21.co announces a token system to get people to join its paid messaging network

Today at Disrupt, 21.co CEO and co-founder Balaji Srinivasan outlined his company’s unusual evolution and announced the launch of a new system for kickstarting the site’s user base by incentivizing people with tokens for doing things like signing up, getting verified and performing certain tasks. […]

Microsoft highlights Windows 10’s speed, reliability and battery life boosts

Microsoft has fired off a blog post talking up the success of Windows 10, and how the operating system is improving substantially across many fronts – including reliability, performance and battery life – ahead of the release of the big Fall Creators Update. The post […]

Plantronics offers affordable wireless audio for your workouts

If you’re willing to splurge a bit, Plantronics hopes to sweeten the deal. The $130/£110 BackBeat Fit Training and $160/£140 Boost Editions (below) combine waterproof open-ears with a 6-month subscription to PEAR’s pro workout service through its Personal Coach app. The concept isn’t completely novel […]

HTC says it remains committed to Vive and its own smartphones after $1.1B deal with Google

Mario Queiroz and Rick Osterloh of Google, HTC CEO Cher Wang and CFO Peter Shen at today’s press conference in HTC’s New Taipei City headquarters. The $1.1 billion cooperation deal announced today between HTC and Google ended months of speculation, but prompted new questions. Chief […]