Samsung Unveils $299 Galaxy Gear Smart Watch With One-Day Battery Life

Samsung today announced its Galaxy Gear Smartwatch, a wearable device that features a 1.63-inch 320 x 320 resolution AMOLED touchscreen, built-in speakers, and a 1.9-megapixel camera in the strap. It has an 800MHz processor, 4GB of storage, and 512MB of RAM. 

Samsung’s watch will support voice control with S Voice and is able to make and receive calls and video memos...

Apple invites media to Beijing Sept 11 event

Apple Inc has invited Chinese journalists to an event in Beijing on Sept. 11, just hours after it is widely expected to unveil its newest iPhone models in the United States, Chinese media reported on Wednesday.

It would mark the first time that the company has held near-simultaneous events in the United States and in China.

It could also fuel speculation that it may announce a long-awaited deal with China Mobile Ltd, which is the world's biggest mobile...

«Πράσινο φως» για επέμβαση στη Συρία από την αμερικανική Γερουσία

Οι ηγέτες της Επιτροπής Εξωτερικών Υποθέσεων της αμερικανικής Γερουσίας, ανέφεραν την Τρίτη ότι κατέληξαν σε σχέδιο συμφωνίας, το οποίο παρέχει την άδεια στον Αμερικανό πρόεδρο Μπαράκ Ομπάμα, να κάνει χρήση στρατιωτικής ισχύος κατά της Συρίας

Η αμερικανική κυβέρνηση κέρδισε πόντους στην εκστρατεία της με στόχο να πείσει το Κογκρέσο ότι πρέπει να γίνει στρατιωτική επέμβαση στη Συρία, επισημαίνοντας την...

Android KitKat is the next version of Google's mobile operating system

Google's Sundar Pichai, head of both Android and Chrome, has confirmed that the next version of Android will be called KitKat. Yes, you've read correctly, KitKat, as in the trademarked name of the chocolate candy bar made by Nestle (and licensed by...

Amazon's 'Kindle MatchBook' finally bundles physical books with a copy for your Kindle

If you've ever purchased physical books from Amazon, you'll soon be able to buy those same titles for your Kindle at virtually no cost. Amazon calls the new initiative Kindle MatchBook, and in many ways it resembles what the company's AutoRip program did for music; buy a physical version, and receive a digital copy to go along with it. 

But whereas the MP3s you get from AutoRip are always free, the retailer will be charging a nominal fee — between $0.99 and $2.99 — for the Kindle version of a paperback or hardcover you've...

Apple sends out invites for September 10 iPhone event

Mark your calendars for next Tuesday, September 10. Apple has just sent out invites for a news event that day, where we're expecting to see the next iPhone.

This year's tagline is simply, "This should brighten everyone's day."

The event is taking place at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and begins at 10 a.m. Pacific. CNET will be there to bring you all the news, live. Stay tuned for more details on how to watch...

Apple tech uses specific gestures to unlock apps, device functions

A future version of iOS may feature a unique security method that recognizes different gesture inputs to open specific sets of apps, allowing for greater control over user access.

The technology, detailed in a patent awarded to Apple on Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and...

Here's The Scary Part About The New London Building Producing A Light Beam So Hot It Caused A Car To Melt

A bombshell architecture story is brewing in London's Financial District.

A new construction at 20 Fenchurch — dubbed the Walkie Talkie building, due to its curved shape — is producing a reflected ray of light so hot, it caused a man's Jaguar to partially melt. Here's a photo of the building. You can see how curved it is, and how bright the reflection is...

This man is Christian Grey

Sorry, Henry Cavill, Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum and Ed Westwick; British actor Charlie Hunnam has officially won the most hotly-contested film role in eons.

Hunnammm – as we're now calling him – will star as Christian Grey in EL James’ cult trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey.

He may be best known in Hollywood circles for his role in US comedy Sons Of Anarchy, but he started out on Byker Grove, before his career took off with the role of Nathan Maloney in the Channel 4 dramaQueer As Folk.

James herself confirmed the casting news last night on Twitter, describing Hunnam as ‘talented and gorgeous’. (While anyone who saw summer’s Pacific Rim might quibble over the former point the latter is, in ELLE’s official opinion, pretty spot on...

H Microsoft εξαγοράζει τη μονάδα κινητών της Nokia

Η Microsoft θα εξαγοράσει τη μονάδα κατασκευής κινητών τηλεφώνων της Nokia έναντι 5,44 δισεκατομμυρίων ευρώ, ανακοίνωσε την Τρίτη η φινλανδική εταιρεία...

Νέο ωράριο απο σήμερα στη δημόσια υπηρεσία

Στη σκιά του μνημονίου σε πλήρη εφαρμογή τίθεται από σήμερα το νέο ωράριο για τη δημόσια υπηρεσία, το οποίο θα χαρακτηρίζεται από το σύστημα βάρδιας.

