Sign up for a new account or log in here:
also @ TechSpot: Google, NASA join forces to build quantum computing laboratory
TechSpot News
IT Industry News
The business side of tech receives ample coverage on TechSpot. The industry’s latest developments, legal face-offs, acquisitions, and trends in technology will give you an overall scope of what’s to come.
Digg's RSS reader expected in June but it might come at a price
- Let’s start with the good news: Digg is expected to release a beta version of their RSS reader sometime in June – well ahead of the planned closure of Google Reader on July 1. The bad news, unfortunately, is that…
AMD quad-core FX-4350 and six-core FX-6350 get official
- AMD recently added two new chips to the FX processor family, the quad-core FX-4350 and the six-core FX-6350. Both chips are based on the Piledriver architecture, support the latest instruction sets including FMA3 and AVX and work with existing AM3+…
Turn your boring LinkedIn profile into a vivid portfolio
- LinkedIn is bolstering member profiles today by launching a new feature that lets users showcase their professional story through rich, visual content. In other words, you can now add photos, videos and even presentations to your profile to help showcase…
T-Mobile and Metro PCS merger officially complete
- A while back, T-Mobile and Metro PCS were all over the news after announcing plans to merge their businesses. Things went quiet on the matter for a while, but now the merger is officially complete, with the two companies becoming one…
Google releases how-to video to help users get ready for Glass
- There are a lot of varying opinions floating around the Internet about Google’s Project Glass from early adopters who were lucky enough to get their hands on a set, but regardless of how you feel about it, Google is turning…
Vine update enables front-facing camera, mentions
- Earlier today Twitter announced they have updated video sharing app Vine with a number of user-requested features. Chief among them is the ability to capture video using your device’s front-facing camera – a feature that was glaringly absent in the…
Enigma makes accessing public data on the internet easy
- The amount of untapped public information available on the web is quite astounding. But the majority of people have no idea how to access it, and even if they do, the sheer amount of data will probably get them nowhere.
Nielsen announces pilot program to measure online audiences
- Nielsen will soon begin to measure the television viewing behavior of people that watch content online as part of their new Digital Program Ratings. The pilot program kicks off in May and will run through July with participation from the…
Wave of freshly minted Chromebooks to arrive later this year
- Despite the ostensibly small niche Chromebooks occupy, a recent rumor suggests another wave of Chrome-inspired laptops are on the way anyhow. The bulk of those upcoming models are expected to arrive during the second half of 2013 with a growing number of manufacturers…
AMD's Kaveri solves age-old issue, promises faster on-die GPUs
- AMD has revealed more information regarding Kaveri: its upcoming 28nm Steamroller-based APU. The company is touting Kaveri's heterogeneous system architecture -- a design which aims to greatly increase the performance output of on-die graphics cores. This technological achievement likely mark…
Paid Hulu subscriptions doubled to four million this past year
- Hulu recently announced they have doubled the number of paid subscribers over the course of the last year despite the fact that founding chief executive Jason Kilar stepped down last month. Reaching four million paid subscribers is a noteworthy milestone…
CERN restores world's first website, celebrates 20 years of a free and open web
- Tim Berners-Lee led the project that resulted in the world's first web page sometime around 1991. But it wasn’t until this exact same day in 1993 that CERN announced it would make the software required to run a web server…
BlackBerry CEO thinks tablets will be useless in five years
- You may want to hold off on buying a tablet according to BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins. That’s because there won’t be a reason to own one in five years, the executive told Bloomberg during a recent interview. It’s a noteworthy…
Nest Learning Thermostat gets summer-inspired update
- Summer is just around the corner and if you have a Nest Learning Thermostat, you’ll want to make sure you get the latest update as it adds the ability to adjust its behavior to sunlight in addition to other new…
Messaging on chat apps now more popular than SMS texting
- A growing number of mobile users are turning to chat apps to communicate with friends and family, shunning text messaging plans that once served as major cash cows for wireless providers. Daily traffic from services like iMessage, BlackBerry Messenger and…
Opera lawsuit says former employee took trade secrets to Mozilla
- Browser maker Opera has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, alleging he shared trade secrets with rival Mozilla. Designer and musician Trond Werner Hansen is on the hook for 20 million Norwegian Krone, or about $3.4 million in damages…
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced, looks eerily familiar
- Samsung today announced its upcoming Galaxy Tab 3, the company's next iteration of Galaxy Tab devices. According to Samsung, the tablet will be equipped with a seven-inch screen, much like its predecessor; however, the device will feature a thinner bezel…
Intel "Haswell" CPUs to arrive June 3
- On Friday Intel announced that Haswell, its next-generation of Core processors, would arrive in about 3.33 quadrillion nanoseconds. In less esoteric terms, that means Haswell is slated to arrive on June 3 in the U.S. -- around the same date…
Rural Vermont gets gigabit fiber service, cheaper than Google Fiber
- Gigabit broadband proponents rejoice; another city in the US is online with gigabit fiber. But it gets even better. Vermont Telephone Co. (VTel) is offering the service to VT residents for only $35/month, half the price of the much lauded…
LG announces $13,500, 55-inch curved OLED for preorder in South Korea
- LG is officially bringing the world's first curved OLED display to market this June. The company is currently taking preorders with a price tag of 15 million Korean Won (about $13,500). However, LG is only accepting these preorders for the curved…
EA announces more layoffs rumored to be "in the hundreds"
- Job security has likely been a hot topic around the water cooler as of late if you happen to work at Electronic Arts. Just last month, EA handed out a round of pink slips to roughly 170 employees at the…
Mailbox working on iPad app, Android and desktop on the roadmap
- Mailbox, the heavily hyped and extremely popular iPhone app for managing your Gmail account, recently announced that it’s coming soon to the iPad. Clients for Android and desktop are reportedly in the works as well. The company, which was recently…
Rugged Samsung Galaxy S4, Galaxy tablets to arrive this summer
- Ruggedized variants of Samsung's Galaxy S4 and Galaxy-family of tablets are set to arrive this summer, claims an anonymous source in contact with the Wall Street Journal. The contact claims a seven-inch and 10.1-inch tablet will hit the market first…
AT&T's Digital Life home automation system launches in 15 markets
- It’s been a long time in the making but AT&T’s home security and automation system is finally launching. Customers in 15 different markets (Atlanta, Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colo., Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Riverside, Calif., San Francisco,…
Most Popular
| Trending | Featured |
-
Microsoft launches YouTube app, Google demands it taken down
-
Nvidia Shield arrives in June for $349, pre-orders open now (update)
-
Bill Gates is once again the richest person in the world
-
Google, NASA join forces to build quantum computing laboratory
-
Google I/O 2013 Roundup: Learn about all the company's updates and announcements
Subscribe to TechSpot
Get free exclusive content, learn about new features and breaking tech news.
TechSpot on: