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AT&T is teaming up with FiLIP to launch a smartwatch designed to appeal to kids -- and their parents. The colorful, durable FiLIP watch connects to a parent or caretaker's smartphone and tracks the child's location using WiFi triangulation, cellular towers and GPS information. It offers two-way ...
What appears to be a service manual from LG was leaked on the Web over the weekend, replete with details about the upcoming Nexus 5 smartphone. The document is listed as an internal service manual for the LG-D821, and it was first published by Android Police. "This looks real," said Rob Enderle, pri...
Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system may become an option on HTC's Android-based smartphones, Bloomberg reported. Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft's operating systems unit, made the request to HTC last month, according to unnamed sources, and will meet with senior HTC executives in Taiwan late...
In France, members of parliament unanimously supported a bill designed to restrict Amazon's ability to discount books. In particular, the lawmakers want to prohibit Amazon's practice of packaging a 5 percent discount with free delivery, a deal so tantalizingly awesome that France is worried about th...
This week's All Things Appy takes a look at the five best, free geo-oriented apps for the iOS platform. To keep your costs down, we're concentrating on those tracking apps that don't require additional hardware, like sensors. Not all mobile Apple hardware products have GPS satellite location, which ...
Employees at the National Security Agency received a memo telling them that they, too, would not work because of the government shutdown taking place as Congress does whatever it is Congress is doing (or not doing) right now. In the memo, penned by the NSA's associate director of human resources and...
It's been rumored for some time that Amazon was working on a smartphone project known as "Project B," but this week new details emerged that could offer a closer look. Specifically, the company is reportedly in the process of developing two handsets aimed at different ends of the market. One device ...
Dell on Wednesday released new tablets and updates to its XPS line of laptops for geeks, less than three weeks after founder Michael Dell won a long and bitter battle to take the company private again. The company launched two Windows 8.1 tablets and two Android tablets under the revived "Venue" nam...
Fitbit only just released its first fitness-tracking wristband back in May, but the company is reportedly getting close to rolling out the next generation. Dubbed "Force," this new device will apparently be both smaller and more capable than the current Flex. Among several new features expected in t...
If you've been stung by roaming charges in the past when using a U.S. cellphone abroad and you've recently heard about new, supposedly fair roaming caps in Europe, beware: It's not what it seems. As of July 2013, European-carrier SIM card roaming rates are capped in Europe at 0.45 euros, or about $0...
Japanese NTT Docomo unveiled augmented reality glasses that are able to translate menus and signs in real time. The company, which showed off the device at a Japanese gadget fair, says the glasses will be ready when foreigners descend on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics. The glasses work by overlaying so...
Both BlackBerry and Microsoft have been in far stronger positions with regard to personal technology. At one time, Microsoft was contending for leadership in smartphones against Palm and BlackBerry, and BlackBerry took leadership only to lose it to Apple and then Samsung. Microsoft put tablets on th...
Evernote and 3M on Thursday announced a partnership to digitize the Post-it Note with a new feature on the Evernote app optimized to capture and save messages. The iOS 7 feature allows users to take a picture of a Post-it within Evernote, and that image is then digitally enhanced as an Evernote imag...
Members of the European Parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee voted unanimously Thursday in favor of a new law mandating universal chargers for mobile devices. In addition to convenience -- German parliamentarian Barbara Weiler called the current situation "cable chaos" -- ...
Battery managers, task killers, analyzers and monitoring apps make up the basis of a solid Android mobile tool kit. This week's All Things Appy takes a look at the must-have, free apps in this genre that will keep your device operating swimmingly. First up? ReChild's Advanced Task Killer app, which...
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