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A lot of North Carolina residents started jumping for joy when Google announced that Charlotte and the Raleigh-Durham area were among the 34 cities it selected for an expansion of its 1 gigabit Google Fiber internet service. Customers can opt for a TV/internet bundle for $120, an internet-only bundl
Hoping to tap into the large population that hasn’t yet made the move from feature to smartphone, Mozilla is aiming to bring a $25 phone to India and Indonesia. The company doesn’t actually make hardware but instead has been working on its Firefox OS software to power low-cost phones. Speaking to th
In what’s become the second major dispute with a supplier in recent weeks, Amazon is now refusing to accept pre-orders for a number of Warner Home Video films including The Lego Movie, 300: Rise of an Empire, Winter’s Tale and Transcendence according to a report from The New York Times. A quick visi
Back in January at CES, the gaming-hardware company Razer jumped into the wearable technology race with theirannouncement of the Nabu. When CES ended, the Nabu was something we were eagerly awaiting, but since then news of the wristband has died down. Part of that silence is due to the fact that Raz
Pebble’s latest smartwatch will make its retail debut on Father’s Day. The company announced a deal with electronics chain Best Buy to start selling the Pebble Steel smartwatch on June 15. The watch will be available for $229 in two finishes: brushed stainless and black matte. Both watch
Uber, the smartphone-based ride-hailing and ride-sharing service that has London taxi drivers in uproar, has attempted to reach a peaceful compromise by allowing users to book a black cab through its app. The new UberTAXI option, which sits alongside the company’s uberX, EXEC and LUX services,
Intel announced an agreement today with WiTricity that could one day lead to the end of chargers and power adapters. WiTricity is a company that develops near-field resonant technology that allows simultaneous charging of multiple devices with differing power requirements. In other words they develo
In the realm of TVs, bigger is always better. Always. Maybe you’ve seen some 84, 110, or even 150-inch TVs, but I promise you that none of those can compare to the Titan Zeus, a massive 370-inch 4K TV with a $1.6 million price tag. How’s that for overcompensating? The Titan Zeus TV is a
Twitter plugged a security vulnerability in its popular TweetDeck application Wednesday, after disabling the system for over an hour earlier in the day to fix it. People logged into the service during the breach got odd pop-up messages. Their systems also randomly re-tweeted messages containing pote
It does seem to be a trend for flagship devices to arrive with a smaller version of an existing handset, and the Samsung Galaxy S5 is no different. While we have seen leaked images of the Samsung Galaxy S5 mini in the past alongside being seen on Samsung Finland’s website, here is yet another set [&
The OnePlus One smartphone, a handset that actually requires you to be in possession of an invitation before you can actually make a purchase, has apparently seen its launch delayed due to an OpenSSL bug that is touted to be a whole lot more serious than originally expected. The folks over at Cyanog
China’s Alibaba Group is buying UCWeb, one of the nation’s top mobile browser companies, in a deal that will give the e-commerce giant a bigger reach with smartphone users. It’s unclear how much Alibaba is paying for the company, but it already owns a 66 percent stake in UCWeb. As part of the deal,
