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For our friends who happen to live across the pond, here is a little bit of good news for you – the ASUS Transformer Pad TF303 will now arrive with 10.1”, 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution displays. While they have not yet made their way over to the US, it looks as though a couple […]

Console games may still occupy a large amount of retail space with physical copies, but PC games are another story altogether, according to research firm DFC Intelligence. The organization told website PC Retail that 92 percent of all PC games sold across the world in 2013 were distributed digitally

M2 Group, which owns broadband companies including Dodo and iPrimus, has reported $67.1 million in net profits with annual revenue levels breaking through the billion dollar mark. The Melbourne-based company made revenue of $1.024 billion with earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amo

The makers of a digital credit card replacement device named Coin had some bad news for its early supporters yesterday. After months of work, the company was forced to push back its release date at the last minute from this summer to next spring as it tries to finalize the hardware. And Coin said th

China’s next try at a government-supported operating system may soon become a practical reality. The Chinese Academy of Engineering tells the People’s Post that a desktop version of China Operating System (COS) should be ready by October, with mobile device support coming later. That&#82

Android gaming on TVs is slowly but surely taking off. Companies like Google and Amazon have created products that allow people to play Android games via a controller on their TVs. Ouya emerged on the scene not too long ago with a gaming device of its own. Now the company is looking to capture a [&h

The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact’s IFA release is pretty much set in stone at this point, and even though the company has been trying its best to keep all the details a secret ’til the final reveal, some details are bound to get leaked. Today, we bring you a detailed spec sheet of the […]

Samsung is said to be preparing yet another new addition to its Gear smartwatch lineup that could make its debut next month at IFA 2014 in Berlin. Dubbed the “Gear 3,” the device is expected to have a curved glass display much like the Gear Fit, and a built-in cellular radio. Samsung has already lau

Add Pivotal to the list of tech players adding mobile services to its development platform. Last week, the company announced Pivotal CF Mobile Services, which aims to enable developers to build push notifications into their applications; an API gateway to let them incorporate an array of third-party

Of the three Android Wear smartwatches introduced at Google’s developer conference in June, the Moto 360 was by far the crowd favorite; its circular watchface gives it a classic, elegant look, and a stark contrast to the squarish Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch. It turns out that LG wasn&#821

Normally, breaking a PC’s security involves either finding security exploits or launching brute force attacks, neither of which is necessarily quick or easy. However, a team at Tel Aviv University has come up with a potentially much simpler way to swipe data from a computer: touch it. If you m

Sentenced this week in Wolverhampton Crown Court, 25-year-old Philip Dank received a sentence of nearly three years for physically filming action film ‘Fast & Furious 6′ as well as distributing the film on the Internet. The pirated copy of the film was downloaded approximately 779,000 times and

The immensely popular One flagship from OnePlus has generated quite a lot of hype not just before but after its release. Thanks to is robust specs sheet at a very competitive off-contract price the smartphone has become quite the hit. It’s become so popular, in fact, that the company has had a

Can you remember the last time you logged into PlayStation Home? Neither can anybody in Japan, apparently. According to a statement released on the Japanese website, the 3D social space will permanently close in March of next year. Sony didn’t give a reason for the shuttering, but it’s n

The Moto X+1 has been talked about for quite a while now and is expected by many to be the successor to the Moto X from 2013. Recently thanks to a parting gift from famed leaker @evleaks, we caught a glimpse of the handset’s press rendering and now thanks to Brazilian online retailer Livaria Logos,

A couple of days ago it wasreported that according to a security company, they had found that Apple’s iMessage messaging service is a hotbed of spammers. Apparently the ease of sending spam messages makes it a very attractive tool to be used by spammers in their daily activities. This is unfortunate

Online advertising is annoying but the Internet wouldn’t be nearly as great without it. Fast Company directs our attention to a study from UK video ad platform Ebuzzing that claims it would cost each of us around $232 extra per year to get all of the stuff on the web we now enjoy for free […]

Is your payment information safe? It’s hard to know, considering many companies hit by the same cyberattack that hit Target don’t even know it. According to a New York Times report published Friday, more than 1,000 businesses, including Supervalu and United Postal Service (UPS), were caught up in a

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is taking Oracle to court. The state of Oregon is unhappy with the performance of the website that Oracle built for its Obamacare rollout. The site, frankly, didn’t work as expected. The cost of the Oracle effort? Hundreds of millions of dollars. The best part

At 23, James Proud is a rising Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur who has managed to raise nearly $13 million in funding – none of which is from institutional investors. His company, Hello, raised $10.5 million from a circle of well-connected angel investors, some of whom wrote million-dollar checks.

