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
Razer’s high-class gaming laptop is bringing VR power in a small package with a more sensible display. The company’s Blade laptop now features the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics processor. That’s almost the exact same chip as the desktop 1060, and it means that the Razer Blade … | Continue reading
I know you are thinking...46 x...what is that number referring to? | Continue reading
“Let’s Raise the Bitcoin Block Size!” That’s Roger Ver’s take on the block size debate. But the Bitcoin leader has been such a staunch proponent of increasing the block size, we at CCN, thought we’d take some of Roger’s most recent quotes on increasing the block size so that Bitc … | Continue reading
Where to start? There’s the weight: 17 pounds. The screen: 21 inches, 2560 x 108, curved. The power supply: two. The fans: five. Rear ports: 21. Or how about the gaming pad that flips over, trap door style to reveal a number pad? Most ridiculous of all is the fact that, in spite … | Continue reading
Let's review what’s been happening at Alphabet in the past months. We’ve been seeing a lot of bad news come out lately, and I figured it’s time to try to make sense of it all — or at least to put all of the bad news in one place. The very latest is that the new head of hardware a … | Continue reading
On Thursday, September 1st, one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The incident occurred as SpaceX was preparing the vehicle for an upcoming launch, which would have sent the Israeli communications satellite Amos 6 into orbit. To s … | Continue reading
Here’s what you need to know about the Galaxy Note 7 recall process and the Note 7 battery fire issue. | Continue reading
Sony has issued a notice that YouTube will no longer work on some 2012-era smart TVs. But it’s not Sony’s fault, guys! It’s YouTube and the dastardly engineers who pushed the YouTube app past the TV’s performance capabilities thus proving once again it’s best to offload smart cap … | Continue reading
BERLIN — In Fragments of a Hologram Rose, William Gibson's first published short story, the protagonist has insomnia. To induce sleep, he uses a virtual reality tape that takes him to a yoga class on an exotic beach. I remembered this story as I leaned into a massage chair and pu … | Continue reading
Analysts reacted positively to news that exchange Bitfinex had redeemed roughly 1% of its outstanding debt tokens on 1st September. | Continue reading
Razer isn’t hesitating to embrace the newest chips from Intel. The hardware company revealed this morning that it is stuffing a 7th-generation Intel Core i7 processor into its Razer Blade Stealth ultrabook. This product refresh will keep the same chassis, but Razer engineers are … | Continue reading
While Elon Musk isn’t building a Hyperloop transportation system himself (he clearly has a lot on his plate already), SpaceX is building a test track for Hyperloop pods from others. SpaceX is hosting a Hyperloop Pod Design Competition for student and engineering teams, and 23 win … | Continue reading