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By Brian Heater Consider BlackBerry. Think about the company, its products, its most iconic features. What comes to mind? Business apps? A QWERTY keyboard? BBM? The once-mighty Canadian smartphone maker is banking on one word standing above all the rest: security. You see, BBM is no longer solely the realm of BlackBerry devices, and the…

By Haje Jan Kamps Imagine being part of the BBC’s natural history unit, traveling the world to create some of the world’s most beautiful documentaries. Sounds like a dream job, right? I sat down with Huw Cordey, the producer on a ton of the Beeb’s best-loved shows, to find out more about the technology and…

Apple is rumored to ditch the standard 3.5-mm headphone port on this year’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. A new video reportedly shows Apple’s new Lightning EarPods on video. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Samsung is set to officially launch its Galaxy Note 7 on Aug. 2. Official renders of the upcoming flagship phablet have leaked, showcasing the handset’s new design. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By David Nield The summer update for the Xbox One has been a long time coming but it’s finally here, giving Microsoft’s army of gamers access to the Cortana digital assistant for the first time, as well as bringing with it a bunch of other useful features. Cortana works more or less as it does…

By Wirecutter Everything you do to make your commute better is like an early-stage investment in your success at work. Start earning dividends early by borrowing some of our hundreds of hours of research and picking up the best devices and accessories for commuters. They make your twice-daily trek by car, rail or bike worry-free,…

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has been rumored to go on sale on the same date as its unveiling on Aug. 2. New information, however, now pegs the European release date two weeks later. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Desire Athow BT is the last of the big internet service providers in the UK, after Virgin Media, Sky and TalkTalk, to introduce an upgrade to its router, more than two years after the last one, the Home Hub 5, came to market. The Smart Hub (notice the subtle name change, although effectively this…

HTC is expected to build Google’s 2016 Nexus smartphones, which have been codenamed Marlin and Sailfish. A render of the 5.5-inch Nexus Marlin has leaked. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Desire Athow Introduction You may well be sitting in front of your monitor all day, regardless of whether you’ve jumped on the laptop bandwagon or not, so making sure that you have the right one is essential for the benefit of your eyes and physical health. Choosing the right monitor doesn’t only mean getting…

By Devin Coldewey The festivities have wrapped for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global competition among students and young people to create new software and devices. The winner this year was ENTy, a polished and highly practical hardware solution for tracking posture, helping with diagnosis and possibly treatment of diseases that affect balance. Read More …read…

By Jon Russell If you haven’t been tempted to buy a smartwatch yet, or have been disappointed by your purchase of an Apple Watch, one of Samsung’s (many) Gear wearables or others, there may yet be salvation for you. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By John Biggs Writing on a computer is awful. Without discipline – in my case, at least – an effort to get out 1,000 words of non-fiction usually ends up consisting of thirty minutes of web browsing before writing, intermittent Facebook trips while tapping out a few hundred words, and a nice jaunt through Hacker…

By Gabe Carey Xbox Play Anywhere At E3 2016, it came as little shock that Microsoft would be introducing, for the first time ever, a cross-buy program between Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs. After a year of showing strong support for the Universal Windows Platform, Microsoft’s software consolidation push, it was high time for…

By Darrell Etherington You probably aren’t trying to set a land speed record for an all-electric, street legal car, but if you are, I have bad news: The goalposts just got moved further out. Genovation‘s Extreme Electric (GXE) car, which uses a Corvette Z06 chassis with a custom electric drive under the hood, broke its…