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The HTC Grip fitness tracking smartband, which was unveiled by the company back in March at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), has received Bluetooth certification from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). At the time of its...

As expected, Apple Pay became available to users in the United Kingdom. Eight local financial institutions have initially signed up to offer the contactless payment service, including HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Santander among others....

Huawei's first smartwatch running Android Wear was initially unveiled way back at MWC at the beginning of March. Since then, we've heard various rumors about its pricing, and even that it may have gotten delayed until September or...

Pebble has announced that the production of its Time Steel smartwatch is set to start this week, and the device will begin shipping to backers later this month. "Shipments to the first Pebble Time Steel backers will begin the last week of July,"...

The Gear 2 may be a bit obsolete now, a year has after its initial release in 2014. But, it is still a decently capable smartwatch that offers quite a lot of exclusive functionality - like its Tizen OS and camera. A4C currently has the Gear 2...

A Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed that the low cost tablet project Aakash, which was announced by the Indian government back in 2011, was closed in March this year. "The Aakash project at IIT Bombay was closed on March 31, 2015,...

Nearly a week after it was hacked, Italy-based spy software company Hacking Team has said that it suspects a foreign government was behind the attack. "Given its complexity, I think that the attack must have been carried out at a government...

Satoru Iwata, fourth President and CEO of Nintendo died today due to bile duct cancer. Iwata has been battling the disease for a while now, having undergone surgery in the recent past, eventually succumbing to it today. Iwata was 55 when he passed...

Here are some of the best Apps and Games that came out this week. Best Apps Tossup Tossup is an app by Microsoft Garage. It is for when you need to make a plan to catch up with friends and want a quick yes/no poll on whether they can...

Warner Brothers released a brand new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer during the currently ongoing Comic-Con in San Diego, California. The clip is almost four minutes long and reveals a number of interesting bits about the upcoming...

Everything around Samsung appears to be edges these days and we last told you about the company's Apps Edge initiative. Apparently another branch of the R&D department is working on a different aspect of edge operation, this time for conventional,...

The PC market has been slowly shrinking over the years, and this year is no different. According to Gartner, the PC shipments in the second quarter of 2015 dropped by 9.5 percent worldwide compared to the same quarter last year. Lenovo was...

Previously if you had to open the directions to a place on your Android phone after viewing it on your computer, you would likely have to open it again. This new addition makes life a little easier. You might see the 'Send to device' option...

Samsung has been determined to show us that new functionality can be found in the use of curved-edge displays. The pioneering Galaxy Note Edge introduced new ways of interacting with the smartphone, but as a first-gen product the special sibling to...

Apple launched a duo of brand new iPhone 6 ads. The short clips aim to remind us how awesome the Cupertino giant’s smartphone is a couple of months before its replacement is scheduled to arrive. Titled "Hardware & Software," the first clip...

OnePlus is revving up its teaser campaign for the device it's going to announce on July 27 in virtual reality. After having revealed some specs for the OnePlus 2 bit by bit over the past few weeks, we're now treated to a promo video. Starring in...

If you happen to be an avid reader and like the whole idea of an e-book device, then you probably own a Kindle. Yet, Amazon's signature device does have quite a few alternatives, most-notably the Barnes & Noble Nook, which a lot of users do find to...

While the Nokia sub-unit that Microsoft acquired is going through some hard times, the Nokia company still musters some excitement and continues to develop its launcher replacement, the Nokia Z Launcher. The latest update brings a short changelog...

Microsoft has released the final version of Office 2016 for Mac. The company had released a preview back in March but now you can purchase the full version from Microsoft. Office 2016 for Mac is a complete revamp of the old Office 2011. The...

The ZTE Spro 2 is an odd (but probably useful) pairing between a pico-projector and an LTE hotspot. Oh, and it runs Android. With full access to the Google Play Store. And it has a 5-inch touchscreen. You're probably intrigued by now. Well,...