HTC cancels previously unveiled Grip fitness band that was slated for a Spring 2015 launch
HTC won't ship the Grip after all, but its fitness ambition lives on — Hey, remember that time HTC built a fitness tracker (with a little help from Under Armor) and showed it off in Barcelona?
Asus Chromebook Flip review: great design and build quality starting at just $250, but compromised by cramped keyboard, mediocre performance
Asus' Chromebook Flip looks and feels great, unless you're typing on it — Review: $250 Convertible Chromebook compromised by cramped keyboard.
Hands-on with Samsung Pay, the mobile payments system Samsung recently began testing in South Korea
Samsung Pay beta test shows promise, but the evolution must continue — Samsung has begun beta testing its mobile payment system Samsung Pay in its home country of South Korea.
Health clinic in rural Virginia got the first government-approved drone delivery in the US
Drone Delivers Medicine to Rural Virginia Clinic — Government-approved demonstration also shows that hurdles remain — A pop-up health clinic in rural Virginia received deliveries of medicine …
Symantec: Spam falls below 50% of all email for the first time since 2003
Good news for all of us who still have to use email: spam rates are dropping! In fact, junk messages now account for just 49.7 percent of all emails. — The latest figure comes from security firm Sy...
China's Xiaomi Building Patent ‘War Chest’ in Preparation for U.S. Launch
Xiaomi international head Hugo Barra said on Thursday that the Chinese electronics company is looking to file more patents and strike more deals ahead of a launch into the U.S. market.
Felix & Paul Studios signs multiyear deal with Oculus to develop immersive VR experiences
Virtual Reality's Wannabe Spielbergs Ink Oculus Deal (Exclusive) — Who can make dinosaurs look even better than they do in 3D? Felix & Paul Studios, which created 'Jurassic World …
0-day attacks exploiting Flash just got harder thanks to new defenses
Flash mitigations now fully baked into Chrome; coming to other browsers soon. — A string of weaponized attacks targeting Adobe's Flash media player—including three in the past 10 days—has kept softw...
Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security
The Islamic State and its supporters use social media to post propaganda and recruit followers. The Washington Post takes a closer look at how several groups in the United States monitor this activit...
iPod touch 6th-gen teardown: slightly more repairable and double the RAM of last model at 1GB
British man Lauri Love rearrested, charged wth hacking into US government agencies including the US army, NASA, and the Federal Reserve, faces extradition to US
again BBC : Lauri Love hacking case: Suffolk man re-arrested Ashley Carman / SC Magazine : Lauri Love rearrested in U.K.
Welcome To The Unicorn Club, 2015: Learning From Billion-Dollar Companies
It's been over a year since we wrote our original post sharing our analysis of the last decade's most successful U.S.-based, venture-backed tech companies. — As we wrote in our original post - many ...
UCLA Health System reports patient data breach; 4.5 million may be affected
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A look inside Jeff Bezos' Amazon Studios as it makes its push into original movies
Amazon's Hollywood Shopping Cart Secrets — “Can I show you my Pinterest board?” offers Roy Price, holding out his iPhone. “This is how we develop shows on Amazon.” — The head of Amazon Studios …
Sources: Hulu exploring an ad-free option for about $12-$14/month, launching as early as fall
but be ready to pay more MacNN : Hulu considering advertising-free streaming video subscription Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Hulu could introduce an ad-free option as early as September Brent Dirks / App...
Hacking Team's evil Android app had code to bypass Google Play screening
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YouTube's global watch time grew 60% YoY; average mobile viewing session now over 40 minutes
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Massachusetts attorney general questioning Uber and Lyft over access for people with disabilities
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Pocket brings Listen, its text-to-speech feature, to iOS
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Yahoo Files To Spin Off Its Alibaba Stake As “Aabaco Holdings”
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Sources: Dish talks to acquire T-Mobile stall, complicated by looming spectrum auction
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Startups grapple with prospective employees increasingly seeking information such as cap tables and liquidation preferences
Employees Wise Up — This week, a Bay Area founder was taken aback when an engineer being recruited by his startup asked for both its cap table and information regarding … Tweets: @semil Tweets: @sem...
Apptio, maker of cloud-based software to manage IT, taps banks for an IPO that could value the company at about $1B
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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.