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Earlier, Motorola announced that they would be closing the Texas plant. The plant is currently being used to fulfill orders for Moto X handsets ordered via the Moto Maker website, which basically allows users to customize their phones, like add engravings, match different colors to the handset, and

The smart home space is getting more competition, with Qivicon spreading its multi-provider home automation and security system to the US and UK. Already available in Germany, Qivicon is the handiwork of Deutsch Telekom, Samsung, Miele, and others, connecting smart appliances, thermostats, garage do

Setting out to bring the next generation of cameras to the market, California-based Lomography launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for the Lomo’Instant Camera. The company originally sought out $100k for the camera, and has excitingly raised $507,828 from 4,139 backers. The brand new dev

In a move that could have big implications for the budding civic innovation space, Salesforce has become the first outfit to be granted authorization to provide both software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud services to U.S. Federal Government agencies. Back in 2010, the Obama administra

The San Francisco bike community has hailed the San Francisco Police Department’s “bait bike” program. The Board of Supervisors allocated $75,000 to support efforts against bike theft, including money for bait bikes and tracking equipment last summer. Officer Matt Friedman, who runs t

Officials in southeastern New Mexico began work on a plan this week to divide a cache of Atari video games dug up from an old landfill last month. Joe Lewandowski, a consultant for the film companies that documented the dig, issued a draft of a distribution plan to Alamogordo city officials on Tuesd

Beardy Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is one step closer to opening its cabin doors for business, having secured authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to launch its rocket plane from US soil. The Virgin mogul’s space tourism outfit announced on Thursday that it has re

The FCC last set its definition of broadband as 4Mbps downstream, and 1Mbps upstream. That was fine for 2010, but it’s arguably outdated in 2014 – you can’t reliably stream HD video or host high-quality video chats on that kind of connection. The agency is clearly aware that it nee

In case you didn’t believe Amazon is hungry for public cloud revenue from the biggest businesses, get this: Amazon has announced a new plugin for VMware’s popular vCenter software for managing data center infrastructure. Admins of VMware-based on-premises data centers can now set up and manage Amazo

If there’s one thing that can make the competitive tech industry band together, it’s security. Last month, the Heartbleed bug affected nearly everyone in the industry,requiring millions of customers to change their passwords and rethink the safety that their services provide them. The Wall Street Jo

Stitch is like Tinder, but for your grandma. Well, not exactly. Stitch isn’t just meant for hooking up, it’s meant for finding a companion to go to the movies or ballroom dancing with. For many “mature adults,” as Stitch calls them, that might be just what the doctor ordered.

Travel planning site Hipmunk announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Oak Investment Partners, and joined by a number of other past investors in the company, including Seattle’s Ignition Partners. The company says that the funding will be used to boo

HTC China has unveiled a plastic version of the company’s newest flagship smartphone. The HTC One (E8) is almost identical to the impressive, metallic One (M8), although there are a few changes beyond just build material. The One (E8) utilizes a 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 proces

Speaking at a technology conference on Thursday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings delivered some disappointing news to the company’s biggest fans. The company, which started out delivering DVDs in the mail and helped usher in the era of on-demand video streaming, won’t be offering live sports or

Want something capable of keeping up with your rugged lifestyle? Samsung and AT&T just announced the Galaxy S5 Active. The Galaxy S5 Active, just like the Galaxy S4 Active that came before it, is exclusive to AT&T in the United States. Better yet, you can order it right now. As we expected,

India’s growing tech scene now has access to an even huger pile of money. Venture-capital heavyweight Sequoia Capital raised $530 million for its fourth India-focused fund. The Menlo Park, California-based firm said it will also be looking to invest in companies located outside India in the Southeas

Japan Display is a name that we are all familiar with, considering the number of various mobile displays that they have released in the past as well as enterprise-based displays that support high resolution and insane pixel densities. Well, in their latest effort concerning a new high resolution tab

It seems that those of you who are looking forward to some gaming goodness with Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U will be pleased to hear that it is playable using Nintendo GameCube controllers. Talk about a throwback to the past, where the gap between the old and the new are bridged! This particular

Tencent, the maker of popular messaging app WeChat, is taking its ecommerce ambitions one big step forward today by allowing anyone to set up a store inside WeChat. WeChat first added support for mobile payments in August last year, with only a few brick-and-mortar retailers supporting it. Then the

Angus Davis, founder and CEO of a fast-growing Providence technology company, said Thursday a $20-million venture-capital investment in his firm will allow Swipely to “accelerate growth” in the capital city by hiring more employees, attracting more customers and improving what it sells them. The com

