Apple was awared 46 new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday. One stands out as a compelling, albeit outdated, idea. Apple last year filed for a patent on push-to-talk technology, similar to what Nextel offered before being swallowed up by Sprint and subsequently shuttered. The patent, which was awarded on Tuesday, …
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Google Google Glass, the search giant’s eyewear technology that provides everything from directions to the ability to snap photos, will become a little more useful in the corporate world, a new report claims. Google on Tuesday will announce Glass for Work, a program designed by the search giant to bring more business application to its high-tech spectacles, the New York …
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DxO rankings for mobile phones. DxO Labs The Sony Xperia Z2 has supplanted Nokia’s 808 Pureview as the best smartphone for mobile photographers, according to an organization that analyzes camera quality. Sony’s latest flagship handset scored a 79 out of a possible 100 on the DxOMark Mobile scale, beating out Nokia’s 808, which landed a score of 77 out of …
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HBO If HBO Go is any indication, Sunday night’s “Game of Thrones” premiere was hugely popular. While the fourth-season premiere was kicking off on HBO last night, the company was busy trying to fix its own streaming service, HBO Go. As fans of the fantasy series took to their devices to stream “Game of Thrones,” HBO reported on Twitter that …
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StoreDot, an Israel-based startup, is developing a technology that promises to charge your smartphone battery in 30 seconds. Just don’t expect to get your hands on it anytime soon. StoreDot on Monday unveiled its battery-charging prototype at Microsoft’s Think Next Conference in Tel Aviv. The company showed how its technology can be used to fully charge a nearly empty Samsung …
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Cover Twitter has acquired Cover, the Android-based app that allows users to create customizable lockscreens for their devices. Cover, which was co-founded by Gmail product leader Todd Jackson, along with Edward Ho and Gordon Luk, announced the news on its blog on Monday, saying that the fit seemed right with Twitter. “Twitter, like Cover, believes in the incredible potential of …
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Samsung might add another device to the Windows Phone 8.1 marketplace. James Martin/CNET Samsung is planning another Windows Phone-based handset, a new report claims. Dubbed the ATIV Core, the device will run on Windows Phone 8.1 and compete in the midtier of the smartphone market, Samsung-tracking site Sammobile reported on Friday, citing people who claim to have knowledge of the …
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Apple Apple may have bought a company that spent more than a decade improving speech-recognition technologies. Apple last year quietly acquired Novauris Technologies, a UK-based firm that was founded in 2002 and worked on speech-recognition that was both server-based and device-based, TechCrunch reported on Thursday. Neither Apple nor Novauris announced the deal, but TechCrunch said it called the Novauris offices …
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Surface Pro 2 Sarah Tew/CNET Microsoft is using a Geek & Sundry bundle to entice gamers to snag a Surface Pro 2 tablet. The bundle, which starts at $899, offers gamers the Surface Pro 2 with 64GB of storage, as well as an Xbox Wireless controller for Windows. Microsoft also includes two downloadable PC games: War Thunder Mustang Advanced Pack …
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Hulu Hulu might be known as a home to recently aired television episodes, but the company is now looking to eat Netflix’s lunch, according to a new report. Hulu on Wednesday will announce a multiyear deal with Comcast’s NBC Universal and 21st Century Fox that will see the streaming-video service get its hands on past seasons of some of the …
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