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Auxo 2, the follow up to 2012’s popular jailbreak tweak Auxo, is now available in the Cydia Store. The product of developers @Sentry_NC and QusicS, the new tweak includes a number of features including a unified view for the Control Center and app switcher, a Quick Switcher for moving between apps u

There’s a good chance that some of your smartphone-toting friends use emoji to express themselves on Twitter — wouldn’t it be nice to see those icons while you’re surfing the web? As of today, you can. Twitter has updated its web client to display emoji, giving you all the co

While Samsung might be boasting about the Galaxy S5’s IP67 rating which makes it both water resistant and dustproof, they did not mention anything about durability, but then again the Galaxy S5 was not designed to be a rugged phone so we can only assume that if it were to be dropped or run over by [

Juniper Networks will lay off about 6% of its workforce and back out of application delivery controllers as part of a restructuring intended to cut costs and focus the company on markets where it can grow fast. The job cuts, from an employee base of more than 9,400, will lead to $35 million in sever

Japanese messaging app Line revealed that it now has 400 million registered users. While the app is most popular in Japan, it boasts having over 10 million users in 10 countries – including Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, and the US. The company also revealed today that the chat app hit new high

The Samsung Smart Home platform, announced at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, has started its global rollout and will first be made available in Korea, followed by the US, with other countries to follow. The platform enables users to easily manage their connected appliances and devi

Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has been ordered by a judge to return to the US to face questions over his bankruptcy filing with a Dallas court and how 750,000 Bitcoins went AWOL. Bankruptcy judge Stacey Jernigan ruled that Karpeles must appear at the Dallas office of his lawyers Baker & McKenzie on

Huawei tends to make pretty decent devices that comes with a relatively low price tag and if you’re interested in some of Huawei’s offerings, you might be interested to learn that Huawei could be planning on selling their Ascend Mate 2 in the US, thanks to a recently setup website which appears to b

We’re now six years into what app analytics provider Flurry calls the mobile revolution and as you might expect, the average consumer in the US is spending more time than ever using mobile devices. According to the firm’s latest report, daily time spent using a mobile device has risen to 2 hours and

Display-analyzing firm DisplayMate has been taking a very close look at the screen on the soon-to-launch Galaxy S5 smartphone, and its findings are sure to have Samsung executives cracking a smile as wide as the device is long. For most regular folk, display analysis extends to little more than popp

Backup cameras will be mandatory for automakers by May 2018. The NHTSA on Monday issue new regulation that requires all vehicles under 10,000 pounds be equipped with rear-visibility cameras. The regulation, clearly, is meant to encourage a safer environment for both pedestrians and drivers, ensuring

Balderton Capital, the European VC investor behind MySQL, NaturalMotion and Yoox, has raised $305 million for its fifth European fund. As has been hinted at previously, the focus of the new fund will be on Series A investments in European tech startups. Other investments in other regions such as the

It may have been overshadowed by pricier acquisition deals in subsequent years, but HP’s 2010 takeover of Palm remains a milestone event. It was a seemingly perfect combination of a highly competitive mobile operating system with a deep-pocketed hardware juggernaut. HP promised it would fund t

Verizon’s latest DVR is less set-top box and more home media server: with six tuners and a 1TB hard drive, you can add a second DVR unit to record up to 12 channels at once and feed 10 TVs at any given time. The catchily named VMS1100 is Verizon’s FIOS Media Server, and is part of the [&

Thanks to Lingvist, a startup from Estonia, you can use a mathematically-optimized approach to language acquisition that will have you learning a new language in around 200 hours. The first language on offer are French, which are now in private beta, and Spanish and English are currently in the work

Back at CES, Intel made a big deal of the fact that it could squeeze a Linux-based PC with Bluetooth and WiFi into the size and shape of an SD card. However, with just a few months to go before the launch of these miniscule Edison development boards, it looks like the chip-maker has changed tack. In

According to data from a Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report for the three months to February 2014, Motorola’s budget Moto G device has helped boost the company from “almost nothing” to account for 6 percent of British smartphone sales in just six months. The Moto G was launched in November last year.