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to purchase the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion. Ballmer and Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling reportedly settled on the deal late Thursday afternoon although Bobby Samini, an attorney for Donald Sterling, pointed out that there can be no sale

Now that the first year of the newly implemented “six strikes” Copyright Alert System has come to an end, the Center for Copyright Information has shared the results. In 2013, CCI sent out more than 1.3 million alerts to 722,820 user accounts. Of those alerts, 72% fell under the “educati

NASA and Khan Academy, a non-profit educational website, have debuted a series of online tutorials designed to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM. The announcement of the new collaborative effort was made today at the 6th annual White H

Back in March, we had heard the rumors that Samsung could be working on new Galaxy Mega devices, one of them allegedly being the Galaxy W which was spotted in a SK Telecom brochure. For those unfamiliar with the Galaxy Mega series, these are essentially smartphones that sport huge displays, bigger t

It turns out that Epic Games may have created an entirely new way into the market for professional and aspiring game developers alike when they made Unreal Engine 4 available to all via an affordable monthly subscription model earlier this year. Crytek is now following suit by making its CryEngine t

President Obama gave first mention to the Hello Navi app development team at Resaca Middle School in Los Fresnos in his speech Tuesday at the White House Science Fair. Last week, the White House invited three of the six girls developing the Hello Navi mobile smart phone app to attend this year’s Whi

Reports of the Sprint T-Mobile merger have been coming in for the last few months now and yet no official bid has been submitted by the Softbank-owned third largest carrier in the U.S. Deutsche Telekom also has a say in this matter as it owns a controlling stake, 67 percent to be precise, of T-Mobil

Two Dutch entrepreneurs started a project on KickStarter to raise money for a device called Homey which allows to control any device in your living room using speech or a mobile application. To achieve this, the Homey has several radio and infrared modules onboard. The Homey should be able to contro

Seagate has just announced that they will be acquiring LSI’s Accelerated Solution Division and Flash Components Division from Avago, which translate to LSI’s Nytro lineup along with the SSD controller focused SandForce. This announcement comes as a surprise because about six months ago,

As the commercial space sector continues to develop apace, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, is about to unveil what it hopes will become the enzyme for a revolution in U.S. manned space transportation. Tonight at 7PM PDT, the manned version of the company’s hugely successful Dragon space c

Virgin Media launched the UK’s first ‘quad-play’ packages earlier this month, which wrap all of its mobile, landline, broadband and TV services up into neat, pay-monthly bundles. These were only available for existing customers to upgrade to initially, but right on schedule, new cu

Beats Audio may be moving to Cupertino, but that doesn’t mean it’s giving up on the PC market. Well, at least not yet — HP says it still has rights to use the brand’s audio technology for the foreseeable future. It’s part of the company’s pre-existing contract wit

They say that wireless charging is the future, and I certainly would not want to dispute such a claim in any way. After all, we have seen major vehicle makers such as Audi and Toyota working to incorporate wireless charging technology into their rides, while smartphones too, have not missed out on t

When it comes to censorship and control over their information coming in and out of their country, China has never been shy or particularly diplomatic about their choices. Recently China has been reported to be reconsidering the use of IBM servers in their banks and have even banned the installation

T-Mobile has been pretty aggressive the past year or so, making some big strides and announcing some pretty controversial deals for their customers, all of which have succeeded in getting the carrier’s name splashed across headlines on the internet. This has usually taken place in the form of their

For the first time ever China will beat out the U.S. in mobile phone sales in 2014, according to a new report out by international research firm Strategy Analytics. It will both sell more units, at 430 million and bring in more revenue at $87 billion. Meanwhile the US is expected to sell 267 million

Valve has announced that it will delay the launch of its Steam Machine hardware range and the companion Steam Controller until 2015. On the company’s Steam blog, product designer Eric Hope, posting under his screen name of Axiom, said that the shift would allow Valve to improve the Steam Contr

Low-cost Android tablets from little-known vendors with 3G capabilities may soon hit shelves with chips from Intel, which is looking to replace ARM processors in devices starting at $100. Intel on Tuesday struck a deal with Chinese chipmaker Rockchip to jointly make an Intel-based x86 Atom chip with

In a testament to its success in a large corner of the employment market that has been underserved by technology providers, Jobaline is raising a substantial round of fresh capital. The Kirkland, Washington company has raised $7 million in Series B funding for a nationwide expansion of its mobile, b

Payments company Square officially announced a cash advance program Wednesday that could help its existing merchants, and its own company, increase the money they make. The program, called Square Capital, lets merchants borrow a lump sum from Square and pay it back through a set percentage of their