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Zeebox is free in the Google Play store.If you read my columns regularly, you'll know that I'm a second-screen proponent.

Barbie's gone digital. She's wearing a new dress outfitted with programmable LED lights that let her change her look on a whim "Today's girl is tech-savvy, and we created a Barbie doll that utilizes technology to provide a new way to play with Barbie," Mattel said in a statement provided to TechNewsWorld by Ketchum's Jamie Haley. "Girls will like ...

Motorola on Thursday unveiled its Moto X sensor-laden smartphone at meetings with the media and analysts in New York As expected, the device is chock-full of sensors and is controlled directly by voice....

Hard on the heels of its recent venture into mobile gaming, Facebook on Wednesday debuted its latest social networking innovation: embedded posts, a feature that allows users to add public posts from Facebook to their blog or website Embedded posts can be most any type of content seen on Facebook, including pictures, videos, hashtags and news artic...

A team of researchers used a custom-built GPS device to send counterfeit signals to a 213-foot yacht, forcing the US$80 million vessel off its course without triggering any alarms. The spoofed yacht was part of the experiment, so no harm was inflicted on the vehicle or its passengers. However, the test highlights the need for a broader understandi...

Strong revenue figures helped Yelp beat analysts' expectations for the second quarter of 2013, sending its stock soaring by more than 20 percent following the Wednesday release of its earnings report. While the company reported a loss of 1 cent per share, revenue rose to US$55 million, representing a full 69 percent increase from the same time a y...

Politics may make for strange bedfellows, but there's no comparison to the match-ups that occur in the business world. Consider this: Mozilla, which has been flexing its muscles of late and pushing into the smartphone business and foreign markets, announced on Wednesday that it has teamed up with the flailing and failing BlackBerry, which is hemorrhaging market share, to conduct research on bugs in browsers...

Glorious Mission Online, a first-person shooting game launched in China and codeveloped by the People's Liberation Army, lets gamers defeat Japan in the fake quest to take back real islands The game includes the real-life plot in which China and Japan fight over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, which sit in the East China Sea and have promptedterritoria...

For the first time in more than a decade, SmugMug has given itself a major facelift The new look for the image watering hole comes a scant two months after Flickr, another picture Web oasis, overhauled its Web presence -- a move that received mixed reviews from some of its 89 million or so users....

ThinkPad is a solid brand. So why is Lenovo suddenly screwing up its brand relationship with customers? We all have our favorites. That's the power of successfully building a brand. However, in an effort to grow, Lenovo is making a costly mistake. Rather than creating a distinct new sub-brand category, it is spreading the existing ThinkPad brand too thin, confusing the customer. That's a recipe for disaster.

Apple's iPhone may frequently be viewed as the leader in the smartphone category, but two Samsung devices actually got the highest scores in a recent smartphone customer satisfaction study from the American Customer Satisfaction Index Specifically, Samsung's Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II tied for the top two scores in the new survey, ACSI reporte...

It's no secret that Windows 8 has met with only a lukewarm reception, but life in the tech world moves quickly, and now Windows 8.1 is on the way. If you've installed Windows 8, it's worth downloading the recently released free preview version of Windows 8.1. By doing so, you will be able to take advantage of the updated OS's personalization and ...

Not for the first time, Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the archbishop of Canterbury, took a jab at UK-based online lender Wonga, claiming he told Wonga's CEO, "we're trying to compete you out of existence." The Church of England is in the process of forming its own quasi-lending agency -- the "Anglican Mutual Credit Union" -- f...

The Federal Communications Commission is looking into a complaint that Google Fiber's ban on hosting computer servers on its network violates the FCC's Open Internet Order and Rules In its response to Douglas McClendon's complaint, Google Fiber told the FCC, among other things, that its policy was fully consistent with the Order and Rules....

Following the revised buyout offer from Michael Dell and investment firm Silver Lake last week, a special committee of Dell's board of directors announced on Wednesday that it has rejected a key part of it Specifically, the committee refused to accept the part of the new offer by which only shares that are actually voted would be counted in the fin...

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a way to embed coded tags into 3D-printed objects, paving the way for those products to include identifiable information. The tags, called "InfraStructs," are embedded during the printing process and then read using terahertz scanning.

Windows Phone 8 users with a penchant for posting photos on Instagram have been out of luck in more ways than one recently. Not only is there no native Instagram Windows Phone app, forcing users to resort to third-party apps instead, but this week, users of those outside apps began seeing their Instagram photos disappear without warning or explanation...

Both the White House and Congress have asserted that protecting the nation's resources from cyberattacks is a top priority. Yet enacting legislation designed to enhance security for critical infrastructure components such as water, power, telecom and transport facilities that is acceptable to both political parties has been a struggle. A 2012 leg...

CBS viewers who get their broadcast TV service via Time Warner may have felt a little bit like the characters in summertime drama Under the Dome in the last 24 hours or so. Specifically, as part of a battle over retransmission fees, the cable giant on Monday briefly pulled CBS from its lineup in several key markets, effectively cutting off CBS for viewers in New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles and other major cities...

KororaLinux has the potential to grow in popularity among users looking for a better, more user-friendly Linux distro that reaches beyond Fedora's enterprise appeal....