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Lenovo vows to stem Motorola’s losses in just 18 months
Lenovo chief Yang Yuanqing made an appearance at Mobile World Congress earlier this week, and took the opportunity to confidently predict that the company can transform its loss-making acquisition Motorola within just six quarters once it completes its takeover. Yang made the bold claim whilst speaking to Bloomberg on the sidelines of MWC, insisting he ...
US Sen. Manchin wants Bitcoin banned in the US
Talk about kicking someone while they’re down. Following a tumultuous week for Bitcoin, one of the US’s most vehemently anti-Bitcoin senators has taken the opportunity to call for an all-out ban on the world’s most popular digital currency. Sen. Joe Manchin slammed Bitcoin for its potential to be used in illicit transactions, as well as ...
Firefox OS and Nokia enter the affordable smartphone race
The Mobile World Congress is in full swing, and one of the major trends we’ve seen so far is the rise of the affordable smartphone. Much attention has been given to Mozilla’s Firefox OS phones, which seem to be winning people over thanks to their low price point and decent user experience, and also to ...
Gmail gets tough on spam with ‘unsubscribe’ button
Unsubscribing from spam marketing emails can be a pain in the ass – no two ways about it. Although the more professionals email marketers often place an “unsubscribe” link buried somewhere in the small print at the end of their advertising spiel, this is often difficult to find. And of course, there’s the millions of ...
LinkedIn goes where no social network has gone before… To China
The likes of Facebook, Google and Twitter have famously struggled to gain a foothold in China, the world’s largest internet market, but there is one US social media network with a presence in that country. And now, it’s presence is set to get that much bigger with the launch of a beta version. LinkedIn, the ...
Tizen: Samsung’s secret weapon now unleashed
Samsung has just launched the Galaxy Gear 2, it’s second take on a so-called smartwatch that, to be honest, wasn’t particularly great the first time round. But Samsung doesn’t really care about that, because the Galaxy Gear 2 has been designed with a hidden agenda – the device is actually the testing ground for a ...
Mt. Gox’s Mark Karpeles resigns from the Bitcoin Foundation
Mt. Gox’s CEO Mark Karpeles has announced his resignation from the Bitcoin Foundation, in what some might interpret as yet another sign of the growing friction between the troubled Bitcoin exchange and the rest of the cryptocurrency community. Karpeles’ resignation was announced on the Bitcoin Foundation blog, and the story was first picked up by ...
Mt. Gox at Death’s Door? Bitcoin price slips below $100, before rebounding slightly
The problems continue to pile up for the beleaguered Mt. Gox, where the price of a single Bitcoin briefly plummeted to below $100 after the exchange claimed that “security issues” were the reason it’s unable to resume withdrawal capability to its customers as planned, reports CoinDesk. Mt. Gox posted a note on its website, stating ...
Nokia considers major acquistion of Juniper Networks
Nokia might have sold off its handset business to Microsoft, but the Finnish firm is still in business and now – flush with cash – is rumored to be considering the acquisition of network gear maker Juniper Networks in order to merge it with its Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) division, according to German website Manager ...
Google launches visual maps to help save the world’s trees
For all of its faults there’s no denying that Google likes to give a little bit back now and again, particularly in the form of humanitarian work. Now, it’s just begun a new effort to help us all keep an unflinching eye on the rampant deforestation in the world. Google has just launched a new ...