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Lenovo’s net profit grew 25% year-over-year in the first quarter as the Chinese company continued to make gains in the PC and smartphone markets. During the period ended March 31, Lenovo’s net profit reached US$158 million, up from $127 million a year earlier. The company’s revenue also increased, b

Dropbox has acquired startup Bubbli in order to secure the company’s 3D photo streaming technology. According to TechCrunch, emails were sent out to users concerning the acquisition this week, stating that Dropbox purchased the company for its three-dimensional photo stitching technology. Fina

Netflix is planning to expand to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg in late 2014. While the company intends to offer subscribers the full smorgasbord of on-demand movies, television shows, and Netflix original series like House of Cards, content availability will vary dep

It didn’t take an Edward Snowden to figure out that American espionage service providers had access to confidential information about German citizens. It’s been known for years that the Computer Sciences Corporation works for American secret services. It’s also known that a former

HTC’s One M8 isn’t even two months old yet and it’s already sparked a few spin-offs. We’re not just talking about the One mini 2, either: a render of the oft-rumored One M8 Ace started making the rounds on Chinese tech blogs earlier today, and we’ve been able to confirm

Southwest Airlines has issued an update to its iPhone and iPod touch app that should make the lives of several frequent travelers a bit easier. The company has added mobile boarding pass support to the app for 28 airports, which is up from the previously supported handful of airports. Mobile boardin

Daymak did dive into the world of a greener and more powerful bicycle in the past with their Shadow Ebike three years back, where that particular ride could actually charge up power hungry devices on the go. Well, this time around, Daymak is concentrating on something totally different – calling it

After taking a big step into the music-streaming fray with the launch of its own mobile app called Milk Music, Samsung is now entering the video-streaming space as well. The company announced ‘Project Glued’ at an event in Singapore which will let users rent an entire season of TV shows for 30 days

Ah, the pacemaker – a medical implant that has helped keep the hearts of many ticking over the years, but it is time that new technology continues to build upon the rich legacy of this medical device. Researchers could very well develop a new way to power pacemakers of the future by charging it wire

Microsoft Silverlight vulnerabilities are increasingly being exploited in drive-by download attacks to infect computers with malware, especially through malicious ads. Attackers have been adding exploits for Silverlight vulnerabilities to their exploit kits, tools that are commonly used to launch We

This July, gamers from all over the world will fly into Seattle to partake in and watch one of the biggest e-sports events on the globe. The International, developer Valve’s championship for its free-to-play online action-strategy game Dota 2, begins July 18 in Seattle’s Key Arena, and this year’s e

Heads up gamers, if you were looking forward to new games coming from EA, you might want to check back with us during E3 2014 because according to Spike TV’s Geoff Keighley, it seems that EA will have six new games that they will be announcing during the event. The announcement will be broadcasted l

GoPro is preparing to go public, by filing an IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Initially revealed in plans in February, the S-1 document filed by the action camera manufacturer reveals it is looking to raise $100 million in the IPO, and will be listed on NASDAQ using the ticker sy

When Valve announced Steam Machines, it seemed like the company’s way of invading the living room space which is currently dominated by the likes of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Now Valve will not be making these machines themselves, but will instead allow hardware OEMs to create their own devices

Back in 2013, AT&T rolled out a green initiative known as Street Charge. Basically what this was is that the carrier decided to put up solar charging stations around various parts of New York to allow smartphone users to charge their devices while on the go. It was a good idea but unfortunately

Okay all you Shiba Inu lovers, your enthusiasm knows no bounds. The dog that’s the face of its very own crypto-currency has its own NASCAR racing car. And now that car is going to be making an appearance in the upcoming NASCAR ‘14 video game. NASCAR has seen a spike in popularity amongst younger vie

Earlier this year at CES 2014, a company called Sleep Number introduced what they were calling smart beds. Basically these beds came with sensors that would be able to register all sorts of information about the sleeper, thus allowing the user to monitor their own vitals and determine if they are ge

Amazon has poured $20 million in Yummy77, a food delivery site based in Shanghai. Yummy77 confirmed the funding in a post on Weibo and said it will use the capital to expand into new markets and help Amazon’s China site expand its selection of goods. This marks the first time that Amazon has investe

AT&T has announced that starting May 23 the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini will be its first phone to support HD Voice. The carrier promises that HD Voice, enabled through the phone’s Voice over LTE (VoLTE) capabilities, delivers clearer calls with less background noise. It’s a heady promise

Anyone who enjoys a cocktail but where prefer the mixing to be done by a professional, might be interested in a new device that has launched over on the Kickstarter crowd funding website this week in the form of the Barobot cocktail mixing robot. The open source Barobot cocktail mixing rob

