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Motorola continues to set the bar when it comes to low-cost smartphones: The company introduced its new Moto E on Wednesday with a starting price of $119. That gets you a… Read more »
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A smartphone (or smart phone) is a mobile phone with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than basic feature phones. Smartphones typically include the features of a phone with those of another popular consumer device, such as a personal digital assistant, a media player, a digital camera, and/or a GPS navigation unit. Later smartphones include all of those plus the features of a touchscreen computer, including web browsing, Wi-Fi, 3rd-party apps, motion sensor and mobile payment.
MoreMotorola continues to set the bar when it comes to low-cost smartphones: The company introduced its new Moto E on Wednesday with a starting price of $119. That gets you a… Read more »
There are lot of great professionally-made videos for kids on YouTube buried in an avalanche of decidedly inappropriate content. Soon, parents won’t have to filter the millions of videos themselves: On Monday,… Read more »
Private information protected by the little SIM card in your handset might not be so private after all. Based on new documentation from former NSA-employee-turned-whistleblower, Edward Snowden, The Intercept is reporting on… Read more »
For the last few years If This Then That (IFTTT) has been the place to go if you wanted to customize your web experience. It was a simple way to make… Read more »
One major factor that’s driven the explosive growth of the global smartphone market is its short, roughly two-year upgrade cycle. But now that that even three and four-year old smartphones are… Read more »
IoT hardware is not the end game. New profits, margins, and innovations will come from services built on open, flexible APIs. Read more »
Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke before President Barack Obama at a cybersecurity summit at Stanford University on Friday, and he was able to slip a few major Apple Pay announcements into… Read more »
Despite wide-ranging criticism last year, the state of California passed a law requiring phones to have a remote “kill switch” by July 2015 and the approach, as well as similar legislation in… Read more »
Pretty much every fitness tracker on the market does the same thing: Using an accelerometer, it tracks how many steps you’ve taken, and from that accelerometer data, usually can extrapolate distance traveled… Read more »
A now-pulled Best Buy product listing indicates that Motorola’s least expensive smartphone may be getting an update soon. The page listed a new Moto E for Sprint’s prepaid service sporting upgrades… Read more »