$1.47 doesn’t buy an awful lot these days, outside of perhaps a small item off the McDonald’s dollar menu, but what if it could buy you an Android smartphone? Well, now it can with a new company in India offering an Android-powered smartphone for the introductory price of Rs 99 ($1.47). Called the Namotel Acche ...

Ridesharing service Uber, Inc. gave the world its first look at its efforts to develop a self-driving car Thursday. The company revealed details of the vehicle in a blog post, explaining that their self-driving vehicle is built on top of a Ford Fusion outfitted with radars, laser scanners, and high-resolution cameras to map details of ...

The term “content is king” may date back to an article written by Bill Gates in 1996, but the saying has never really gone out of style, and it applies equally today when it comes to the burgeoning virtual reality marketplace; those headset makers with a superior content offering will be well placed to rapidly ...

Google, Inc. announced that it was bringing Android Apps to Chromebook’s Thursday as new sales figures show that Chromebook’s outsold Apple computers in the first quarter. The sales figures come from via International Data Corporation (IDC) who in a session at Google’s I/O conference disclosed that Apple shipped 1.76 million Macs in the United States ...

Google’s smash hit photo app Google Photos is continuing its phenomenal run with the company announcing at its annual I/O conference Wednesday that the app now has over 200 million active users. On top of the 200 million active users, which is double the figure it reported in October last year, Google also disclosed that ...

Smart wearables maker FitBit, Inc. has acquired the wearable payment assets of smart credit card maker Coin, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Under the deal, Fitbit obtains key personnel and intellectual property specific to Coin’s wearables payment platform. but does not include Coin’s existing smart-payment product Coin 2.0. Founded in 2012, Coin offered a device ...

We live in an age of app overload, where users are installing fewer apps and using the ones they have installed less again, but what if you could access an app without having to download and install it? That’s the idea behind Android Instant Apps, a new service announced by Google, Inc. at their I/O ...

Microsoft is slowly unwinding its disastrous acquisition of Nokia’s mobile phone business with an announcement early Wednesday morning that it had sold its entry-level phone assets to FIH Mobile Ltd., a subsidiary of Hon Hai/Foxconn Technology Group, and HMD Global Oy for $350 million. The deal will see Microsoft hand over the rights to use ...

An updated version of malware designed to steal money and card details from ATMs has been discovered by security researchers. The new version of the Skimer malware, first discovered in 2009, uses new techniques to evade detection in infected ATMs running Windows software. According to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, hackers using Skimer begin operations by ...

BitTorrent, Inc. has dealt itself into the online broadcast television space with a new product that combines BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) networking with live streaming television channels. Called BitTorrent Live, the new service offers a range a live and linear video streaming channels spanning news, sports, music, tech, and youth culture. The service is powered by ...