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Apple lines up September 9 event, seen unveiling new iPhones

Apple Inc on Thursday invited journalists to a September 9 event, where it is expected to unveil new iPhones and potentially a new version of its Apple TV set-top box. The email invitation...

Instagram adds new photo sizes to keep users, attract ads

Instagram has added new layout options in addition to its signature square for pictures and videos in a bid to attract more advertisers and to stop users defecting to more flexible services such...

Windows 10 spreads to more than 75 million devices

Microsoft said Wednesday that Windows 10 had spread to more than 75 million devices since the new operating system was released less than a month ago. The US software colossus is intent on...

Facebook testing personal digital assistant inside Messenger

Facebook Inc is testing a personal digital assistant called "M" within its Messenger service that can answer questions with live human help and perform tasks such as buying gifts online and...

Newest edition of Office 2016 expected next month for Windows users

Microsoft is reportedly set to launch its Office 2016 suite for Windows in September. According to various reports from The Verge and German site WinFuture, the latest iteration of Office will...

Apple to replace some iPhone 6 Plus cameras over blurry photos

Apple Inc said it would replace a limited number of iPhone 6 Plus phone cameras due to faulty back cameras that take blurry photos. The affected phones were mostly sold in a 4-month period...

Google testing food porn feature for Maps

Google is testing a new feature with some of its local city guides that will allow users to attach "foodographs" to restaurants and cafes on Google Maps. According to Android Police, the new...

LG unveils its most advanced G Pad tablet model

Following on the heels of the unveiling of its second generation 8-inch G Pad earlier this month, LG announced on Monday that it has come out with a new version of the Android tablet. The...

MIT scientists 3D-print glass

The first of its kind, optically transparent 3D-printed glass has been developed by researchers at MIT. Eliminating the need for a solid core but coiling the foundation in a molten strand...

Spotify defends itself after outcry over data collection

Online music streamer Spotify defended itself Friday after angry users accused it of abusive personal data collection by asking for access to their contacts and photos. Earlier this week, the...

Samsung rules world smartphone sales, numbers keep growing

According to Gartner, nearly 330 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the second quarter of 2015. Representing a 13.5% increase compared to the same period one year earlier, the numbers...

Apple challenges figures on Apple Music user retention

Only 21% of users who have tested Apple Music no longer use it, Apple said Wednesday, countering the results of a survey that found defection rates at more than twice that amount. In a survey...

Facebook leads social pack in US, Twitter sputters, study finds

Facebook remains the dominant social network for US Internet users, while Twitter has failed to keep pace with rivals like Instagram and Pinterest, a study showed yesterday. The Pew Research...

Ashley Madison ‘cheater’ files hit the dark web

A hacker group made good on its pledge to release user data stolen from the affair website Ashley Madison, creating a potential privacy and security debacle for millions. Security experts said...

Acronis launches new image backup solution

Acronis, the global leader in new generation data protection, today announced the release of Acronis True Image Cloud and Acronis True Image 2016, the newest versions of its leading backup...

Samsung announces new Galaxy O smartphone series

Samsung is reportedly at work on two new smartphones, to be released under its new Galaxy O series. They are likely to be called the Galaxy O5 and the Galaxy O7, according to SamMobile, which...

Microsoft targets Windows 10 bugs

Less than three weeks after launching, Windows 10 has already had to be updated several times in order to fix problems with access to its programmes. Yet none of this has curbed its devouring of...

Google gets in the WiFi router business

Google unveiled a WiFi router Tuesday looking to increase the ease and speed at which people's increasingly indispensable smartphones and tablets connect at home with its services. The Internet...

Facebook simplifies ‘Notes’ blogging feature

Facebook has blown the dust off a little-used blogging feature called "Notes", making it easy to use and elegant to look at. Originally intended for text too long to fit into a status update,...

Google’s Android update: code name Marshmallow

Google gave a name Monday to its soon-to-be released operating system for its Android mobile devices: Marshmallow. The moniker for the 6.0 version of the dominant mobile computing system...