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HTC China has unveiled a plastic version of the company’s newest flagship smartphone. The HTC One (E8) is almost identical to the impressive, metallic One (M8), although there are a few changes beyond just build material. The One (E8) utilizes a 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 proces
Speaking at a technology conference on Thursday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings delivered some disappointing news to the company’s biggest fans. The company, which started out delivering DVDs in the mail and helped usher in the era of on-demand video streaming, won’t be offering live sports or
Want something capable of keeping up with your rugged lifestyle? Samsung and AT&T just announced the Galaxy S5 Active. The Galaxy S5 Active, just like the Galaxy S4 Active that came before it, is exclusive to AT&T in the United States. Better yet, you can order it right now. As we expected,
India’s growing tech scene now has access to an even huger pile of money. Venture-capital heavyweight Sequoia Capital raised $530 million for its fourth India-focused fund. The Menlo Park, California-based firm said it will also be looking to invest in companies located outside India in the Southeas
Japan Display is a name that we are all familiar with, considering the number of various mobile displays that they have released in the past as well as enterprise-based displays that support high resolution and insane pixel densities. Well, in their latest effort concerning a new high resolution tab
It seems that those of you who are looking forward to some gaming goodness with Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U will be pleased to hear that it is playable using Nintendo GameCube controllers. Talk about a throwback to the past, where the gap between the old and the new are bridged! This particular
Tencent, the maker of popular messaging app WeChat, is taking its ecommerce ambitions one big step forward today by allowing anyone to set up a store inside WeChat. WeChat first added support for mobile payments in August last year, with only a few brick-and-mortar retailers supporting it. Then the
Angus Davis, founder and CEO of a fast-growing Providence technology company, said Thursday a $20-million venture-capital investment in his firm will allow Swipely to “accelerate growth” in the capital city by hiring more employees, attracting more customers and improving what it sells them. The com
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to purchase the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion. Ballmer and Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling reportedly settled on the deal late Thursday afternoon although Bobby Samini, an attorney for Donald Sterling, pointed out that there can be no sale
Now that the first year of the newly implemented “six strikes” Copyright Alert System has come to an end, the Center for Copyright Information has shared the results. In 2013, CCI sent out more than 1.3 million alerts to 722,820 user accounts. Of those alerts, 72% fell under the “educati
NASA and Khan Academy, a non-profit educational website, have debuted a series of online tutorials designed to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM. The announcement of the new collaborative effort was made today at the 6th annual White H
Back in March, we had heard the rumors that Samsung could be working on new Galaxy Mega devices, one of them allegedly being the Galaxy W which was spotted in a SK Telecom brochure. For those unfamiliar with the Galaxy Mega series, these are essentially smartphones that sport huge displays, bigger t
