Google's Android Device Manager, a web service designed to help track lost or stolen phones and tablets, began rolling out Wednesday, using your Google account to keep an eye on you.
A Canadian IT consultancy has announced that it will soon begin selling an Ubuntu laptop that "never needs to be plugged in," thanks to solar power. The SOL, as WeWi Telecommunications dubs the device, is designed to be used in developing nations, which may have limited infrastructure available.
Motorola goes a different way with it's new flagship offering.
Last week's rollout of the Motorola Moto X was headline-making for several reasons. Beyond the obvious novelty of being the first flagship release from the company since the RAZR HD line last fall, it's also the first since Google completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May.
At a glance, the interior of SunGard Availability Services' Mobile MetroCenter looks like any other office – desks line the walls and center of the room, a TV tuned to CNN sits above a printer in the corner. There's even a microwave and a small refrigerator.
Like educational experts who complain when instructors "teach to the test," to create positive report numbers rather than smarter kids, Android-watchers are angry with Samsung for doing much the same thing with its hardware this week.
Starbucks says that it will drop AT&T as a wireless partner in favor of Google, boasting that the change will provide a 10-fold speed boost to the millions of users that use the coffee chain's free Wi-Fi every day.
The battle of 6VDT, as it's now known, was a historic moment for video games. Four thousand players, representing two of the biggest power blocs in the popular space MMORPG Eve Online, slugged it out Sunday in a gigantic virtual Cannae that resulted in the destruction of more than 2,500 ships and effectively ended a long and bitter conflict.
The first heady rush of support for Canonical's crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge smartphone appears to have tapered off, as donations for the eye-catching device have slowed substantially over the past several days.
Google’s update to last year’s well-received Nexus 7 a step forward, though asking price slightly higher.
The best way I can think of to describe the tech press' moderated, polite reaction to the official release of the new Nexus 7 this week is that it reminded me of somebody who'd heard about a surprise party in advance, but didn't want to ruin things for their friends.
Code for America, a non-profit working to focus some of Silicon Valley's energies on local governments around the U.S. announced a new slate of five startups for its accelerator program Wednesday morning.
Canonical's IndieGoGo launch yesterday of the Ubuntu Edge, a slick, powerful device meant to double as a desktop PC replacement, made waves in the world of open-source and provoked both admiration and a healthy dose of skepticism from some experts.
WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak apparently sees the writing on the data center's walls, announcing a new program today that offers a free upgrade to a virtual edition of its products to users of its hardware appliances.
A 23-year-old man was arrested last week in the Spanish region of Murcia for a simple but ingenious scam involving the ultra-popular Whatsapp messaging system that netted him nearly $53,000 over two months.
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