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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Starting Thursday night, a major tech company sold more than one million units of its next-gen gaming console, and since then has had to contend with scattered user reports of hardware defects. It was true of Sony last week with the PlayStation 4, and now it’s true of Continue Reading →

I got a chance to unbox one of the four LG G Flex phablets in the USA this week. It is awesome!!! First and foremost it has a 6″ curved OLED screen that is simply amazing. You will simply be blown away by the color space and contrast ratio of this screen. If you’re wondering Continue Reading →

LG has admitted it continued collecting data on viewing habits even after users had activated a privacy setting designed to prevent it. The television maker has apologised to its customers and told the BBC it would issue an update to correct the problem. UK-based IT consultant Jason Huntley, who raised the issue in a blog, Continue Reading →

Sony said some of the PlayStation 4 consoles that went on sale in North America last week were reportedly damaged during shipping, following customer complaints the devices suddenly turned themselves off. Sony sold more than 1 million PS4 consoles during the first 24 hours of sales. Some buyers reported the power-indicator light kept blinking, there Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is releasing Office 365 Message Encryption, a new service that will let you send encrypted emails to anyone outside your company, in the first quarter of 2014. This means that no matter the end destination of your email being sent via Office 365, Microsoft is adding another level of Continue Reading →

Google has fixed a bug in its Gmail account retrieval and password reset process that could have allowed an attacker to fool a user into handing over their details. The bug, discovered by white-hat hacker Oren Hafif, has since been fixed and was confirmed as a ‘high impact’ vulnerability by Googler Sebastian Roschke on Google Continue Reading →

Technology isn’t winning any friends in U.K. transport workers’ unions, right now. Nor is London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, who yesterday announced that almost all ticket offices on the London Underground transport network would close by 2015, with the loss of around 750 jobs. There are 268 ticket offices on the network in total, and around Continue Reading →

Instagram, known as a visual communication platform, is looking for way to expand its appeal to its community of 200 million (and growing) users. First it was short-form video and next up is messaging. Well-placed sources tell us that the company is gearing up to launch new private messaging features inside its still red-hot photo Continue Reading →

A jury on Thursday said that Samsung Electronics would have to pay Apple nearly $290 million in damages for violating patents, putting an end to one chapter in the long-running patent saga between the two tech companies. In August last year, a California jury determined that Samsung had infringed on a series of Apple patents Continue Reading →

Tablets are expected to be one of the hottest gadget gift items for Holiday 2013. And Verizon Wireless has a new daily data plan that will get customers hooked up to the company’s 4G LTE network for $5 a day. On Thursday, Verizon Wireless announced the introduction of a new $5-a-day data plan for customers Continue Reading →