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The world's best-selling smartphone maker Samsung has announced that it will be rolling out a smartphone with a curved screen starting next month. While the company declined to provide details on the phone’s specs --- new handsets will have plastic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels. South Korean electronics giant exhibited its...

The world’s biggest e-commerce company, Amazon.com has introduced its new high-definition Kindle tablet line-up called "Kindle Fire HDX", which comes in 7-inch and 8.9-inch display sizes --- waaaay cheaper than the equivalent iPad. Premium products at non-premium prices!!! We’ll get to see if they live up to their promise. Powered...

Uber, the San Francisco-based smartphone app that connects passengers with cars for hire, policy chief Corey Owens penned a post today that continues the company’s arguments against the transportation industry’s status quo. The on-demand, smartphone-friendly taxi service Uber was recently valued at an eye-popping $3.5 billion. Google invested $258 million...

In an attempt to build on its growing user base, UK Internet radio service Radioplayer has launched a completely redesigned and tablet-optimized version of its mobile app. Radioplayer is a joint venture between the BBC, Global Radio, Guardian Media Group, Absolute Radio and the RadioCentre. Available on iOS and Android...

The global file-sharing king, BitTorrent today launched P2P-based direct publishing platform "BitTorrent Bundle" for publishers as a private alpha. The idea is to make direct-to-fan distribution easier for artists to share their legitimate content. The San Francisco-based technology and media company’s new self-service platform has 8 launch partners: Los Angeles-based...

Tel Aviv-based SimilarGroup has launched an online competitive intelligence platform "SimilarWeb PRO" - designed  to get in-depth analytics on your competitors web traffic. SimilarGroup plans to unseat Amazon’s Alexa as the leader in web rankings. Founded in 2009 by CEO Or Offer and CTO Nir Cohen, the company is raising...

The online heavyweight, Amazon has recently announced that Amazon Cloud Player is being made available on Sonos Wireless HiFi systems in UK, Spain, France, Italy, and Germany. Sonos already supports Spotify. Sonos Wireless HiFi Experience Got Even Better!!! It means that anyone who buys Amazons MP3s will be able to...

As long anticipated, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi revealed via Twitter that the startup phone-maker has sold 10 million of its flagship smartphone Android-based Mi-2, and its variants Mi-2S and Mi-2A, in the past 11 months. China’s hottest homegrown smartphone "Xiaomi Mi2" first went on sale last October. To refresh your...

Yeah, So it turns out that Apple sold a combined total of nine million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c smartphones over the weekend --- almost double the previous record. Apple also announced over 200 million iPhones are already running the new iOS 7 software. The Cupertino, California-based company allowed customers...

The South Korean Phone maker LG,l has announced the launch of its latest oversized smartphone (phablet) --- VU 3, powered by Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system, a 5.2-inch display (1,280 x 960 resolution) + IPS 4:3 aspect ratio display. The smartphone runs on a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip,...