Sony's Xperia Agent is just a prototype, but it's the nearest thing I've seen to a home robot I might actually want to buy. The core of the Agent is a digital assistant like Siri and Alexa, that lets you complete tasks like checking your calendar and calling contacts. But, Sony b … | Continue reading
Ireland intends to appeal the European Commission’s ruling that Apple must pay it around $14.5 billion in back taxes. The country’s cabinet agreed to appeal the ruling during a meeting today, with the decision to be finalized by a full vote in parliament next Wednesday, according … | Continue reading
Samsung revealed earlier today that was recalling more than two million Galaxy Note 7 devices due to concerns over faulty batteries, offering buyers a replacement device instead. Now, U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile is going a step further by offering concerned customers a complete … | Continue reading
No Man’s Sky is an almost impossibly huge game, an entire virtual universe filled with 18 quintillion planets, each one different from the next thanks to the powers of procedural generation. Instead of a typical review, I’m going to be writing regular dispatches from No Man’s Sky … | Continue reading
If you’re going to do yet another VR headset, the least you can do is bring something new to table. For Alcatel, that means an all-in-on solution, doing away with the need for a tethered computer or handset. The Vision is a self-contained VR device. All the hardware you need is r … | Continue reading
Truth be told, I’m not a fan of smartwatches. It’s not because I’ve never owned one. It’s simply because I don’t see the need for one, which is why I was shocked when I fell in love with the Withings Activité Sapphire. It’s smarter than the traditional timepiece, but not too smar … | Continue reading
Holy incoming release date, Batman! Developer Telltale Games announced that the second episode of its Batman series will come out on September 3 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It is called Children of Arkham. Telltale has earned a reputation for making quality licensed game … | Continue reading
When you hear “startup,” you probably think of Facebook, Airbnb or Uber before Casper or Blue Bottle Coffee. But while companies that produce tangible goods like food and clothing receive less media attention, they’re proving just as innovative as their more high-profile tech cou … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year when Battlefield and Call of Duty go to war. Both sides are about to make a lot of noise about why their shooter is better, and gamers will take sides in their own tribal rants. For sure, the winner will be the one who makes the best game. And gamers […] | Continue reading
Companies aren’t looking to sponsor events, they’re looking for marketing opportunities. Ed Lord Event producers are lousy, on ... | Continue reading
Our Marketing Week in Review covers Facebooks's algorithm problem, the agency of the future, and how content marketing can help you grow even faster. | Continue reading
Amazon sent a mysterious invite out to UK publications this morning, hinting that the company might be about to launch its popular Echo voice-controlled speaker. Amazon originally launched the Echo in the US last June, but has not yet made it available in Canada or internationall … | Continue reading
In addition to yesterday’s announcement of the Moto Z Play, Lenovo has also revealed a series of metallic mid-rangers as part of the new K6 family. | Continue reading
Viber shares how its unique blend of traditional media, digital ads, content, and influencer marketing has helped its popularity grow exponentially. | Continue reading
Messaging apps have exponentially grown in popularity the past couple years leading to over 1.4 Billion global users worldwide as of 2015. Think of that number for a second, literally 1/5th of the entire planet...read moreThe post How Viber Stays Competitive in the Massive Messag … | Continue reading
The word "innovation" is so overused during a show like IFA that it quickly loses its meaning. It’s hard for me to therefore convey the sense of true innovation that I got when I first laid my hands on the Lenovo Yoga Book. This device is a whole new thing. Calling it a mobile pr … | Continue reading
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s cabinet agreed on Friday to join Apple in appealing against a multi-billion-euro back tax demand that the European Commission has slapped on the iPhone maker, despite misgivings among independents who back the fragile coalition. The Commission’s rulin … | Continue reading
Getting into VR is a damn costly proposition. First, you’ve got to get a headset. The HTC Vive costs an eye-watering $799, and the Oculus isn’t much better at $599. Then you’ve got to get a computer with a meaty-enough graphics card and oodles or RAM, just to power the headset yo … | Continue reading
At $1,500, the 38UC99 works out to around $39 per inch of curved gaming monitor. And it’s a pretty lovely thing to behold – particularly when lined up alongside two other 38-inch gaming monitors. That’s 114 inches of brightly lit gaming action for a mere $4,500. It’s a pretty imp … | Continue reading
Add another Asia-based bank to R3's growing roster. | Continue reading
A popular darknet marketplace has announced that it has prohibited the sale of fentanyl after a dramatic rise in the number of deaths related to fentanyl overdose in the last two years. According to NBC, in Philadelphia, there has been a 636 percent increase in overdoses from the … | Continue reading
VR can look forward to a new set of games hitting the market. Razer’s Open Source Virtual Reality consortium is releasing 15 new games as part of the OSVR Fund that helps developers create and distribute games for VR headsets. The games will roll into the OSVR market, and they su … | Continue reading
US carriers are taking swift action on the global recall of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 issued early this morning. AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint have announced that sales have been suspended as they work with Samsung to handle the recall process and take care of customers who've already … | Continue reading
The IFA, or Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, is upon us and we are looking at the best tech announced at the show. Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, Ashley Carman, and Dan Seifert give us the scoop on the birth of new gadgets, the death of others, and the continuation of the boomin … | Continue reading
