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In introducing it’s $99 set top box, Fire TV, last month, Amazon played up its voice search function as revolutionizing the process of finding content online. But in fact, all it did was revolutionize the search for Amazon content and Vevo music videos, as no other services supported the featu
Police officers trying to find out who was behind a fake Twitter account set up in the name of Peoria’s mayor have raided a home, seizing computers and phones and hauling several people in to be questioned. Tuesday’s raid was carried out by four plainclothes officers even though Twitter had suspende
Nextdoor, the San Francisco startup that connects neighbors to each other and has secured over $100 million in funding, will announce an official partnership with the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management soon. The partnership began on a trial basis last fall, as reported by the Business
Comcast said this year’s week-long Xfinity Watchathon broke more VOD records, producing 61 million views and 50 million hours of TV bingeing, while also doing its part to boost ratings for shows such as Game of Thrones. This year’s VOD-fest, which ran March 31 through April 6, served up more than 5,
So much for trashing the Kindle. Today Samsung is announcing a new app, Kindle for Samsung, created in partnership with Amazon, that will let Galaxy device users using Android 4.0 and up, starting with the Galaxy S5, to buy and read content from Amazon’s catalog of magazines, newspapers and books. T
Virgin Media customers received hundreds of emails after a mix-up on a marketing message let recipients reply-all to everyone else. Hitting reply to the message – as hundreds inevitably did – sent the response to everyone else again. However, Virgin has stressed that the email addresses
Before Facebook and MySpace, before you were connecting with friends and family with WhatsApp, there was AIM, probably one of the most recognizable names from the early Internet. If you were a child of the 90s, chances are you used the famous chat program, which was offered as a free service by AOL.
Alibaba will start offering phone service in June as Chinese regulators expand competition in the world’s largest mobile market. The service will include voice and third-generation data packages on network capacity leased from all three state-owned carriers, according to Alizila, a website run by Al
When an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant complex in 2011, neither the quake nor the inundation caused the ensuing contamination. Rather, it was the aftereffects — specifically, the lack of cooling for the reactor cores, due to a shutdown of all power at the station —
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of chips, forecast record sales surpassing analyst estimates amid continued growth in smartphone demand. Second-quarter revenue will be $6 billion the Hsinchu, Taiwan-based company said in a statement. Rising d
Weibo, the influential microblogging service owned by Sina, has reportedly raised just $285.6 million in its initial public offering. Weibo, which has about 143.8 million monthly active users and is known for its impact on public discourse in China, sold 16.8 million American Depositary Shares for $
Few companies have done more to pioneer the concept of stickers than Line, and now the Japanese company is democratizing sticker production after it opened a marketplace where anyone can upload packs to sell via its messaging app. “LINE Creators Market is a service designed to let anyone create, sub
