Verizon Communications Inc’s recent purchases of two vehicle tracking firms could spark more deals as the No. 1 wireless provider and rival AT&T see fleet management as a source of growth, analysts said. Faced with…
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EA Posts Unexpected Profit on Higher Game Downloads
Video-game publisher Electronic Arts Inc, known for titles such as FIFA and Star Wars Battlefront, reported an unexpected first-quarter profit, helped by higher downloads of its games. The company’s digital business, where players download digital…
Samsung Cloud Service Unveiled Alongside the Galaxy Note 7
HIGHLIGHTS Samsung Cloud backup and restore service was unveiled Tuesday Galaxy Note 7 users to get 15GB of storage free on Samsung Cloud Samsung describes service as enhancement of its Smart Switch feature Samsung alongside…
Telegram Responds to Report of Massive Hack
HIGHLIGHTS Telegram says only publicly available information was accessed Company admits 15 million account numbers were confirmed to be from Iran Telegram disregards reports of account access by SMS interception Messaging app Telegram has on…
Android Marshmallow Now Running on 15.2 Percent of Active Devices: Google
HIGHLIGHTS Android Marshmallow adoption has risen 1.9 percent in a month Android Lollipop saw a 0.4 percent rise in adoption Google Play distribution data is for a 7-day period ending on August 1 Google has…
BlackBerry Hub+ Suite of Apps Now Available for Android Marshmallow Devices
HIGHLIGHTS BlackBerry Hub+ now available on Android Marshmallow devices After free trial, you can pay $0.99 for ad-free version Services might soon come to Android Lollipop and iOS devices In the tech industry, companies that…
Leap Motion Opens Door to Reach Into Virtual Worlds With ‘Orion’
California virtual reality startup Leap Motion on Wednesday opened a door for makers of games or other applications to literally touch virtual worlds. The San Francisco firm is using its expertise in computer tracking of…
Indian Patent Office Says No to Software Patents
India’s patent office, administered by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDT), has issued an order excluding software patents in its revised guidelines for computer related inventions. Only genuine applications claiming a novel…
LG G5 Beats Samsung Galaxy S7, Xiaomi Mi 5 at MWC 2016
A number of smartphone manufacturers, much like every year, took to the stage at Mobile World Congress to unveil their latest and greatest smartphones. But it is LG that has attracted most of the appreciation,…
Nintendo NX to Resemble Samsung Hardware, Nintendo 2DS: Report
Another week, another Nintendo NX rumour. This time, industry tipster Geno who has a surprisingly solid track record chimes in with what to expect from the House of Mario’s next console. “I don’t have many…