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Intel has built a tiny 3G modem designed for the massive numbers of small devices that will be part of the Internet of things. The chip maker on Aug. 26 launched the XMM 6255, which officials called the world’s smallest standalone 3G modem. They hope it will become the wireless solution for ma

Salesforce.com is “doubling down on communities” in the age of connected everything. The company announced today it is expanding its Communities product into a full-fledged Community Cloud. The vision: responsive online communities of any collection of people or products based around a given interes

The online technology training service Pluralsight has raised a whopping $135 million in new financing as it looks to consolidate its position as a major player in personal and professional continuing information technology education. “We believe in the vision we have of democratizing professional e

Broadcom chips have already infiltrated Internet of Things devices from companies like Quirky and Electric Imp. Now it’s looking to the next generation of developers hoping to cash in on the connected home with it’s new Wiced device. The Wiced Sense development kit is an open source hardware and sof

Is it a case of outage musical chairs that is being played out at the moment? Time Warner is the latest company to fall victim when it comes to its Internet services offered to those living in the U.S., and it certainly looks as though the East Coast has been affected a whole lot more […]

Following an oversubscribed Kickstarter campaign smart home company Zuli today announced a $1.65 million seed round of funding to enable the company to bring their first product, the Zuli Smartplug, to market. Participating in the round were prominent venture capitalists and industry veterans includ

Android-powered Philips TVs will be the first to support Spotify Connect, letting you stream music from a mobile device straight to the television. From September, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to stream music on their compatible Philips Smart TV, in a move that will integrate the music s

Square has a new update out for its Cash app that lets users send cash by text, greatly improving the versatility of the mobile payment app. The update also improves the user interface for sending, reducing steps and increasing speed, and offers a host of new features like putting notes on payments

Netflix has been opposed to the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable since the day it was announced. The online video streaming giant today formally petitioned the FCC to put an end to the merger as it would cause “serious public interest harm.” Netflix explains its reasons in a 256

If you’re reading this, you probably enjoy open internet access as a matter of course. However, other countries aren’t quite so liberal. How do you know where you’re truly free? IVPN’s new interactive censorship map might just answer that question for you. The site lets you c

According to numbers crunched by The Guardian‘s Charles Arthur and based on data from Chitika and comScore, it appears as if the Amazon Fire Phone isn’t exactly setting hardly anything on fire. In fact, if this report is to be believed, Amazon hasn’t sold more than 35,000 total Fire Phone units sinc

T-Mobile isn’t taking a breather. A day after quadrupling the amount of data customers can get on its Simple Starter plan, T-Mobile is at it again, expanding its Simple Choice family plan to 10 lines and offering to double the amount of dataat your disposal if you add a tablet. The moves repre

It looks like China is not only content on coming up with their very own version of a desktop operating system, but the country is also looking to deliver what they call a ‘supersonic submarine’, where this mode of transportation will make use of an underwater bubble in order to travel a whole lot f

Word on the street had it that Verizon was working on the Motorola Luge, where this particular smartphone would continue to remain ahead of the curve by sporting LTE connectivity, while having its crosshairs targeted at Verizon’s range of prepaid customers. Well, it seems that a Verizon display card

Taking into consideration that Samsung of South Korea is breathing down TSMC’s back, the latter has stepped up plans to roll out 50,000 wafers each month that will make use of its 16nm process, and this is tipped to happen during the entire first quarter of next year. These 16nm wafers were meant to

Now that the Rosetta spacecraft is orbiting its target comet, the European Space Agency is finalizing the plans for the ship’s Philae lander ahead of a historic touchdown on November 11th. The team has picked five potential landing sites that meet its requirements, all of which should keep Phi

It’s official: every cellphone sold in California will now have to include a remote disabling option that lets you render a stolen device unusable. More importantly, this anti-theft security measure will have to come enabled by default. The “kill switch” bill, which was introduced

It’s official: Amazon is going to acquire video game streaming site Twitch for $970 million in an all-cash deal. It’s a move that caught most of us off-guard, as the common understanding was that Google has or was going to buy the video streaming startup for somewhere around a billion dollars. But i

I was invited down to the AT&T store in Huntington Beach to check out their new interactive store of the future. This is the second store of its kind...

