Chinese company Xiaomi is making waves not just at home where it has cannibalized Samsung’s smartphone market share, but also worldwide where it has managed to gain itself a spot in the planet’s top 5 smartphone makers. One of the world’s biggest and fastest growing startups, Xiaomi is already setting its sights beyond the phone.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
With CES just around the corner all eyes are very much on the world’s largest technology companies, with everyone eager to see what will be announced during the Las Vegas event. One company sure to have a hefty presence is Samsung, but while we don’t expect to see much in the way of a new Galaxy S smartphone at the event, new leaks are cropping up seemingly every day.
HTC One M9 Hima specs have been revealed in freshly leaked benchmark. The smartphone is set for announcement at CES 2015. More details can be found here.
ReachApp, now in beta and available to download via Cydia, is a split-screen multitasking tweak that we’ve had our eyes on for a little while and we’re pleased to see it come to fruition.
At this time of year, when we're all spent up and waiting for the credit card bills to arrive, nothing's more welcome than the possibility of getting something for nothing. Our regular readers will know that we have a bit of a tradition of telling our dear ones of paid apps that have gone free, whether for a limited time or for good.
Christmas is always a good time to shift goods online, whether that be as part of something like Black Friday madness or just the good old fashioned gift shopping. Christmas day itself is also a big shopping event with people getting gift cards or, our personal favorites, generic gift tokens in the form of cold hard cash.
Here's a list of the top 3 super flop technology gadgets released in the year 2014. More details and complete list can be found after the jump.
Keen to ensure that it doesn’t forget its roots, Tesla CEO Elon Musk yesterday announced that the company’s first car, the Roadster, will be receiving quite the upgrade package. Improving upon the original model in numerous ways and most notably allowing drivers to go longer between recharges, the Raodster 3.0 doesn’t yet have a price but does look rather appealing.
Apple has kicked its Boxing Day iTunes sale off in the UK and Canada even though we're over 24 hours away from it actually being Boxing Day. The sale is expected to continue for around a week though, with deals being offered on various albums throughout the two international stores.
Starting next year, people who buy the right Samsung smart televisions will be able to play PlayStation games on them without having to actually own any PlayStation hardware beyond a controller. Sony chose Christmas week to announce the new partnership which sees Sony's games coming to a third-party's hardware lineup for the first time.
















