By Kevin C. Tofel
The Moto G was finally unveiled this week as a follow-up to the Moto X. For under $200, the handset looks pretty compelling and could give Motorola a nice sales boost. Google Now gets more like Siri and the next HTC handset specs leak.
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The Internet Unpluggers, Somalia’s Pirate King, How Couchsurfing fell on hard times, Rock star scientist Pardis Sabeti, the rise of Robots and the fall of the House of Moon are all on the menu this week. Enjoy!
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Duke Energy has taken an important step forward to enable large companies to buy clean power from it if they're willing to pay for it.
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says his pressure tactics on the mobile industry over phone unlocking was not an isolated incident. He'd rather set policy through industry consent, but he says he's not afraid to regulate.
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We're not fans of ISPs capping broadband here at Gigaom, so we're keeping a close eye on how those caps evolve and who they affect. Check out our updated list on who's capping your broadband.
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TapTap-creator Woodenshark is one of several startups aiming to turn the connected wristband from a mere recorder of activity into a device that can communicate and control other apps through gesture and touch.
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The television industry is in the middle of a shift, but so far most consumers are content to keep both their pay TV subscription and shell out of over-the-top services. How long will that be true?
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Months after promising a native iOS app for its Google Play Music service, Google finally delivered the goods. The free app is available in the iTunes App Store as of Friday and supports both local music playback as well as cloud streaming of tunes. Google allows […]
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Amazon Web Services VP and Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton explained during a session at the AWS re:Invent conference how the cloud provider keeps costs as low as possible and innovation as high as possible. It's all about being the master of your infrastructure.
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The new iPad mini with retina display arrived sooner than expected, but that hasn’t stopped the reviews from pouring in. Here’s what they say so far.
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Motorola has confirmed that the Moto G will be running Android 4.4 KitKat by the time it hits the US in January.
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Despite the mobile industry's focus on mobile data, voice has long been the primary revenue driver for carriers. That's set to change this quarter.
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If you’ve been having issues using FaceTime, your troubles might be over. Apple’s latest iOS update fixes an issue that was causing some FaceTime calls to fail.
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Amazon Kinesis is a new service for capturing and processing streaming data, and it's also about the only thing of its ilk available as a cloud service. Will other cloud providers ever catch up with AWS?
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"Google Wallet 2.0" is live but it's not from Google. Instead, Isis is the newest digital wallet payment program and it's now live. You'll need a phone on Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T before you can pay with your handset.
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Coin isn't trying to replace the physical wallet with a digital one. Instead it's trying to reduce all of the credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards that clutter up our wallets to a single piece of plastic.
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The long-running copyright fight between Google and the Authors Guild is over: Judge Denny Chin issued a resounding ruling in favor of fair use.
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AWS is building a special cloud for the CIA's sole use. That sounds pretty private to most of the world. But Amazon the public cloud builder doesn't see it that way
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Under Armour has acquired MapMyFitness, an Austin, Texas-based company that uses a phone’s GPS to let people map their runs, bike rides and other workouts and share them among a community for $150 million. It’s akin to the RunKeeper app. Is this the beginning of consolidation […]
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IBM has upped the ante in the API game by making its Watson question-answering system available as a service. That's right, Watson could soon power your smartphone app.
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