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If you like your movie streaming services with added one-day delivery and ebook borrowing options, you’re in luck. Amazon has announced that LoveFilm Instant is to be combined with Amazon Prime from February 26th, becoming Prime Instant Video, Britain’s “largest subscription stream
Facebook’s announcement it is paying $19 billion in cash and stock to acquire WhatsApp is a milestone in the short history of mobile messaging apps. Hundreds of millions of people have downloaded such apps to their smartphones and tablets to chat and share photos and videos for free, making th
Gold is somewhat an ostentatious color when it comes to electronic gadgets. After all its too bright, gaudy, and very loud, but little did we know that Apple would such a huge success with its gold iPhone 5s. That being said, it seems that not only does HTC want to replicate that success with a gold
The United States Postal Service will be rolling out a new stamp during 2015 that pays tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Currently under development within the design department at the postal service, the Steve Jobs stamp was discovered on a leaked list of planned stamps covering the next two
It may not be the obvious choice when looking for a hands-free way to use your phone, but a company in the Netherlands has developed an e-cigarette that can make and receive calls. Created by Netherlands-based firm Supersmoker, the e-cigarette is the world’s first electronic smoking device to wirele
Yahoo has launched a self-service set of tools called Gemini for mobile search and native advertising. Per a rep for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based digital company, it believes a one-stop shop for the two ad units could make a difference in attracting brand marketers. Until recently, its mobile search
Netflix users across the country have been enduring extremely slow streaming rates and poor video quality lately. But nailing down the culprit is harder than you might think. The growing feud between Netflix and Internet Service Providers has gotten pretty hot recently. While reading the headlines o
The Obama administration is making another push to combat litigious “patent trolls,” announcing a series of executive actions on Thursday aimed at reducing the number of bad patents granted by the government. The actions direct the Patent and Trademark Office to work with the private sector on makin
There aren’t many quick plug-in hybrids with reasonable price tags, but Volkswagen may just lower the cost of eco-friendly performance with its newly unveiled Golf GTE. The hot hatchback mates a 148HP gas engine with a 101HP electric motor, giving the Golf enough combined power to reach 62MPH
It’s hard to stand out from the crowd of fitness trackers, but the FlyFit hopes to do so via crowdfunding, and by attaching itself to a different body part than normal. The gadget fits around your ankle, not your wrist. The FlyFit shares plenty of similarities with other trackers. It works wit
Smarter Remarketer, the leading provider of customer intelligence for multi-channel retailers, today announced it has secured $7 million in venture financing in a round led by Battery Ventures. As part of the financing Battery General Partner Neeraj Agrawal is joining the company’s board.
The European Space Agency will launch an observatory into space designed to seek out potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system. The PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission will search for planets by monitoring the brightness of up to a million nearby stars. The s
