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Surprise, surprise: A lot of people are interested in buying Samsung’s Galaxy S5. SamMobile notices that T-Mobile senior product manager Desmond Smith has tweeted out that his company has now received 300,000 pre-registrations for the Galaxy S5, which is particularly impressive since it was just ove

In October 2012, payments company Braintree set aside $2 million from its Series B to court startups to its platform by waiving the processing fees for the first $50,000 in transactions. At the time, the promotion was limited to 1,000 sign-ups. Now a part of PayPal following its acquisition, Braintr

Here’s a stat we’ve heard over and over: 58% of American adults own smartphones. Pair that with the fact that digital culture permeates almost every aspect of our lives, and we can already assume the average person spends a lot of time with gadgets. According to a new cross-platform repo

Ever tried loading websites full of selfies and filtered food images on a shabby connection? If your answer is yes, then you know it always leads to tears and frustration. Good thing Mozilla’s got your back — the non-profit behind Firefox just announced a project called mozjpeg, which ai

Waterproof smartphone makes perfect sense, especially if you happen to live in a tropical country and need to capture a photo when it rains all of a sudden. Or how about a day by the river, where you and your family have a fun picnic moment, and would like to get wet playing with Supersoakers? [&hel

The last time people were reporting about OnLive, the cloud gaming company was falling apart. A majority of the staff had been laid off, investors were left high and dry, and it looked like curtains for the innovative service. But OnLive isn’t dead yet. Engadget reports that after years of silence,

Yahoo has acquired Vizify, a company that turns social media data into interactive visual aids such as infographics and videos, adding to the Internet giant’s string of acquisitions designed both to get talent and access to new technologies and services. In this instance, Vizify in Portland, Oregon,

The annual billionaire list for Forbes has more interesting things to note this year than ever. The most important news being Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates regaining his position as the world’s richest man after a span of four years, which is worthy of being mentioned after the recent years troubl

Masayoshi Son isn’t used to taking no for an answer. But the Softbank chief’s pleas for a merger of the third-and fourth-largest U.S. wireless carriers seem to be falling on deaf ears. It is no secret that Son, known to have threatened self-immolation to get his way in the past, wants to

Just two days ago, pundits began congratulating Dish on achieving what other companies couldn’t: convincing Disney ABC to offer broadcast and cable channels over the internet as part of an IPTV service. The magic bullet appeared to be Dish’s ad-skipping AutoHop technology, which Dish agr

Founders Fund is announcing this evening that it has raised $1 billion for its fifth fund, which will be led by partners Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Brian Singerman, Peter Thiel, Lauren Gross, Geoff Lewis, and Scott Nolan. Since 2005, Founders Fund has raised over $2 billion and invested in a number of

Verizon only recently inherited Intel’s failed internet TV project, but the company isn’t wasting time in pushing its over-the-top ambitions forward. Speaking at a conference yesterday, CEO Lowell McAdam said Verizon “would love to partner with content companies” on an online

Women in the US not only use social media more frequently than men, but they also use these sites in a greater number of ways, say data compiled in an infographic recently published on the personal finance website FinancesOnline.com. The infographic was prepared by Alex Hillsberg, who says the resea

Sony is reporting that as of March 2, six million PlayStation 4s have been shipped worldwide since launch back on Nov. 15, 2013, and it is now available in 57 countries around the planet. This figure includes the 370,000 that have been sold since the console launched in its home country of Japan on

Just how secure do you think your smartphone is? After all, we can never quite tell just what the government is up to these days, and FreedomPop, one of the fastest growing mobile service companies in the US today, has announced the new FreedomPop Privacy Phone that will feature built in VPN, anonym

We’d heard this project was underway but now it’s official: AT&T and Aruba Networks are the forces behind a new Wi-Fi network at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, a 21,000-seat facility that is home to the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA and the Dallas Stars of the NHL. According to an AT&

To say that the U.K.’s Internet porn filter policy has been a predictably hilarious disaster would be understating things. The filters have blocked U.K. web users’ access to legitimate health websites and have even censored websites of anti-pornography politicians simply because those websites frequ

Dish Network recently won the bidding for wireless broadband frequencies in all 176 U.S. markets auctioned by the FCC. Dish bid exactly the $1.56 billion it promised the FCC that it would spend in exchange for more flexibility in how it uses other wireless broadband frequencies. While the FCC will b

RadioShack, the struggling electronics retailer, on Tuesday said it might close 1,100 stores — about a fifth of all its outlets — after it reported its eighth straight quarterly loss. The Forth Worth company said it had a net loss of $191.4 million for the fourth quarter — more than triple what it l

Ever wondered how it would feel like if you were a whole lot stronger than you are now? Well, one need not be born with mutant powers in order to be endowed with superhuman strength, but rather, to rely on technology in order to get the job done. Exoskeletons are not new in the realm […]

