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Apple buys tech that could take Siri offline

April 4, 2014 no comments

Apple has sort-of-confirmed that it recently snapped up another small company, called Novauris. The firm specializes in speech recognition and has historical ties to the core technology and patents u...

Facebook Messenger on iOS expands to include groups and forwarding

March 28, 2014 no comments

Remember when Facebook bought and then shut down Beluga back in 2011? Well, almost three years later, Zuck’s finally putting features from his first group-messaging-app purchase to use. The lat...

Pocket’s read-it-later service adds international flavor with si...

March 19, 2014 no comments

Despite how far the internet has come, it hasn’t quite conquered the language barrier. The devs behind Pocket know this and have added new languages to hopefully make the delayed-reading app a ...

New Skype for Android promises not to drain your battery

March 19, 2014 no comments

If you’re anything like us, then you know how valuable it is to have great battery life on mobile devices. Which is why a number of apps, like Skype, need to be monitored a little closer than o...

Google announces Android Wear, a Nexus-like platform for wearables

March 19, 2014 no comments

Google’s getting into smartwatches in a rather large way. As previously reported, the search giant is extending its Android platform to more wearables than just Glass. In a blog post that went ...

Facebook needs testers for new Messenger features on Android

March 18, 2014 no comments

Apparently Facebook’s found the silver bullet for developing its Android apps: crowdsourcing bug testers. In an effort to make Messenger more stable for everyone, Zuckerberg and Co. are asking ...

‘Wello’ iPhone case can track your blood pressure, tempera...

March 6, 2014 no comments

Last year, Scanadu caught our attention with Scout, its simple-to-use tricorder-style health monitor. Now a new iPhone case promises to make monitoring your vital signs even easier. Called Wello, the...

Android app learns from your phone to fend off malicious attacks

January 24, 2014 no comments

The last time we heard from Itzhak ‘zuk’ Avraham, he was at Defcon 2011 showing off an Android app that let even inexperienced users poke around networks for weak links and vulnerable com...

Samsung profits drop slightly, but it’s still seeing increased d...

January 24, 2014 no comments

Samsung has released a detailed report of its earnings for the fourth quarter, and as it predicted, its operating profit is slightly lower than last year. While 8.3 trillion won (about $7.8 billion) ...

ZTE’s Android-powered Projector Hotspot dishes out 1080p video a...

January 8, 2014 no comments

We’ve seen some pretty clever hotspots in our day, but ZTE is determined to trump them all with its new Projector Hotspot. As the name implies, it’s both a 1080p DLP projector (with HDMI ...

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