While there are signs HTC’s fortunes might turn a corner through the launch of the One, few would doubt that its finances could use some streamlining. The company has just outlined one of the ways it will be pinching pennies: it’s closing its Watc…
Opera is migrating away from the Presto engine in favor of WebKit, the same web rendering machine deployed by the likes of Chrome and Safari. Today, a first taste of the new Opera browser is available for all in the form of a beta up for grabs on Google Play. Aside from utilizing the new [...]
The Pirate Bay published a blog post today claiming that it has relocated to a “new provider” in North Korea after being invited by the totalitarian country’s leadership “to fight our battles from their network.” The announcement come…
The Pirate Bay will no longer be hosted by the Swedish Pirate Party, due to mounting legal pressure from a domestic anti-piracy group representing the entertainment industry. According to TorrentFreak, the file-sharing site wi…
A shiny-looking blob spotted on Mars sent the internet speculating that it could be metal or foreign, but it’s likely just natural wind erosion at work on rocks on the Red Planet, according to a scientist affiliated with NASA’…
Bipper has launched a new app for Android and iPhone called MobileKids designed to allow parents to monitor their childrens’ phone usage and provide parental controls. The app is similar to other offerings in terms of controlling what apps and services children can access. The main difference is the ability to alter those controls remotely [...]
A brand new study published in the prestigious Epidemiology journal shows that mobile phone usage still cannot be linked to gliomas, a broad range of cancerous tumors type that form in the brain or spinal cord. The study used glioma incidence statistics from four Nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark) over a 20-year period. Scandinavia is humanity’s early warning system for a possible mobile phone-related cancer epidemic; mobile phone market penetration soared in Finland and Sweden well before more populous countries like the United States or France. Finland’s mobile phone penetration had already hit 40% in 1997. The universal health care systems in Nordic countries yield some of the most accurate and detailed information about the incidence of various
Disappointed that your country or favorite carrier missed the initial cut for the iPhone 5 launch? Odds are that you’re all good now. Worldwide, 22 more countries have joined the mix as of today, including wide swaths of Europe as well as New Zealand…
Netflix mentioned during its most recent earnings call that it had identified an attractive European market to launch its streaming video service in during Q4 2012 and now we know where that is: Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. There’s no word ye…
The choices in the electric motorcycle market just keep getting juicier, and while you’ll still have to stick with the more established brands like Brammo, Zero or BRD if you’re looking to make a purchase, a hot new prototype has just been unveiled t…
