U.S.-based carrier Cricket is offering the Lumia 640 smartphone for $29.99 when one activates a new connection. The budget smartphone can be had for as little as $10 as well. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Sprint is offering buy one get one deals on the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus. The carrier is also giving a discount of $200 on 9.7-inch iPad Pro, 12.9-inch iPad Pro, iPad mini 4 and iPad Air 2. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Parker Wilhelm Minecraft may be an inescapable household game around the world, but the billion-dollar gaming phenomenon has actually missed out on the world’s most populated country until now. Minecraft developer Mojang announced today that its blocky blockbuster will finally be coming to China, courtesy of a licensing agreement with Chinese internet affiliate NetEase,…

By Devin Coldewey Motorola’s RAZR surely stands as one of the most recognizable phones of yesteryear (although myself I preferred the Samsung Trace) — and while the brand has been desultorily maintained by Verizon, a new video from Lenovo suggests a more serious throwback device is nearly at hand, so to speak. Read More …read…

By Desire Athow The last few years have seen a variety of form factors emerging. However, it’s easy to forget that vendors have been trying to break away from the mould (the beige mid-tower format) for ages. One of the first was a Taiwanese manufacturer called Shuttle which pioneered small form factor cubes for ages.…

By Desire Athow The last few years have seen a variety of form factors emerging. However, it’s easy to forget that vendors have been trying to break away from the mould (the beige mid-tower format) for ages. One of the first was a Taiwanese manufacturer called Shuttle which pioneered small form factor cubes for ages.…

By Lewis Leong Step into the Razer zone Razer has always done things its own way. Now, the iconic gaming company is opening its first-ever store in the United States, located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, inside the Westfield shopping mall. Razer invited us to check out the store before its official launch…

By Devin Coldewey It’s Friday, so you can probably spare a few minutes to watch a heartwarming little 360-degree animated film, the latest in Google’s “Spotlight Stories.” This one, entitled “Pearl,” takes place entirely inside a beat-up ’80s sedan, and traces the story of a girl and a guitar. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch…

By Frederic Lardinois Every year at I/O, Google’s ATAP division, which is responsible for turning some of the company’s crazier ideas into products, organizes its own small keynote. This year, the company offered updates on a number of projects, including Project Soli, its attempt at building a very small radar sensor that can translate hand…

By Sarah Perez At Google’s I/O conference today, Google’s Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) research unit offered an update on its interactive textiles project announced last year, Project Jacquard. ATAP’s Ivan Poupyrev announced that the company was collaborating with iconic clothing company, Levi’s, to launch a connected jacket aimed at urban cyclists that… Read…

By Desire Athow The competition is heating up at the top end of the hard disk drive market with Toshiba finally announcing its first 8TB hard disk drive, the X300, one aimed at the high performance market: that’s nearly two years after Seagate first announced its model. The drive sports a 7200RPM spinning speed, 128MB…

By Desire Athow The competition is heating up at the top end of the hard disk drive market with Toshiba finally announcing its first 8TB hard disk drive, the X300, one aimed at the high performance market: that’s nearly two years after Seagate first announced its model. The drive sports a 7200RPM spinning speed, 128MB…

By Desire Athow Businesses spend countless hours trying to figure out how to improve the productivity of their workers even by a fraction of a percent. That’s because every single process that can be tweaked, every second that can be shaved and every step that can be finetuned brings tangible benefits in terms of overall…

By Desire Athow Businesses spend countless hours trying to figure out how to improve the productivity of their workers even by a fraction of a percent. That’s because every single process that can be tweaked, every second that can be shaved and every step that can be finetuned brings tangible benefits in terms of overall…

By Mike Jennings Introduction Nvidia has wowed the computing world with its new GeForce GTX 1080: a monster graphics card that promises a 30% performance increase over the last generation while reducing power consumption by 28%. They’re stunning numbers, but the GTX 1080 comes with another big headline figure: its launch price of £619 (around…