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BeeWi Wins CES Innovation Award for Wireless Headphones
BeeWi, which makes connected smart toys (such as helicopters, cars and robots), and lifestyle audio and home automation products, on Jan. 6 won the...
Induct Now Selling Navia, First Self-Driving Commercial Vehicle
Induct Technology has begun selling the world's first commercially available self-driving vehicle, Navia.Imaged as an ideal transportation source for contained environments such as college...
Facebook’s Scanning of User Messages Results in Lawsuit
Two Facebook users are suing the company to fight what they say is the company's practice of scanning their personal, private messages to other...
Google Acquires Bitspin, Maker of the Timely Alarm Clock App
Google has acquired Bitspin, the Swiss maker of the free Timely alarm clock app for Android, according to a post by Bitspin on the...
Microsoft Looms Over CES With Tablets, 4K Laptops
Microsoft officially quit the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in 2012. This year, the software giant is back but not to...
Microsoft Plans Hackathons With Facebook, Hortonworks on Social, Big Data
Microsoft and Facebook announced that they will host a hackathon later this month at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.The Facebook-Microsoft hackathon will run...
Google Works With Automakers to Bring Android Into More Vehicles
Google is joining a new effort with several automakers to make Android a key platform to add high-technology features into the vehicles of tomorrow.The...
AT&T Sponsored Data Lets Companies Pick Up the Data Tab for Visitors
AT&T introduced Sponsored Data Jan. 6 during a major event at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). John Donovan, senior executive vice president of...
Qualcomm, Nvidia Unveil New Powerful Chips at CES
Qualcomm and Nvidia are looking to expand their mobile chip technologies beyond smartphones and tablets and into cars, smart TVs and other systems on...
Switching Mobile Carriers: 10 Factors to Consider Before Making a Change
Switching Mobile Carriers: 10 Factors to Consider Before Making a Change
by Don Reisinger
How's the Current Handset Holding Up?
It's easy to get to the point...