June, 2013

• 6 June

  Logitech buys Kickstarter

  

  Logitech, a company focused on selling tech accessories, has acquired a company that got its start on Kickstarter. TT Design Labs was founded a little under two years ago by Derek Tarnow and Zahra Tashakorinia. The company’s first product was an iPhone accessory, known as TidyTilt, that doubled as both a stand for easier viewing …

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• 6 June

  Thar she blows! Nokia EOS camera is gigantic in leaked pics

  

  Look at the size of that thing! The floodgates have opened and a torrent of leaked photos of the Nokia Lumia ‘EOS’ camera phone has poured across the Web, courtesy of GSMArena, WPDang and ViziLeaks. The unofficial pics purport to show Nokia’s new super high-res camera phone, the promised PureView Windows Phone we’ve been waiting for since the bonkers 808 …

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• 6 June

  iPad 5 coming next week? Gumdrop Cases is betting on it

  

  Tim Hickman, founder and CEO of Gumdrop Cases, has made it a tradition to announce cases for major Apple products ahead of their launches. He’s currently batting 4 for 5, only whiffing badly in 2011 when another of his companies — Hard Candy Cases — released an iPhone 5 case in advance of the iPhone 4S launch and it didn’t …

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• 6 June

  AT&T forecasts gaining 500K new wireless customers in Q2

  

  AT&T said Thursday it expects to report improved TV and Internet subscriber growth for its second quarter from the year-ago period. The wireless carrier expects to record 500,000 new mobile-phone subscribers in the quarter, the company said in statement. While the company expects its second-quarter wireless earnings before interest and taxes to be on par with its first quarter, it …

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• 6 June

  BlackBerry: Messenger won’t reach iOS, Android on June 27

  

  Updated at 10 a.m. PT with a headline change noting that BlackBerry is disputing T-Mobile’s initial claim. It looks like iOS and Android won’t be able to download BlackBerry Messenger come June 27 after all. Earlier on Thursday, T-Mobile U.K. tweeted that BBM would indeed be available for iOS and Android come June 27, even serving up an image of …

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• 6 June

  Samsung Galaxy S4 Active rumoured for 1 July UK activation

  

  The rough, tough, physically fit Samsung Galaxy S4 Active is set to make its debut here in the UK as soon as next month, according to reports. The waterproof smart phone will go on sale on 1 July, according to anonymous sources speaking to the reliable Samsung gossip blog SamMobile. It’s certain to be among the phones on show at …

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• 6 June

  Order a plumber like you would an Uber car with ClubLocal

  

  ClubLocal, a company that contracts with merchants of home services like plumbing or handyman work, wants to make sure customers waiting to have their homes fixed know exactly when the repair guy (or gal) is showing up. The company, which expands to the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday after testing its service in Dallas, lets customers schedule a service …

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• 6 June

  Poll: Would you go full cyborg?

  

  Credits (clockwise from top left): Georgia Institute of Technology; Frank Wojciechowski; Alternative Limb Project; Geoffrey Morrison. It’s only a matter of time, really. Google Glass, Epson’s Movierio, the Oculus Rift, and similar technologies are at the cutting edge of wearable technologies. Sci-fi has certainly given us a glimpse at the potential future: internal links to the Internet, augmented eyesight and …

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• 6 June

  Redbox Instant coming to Roku this summer

  

  Roku’s industry-leading 750+ channel library is about to get one bigger. Redbox Instant announced today that its streaming-video service is headed to Roku’s set-top boxes this summer. Redbox Instant’s streaming catalog is relatively limited compared with its big-name competitors (8,000 titles on Redbox Instant compared with more than 33,000 for Amazon Instant by recent count), but makes up for it …

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• 5 June

  iPhone 5S shows off curved back in new leaked pictures

  

  Is this the next iPhone? As rumours swirl around the coming of a cheaper, smaller Apple blower — which word on the street is calling iPhone 5S — new photos from China claim to show the hotly tipped phone in action. The pictures are from Chinese site Weibo and shared by Apple.pro, and if they’re real, show the back of …

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