Google is said to be updating its Google Translate app to allow speech to text translation in real time, following a similar move by the Microsoft-owned Skype in December. According to The New York Times, the updated app “will automatically recognize if someone is speaking a popular language and automatically turn it into written text.” It’s not ...

Bitstamp Ltd. resumed trading today after an outage allegedly cause by hacking January 5th. CEO Nejc Kodrič said in a statement that the company was happy to be back in business, and that they had implemented a “newly redeployed website and backend systems that are safer and more secure than ever.” Kodrič explained the reasons for the ...

Would you like auto insurance with your web search? That’s the question Google Inc. users in the United States may be facing later this year with one analyst predicting Google is about to get into the auto insurance business. Ellen Carney at Forrester is predicting the move, noting that the Mountview based search giant has ...

If the ongoing narcissism of never ending selfies isn’t sufficiently feeding your ego, meet the Belfie stick, a stick that allows you to take pictures of your backside. The stick debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week and features a hinge halfway along allowing for easy angle adjustment, allowing you to get your ...

Google Inc.’s market share of the search market dropped to its lowest level since 2008 in December on the back of the Mozilla Foundations switch to Yahoo as its default search provider in Firefox. According to analytics firm StatCounter, Google’s slice of the U.S. search market fell to 75.2 percent  in December, down from 79.3 percent for ...

LINE Corp.’s onwards expansion march has taken an interesting turn this week with the company extending its services to unexpectedly take on Uber Inc., at least in Japan. The new LINE Taxi service allows LINE users to book taxis directly from the LINE app, and was launched in the Tokyo metropolitan area (23 wards, Mitaka City ...

Former American citizen Roger “Bitcoin Jesus” Ver has found out the hard way the consequences of renouncing his citizenship: he’s been refused a visa to enter the United States to speak at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami. If you’ve not followed the tale of the self-proclaimed cryptocurrency messiah previously, Roger Ver is an ...

Apple Inc.’s share of the smartphone market increased in the three months ending November 2014 on the back of its new iPhone 6 and 6s models, new figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveal. The increase in iPhone sales challenged Android’s dominance of the market resulting in a decline in Android’s market share, the first decline since September 2013, ...

FBI Director James Comey has released new details on the Sony Corp. hack, noting that the hackers were “sloppy” in trying to cover their tracks. Comey in particular noted that the hackers had failed to use proxy servers to hide their identity, and that IP addresses used exclusively by the North Korean government were used in the attack. ...

Michael Jackson didn’t make an appearance at the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las Vegas this week, but a number of new holographic devices did. Here are some of the interesting ones.  . Minority Report meets computer monitor Hewlett-Packard Co. debuted the futuristic Zvr display, bringing 3D holographic interactivity for the first time to a monitor. The 23.6″ ...