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LG Promises to Shut Down TV Spy Ops

LG Electronics on Thursday said it is preparing a firmware update to address concerns over the discovery that some of its smart TVs have been monitoring users' viewing habits and sending the information back to the company without owners' consent ...

Logitech Outfits iPhone for Gaming Control

Logitech on Wednesday introduced its new PowerShell Controller + Battery, a device that's designed to turn users' iPhones into gaming consoles ...

Qualcomm’s Toq Takes a Place in the Sun

Qualcomm on Monday announced its Toq smartwatch will be available on Dec. 2 for US$350. ...

Roku Thinks Out of the Box With AOL News

Video streaming service Roku has added an integrated news service powered by AOL to its home screen, the company announced Thursday, giving users quick access to news content including videos from AOL partners such as The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, BBC News, CNET, GlobalPost and Entertainment Tonight ...

Countdown Begins to PS4 Launch

After months of buildup, the launch of Sony's PlayStation 4 video game console is now just a day away ...

Google Brings Music to Glass Users’ Ears

Google Glass will soon allow users to hear as well as see through the augmented-reality eyewear thanks to new audio capabilities the company announced on Tuesday. ...

Netflix, YouTube Hog Half the Internet

Netflix and YouTube together now account for more than half of all North American fixed network data traffic during peak hours, according to a Sandvine Internet traffic trends report published Monday ...

Apps Lineup Promises Xbox One Entertainment Edge

Microsoft on Friday announced the first wave of entertainment apps for its upcoming Xbox One video game console, which will arrive in stores Nov. 22 ...

Smash IPO May Be a Hard Act for Twitter to Follow

After setting its IPO stock price at US$26 per share, Twitter on Thursday made a strong public debut in which trading opened at $45.10 per share -- 73 percent above the IPO price ...

Dish Swings Blockbuster Wrecking Ball

Dish Network on Wednesday announced that it will close its 300 remaining Blockbuster stores by early January and will end its Blockbuster By Mail service by mid-December 2013. The company cited increased competition from digital and on-demand entertainment ...

Amazon Offers Indie Booksellers a Piece of Kindle Pie

Amazon on Wednesday announced a new program that will enable independent bookshops and other small retailers to earn extra money by selling Kindle devices and accessories ...

RagTag Army Fights to Rescue America in New Call of Duty

Activision on Tuesday released Call of Duty: Ghosts for the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii U and PC. The game will be released later this month for the upcoming PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ...

BlackBerry Loses Its CEO, Gets $1B and Yet Another Shot

BlackBerry shares fell more than 13 percent Monday morning on news that the company has abandoned its plan to sell itself to its largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings. Instead, it has entered into an agreement whereby Fairfax and other institutional investors will invest US$1 billion in the company. ...

FAA Relaxes In-Flight Mobile Rules

Travelers on domestic flights in the U.S. will soon face far fewer restrictions on their in-flight use of mobile gadgets thanks to new rules announced Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration ...

NSA Caught Siphoning Data from Google, Yahoo Servers

The National Security Agency has tapped fiber-optic cables that connect Google's and Yahoo's overseas servers and accessed vast amounts of data including email and other personal information, according to a Wednesday report in The Washington Post ...

Nintendo Shrugs Off Weak Wii U Sales, Plunges Ahead

Nintendo on Wednesday reported a net loss of about US$81 million (8 billion yen) for the quarter ending Sept. 30 and blamed the dismal results at least in part on disappointing sales of its Wii U video game console ...

Netflix Mulls Silver-Screen Debut

Netflix has already produced original content including Emmy-nominated House of Cards, but now it looks like the over-the-top streaming service may be interested in producing feature films destined for the silver screen as well ...

Mystery Barge Could Be Floating Google Showroom

There's a four-story barge floating on San Francisco Bay with a mysterious purpose but a fairly clear link to Google ...

Twitter Charts Conservative IPO Course

Twitter has set the price range for its highly anticipated initial public offering at between US$17 and $20 per share, according to a document filed on Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

TiVo to Roamio Users: Roam if You Want To

TiVo was one of the first to enable consumers to time-shift their TV viewing via DVRs, and now the company is targeting place-shifting capabilities as well with out-of-home streaming via the TiVo Roamio Pro and TiVo Roamio Plus DVRs ...

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