As reported on TechCrunch. by MG SIEGLER “This is not a Facebook Phone.” Yeah, whatever. The HTC First is the first phone that has Facebook partnering up with an OEM to bake an Android pie with Facebook Home filling, so I’m calling it the Facebook Phone. There will be more. This is just the first. And guess what? It’s really good. Sitting through the Facebook Home announcement last week, before I got a chance to play…
As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER Adobe has changed the way it sells technology used to enable high-quality streaming services from TV networks and other video providers. With the launch of Adobe Primetime — previously know as Project Primetime — the technology company is providing a suite of tools for video delivery. And it has signed up a couple of big new clients for the suite of products. Over the last year, Adobe has been…
As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Google Street View is maybe one of the most interesting and under appreciated technical developments of the past decade, but it’s all a little static when viewed through standard channels like Google Maps on the desktop or on a mobile device. A new project from Toronto UX design firmTeehan+Lax, which operates a Labs unit to explore its more playful side, threads together Street View imagery to create time-lapse animations…
As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr Patent filings, we don’t take so seriously. One of Japan’s richest men, with the potential to call on an army of lawyers to defend what he claims is his invention, we probably ought to. Masayoshi Son, the billionaire (and philanthropic) CEO of SoftBank, has given a two-hour speech to his shareholders about his technological predictions for the next 30 years, and about halfway through he describes a familiar idea: augmented…
As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lai Oh ZTE you cheeky monkey. Towards the end of day one at IDF in Beijing, we stumbled upon this awkwardly titled Android Jelly Bean phone that is the Geek at ZTE’s booth. Needless to say, this is yet another phone powered by an Intel processor — a 2GHz Clover Trail+ Atom to be exact, which is what Lenovo’s K900 also has. The rest of the device isn’t too shabby, either: you get a…
As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Can Redmond rethink 30 years of corporate culture to pull this off? As it has countless times in the last decade, Microsoft once again finds itself at a crossroads. Over the course of thirty-plus years, Microsoft rose to global dominance on the back of the desktop computer. But in the last decade, PC sales have been slowing as mobile devices become the next paradigm in personal computing. This…
As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU HTC today posted their monthly revenue figures, covering March 2013, and it’s another sign of just how crucial it is for the company to hit a home run with either its new flagship HTC One handset, or the HTC First Facebook Home phone — and ideally both. The Taiwanese company reported sales in March 2013 of NT$15.88 billion (about $530 million USD). The figures are definitely an improvement on last month when…
As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks. App deletions hit a record high in February, with 60,000 apps removed during the course of the month – the largest round of app deletions to date. The news of this massive app removal comes just ahead of therumored launch of a revamped version of Google Play…
As reported on Engadget. By Donald Melanson It looks like April is the month for major Android apps to get a visual overhaul. Following Twitter’s refresh last week (and Facebook’s decidedly more ambitiouseffort), Tumblr has today released its own app update that offers a whole new user interface. As you can see above, that includes some Path-esque expandable controls for creating various types of posts, as well as new post animations and a general appearance that’s more consistent with…
As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos Lasers have been flaunted by the US Navy before, but now it’s announced that 2014 will see the very first solid-state laser deployed aboard a ship, two years ahead of schedule. The USS Ponce, a vessel used as an amphibious transport dock stationed in the Persian Gulf, will get the honor of hosting the prototype Laser Weapon System (LaWS). Not only can the hardware set boats and airborne drones ablaze, but it…