The same day that Amazon announced a trial run of its delivery by drone service in India, a couple of MIT researchers released a new study that shows how to keep delivery drones running efficiently — and it’s funded by Boeing. A team of researchers have developed what is essentially a health kit for

After an unsuccessful union with Sprint, T-Mobile is going after its former suitor’s customers, as well as its other competitors’ subcribers in the wireless world. Today, the magenta-colored carrier announced an aggressive promotional campaign that offers a free year of LTE data to castaways from AT

Following an extensive trial period, Comcast said it has moved forward on the commercial launch of “Xfinity On Campus,” a multiscreen, IP-based video service that is tailored for college students and accessible on Web browsers and select tablets and smartphones. Comcast is using the authenticated se

As a big sports fan, I know fans love their teams with an unbridled passion and they may drive their friends who don’t share their view a little crazy by filling their social feeds with commentary on the latest game. For like-minded fans, this is great fun, but for your other friends, not so much. [

When it comes to self-driving cars, I am quite sure that much more testing needs to be done, not to mention a whole lot of standardization being agreed upon before it is rolled out on a global scale. After all, machines are not 100% foolproof all the time, especially not when we hear about Google’s

Folks living in the U.S. would know by now that when it comes to testing out drones, there are just very few areas that have been designated for such testing to occur. The rules, however, are a whole lot more relaxed elsewhere, such as in India as the world’s second most populous country looks set [

Your friendly, neighborhood UPS store might have been hacked. UPS just confirmed that 51 stores across 24 states in the United States had malware capable of recording credit card information and sending it to third parties on its in-store cash registers. If you swiped your card at any of these, your

Even fast food needs to get on the digital bandwagon if it wants to reach a wider audience, and McDonald’s is clear about that. What’s interesting is that the Golden Arches has plans to step into digital music and an ambitious eye on e-commerce, as CNBC reports. Job listings on McDonald’s reveal tha

Amazon.com is hoping to attract more consumers from China, with a new agreement that will let the U.S. e-commerce company bring millions of products from its international sites to the country as imported goods. The company’s China business made the announcement on Wednesday, with the signing of an

If you think you’re getting less spam on Twitter, you’re right. Twitter has just unveiled BotMaker, a system that lets the social network create anti-spam bot code on the fly. BotMaker can automatically take down pesky spammers, block suspicious links, and flag shady behavior, sometimes,

OnBeep is readying a wearable device that will let smartphone users initiate a voice chat with a pre-defined group of people, walkie-talkie style. And it’s got $6.25 million in funding to make that wearable a reality. The device will be customized for voice communication in small groups, and users w

Is Motorola on a roll or something? Apparently so, the company is working on 8 new devices that ought to see the light of the day before the end of the year, and here we are with more word that Motorola is also testing out many other tablets, and these are set to be released […]

Today’s enterprise must meet the technology standards of today’s consumer. According to a recent IDG Enterprise report, enterprises that invest in consumerized, easy-to-use technologies experience a 56 percent increase in employee productivity and a 46 percent increase in customer satisf

Barnes and Noble is back in the tablet game. After taking a brief break, the bookseller has partnered with Samsung on a special version of the company’s Galaxy Tab 4, dubbed the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. The new tablet, which comes in black or white, features a 7-inch HD display, quad-core processor,

On-demand ridesharing service Uber has been expanding and growing at a far greater pace than its competitors. Only recently it announced a new service that rivals similar services being provided by Google and Amazon. In its latest move the company is opening up to third party developers. It has rele

ZTE’s smartphones rarely make it to the United States. When they do, they’re usually devoid of their original names, being sold as cheap own-brand smartphones by smaller carriers. That isn’t the case this time around, though. ZTE is bringing the Nubia 5S Mini to the US, with LTE su

Intel and Unity Technologies announced that the Unity Engine, which is used for creating games and other 2D/3D applications, will be optimized for Android devices using Intel hardware such as the Intel Core and Intel Atom series of processors. What that means for the consumer is a better experience

It’s great that manufacturers recover lead from discarded car batteries to use in new ones, since lead production from ores yields toxic residues. The problem is, when we shift from lead-acid to lithium-ion and other types of batteries (and we’re starting to), over 200 million old batter

It’s a pretty common thing to see in an online store: pay with PayPal, but what about on mobile devices? Well, the eBay-owned company is working on that. The company just announced PayPal One Touch, a new system that hopes to make paying of items in mobile apps a one-touch affair. The feature

If leaks are to be believed, Sony’s experiments in pushing the boundaries of camera design are taking an unexpected turn. Engadget notes that “several Chinese female influencers and models” have been showing off a camera shaped like a bottle of perfume with a large flippable lens o