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A group of countries in Latin America seems to have successfully blocked online retail giant Amazon from using ".amazon" as an Internet address suffix. A committee from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees top-level domain names, recommended that .amazon be preclud...
In a market where bigger is increasingly considered better, HTC on Thursday bucked the trend and announced the HTC One Mini, a compact version of its HTC One smartphone. With a 4.3-inch 720p display, the new device is actually not that much smaller than the flagship HTC One, which sports a 4.7-inch ...
You may be surprised by how much money you can save by moving your wireless plan over to a no-contract Mobile Virtual Network Operator, called an "MVNO." It's particularly worth exploring the possibility of dropping your existing postpaid major carrier contract at renewal if you're an occasional use...
Ma Ailun, a 23-year-old woman from northwest China, died after being electrocuted by her iPhone, according to relatives. Ma reportedly died while using the device, which was charging at the time. Local police confirmed that electrocution was the cause of death, but stopped short of pinning blame on ...
Intrepid hikers and garden-variety Internet addicts now have 4G access on top of Japan's famous Mt. Fuji. Japanese telecom NTT DoCoMo has equipped the 12,388-foot summit with high-speed LTE connectivity. The access will run now through August, the height of the tourist season on the mountain. Fuji h...
It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but users of Nokia's upcoming Lumia 1020 mobile smartphone may well be able to do better than that. That's because the new marquee Windows phone -- formally unveiled Thursday at a Nokia event in New York -- will offer 41 megapixels, not to m...
In Japan, a flubbed privacy setting made public a Google Groups chat among Japanese bureaucrats, allowing any-and-everyone to see internal memos, including negotiating positions for an international treaty. The default settings for Google Groups, which are established by the party that started the c...
Nokia is expected to bring its monster 41-megapixel camera sensor to its line of Windows Phone 8 handsets Thursday at its "Zoom Reinvented" event in New York City. Nokia's 808 PureView technology has been in one of its Symbian phones for a while with little notice given to it, but the handset make...
Samsung could be launching as many as four unique versions of its Galaxy Note III when the smartphone debuts later this year, rumor has it. The company reportedly will release versions that offer the same applications, processors and hardware platforms but will come with a variety of displays, camer...
Fighter pilots have long had "head-up" displays for navigating advanced aircraft, but on Monday Garmin announced a new HUD offering that aims to bring the technology to drivers of any automobile. Designed to reduce distractions by providing driving information within the driver's line of sight, Garm...
The Kickstarter campaign for Poppy, the retro-looking device that promises to turn an iPhone into a 3D camera, is quickly gaining popularity in the tech community. It hit its $40,000 Kickstarter goal in about nine hours. By Friday afternoon it had commitments for nearly $87,000, with 27 campaign day...
Sony on Tuesday announced the Xperia Z Ultra, which it bills as having the world's slimmest and largest full HD smartphone display, and the third generation of its SmartWatch -- the SmartWatch 2. Like the Xperia Z Ultra, the SmartWatch 2 offers only a small improvement over the previous models. "The...
Many of us are now at the point where we're trading in old smartphones for new. The big question is often, what to do with the old one? Possible solutions include leaving it in a drawer; trading it in; downloading maps and creating a dedicated in-car GPS navigator (Google Maps are now downloadable, ...
HTC's latest handset has emerged from the proverbial cocoon, but it's no tiny newborn. Rather, the Android-powered Butterfly S has "phablet" proportions, meaning it's larger than the traditional smartphone but smaller than a tablet. Packed with a quad-core 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, a 3,200mAh...
Huawei on Tuesday announced the Ascend P6, its first high-end smartphone. The China-based company is the largest telecommunications equipment provider in the world, but it also has a device manufacturing business among its many operations. In the smartphone realm, it is perhaps best known for its lo...
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