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Britain's relatively newly formed Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has been making modest waves since it first appeared on the scene, stating that one of the fresh tactics it was going to bring to the war on piracy, was to try and eliminate advertising from torrent sites. In its …

It is not a secret that Apple and Samsung are the most profitable smartphone makers in the world thanks to sales of their high-end lines, whereas the competition of other manufacturers has pushed margins so narrow that their low-priced handsets are barely profitable. In a bid to earn more money …

The UK is paving the way for driverless cars on the road as upcoming changes to the highway code are due to allow for vehicles without steering wheels or driver controls. UK Science Minister, David Willets, admits that the current highway code is inadequate for robotic vehicles but that should change …

Google this week introduced a new tablet for software developers that belongs to its family of devices supporting the project Tango technologies. The mobile device has Nvidia Tegra K1 application processor inside as well as advanced sensing capabilities that help it to create a 3D model of the environment around …

Out of the top ten most valuable brands in the world, the top four are all tech companies with Google leading the pack after overtaking Apple as the world's most valuable brand by $11 billion. Following on from Apple and Google in the two top spots, are IBM and Microsoft …

Application processors based on technologies developed by ARM Holdings power the vast majority of smartphones and media tablets thanks to their high performance amid relatively low power consumption. While existing chips and technologies from ARM can also power wearable computing devices, to make the latter last longer on battery life …

Samsung Electronics on Monday introduced the world’s first smartphone based on the Tizen operating system. The new Samsung Z smartphone will help the company to lower its dependence on Google Android platform that powers the majority of Samsung’s handsets and tablets. The Tizen will also aid Samsung to offer unique …

Google is set to launch 180 satellites that will provide worldwide Internet access from space. The new venture is already costing the company $1 billion but there is room for expansion in the future. The satellites will orbit at a much lower altitude compared to others and weigh less than …

Rumours about Microsoft Corp.’s smart-watch have been circulating for a couple of years now, but no trustworthy details have ever emerged. On Friday Forbes reported that the device may be released already this year and may feature rather advanced health and fitness tracking capabilities. But, perhaps, the most important thing …

It is not a secret that Microsoft Mobile is working on the second-generation Nokia X smartphone that was originally expected to be based on the heavily modified Google Android operating system and was projected to be sold mostly in developing countries. Apparently, the new Nokia X2 smartphone will not be …

At present the majority of wearable computing devices are designed mostly as extensions of smartphones. However, in the future wearables could work with other electronics, including cameras, game consoles and so on, according to Kazuo Hirai, chief executive officer of Sony Corp. Nowadays Sony offers smart-watch and smart wristbands that …

In the recent years Samsung Electronics has been on the forefront of progress, specifically on the market of mobile devices. But portable gadgets is definitely not the only market the company wants to address. According to a media report, Samsung is working on its own virtual reality headset and intends …

Motorola may have accidentally confirmed the price of its upcoming Android Wear powered smartwatch, the Moto 360. How did this happen? Well someone actually read the terms and conditions for once. Motorola had set up a competition, inviting users to design watch faces, someone did some digging and found that …

Ever since Apple started to sell its iPad media tablet four years ago, many observers have wondered whether and when slates from well-known brands be available for $100, an important psychological price-point. This week Hewlett-Packard finally started to sell a tablet that costs only $99.99 in the U.S. Separately, HP …

While Samsung Electronics was not the first to market with its own smartwatch, it managed to capture 70 per cent of the smart-watch market in the first quarter of this year, according to Strategy Analytics. While the market of such devices is on an early stage of development, it is …

While Advanced Micro Devices was late to market with its chips for netbooks, the company’s accelerated processing units for inexpensive low-power laptops are quite popular nowadays thanks to relatively high performance, rich functionality and low cost. Unfortunately, AMD’s APUs designed for tablets still have not become any popular. Although AMD …

Some potentially big news made its way on to the internet over the weekend- apparently Google is in talks to acquire Twitch TV in a deal that's worth more than $1 billion. The deal could lead to Twitch being merged with YouTube, which could be good news or bad news. …

Adrian Wong, lead electrical engineer of Google Glass, has left Google to work for Oculus VR, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Facebook. While people often change workplaces in Silicon Valley, the arrival of a specialist like Mr. Wong at Oculus VR may point to some interesting things about the future of …

Google Glass only costs just $150 to make, but whopping $1500 to buy. Apparently, even an extreme price-point does not stop many technology enthusiasts from demanding to buy it. However, up to this week only select software developers under the Explorer program could get the smart eyewear. Apparently, the closed …

Mobile app emulation isn't always an easy task, BlackBerry devices have been known to run some Android apps but emulating Windows Phone or iOS apps inside Android has been mostly unheard of until now. A team of students have successfully managed to emulate native iOS apps on Google's mobile OS, …

At present when it comes to wearable electronics gadgets, all eyes are on smart-watches, smart-bands and other similar devices, which are already available on the market. A lot of people are interested in Google Glass are watching in different directions since it is not available. Now it seems like they …

Asustek Computer this week unveiled the world’s first media tablet that is based on a 64-bit version of Google Android operating system. The new Asus MeMo Pad 8 media tablet is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom system-on-chip that promises to provide increased performance in select applications. Initially, the slate …

Back in January a US court struck down the FCC's rules on net neutrality and since then the Federal Commission has been working on a new set of rules that would allow ISP's to charge Americans extra for things like watching Netflix or Hulu. Obviously this is a completely immoral …

At present personal computers based on Google ChromeOS represent less than one per cent of all systems on the market. While the researchers forecast that eventually sales of such PCs will grow, they will still remain a small fraction of the global PC market. Nonetheless, it looks like Intel Corp. …

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced details concerning its longer-term roadmap. The firm disclosed plans to develop its own ARMv8 core implementations as well as pin-compatible microprocessors and accelerated processing units based on ARM and x86 architecture. But while the company unveiled a clear and logical strategy regarding low-power and …

It is not a secret that the market of media tablets is not growing like it used to just a couple of years ago. Apparently, many people are satisfied with their current devices, whereas some other prefer hybrid devices, i.e., phablets. According to International Data Corp., shipments of tablet and …

Amazon is rumoured to reveal its first smartphone only sometimes in June, but we already know what is inside it and how does it look thanks to a publication of its alleged image in a media report. Based on the first look on what is claimed to be the final …

Google has been hit with another anti-trust lawsuit, this time over its apparent search engine monopoly on Android devices. Law firm, Hagens Berman, filed the suit on behalf of two Android phone users who are claiming that Google illegally monopolised its search engine on its mobile OS in the US. …

Nvidia Corp. on Thursday said that it had started volume shipments of its Jetson TK1 development kits, which are based on the company’s highly-anticipated Tegra K1 system-on-chip with four ARM Cortex-A15 cores, Nvidia Kepler-based graphics and a variety of other hardware. The development kit is aimed at designers of software …

Amazon Web Services, a service arm of Amazon and one of the world’s largest providers of cloud services, recently established silicon optimization engineering team (SOET) with the aim to create custom server platforms and microprocessors. The company has already begun to hire specialists to develop highly-tailored server platforms. Nowadays companies …