MessagePetz, the Wi-Fi-enabled smart Teddy Bears , have launched on crowd-funding site Kickstarter with early "bear" specials starting from $89. MessagePetz is a huggable, soft Teddy Bear that allows parents and children to communicate ...
Tags: Kickstarter, Teddy Bear, Wi-Fi
Using a new API announced by Amazon Web Services, developers can use Amazon.com, Facebook, or Google's sign-in systems for their cloud-based apps. Amazon calls the concept web identity federation, and the new AWS Security Token Service ...
Google's Drive cloud storage service has undergone a facelift for Android users, and is now capable of capturing a document by converting a photo of it to text. The upgrades, announced today on the Google Drive blog page, also includes a ...
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Trusted Translations announced today that the company will offer translation services directly to app developers in the Google Play Developer Console. The goal of this service is to provide an end-to-end localization process for application ...
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Several users of devices running Google's Android operating system have filed an amended version of an earlier lawsuit accusing the company of illegally collecting, and allowing others to collect, extensive amounts of mobile user data ...
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Google is adding a new level of personalization and a cleaner interface to its popular Maps product. The next version of Google Maps, which will begin a limited rollout this week, will automatically add a layer of personalized landmarks ...
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Google has introduced an integrated developer environment (IDE) aimed at easing development of Android apps. Android Studio made its debut Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Android developers could use the Android ...
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LAST night's midnight premiere of Star Trek into Darkness confirms the cult of the USS Enterprise thrives 47 years after the first TV episodes aired. Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the crew have indeed managed to "live long and prosper" - ...
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ME System, a product innovation company, today announces the start of its first-ever crowd funding campaign in anticipation of the release of its first product to market – the ME Clock. With an Indiegogo campaign that will run ...
Tags: ME System Raising Funds, Indiegogo
Samsung has had its security-enhanced smartphones and tablets approved for use by the U.S. military. The U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) says it is now happy to use Samsung Android devices in the field after its Defence Information ...
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Toshiba's Digital Products Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced Canvio Connect, a portable external hard drive that offers high capacity storage along with the ability to access and share files ...
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Xamarin has announced Test Cloud, an automated service that lets mobile developers test their apps on hundreds of mobile devices. Getting an application to work properly on multiple mobile devices is a big challenge because of the many ...
Tags: Mobile APP, Computer Products, software
Facebook could charge UK users over £10 to message people who are not within their social sphere, including celebrities. The site is likely to charge between 70p and £10 per message to those who aren't "friends", with the ...
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Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store. "When you buy an Android app from the Google app ...
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ubAlert LLC today announced the addition of the Android app on Google Play to its growing social network. The global emergency warning platform, which alerts users of the location and severity of real-time disasters, is already available ...
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