Telltale's Batman series will continue with its second episode, Children of Arkham, on 20th September.That date applies to the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions of the game. Release dates for other platforms will be announced shortly.We're also nearing the release date of t … | Continue reading
Can you live without a headphone jack? For millions of iPhone owners, they're about to find out, assuming reports (and there are many) that the iPhone 7 will be the first smartphone from Apple to do away with the venerable audio port. Apple's fall event is less than a week away, … | Continue reading
Following Samsung's global sales halt on the Galaxy Note 7, the UK's Carphone Warehouse will be issuing £25 credit to customers who pre-ordered the phone. | Continue reading
Content featured big this week as new initiatives from GoPro and IBM both received a lot of coverage and discussion. … | Continue reading
Google’s making it easier for Google Analytics users to find the important trends in their data. The change is already live in the Google Analytics app for iOS and Android, where, in the Assistant screen, you should now see automatically generated insights. For example, if your w … | Continue reading
Socially conscious inventors are the true champions of global progress, though they are rarely recognized.Their innovations and inventions shake up our world, tackling some of the planet's biggest problems with bold ingenuity. From tiny gadgets that can cleanse water in a flash t … | Continue reading
It seems like every gaming hardware company has their own audio headset. It’s probably a law or something. Razer is no different. The company is already selling the excellent wireless ManOwar headset, and now it has added the wired ManOWar 7.1 surround-sound variant to its roster … | Continue reading
Open call for artists, deadline 15 October 2016 Between the months of December and January in Cagliari (Italy), KyberTeatro organises the third edition of International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival “The Wonders of the Possible//UPGRADE”. This Festival is the first o … | Continue reading
The Bitcoin scaling debate continues, with everyone presenting their solutions and opinions. The undecided Bitcoin community is however at odds, wondering whether to increase the block size or not. If they indeed increase, what should be the ideal block size, and so on? A group o … | Continue reading
Wacom’s IFA announcements thus far have centered around the company’s consumer-facing Bamboo line. Earlier this week, the tablet maker showed off two new versions of its sketchpad digitizer, in keeping with what’s been something of a broader trend at this year’s show. Unveiled th … | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - Want a Kardashian to endorse your brand? You're better off asking local influencers to partner with you. (And your customers will prefer them, too.) | Continue reading
Social Media - Apple grabbed headlines with chatter about its impending social video app. Also: Twitter attracts YouTuber-like influencers, Facebook makes a big update to Offers, and Snapchat works on behavioral targeting. Skim ... | Continue reading
Advertising - We're all familiar with the 3 Rs from elementary school. These days, though, every marketerespecially those working in e-commerceshould have a firm grip on three other essential Rs: retention, retargeting, ... | Continue reading
Fall tends to bring new hardware from Google, which mainly involves new Nexus smartphones built in tandem with OEM partners. This year, things could be quite different since Google has a number of hardware projects in the works, and the Nexus brand is reportedly being replaced wi … | Continue reading
Here’s a stat that’s sure to worry Google: smartphone applications now account for half the time that U.S. users spend online, up from 41 percent back in July 2014, according to a new report from comScore. And when you add tablet applications into the mix, that figure rises to ne … | Continue reading
I don't like horses, for a lot of reasons. I don't like them because they have inscrutable lizard eyes, because they have weird spindly backwards legs, and because — for an animal that big — they have no right to be as skittish as they are. Take a lesson from cows, horses! Walk u … | Continue reading
It’s one thing to say you want to start the next Facebook. It’s quite another to do it. But that’s what the Digital Entrepreneur Bundle is for — to teach you the fundamentals of launching your own online business. For a limited time, this comprehensive training is available for o … | Continue reading
Wait, are you still using your phone as your primary GPS? That’s so 2007. TomTom’s got you, though, don’t worry. When you’re ready to finally make the switch to a dedicated GPS unit, the company’s Go devices might be what you want. The line was just revamped to include Wi-Fi, so … | Continue reading
A few years ago, I wrote about how VR was turning into a vehicle for media tie-ins. I wasn’t really surprised when it started showing up in Mountain Dew or Absolut Vodka promotional campaigns; after all, they’re "lifestyle" brands selling a fantasy. But I will admit to not forese … | Continue reading
September 1, 2016 Los Angeles, CA – TAO Network, the blockchain solutions platform has raised over $100,000 in public funds. The funds raised through a recently held crowdfunding campaign allows the platform to pursue its development of distributed ledger solution for the music i … | Continue reading
Erinnert sich noch jemand an letztes Jahr? Ach was, dachte sich Sony dieses Jahr stellenweise und präsentierte irgendwie überraschend zwei "Produkte", die wir nahezu genau so letztes Jahr auch schon gesehen hatten. Wir sind fast versucht die... | Continue reading
British media company Sky just disclosed an investment of $4.5 million (€4 million) in French startup Molotov. I’ve reached out to Molotov co-founder and CEO Jean-David Blanc who confirmed that this is just a fraction of a bigger round that is going to be announced at a later dat … | Continue reading
The U.S. Open has built a retractable, $150 million roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium, after coping for years with rain delays. The two-panel ceiling opens in the morning and closes at night—unless it starts to rain. Photo: USTA | Continue reading
At IFA 2016, Qualcomm has unveiled its Snapdragon VR820 reference headset design, which could help drive down the cost of virtual reality hardware. | Continue reading