Everspin Technologies has been trying to carve out a niche for its magnetic RAM — a new kind of memory chip — for some time. So it’s encouraging that the company is reporting today that it grew its MRAM shipments …
Who says gift cards aren’t cool? After landing $5.5 million in a first round of funding last November, social gifting service Wrapp, which lets you easily send gift cards to friends through Facebook, today announced that it’s received an additional …
Chegg’s digital textbook reader is the “nice guy:” comfortable, treats you right, but doesn’t come with many exciting twists.
“[E-readers] are built for reading purposes, not studying purposes,” said Brent Tworetzky, product leader for Chegg, in an interview with VentureBeat. …
Apple has once again gone after Samsung in Germany, filing suits to ban sales of the Galaxy S Plus and the S II.
The latest in a string of patent suits takes aim at 10 smartphone models. The suit was …
Imagine you’re a Samsung executive. You’ve just emerged from yet another Consumer Electronics Show, where your products and press conference were among the hottest tickets at an otherwise dull affair. Your televisions and phones have consumers drooling — hell, even …
That was quick. Just days after its introduction on the U.S. market, Nokia’s least-expensive Windows Phone, the Lumia 710, is being sold for free with a 2-year contract at Walmart stores.
Nokia and Microsoft made a huge push last week …
Mig33, which operates mobile social networks in emerging markets, is launching a new Twitter-like social communication service called the “Mig33 miniblog.”
The move represents a major shift in focus for the Singapore-based mobile community, which will use the miniblog service …
Airbnb, the website that lets you turn your house into a nightly hotel, introduced its Android application today, along with a new mobile website.
Airbnb lets people list their homes online for short-time renting. The company says that nearly 10 …
Continuing its quest for dominance in the photo arena, online editing suite Aviary announced version 2.0 of its photo editor today, bringing with it a slew of updated features and something enticing for developers: instant monetization for photo apps.
With …
Samsung Group announced today it would invest $41.4 billion in new technologies, more than the company has ever invested in previous years.
The investments will encompass efforts in research and development, mergers and acquisitions, and building new facilities, Samsung reps …
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, everybody wanted to talk. And when they talked on their mobile phones, they put a great deal of stress on the mobile phone carriers. We tried to figure out who handled the …
Bionic Panda Games has raised seed financing to develop mobile games for Google’s Android operating system, the company announced today. Not surprisingly, Google Ventures is one of the backers.
San Francisco-based Bionic Panda got its start in 2010 and has …
It’s an unfortunate truth: if you want a phone that will last all day, get a dumbphone. Smartphones aren’t designed to last all day, and as the features and uses increase incrementally, the battery life has stayed a consistent not …
CSR, the leading maker of navigation chips, showed how you can use its upcoming platform to find your way inside large buildings such as the giant Las Vegas Convention Center. Now a combination of several new technologies makes it possible …
Mark Miller has one of those hot and cold jobs. He is the director of marketing at Intel for netbooks and tablets. Tablets, of course, are hot. But netbooks are cold. Still, in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show …
For its big education-related announcement in New York City this Thursday, January 19, Apple may be planning to unveil new tools that would make it easy for publishers and authors to create interactive textbooks.
That’s according to Ars Technica, which …
Japan’s DeNA said it plans to develop mobile social games in a joint venture with NetDragon Websoft as part of a plan to enter the Chinese market.
Tokyo-based DeNA has more than 35 million users and generated $1.5 billion in …
Basis Science is a Silicon Valley company that wants to inspire you to be more healthy and make it easier to track your health.
The company showed off its Basis B1 Band (pictured right) and its accompanying web application at …
It’s taken longer than usual for hackers to release a complete jailbreak for the iPhone 4S, but it looks like one is almost here.
The above video by iOS hacker pod2G shows a fully untethered jailbreak — meaning the jailbreak …
Jawbone is one of the new entrants into the market for quantifying your life. Its Up movement and sleep-tracking health wristband is aimed at people who want to keep track of and improve their health.
The product had a good …
