Snapchat’s anti-bot system is beaten in under an hour
Snapchat now verifies new users aren’t robots by making them choose its ghost mascot within images. It’s an attempt to keep out hackers who could steal phone numbers by exploiting...
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New Jabra headset brings call centers to the next generation
Jabra, a leading manufacturer of innovative audio solutions, today announced the answer to the contact center of tomorrow, the Jabra BIZTM 2300. Completely rethinking the role of the headset in the...
Mobile apps will be generating over $75 billion in revenue by 2017
Mobile apps are expected to see more than 268 billion downloads and generate revenue of over $77 billion by 2017, becoming one of the most popular computing tools, research firm Gartner...
Netflix stock jumps after soaring past Q4 targets
With Emmy, Golden Globe, and now Oscar nods under its belt, Netflix had plenty to glow about on its fourth quarter report, issued after the bell on Wednesday. The digital video streaming company...
How leaving your job can result in your phone getting wiped
An unexpected side effect of the bring-your-own-device policy many companies are adopting is that smart device owners who either quit their jobs or are fired are finding that their former...
Searches on Yahoo.com are now automatically encrypted
By default, searches on Yahoo.com are now done through a secure server. That means more protection for searchers but less data for search marketers about how they are receiving traffic....
Beats Music overwhelmed by excessive, day-one traffic
Overwhelming traffic on the fledgling Beats Music service has left many new users on the outside looking in. Excessive demand and use of the service, which became operational Tuesday, led to...
OnePlus flagship smartphone will run on “enhanced” CyanogenMod
A new Chinese company established by a former Oppo executive wants to buddy up with Android-based CyanogenMod. The company, OnePlus, announced on Wednesday that it has plans to release a...
New weight-loss pill delivers a gastric balloon into your stomach
A weight loss pill that releases a gastric balloon into a patient’s stomach when it is swallowed has been launched in the UK. While other gastric balloons require invasive surgery, the...
Profits are up but Texas Instruments is still cutting 1,100 jobs
Chipmaker Texas Instruments said Tuesday it will cut 1,100 jobs worldwide to trim costs and will reduce its investment in certain markets. The company says the cuts in its embedded processing...
MIT creates affordable transparent screens
Transparent screens just aren't very practical these days, bigger models are frequently expensive and bulky, while smaller heads-up displays tend to have very narrow viewing angles. However, MIT may have solved all those...
Docker raises $15 million in funding
Developers really love Docker, the container technology that lets them develop an application once and run it anywhere, well on any Linux anyway. And now, Docker has $15 million in fresh Series B cash...
Verizon introduces unlimited international messaging plan
Texting friends and family overseas can be pretty expensive, but Verizon doesn’t want that stopping you. Going forward, existing customers can sign up for a new $5 per month “World...
Newly granted Samsung patent could possibly be the Galaxy S5
The folks over at the USPTO did grant South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung a design patent today that depicts a smartphone which is large in size, clearly pointing to...
Premium TV channels still growing despite paid TV dying off
Though cable companies are still dragging their feet, it is now clear that streaming video is the future of television. Subscriptions for streaming video services such as Netflix and Hulu...
Potential cyberattack knocks out two-thirds of China’s .com domains
China suffered a major Internet outage yesterday, which is said to have knocked out access to two-thirds of the .com domain websites in the country. An unidentified issue caused a large number of...
BlackBerry stock spikes following Department of Defense news
BlackBerry stock is up by close to 9 percent in early-afternoon Tuesday trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange on news that the U.S. Defense Dept. will buy 80,000 smartphones from the once-ailing...
Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra phone could actually be a Wi-Fi only tablet
We've seen many a tablet turn into a road warrior, or even a huge phone, with the addition of a SIM card. A phone becoming a tablet is a much scarcer transformation, but...
Ukrainian government is using cellphones to track protesters
Kiev, Ukraine is the site of violent protest this week, as up to 100,000 people defied new laws which make it illegal to cover one's face, wear a helmet, set up tents,...
Sony’s next flagship smartphone rumored to have 4K video recording
Sony's next flagship smartphone, believed to be codenamed "Sirius," will come with 4K video recording, according to a new report. Xperia Blog, a site that follows Sony's mobile moves, published images...