Lifestyle changes and health concerns among the increasing middle class in China have boosted the popularity of outdoor activities. Weekends and holidays are often a peak time when you could see families all go together outside. Some ...
Tags: outdoor, kids, sports, recreational
If I asked you to tell me about all the tech ads you've seen this year, I wonder how many you'd remember at all. Our attention spans are even shorter than our tempers these days. We block ads. We mute them. We disdain them. How many ads, ...
Advanced infotainment systems, over-the-air (OTA) updates, big data analytics, mobility services and in-car security are key technologies that will shape the global connected car market in 2015. Human machine interface (HMI) input and ...
Tags: Advanced Telematics, Connected Car
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 ...
Tags: Nokia, Consumer Electronics
Audi of America and AT&T announced new data plans for the all-new 2015 A3 sedan, which debuts this month, and will enable the first-ever in-vehicle 4G LTE data connection in North America. The data plans will be competitively priced, ...
Bedminster, N.J. – Verizon Wireless is responding to recent aggressive pricing moves by rivals AT&T and T-Mobile. The carrier launched More Everything plans to add more data, more Cloud storage, and unlimited international ...
Tags: Verizon Wireless Q4, AT&T, T-Mobile, Competition
Google has kicked off a project to build high-speed fiber-optic networks in parts of the world that lack fast broadband connections, starting with the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The initiative, dubbed Project Link, aims to provide ...
Tags: Google, Fiber-Optics Upgrades, Uganda
Verizon’s network wasn’t ready for the flood of new traffic that it had to deal with after the company rolled out LTE service, admitted CFO Fran Shammo. Speaking on a conference call with investors hosted by Wells Fargo on ...
US Cellular subscribers can now purchase the new iPhones. The carrier, which launched the phones on Friday, is offering the iPhone 5S in all capacities from 16GB to 32GB to 64GB and in all colors from silver to gold to space gray. The 5C ...
Tags: iPhone 5S, smartphone
Social networking giant Facebook is to acquire mobile data compression start-up Onavo in a bid to make its services more cross-platform - especially for users accessing the service on mobile devices. Founded in 2010 by Guy Rosen and Roi ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Facebook and six other tech companies have launched a joint project called Internet.org which aims to connect the two-thirds of the global population that is not currently linked to the Internet. The other founding members of the project ...
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O2's chief operating officer, Derek McManus, has claimed that the company's 4G network will be better than EE's, even though it will not work with the Apple iPhone 5. In an interview with Computing, McManus said that the £550m the ...
Tags: 4G Network, iPhone 5
Faster network speeds are better, right? LTE cis coming soon to the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, offering double the downlink speeds of LTE (Long Term Evolution). But U.S. carriers still have to upgrade LTE networks to operate with LTE ...
Tags: LTE Smartphone, Smartphone
Airplane mode, long commutes, limits on data plans: they all belie the notion of devices with continuous, uninterrupted Internet connections. Yet many applications assume a permanent connection when delivering content to the user. When the ...
Tags: Always Connected Device, KitaroDB
IDG News Service - Dell's thumb-sized PC called Project Ophelia, which is the size of a USB stick, will start shipping in July for around $100. The Android-based device will plug into a display's HDMI port so that it can run applications ...