about privacy has heated up. For example, those who preach wearable devices would find no fault with Google Glass, but privacy activists might point out how easy Google’s wearable device makes it to take someone’s

There’s a decent chance you have the Netflix app saved somewhere on your phone, but how often do you actually use it? The video-streaming giant may dominate when it comes to 30-minute-long TV shows and 2-hour movies, but it doesn’t have much to offer for anyone looking for five to 10 minutes of ente

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

Last month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency introduced what a next-generation tank might look like. Known as the Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program, this experimental vehicle is less like the traditional heavily armored brutes typically on the battlefield. These are built for

Whether Microsoft likes it or not, Windows’ Blue Screen of Death error is iconic — it’s the universal sign that something really bad has happened to your software. But who wrote the original message that would grace the screens of sick PCs worldwide? None other than Steve Ballmer,

Rock music is finally dead in the opinion of legendary Kiss member Gene Simmons — and online piracy is the culprit. In a new interview written by his son Nick, the artist says that dwindling royalty payments and a more competitive market have killed off the opportunity to make a living from music ou

In Los Angeles, a startup called Daqri has designed a different kind of hard hat: an Android-powered one that’s capable of augmented reality. As such, it really looks more like a bike helmet than a hard hat, equipped with sensors, cameras and a transparent visor that functions as a head-up dis

Boeing has a pretty storied history with lasers and now its testing one that can take out UAVs and rockets regardless of where it’s installed. A recent trial run of the tech was conducted in Florida under some pretty grueling conditions (heavy fog, rain and wind), to prove that even a lower-po

Two ex-Wimdu employees received a $1.3 million seed round for a brain training games website called Memorado. The company also announced that it already has 1 million users. Different from other startups, Memorado kept quiet and decided to stay under the radar until it could announce reasonable user

The Samsung Gear VR virtual reality accessory for the Galaxy Note 4 phablet will cost $199 in the US. This comes straight from a spokesperson for the Korean company, so it’s pretty much official. Sure, a press release would have been nice, but this will have to do for now. The price was revealed at

A tech firm in Japan recently introduced a technology that would make 3D images a little more tangible. Thanks to the use of haptic technology, which is used in everyday objects such as video game controllers and smartphones to create vibrations simulating real-world touch-based interactions, Mirais

This week in energy we’re looking at the grand opening in Iowa of the first facility to commercially produce ethanol from corn waste products as proof that we don’t need to divert corn from the food supply or livestock feed, writes James Stafford. Under the umbrella of the government-backed “Project

Samsung’s new 105-inch UHD TV can go from flat to curved in just a few seconds. The company has its super-sized curved, bendable TV on display at the IFA tech conference here, and it’s stunning. While curved, bendable TVs aren’t new anymore, watching one of this magnitude transform