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OCI Solar Power completes the largest solar farm in Texas

The first phase of Texas' 400MW solar project is now operating in San Antonio. The 41MW Alamo I solar farm is phase one of a 400MW development, which is expected...

Samsung Smart TVs to accept “finger gestures” for 2014

Samsung's 2014 Smart TV line will be a step up from the 2013 models. The company described a few of the details in an announcement today, one of which is...

Apple reaches deal to sell iPhones through China Mobile

Apple, ending years of negotiations, struck a deal to sell the iPhone through China Mobile , giving both companies a means to fight declining share in the world’s largest wireless market....

Nokia wins injunction against HTC in Germany

It was only recently that Nokia won an injunction against HTC products in the UK, although the ban was later relaxed. Nokia had also recently gone after HTC over in...

Microsoft courting India’s top smartphone OEMs for Windows Phone devices

While Nokia is definitely holding its own over in India, especially with devices like the Nokia Lumia 520, we suppose it wouldn’t hurt if Microsoft were to try and court...

Nokia smartwatch rumored for Q3 2014

Smartwatches seem to be the trend these days and it looks as though almost every tech company has either released a smartwatch, or has been rumored to be release one....

NASA telescope finds water vapor plumes on Jupiter moon

New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggest water vapor plumes are venting from Jupiter’s moon, Europa. The discovery was made on Europa’s south pole, which has previously shown evidence...

How the network industry should view and understand “open”

“Open” as it is currently used is an imprecise term. Here are some select criteria that are most critical in addressing specific networking problems. A number of industry and technology...

CyanogenMod surpasses 10 million installs, future looks bright

CyanogenMod’s Steve Kondik announced over the weekend that the custom Android ROM has been installed on over 10 million devices around the world. The statistics are collected through users that...

Verizon FiOS app on Xbox One allows for Veri-ception

The Verizon FiOS app is now available for Xbox One, allowing owners of Microsoft's next-gen console who have an Xbox Live Gold account and subscribe to Verizon's FiOS service to...

iOS 7 gets its first complete jailbreak, with a big catch

You've mostly been out of luck if you've wanted to jailbreak iOS 7 so far; what options have existed have been incomplete at best. Cracking the code just got a...

LG announces advanced new audio and video lineup for CES

In less than three weeks, LG will be show-casing its latest audio video lineup at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The premium selection of products includes...

Snapchat iOS update discreetly adds replay, filters, and overlays

And suddenly, moments shared over Snapchat were a little less fleeting. The service is known for only allowing you to watch a shared image or video once, and only for a second,...

Spotify sees download boom after free streaming launch

In the days since Spotify rolled out free mobile access to its on-demand music service, the company has seen an explosion in user interest. Earlier this week, Spotify saw its app download rate...

Microsoft says Bing profitability just around the corner

Microsoft's Bing search engine is will soon begin making money for the software giant, according to the company's chief financial officer for applications and services. Applications and Services CFO Dave O'Hara...

NASA captures making of Earth’s most iconic photographs

What if you could go back in time and see what the Apollo 8 astronauts saw when they snapped the iconic "Earthrise" photograph? Now you can. The making of the iconic space photographs that...

My Social Book turns your Facebook timeline into an actual book

My Social Book captures your timeline’s memories and events in a physical book. If you ever worry about forgetting or losing all of the information on your Facebook timeline, this service is...

250 hard drives used to make one awesome F1 car

Though this car may look like an actual Formula1 racer at first glance, taking a closer look reveals that there is something unreal about it. Those of you who have...

Warren Buffett dives into wind power

Why is everybody making such a fuss about the latest Warren Buffett wind power purchase?  The new order is big news for Siemens, which thanks to Buffett gets to win the...

Visualizing Google’s million-row copyright claim dataset

Google’s Transparency Reports get a lot of attention for their data on government action, but less so for their insights into copyright takedown requests. Google released its latest transparency report...