WARSAW, Poland & BARCELONA, Spain — Fon, the world’s largest WiFi network, and Netia, one of Poland’s biggest telecommunications operators, today announced a partnership to create the largest WiFi community in Poland. Due to Fon’s quick time-to-market, the Netia Fon network already has thousands of hotspots in Warsaw and will…

We have talked a bit about Android 5.0 and it sounds like an interesting operating system. There have been rumors floating around hinting at when the new version of the operating system will launch, with early rumors pointing to Android 5.0 as soon as this summer. At Mobile World Congress Android 5.0 Lockheimer…

Facebook’s eagerly anticipated Wall Street debut could pump nearly $2.5 billion into California coffers over the next five years, the state’s top budget analyst said Monday. It was the first public prediction by a state official of what the social networking giant’s initial public offering could mean for California’s bottom line….

The Rolla High School robot didn’t do as well as students hoped during Saturday’s FIRST Tech Challenge Championship at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, but they will still be heading to the World Championship in St. Louis. “We actually only got 21 out of 36 as far as “We didn’t…

BARCELONA — Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia unveiled a cheaper smartphone using Microsoft’s Windows Phone software on Monday, aiming to win back market share by targeting a wider audience. Nokia last year dumped its own smartphone software in favor of Windows Phone to step up its fight against rivals such…

When streaming video service Vimeo launched brand-new Android and Windows Phone applications in early January, the company teased that it was also working on a major update for iOS so it could support the iPad. Now that wait is finally up, with Vimeo launching its much improved iOS app today…

BlackBerry PlayBook OS version 2.0 has finally landed, which means, ahead of the anticipated ‘thousands’ of new games and apps that RIM promises, it’s time to see where the ailing tablet stands. We’ve had a hands-on with the new version of the OS and given our two cents on the user…

Using three photographs, a 55-year-old video clip and $700 from the Benton Engineering Council, the UF Gator Robotics club resurrected a 7-foot robot from the past. Michael Andrews, president of the Benton Engineering Council, asked Gator Robotics last month to rebuild a robot named Otto, which was built by a UF…

The renowned Samsung Chromebook a product packing much more than your ordinary small netbooks – minus the Windows operating system of course – and can offer you quick and easy access at home or on the go with its fast integrated Google OS. The Samsung Chromebook is equipped with much…

Acer, in a recent press release, stated the launch of its new netbook, the Aspire One D270. The highlight appears to be Intel’s new iteration of the Atom processor, the N2600, based on the same technology used in the company’s Sandy Bridge processors. The rest of the hardware comprises of…