People are used to talking about The Pirate Bay in negative terms, but this initiative, a bundle that contains 101 free video games, is very cool indeed. These are games that are strange. These are games that are weird. These are games that have been ignored. These are games that deserve to be playe

A new trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts showcases its second multiplayer expansion called Devastation and confirms a guest appearance from the Predator, the trophy hunting Yautja first introduced in 1987 film Predator. Developer Infinity Ward teased the alien’s inclusion last week in an Instagr

While gluing it to your hand may be one surefire way to prevent your mobile phone being stolen, surely the most effective anti-theft strategy would be to make the device as unattractive as possible to potential thieves. By this we don’t mean putting a picture of Donald Trump on your home screen or s

The U.S. Supreme Court is wading into a messy debate over when software deserves a patent, an issue that is important to big technology companies such as Microsoft and Google, yet has so far flummoxed the federal judiciary. The high court will hear oral arguments Monday in an appeal brought by Alice

Mozilla will be without half its board after three directors quit in the wake of Brendan Eich’s appointment as the new CEO. Last week, employees turned to social media to voice unhappiness that the company had appointed Eich, who has donated to groups opposing gay marriage. According to the Wa

Russian mobile payments startup 2can has attracted $5 million from investors led by InVenture Partners. 2can technological solution consists of mobile applications for iOS and Android, and a card reader attached to a mobile device. Collectively, it allows any store or restaurant to use your smartpho

There’s no denying that Xiaomi has become and incredibly popular smartphone brand in a short time, but just how explosive their growth has been is genuinely surprising. Nobody is surprised when Apple or Samsung shift tens of millions of units in a matter of months, because they’re both global behemo

A Jaguar F-Type R Coupe is capable of hitting 186 miles per hour. The new Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is estimated to top out at 170, while the BMW M5 is electronically limited to 155 mph. All impressive figures, and all of them would lose in a top-speed race to this remote-controlled car. Called the R/C

Starting in June, folks in the U.K. will legally be allowed to rip their media for personal use. After thorough examination of current copyright laws, officials have decided that consumers have the right to rip their collection of media. The U.K.’s Intellectual Property Office said the change will a

Two of the biggest telecoms in the US, AT&T and Verizon, are on a mission to make landlines nothing more than a footnote in the history of telecommunication. One state at a time, the two companies are lobbying for permission to replace POTS — the copper-wired landline phone system —

The G2 mini’s far from being a perfect smartphone specimen, but LG’s hoping it has what it takes to compete in developing markets when it comes out in April. That’s right — the 4.7-inch Android KitKat phone’s coming out next month, and it’s making the Russian Comm

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden suggest up to 122 world leaders have been targeted by the National Security Agency in the course of its surveillance operations. The fresh revelations, published in Germany’s Der Spiegel over the weekend, claim that the NSA’s spying network is more wide-ranging

In the weeks since Since Neil Young unveiled Pono, billed as a high-fidelity alternative to the iPod and other .mp3 digital music players, music fans have been debating a host of issues, including whether or not listeners can truly hear a difference. With a bit more than two weeks to go, the Pono Ki

As part of an ongoing major redesign on mobile, Shazam has just rolled out a new version of its iOS app. Adding to the changes we saw last month, the latest update focuses on offering improved social sharing features, an even better lyrics experience and a more polished UI throughout the application

With fresh capital in its coffers, Dropbox appears to be on somewhat of an acquisition spree, albeit a quiet one. Following the cloud storage company’s recent purchase of workplace chat solution Zulip, it’s in talks to acqui-hire Berlin-based Readmill, the social and shareable reading platform. Acco

South Korea is launching an alert service that will notify parent’s when their kid receives instant-messages containing swear words or other inappropriate words, the Wall Street Journal reports. The purpose of the service is to counter an increasing occurrence of verbal abuse and cyber-bullying in o

They say that good things come to those who wait, and while patience is a definite virtue, it should not be sorely tested as even the most patient of men do have a breaking point. Hence, it is with a happy heart that we bring you word of the new Roku Streaming Stick that will begin to […]

It goes without saying that the modern day computer interface has come a long way from the humble days of the typewriter, and a possible area to explore in the future could be social hardware – the software’s already in place with the likes of Twitter and Facebook. This potential niche could be fill

The world is definitely taking on a green slant these days, and there are no two ways about it. After all, renewable energy makes plenty of sense considering the limited amount of fossil fuels that we have underneath the earth, and nuclear power might not be such a safe option in the long run, too.

Social score startup Klout has been acquired by Lithium Technologies, a provider of social customer experience solutions for the enterprise, in a deal valued at nearly $200 million,Fortune has learned. According to two sources familiar with the matter, the deal is a mix of cash and Lithium private s

The ASUS PadFone X was announced for AT&T earlier this year, on January 7th, to be exact, and it has been nearly three months on the clock without the detailed hardware specifications revealed for this particular device. Considering how it has been spotted on the FCC earlier this week and teased

A U.S. judge has ruled that the Chinese search engine Baidu has the right to block pro-democracy works from its query results, dismissing a lawsuit that sought to punish the company for Internet censorship. The lawsuit against Baidu, originally filed in 2011 by eight activists in New York, claimed t

You’re staying in all night to wait out a gnarly storm, curled up on the couch reading a favorite book by candlelight. Naturally, in this kind of a situation, many of us gravitate toward soft, soothing melodies that contrast well with the torrential chaos outside. But now you may not have to sift th