Articles by Kris Holt

Google is taking the wearable tech trend to a new level. The company has announced it is working on smart contact lenses that measure the level of glucose in one's body Diabetes affects around one in 19 people in the world, many of whom struggle to control the levels of blood sugar in their bodies, Google said. Blood sugar imbalances can lead to is...

Starbucks has admitted storing users' passwords in plain text on its mobile apps, creating security and privacy risks Anyone with access to a customer's phone could obtain that person's user name, password and email address by connecting the device to a computer and opening a file. The clear text also displays a string of geolocation data that coul...

Silent Circle and Geeksphone have teamed up to create the Blackphone -- a smartphone designed to truly protect users' privacy Carrier- and vendor-independent, the Blackphone allows users to make and receive phone calls securely, as well as transfer and store files, swap secure text messages, and conduct video chats without compromising their privac...

AMD is attempting to take computing to a new level with the launch of its 2014 AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units ...

Chevrolet pulled off the cover on its 2015 Corvette Z06 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit Its new supercharged LT4 6.2L engine gets at least 625 horsepower and 635 pound-foot of torque. Though the engine is only around 1 inch taller than the Corvette Stingray's LT1 engine, it delivers nearly 37 percent more horsepower and 40 ...

The security breach that initially appeared to affect as many as 40 million customers may put many more at risk, Target revealed Friday In addition to accessing those customers' payment card data, hackers stole the names, mailing addresses, phone numbers or email addresses for up to 70 million people, according to the retailer.

Flir Systems this week unveiled an iPhone case with a difference. ...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has charted the course for her company's future, and the focus is more on media than technology She revealed a number of new products and digital magazines during her keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas with a number of guests turning up to help make announcements....

CEO Brian Krzanich laid out the road map for Intel's future in his first Consumer Electronics Show keynote as CEO Krzanich, who took over the top job last May, focused on wearable technology -- including some products designed internally -- as well as dual operating system tech and Intel's McAfee security software.

LG Electronics has revived the webOS operating system for its latest line of smart TVs, the company announced on Monday In fact, LG will use webOS on more than 70 percent of its smart TV lineup this year, the company said....

BlackBerry has announced dismal quarterly results, but its new chief executive officer, John Chen, still believes there's cause for optimism as the company strides into a new future The firm posted a loss of US$4.4 billion, compared with a profit of $9 million in the same quarter ending Nov. 30 last year, on revenue of $1.19 billion. Excluding one-...

Amazon is charting a new course as it prepares to expand its Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform to China. The company will start inviting select businesses there to take advantage of the platform as part of a limited preview. Amazon will extend invitations to both China-based and multinational companies with customers in the region in ea...

Several major tech firms are making a strong push into Internet infrastructure all over the world, reportedly leading to increasingly fraught relationships with telecoms Google and Facebook in particular have drastically invested more in Internet infrastructure over the last year, installing new undersea and underground cables, creating their own n...

Google has added to its portfolio of robotics acquisitions by snapping up Boston Dynamics, according to The New York Times The company has conceived research robots for the military and is renowned for its agile robots that have a firm sense of balance. One can run faster than any human.

Finding itself at the center of a social media firestorm, Twitter on Friday acted quickly to placate users who were concerned about changes it made to its blocking functionality Thursday afternoon The way blocking worked prior to the change, was that Twitter would send a notification to a person blocked from another's profile. The blocked individua...

Instagram has dipped its toes into private-photo and video messaging waters. Instagram Direct allows the community's more than 150 million monthly active users to send photos and videos within a group. The process of sending a private message works just like posting a photo or video publicly: Take a new photo or upload an existing one, slap on a f...

Nokia might be planning a shift away from its Windows Phone base in future smartphones -- even as the mobile phone unit of the business heads to Microsoft The company is working on an Android phone as part of a push into the low-end smartphone market, according to The Verge. Several sources close to Nokia suggested the company is working on the pro...

The European Commission has issued a stark warning to Nokia to not become a patent troll The company sold most of its mobile phone business to Microsoft earlier this year for US$7.2 billion but retained its patent portfolio. The EC, the executive arm of the European Union, cleared the acquisition last week. However, the deal has sparked concerns th...

Microsoft is taking steps to make its customers' data more secure in the wake of revelations about government spying The company was implicated in National Security Agency snooping operations after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents related to the agency's activities earlier this year....

Yota Devices, based in Russia, aims to shake up the smartphone market with the entry of its YotaPhone The smartphone, which goes on sale Wednesday, first emerged in Dec. 2012. It was featured at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, and its intriguing form factor earned it Best of CES awards from CNET, PC Mag and TIME. Now, the YotaPhone...