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Google Refunding Buyers of Fake Anti-Virus App

Google is refunding users who unsuspectingly bought a fake anti-virus app from its Play Store. The Virus Shield app reached the number one ranking in the Play Store with over…

Vine Now Letting Users Communicate Privately with Message Feature

Vine is branching out beyond the world of six-second videos by adding a new feature that makes it possible for users to privately message one another. The Twitter-owned social network…

Apple Seeks Decisive U.S. Court Ruling Against Samsung

Apple and Samsung faced off once again in their long-running courtroom battle, with the iPhone maker asking jurors to award more than $2 billion for patent violations and Samsung trying to cast…

iPhone 5c Defeats Androids in Sales

From the constant complaining about the failure of Apple’s iPhone 5c, you’d think the phone is selling poorly. The reality is that the middle tier model, while dramatically less popular…

Google Plans to Release an Android SDK for Wearables

Google will launch an Android developers kit for wearables, according to Sundar Pichai, head of Android and Chrome, while speaking at the SXSW conference Monday. While Pichai did not say…

Nintendo to Join Mobile Gaming Race

Seth Fischer, one of Asia’s best-known hedge fund managers, has written to Nintendo Co. Ltd. urging the Japanese console maker to develop and sell games for mobile platforms run by…

WhatsApp to Add Voice to Messaging Service

WhatsApp, the popular messaging service for smartphones acquired this week by Facebook, will soon be offering a voice service. CEO Jan Koum said the voice service will be deployed for…

Visa and MasterCard Offer More Mobile Payment Options

Visa and MasterCard are introducing Internet-based technologies to make it easier for shoppers to buy things at retail stores without pulling out a credit card. The two technologies, announced separately…

HTC Offers to Replace Cracked Phone Screens

HTC is offering to replace cracked phone screens for six months, saying it wants to address a leading consumer frustration. The offer applies only to HTC One phones bought in…

How to Watch the Winter Olympics on Mobile

Four years ago at the last Winter Olympics in Vancouver, NBC streamed just two events live — ice hockey and curling. All 15 venues will be live-streamed at the Games…

Gameloft to Develop Official Mobile Game for Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Gameloft, a leading global publisher of digital and social games, has teamed up with Marvel to announce the development of its upcoming smartphone and tablet title, Captain America: The Winter…

Citi Unveils New Mobile App

Redesigned Citi Mobile App Optimizes Navigation and Adds Key Mobile Features for Banking and Credit Card Customers Today Citi launched its redesigned Citi Mobile App for iPhone and Android devices…

New NU App to Link World to the Campus

LEWISTON – Niagara University has launched a new app that will connect the world to the campus, giving users access to news, events and scores, as well as an employee…

Beats Music Proves it Has Some Heart

There’s no shortage of music subscription services that offer unlimited streaming for a monthly fee. The conceit of the latest offering, Beats Music, is that its playlists and other recommendations…

Smartphones Created Most Mobile Traffic, But Tablets Closed Most Sales

Smartphones were the source of most holiday mobile traffic but it was tablet users who racked up the most online sales, figures from IBM show. The company’s fourth-quarter retail online…