LG just shed light on a host of new Wi-Fi enabled speakers to complement its Music Flow line-up. The new, battery powered, wireless speakers were just shown off at this week's CES 2015 expo in Las Vegas. Tim Alessi, LG's Director of New ...
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German giant Bosch has entered the increasingly crowded smart heating market with its own phone controlled system, the Bosch Remote Room Controller (RRC) Announced at CES 2015 today, the Bosch Remote Room Controller controls heating and ...
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A mystery handset has turned up in an app set-up video that could be the fast-approaching Samsung Galaxy S6. The early debut came courtesy of a clip that explains how to install and use the My Knox app, as spotted by PhoneArena. The app ...
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Early adopters who’ve snapped up the Samsung Gear VR Virtual Reality headset can now leap into fully immersive worlds thanks to a new video app. The Milk VR app delivers free 360-degree videos to the “Innovator Edition” ...
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Loom Bands, LEGO Minifigures, anything Frozen...There have certainly been some stand out ranges of toys to define the year, but as the following suggests, there have been some dark horses, too. Looking at NPD figures for the year, ...
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Samsung has announced plans to shut down its ChatOn messenger app for good. The South Korean firm previously denied rumours that ChatOn was soon to be binned - speculation that we now know to be true. “Under changes in the ...
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US-only personalised music streaming app Pandora has debuted on the Microsoft Xbox One, the first time the portal has appeared on a games console. The app, which allows users to tailor their listening experience with playlists based on ...
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Following the launch in May 2014 of the Wise Drinking mobile application, new features have been added to enable consumers to monitor their alcohol intake. Users can now test their knowledge of responsible drinking through a "responsible ...
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Kinsa, a New York City–based maker of an FDA-cleared smart thermometer has won $9.6 million in Series A financing, which includes funding from Kleiner Perkins and others. The company’s thermometer can plug into a smartphone ...
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Nokia has relaunched its highly-rated Here Maps application on the Google Play Store. The Finnish firm, free from the shackles of creating hardware following the Microsoft buyout, has been turning its attention to software with Maps at ...
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Mondelez is an enthusiastic early uptaker of new technology. It launched its mobile technology initiative, Mobile Futures, in October 2012 internationally to help it drive more impulse purchases and better in-store marketing, with an open ...
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Facebook’s has relaunched the standalone Slingshot media messaging app it hopes will ensnare some of the Snapchat crowd and bring them back underneath the company’s sizeable social umbrella. The firm began working on a new ...
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OMsignal, the Montreal smart apparel startup, began shipping the first edition of its Biometric Smartwear to pre-order customers and launched its iOS app in the Apple App Store. The Smartwear compression shirts and iOS app work in tandem ...
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Jaguar has introduced justDrive, an app technology which is designed to integrate smartphone apps into a single, voice-activated in-car experience. The app is developed by CloudCar, which has been optimized by Jaguar Land Rover for its ...
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Mercedes-Benz has made the rescue sticker with QR codes as a standard feature in all Mercedes-Benz vans. The QR code shows information about the location of vehicle components including fuel tanks, airbags and electric cables and it is ...
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