The extremely popular US retailer Newegg is set to start trading in Europe by the end of March. Even consumers outside of the US will have no doubt cross paths with Newegg at least once to only be turned out by the lack of trading outside of the US, but luckily that will soon change. […]
Oculus suspending sale of Dev Kits due to component shortage
The Oculus rift has been in the lime light as a real step towards fully immersive gaming or in other words virtual reality gaming. The Oculus Rift dev kits have been available for sometime now so developers can get their hands on them and of course develop future titles and software for the device or include […]
Facebook to acquire WhatsApp for a cool $19 billion
In rather unsuspecting news today, Facebook have just announced that they are to purchase WhatsApp for a deal which includes $4 billion in cash, $12 billion worth of Facebook shares and finally another $3 billion in restricted stock units for the founders and employees. WhatsApp has been a text book case of success since it […]
HTC and Nokia hash out legal issues with patent licensing deal
Nokia and HTC have had their ongoing legal battles in the courtroom with Nokia more on the winning side of things and a possible upcoming import ban on the HTC devices, again due to a patent dispute with Nokia. That is all changing with Nokia and HTC’s hashing out their issues with a patent licensing […]
Microsoft appoints Satya Nadella as the third CEO
The search for a CEO to replace Steve Ballmer is over and Satya Nadella will become the third CEO of Microsoft. Nadella (46) has spent the last 22 years at Microsoft and his position before becoming CEO was the head of the Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft. While a lot of rumors were pointing towards […]
Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility business from Google for $2.91 Billion
It’s official. Google is selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for just under $3 Billion. While Google will still hang onto most of the patents it got from purchasing Motorola in the first and as some will say the real reason why they bought Motorola, However they will be licensing them to Lenovo with the purchase. […]
Samsung and Google agree to licence patents to each other for 10 years
Samsung and Google are sort of joining forces, but by that we mean they are licensing each others patents to one another for the next 10 years. Google and Samsung have a win win relationship with one another with Samsung dominated the Android market and Google of course the makers of Android, so obviously both […]
Spotify removes limit on free service for desktop users
Spotify already made waves not to long ago after bringing their popular free streaming service to mobile users, albeit with some restrictions like shuffle play. This time Desktop users are getting the some special treatment as Spotify has remove all limits on playback for the free service. So while there are still ads after each […]
Samsung announce Galaxy Camera 2 and NX30
We are barely into the new year and we begin to get our CES announcements and Samsung doesn’t want to wait until CES actually begins to start announcing new products. The first announcements are for the Galaxy Camera 2 and NX30. The former being the popular Android powered camera and the latter being the higher […]
Viber launch Viber Out service, allowing users to make calls to any landline or mobile number in the world
Popular app Viber has gotten a rather big new feature along with the latest update for iOS and Android devices. The new feature called Viber Out sees the Viber service become a complete VOIP service and now allows users to make calls to any landline or mobile number in the world. The new service was […]