Reports say that Google is going to shut down the Moto Maker website. The site is an innovative place that allows you to customize Motorola smartphones. There were discussions saying that Levono was going to continue the Moto Maker site, and perhaps even expand it globally. But now it looks like the Texas plant is going to be shut down and the ...
Read More »Blu Vivo IV vs. Blu Life 8 vs. Nexus 5 – Newcomers vs. Veteran
Blu Products, a company founded in 2009, famous about its wast portfolio of high-end, low-cost, unlocked devices just introduced two of its newest flagships. The company is a relative newcomer on the market so you might not have heard much about it. It’s newest smartphones, the Blu life 8 and Blu Vivo IV, might help in making the company more ...
Read More »6 Weird Android Games you probably never heard of!
The android app-market is full of popular android games that everybody plays and knows about. But what about the ones created by small teams of developers trying to come up with something original and fun? We will present 6 of them to make sure you all hear about them. Hopefully you will enjoy them as much as we did. Angry ...
Read More »First Android Wear OS images revealed by Google
A Google engineer posted on Google+ the first ever public screenshots of the company’s Android Wear operating system for smart watches and other wearable devices. The seven images were posted by Senior Developer Timothy Jordan. They show notifications for a Nest smoke detector, an Android game called Clash of Clans, a calendar app, as well as music controls and controls for ...
Read More »Quantum teleportation breakthrough achieved with diamonds
Physicists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft say they achieved a breakthrough in quantum teleportation using diamonds. They’ve managed to teleport quantum information stored in one bit on diamond to another one, located three meters away. This breakthrough is a huge step into the next generation of computing, but the scientists still have work to do until this technology ...
Read More »TrueCrypt has been mysteriously shut down
The open source encryption program TrueCrypt was suddenly covered in mystery and confusion yesterday. Visitors to the TrueCypt site were redirected to a page in the open source community site, SourceForge. The page advises users to stop using the product and switch to Microsoft BitLocker instead. A warning at the top of the page says “using TrueCrypt is not secure as ...
Read More »HTC to launch HTC One E8 in China
Apparently, the latest rumor about HTC launching a plastic version of the One M8 in China has some truth in it. Previously rumored as HTC One Vogue Edition, or as HTC One M8 Advance or Ace, the smartphone is actually called HTC One E8, and yes, it will be launched in China. Whether the device will find its way outside ...
Read More »Galaxy Note 2 to get Android 4.4 KitKat
It seems Samsung got stuck in the “update” mode this year and it’s continuing the job by rolling out Android updates for its older devices. The company tested the 4.4.3 version on the Galaxy S4 and S5 not long ago, then it updated its S4 Active with 4.4.2 KitKat. Earlier this year, in March, to be more exact, the company ...
Read More »HTC One (M8) Prime development stopped – Galaxy S5 Prime unchallenged?
The news comes from @evleks reporting that the HTC One (M8) Prime development has been suspended indefinitely. We have no information so far about why HTC would take this decision but certainly new details will surface in the coming days. The HTC One (M8) Prime was rumored to come out as a premium version of the original to rival Samsung’s ...
Read More »The Amazon vs Hachette Book Group dispute is still ongoing
Amazon is embroiled in a controversial battle with the publisher Hachette Book Group. The companies still haven’t been able to reach a deal over the price of books. Amazon’s buying fewer books from the company and no longer taking pre-orders on future Hachette titles. People are starting to think Amazon is using its position and its massive piece of the ...
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