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Samsung Planning To Release The S5 By April
Samsung has announced that it will be releasing a Galaxy S5 smartphone around April. It will also unveil a second generation Gear smartwatch, which will have improved features and design. Lee Young Hee, executive vice president for the mobile sector of the business told Bloomberg in an interview: “We’ve... Read more
Ryan Seacrest’s Typo Keyboard Sued By Blackberry
Ryan Seacrest is really busy these days. Besides playing host to American Idol, the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special, his own radio show, and having a life – Seacrest has also found the time to help develop a new keyboard attachment for the iPhone. Sick of so many typos... Read more
NSA Was Able To Hack Your iPhone
It sounds as if The National Security Agency (NSA) has been able to hack the iPhone for the last 5 years, since 2008 in fact. According to a Der Spiegel interactive report that looks at the agency’s numerous tools used for intelligence work. One exceptionally interesting tool, codenamed “DROPOUTJEEP,” is an implant that was... Read more
Google Wants To Put Android In Audi Cars
As we all know, Google always has some big plan or other. The latest news suggests that Google is planning to have Android installed in cars, starting with Audi. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company will announce a joint venture with Audi next week at CES 2014.... Read more
Teenager Pulls Knife On Father After Not Getting An iPhone For Christmas
Reports are suggesting that an 18-year old from Massachusetts was arrested on Christmas day after apparently pulling a knife on his own father. The Enterprise reports that Alexander Torres attacked his father and several other family members, all because he didn’t get the Apple iPhone he wanted for Christmas.... Read more
iPhones Coming To China Mobile From January 17th
It has been announced that Apple and China Mobile have struck a deal, allowing the iPhone 5s and 5c to be launched on the China Mobile’s 4G and 3G networks in the early part of 2014. Apparently you can pre-register for one of the phones now, with the handsets... Read more
Apple Presents 12 Days Of Gifts For U.S. Users
If you were looking for some good news today and you own an iPhone, iPad, or iPod, you need to look no further.  Apple has decided to give everyone in the United States the opportunity to get some free Christmas gifts this year; 12 gifts to be exact. In... Read more
Qualcomm Announces its First 64-bit CPU For Cheap Smartphones
Qualcomm has announced that it will be producing a new version of the snapdragon processor that will support the new advanced computing architecture. This move follows in the footsteps of Apple and Intel, who have already developed 64-bit CPUs. Apple’s is used in the iPhone 5S’s A7 processor and... Read more
Get A New iPhone for $27 At Walmart Until Christmas Eve
If you are still looking to get someone (or yourself) a smartphone for Christmas this year, don’t panic, there is still hope for you; at least until Christmas Eve, that is. It’s normal to spend a small fortune on a smartphone, especially if you want to get the latest... Read more
Smart & Sexy Sounds With the DB60 Bluetooth Speaker
Kickstarter projects are all over the place at the moment.  But, none comes close to sheer design cool than the db60 speaker system.  It is a powerful, active speaker for iPhone & Android phones.  It comes from an exclusive Danish design team and provides superior sound quality.  The db60... Read more
President Obama Not Allowed To Use iPhone
It’s a common misconception that the President of the United States can do whatever he wants to do. One would be easily forgiven for thinking that the President could have whatever kind of technology he wanted in his hands at any moment of the day or night. He’s the... Read more
Apple Buys Topsy Labs To Access Twitter Analytics
Apple has recently been spending some of its massive $137 billion cash pile in some corporate acquisitions.  We reported recently that they have purchased Primesense at an estimated cost of $345 million. We ascertained this acquisition was probably bought for the rumoured Apple iTV product, as Primesense was the innovative... Read more
Made For iPhone Hearing Aids Released
Hearing-impaired iPhone users will soon have a smaller and more compact choice for handset-connected hearing aids, as the first batch of “Made for iPhone” fully-integrated hearing aids are set to roll out without the need for any intermediary transmitters. Apple has worked very closely with GN ReSound based out... Read more
Get A HUD For Your Smartphone’s GPS
If you would like to have a futuristic navigation HUD on the windshield of your ride, then you should check out Sygic’s GPS app!  Almost all smartphones offer free GPS navigation nowadays, but unless you have a smartphone mounted to your dashboard, looking down at your phone for navigation can... Read more
Yahoo Acquires Start-Up SkyPhrase
Yahoo has announced that they have acquired natural language processing company SkyPhrase.  The acquisition appears to include not just include the technology but also the talent, as Yahoo has revealed in a blog post that it is “exited to welcome” the team of four from SkyPhrase. The SkyPhrase team have built... Read more
iWork Update Brings Back Lost Features
Recently Apple was criticized for removing some of the features of its iWork suite of productivity apps when updated.  Apple, on Friday last week, issued a software update that returns some of the lost features in Pages, Numbers and Keynote. In addition to the stability improvements and bug fixes... Read more
“Hats Off To Facebook” For Its Wind-Powered Data Center
In a recent blog post, Amazon Web Services VP and distinguished engineer James Hamilton praised Facebook’s decision to work with a utility in Iowa on a new data center that is powered solely by a nearby wind farm. Hamilton thinks that Facebook’s model is setting a good example because... Read more
Spotify Connect Available For Android
Recently, online music service Spotify, introduced Spotify Connect for iOS devices.  The company has now provided the service to their Android app, this now ticks all the boxes and makes it a multi-platform feature from Spotify. Spotify Connect allows you to stream music over WiFi to select speakers. Unfortunately... Read more