AT&T home automation service Digital Life has launched in seven new cities including Baltimore, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C.
China's fast growth in fast mobile subscriptions -- and increasing mobile competition among the giant Chinese mobile carriers -- will be key factors in driving Apple's moldering stock price to unseen heights of over $800, one analyst says today.
Editor's Pick BioLite makes a pair of stoves that burn twigs to cook your dinner -- and charge your phone at the same time. It's using sales of a backpacking stove sold in the U.S. to help fund development of a (hopefully) world-changing stove for people in the rest of the world.
In Douglas Adams' book The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, a vast computer named Deep Thought spends several eons constructing an answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
"Think of it like a smart rifle. You have a smart car; you got a smartphone; well, now we have a smart rifle," company President Jason Schauble says.
The problem with clearing smartphones for use in top secret environments is that they are, essentially, full of radios: Bluetooth, WiFi, cellular.
This is how you know you're not at an Apple conference. At Google I/O today, Google's holding a session on voiding your Google Glass warranty.
Systemically, Apple is falling out of the race for smartphone supremacy. And that puts Apple at risk of being in Microsoft's sights for the number two position in the global smartphone market share battle.
A pretty hefty sum for a company initially shot down by VCs.
Durable and affordable headphones are hard to come by. That’s why VentureBeat is bringing these in-ear stereo PolyPhones to the table -- and for only $15!
It's a good thing Apple hit the number today, because if they waited even another week, the Cupertino company might have been second-best to Google's Android
Editor's Pick “We are trying to be the first to build the quantum computer,” says Crow. "When we do it, and we will do it eventually, it’s going to be bigger than the moon landing.”
Stained Glass Labs is a group of entrepreneurs, mentors, and early adopters who are forming an incubator program for companies building on wearable computing like Glass.
Google Glass owners now have a news aggregation app. Straight from Glass, they can flag content for later, "like" and "dislike," or listen to an entire article.
Don't let its enormous dork factor blind you to the real-world possibilities of Google's augmented-reality glasses.
Google is kicking the Samsung out of the Samsung Galaxy S IV with its own custom version of the device.
Google has activated 900 million Android devices to date, it revealed at Google I/O today.
“Samsung is, for now, the undisputed king of the global Android smartphone industry," Neil Mawston, Strategy Analytics' executive director said. "We believe Samsung generates more revenue and profit from the Android platform than Google does."
In the first quarter of 2013, a third of smartphones sold in the U.S. were prepaid, double the amount from the previous year. Apple's share of the prepaid market? A mere 8 percent.
In other words, PayPal is all in.
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