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Motorola is once again “looking at tablets”

Motorola  kickstarted its smartphone business last year with the well-received Moto X as well as the highly affordable Moto G smartphone. The former debuted with Moto Maker, Motorola’s online studio...

Traditional media ads are still more trusted than online ads

Newspaper ads are still the most trusted form of paid media in North America, according to a recent Nielsen survey. More than half of respondents say they trust traditional advertising platforms...

Motorola Assist now reads and composes messages for you

The power of voice is something that the consumer electronics has taken a closer look at in recent years, and this time around, it would be Motorola Assist that would...

Smart curtains react to light using nanotubes

Smart curtains do not need you to actually get up from your favorite lounging chair to close or open it, as it has the capabilities of preventing too much light...

Digital ad vompany raises another $80 million in funding

Venture investors may have turned their attention to earlier stage ad-tech companies at the right time now that big investments and strong IPOs could give their valuations a boost. On Monday morning, Turn announced...

Chinese scientists have created glow-in-the-dark pigs

Every once in a while science comes up with something so amazing, so incredible, that the universe seems filled with wonder and possibilities. Then there are the days that scientists create glow-in-the-dark pigs. Yes,...

Amazon is America’s favorite brand

Amazon.com was the best-perceived brand in the U.S. last year, according to YouGov BrandIndex's year-end rankings. The rankings reflect brands' average "Buzz" scores between January and December 2013, as measured each...

Sprint quietly shuts down One Up after just four months

Sprint was the last of the four major U.S. carriers to launch an early upgrade program. And now, less than four months after One Up was first introduced, the program has...

Samsung shows off the “world’s first foldable display”

Samsung had plenty to show off during its official CES presentation, but behind the scenes the South Korean smartphone-maker may have unveiled something even more impressive than a 12.2-inch tablet. According to a...

AT&T tries to teach developers how to use data more efficiently

AT&T is smart enough to know that mobile applications are becoming increasingly bandwidth-hungry and that means more of its subscribers may be at risk of going over their monthly data limits. With...

Expect 4K Blu-ray disks in the near future

The Blu-ray Disc Association has announced that it will release 4K Blu-ray discs, while pornography company Naughty America has confirmed 4K porn is inbound. 4K was a huge part of CES 2014 this...

Automated investment company manages over $500 million in assets

Automated investment services company Wealthfront has made its name over the past two years as an alternative to traditional financial advisory services like Fidelity for individuals, who are just starting to pull...

Messaging apps helped boost mobile usage by 115% last year

Analytics firm Flurry posted figures looking back on app usage in 2013 on its official blog on Monday. The data reveals that growth last year was driven by messaging and social...

Samsung’s Galaxy S5 rumored to launch in mid-March

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 might not have been a smash hit to the degree that many industry watchers were predicting, but it is still wildly popular. It’s also the fastest-selling Android smartphone...

Snapchat apologizes for massive spam outbreak

Snapchat delayed apologizing for a big user data breach last month but was quick to say sorry today to users who received “Snap Spam” over the weekend. “We’ve heard some complaints over the weekend...

Dropbox apologizes for its 48 hour outage

Dropbox said Sunday it was making progress in restoring service after the popular file storage service went offline on Friday. As of Sunday afternoon Pacific time, the service said more than 99 percent...

The “Steam Box” isn’t actually a Steam Machine

With all the excitement surrounding Steam Machines this year, it’s easy to forget about the controversal "Steam Box" from last year's CES. As a reminder, in January 2013, Xi3 unveiled its Piston...

Aereo apologizes for brief outage during the Golden Globes

Aereo, the streaming TV startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has apologized for a brief service outage tonight. The outage only lasted about an hour, but was especially unfortunate...

NBCUniversal invests in a video news startup

NBCUniversal News Group is announcing a minority investment in NowThisNews, a New York-based startup that’s looking to reinvent video journalism for the Facebook and smartphone era. As part of the investment,...

Monsieur Bartender is your own personal robotic bartender

The Monsieur Bartender robot  comes in a boxy tabletop form factor that functions as a vending machine, albeit serving up cocktails instead of Coke or Pepsi. All you need to...