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Helpshift has raised $10 million to improve customer service on apps

Helpshift, the leading CRM for mobile apps, today announced that it has closed its Series A financing round of $10 million. The funding round was led by Intel Capital with...

The mysterious “Motorola Victara” has been spotted in a recent leak

Motorola, under the able leadership of Google, had taken the tech world by storm and practically risen from the dead with their flagship device, the Moto X. The innovation of...

This earpiece makes it easier to hear people over loud background noise

Many health-centric wearables focus on tracking your daily activities to make you smarter about your body, but a new wearable aims to make you smarter about the way you hear....

A former tabloid editor in the UK has been found guilty of hacking phones

A former editor of one of the UK’s leading tabloids, who went on to become David Cameron’s chief spokesman, has been found guilty of hacking phones. The News of the...

Panasonic’s new Toughpads are about as durable as a tablet can be

There have been moderately rugged tablets and phones in the past, but Panasonic’s new Toughpad puts them to shame. This device is designed from the ground up to be as...

HTC’s Desire 610 smartphone is reportedly making its way to AT&T

Back in May, it was reported that the HTC Desire 610 could be making its way onto AT&T. Now according to a recent post by@evleaks, who broke the original story,...

Samsung has more smartphone patents than any other company

Patents are important to companies because this helps protect them from intellectual property thieves who might otherwise try to steal their ideas and/or designs and pass it off as their...

RelayRides has raised $44 million to change the way people rent cars

RelayRides, the San Francisco-based car sharing service that's going after the rental car industry, announced a $25 million funding round on Tuesday. The funding, a series B round, brings the...

Leave it to a Dutch company to create an “electronic joint”

There is a lot of debate going on now with regards to electronic cigarettes. While some believe that e-cigarettes are a good way for smokers to wean themselves off smoking,...

The Senate is trying to legalize cell phone unlocking again

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached a bipartisan deal on legislation that would allow people to “unlock” their cellphones when changing providers. The bill, which will be considered...

Researchers at MIT have developed a 36-core processor

We are more or less familiar with the presence of mobile devices these days that sport dual-core and quad-core, and in some cases, octa-core chipsets, but what about this new...

Globalstar Sat-Fi lets you connect to the internet anywhere in the world

I am quite sure that many of us are familiar with the existence of satellite phones, which are touted to be able to offer you a signal regardless of where...

Amazon and Warner Bros. are close to settling their movie pricing dispute

Well, that didn't last long. A couple of weeks after Amazon stopped taking pre-orders for Warner Bros. Blu-ray and DVD movies to extract a better pricing arrangement, the Wall Street...

MIT could revolutionize the way we heat buildings with “Local Warming”

When it comes to winter, one major issue that all building managers have to grapple with would be the issue of heating. Optimizing the heating in a building can be...

Nintendo is pondering games that run on both consoles and handhelds

Wouldn’t it be highly convenient if developers developed a single game that can be run across multiple platforms? Well that’s what Sony tried to do with the PlayStation 3 and...

BlackBerry’s Porsche Design P’9983 has been hinted at in hidden files

BlackBerry and Porsche have had a working relationship over the past few years. We’ve seen both companies collaborate on mobile devices, like the Porsche Design P’9982 from back in 2013,...

Sony thinks Valve’s Steam Machines will be a legitimate threat… eventually

When it comes to gaming in the living room, consoles are currently dominating because that’s usually how it has been all this while. PC gaming, on the other hand, was...

Over 6.4 million games were played during the Destiny alpha last week

Bungie says that it feels ‘reborn’ after the success of its Destiny alpha on PS4 last week. The short gameplay taster was made available to a select number of PS4...

The EyesMap is designed to be an all-in-one tablet for surveyors

E-Capture R&D has this week unveiled their new creation in the form of the EyesMap tablet which has been designed to provide users with a 3D modelling tablet and application...

The successor to the HTC Butterfly has been spotted by Taiwan’s NCC

A couple of years ago, HTC launched the HTC Butterfly handset. The following year, there were rumors that HTC had planned a sequel called the HTC Butterfly 2 4G. The...