Mobile & Wireless

Snapchat said on Thursday it would alter its app to make it harder for malicious users to collect and leak millions of usernames connected to phone numbers. The move comes after a group calling itself SnapchatDB rang in the New Year by leaking 4.6 million partially redacted phone numbers, in a stunt they said was Continue Reading →

Best Buy is selling the Motorola Moto G for Verizon with no contract for $99.99. The retailer said it is selling the device at its U.S. stores, including Best Buy Mobile stores. “The phone is currently landing in stores and is available for sale as soon as it arrives,” Best Buy spokesman Jonathan Sandler told Continue Reading →

Samsung has launched a buy back and upgrade offer for its Galaxy range of smartphones in India, a move aimed at attracting more consumers who have started to prefer handsets with similar features at lower cost from home-grown companies. The offer comes at a time when South Korea-based Samsung is facing pressure from local rivals Continue Reading →

USPS is testing a new mobile point-of-sale (POS) technology designed to reduce wait-time-in-line for most routine retail transactions. The new technology — Mobile Point of Sale, or mPOS — uses a modified iPod hand-held device and printers. With mPOS, lobby assistants can scan and accept prepaid packages, scan package pickups as delivered, or sell stamps, Continue Reading →

Wearing Google Glass could be an issue for users that don’t have 20/20 vision, but it’s looking like this problem is being handled. Rochester Optical has made prescription lenses for the wearable tech that are said to come in all sorts of styles, cost as low as $99, and debut in as soon as two Continue Reading →

Last week security researchers published a way to skim Snapchat’s full database, and it appears someone did it before the vulnerability — which, according to those researchers had been known for months — was addressed. A website called SnapchatDB! has appeared posting SQL/CSV files that it claims contain the username and associated phone number for Continue Reading →

The US National Security Agency can reportedly sniff out every last bit of data from your iPhone, according to leaked NSA documents published by German magazine Der Spiegel. Known as DROPOUTJEEP, the spyware is said to be one of the tools employed by the NSA’s ANT (Advanced or Access Network Technology) division to gain backdoor Continue Reading →

Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system has struggled to make gains against Google and Apple. But it may soon get a shot in the arm from an old partner and rival: Sony. Sony, whose mobile unit has exclusively made smartphones powered by Google’s Android software for nearly four years, has considered launching a Windows phone as Continue Reading →

LG has admitted it is preparing to release its first wearable device for consumers, and we just got a look at what it might be, a Fitbit-style gadget called the LG Lifeband Touch. That’s according to regular tipster Evleaks, who posted a render of the device to Twitter. We understand that the Lifeband Touch will Continue Reading →

New Year’s Eve is an expensive time to get car service in New York. But rather than jack up its prices exponentially, Gett is instead adding a $30 surcharge on top of its normal rates because of high demand. The full press release from Gett is below: To capitalize on the massive amount of partygoers Continue Reading →