Walmart starts selling Hisense Sero 7-inch Android tablets from $99
Sun, 26 May 2013 01:59:05 +0000

As the Android tablet price war escalates, you can also step up to the Tegra 3 quad-core Sero 7 Pro for $149.

Smartphone App Wrap: Games, movies, exercise, and Instagram
Sat, 25 May 2013 20:39:05 +0000

Android, iOS, WP8 and BB10 apps include Android Central, Tetris Blitz, Evernote, Fast and Furious 6, Itsdagram, Man of Steel, Vivino, and Endomondo.

Travel Tech Q&A: Airbnb's Nate Blecharczyk
Sat, 25 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Airbnb CTO an 1c48 d co-founder Nate Blecharczyk brings a lot of tech with him when he's travelling.

Silicon Valley's link to Warsaw's stunning $200m history museum of Polish-Jewish life
Sat, 25 May 2013 06:02:05 +0000

The new museum received strong suport from San Francisco's most successful philanthropist: Tad Taube.

Google Glass: It's not an enterprise product, get over it
Sat, 25 May 2013 03:48:05 +0000

The wearable computer has many benefits. The problem is none of those bear any relevance to enterprise customers, and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) may cause more problems than it's worth.

In wake of Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo bids for Hulu
Sat, 25 May 2013 03:36:05 +0000

Just call her Marissa "Moxie" Mayer.

Microsoft and Google agree to build YouTube app for Windows Phone 8
Sat, 25 May 2013 03:35:05 +0000

After a public tussle, Microsoft and Google have agreed to jointly build a native YouTube app for Windows Phone 8, which will be released within a few weeks.

Microsoft's Linux app, Skype, gets updated
Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:04 +0000

Microsoft has released a new version of Skype, its popular VoIP program, for Linux.

BBC suspends CTO after failed £100 million CMS
Sat, 25 May 2013 03:04:05 +0000

The broadcasting company's tapeless digital archive project burned through taxpayer money and caused nothing but "chaos," according to a new report.

An HTC One without Sense is not an HTC One
Sat, 25 May 2013 02:51:05 +0000

Some people think they want a plain vanilla Google version of the HTC One. For those of us who have a One and use it daily, this makes very little sense and after you see all that may be missing you may change your opinion too.

Government pours $4.3 mi into creative industries in northeast Brazil
Sat, 25 May 2013 02:18:05 +0000

Funding will support the creation of a key fostering platform for innovative companies outside the São Paulo-Rio circuit

Report: Google developing fund for wireless networks in emerging markets
Sat, 25 May 2013 01:52:06 +0000

Is Google Fiber going global? Not quite (to say the least) but the Android giant is reportedly working on getting many more people online soon.

Secret Labs takes a crack at a new .Net watch
Sat, 25 May 2013 01:13:05 +0000

SPOT 2.0? There's a Kickstarter campaign for a new .Net smart watch, a joint project of Secret Labs and House of Horology.

Weird Tech 5: Mad Mice
Sat, 25 May 2013 01:00:05 +0000

We hold some strange objects in our hands when we are at our PC. Here's a selection of sleek, non-squeak mice for geeks.

User-centric tools go long way to reaping most benefits from big data projects, says IDG survey
Sat, 25 May 2013 00:11:04 +0000

While nearly 90 percent of business and IT leaders agree that big data can be useful in making intelligent business decisions, only one-third of companies have implemented big-data initiatives.

Salesforce.com inks license deal for access to nearly 40,000 patents
Fri, 24 May 2013 23:19:05 +0000

Intellectual Vendors, which invests in and works with investors and technology businesses to drive innovation and invention, owns the rights to a portfolio of nearly 40,000 patents.

MariaDB close to cracking MySQL website speed issue
Fri, 24 May 2013 21:48:04 +0000

A drawback of MySQL for high-availability websites should soon be eliminated by the MariaDB fork, according to Michael 'Monty' Widenius, the open-source database's main author.

Italy kicks off all e-voting pilot in Salento
Fri, 24 May 2013 21:31:05 +0000

Touchscreen ballot boxes have replaced the usual set-up in two Italian towns.

Swisscom denied Telecom Lichtenstein takeover
Fri, 24 May 2013 21:23:05 +0000

Switzerland's main telco will not be able to takeover its counterpart in Lichtenstein, the country's parliament has ruled.

Skyhigh Networks gets $20m boost to help businesses identify and manage cloud services
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:40:05 +0000

The Californian cloud startup has secured $20m in funding to grow its business of helping IT departments discover exactly which cloud services are being used inside their business.