Ethertronics wants to make in-home Wi-Fi issues a thing of the past
Wi-Fi is kind of weird. I can get perfect connection when I'm on the other side of the house but have terrible connection a room away from the router. I'm...
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Lineage Labs raises $4 million to help organize and store your photos
With all of the pictures your family takes across all of their devices it's fair to assume you have quite a large collection of photos that are by no means...
Canada’s largest Bitcoin exchange goes dark after hack
Another day, another Bitcoin exchange going dark. The most recent case comes from Canada where the country's largest Bitcoin exchange, Cavirtex, has warned users that it may have suffered a security breach...
Wooplr raises $5 million to blend e-commerce and social networking
E-commerce and social networking are quickly becoming two peas in a pod. One of the companies helping to blur the lines between the two is Wooplr, an Indian startup founded by...
Qualcomm is packing high-end power into midrange chips
High-end mobile chips are almost always the coolest, thanks to the new and interesting features that they tend to have, and therefore receive the most attention. However, it's the low-end...
Sony wants an operating profit of $4.2 billion by 2018
Sony may bring in a ton of revenue but it still hasn't been able to bring in much profit which, in the end, is all that really matters. The company's...
Building your own PC just got a whole lot easier
PCPartPicker is an essential tool for anyone looking to build their own PC or just wanting to virtually create the dream PC they can't afford. The website not only gives...
European tech companies simply can’t compete with American ones
President Obama made a jab at European governments in a recent interview by suggesting that the collection of investigations into American technology companies in Europe are commercially driven. According to...
Not only are flip-phones still around, they’re outgrowing smartphones
You would think that flip-phones have pretty much died off by now, having been replaced by smartphones, but that's not the case. In fact, flip-phones are actually growing in popularity...
LG is giving homemade mobile chips another shot
LG's homemade NUCLUN chip was a failure by all accounts and has powered only a handful of smartphones. Undeterred, the South Korean company is reportedly looking to give things another shot with...
A record 1.288 billion smartphones were sold last year
As they seem to do every year, smartphone sales reached record levels in 2014 with more than 1.228 billion units sold, which is a 23% increase from 2013. One of the...
Samsung talks about how fast the Galaxy S6 is in a new teaser
The Galaxy S6 is fast... really fast! That's the gist of Samsung's most recent teaser for the upcoming flagship smartphone. Not only will the device be running on the company's...
Toshiba shows off some of its Project Ara camera modules
Every day brings us one step closer to the launch of Project Ara, Google's modular smartphone that's still in development. These smartphones will run on interchangeable modules rather than your...
Dutch startup WeTransfer raises $25 million to help it expand
Founded back in 2009, Dutch file-sharing startup WeTransfer has raised $25 million in funding to help expand its services across the rest of Europe as well as the United States. Through...
Sony’s smartglasses are now up for pre-order
Google may have given up on its smartglasses ambitions (for now) but Sony feels confident that its own smartglasses will be better received. The company has made its SmartEyeglass Developer Edition available...
Samsung isn’t doing very well in China
Xiaomi's ridiculous success in China has been discussed in length on this site as well as pretty much every other tech site out there, but the numbers are still impressive...
Samsung basically confirms the Galaxy S6 will have wireless charging
Wireless charging is the future and should be an industry standard in the world of smartphones, at least, that's what Samsung believes. The company said as much in a recent...
What are the best music streaming apps out there right now?
The music business has evolved more than most over the years going from radios and vinyl records, to radios and cassette tapes, to radios and CDs, to radios and iTunes,...
Even the smartest robots are limited by their physical form
What happens when you pack an incredibly intelligent computer into an incredibly useless box? You get a box that's really smart but doesn't do anything. That's one of the limitations...
Meizu thinks it can sell 20 million smartphones without planning to
Meizu is really starting to make a name for itself. Not only did the Chinese company manage to release some impressive devices last year, it managed to sell tons of...