From PC World: The Bitcoin Foundation, an organization that promotes development of bitcoin, is “effectively bankrupt” and has shed most of its staff, a member of the foundation’s board of directors has said.
Two other board members, however, said the foundation was not bankrupt, though in need of...
From PC World: If you’re in the market for a new smart TV, Netflix would like to give you some buying advice.
The company has just launched a “Netflix Recommended TV” program, throwing its weight behind a handful of televisions that work well with Netflix’s streaming video service. The first TVs in...
From InfoWorld: The mobile payments space is about to get more crowded: CurrentC, a platform backed by some of the country's biggest retailers, will launch in the next few months and give Apple, Google, and Samsung added competition.
Few details are known about the service, but it is expected to...
From CNET: Owners of the HTC One M8 phone on AT&T should be on the lookout for a shot of Android Lollipop as of Tuesday.
A Monday night tweet from HTC vice president of product management Mo Versi said that the latest version of Google's mobile OS is finally launching for the HTC One M8: "AT&T HTC...
From DailyTech: South Korea's Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) continued to struggle on the high end last year. Following a dire decline in profitability in Q3 2014, the holiday quarter brought more of the same. The holiday quarter left Samsung reeling from a 36 percent...
From CNET: Andy Rubin, the former Google whiz that created the Android mobile operating system and headed the company's nascent efforts in robotics, has revealed his next act: a company that helps nurture startups. Specifically, those that build hardware.
His new company, called Playground Global...
Prior to this review, I have never understood what the word "recon" meant, even though I come across this word on many occasions like video games. After I some research, I found out "recon" is the shortened form of the word reconnaissance. The word originates from the late Middle French Era to the early Modern French Era of today. Like many modern English words, there are various meanings and variation to the word "reconnaissance", and their...
From InfoWorld: VirtualBox, the open source virtualization system originally created by Sun and now under Oracle's stewardship, has released its first revision to the left of the decimal point in nearly five years.
Don't expect anything truly revolutionary, though, judging from the release notes...
From PC World: Chipmaker Broadcom wants to increase the number of devices that can accept mobile payments with a new microcontroller for PCs and IoT products.
Smartphones and smartwatches with mobile payment functions are getting most of the attention, but increasing the number terminals that can...
From CNET: Apple has stolen the No. 1 spot in smartphone sales in urban China from local rival Xiaomi, according to market researcher Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
For the three months that ended in February, Apple's iPhone 6 was the top selling phone in urban China with a market share of 10.2 percent...
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