U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has today taken up a call to arms, so to speak, as she is urging wireless carriers to enable new anti-theft technology on handsets. According to the popular Senator, one-third of robberies involve a cell phone theft, this results in an estimated $30... Read more
The ability to stream content to your home television is a wondrous thing isn’t it? With online services such as Netflix and LOVEFiLM paving the way for the masses to consume all the entertainment they will ever need, is there room for other services to get a look in? ... Read more
Give Your Ultrabook A Boost With The Samsung 1TB mSATA SSD
News December 12, 2013
Do you feel like your ultrabook could do with a boost where capacity is concerned? Well Samsung has just announced the world’s first 1TB mSATA SSD, which could be the answer to your problem. Any slim device currently makes use of the mini-Serial ATA drives, which do their best... Read more
Samsung arguably have the largest portion of the smartphone market to date, but now, as Blackberry is dying in the business field, Samsung is hoping to take those clients, floundering in Blackberry’s wake and build a more secure Business to Business (B2B) model. So, it should not come as... Read more
Qualcomm Layoffs On The Horizon
Internet November 26, 2013
Qualcomm has just announced it is to lay off some of its employees. These cuts are designed to streamline the chip maker’s workforce and are meant to “trim the fat”, making for a leaner manufacturing process. CEO Paul Jacobs told Morning Star about the company’s cost cutting measures in a recent interview,... Read more
If you ever thought for 1 second that your cell phone provider actually cared about you as a customer, you can think again. They don’t care if you lose your phone, run over it with your car, drop it down the toilet, or play ultimate frisbee with it. Heck,... Read more
Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Arrives On Time…Should You Get One?
Mobile November 8, 2013
Mobile technology has reached a pretty big milestone as of late. With so many advances in smartphones and tablets, we knew that it wouldn’t be too long until a smartwatch was finally available. Just writing “smartwatch” seems a bit silly, since all a watch is supposed to do is... Read more
Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has abandoned a $4.7bn (£3bn) rescue bid from its largest shareholder, fired its CEO and turned to a $1bn fundraising plan in a battle to stay afloat. Thorsten Heins was employed as CEO to run the company back in January 2012. He will leave with a pay... Read more
A consortium of large technology companies, which owns thousands of patents from the Nortel bankruptcy auction, has filed law suits against Google alleging infringement. Rockstar, which is jointly owned by Apple, Blackberry, Ericsson, Microsoft and Sony has filed suit in the US District Court of Texas. It is not... Read more
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Kids Available On November 10!
News November 2, 2013
No matter how cliched the phrase is, we know that kids these days have it so good; so good that they have practically everything at their fingertips. The technology that we used to think of as futuristic back in the day is now available to them, and at reasonable... Read more
Samsung Starts Construction Of New R&D Center in Silicon Valley
Internet October 21, 2013
Samsung Research America (SRA), a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced groundbreaking news regarding its new 8.5 acre campus in Mountain View. The grand ceremony took place at 10:30 a.m. on October 16 at 665 Clyde Avenue. Samsung Electronics is a global leader in technology that has been... Read more
Samsung Shape Wireless Audio System Starts At $400 For One Speaker
Mobile October 12, 2013
Sonos is probably the most successful wireless in home audio system available at the moment but Samsung are looking to go toe to toe with the new rival with the release of their very own wireless audio system named ‘Shape’. The Samsung Shape speaker is sleek, triangular and can be... Read more
Instant Translation Glasses For 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Internet October 6, 2013
Japan’s NTT Docomo has sparked new excitement for the Tokyo Olympics by announcing that a 5G network 100 times faster than LTE and augmented reality glasses that can do instant translations, will both be ready by 2020. These new innovations were displayed at the CEATEC 2013 event in Tokyo... Read more