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Microsoft Seen Picking Up Another Hot Productivity App, Wunderlist

Having recently acquired email and calendar apps Acompli and Sunrise, Microsoft has reportedly dropped more than $100 million on the German startup behind Wunderlist.

More Bosses Expected To Track Their Staff Through Wearables In The Next 5 Years

While the vast majority of sales for fitness trackers and smartwatches are going to consumers now, research suggests close to a fifth of sales will come from enterprise and industry customers by 2020.

Here's Why Apple Didn't Want To Buy Nokia's Mapping Unit HERE

Reports say it’s building its first in-house maps database to pare down its reliance on TomTom. Apple, as usual, wants to go its own way.

Why Kik's Young Users Have Swapped 350 Million Texts - With Bots

Forget banner ads. Forget humans. The teen-tastic messaging app is getting advertisers to ‘chat’ with its 200 million users through automated bots, and the system is working.

Report: Apple's Smarter iOS Spotlight Will Challenge Google Now

Several years in the works, the new service codenamed ‘Proactive’ will reportedly use data from Contacts, Calendar and Siri to act as a personal assistant service.

This Wearable Prototype Can See Through Skin To Scan Your Blood

Echo Labs uses light and a clever algorithm to measure oxygen and CO2 in the blood stream.

Microsoft Confirms Cortana Is Heading To Android In June, iPhones 'Later This Year'

Redmond’s answer to Siri and Google Now will launch as a companion app that works with Cortana on a Windows 10 PC.

BlackBerry's Famous Last Words At 2007 iPhone Launch: 'We'll Be Fine'

New book gives an inside view on how BlackBerry failed to react to the crippling impact of Apple's iPhone.

Apple's iCloud Services Slow To A Crawl

Several Apple services linked to iCloud are running extremely slowly according to its system status dashboard.

These Free, Throwaway Wristbands Have All The Payment Magic Of The Apple Watch

Sports fans are among the first to get Gemalto’s temporary wristbands to pay for food, drink, public transportation and more.