From X-bit Labs: How many times have you left the house, only to realize you have left your wallet, or your phone, sitting on the kitchen table? All of us, from time-to-time. That’s all about to change with the Nokia Treasure Tag. Attached to various assets, the Nokia Treasure Tag, and your Lumia...

From EETimes: Intel tripled the maximum memory capacity in its latest server microprocessor, aiming the part against high-end chips from IBM and Oracle for big-data analytics jobs such as running in-memory databases. The Xeon E7 v2 packs up to 6 TBytes main memory in a four-socket platform and 12...

From PC World: Cisco Systems has released security updates to fix serious vulnerabilities in a range of products including its Intrusion Prevention System, Unified Computing System Director, Unified SIP Phone 3905 and Firewall Services Module products.

The vulnerability addressed in Cisco Unified...

From DailyTech: So what’s worth more than Motorola Mobility, Nokia’s Devices and Services Division, and Nest Labs combined? Well, the answer is apparently WhatsApp. Facebook just announced this afternoon that it is acquiring the extremely popular cross-platform messaging service for a whopping $16...

From X-bit Labs: IBM has announced that it had achieved a new technological advancement that will help improve Internet speeds to 200Gb/s – 400Gb/s at extremely low power. The speed boost is based on a device that can be used to improve transferring Big Data between clouds and data centers four...

From EETimes: At least four different approaches to wireless charging are vying to power billions of next-generation mobile devices. Today only one has a beachhead in about a million systems: the Wireless Power Consortium's Qi inductive charging technology.

By 2018, analysts say, the race will be...

From TechHive: The bandwidth savings app Opera Max is now open to all interested Android users in the U.S. and Western Europe. Opera recently announced it was accepting pre-registration for a public beta version of Max following a limited beta period that began in December.

Opera Max is supposed...

From DailyTech: HTC has been coming up with new strategies in hopes of reversing its current financial position, and the latest effort looks to be enhanced customer service.

According to The Verge, HTC will offer one free screen replacement on select models within the first six months of ownership...

From X-bit Labs: Tizen Association, an industry consortium that supports the development of an open source Tizen software platform and operating system, has announced that it had been joined by fifteen additional members. The new members will contribute to Tizen’s eco-system, but the question is...

From EETimes: A math professor's observation mushroomed into a startup with two demo chips and three standards efforts. Kandou Bus aims to drive a broad range of chip-to-chip and backplane interconnects down to picojoules/bit rates measured in single digits.

The idea for the company came when a...