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It is becoming increasingly hard to keep tabs on Alcatel with its ongoing policy of mass-announcing carrier-tailored phones and constantly switching up specs and mixing models. But, from time to time, the OEM does put out a few phones that stand out...

Despite keeping a low profile on end user markets, mobile veteran Alcatel is still around and has found its little niche and way of surviving in today's dog-eat-dog smartphone realm. The OEM's typical turf nowadays are low-end Android devices and...

If you know about it, you might be among the select few to actually miss Google's voice trigger on desktop, as the search giant has announced it will be removing it shortly. And if you are like most other Chrome users and are just learning that you...

We, as consumers, often tend to view most any modern piece of tech as more or less a single piece of electronics, courtesy of its respective manufacturer. However, the reality of making a modern cell phone inevitably involves bringing together a...

IBM has agreed to give Chinese government access to source code of some of its software products, a move that'll help the company prove that there are no security risks associated with them. The access would be provided in a controlled and...

The ZTE Blade S7 smartphone - which is the successor to the Blade S6 that was launched back in January this year - is now available for purchase via Geekbuying, which is selling the green color variant for $277.99 with free...

Just a couple of days after identifying a new critical Flash vulnerability that it said could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system, Adobe has issued a fix for it. The vulnerability in question...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a nonprofit research and higher education facility in the US that focuses on all aspects of marine science and engineering, has revealed that it has been a victim of a cyber-attack. While WHOI...

When Verizon announced last week that it'll support Samsung Pay, it said that the payments service will be made available to compatible smartphones on its network through a "future software update." The good news is that the update the carrier was...

The Dual-SIM variant (RM-1116) of the Microsoft Lumia 950 XL smartphone along with the affordable Lumia 550 have been certified by Anatel, which is the Brazilian counterpart of the US FCC. While this means that both devices are now ready to...

Steve Ballmer, who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft for a whopping 14 years, has bought a 4% stake in Twitter. This makes him the third largest individual shareholder in the micro-blogging company, owning more than its founder and CEO...

A couple of days after it was found guilty of infringing a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm in its A7, A8, and A8X processors, Apple has been ordered to pay over $234 million in damages. Anadolu Agency—Getty...

BlackBerry launched the first promo video for its Priv smartphone with Android OS. The Canadian manufacturer began taking pre-registrations for the smartphone yesterday. The short clip showcases the upcoming smartphone and its sliding...

Sony has updated its support pages to indicate the fact that at least six of its devices will not be receiving updates to Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. Instead, these will jump from 5.0 straight to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The devices in question are...

If you own a Huawei device and are anxious to find out whether it will ever be updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow, here's the official list straight from the Chinese company itself. One word of caution, however: this list is apparently valid for...

Remember those genuine leather back covers for the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL that Microsoft recently unveiled? They're made by Finnish company Mozo, and were officially presented not long after Microsoft's big event at the beginning of the...

BlackBerry Priv is the highly anticipated Android smartphone, which is yet another attempt of BlackBerry to get back on the horse. And we said this before, we know, but things look really promising this time. BlackBerry has already started...

We're not expecting the Samsung Galaxy S7 until early next year, but rumors are already piling up. It's the chipset inside that entertains the most and whether it will be the Snapdragon 820, or a brand new Exynos, or a total of three options,...

Apple has released updates for all three of its iWork apps - Pages, Numbers, and Keynote - on both OS X and iOS. The updates bring support for the new features in El Capitan and iOS 9. For starters, all the OS X apps now have support for the...

Microsoft is currently running a promotion, dubbed Easy Trade Up, that allows you to earn a trade-up reward on your old PCs and Macs when you purchase a new Windows 10 computer. For example, if you're in the US, the Redmond, Washington-based...