Bigwig US wireless carrier AT&T has recently revealed in an announcement that it is launching a new wireless brand - Aio Wireless - for customers who are looking for simple, contract-free, value-geared plans.
Launching Aio (pronounced as A-O) - in a move which has apparently been prompted by smaller rival T-Mobile's "un-carrier" plans -, AT&T said that the new wireless brand is essentially aimed at customers who are interested in "a first-class wireless experience at a value price, without an annual contract."
According to a Joystiq report, Ouya has delayed the retail launch of its small $100-priced Android-based gaming console by nearly three weeks. While the console was earlier scheduled to be released on June 4, Ouya has now postponed the release date to June 25.
Though Ouya has already started shipping the console to the people who backed its crowd-funding round on Kickstarter, the retail release of the console has been pushed back apparently in order to meet the device's estimated huge demand at retail.
In an indication that online retail giant Amazon is apparently planning to expand its hardware portfolio beyond its existing lineup of Kindle devices, a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report has revealed that Amazon is working on two smartphones.
Disclosing that the Amazon Lab 126 Cupertino campus is currently working on two handsets, WSJ report, citing unidentified sources "familiar with the company's plans," said that one of the handsets being developed by Amazon is the 4.7-inch Amazon Kindle Phone.
At the annual GTI meeting and Worthersee Festival in Reifnitz, Austria, Volkswagen will be showcasing its new concept based on the seventh-generation of Golf GTI which has been designed under able guidance of Volkswagen's Head of Design Klaus Bischoff. The new concept is named as `Design Vision GTI' which will offer the looks at a super uber-track-focused Golf GTI.
The first event of GC32 Austria Cup is hosted as a part of popular Traunsee Woche. The brand new GC32 series began in Austria in the spectacular Lake Traunsee. It has six race teams contesting at the inaugural event.
The first ever day of racing went without too many hitches. The GC32 catamarans are competing in the race for The Great Cup.
In the legal fight against radio frequencies' allocation, a result of takeover of Orange Austria by rival Hutchison Whampoa, partial victory has been claimed by T-Mobile Austria on Monday.
It was said by the Deutsche Telekom unit on its website in a blog entry that the case had been referred by an administrative court in Vienna to the European Court of Justice.
As per the revelations of a new report, a 2-0 win has been eked out at the World Championships on the ice in Helsinki by Germany over rivals Austria.
However, the hopes of the nation are still slim. But, it is being said that the same was enough for reprisal for February Olympic heartbreak. Its best hockey was not produced then by the German national team against Austria.
In an apparent indication that a US federal appeals court is in favor of the value of the contentious Google Books project, three judges on the 2nd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan spoke well of Google's plans to create the world's biggest digital library.
The judges' opinion in favor of the Google Books project came across during the course of the Wednesday hearing of an appeal which Google had filed against a 2012 verdict by a judge, granting class status to authors represented by lawyers for the Authors Guild.
Many Brits barely walk and this despite knowing the benefits of exercise, even agreed by British Heart Foundation. This was stated in a poll.
About 25 per cent of people did not even walk for an hour per week, according to YouGov survey, which was conducted on behalf of the charity Ramblers.
Out of 2000 adults questioned, about 43 per cent stated that they did not even walk for two hours every week.
The worst was West Midlands. People here stated that they were walking less than 60 minutes a week.
Teardown site iFixit recently ripped apart a retail unit of the small Android-powered gaming console Ouya to ascertain the openness of its design and its repairability; and gave the device a very high ranking in terms of repairability.
According to the results of the iFixit repairability test of the retail-ready Ouya console, which is likely to hit the markets on June 4, the device scored a highly commendable 9 out of 10 points.
With Apple expected to unveil its next mobile OS version - the still-to-be-announced iOS 7 - at its upcoming WWDC event in June, reports on different websites have hinted that the company is probably testing the new iOS to ensure that it is ready to be introduced to the developers and the public.
It has recently been reported by Apple news site MacRumors and mobile site creator Onswipe that, in the last week, there were indications galore that traffic emanating from iOS 7 had witnessed a notable increase.
Software biggie Microsoft recently previewed some of the forthcoming features which it is bringing to Office Web Apps, the browser-based Web component of the company's Office 365 product.
With Office Web apps essentially delivering online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, one of the new features recently previewed by Microsoft included the real-time co-authoring support.
Independent studies have shed light on the fact that there has been climbing rate of deaths in Kenyan hospitals.
According to the doctors, such cases have increased in large numbers in recent times. 30% of people who visit the doctors are getting killed because of the wrong diagnosis. The ones who are saved go for the second opinion from...
At 11.10 pm, Barack Obama recorded a historic win by defeating his rival, Mitt Romney by 100 votes. Obama was given 303 electoral votes by the major networks, while Romney got 203.
Obama, the first African American President, was elected...
Objections have been imposed against Cathay Pacific Airways and Virgin Atlantic by the U.K....
A recent report has confirmed that former Warriors captain Peter Ndlovu would be sent to England...
Average price of gasoline has fallen by six cents since past two weeks and further plunge in the price is expected in the coming days.
The decrease is first in the prices since December. According to reports by the Lundberg Survey of fuel...
As per the revelations of a new report, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been...
A new survey by Newcastle researchers includes a study of experience of the new mothers. This is...
A second meteorite landed in one of the towns of...
A pair of white dwarf stars has been recently discovered...
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