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HTC has had a number of executives and other employees leave the company recently, and it looks like at least two of the former HTC employees haven’t had enough of the smartphone game, because they have announced that they are starting a rival smartphone company called Kazam. Michael Coombes, former head of sales at HTC, [...]
Yahoo adds another company to its shopping list. The new acquisition is GhostBird Software, the developer behind PhotoForge 2, a popular photo-editing app for iOS. After Tumblr, it seemed like the company had slowed down some when it came to buying companies, especially considering the fact that it had acquired ten startups since Marissa Mayer [...]
The man we all have to thank for inventing the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has declared that the World Wide Web is facing a “major” threat from people who are trying to control it on the sly. According to Berners, that includes laws such as SOPA, the US anti-piracy act and the actions of Internet [...]
Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company after five years. Word of his departure leaked out over the weekend. His LinkedIn profile lists him as the company’s former CIO and the company website no longer lists him among senior leaders. The Seattle tech news site GeekWire broke the story Sunday and also received confirmation from Microsoft in a [...]
Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed Wednesday that the company is working on a new flagship smartphone — the long-rumored Moto X. During an interview at All Things Digital‘s D11 conference, Woodside confirmed the smartphone’s existence, and shared some details about it. For instance, the phone will be aware of its surroundings. “Motorola has always been good at managing power on [...]
LG will not make Google’s next Nexus device, the Nexus 5, despite previous rumors. In an interview with Dutch website All About Phones, Won Kim, vice president of LG Mobile Europe, indicated that the company has no plans to produce another Nexus device, in part it seems because the company doesn’t need to. “The Nexus 4 was a great success, [...]
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook revealed the hiring of Liza Jackson in an interview with journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at the D11 conference on Tuesday. Apple’s environmentally friendly strategies were brought up by Mossberg, who noted that Apple has come under increased attention from critics as the company has grown. The CEO mentioned that Apple [...]
Speaking this week on how the next generation of devices running iOS will be working under the influence of Jony Ive, Tim Cook made it clear that the “magic” was “at the intersection” of hardware, software, and services. This response was in response to a line of questioning from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the [...]
WordPress, the world’s biggest blogging platform, has turned ten. Ten years ago, WordPress became available as a project run by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, Mashable points out. What started as a fork of another blogging platform has grown to become the largest content management system in the world. There are nearly 70 million websites that [...]
IDG News Service - Twitter’s SMS-based, two-factor authentication feature could be abused to lock users who don’t have it enabled out of their accounts if attackers gain access to their log-in credentials, according to researchers from Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure. Twitter introduced two-factor authentication last week as an optional security feature in order to make it harder for [...]
LG phone with always on voice command
Computex 2013: Gigabyte U-Series Notebook
Acer’s 8-inch Iconia W3 is the first one-handed Windows 8 tablet
Computex 2013: Samsung Launches Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 and 8 Tablets
Computex 2013: Dell XPS 11, Another Super Resolution Convertible Tablet
Computex 2013: Dual-Band 1900 Mbps Router from ASUS
Computex 2013: Zenbook Infinity, a 13.3-Inch ASUS Ultrabook with Gorilla Glass 3
Computex 2013: New ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity Tablet Has 2560 x 1600 IPS Display
Computex 2013: ASUS Transformer Book Trio Dual-OS Tablet
Google won’t approve facial recognition Glass apps until it has ‘privacy protections in place’
LG phone with always on voice command
Former HTC execs starting rival smartphone company: Kazam
Specs of Motorola’s Moto X Phone Leak Again
Google Launches Balloons to Bring the Internet to Remote Regions
Wearable Tech Bracelet Brings You Smartphone Notifications
Plastic 2013 iPhone Launching in August, Made by Pegatron
Apple iPhone 5S in gold?
Bill Gates Joins LinkedIn
Apple iPad mini 2 LCD displays to come from Samsung
Yahoo Buys Developer Behind PhotoForge and KitCam
