(BPT) – While election politicking dominated the top 10 searches of 2012, this year people were a little starry-eyed when…
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Thanks for dropping by for another Weekend Wrap-up, where we summarize the week’s top tech stories so you can get caught up. I’m ready when you are! Instagram Has its Busiest Day on Thanksgiving — Again Last year on Thanksgiving Day, Instagram…
Jeff Bezos just took an opportunity to reveal a brand new and perhaps radical way Amazon is planning to deliver packages to your home within the next 4 to 5 years. During an interview with Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes Bezos showed off unmanned drones…
Apple has acquired social media analytics firm Topsy for more than $200 million, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The newspaper, citing sources familiar with the deal, said it was unclear how Apple planned to use the firm but that it could be…
A hundred self-driving Volvo cars will roll onto public roads in and around the Swedish city of Gothenburg in 2017, the Chinese-owned car maker said Monday. The pilot initiative, called “Drive Me”, has a 500 million kronor (56.3 million euros, $76.2…
Last week, word broke that Microsoft was seriously working to unify its divergent Windows platforms into one OS, an effort that would help customers and developers alike get more out of the operating system. Today, a post on ZDNet reports that the first…
If you own a smartphone, you’re now in the majority — 56% of American adults do too, according to the Pew Research Center. However, with new models continually entering the marketplace and a non-stop barrage of TV and online advertising urging you…
A recently published analysis on NetMarketShare covering November reveals that Microsoft’s Windows 8.1—the upgraded version of its flagship OS, Windows 8—is gaining ground month after month. Currently, it holds a mere 2.64 percent of the desktop…
The European Union will on Friday begin imposing anti-dumping measures on some Chinese solar panels whose manufacturers rejected an amicable settlement. The two-year measures will enter into force on Friday December 6, said the EU Commission, and will…
(NewsUSA) – With the holiday season upon us, the latest cell phones and tablets are sure to be at the…
(BPT) – Tablets are clearly today’s hot tech device: shipments will reach 184 million units in 2013 alone, estimates Gartner,…
(BPT) – Looking back on 2013, billions of Internet searches from around the world reveal it was a year of…
Since joining the Android phone club about three years ago, I’ve always had devices made by companies that weren’t Google. I’ve had a Samsung handset, and these days I’ve got an HTC—but I’ve always been bummed that I didn’t have a “pure…
Sky’s Niall Paterson takes a look at the state of robotics and how to use Google Glass
For a third year in a row, the Top 10 Best of cleantech’s cluster companies were honored at the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA) Later Stage Awards Gala. The GCCA’s Global Top 10 Winners represent the best of the association’s nearly…
Canonical tried to crowd-fund its own Ubuntu-based smartphone, the Edge, earlier this year, with something of a pyrrhic victory: it managed to earn almost $13 million in pledges, while not getting a cent of that money for failing to meet its $32 million…
Just as Mega teased earlier this month, Mega is continuing their domination of the cloud file sharing market with the release of their new Mega for iOS application. Competing heavily with the immensely popular Dropbox service and app, Mega for iOS allows…
A British IT worker has launched a frantic search of a landfill site after realising he accidentally threw away a computer drive holding $7.5 million (5.5 million euros) in the online currency bitcoin. James Howells, 28, obtained 7,500 bitcoins in 2009…
A post on TheNextWeb points out a new application available for iOS and Android devices that you will never, ever want to encounter: it’s called mSpy, and it’s essentially a “legally” obtained key logging app that’s used to snoop on others…
If you’re a parent looking to buy one lucky child a new game console this Christmas, you’re likely being told to look at one of two choices – Microsoft’s new Xbox One, or Sony’s new PlayStation 4, both of which launched across the world just…