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Asus May Drop Dual-OS Device After Microsoft, Google Pressure: Report

Pressure from Microsoft and Google reportedly led Asus officials to shelve plans to roll out a system that could run both Windows 8.1 and...

Flipboard Zaps a Key Competitor by Acquiring Zite From CNN

Flipboard, a popular news-reading and content-sharing application for tablet PCs that was one of the first of its type, revealed March 5 that it...

Epiphany Makes $299 Smartglasses With Fashion Appeal

Epiphany Eyewear doesn't think of its smartglasses as competing with Google Glass but more as a "GoPro for your eyes," Cory Grenier, the company's...

Smartphone Growth in 2014 to ‘Drop More Significantly Than Ever’: IDC

The global smartphone market is entering a new phase, IDC reported Feb. 26. After a 2013 in which smartphone shipments for the first time...

Samsung Galaxy S5 Is Something New, Just Not at a Glance

Samsung, during an evening event at Mobile World Congress Feb. 24, introduced its newest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, alongside a Galaxy Gear Fit...

How Much Risk Is Facebook Taking in $19B WhatsApp Deal?

With the Feb. 19 announcement that Facebook is planning to spend about 10 percent of its total market value -- or about $19 billion...

Google, Movidius Team to Give Devices ‘Human Vision’

Google and Movidius, a designer of ultra-low-power vision processor chips, designs, software and more, are working together to create "intelligent, vision-based applications" that will...

PasswordBox 1-Tap Stores Log-In Info Across Multiple Apps

Passwords and user names—memorizing them, or even just keeping track of them—are a hassle that plenty of companies are trying to solve. Among the...

Facebook Gets Younger, Cooler With $19B Buy of WhatsApp

The whispers--as well as the straight talk--about Facebook lately has been around the fact that its 1.2 billion-member audience is getting older, and that...

Samsung Galaxy S 5 to Feature Fingerprint Reader, Report ‘Confirms’

Samsung's next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 5, will fill feature a fingerprint sensor built into its home button, Sammobile reported Feb. 17, "confirming"...