The Red Cross is using apps to help warn people about potential weather calamities. One of its more popular efforts is its new Tornado app. The app, which by last week had 270,000 downloads, was seeing a spike in downloads as a result of ...
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Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen. The device integrates the company's unique back covers with the software, allowing the look to change and new features to be ...
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Devices built around Apple's iOS operating system have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense for use on its networks, as the department moves to support multivendor mobile devices and operating systems. The Defense Information ...
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Samsung will host a US$800,000 contest for developers that build apps for the Galaxy S4 using the company's peer-to-peer software interface. The South Korean company said Monday entrants in its "Smart App Challenge 2013" must make use of ...
With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp. A Bitcoin core developer for ...
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Microsoft has today announced the Xbox One, its new entry in the home videogames console market. The device is supposedly intended to answer a question that Microsoft asked itself for the project: "Can we improve a living room that's ...
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Samsung's mobile division seems to have let another device slip through the spoiler net, with a new leak revealing what appears to be an 8-inch variant of the Galaxy Tab. If confirmed, the new model will sit alongside Samsung's existing ...
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Jolla, the smartphone start-up established by "refugees" from Nokia, has demonstrated its first reference design, with new devices being released to the public by the end of the year. Although the company is focused on developing the ...
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Google has announced the closure of Google Checkout, the online payment system used by small merchants, with users being given until 20 November to migrate to an alternative. Instead, Google will focus on Google Wallet, "a platform that ...
Stick-N-Find Technologies, creators of StickNFind Bluetooth location stickers, today announce "StickNFind for the Enterprise" at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas, Nev. StickNFind's enterprise application leverages its proprietary technology to ...
Cricket Communications, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Galaxy S4. The Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone builds on the success and innovation of its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S3, and provides a suite of new ...
Google did its best to court developers at this year's I/O conference with a much-needed integrated developer environment, API for better games and the ability to more easily translate apps. Their allegiance will become increasingly ...
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Eric Schrag (left) and Kelly Merrell both spent time at Google I/O getting accustomed to wearing and using Google Glass eyewear. Computerworld - A software engineer for Comcast got his early version of Google Glass last weekend, grabbed ...
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This week during the Google I/O developers conference, Vivante Corporation announced product readiness for the latest Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 operating system update. Today's Google TV? products featuring the Vivante GC1000 IP cores ready ...
Today at Google I/O, Magisto, the automatic video editing solution that turns everyday videos and photos into movie magic, announced several new points of integration with Google, including launching on Google Chrome's Packaged App ...
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