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Samsung unveiled a new cloud printing solution for small and medium-sized businesses at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. The Samsung Cloud Print is made to sing along Sammy’s new NFC-enabled printers that were also announced at the show — Samsung Xpress C1860 and Xpress M2885 — and the Cloud Print app, which will be available from…
It was back in August of 2011 when CNN acquired Canada-based Zite, developer of the same-named personalized news reader app. The news network apparently couldn’t monetize on its new venture and is now selling it to the competing service – Flipboard. Here’s what Flipboard said in a blog post announcing the acquisition: We acquired Zite…
As part of its plan to return to the big league, Yahoo has decided to cut support for third-party logins. Soon enough everyone enjoying Yahoo services will have to sign-up for a Yahoo account as they won’t be able to login with their Facebook and Google IDs. The change, which will be rolled out gradually,…
HTC is killing its movie sales and rental store, HTC Watch, effective March 31, 2014. Here’s an email sent by the company to its users: As a user of the HTC Watch service we would like to notify you that from March 31st 2014 the store will no longer be available. Up until this date,…
Just the other day we’ve told you that it will be feasible to cram Google’s apps and services to Nokia X smartphones. Now we’re hearing that the opposite will be possible, as well – to run Nokia apps on other Android smartphones. Everything started with few savvy developers over at XDA forums who managed to…
It’s hard to compete with WhatsApp in consumer messaging market, but BlackBerry should be able to easily beat it in the enterprise space. To that end, the company unveiled BBM Protected — the first solution offered in the new eBBM Suite — to bring secure and reliable real-time mobile messaging to regulated industries. The service…
If Google and Apple can do it, so can Microsoft. Yup, the Redmond giant wants to sell books and magazines to its steadily growing number of mobile users. In fact, the company has posted a job listing for “Software Development Engineer – Devices & Studios – Music, Video and Reading,” hinting us what’s cooking in…
Sony seems in the midst of a big-time restructuring. After announcing that it will sell off its VAIO PC division, they are turning their attention to the eBook store, which will get the same (shutdown) treatment. The U.S. eBook store will go offline soon and users are advised to switch to Kobo, with their libraries…
On the heels of the recent Chromebox device launches (by ASUS and HP), Google announced Chromebox for meetings, an integrated hardware and service offering that makes video conferences a snap. The hardware consists of an ASUS Chromebox, a 1080p webcam (made by Logitech?), a wireless speakerphone / microphone combo and a wireless remote; while the…
Sprint is expanding the reach of its push-to-talk network to include the popular Android smartphones. Under the newly announced scheme, users of the select devices can join the “Direct Connect party,” including those owning Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, LG G2, LG G Flex, LG Optimus F3 and Kyocera Hydro Edge. The list,…