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Windows Phone 8.1 finally reaches 50% adoption

Nov 27, 2014

Windows Phone 8.1, the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system has finally reached a 50% market share among the...

Amazon is dropping the price of its failed Fire Phone… again

Nov 26, 2014

Amazon is dropping the price of the Fire Phone again, at least for a limited time. The online retailer is...

Google to block all NPAPI plugins on Chrome in January

Nov 25, 2014

Google has outlined further details of its plans to completely remove plugins that make Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) from the...

Someone finally managed to hack the Nintendo 3DS

Nov 21, 2014

This week, 22-year-old Jordan Rabet sat down at his keyboard and told his many Twitter followers the good news: his...

E-commerce startup Bigcommerce raises a whopping $50 million

Nov 19, 2014

E-commerce startup Bigcommerce has just secured a fresh $50 million in funding to make sure it continues growing like wildfire,...

Apple now accepts UnionPay payments in China

Nov 17, 2014

Apple has announced that it is now accepting UnionPay as a payment option for App Store customers in China. Established in...

Oculus VR launches mobile SDK in preparation for Samsung’s Gear VR

Nov 16, 2014

The Samsung Gear VR, a mobile virtual reality headset powered by Oculus technology that uses a Samsung Galaxy Note 4...

The FCC questions the reasoning behind AT&T’s fiber rollout pause

Nov 15, 2014

The fallout from President Barack Obama's push to reclassify internet access as a public utility was immediate, and no one...

Ted Cruz compares Obama’s net neutrality proposal to Obamacare

Nov 15, 2014

Senator Ted Cruz had perhaps the most memorable reaction to Obama's Monday announcement about net neutrality: reclassifying broadband under common...

Amazon finally brings e-book sharing to the Kindle

Nov 14, 2014

Amazon has announced a Kindle update that will let you share books with someone else. The new Family Library feature...

Lambda is Amazon’s new event-driven compute service

Nov 14, 2014

Continuing to roll out new compute services at an impressive clip, Amazon Web Services has introduced a way for programmers...

Unshackled raises $3.5 million to help immigrant entrepreneurs in the US

Nov 13, 2014

Unshackled, a new $3.5 million fund, has a plan to help entrepreneurs who have great ideas but who need help...