Articles tagged "Misc"

The past few years, we have seen the birth of some of the first cord-cutting TV services like DirecTV Now or PlayStation Vue. Today, Google has announced its own TV service that incorporates about 40 live channels for cord-cutters who want more from...

A new Raspberry Pi has been served - a Pi Zero W. It expands the original Pi Zero capabilities by adding Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. More specifically, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0. This led the price to double, but since the original was so cheap,...

During Samsung’s press event at MWC, a protestor stood at the foot of the stage during Samsung’s keynote at MWC. The sign referred to the unknown fate of the millions of Galaxy Note7 units that are sitting in a facility somewhere. The sign sends...

Google’s Allo was a highly anticipated alternative to Google Hangouts. Finally, users would be able to use Google’s new predictive messaging platform, complete with the (new at the time) Google Assistant. Something that upset many users coming from...

Vidhance is quite the new kid on the block. Operating under Swedish parent company: Imint AB. Vidhance is the company's focus on a consumer-oriented suite of real-time video algorithms built specifically for consumer products, most notably, the...

While the rumored voice call functionality is still quite far off at this point, the Google Home speaker has received some new smarts today. The search giant has announced that you can use the Google Assistant inside Google Home to order...

Car makers have embraced VR, so why not fashion designers? Samsung has expanded its presence at the New York Fashion Week and brought the Gear VR along. Last year, the company focused on the Oculus Rift and showed people a future where they view...

Facebook has just announced a bunch of new features that will improve viewing video on its platform’s mobile app. Among the features announced were: auto-play videos will also play sound, portrait video viewing will improve, watch videos as you keep...

T-Mobile wouldn’t be the carrier it is today without its outspoken CEO, John Legere. It only took a day for T-Mobile to come up with a way to one-up Verizon’s first unlimited plans that the company has offered since it stopped offering unlimited...

Edit: Full statement attached below This is the third post of a trilogy, if you aren’t sure of what’s going on with Verizon and Open Signal, let’s briefly recap: On Wednesday, OpenSignal released a report that used raw data from its crowd-sourced...

Every once in a while, a carrier may open enrollment for the device protection service plan so that customers who missed out in enrollment upon first buying their shiny new connected device. Today, Verizon has done just that with its...

Yesterday, we covered a report that OpenSignal released which took data from its crowd-sourced database of speed tests on various carriers across the US and tried to make sense of it all by using the data to comparatively measure carriers against...

Open Signal has released a report called “State of Mobile Networks: USA” which took sample data during the last quarter of 2016 from all four national carriers in the US, comparing various aspects of each carrier down to network speeds,...

Early this morning on February 8, a small area of Samsung’s SDI facility in China caught fire. The local fire department said that the cause of the fire was due to waste products including faulty batteries, probably the same ones that were in the...

In what can only be described as a really bizzare situation for both Fido and its subscribers, the Canadian carrier was seemingly blocking all text messages that contained the word “Uber”. After a number of users confirmed their own suspicions on...

After Cyanogen Inc. folded, the CyanogenMod community was forced to reorganize, which gave birth to Lineage OS. It seems that the Inc. part is getting a new lease on life too, rebirthed as Andrasta. Former Cyanogen Inc. CEO Kirt McMaster (who...

Qualcomm has posted a new ad on YouTube to promote Snapdragon processors. These processors live in tens of millions of devices all over the world, and the chip maker wants you to know that dragons don’t only live in our imaginations. Despite...

Android 7.1.2 beta has been available for a short while, and the incremental update brought a few new features to Pixel and late-generation Nexus devices. One feature that Droid-Life points out is the ability to decide where you want to set a...

Zack, Also known as JerryRigEverything on YouTube, has posted a video testing the durability of Honor’s newest sub-$300 smartphone. The Honor 6X is a low-to-midrange device available from Honor, Huawei’s other brand that targets to the younger...

Google launched a pilot program, last year, which allowed customers to make payments at the store without the need to take their phone or wallet out. Customers had to have both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled to communicate with beacons that are placed...