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Google unveils 'Project Tango' 3D smartphone platform Google announced a new research project Thursday aimed at bringing 3D technology to smartphones, for potential applications such as indoor mapping, gaming and helping blind people navigate.

21 February 2014 13:23

Facebook bets big on mobile with $19 bn WhatsApp deal Facebook is betting huge on mobile with an eye-popping cash-and-stock deal worth up to $19 billion for Internet Age smartphone messaging service WhatsApp.

20 February 2014 13:47

Medicine goes mobile with smartphone apps, devices Thanks to smartphones, email, video games and photo sharing are available at the touch of a finger.

19 February 2014 15:50

Japan's Rakuten paying $900 mn for Cypriot app-maker Rakuten, Japan's largest online shopping mall operator, said Friday it would buy Cyprus-based application maker Viber Media for $900 million, as its expands an overseas empire that includes Canadian e-reader company Kobo.

14 February 2014 17:04

China's Lenovo aims for third in global smartphone market The chairman of Chinese computer giant Lenovo pledged Thursday to make the company the world's third-biggest smartphone seller following an acquisition binge as the firm announced a 30 percent profit surge.

13 February 2014 12:55

Yahoo buys smartphone diary-app maker Wander Yahoo on Tuesday added the startup behind smartphone visual diary-app Days to its list of acquisitions as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to pump new life into the aging Internet pioneer.

12 February 2014 10:55

Google sheds Motorola in $2.91 bn deal with Lenovo Google agreed Wednesday to sell Motorola to Chinese tech giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, after a lackluster two-year effort to turn around the smartphone maker it bought for $12.5 billion.

30 January 2014 10:29

'Mac' turns 30 in changing computer world Decades before changing the world with iPhones and iPads, Apple transformed home computing with the Macintosh.

23 January 2014 11:27

BlackBerry shares lifted by big Pentagon contract BlackBerry shares leapt more than nine percent Tuesday as the troubled Canadian smartphone maker got a boost from news of contract to supply the US military with 80,000 new handsets.

22 January 2014 14:10

LG to launch curved smartphone in Europe South Korea's LG Electronics will start selling its first curved-screen smartphone -- seen as a first step to fully flexible products -- in Europe next month .

21 January 2014 12:38

Google buys 'smart' thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 bn Google on Monday announced that it is buying smart thermostat start-up Nest in a deal valued at $3.2 billion.

15 January 2014 11:22

Flagship Motorola smartphone headed for Europe Motorola announced Tuesday that its flagship Moto X smartphone is heading for Europe.

15 January 2014 10:18

Taiwan's Pegatron may get half iPhone 6 orders: report Taiwan's Pegatron Corp, an assembler of Apple's iPhone 5C, is expected to win half of the orders from the US tech giant for its next smartphone model.

10 January 2014 10:41

Tech tie-up says to launch phone system rival to iOS, Android A new smartphone operating system developed by a global collaboration of tech firms to rival Google's Android and Apple's iOS will be launched in the next few months.

09 January 2014 10:57

Kids get their own tablets, with parents in control Kid-safe tablets and smartphones are hitting the market, giving parents more control over how the mobile devices are used.

08 January 2014 17:00

CES stage set for new wave of gadgets As spending on gadgets flattens in a world obsessed with smartphones and tablets, the Consumer Electronics Show here hopes to be a launch pad for a new must-have device.

07 January 2014 10:34

Internet-connected toothbrush makes CES debut Brush smarter. That's the message from the makers of what is billed as the world's first Internet-connected toothbrush.

06 January 2014 10:52

Blackberry sues company for violating keyboard patent Blackberry Ltd. said Friday it had filed a suit in a California court against Los Angeles firm Typo Products for violating its patents with a Blackberry-like keyboard made for Apple's iPhone.

05 January 2014 23:04

More Americans shopped on their phones on Christmas Most stores were closed but Americans still managed to shop on Christmas Day -- increasingly on their smartphones.

28 December 2013 10:53

Apple wins court battle against Samsung South Korea's Samsung on Thursday lost its latest claim in a long-running global copyright battle against bitter rival Apple, a surprise blow to the electronics giant in its home market.

12 December 2013 14:58

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