Want proof that the "rugged" version of Samsung's Galaxy S4 — dubbed the Galaxy S4 Active — is as durable as promised? The video above from MobileTechReview confirms plans that the phone will be both waterproof and dustproof.

However, the phone's specifications seem considerably weaker than those of the original Galaxy S4. The Galaxy S4 Active features a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU and an 8-megapixel rear camera, compared with the S4's quad-core or Octa-core chipsets (depending on the variant) and 13-megapixel camera. Its other specifications seem to resemble the normal Samsung Galaxy S4. Read more...

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who announced on Monday that the company acquired popular social blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion, said she will use the site often to share her experiences and interests with the community, from Yahoo news to pictures of macaroon art.

Mayer will blog with the user name MarissaMayr — note the dropped "e," in line with Tumblr and Yahoo's other product Flickr

"I intend to keep blogging," Mayer told Mashable. "I've been wanting to blog for awhile, so it was really gratifying to update my profile link on Twitter to my Tumblr page. I will be doing a lot more. I'm not sure if I can create animated GIFs, but I will definitely be posting more pictures." Read more...

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Sid Meier's Ace Patrol sets itself apart from the rest of the phone gaming scene by managing to be a phone game you opt to play over more robust PC or console games.

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While many of us are just starting to enjoy the benefits of early 4G networks, Samsung is looking at what it would take to build a gigabit wireless network for 5G. Unless you…

Much like television shows, phones that do poorly at launch can be pulled and just disappear. After a month of poor sales, the Facebook powered HTC First will soon be gone from AT&T shelves for good.

BlackBerry’s annual developer conference kicked off this morning with CEO Thorsten Heins unveiling the company’s latest BB10 smartphone for emerging markets, the Q5. The BlackBerry Live conference, taking place only a few months…

In a move that BlackBerry hopes will cast a tall shadow on iMessage and Google Talk, their BlackBerry Messenger is soon to be available on iOS and Android.

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An increasing number of vehicles over the next year will be released with wireless charging either built in or available as an add-on. But unlike the Qi chargers we use in our homes,…

Google's annual developer conference started with a bang as cross platform cloud services were unveiled.

Out of the many, many things Google has unveiled at their annual I/O conference, we were given a detailed look at the next version of Google Maps.

Brace yourselves, Geek fans: NEC has just unveiled a water-cooled Android smartphone. The downside? The Medias X 06E is a little more girly and embellished than you might like. What’s inside the phone…

Not everyone loves Microsoft’s new YouTube app for Windows Phone. Google, for example, wants it pulled from the Windows Phone Marketplace and nuked from users’ phones by May 22nd. Why? Because Microsoft built an…

When the gaming industry got wind of the power of social gaming, rather than embark on a quest to design actual games based on social experiences, it more or less began pumping out…

Amidst the dozens of sessions, weary from hours of keynote speeches, we managed to sit down in the middle of Google I/O to chat a little about what we’ve seen and what we…

It was really, really hard to get into Google I/O this year, so a lot of people that wanted to attend the show just couldn’t make it out to San Francisco’s Moscone Center…

The Galaxy S4 is more an evolutionary phone than a revolutionary one, but Samsung is rightly proud of its new flagship. Apart from being the company’s fastest-selling phone ever, it’s also the first…

Samsung and BlackBerry may have beaten it to the punch, but Apple has now secured U.S. Department of Defense certification for iPhones and iPads running iOS 6 (and even the iPod touch). The…

No matter what piece of technology you are using, you are only as secure as you want to be. Most people don’t bother password protecting the data on a USB drive, and even…