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What’s it going to take for the wearable market to really heat up? If you’re into exercise or consider tech a hobby, you might already own a wearable like the Nike+ FuelBand, FitBit Flex, Jawbone Up 24, Pebble, Pebble Steel a Galaxy Gear or something elseIt’s still a pretty untapped market, but why?

Months after the company stopped active development on the app, Twitter #Music is being pulled from the App Store today, the company said in a tweet. The app, which attempted to harness conversations around music and artists on Twitter to create a new way to discover music, failed to peel listeners

We found out earlier this week that the upcoming PlayStation 4 system update will finally disable HDCP and add Twitch archiving, but the announcement said that “there’s a lot more coming in this update as well.” That “more” is apparently pre-loads for new games. PC gamers have had access to pre-load

The increasingly public spat on peering and net neutrality continued Friday with a blog post by AT&T Senior Executive Vice President-External and Legislative Affairs Jim Cicconi. “When Netflix delivered its movies by mail, the cost of delivery was included in the price their custo

NASA is continuing to work on one of its most ambitious projects to date, and it is now offering money to companies, universities, and organizations to help find answers to the biggest technical hurdles that lie ahead. The mission itself sounds like it’s ripped from the pages of a science-fict

If you don’t want to shell out for the 4K screen, you can opt for a 1,920×1,080-pixel HD screen instead. But where would be the fun in that? The Toshiba Satellite P50t is a 15.6-inch laptop with a pixel per inch rating of 282ppi. In comparison, the top-of-the-range 15.4-inch MacBook

PayPal has switched the Pay At Table and Order Ahead features in its iOS app on in Europe, starting with the UK, as TechCrunch reports. The services relate to the food and restaurant business, and were first announced in the US last year. They do pretty much what you’d expect by their names: Pay At

Samsung is set to begin delivering its curved Ultra HD displays and content to watch on the better than-HD sets. At a product unveiling Thursday at the Guggenheim Museum the Korean electronics giant announced its first curved Ultra HD displays, the 55- and 65-inch U9000 model displays, would be arri

Sprint isn’t content to keep writing its financial statements in red ink. To that end, the company is shuttering 150 service and repair centers, 55 of its lowest performing retail stores and laying off some 330 repair techs. A handful of call centers have been closed, too. While these might se

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings urged regulators and consumers Thursday to fight for stronger net neutrality rules, confirming that he paid Comcast for a deal to stream his movies more quickly and that such agreements should be prohibited. Hastings’ comments, posted on a company blog, are his most e

Still bummed about Ashton Kutcher’s I-kinda-look-like-the-guy big screen portrayal of Steve Jobs? Well hang tight, as Hollywood’s cinematic Bat-Signal for a Real Actor has been answered. Christian Bale is being rumored to take on the role in the upcoming, Aaron Sorkin-penned, project. It

AT&T announced today that it will sell the Samsung Galaxy S5 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, or $649 without a contract. Although a launch date has not been set by AT&T for the flagship phone, AT&T customers can preorder the device starting March 21. During its Galaxy S5 Unpacked e

Ovivo Mobile, a virtual operator in the UK that offered a free mobile services in exchange for serving advertising, has closed down abruptly due to “reasons beyond our control.” A notice on the company’s website announces that the service shut down on March 19 with no prior warning. Although it does

With its latest research project, Volvo is hoping to make driving in inclement weather a bit less dicey. The Swedish automaker is testing a safety system that uses mobile data networks to relay icy road conditions from vehicle to vehicle. Once you hit a slick spot, the location data uploads to Volvo

Can EA go for a three-peat that nobody wants? The Consumerist is once again running its now infamous poll to determine who its readers believe is the “Worst Company in America,” and two time reigning champion video game publisher EA finds itself on the nomination list. It finds itself among the usua

Xiaomi last week took the wraps off its upcoming first phablet, the Redmi Note, and now the company has revealed that the device will cost upwards of $129 and go on sale outside of its native China — initially in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore — in May. It will be available in China first, launchin

Do you have fond memories of the first YotaPhone? That particular device arrived with dual 4.3″ displays, where a 720p LCD screen was located in front, while the back had an e-Ink screen with 200ppi density. Well, the second YotaPhone had been announced at Mobile World Congress in February this year

Chung-Ang University ranks among the top 10 schools in South Korea, and you know what can get you in other than good grades and connections? Being really, really good at video games. Beginning next year, professional gamers can apply for a spot at the university’s Department of Sport Science.

