LIFX created a Wi-Fi enabled, multi-color, energy efficient LED light bulb that you can control with a smartphone. LIFX gives you a completely one-of-a-kind experience with your lights, up to 16+ million color options at your fingertips. ...
This may be remembered as the year smartphones became boring. Although high-definition displays on smartphones have gotten bigger and their cameras have gotten better, the pace of gee-whiz innovation has dawdled. Smartphone and software ...
I find giant phones hard to carry and use, but I'm well aware that many people like the bigger images and text they offer. These so-called phablets, with screens measuring about 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) diagonally, are nearly as big ...
Tags: HTC, Nokia, Consumer Electronics, Smartphone
People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
Tags: Smartphones, Camera
You're not getting the best or the latest technology with Motorola's $179 Moto G smartphone. What you do get is a great price for something close. Motorola bills the Moto G as the phone for the rest of us—the ones who can't afford ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Motorola will start selling a cheap smartphone in the U.S. more than a month ahead of schedule. The company says it was able to produce the Moto G phones faster than expected. The U.S. launch was initially planned for January. But it is ...
Tags: Smartphone, Motorola, Consumer Electronics
Engineers who used to work for Nokia are hoping to grab a share of the lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market with a new handset, which is based on the former world No. 1 cellphone maker's old software and is faintly reminiscent ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Smartphone, Nokia
Apple yesterday signed a deal with China Mobile which could see it offer the iPhone to over 760 million Chinese customers from January. The company already sells its phones in China through two other carriers in the country – China ...
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The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has announced that licensees Etisalat and du yesterday launched the Mobile Number Portability Service in the United Arab Emirates through opening the central system for the MNP service. The TRA ...
Tags: Portability Service
The IDC announced on November 26, 2013, the global smart phone market survey report shows that the sales of global smart phone in 2013 is expected to increase by 39.3% , more than 1 billion units, Japanese media reported. Although in many ...
Tags: Smartphone, Consumer Electronics, phone
It's tough to shop for techies. They already own everything with a plug or rechargeable battery. But fear not, a slew of unique technology gifts have hit the market just in time for Christmas. Here's a roundup of some of the season's most ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Tech Gifts
Engineers at Microsoft Research are taking on the world of weight management with a bra designed to measure heart and skin activity to gauge stress levels. When the device detects high stress levels, it offers advice via a smartphone app to ...
Andrew Jackson (contributor) Celebrity endorsed headphones have become the number one player in this booming market, leading to a wealth of brands providing audio products as celebrity vehicles with little focus on audio quality. Some ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Headphone
Worldwide shipments of smart wearable bands are on the rise. Just over 200,000 smart wearable bands shipped in the first half of 2013, but this figure is set to grow by well over 500% in the second half of the year, according to Canalys. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics will defer kicking off production at its factory in Kunshan, eastern China, from the end of 2013 as originally scheduled to after the 2014 Lunar New Year which falls on January 31, ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED, LED flip chips