Οι κυβερνητικοί υπάλληλοι καλούνται να συμμορφωθούν με τη μνημονιακή απαίτηση, που στόχο έχει τη μείωση της υπερωριακής αποζημίωσης...

Εκδοση του Ντ. Μιχαηλίδη στην Ελλάδα αποφάσισε το Αν. Δικαστήριο

Το Ανώτατο Δικαστήριο απέρριψε την έφεση, που καταχώρησαν οι δικηγόροι του πρώην Υπουργού Εσωτερικών Ντίνου Μιχαηλίδη, στην απόφαση του Επαρχιακού Δικαστηρίου Λεμεσού, για έκδοση του κ. Μιχαηλίδη στην Ελλάδα, βάσει Ευρωπαϊκού Εντάλματος Σύλληψης, για να δικαστεί ως κατηγορούμενος στην υπόθεση Τσοχατζόπουλου....

Μιχάλης Ασλάνης: Τον «σκότωσε» το ένταλμα σύλληψης για χρέη

«Εγώ φεύγω. Δεν μπορώ να ζω σε ένα κόσμο τόσο σκληρό και άκαρδο»... Μερικές αράδες σε ένα ιδιόχειρο σημείωμα και η αποκάλυψη ότι ο 63χρονος μόδιστρος είχε ενημερωθεί πως επρόκειτο να συλληφθεί για χρέη 170.000 ευρώ προς το Δημόσιο εξηγούν τους λόγους που οδήγησαν τον ευαίσθητο Μιχάλη Ασλάνη στον θάνατο

«Φωτεινούλα μου, λυπάμαι που γνωριστήκαμε στην πιο δύσκολη στιγμή της ζωής μου. Μου συμπαραστάθηκες και σε ευχαριστώ πολύ. Να είσαι πάντα καλά...

Τρεις όμιλοι εταιρειών χρωστούν €1,2 δισ.

Βυθίζονται στα χρέη τα μεγαθήρια του κυπριακού επιχειρείν χωρίς να υπάρχει στον ορίζοντα προοπτική άμεσης ανάκαμψης τους. 

Τα εξαμηνιαία αποτελέσματα που ανακοίνωσαν πριν λίγες μέρες οι εταιρείες που είναι εισηγμένες στο χρηματιστήριο, φέρνουν στην επιφάνεια τις μεγάλες προκλήσεις που αντιμετωπίζουν οι επιχειρήσεις αλλά και τα διλήμματα που αντιμετωπίζουν πλέον οι πιστωτές τους. 

Ενδεικτικά των προβλημάτων που αντιμετωπίζουν οι εταιρείες είναι τα...

Verizon Is Expected to Pay $130 Billion for Stake in Vodafone Joint Venture

Verizon Communications neared a long-anticipated deal on Sunday to buy the 45 percent stake in its wireless business held by Vodafone of Britain for about $130 billion, heralding a continued sweeping realignment within the global telecommunications landscape.

Though a deal may have little effect on Verizon Wireless’s nearly 100 million subscribers at first, it would ripple through the telecommunications industry and Wall Street, with both having closely...

Snowden leaks: NSA conducted 231 offensive cyber-ops in 2011, hailed as 'active defense'

US intelligence carried out 231 offensive cyber-ops in 2011, nearly three-quarters of them against key targets such as Iran, Russia, China and N. Korea, as well as nuclear proliferation, a classified report obtained by The Washington Post says.

The “most challenging targets” also include suspected terrorists“in Afghanistan,...

Surgeon live-streams knee repair with Google Glass

For the first time in the US, a surgeon wearing Google Glass transmitted video of a surgery, live from the operating room, to a colleague and students miles away.

Dr. Christopher Kaeding was the participating surgeon in the landmark moment, which occurred on August 21 during a routine ACL surgery at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Kaeding, director of sports medicine at the university, wore Google Glasswhile repairing 47-year-old Paula Kobalka's knee, which she injured while playing softball....

Sega's Crazy Pitch For Modern Remakes Of Its Classic Games

Here's something so nutty it might actually have worked: a few years back Sega's Australian studio pitched an idea for a series of remakes called "Sega Reborn", which wouldn't just recreate classic games like Golden Axe and Altered Beast, but somehow tie them into the same, single universe...

Test runs get under way on 500 kph maglev Shinkansen

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) has begun test runs of a magnetically levitated train that can reach speeds of up to 500 kph with an eye toward commercial operations beginning in 2027.

The test runs got under way on Aug. 29 on an extended Yamanashi Maglev Test Line over a distance of 42.8 kilometers using the latest prototype L0 train cars.

The test runs will initially involve five linked L0 cars and reach speeds of 500 kph...

Obama seeks Syria strike with Congress' approval

Facing resistance at home and abroad about the prospect of a U.S. attack on Syria, President Obama said Saturday that he has decided the U.S. should take military action against the Syrian regime in retaliation for its use of chemical weapons...