Telstra customers will soon have access to one of the world’s largest Wi-Fi networks after the company launched a $100 million strategy to build 8000 Wi-Fi hotspots around the country. The strategy aims to offer all Australians access to two million Wi-Fi hotspots across the nation within five

Footy fans in Brazil will be able to enjoy World Cup matches this summer in 4K courtesy of host broadcaster Globo. The Latin American media company announced overnight that it will be setting up a batch of Sony’s 65-inch 4K TVs in Rio’s Jardim Botanico neighbourhood. It’ll only be

Cisco Systems’ CEO John Chambers has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking for his intervention so that U.S. technology sales are not affected by a loss in trust as a result of reports of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency. The letter follows reports that even as the U.S. war

Water is one of the quintessential “ingredients” if life were to be sustained, and in its undeniable role in making sure that life continues, there is every possibility that nations in the future might actually go to war over water instead of other resources. Researchers at MIT’s School of Engineeri

A lot of technology was probably developed with the best intentions, but at the same time have also shown that it can also be abused. Facial recognition is such a technology, and in a recent report by The New York Times, it seems that one of the pioneers of facial recognition technology has expresse

Raise your hand if you remember that anime from the ’90s called Sailor Moon – now put that hand down and fire up Hulu if you want to see the show’s female warriors kick ass on screen again. Apparently, the company recently cut a deal to stream a remastered version of all 200 Sailor

After removing his smash iOS hit Flappy Bird from the App Store, developer Dong Nguyen has remained largely quiet, though he recently broke his silence to offer his Twitter followers an image of a new game he’s currently developing. “I am making a new game,” Nguyen tweeted, alongsi

If you’re in the market for a 3D printer, you can now buy one from one of the Web’s favorite discount vendors. Monoprice has announced its Dual Color Extrusion 3D Printer. Available for preorder now, the $1,200 unit is available to ship by the end of the month. It’s the Web retaile

Square Enix is collaborating with Valve to release Left 4 Dead: Survivors, a version of the zombie shooter reconditioned for play in arcades over in Japan. This week, the YouTube channel for Taito released this video showing what it looks like. Left 4 Dead: Survivors appears to blend elements of bot

Last month a Samsung device carrying model number SM-T2558 popped up online. The form factor caused some confusion as it appeared to be a 7-inch tablet that actually looked like a phone. The company has launched phablets with 6-inch plus displays in the past, look no further than the Galaxy Mega, bu

Getting a parking ticket sucks, but paying for it shouldn’t have to be. That’s what the folks at Boston’s Terrible Labs think anyway — they built an app called TicketZen to take the trouble out of giving the state your money. Here’s the gist of it: once you’ve ins

It shouldn’t surprise you to hear that the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Wii U require large amounts of electricity. What might come as a shock is just how much of that juice is spent while the consoles are resting in standby mode. According to a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council

Michael Jackson’s hologram will live on — at least long enough to “perform” a song from the artist’s posthumous album Xscape on stage during Billboard’s Music Awards on Sunday night. A federal judge in Las Vegas denied a request for an injunction to halt the performance

Have you ever reformatted a computer and then immediately realized you shouldn’t have? Well, an “accident” at Emory University this week will make your mistake look like a brilliant, carefully considered decision. Here’s the crux of what happened: “A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently s

AT&T is reportedly ready to announce a deal for satellite communications company DirecTV on Sunday. Allegedly, DirecTV CEO Mike White has told senior executives that the deal with AT&T is finalized, and details are ready to be released to the public. The deal, rumored to approach $50 billion

LifeLock announced in a blog post that the company’s Wallet app for Android and iOS may not be fully compliant with PCI security standards. Because of this, LifeLock has pulled the app—and set it to automatically delete users’ data the next time it’s opened. Talk about a thorough c

Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen has come out against a statement he made earlier in the week about the future of Comcast broadband and data usage caps. While Cohen emphasized that there are “no plans to announce a new data usage policy,” the real truth is that you should exp

The Skylock can let you share your bike with others — and it’ll send you a text if it thinks a thief has his hands on it. A San Francisco startup is launching an online funding campaign for the lock, which is planned for release in 2015. The company says it will begin “the age […]

Earlier this week, some new images of the dark gray LG G3 leaked out, giving us a look at the device from several different angles. That dark gray is just one of the three colors that we expect the G3 to launch in, but the good news is that another leak has surfaced to give us […]

More California community college students are taking online courses than a decade ago, but fewer are completing and passing those classes compared with traditional ones, according to a study released Wednesday. Overall, enrollment in online community college courses grew by almost 1 million classes