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Huawei on Wednesday launched the P8 Lite, a US$250 unlocked smartphone running Android 4.4 The company has positioned the device as offering consumers in the United States premium design and features at an accessible price....

Automotive Grade Linux on Monday announced the industry's first open in-vehicle infotainment, or IVI, software specification requirements The release of AGL Requirements Specification 1.0 is a major milestone. It moves the auto industry toward adoption of a de facto platform that uses open source development methodologies to create a safe and relia...

AT&T has just revealed what it would take for it to change its stance on Net neutrality: regulators' approval of its purchase of DirecTV The company has offered to accept the rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission early this year, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday....

AT&T has just revealed what it would take for it to change its stance on Net neutrality: regulators' approval of its purchase of DirecTV The company has offered to accept the rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission early this year, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday....

AT&T has just revealed what it would take for it to change its stance on Net neutrality: regulators' approval of its purchase of DirecTV The company has offered to accept the rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission early this year, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday....

Doppler Labs, known for making state-of-the-art ear plugs, on Tuesday launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Here Active Listening system, which takes noise-canceling technology to a new level Unlike typical noise-canceling headphones, Here's Bluetooth earbuds allow a listener to customize ambient sound, not just block it out. Paired with a smartp...

Any industry player sitting at the vortex of mobile marketing and retail has a great deal to be excited about at present. The marketplace is witnessing an incredible growth and innovation surge. At the end of last year, mobile technology clearly upped the ante -- creating fresh, breakthrough marketing opportunities for a merchant community looking to increase revenues while better controlling ROI. ...

"Customer first" is the motto businesses live by -- or should -- but that doesn't seem to resonate with companies providing pay-TV or Internet-access services, based on American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) data gathered in the first quarter of 2015 Customer satisfaction with information services -- including subscription TV, Internet, wirele...

SoundHound on Tuesday launched a private beta of Hound -- a personal assistant similar to Siri, Google Now and Cortana -- and began fielding requests for invites. SoundHound built its music ID service on voice and pattern recognition technologies. In developing Hound, SoundHound has retrofitted that technology's framework with what it calls its "S...

Google on Monday rolled out "My Account," a hub that lets users manage their Google settings, along with a new site that answers questions about its privacy and security practices In addition to letting users manage their password and account-access settings, My Account allows them to review their security settings and activity. Users can take Priv...

There's a new twist in the way feds are seeking to penalize bad actors for making and distributing software used in crimes, suggest recent arrests by Justice Department and FBI officials. "There's a more concerted campaign to go after go after those folks who are distributing in the underground," said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at...

Nintendo not only has embraced the idea of releasing its iconic intellectual properties for mobile devices, but also is planning to base its next videogame console on a version of the Android operating system, according to Nikkei, a Japanese-language business publication. The outlet recently was proven right after reporting that Nintendo planned t...

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to close debate on the USA Freedom Act, a measure that would prohibit the NSA from the indiscriminate collection Americans' phone call data. The bill already has passed in the House. However, the brawling over the bill is not quite over. The Senate has yet to address several proposed amendments to the legislation b...

In sales, we know customer retention is critical for success in the subscription economy. For many tech companies in the SaaS space, it takes three years to break even. In insurance, which has toiled in the subscription economy for more than a century, the average break-even time is an incredible seven years Because of that, sales compensation is s...

Microsoft on Monday confirmed that Windows 10 will be released July 29 as a free upgrade for PCs and tablets running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, and on new Windows 10 devices The OS will be available for other devices later this year. However, Microsoft hasn't indicated which of the at least seven Windows 10 builds will be released....

Intel on Monday announced that it will acquire Altera, which makes field-programmable gate array technology, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately US$16.7 billion. Intel will pay $54 a share for Altera. The deal paves the way for Intel to develop new classes of products in the data center and Internet of Things market segments....

During its annual developers conference held last week, Google I/O, the company revealed its latest effort to drive development of Cardboard VR apps and spur the growth of VR content across YouTube Google has released blueprints for VR headsets made of cardboard and encouraged third parties to bring their best designs to market. Several are availab...

Some of those annoying ads that pop up when you visit a site on the Web or do a search may be served up by, for want of a better word, "hijackers." They use binaries, extensions, or network ISPs to modify a page's content to insert or replace ads with or without the user's consent....

I was at Dell's analyst conference last week and HP Discover is this week. As I was considering the contrast between the two companies, I started to think the contrast between Apple and HP is greater. Given how many Apple employees used to work at HP before its massive layoffs, there is a lot of cross-pollination between the firms -- and given ho...

Welcome to the latest edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares. Hop on our express train to utopic recently announced gadgets, whizzing by the ghost towns of those that fail to pass muster Ahead on the tracks this week are a new player in the streaming media accessory game, an alarm clock with a focus on smell, and the personal water travel system o...