Phones and tablets alike will support more than one user, making it easier to share devices.
Google has acquired Emu, a text-messaging app with a built-in virtual assistant created by a veteran of Apple’s Siri team. The Emu team announced the acquisition in Emu was founded in 2012 by Gummi Hafsteinsson, formerly vice president of product for Apple’s Siri and a senior product manager at Google, and Dave Feldman, a veteran of AOL, Yahoo and TechCrunch. Feldman helped design Yahoo Messenger for Windows and for the iPhone. Emu’s team is “super excited,” they said in the blog post, adding that they will shut down the Emu app Aug. 25.
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Mobile carrier Sprint faces an uncertain future after announcing it is replacing long-time CEO Dan Hesse and reportedly abandoning its bid to buy competitor T-Mobile USA. The Sprint’s announcement Wednesday that it would replace Hesse with Marcelo Claure, founder and CEO of Brightstar, comes just days after the company announced its first quarterly profit in about six years. Sprint last week
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Samsung will finally show off the latest edition of its phablet phenomenon during the biannual Unpacked event.
Wondering what the Motorola's anticipated smartwatch is going to be like? Italian tech blogger Luca Viscardi dishes out some tasty details.
EA's fledgling On-The-House program has given away some fairly generic (although acclaimed) games so far; Peggle, Dead Space, Battlefield 3 have all been made available for free for a limited time. Add them to your library, and they're yours to keep forever. You know, as long as you're okay with installing EA's Origin storefront. But this time, EA's gotten weird—in a good way. Origin is currently Released in 1994, Wing Commander III is part of the revered Wing Commander series of space sims, which held reign during the nineties and act as spiritual predecessor to
Sprint has named Marcelo Claure to replace Dan Hesse as president and CEO, after giving up on its effort to acquire T-Mobile USA. Sprint announced Wednesday that Claure, who joined the company’s board of directors in January, will assume his new role August 11. Claure is the founder and CEO of Brightstar, a subsidiary of SoftBank, Sprint’s parent company. New Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure.
Timex is ready to get into the smartwatch game with an effort targeted at runners. But this is no Android Wear device. It's barely even a smartwatch.
Both the Dell Venue 7 and 8 come in at the right price for the low-end market, but are they worth it?
According to a release today from the Wikimedia Foundation, 50 links to its Wikipedia site have been removed from Google search results in Europe on account of the recent Right to Be Forgotten legislation. From the release: As of July 18, Google has received more than 91,000 removal requests...
Google Maps used its Google+ profile yesterday to announce a new out-of-this-world feature, allowing users to explore the craters on Mars and take a virtual trip to the moon. The announcement marked NASA’s Curiosity Rover expedition to Mars, which has spent the last two year’s roaming...
After months of anticipation, the new Foursquare app has finally arrived. It will be available this morning from the three major app stores. The new app is built around two principal concepts: Tips and Tastes. It attempts to create a better “local search” experience using data (in the...
Search engine optimization professionals were caught off-guard back in June when Google’s John Mueller announced that the search giant would be “simplifying” the way authorship is displayed in search results. This simplification involved the removal of profile photos and circle...
If you try to access Bing Mobile at m.bing.com, you will be presented with an error message. The error will read: The page you want isn’t available We’re working to restore service as soon as possible. The server error code also returns a major error, specifically a 503 error code which...
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: For More Accurate Shipping Rates In Google Shopping, Merchant Center Gets Shipping Configuration Tool Google launched new features today to help merchants...
Google launched new features today to help merchants customize the shipping rates that display in Google Shopping. The shipping configuration tool is now available in Google Merchant Center, and a new shipping label attribute can be used in product feeds to group products with similar shipping...
Tuesday, August 19th join digital analytics expert Jim Sterne, eMetrics Summit, and Jenny Elliott of CrossView, as they discuss which marketing metrics are essential, and how marketers can analyze and use this data to maximize return.Attendees will learn about: The top issues in web analytics...
Just last month, six international tech support scam operators were ordered to pay more than $5.1 million as a result of charges filed by the Federal Trade Commission in 2012. The scammers typically posed as representatives of major technology companies, convinced consumers that their computers...