WD says its new Purple hard drives are optimized for 24/7 video surveillance
Name an application and it seems Western Digital has a colored storage device optimized for it. Today, the company unveiled its WD Purple drives: A class of hard drives that WD says is optimized for mainstream video-surveillance applications. Available in capacities from 1- to 4TB, WD’s Purple 3.5-inch drives are designed specifically for the rigors of video-surveillance, where the drive spends the vast majority of its time...
Oral-B’s smart toothbrush wants to fix our dumb hygiene habits (hands-on)
Were we expecting to find a Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush here at MWC? No, we weren’t. Did we physically put it to the test, after a long line of other exhibition goers? No, we certainly did not. However, we’d be more than pleased to show you how the Oral-B’s SmartSeries 7000 might earn its keep. As you’re about to see, the $220 gizmo can do plenty of things that normal toothbrushes can’t. Oral-B...
Motorola confirms Moto Maker service coming to Europe in Q2, starting in the UK and Germany (update: Mexico too)
We’ve seen and heard plenty from most of the main players here at MWC, but one company has remained eerily quiet until now. Motorola’s situation has changed significantly in recent weeks, and that change of plans has taken attention away from hardware releases, and back onto how it plans to reinvent itself post-Google. But, there is news. Rick Osterloh, SVP Product Management has just announced that its popular Moto Maker...
WinZip’s ZipShare service wants to help you manage your cloud storage accounts
The ever-popular Windows file compression utility WinZip is moving to the cloud with a new website called ZipShare. As you might expect, ZipShare offers an online file compression utility that lets you zip and then share files with others via download links. But ZipShare, currently in beta mode, isn’t a cloud storage service the way Dropbox or OneDrive is. Instead, it’s a mix between file sharing services like Hightail...
App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013
CUPERTINO, California―January 7, 2014―Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store℠ in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone. App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps in December making it the most successful month in App Store history. Apple’s incredible developers have now earned $15 billion on the App Store.“We’d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year...
