Comcast announced on Thursday that it is transitioning away from its static data limit policy into a more flexible allotment model. In the coming months, the company will start testing new options that will offer users more bandwidth as part of their cable Internet plans, as well as the ability to purchase additional bandwidth if necessary. In 2008, Comcast started enforcing a 250GB usage cap... 

The Metropolitan Police, the police force responsible for Greater London, has announced that it will begin using a mobile device data extraction system that will give its officers the ability to extract data from a mobile device in a matter of minutes. The said system will use Radio Tactics’ ACESO Kiosk, a touchscreen device that will be deployed in the city. According to Radio Tactics, the... 

Palantir Technologies, the big data analysis company founded in 2004 by a team of ex-PayPal employees including Peter Thiel, has raised $56 million in new funding, according to a document filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is by no means Palantir’s first go-round with venture capital investors. This is the company’s 7th round of funding, according to our records... 

Cloud gaming: fast to play, faster to start The GeForce Grid that’s powered by Nvidia’s new Kepler GPU is powerful enough to let you play the latest games on a TV – without a console – or to use professional compositing software from a tablet. Does that mean you’ll never need to buy a graphics card again? Not quite, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told TechRadar. "There are still... 

Then what you’d get is East Side Games’ NomNom Combo on iPhone. Its first game for iOS devices, NomNom Combo draws plenty of inspiration from developer Spry Fox’s Triple Town, unabashedly so. In essence, it’s a free-to-play match-three puzzle game in which players don’t match like colored or shaped items to destroy them, but rather to create them. The twist, however,... 

When Google first launched Android, the open-source operating system came with the promise that it could power almost any device. That’s created a proverbial cornucopia of mobile devices that consumers have to choose from, but it’s also led to the issue of fragmentation — there are so many devices running different versions of Android with different capabilities that can... 

Apple’s attempts to have the anti-trust suit brought against them by the US Department of Justice thrown out of court were denied on Tuesday. Federal Judge Denise Cote cited previous statements from Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs as justification for the dispute over e-book pricing to continue. Jobs’s comment was included in the DOJ’s case against Apple. "We’ll go... 

Small things do matter. That’s exactly why Google is deploying another update to Gmail. Today, Google is introducing a few changes in Gmail which include quick access to contact details when viewing past conversations, as well as an improved integration with Google+ circles. Let’s get down into the details. Today’s update will give Gmail users rich contact information when searching...