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A few weeks after its initial reveal, LG has launched an official site for the upcoming G Watch, its first smartwatch powered by Google’s new Android Wear platform. It contains a smattering of new details about the wrist-worn device. For one, it’ll be available in two color variants called ‘Champagn
Bad luck, suspicious subletters: Airbnb is in the process of removing over 2,000 New York City listings that aren’t “providing a quality, local experience to guests.” It’s not clear what a lack of “quality, local experience to guests” actually means, but it does c
Sony’s Xperia Z2 Tablet, a 10-inch Android device with a waterproof case, measures just a quarter of an inch thick and weighs approximately 15 ounces. The device is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801 processor and offers up to 10 hours of battery life. Additional features include a 10.
Technology giant NEC’s Hong Kong branch is promoting a small, “easy to install” appliance which will enable businesses to monitor their customers based on facial recognition. From a recent NEC press release: “The new Mobile Facial Recognition Appliance enables organizations i
Nintendo’s trailblazing Game Boy marks its 25th anniversary Monday with the portable device’s legacy living on in cutting-edge smartphone games and among legions of nostalgic fans. The Japanese firm released its 8-bit Game Boy on April 21, 1989. Billed as a “handy game machine”, few knew it would tu
NTT Communications, the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, announced today the immediate start of a free trial for its “WebRTC Chat on Skyway” web application, which uses WebRTC technologies for browser-to-browser communication between devices in real time,
During MWC 2014, BlackBerry announced that they were working on a device called theBlackBerry Classic. Unfortunately apart from the fact that we know that it will pack an integrated trackpad, much like the BlackBerry devices from the good old days, not much else is known about the device, such as ho
A fire at a Samsung datacentre has been causing all sorts of headaches for users over Easter. Samsung confirmed the fire at one of its data centres Gwacheon, South Korea and mentioned that services were down from 06:00 to 10:30 yesterday. The blog post mentioned that all services were back online as
Samsung has been pretty busy, at least that’s what Zauba’s records seem to indicate. The database has recently revealed that there are a slew of Samsung handsets that are headed to India for testing, and some of these devices have yet to be announced. In fact it also seems that one of the devices th
Forget carrying a separate hotspot router to have a local network wherever you go – what if you were the hotspot? Fashion designer Borre Akkersdijk has come very, very close to making that vision a reality with his experimental BB.Suit. The goofy-looking cotton onesie is knitted using a specia
Pentagon-sponsored researchers have made the reach of an intensive laser beam longer by an order of magnitude. Researchers say their discovery can be used to seed rain and trigger lightnings, but the potential scope of applications is much larger. A short intensive laser pulse produces plasma in its
Well, well. Samsung has gone from being a smartphone manufacturer to having a museum all of its own, as it seeks to show off how it has built on technology through the ages to develop its products. The company opened the five-story 10,950 square-meter Samsung Innovation Museum in Suwon, Korea, which