Buying gifts through Pinterest just became a lot easier. A new Pinterest Gifts feed has been launched which only displays products that are available for purchase. In this feed users will see “Product Pins,” that are accompanied by additional information such as availability, price and the location

Pandora is getting a little more expensive. Starting in May, and for new subscribers, the Pandora One monthly subscription service will cost $5. Existing subscribers that remain active will keep paying $3.99 a month to listen to Pandora without any ads. As Pandora notes in a blog post, the subscript

In a surgical milestone, 3D printing has been used to reconstruct the face of a man who was badly injured in a motorcycle accident that left him with broken cheekbones and eye sockets, a fractured skull and a broken jaw. Stephen Power, 29, of Cardiff, Wales, was badly injured in a motorcycle acciden

A small, four-rotor drone hovered over Washington Nationals players for a few days during spring training in Florida last month, taking publicity photos impossible for a human photographer to capture. But no one got the Federal Aviation Administration’s permission first. The agency bars commer

The pay TV industry may not be sweating the cord cutting trend just yet but for the first time in 2013 it had a reason to take notice. According to new data from Leichtman Research Group, pay TV providers posted a net loss of 104,000 subscribers in 2013, the first time the pay TV industry has [&hell

Sony has unveiled its own virtual-reality PlayStation 4 headset, and it’s tentatively called Project Morpheus. In a gaming landscape where the Oculus Rift has inspired many to wonder what’s next, Sony aims to capture a bit of that magic for itself with its own brand of immersive headwear

The leaks were true, and the Samsung NX camera has been made official by Samsung. It is an extremely compact camera that features a very thin design and a very light body weight of 196g which is equivalent to a large smartphone. Of course, additional weight will be added up by one of the three speci

Just last week we had the best look yet at Samsung’s S Band fitness tracker. The device will probably sit below the Gear Fit in price, considering it lacks the AMOLED display, but it has enough features to still make it compelling. We already know that it will help users track calories burned, steps

Walmart is one of the biggest retailers in the U.S., certainly one that is most frequented by millions of customers everyday. The retailer is now expanding into a new territory while offering its customers more bang for their buck. Walmart has confirmed that it is now going to accept video game trad

Lenovo on Tuesday vowed to continue to acquire more companies in an effort to ramp up growth. Afterpurchasing Motorola Mobility for $2.91 billion from Google and IBM’s low-end server business for $2.3 billionearlier this year, the Chinese PC giant said it still has enough access to funds to keep gro

Imagine being able to capture solar power in the vastness and emptiness of space itself, before you send it down to the earth for humanity to consume. After all, it is not as though the world’s oil reserves are unlimited – no sir, we have been making effort to ensure that the world’s energ

Dropbox is a cloud-based storage service that we’re sure many of you guys have heard of and probably use. It allows users to store their data in the cloud and thanks to apps available on mobile devices and the computer, it lets users sync and retrieve their documents regardless of what platform they

There are many games available out there and many which has managed to capture our time, attention, as well as getting us to open up our wallets. That being said, how many of us actually bothers getting to the end of a game? Sure there are many out there who do play games from the start […]

Realty Mogul is an online marketplace for real estate investments. The company is sharing numbers related to its growth since its launch in 2012. In the company’s first year in business, its users have invested $14 million in over $100 million worth of property. Realty Mogul has became the largest o

UberX, Lyft and Sidecar will need to play by Seattle’s rules if they want to operate in the Emerald City. The Seattle City Council today voted 9-0 to enact new legislation that will limit the three app-based transportation network companies to 150 drivers on the road at any given time. The same goes

What a shocker, the Amazon Appstore is now three years old. To celebrate the third birthday of the Appstore, Amazon is listing a few apps as free, but they are apparently focusing on “coin-back” in-app purchases. Think of these purchases like a cash-back card: you purchase an IAP in an app, but Amaz

Early last month, Greentech Media reported that NRG Energy, which owns retail electric supplier Energy Plus, would team up with Comcast in Pennsylvania to offer an electric service called Energy Rewards. Both companies are looking for new opportunities as revenue from their traditional businesses is

Beware the ides of March, give or take a day. On March 14, the Syrian Electronic Army said it made good on a threat from earlier this month by posting a screen shot of what it says are more than 21,000 documents belonging to U.S. Central Command, also known as CENTCOM, which is responsible for [&hel

Boxfish is one of many startups that have popped up over the last several years to help TV viewers better find shows that they’d like to watch. Now looking to extend that technology to a number of consumer electronics manufacturers, cable providers, and third-party app developers, it’s raised $7 mil

Sina Weibo, the Chinese social network that looks and works a lot like Twitter, has started the process of going public in the United States. The micro-blogging platform is looking to raise up to $500 million in an initial public offering, though as with any IPO this is subject to change. Twitter it

Back in December, rumors were swirling that Samsung was getting ready to unveil a 10.5-inch AMOLED tablet in early January. Once January came and went with no such announced, the rumors slowed. Now, SamMobile is reporting that Samsung has begun work on the rumored tablet in a real way. According to

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group on Sunday announced its plans to make a public stock offering in the US, an event that could set a record for the US IPO of a Chinese company. The Hangzhou, China, company said in a brief statement that it has “decided to commence the process of an initial publ