It’s always good news when a major manufacturer of Android devices is performing well. It means that particular company will hopefully continue to support the users of its existing products, and conjure up new ones to help keep the platform alive. Motorola is one of those companies, despite the financial bumps in the road it’s hit in the past. Two years ago, the company was merely working out of a lab at Google’s headquarters. Now, it’s a part of Lenovo—one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world—and it’s
Tablet shipments took a U-turn and headed downward for the first time, according to a report from The data indicates a 12 percent decline from year-over-year, though there were still 67 million units sold in Q4 2014. Of the five largest tablet makers (Apple, Samsung, Lenovo, Amazon, and Asus) only Lenovo saw a jump in tablet sales, at just over 9 percent.
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Augmenting your green thumb through technology could get a lot cheaper with a new Kickstarter project called Daisy is a connected plant monitor that measures light, temperature, and moisture. It slides into the soil of potted plants, and sends information to smartphones via Bluetooth. Through a companion app, users can enter information about the plant (including the species and nicknames) and receive notifications when the plant needs care. Daisy will run on two coin cell batteries, which will need to be swapped out every three years.
Got books to digitize and plenty of patience? Amazon's Kindle Convert software will let you scan them at home. As spotted by The software includes automatic alignment and text editing capabilities, but also preserves the book's original font and formatting, along with any handwritten notes, autographs and images. Once the pages are scanned, the software then saves the document in Kindle format and adds it to the user's Amazon Cloud Drive storage. From there, Amazon treats it like any other Kindle book, with features like page sync, notes, highlights and a built-in dictionary.
The "world's thinnest gaming laptop" just got a big game-enhancing shot in the arm. Razer said it's refreshed its Razer Blade with a beefy new GeForce GTX 970M and an Intel quad-core that's almost 400MHz faster than last year's model. Externally, the 4.5-lb. Razer Blade doesn't change much, but it's the insides that matter the most for gaming performance. The
RadioShack's loss may end up being Amazon's gain, or so says the rumor mill. The online retail giant is reportedly hoping to buy some of Amazon would used any retail locations it acquires as showcases for Amazon e-readers, tablets, and smartphones, according to