The Google Fiber home broadband initiative is bringing gigabit internet speeds to many households in the United States. But as rooted as Fiber is in the future of home communications, there’s also an eye on what many have come to ...
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Microsoft is going for the XL moniker to better highlight the large screen available on its phones. The Lumia 640 XL comes with a 5.7-inch HD IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, Gorilla Glass 3 coating, and Glance screen ...
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It's been a good start to the financial year for Telstra,with half yearly results placing the telco giant on track to meet forecasted end-of-financial-year targets. Half-yearly results,released today,indicate that total income for Telstra ...
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MagicJack VocalTec is rolling out a global brand refresh of its MagicJack Plus value-priced VoIP device. The campaign marks the first major marketing initiative under MagicJack’s new management team and is the first brand refresh in ...
Osram Sylvania’s sixth annual SYLVANIA Socket Survey finds that 65 percent of Americans plan to switch to more energy-efficient lighting technologies, as a result of federally mandated legislation that is increasing efficiency ...
Many door and window sensors, motion detectors and keypads that are part of security systems used in millions of homes and businesses can be bypassed by using relatively simple techniques, according to researchers from security consultancy ...
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Today Comwave launched a new version of ePhone for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad) which is part of a string of Comwave Apps intended to take a bite of Skype's market share. ePhoneis different though, because the app includes a ...
Tags: APP, Consumer Electronics, smartphone
Typing and sending a text message on a smartphone can be a real pain. With Holler!, you can communicate via voice IM with anyone (either in your contact list or just a phone number) without having to type on a touchscreen or mess around ...
Tags: smartphone, touchscreen, text message
Brooklyn-based Sprezzat wants to modernize caller ID for people's smartphones with a little help from Twitter and Facebook. This week the company launched Thread for Android, a mobile app designed to display recent activity on Twitter and ...
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BlackBerry last night launched BlackBerry 10 across the world – dubbed ‘the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry’ platform that creates a new and unique mobile computing experience. Available on two new ...
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Network World - It's not clear if the Federal Trade Commission is throwing up its hands at the problem or just wants some new ideas about how to combat it, but the agency is now offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what it calls an ...
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Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool Windows Live Messenger in favour of Skype's messaging tool. The announcement comes just 18 months after Microsoft announced plans to acquire internet telephony ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the men following complaints from consumers, and has put an additional eight companies on notice that they face action, including fines if it is proved they are sending out unwanted ...
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Microsoft has made a preview version of Skype for Windows Phone 8 available for download, which promises better integration with the operating system's user interface and more features. The preview includes all of the Skype basics ...
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A study suggests that landlines and tablets could be obsolete in the next five years. Photo Credit: Alexandre Duret-Lutz Virgin Media Business conducted a survey with 500 CIOs and found that 65% believe the landline will disappear ...
Tags: Virgin Media Business, smartphones, landline, mobile connections