CyanogenMod begins rolling out CM11 M3 to a wide range of devices
CyanogenMod on Monday began rolling out CM11 M3 to a wide range of devices, including the HTC One, Galaxy S4 and a number of Nexus and legacy handsets. “M” builds...
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Intel develops low-power graphics core that is 40% more efficient
Graphics hardware can rapidly drain a laptop's battery. If Intel brings a new low-power graphics core to market, though, high-performance visuals and long battery life won't be mutually exclusive concepts. The experimental...
Bitcoin Foundation blames Mt. Gox for Bitcoin’s recent nosedive
Mt. Gox, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, claims that it has uncovered a bug that affects all transactions and needs to be addressed outside the scope...
SanDisk steps back a decade or two with its new clip on MP3 player
With mind-blowingly cutting edge features such as a “clip that enables it to securely attach to clothes,” a “large LCD screen for easy on-the-move navigation,” and a “memory card slot...
Amazon begins selling the Kindle online in Brazil
Amazon has started selling its Kindle online in Brazil, expanding from e-books into retail for the first time in Latin America’s biggest and most challenging e-commerce market. By shipping its e-reader...
New Amazon acquisition suggests potential console release in the future
Amazon might be working on a game console, after all. The online-retail giant on Thursday confirmed its purchase of Double Helix Games, the PC and console video-game maker behind Silent Hill...
Time Warner and Condé Nast invest in iSocket
Traditional publishers are getting even deeper into automated buying, as evidenced by Condé Nast’s just-announced investment in programmatic buying platform iSocket. ISocket revealed today that it has received $5 million in...
Hacktivists claim responsibility for major Comcast hack
Hackers broke into at least 34 servers belonging to Comcast, dumping what appears to be a list of the company’s mail servers, passwords and a link to the root file...
Korean startup VCNC has received a strategic investment from DeNA
As chat apps evolve to become platforms, a social network for couples is also embarking on the same route. VCNC, the company behind Between, an app that originated from South Korea for couples to share...
Spotify finally adds the ability to listen to a single track on repeat
Good news for those who use the desktop version of Spotify. Apparently the social network has paid attention to the pressing demands of users and decided to add the new feature. What...
Foxconn to invest $1 billion in Indonesia in order to build factories
Foxconn, the Taiwanese maker of Apple's iPhones, has signed a letter of intent to invest up to $US1 billion in Indonesia, officials said. The Taipei-based technology giant is also known as...
Florida prosecutors charge three men who used Bitcoin in illegal operations
State authorities in Florida on Thursday announced criminal charges targeting three men who allegedly ran illegal businesses moving large amounts of cash in and out of the Bitcoin virtual currency. Experts say...
Dyson invests £5 million in a robotic vision laboratory
Dyson is a name familiar to consumers as the company has been known recently for their bladeless fans as well as vacuum cleaners, and now it looks like the company...
Motorola expands its exclusive photo-sharing service to include non-Droid users
Would Twitter, Instagram or Vine be any fun if you couldn't participate in the social experience? No, probably not. This is the problem that Motorola's Droid Zap had: it was a unique, localized photo-sharing service that left...
AOL CEO reverses controversial changes to 401(k) policy
A company’s inner-office policies can be a sensitive topic, particularly when that office is AOL, one of the most high-profile media brands on the Internet, and especially when the topic is...
HTC plans to focus more on the low-end smartphone market
Apple, despite not selling low-end handsets, is doing very well for themselves. Nokia on the other hand despite selling high-end handsets, has actually done better for itself by selling low-end...
BlackBerry could be planning a 64-bit octa-core handset for next year
According to rumor, BlackBerry could be planning a 64-bit octa-core handset for next year. Based on their report, the alleged device will be powered by Qualcomm’s MSM8994 chipset which is...
NASA is looking for companies that want to mine the moon
NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals. Initial proposals are due tomorrow for the...
Pwn2Own will offer $645,000 in awards to hackers who find unknown exploits
For a while, late in 2013, things didn't look too good for the annual Vancouver-based security conference CanSecWest, or for PWN2OWN, the elite hacking sideshow at the event that has in many...
Verizon enters the carrier war with waved activation fees and trade-in deals
Its no secret that competition among U.S. mobile operators has been steadily heating up, with T-Mobile lighting many of the fires through its “uncarrier” announcements. At one point even AT&T...