Articles tagged "Misc"

One of the world's largest online video streaming company - Netflix - could soon be bringing its service to India. According to the sources at The Hindu, Netflix is expected to announce its India plans at CES this year. The Hindu further reports...

Remember last week when YouTube accused T-Mobile of throttling video traffic? T-Mobile’s reply: it wasn’t throttling the video traffic but simply optimizing content for mobile consumption. The FCC will be keeping a close eye on T-Mobile with...

While virtual reality is still somewhat of a novelty, it hasn’t stopped companies like FiresVR from making new VR hardware. The headset is going to be called the JiDome-1 and is among the first VR products directly comparable to Samsung's Gear VR....

VoLTE is such a great way to hear callers with crystal-clear quality. While this feature is such a great advancement in the telecommunications industry, the problem with it is that they haven’t enabled this feature for calls made between callers of...

A little over a year ago, LinkNYC promised to set up public Wi-Fi hotspots around the Big Apple to potentially earn $500 million dollars in ad-revenue over the next 12 years. The idea is to replace every disconnected phone booth with a gigabit...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens a.k.a. Episode VII, has been up on the big screen in most markets the past weekend. And as expected the movie managed to break the opening weekend record (both in USA and worldwide), making the beefy $517 million. Of...

LG is already teasing its upcoming product announcements for CES 2016 in January. We're in for a bunch of 4K monitors with USB Type-C ports as well as a trio of sound bars equipped with Bluetooth and Google Cast compatibility. While details...

Dubai may have started off as a fishing village and the sea still plays an important role for the city. This is why the iPhone 6s Calypso by Givori taps mystical sea creatures for inspirations of this bejeweled smartphone. Each Calypso phone...

"Marty, you have to come back with me!" Amazon is worried about the rash of "hoverboards" catching fire and has notified all sellers of the electric gadgets that it needs documentation that their batteries meet safety standards. Swagway (probably...

First, Oneplus randomly launched an iPhone case made of the OnePlus' sandstone texture, and now Tesla is going to sell iPhone cases for the iPhone 6 and 6S (6 Plus and 6S Plus too) made of scraps of leather upholstery used for the automaker’s...

According to Google's latest report on Android versions, Lollipop is nearly at the 30% mark while Marshmallow has yet to score its first percent. While we watch the monthly pie charts with interest, they omit the story of how we got here. This...

Spotify launched a site that lets you see the worldwide trends of the year and relive the biggest stories of the music industry. Among these events are Missy Elliot’s comeback, lawsuits between artists, the year of hip-hop, and worldwide events...

The holiday season is almost upon us and with it comes the annual shopping craze and retailers are wasting no time, especially online with deals already flying all over the place. Be it Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday or simply good...

Announced a couple of months ago, the consumer edition of the Samsung Gear VR headset has been up for pre-order in the US for a couple of weeks, and in Europe for the past few days too. Well, it's started shipping in the States, and if you weren't...

The season's hot Star Wars PlayStation 4 bundle includes a special edition of the console, the anticipated Battlefront game and four downloadable classics - Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Raced Revenge, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, and Star Wars:...

The Google engineer Benson Leung, who's been testing USB Type-C accessories lately, reported that the two OnePlus products are out of spec and can harm your device's port, PC hub or charger plug. The reason turns out to be a wrong resistor in...

True, there are two whole weeks until this year's Black Friday on November 27, but the build-up to the one-day shopping frenzy has already started. BestBuy and Walmart have published their offers and there are a few items to grab your...

Apple is the king of popularity today, the most influential brand on the market. But some have been following the iconic company since the Apple II and Macintosh days. Unlike the newcomers brought in by the iPod and iPhone, those old fans may be...

Fallout 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider are both coming out tomorrow and lots of people are eagerly waiting for their pre-orders to arrive or become active. Some people have even taken some vacation days for Fallout 4. But in case you are still...

What if you could take your iPhone to the shop and have more storage added? It's no longer an "if," at least in China where one repair shop has cracked the puzzle of upgrading iPhones and iPads. Apple has software protection in place that...