From CNET: The Chinese smartphone maker, which has been on a tear over the last four years, has raised $1.1 billion in venture capital funding, giving it a valuation of $45 billion. Bin Lin, Xiaomi co-founder and president, posted the news Monday on Facebook.
The valuation makes Xiaomi the top-dog...
From PC World: “The Interview,” which is already linked to a massive corporate hack, a U.S.-North Korea spat and an outcry over censorship, now has another claim to fame: it’s the most successful online film in Sony Pictures’ history.
Available to stream and download since Wednesday via websites...
By the time you read this, Christmas will be over, and we will be heading into our second big shopping event within the span of two months here in Canada, also known as Boxing Day. In my experience, Boxing Day has always provided better deals than any other shopping event during the year. When I was younger, I would remember waiting for the flyers to come a few days earlier, ready to circle things to purchase the next day. Things have not changed...
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When you hang out with the same group of people frequently enough, it is easy to integrate inside jokes into your every day life. This is because the deep mutual understanding developed between each other will automatically create an overly comfortable zone in discussion, and this works out pretty well -- as long as you are with the same people all the time. Recently, I was hanging out with a different group of friends. When one of them gave me...
For anyone who has ever lost his or her phone, or just the thought of losing something that is so crucial in your everyday life, is not exactly fun. Unfortunately, this happened to me recently. On a gloomy Wednesday afternoon, I lost my Samsung Galaxy S3. For me, losing the physical phone itself was not the most annoying part. Rather, it was losing the messages/pictures/videos/contacts that were a nuisance to try to get again, if it was even...
From PC World: Sony is getting serious about bringing PlayStation-powered gaming to HDTVs regardless of whether or not you actually have a PlayStation—and not just Sony-made HDTVs, either. Sony and Samsung recently announced that the PlayStation Now game streaming service will land on select...
From CNET: Apple and other high-profile tech companies sold 4,000 smartphone patents for $900 million to a clearinghouse, the patents' new owner announced Tuesday, in an effort to put a long-fought courtroom battle behind them.
The Apple-led Rockstar Consortium -- which includes Microsoft...
From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) continues to drive the state of the art in the DRAM (memory) market. The company just announced that it was starting mass production of LPDDR4, an industry first.
LPDDR4 is expected to soon be surplanted by the "hybrid...
From PC World: Sony has asked Twitter to suspend the account of a person who is alleged to have posted internal company documents and information released by hackers.
Twitter has also been asked to destroy the "stolen" documents that are in its possession or control.
A letter sent Monday by Sony...
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