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| Yolo Is Intel's First Smartphone for Africa | | Chip maker Intel and mobile operator Safaricom have announced the Yolo, the first smartphone for the African market with an Intel processor. Intel claims the Android device is aimed for "cost-conscious and first-time buyers in Kenya," but its specifications aren't as shabby as that characterization might imply. It's powered by the Intel Atom Z2420 processor which can reach speeds of up to 1.2GHz.
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| HTC Launches Cheap Desire U in China and Taiwan | | HTC has launched a new low-end, budget-friendly smartphone in China and Taiwan: the HTC Desire U. The device has a 4-inch, 800x480 pixel screen, a single-core 1GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of memory storage (further expandable via microSD memory cards) and a 5-megapixel camera. It also comes with Beats Audio. It supports Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth 4.0, and is powered by Android 4.0.
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| Hands On With Twitter's Social Video App, Vine | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:05 PM | Emily Price |
| Twitter launched Vine on Thursday — an app that lets you share 6-second video clips. Currently iOS-only, the stop-motion videos can include as many scenes as you can fit in. Video stops and starts when you press on your device’s screen. Your finished product can then be shared just on Vine, or with friends on Twitter or — in theory — Facebook. Still in its infancy, the service isn’t without drawbacks.
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| Facebook Cuts Down Twitter's Vine | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:59 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook has blocked Twitter’s new Vine app from being able to find your Facebook friends on the service. The app launched this morning, and previously offered users a way to see which of their Twitter and Facebook friends were also using the service, in addition to contacts stored in their phone.
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| How to Use Twitter's Vine to Create and Share Videos | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:44 PM | Emily Price |
| What could you show the world in six seconds? That’s the idea behind Vine, a service introduced Thursday that allows you to create and share looping videos. Currently only available for iOS, Vines are created by pressing and holding your finger down on the screen of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
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| Logitech Looks to Sell Harmony Remote Business | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:36 PM | Christina Warren |
| Logitech announced disappointing earnings for its Q3 2013 fiscal period. Sales were down 14% year-over-year and the company reported a net loss of $195 million ($1.24) per share. As a result, CEO Bracken Darrell is focused on making serious changes to Logitech's business.
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| Don't Count Apple Out | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:11 AM | Lance Ulanoff |
| The overreaction to Apple's "disappointing" earnings report is leading to wild speculation and a precipitous stock drop, but Apple and Tim Cook will prevail.
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| Is This Kindle's Siri? Amazon Buys Speech-Recognition Firm Ivona | | Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:09 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| In a move that may augur more Siri-like functionality for its tablets, Amazon on Thursday announced it is buying Ivona, a firm specializing in text-to-speech technology. The Poland-based Ivona's technology verbalizes written text messages. Amazon has been using Ivona's technology for its Kindle e-readers since 2009. Ivona also supplies "Explore By Touch" and "Voice Guide" navigation for Kindle Fire models.
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