The use of robots in our daily lives isn’t exactly new, and while we have heard of robot bartenders, it seems that Royal Caribbean cruise company is expected to deploy them in full on their newest cruise ship, the Quantum of the Seas. The company’s newest cruise ship will be equipped with a Bionic B

We’re sure everyone likes a good deal every now and then, and if you were thinking that games these days are starting to become a bit too pricey for your liking, you might be pleased to learn that Razer has plans to do something about that. The company, which has been known for releasing gaming [&he

We’ve all heard horror stories about exploding phone batteries and unfortunately it seems that OnePlus has caught their first case of an exploding battery so early into their existence.According to reports, it seems that there has been a recent case where one user has reported that their OnePlus One

With the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung brought a new hardware feature to the table in the form of a fingerprint sensor which seemed to capitalize on the popularity of the iPhone 5s and Apple’s own introduction of their Touch ID fingerprint sensor. Now according to a recent report fr

For a robot to be able to wash clothes, vacuum carpets or serve you cocktails on a Friday night, it needs to be loaded with the appropriate software and data. In the future, though, a robot will easily be able pull info they need to do those things from a single online service called Robo […]

For the past eight years, a CableCARD and a TiVo DVR have gone hand in hand. No more! Within the next few weeks, the limited edition TiVo Roamio OTA DVR will be available from select Best Buy stores for an initial price of $49. That’s $150 cheaper than the existing base model TiVo Roamio, and

If the rumors are to be believed, there is a good chance the Motorola could be taking the wraps off the Moto X+1 on the 4th of September. So far we have heard some rumors about the handset’s specs, such as its HD display, quad-core processor, and a 13MP rear-facing camera. However thanks to a [&hell

64-bit smartphones are already a reality with the iPhone 5s while several manufacturers are competing to be the first to bring a 64-bit Android to market. HTC might claim that title with the mid-range Desire 820. The phone has been officially confirmed via the HTC Weibo account though details are ve

When someone’s heart stops, there are just minutes to save them from brain damage or death; by the time medics arrive, it can be too late. This is the problem former San Ramon Valley Fire Department chief Richard Price set out to solve with the crowdsourced iOS app, PulsePoint. Price came up with th

Verizon plans to expand the amount of solar panel projects that power its network by almost double. Following a $100 million investment in solar panels and fuel cells last year, the telco announced on Monday that it is spending another $40 million to build out 10.2 MW of new solar panel systems at e

Fans of mobile operating systems not called “Android” or ‘iOS” might be sad to hear what Huawei’s head honcho just told the Wall Street Journal. In an interview, Richard Yu spoke about the company’s plans regarding Tizen, Windows Phone and a long-rumored homegrown

Burger King wants its customers to use its new branded mobile app for Android. It wants this so bad, the fast-food company is giving away Android smartphones. This promotion is quite a bit more advanced than the usual “Jungle Book” toys or “Star Wars” glasses giveaways. You c

Following yesterday’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, Sony said this morning both the PlayStation Network and the Sony Entertainment Network are back online. Users can now resume game downloads, play games online, buy stuff off the PlayStation Store, use apps and all the other PSN

Mozilla today announced that a smartphone powered by its Firefox OS mobile operating system went on sale in India, one of the key markets that the company has targeted. The phone, dubbed Cloud FX, is made by Intex Technologies, an Indian manufacturer of mobile phones and other computer hardware prod

Researchers have had success growing organs in controlled lab environments, but repeating that feat inside a complex, messy animal body? That’s more than a little tricky. However, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have managed that daunting feat for the first time. They’ve grown

DraftKings, a fantasy sports site that offers cash prizes to winners of its daily fantasy competitions, has raised $41 million in a funding round led by The Raine Group. The round, which brings DraftKing’s total funding to nearly $75 million since its founding in April 2012, included existing invest

LG is continuing to push OLED TV technology with the announcement that it’ll be the first company in the world to ship 4K models. 65-inch and 77-inch 4K OLED sets will be available for pre-order in South Korea this week; the Associated Press reports that the smaller model will retail for 12 mi

Passengers on Virgin and Qantas flights travelling around Australia will no longer need to turn off their mobile phones or tablets during take off and landing within a matter of weeks, following the Civil Aviation Safety Authority putting in new procedures for airlines to allow passengers to keep th

Two satellites that are intended to form part of the European Galileo satellite navigation system went astray from their intended orbit after launch from French Guiana on Friday, satellite launch company Arianespace said. Galileo is being built by Europe as a civil alternative to the U.S. GPS and th

How well do you take orders? Well, it seems that we humans are a strange lot, at least according to this particular research that hails from folks over at the MIT which confirms how within a two-human, one-robot team that are working together toward a common goal, it would be the humans who would pr

There were rumors of the upcoming Motorola Shamu being the Nexus 6, before some other later rumors claimed otherwise. Regardless, it looks like one thing is for sure – the Nexus X that is about to be announced soon? It will not be the same as the Nexus 6, or so this is where the […]