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Lenovo announces all-in-one A540 AIO desktop PC

Lenovo has announced a number of additions to its consumer all-in-one and notebook PC lineups, including a smaller version of the A740 all-in-one it showed off at CES in January. The Lenovo A540...

Computer scientists come to Samsung’s aid in patent trial

In the ongoing Apple v. Samsung patent trial on Tuesday, Samsung continued its defense against by calling on a cavalcade of computer science experts who testified that Apple's patents were...

Bungie fires vetern composer Martin O’Donnell for unknown reason

After composing some of the most memorable songs in gaming for Bungie games including most of the Halo series, Myth and Oni, Martin O'Donnell tweeted tonight that he has been terminated "without cause" by Bungie's board of...

Fashion discovery startup Doozton gets acquired by Snapdeal

Fashion is the next big frontier for e-commerce sites: Snapdeal has acquired a Delhi-based fashion & lifestyle product discovery site Doozton for an undisclosed amount, reports TechCrunch. Snapdeal co-founder Rohit Bansal has told the publication that...

BlackBerry could begin making smartphones for the healthcare sector

BlackBerry once ruled the mobile market, but after losing most of its mainstream consumers over to Apple and Android the company will return to its roots with an upcoming “Q20″ Classic meant...

China’s largest online beauty retailer Jumei files for a U.S. IPO

Beijing-based online retailer Jumei plans to hold its initial public offering in the U.S. In its SEC filing over the weekend Jumei, which offers daily deals on fragrances and cosmetics, said it wants to...

SyFy channels comes to Fetch TV

Fetch TV has added another feather to its cap, with the SyFy channel joining the IPTV services "entertainment pack". Fetch TV's entertainment pack is an add-on to its base service. It...

Swedish politicians battle it out in a StarCraft competition

Not all politicians hold a grudge against video games. Last Sunday, a number of Swedish politicians participated in a StarCraft II tournament called Politikerstarcraft. Creator Jonathan Rieder Lundkvist told The Daily Dot the objective...

Hawkeye could bring “eye in the sky” surveillance to cities

Remember the “eye in the sky” idea, where satellites are powerful enough to keep track of every single person on earth, with street cameras helping it keep track of our...

Pandora app is coming to Pebble smartwatches

Detailed on the official Pandora blog earlier today, anyone that owns both an iOS device and the Pebble smartwatch will be able to control streaming music service Pandora directly from the watch interface. While...

BYOD customers finally receiving discounts on Verizon

Verizon will soon allow customers to bring their own Verizon compatible devices to the network when choosing a More Everything plan. The BYOD strategy begins on April 17th, alongside a...

Comcast-Time Warner deal means data caps for 75% of Americans

As if we didn’t already have enough reasons to be wary of the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, GigaOM gives us a new one: Data caps. GigaOM points out that Time Warner Cable and Cablevision are...

Watching robotic rats have sex could teach us more about evolution

Studying evolution is tricky, it's a process that happens over countless generations and thousands of years, but the men tasked with studying it live less than a century. Researchers at...

BlackBerry is preparing Heartbleed fixes for BBM Messenger

BlackBerry plans to release a set of updates to plug the security holes left by the OpenSSL flaw Heartbleed. Heartbleed is a security flaw which was discovered by researchers this month. The vulnerability...

Samsung teases April event with “Kapture the Moment” tweet

Samsung has tweeted a teaser for an April event, telling us to "Kapture the Moment," suggesting the release of a new camera-based gadget. The South Korean firm tweeted a message through its Media...

New preview for Ubuntu mobile OS gets released

It has been a long time since Canonical announced the Ubuntu Edge smartphone campaign on Indiegogo. It raised an incredible $12 million dollars, but — equally incredible — it still fell around...

African high tech startup accelerator 88mph expands to Nigeria

African tech startup accelerator 88mph is expanding to Lagos, Nigeria in the later part of 2014. The accelerator currently has operations in Nairobi and Cape Town, according to ZDNet. 88mph founder...

LG G3 smartphone will come with a beyond-1080p display

So far, we've only come across beyond-1080p panels in a couple of Chinese phones, like the Oppo Find 7 and the Vivo Xplay 3S. But the spec is definitely about to go mainstream,...

Women outreach program causes budget shortfall for Gnome Foundation

The Gnome Foundation, overseer of the Gnome user interface, has run out of cash. The news isn't entirely bad: the Foundation says one of the programs it runs, the “Outreach Program...

Sony’s Xperia T2 Ultra is launching in Australia for $499

While the Xperia Z1 Ultra is Sony's flagship big-screen phone, the T2 Ultra aims to hit a more affordable price point. The 6-inch phone features a 1.4GHz quad core processor, but...