PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Say what you will about oddball millionaire Chen Guangbiao — the man has a knack for publicity stunts. Within China, he has made a name for himself as a sort of homegrown Donald Trump. Though not China’s richest man (he has…
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Once upon a time the Ford Bronco was highly-regarded among sport utility fans. It’s been decades since Ford built a new Bronco, and years since the last Bronco Concept crossed an auto show stage. So one has to wonder if the rumors of an EcoBoost-or…
Performance hybrids are the way forward for many luxury brands, and the Audi Sport Quattro Concept, with its 700 horsepower hybrid drivetrain, is one of the coolest concepts yet. For the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, Audi is rolling…
This is getting boring. Every time Techdirt writes about Russian Internet blocking, it’s along the lines of: “just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, it does.” Here’s another one. As a post from TorrentFreak explains, Russia’s telecoms regulator…
Originally published on EV Obsession. Unfortunately, playing catch-up over the holidays kicked an article idea out of my head. Fortunately, an article on GM-Volt kicked it back in. Jeff Cobb of GM-Volt went ahead and published “9 new plug-in cars…
News for BlackBerry—the former king of smartphones—has not been too good of late. That’s why it’s kind of hard not to laugh a little at the press release the company published to its website today, revealing that BlackBerry is filing a patent…
BlackBerry said that Skype will finally be available to its BlackBerry 10 smartphones beginning in May. Each week, BlackBerry announces a slew of new applications that have been added to the BlackBerry World app store. The intent is to at once inform…
How can you assess the performance of an electric car in the real world as a taxi or commercial vehicle, without needing to put actual electric vehicles in service? Well, as they say, there’s an app for that. In Munich, Germany, a fleet of 130 virtual…
US stocks on Thursday moved lower in the first trading session of 2014 following a mediocre report on Chinese manufacturing activity. About 30 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 76.74 points (0.46 percent) to 16,499.92. The broad…
Blackberry Ltd. said Friday it had filed a suit in a California court against Los Angeles firm Typo Products for violating its patents with a Blackberry-like keyboard made for Apple’s iPhone. The struggling Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone…
(02/01/2014) North Virginia – LINX NoVA, the first neutral, mutually owned Internet exchange in the Northern Virginia area is now…
02 January 2014 – We are delighted to announce that Greenstone’s enterprise level software is one of the first software…
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of VAD Wick Hill Group, looks forward to the coming year. Current indications are that 2014 will…
Time is running out for Windows XP and switching to software thin clients is a simple and cost effective solution,…
CloudSigma’s Advanced Hybrid Cloud Offering Recognized for its Industry-First Private Patching and Secure Data AccessZurich, Switzerland – December 23, 2013…
BlackBerry continues to tighten its purse strings and clean house–even top executives and global recording stars aren’t safe. Alicia Keys will depart her role as “global creative director” for the smartphone, software and services provider…
InterDyn BMI, a leading partner dedicated to the sales, consulting, services, and support of Microsoft Dynamics solutions since 1985 has…
This past fall, Microsoft took a look at its foundering Surface tablet fortunes and decided to double down with a follow-up, the aptly named Surface 2 line of devices. While the company hasn’t released any information about the Surface 2’s sales…
Global oil prices rose slightly on Friday, after sharp falls the previous day, as investors awaited the release of key US crude inventories data. Brent North Sea crude for February added 46 cents to $108.25 a barrel in midday deals in London. New York…
Computer manufacturing company ASUS verified the existence of its VivoTab Note 8 tablet this morning after it published a full manual for the device on its website. The specifications found within these pages lines up with leaks published over the…