Playing down the threat to his business from the world’s most valuable company, the founder of music streaming service Spotify said the industry was big enough for several players and his firm did not have to be number one. “To me it is enough to be among the top three,” Daniel Ek told Swedish business daily Dagens Industri in an interview published on Thursday, his first since Apple launched its
(Reuters) – New York law enforcement officials have written to eBay Inc and PayPal Inc this week, saying the companies’ revised user policies “raise issues” under consumer protection laws. Ebay’s updated user agreement is scheduled to take effect on Monday and PayPal’s will become effective on July 1. “Consumer choice and privacy preferences are protected by state and federal laws — including laws that specifically aim to stop companies from
A digital pen that allows users to document and share a digital copy of a scribble, sketch or note written on any surface has been developed in Israel. When paired with a smartphone, ‘Phree’ frees users from the need to write on paper or the screen itself. Resembling traditional hand-held pens in size and shape, its developers say that Phree’s appeal is in preserving the ancient act of writing or
Tailor-made audio sounds like a strange concept, but with services like Tidal using high bitrates it starts to make sense. People’s ears are different – some are more sensitive than others – and Aumeo wants to solve this problem by tuning your earphones to match the sensitivity of your ears. Aumeo is just a small box that lives between your music device and your headphones. After performing a simple test
Known for: HTC Quote: “The Porsche 911 has evolved over a generation. It’s incremental. Really, what we focused on, is making things that are already good about the One even better.” Born and raised in Switzerland, a country well known for the art of watch making, it’s not a big surprise Claude Zellweger has dedicated his life to the intricacies of design. Zellweger left Switzerland for the US and spent
Introduction and design The Microsoft Lumia 435 is an odd little phone. Immediately recognisable as a Lumia, given its bold colours and polycarbonate body, yet boasting sharper lines, a more boxy design and a Microsoft logo, this is a different breed of Windows Phone. As the first 400-class device in the Lumia family, the Lumia 435 is designed to appeal to a different audience from its older siblings. It’s for
Hands up all those with an OLED TV in their homes? Despite the fact LG’s latest UHD OLEDs are genuinely stunning from an image quality point of view, at £6,000 we’d argue very few of us are likely to get our eyes on one in our own homes. But a joint venture by Fujifilm and nano-electronics research institute, imec, might well have turned up a more cost-effective method of producing
Introduction and design The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact is one of the latest entrants in Sony’s rapidly expanding line of Xperia Z handsets. Though the original Xperia Z was only launched in March 2013, there have since been three main entries into Sony’s flagship line (the Xperia Z1, Xperia Z2 and the Xperia Z3) along with tablets and the occasional compact variant. There’s also been a Sony Xperia Z4 announced
Welcome to TechRadar’s dedicated page for Amazon Kindle deals. Here you’ll find the cheapest Kindle deals for all models, whether it be for the classic ereaders or the Fire tablet versions. We cross check every model of Kindle with every retailer every day to pull in the best deals so that this page is always up to date with the cheapest prices. Kindle Voyage deals The top of the range
Introduction Generally speaking, tech behemoths are always busy splashing cash and buying up new companies. And Microsoft, with its huge coffers, is obviously no exception… Microsoft has missed out on mobile – though it is still hoping to turn things around with Windows 10’s cross-platform nature – and is now having to play catch-up in other areas, which makes it a prime candidate for acquiring hot startups and expanding into
