Windows 10: A closer look at Cortana integration with Spartan (with video)
Microsoft's new browser has a unique feature built in... Cortana — Microsoft announced back in January that Windows 10 would ship with two browsers, the regular IE11 for backwards compatibility, and...
Pebble Reveals Pebble Time Steel And A Smartstrap System Open To Hardware Developers
Pebble announced Pebble Time last week, the next-generation version of its Pebble smartwatch, and today it's revealing another new product: Pebble Time Steel. This is the stainless steel version of t...
Obama criticizes China's new rules requiring US tech companies to provide backdoor access, says Beijing must change policy if it wants to do business with USA
Exclusive: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama …
PCH buys Fab.com, will use it as a sales channel for the hardware products it helps startups make
Fab.com's Fire Sale Is Official — Fab.com finally has a new home. — PCH International, a company that helps startups design and manufacture hardware products, has announced …
BlackBerry plans four phones this year, including $275 all-touch 5-inch Leap phablet
BlackBerry plans to launch a sliding ‘dual-curved display’ phone this year — During a press conference at Mobile World Congress today, BlackBerry revealed that it plans to launch a new touchscreen s...
Oculus Has Hired Mary Lou Jepsen Away From Google X
Facebook-owned Oculus has hired away big-time Google X executive Mary Lou Jepsen, according to sources familiar with the move. — Jepsen, who spent the last three years running the Display Division a...
Inside Project Loon: Google's internet in the sky is almost open for business
“Good news,” says Katelin Jabbari, Google X's communications chief. “It's about to explode.” — We're several hundred feet in the air, inching our way along a wooden walkway tucked high into the raf...
Interview with Kim Kardashian on her hit game, aspirations in tech, and plans to create more apps
After Conquering Reality TV, Kim Kardashian Is Taking the Mobile World By Storm — Kim Kardashian West first grabbed our attention in October 2007 with the premiere of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardas...
Lenovo unveils 5-inch VIBE Shot 2-in-one 16MP smartphone/camera with image stabilization, tri-color flash; available June for $349
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 will feature Kryo CPU, Krait's 64-bit successor
At long last, it's (almost) time for Qualcomm's custom-designed 64-bit chip. — BARCELONA, Spain—Qualcomm, after an agonizingly long wait, has finally revealed a few details about its next-gen, top-e...
The Lenovo A7000 is a $169, 5.5-inch 4G LTE smartphone with Dolby sound
BARCELONA — Once the preserve of the high-fallutin', gadget-lovin' elite, smartphones no longer need to cost the Earth. The latest mobile to offer smartphone tech on a modest budget is Lenovo's A7000...
Uber launches a quarterly print magazine, Momentum, for drivers in Boston, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Ohio, and Oklahoma
Uber just launched a quarterly print magazine, Momentum — Here's something different. — Uber, the $41 billion ride hailing company …
With $66M in funding from a consortium of 15 banks, Goldman Sachs backed messaging and social networking service Symphony will launch by July
Goldman Sachs to debut new social networking service — Call it Goldman Apps. — A Goldman Sachs-backed messaging and social networking service …
The World's Richest Tech Billionaires: Jack Ma Breaks Through to Top, Google Leaders Slip
Want to join the upper crust of the billionaire ranks? Building a tech company could be your way in: Seven of the world's 15 richest self-made billionaires earned their wealth through a technology bu...
Qualcomm's cognitive compute processors are coming to Snapdragon 820
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Game developers favor Steam and PC over other platforms
Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only — apply here. Ticket prices inc...
Luxe Confirms $20M In New Funding, As It Hires A Business Chief And Expands To New Markets
Last week we reported that on-demand valet startup Luxe had raised $20 million in Series A funding from Venrock Partners and Redpoint Ventures to expand its service into new markets.
Google adds Waze to batch of apps that can be pre-installed on Android devices
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Open Whisper System's Signal app for encrypted calls gets encrypted texting in version 2.0 for iOS
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Tinder's new Tinder Plus option costs nearly 4X as much in Europe if you're over 28 years old
And Pricier for Older Users Sam Sanders / NPR : Tinder's Premium Dating App Will Cost You More If You're Older Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times : New Tinder Plus to cost date-seekers $9.99 a month or m...
Mark Zuckerberg praises carriers at MWC, attempts to allay concerns that Internet.org is a threat to their business
Recap Mark Scott / New York Times : Mark Zuckerberg Goes on Charm Offensive for Internet.org Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily : Zuckerberg Says Push to Spread Facebook Helps Phone Companies; Some Telco...
Embed Twitter-hosted video on your website
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Conn. AG launches Lenovo-Superfish ‘crapware’ probe
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Stratos' Bluetooth-connected card aims to unify all credit cards, ships in April
Owen Williams / The Next Web :
Samsung Pay vs. Apple Pay vs. Android Pay
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Cook teases ‘ton’ of Apple Watch announcements, including Panera Bread, Salesforce enterprise & fitness apps
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac :
Mozilla launches 64-bit Firefox Developer Edition for Windows
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Sony Mobile head says division is not being sold: Le Figaro
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Intel at MWC 2015: SoFIA, Rockchip, Low Cost Integrated LTE, Atom Renaming and 14nm Cherry Trail
Ian Cutress / AnandTech :
Judge halts movie industry-backed probe against Google
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom :
Netflix will launch in New Zealand and Australia on March 24
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat :
Google launches Player Analytics and custom native ads tools for game developers
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.