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Audi unveiled its very first tablet at CES. As you would imagine, this device isn’t made for a mainstream user, but a future Audi owner who will be able to use it to get information about his/her vehicle, run diagnostics, get driving directions, weather forecast and so on. Powered by a fast Tegra 4 chip,…
It’s not just Sprint which announced new Spark markets during CES — AT&T and T-Mobile also had a list of new “LTE places” to share. AT&T added 24 new areas around the continental US that should now have access to 4G LTE speeds, along with two more in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The…
AT&T had three major announcements at this year’s CES. First they unveiled Sponsored Data, allowing businesses to pay for users’ mobile data consumption. This in turn will make some apps and services 100% free, without their usage adding to customers’ data bill. When using these sponsored apps/services, users will see a “sponsored” symbol in the…
As part of its turnaround strategy, BlackBerry has hired Ron Lokus as its new president of devices and emerging solutions, Reuters is reporting (and brought to our attention by PhoneArena). Lokus was previously head of strategy at HTC’s America, as well as head of technology at Sony Ericsson. Most recently, he held the top job…
Sprint announced that it will be bringing its Spark high-speed wireless service to 6 new markets. The service will now be available in 11 markets! Sprint is also bringing Spark to Virgin Mobile prepaid this quarter. The carrier launched Spark last year in New York, L.A. and other markets. It uses sprints multiple frequencies together…
Sony has been killing it lately. Just today, we found out that PS4 sales are ahead of Xbox One sales by 1.2 million (in 2013) and we were finally treated to the official announcement of Playstation Now, Sony’s cloud gaming service. Well, there are a couple more tidbits you might find interesting, but it has…
There’s a new way to play and this time you’ll use your eyes! Swedish company Tobii Technology recently unveiled its new eye-tracking sensor. Demonstrated at CES, it’s an impressive technology and the company’s offering dev kit preorders for only $95! Tobii has partnered with peripheral company SteelSeries to manufacture the device. It looks very similar…
Robert Scoble is the most visible of the Google Glass Explorers and a prominent supporter of Google’s wearable tech. Today Scoble showed up at CES, in glass of course, to pimp the latest popular app to make its way Glass-wards. Scoble partnered with Hang w/, the popular live streaming social media platform, to announce its…
It’s Humble Indie Bundle time again folks, and this collection’s as great as ever! Marking its tenth indie bundle, Humble Bundle is offering another great line-up. This time there are 6 excellent titles on offer for about $8 at the time of this posting. Grab it here! You can name your price for touching adventure…
Well what do you know, it looks like the Moto X has had a notification LED all along! Thanks to an XDA thread spotted by Droid-Life, we now know of its existence and how you can activate it yourself. It takes a little gumption and root to activate though, but that won’t be a problem…