HTC has not been doing a very good job at keeping tabs on the upcoming All New HTC One, as it has already received an unofficial albeit lengthy YouTube review. Well, we have heard that the All New HTC One is set to be unveiled at simultaneous events in London and New York this coming March 25th, and

Sprint and the U.S. government said on Monday they will face off in court over how much money law enforcement agencies owe the wireless provider for help the company was required to give investigators who wanted to tap phone calls. The Obama administration filed a suit in U.S. District Court in San

It’s a poetic fact of biology that everyone’s heart is a slightly different size and shape. And yet today’s cardiac implants—medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators—are basically one size fits all. Among other things, this means these devices, though lifesaving for many patients, are limi

Even if you’ve never played it, you’ve probably heard of Asheron’s Call. A pioneering MMORPG, it’s been around for over 15 years now. And while it’ll still be around for a few more to come, AC’s developers have announced that they’re ceasing work on the game

Israel, a small country that is mostly surrounded by hostile neighbors, has managed to hold its own for so many decades now, with a history that spans back to thousands of years. They have been a target of terrorist attacks from time to time, and passengers aboard commercial aircraft who happen to f

I am quite sure that many of us out there have heard of OUYA before, where the startup company has mentioned that they intend to extend their software to other devices, and these devices would include the likes of set-top boxes as well as smart TVs. OUYA has done a pretty good job at keeping things

In the same way Medium is particularly appealing for those already using Twitter, Postach.io is a simple blogging platform that’s specially designed to link up with Evernote. Although Postach.io is still in beta, this week the service has rolled out a premium tier for its users, which works ou

Gamefly, the video game rental service provider, has decided to move into Netflix territory by introducing a new movie rental business which ought to prove to be a worthy competitor to Netflix’s disc-by-mail business, although that remains to be established. I suppose giving them some time to do so

Walt Disney and Dish Network have signed a new long-term distribution deal that includes an agreement for Dish to disable its controversial ad-skipping feature for ABC network shows. The two companies announced a comprehensive new distribution deal Monday night that includes breakthroughs in how dig

Yahoo has started testing app install advertisements across its mobile services, a move indicate the importance Yahoo is giving to the growing market for mobile apps, and its own demographic, having already announced in January it expected to have more mobile users than desktop users by the end of 2

According to a report late Monday, Smartwatch maker Basis, which just last month was rumored to be shopping itself around to the likes of Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft, has been acquired by Intel for between $100 million and $150 million. Sources familiar with the matter tell TechCrunch that

Although the Galaxy Tab 4 did not make its debut at Mobile World Congress, the next-generation tablet seems to have been confirmed by Samsung unintentionally in a recent advertisement. Planete Galaxy came across an ad which lists all 20 devices that will be compatible with the upcoming Gear Fit, and

Aereo has some formidable new opposition in the courts. According to Deadline, the White House has recommended that the Supreme Court rule against Aereo when broadcasters bring its service to trial this April. The administration made the recommendation in an amicus brief filed today, which argues th

Uber, the San Francisco-based car service that will find you thanks to an app on your smartphone, got a lot of ink and took a lot of heat around New Year’s Eve for its “surge pricing.” That is, the price of an Uber ride would go up if demand was high. Now, Uber is turning a [&helli

With hundreds of mom and pop shops in the New York area, it’s been upwards of a decade since I’ve stepped foot in a Pizza Hut. But the fast food giant’s latest dining concept may just have me reconsidering that self-imposed chain pizzeria embargo. The interactive table, created in

While others obsess over fingers, Fujitsu wants your palms instead. Going against the flow, it plans to employ palm-vein scanning on smartphones in the future. The company, who is one of its few, if not the only, commercial evangelists, believes the technology to be more secure and reliable than TV&

Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has reached a new milestone. Total Kickstarter pledges have surpassed $1 billion, the company announced Monday. The total came from 5.7 million donors, and half of the sum was pledged in the last 12 months alone. In Kickstarter’s first month in April 2009, its us

Don’t expect to learn anything new from it, as it’s just a teaser, but you can watch above the 30-second TV ad for the Samsung Galaxy S5 shown during the Oscars. The ad was clearly put together especially for the event, with an awards theme. Samsung was one of the main sponsors of the award ceremony

The sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion and the heightened awareness of data security in an NSA-watched world have created a perfect storm for apps that offer messaging with a privacy-first ethos. Wickr, which lets users send encrypted and self-destructing messages, is today announcing that

Although Samsung has yet not revealed the pricing for its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, the South Korean giant is all set with more than $500 worth of freebies to entice potential consumers. Samsung is offering limited free subscriptions to various premium services, paid apps, and cloud