BlackBerry Classic review: old-fashioned phone that will neither please traditionalists nor new users
Review: BlackBerry Classic is a trip back in time — The BlackBerry Classic is a curmudgeonly phone. — That's not entirely pejorative: a curmudgeon can be a beloved figure with a kind of …
Sony's smart glass uses regular glasses, aims for sports and work
Sony Single-Lens Display Module — Sony Single-Lens Display Module — Sony has announced its own take on the smart glass concept. To be formally unveiled at CES next month, the Single-Lens Display ...
BlackBerry officially launches Classic, with full QWERTY keyboard and physical navigation keys
BlackBerry officially launches the Classic, a smartphone for yesterday — A full QWERTY keyboard and physical navigation keys round out the Classic's throwback design
Netflix: offline viewing is ‘never going to happen’
Well damn … For some time now, services like BBC iPlayer and 4oD have offered the ability to download shows for offline viewing, yet Netflix hasn't — And despite the pleas of the masses (or maybe it...
Sony hack confirms Snapchat turned down over $3B from Facebook last year, based on emails between Sony Ent. CEO Michael Lynton and Malcolm Gladwell
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Emails from Sony Hack show Snapchat quietly acquired Google-Glass like startup Vergence Labs for $15M in early 2014
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Leaked Sony emails show Snapchat acquired QR scanning company Scan for $50M and AddLive for $30M, negotiated with Vevo for music partnership
Snapchat Plans Music Feature, Acquired QR Scan.me For $50M And Vergence Eyeglass Cam For $15M, — Leaked emails from the Sony Pictures hack …
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar opens Creator Preview for YouTube rival Vessel to lure stars; $2.99/month service includes ads, offers up to $50 CPM for creators
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Pulls Back the Curtain on Vessel, His YouTube Rival — Six years ago Jason Kilar made a big splash in Web video when he launched Hulu.
Chinese Search Engine Baidu Confirms Strategic Investment In Uber, May Add Ride Requests
It's official: Chinese Internet giant Baidu has confirmed that it is Uber's latest investor, as TechCrunch reported last week. — The companies did not disclose the amount of the investment.
OnePlus sales halted in India after Micromax complaint over Cyanogen exclusivity
OnePlus India sales stopped by Delhi HC after Micromax complains — Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has been stopped from shipping or selling its smartphones in India, just a fortnight after ...
Uber faces tough rivals, regulatory glare in China
Google Drive gets Gmail attachment support, Google voice search on Android, uploading from other apps on iOS
Google today rolled out new Google Drive features in Gmail, as well as updated Android and iOS apps. Gmail attachment support is live now, while the Android update is rolling out on Google Play …
Dr. Dobb's to stop producing content at year end due to decline in ad revenue despite 10M+ page views this year
Farewell, Dr. Dobb's — This year, our website will deliver almost 10.3 million page views, which is an unprecedented number for Dr. Dobb's. It's up from 9 million last year and 8 million three year...
Google to close Freebase June 2015, will migrate data and APIs to Wikidata
Google To Close Freebase, Which Helped Feed Its Knowledge Graph — Google is shutting down Freebase, its open source repository of facts that, in part, helps power the Google Knowledge Graph.
Twitter And Foursquare Are Partnering To Improve Location In Tweets
Twitter wants to start surfacing information for users that's relevant and interesting, not just timely. And the company believes adding a location layer to its platform could be part of the solution...
Launch Center Pro makers debut Group Text+ and Email+ for iOS
Contrast, the makers of the popular iOS automation app Launch Center Pro, released two new apps today that hope to “speed up tedious tasks on iOS.” Group Text+ and Email+ each include features that m...
Wearables, Bitcoin, or messaging may underpin the next consumer computing epoch, after the PC, internet, and mobile
The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014 — While the modern computing era in many respects began with the IBM System/360 mainframe and further expanded with the minicomputer …
Microsoft's Xim app now shares photos to Apple TV, Chomecast, and Xbox One
Microsoft's Xim photo sharing app debuted in October from the company's research labs, and today it's getting a big update. Available across Windows Phone, iOS, and Android, the latest version of Xim...
Facebook Starts Auto-Enhancing Photos Because Algorithms Are Better At Filters Than You
We're not ace photographers, but we all take photos. Most could use a little help with light and shadow. So rather than making you manually filter them, Facebook tells me it will now auto-enhance …
Google Takes Play Music's Songza-Powered Playlists Abroad, First Stop UK
With catalogues of unlimited music on streaming services so extensive these days that we never quite know what to listen to first, playlists have become one of the key ways that music fans use service...
Brandwatch buys top-influencer analytics firm PeerIndex
Brandwatch, the maker of technology for acquiring social intelligence, has purchased PeerIndex, an analytics firm that finds and measures social influencers. — Above: Giles Palmer, CEO of Brandwatch...
FCC preparing to fine Sprint $105M for unauthorized cramming charges
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Delta security flaw let passengers access others' boarding passes
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Shared office space provider WeWork secures $355M investment at $5B valuation
Just this past weekend, I returned … Red Herring : WeWork secures $355m investment at $5bn valuation bizjournals : More on that mind-blowing WeWork valuation Haaretz : WeWork brings its new kind of of...
Fitbit says Charge skin irritation issues aren't caused by the device's materials
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Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations
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NBC is launching streaming of network shows for people with pay-TV logins
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Sci-Fi author Neal Stephenson joins augmented reality startup Magic Leap as “Chief Futurist”
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Gmail gets Content Security Policy support to stop extensions from loading unsafe code
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MongoDB snaps up WiredTiger as new storage engine option
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Facebook engineering VP Cory Ondrejka departs after overseeing Oculus acquisition
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Aiming To Be A ‘B2B Google’ For Business Intel, Mattermark Raises $6.5M Led By Foundry Group
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Upcoming 2.3 Pebble update brings actionable Android Wear notifications and more
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TAG Heuer enlists partners in smartwatch plan and may make acquisitions
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After Google News shutdown, external traffic to Spanish media sites plummets, according to Chartbeat
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Twitter Debates Whether to Hit Autoplay on Videos to Compete With Facebook
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Ayden raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to expand its international payments platform, lists Facebook, Airbnb, Spotify among its 3.5K clients
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