Archive for: January, 2015

Dropcam Giving Free Replacements for Older Cameras

Owners of older Dropcam camera will be able to upgrade to a newer version at no charge, due to an impending lack of support from the company. The Nest-owned manufacturer will be providing a Dropcam HD as a replacement for earlier models, as the company will be dropping support for original Dropcam and the Dropcam […]

Craig Ferguson Inks TV Deal with Lionsgate

Craig Ferguson and his production company, Green Mountain West, have entered into a multi-year overall television agreement with Lionsgate. Ferguson will develop and produce scripted and unscripted programming, working with Green Mountain’s president Phil Cottone and former The Late Late Show producer Michael Naidus. The announcement comes on the heels of the Season 2 pickup […]

Pandora’s iOS App Receives Redesign, New Mini-Player

Music discovery app Pandora has announced an update to its iOS app, featuring a new design and additional components. Pandora allows users to create personalized music stations that play their preferred music. The latest version (v5.7.0) offers a refreshed design that improves the ease of shaping a station, including a new Personalization icon for quick […]

Twitter Adding Support for Video and Group DMs

Twitter will update its mobile applications this week with the ability to embed video clips in posts and to send direct messages to several people at once. Users will be able to record videos from within the Twitter app directly and even piece together multiple segments — similar to how the Twitter-owned Vine application works. […]

Apple’s iOS 8.1.3 Lowers Storage Requirements

Apple today released iOS 8.1.3 for iPhones, iPads, and the iPod Touch. The primary improvement in the operating system is a reduction in the amount of on-board storage needed to install the system update. (Last fall, some users with 16GB devices were unable to update due to a lack of storage.) The system update also […]

FCC Commissioner Wants More Spectrum for WiFi

FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has said the government needs to do a better job of allocating spectrum for unlicensed access, such as WiFi. Rosenworcel, speaking at the State of the Net Conference, emphasized the importance of WiFi and the role it plays in the economy. For example, she noted more than half of Americans have […]

Chase Removes Mobile App from Windows Phone Store

Chase has removed its mobile banking application from the Windows Phone Store. The company recently notified users that its app would be pulled and eventually shut down. Today the company followed through. Chase customers who’ve already downloaded the app to their Windows Phone will be able to use Chase Mobile until March 22, after which […]

EVGA Launches Torq X5L, X5, X3 Gaming Mice

EVGA has revealed the Torq X5, X5L, and X3 gaming mice to their range, alongside its existing Torq X10. Featuring customizable RGB LEDs, onboard storage for five profiles, and eight programmable buttons using Omron switches, the mice ship in four different models, with the standard X5 and X3 having 6,400 dpi and 4,000 dpi optical […]

FCC Fines Verizon $5 Million for Failed Rural Calls

The FCC on Monday said it has fined Verizon $5 million for failing to investigate claims of low call connection rates in rural areas. According to the FCC, Verizon didn’t look into consumer complaints over an eight month period in 2013 regarding failed wireless and wired calls in 26 rural regions. Verizon is to pay […]

Google’s Project Zero Discloses 3 Active OS X Bugs

Project Zero has done it again: Google’s private security research team has discovered and disclosed three zero-day flaws in Apple’s OS X platform — before Apple patched them. The three flaws are all relatively low-level. To exploit them in real life, attackers would need some sort of pre-established access to the target’s computer. But Google’s […]

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