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Good news for those who use the desktop version of Spotify. Apparently the social network has paid attention to the pressing demands of users and decided to add the new feature. What is it? In practice it is the key that will allow you to listen to your favorite song endlessly. Again, again and agai
Foxconn, the Taiwanese maker of Apple’s iPhones, has signed a letter of intent to invest up to $US1 billion in Indonesia, officials said. The Taipei-based technology giant is also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry which is the world’s largest contract electronics maker. It said the inv
Dyson is a name familiar to consumers as the company has been known recently for their bladeless fans as well as vacuum cleaners, and now it looks like the company could be considering given the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner a run for its money as they have recently announced that they have invested
Would Twitter, Instagram or Vine be any fun if you couldn’t participate in the social experience? No, probably not. This is the problem that Motorola’s Droid Zap had: it was a unique, localized photo-sharing service that left non-Droid owners out to dry
A company’s inner-office policies can be a sensitive topic, particularly when that office is AOL, one of the most high-profile media brands on the Internet, and especially when the topic is employee benefits. That’s why when AOL CEO Tim Armstrong was reportedly heard during a recent conference call
Apple, despite not selling low-end handsets, is doing very well for themselves. Nokia on the other hand despite selling high-end handsets, has actually done better for itself by selling low-end devices like the Nokia Lumia 520, so which strategy should one adopt? According to a report from Reuters,
According to rumor, BlackBerry could be planning a 64-bit octa-core handset for next year. Based on their report, the alleged device will be powered by Qualcomm’s MSM8994 chipset which is a octa-core 64-bit chipset with the potential to hit up to 2.5GHz per core with a 4MB L2 cache. The rumored Blac
NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals. Initial proposals are due tomorrow for the Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown program. One or more private companies will win a c
For a while, late in 2013, things didn’t look too good for the annual Vancouver-based security conference CanSecWest, or for PWN2OWN, the elite hacking sideshow at the event that has in many ways eclipsed the conference itself. It looked as though the conference and its accoutrements might imp
Its no secret that competition among U.S. mobile operators has been steadily heating up, with T-Mobile lighting many of the fires through its “uncarrier” announcements. At one point even AT&T felt the need to retaliate, offering customers up to $450 just to switch over from Magenta. Now Verizon
A vulnerability in the Snapchat app opens the iPhone up to denial-of-service attacks that can cause the device to freeze and crash, according to cyber security researcher Jamie Sanchez. A weakness in the app’s system can allow a hacker to send thousands of messages to a Snapchat user in seconds, whi
Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid are currently developing a new form of biometric authentication based on personal body odor. The Group of Biometrics, Biosignals and Security, with help from the Spanish engineering consulting firm Ilía Systems Ltd, hopes that its work can used as
