Health gadget maker Fitbit seems to be following its competition. Discontent with users stuffing their Fitbit Ones into pockets, bras or clipping them to trousers, Fitbit is selling a device called the Flex, which attaches to a wristband, ...
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MOTOROLA's high-tech smart phones will publish Moto X to compete with Samsung and Apple. The main difference with the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S4 is the intelligent sensor. On Thursday (May 30), the subsidiary of Google, MOTOROLA director ...
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Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe. Payleven's chip-and-PIN reader can be connected to an iPhone, iPad or Android device via ...
Tags: Computer Products, Mobile payments
Sprint recently saw growth in the percentage of its customers owning iPhones, while both Verizon Wireless and AT&T saw declines, an analyst firm said today. The percentage of smartphone customers using an iPhone at Sprint went from 33.4% ...
A little more than four months after Twitter unveiled its video service, Vine, the company has launched Vine for Android. "Starting today, you can begin to shoot, share and watch short looping videos," wrote Sara Haider, an Android ...
ARM is targeting mid-range smartphones and tablets priced between US$200 and $350 with a new low-power Cortex-A12 processor the company announced Monday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The company's processors are used in most of ...
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Apple has made progress in cutting deals with music labels for an Internet radio service but time is running out, several reports said today. According to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and others, Apple inked an agreement ...
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Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, has become the latest company to back Mozilla's Firefox OS and is developing more than five devices running the mobile operating system for its customers. The Taiwanese ...
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Stages Cycling has released a firmware update for its Stages power meter. The company said the update corrects issues that have emerged as more consumers use the crank-based meter with a variety of head units and other equipment; in ...
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OlyInnovations announces the release of version 1.2 of both "Guess & Know" – its category trivia game engine for iPad – and "Guess & Know Companion" – the electronic buzzer counterpart for iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. ...
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Music and video enthusiasts who use their Macs as their primary entertainment centers know the industry's ugly little truth – there really isn't a single media player that can play back everything you throw at it – until now. ...
Tags: Wondershare, Media Player, Mac
The fact that Google Glass is months away from launch hasn't dimmed speculation about what the most-anticipated tech product of 2013 will be like to use when it actually lands in stores (late this year, a Google spokesperson confirmed to ...
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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 ...
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Foxconn's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has set up a Japanese research center devoted to display and touch technologies that could end up hiring staff away from Sharp. The new center, called Foxconn Japan RD Co., represents a major ...
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Sony has hired two former Apple execs as it tries to build momentum behind its latest Xperia smartphones and tablets. Joining Sony's board are Eikoh Harada, the former head of Apple Japan, and Tim Schaff, who worked for the iPhone ...