Devices that let you watch Netflix and other streaming video services on a big TV screen are popular, but there are limits to what you can watch. NBC, for instance, didn't make its Olympics apps compatible with Roku, Apple TV and Google's ...
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Google has posted a blog entry detailing what will be coming with the next update (over the next several weeks) of its Google Chrome web browser—one the main highlights is the implementation of voice activated, hands-free searching. ...
KGPS's HereO kid-tracking watch incorporates GPS and GPRS cellular data at $149, including six months of service. Related smart watch OKO Updates Android-Brand Smart Watch smart watch Samsung Adds Two Tizen-OS Smart Watches smart watch ...
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Streetline, Inc. announced today the release of ParkSight™ 2.0, the most advanced real-time and historical parking data and analytics platform. ParkSight 2.0 was released to Streetline's existing customers today and is now a standard ...
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IBM will house its email, communication and collaboration products in its Connections suite, whose scope until now has been limited to enterprise social networking software. This means that the Connections bundle will include the ...
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Nuheat will launch Signature, a WiFi floor heating thermostat. Signature will give homeowners full access to all thermostat settings with wireless remote access through a smartphone app (iOS or Android) or a web browser. Changing the ...
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More choice-and confusion-is coming to the next generation of TVs. At least three new software systems were announced Monday for Internet-connected television sets, which let viewers watch Internet video and interact with friends online on ...
Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox Web browser, is putting its software on Internet-connected television sets, starting with Panasonic's. Firefox OS becomes the latest system to power so-called smart TVs, which let viewers watch ...
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Until I tried one, I never understood the appeal of e-book readers, given that tablets can do much more. The e-reader's ease and comfort became apparent as I raced to finish the second "Hunger Games" book before the movie came out. I blew ...
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The iPad Mini is a device I'd like to love. At first glance, the gadget would appear to be everything I'd want in a tablet. It comes with Apple Inc.'s iOS software and can run the hundreds of thousands of iPad apps. But it's more portable ...
With the website functioning for most, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reminds those with no health insurance they must enroll by Dec. 23. Federal health officials said Wednesday those who are not provided with health ...
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Microsoft has announced that it will introduce message encryption for its cloud-based Office 365 service in early 2014. Dubbed Office 365 Message Encryption, the system will automatically encrypt email to anyone outside a company ...
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Altair announced the general availability of Display Manager, a web-based environment for remote visualization of very big data arising from large high-performance computing (HPC) simulations. This product is designed for extreme ...
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 ...
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Websites are increasingly tracking users without their knowledge or permission by using "device fingerprinting" to identify individual web users. Device fingerprinting uses the data sent by a PC, smartphone or tablet computer to websites ...
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