HTC chairwoman: Our smartwatch will be ready by Christmas

Here's one more potential item for your holiday wish list. Another project for HTC: Tablets.

HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang.

HTC's smartwatch is indeed real, and it'll be here in time for the Christmas shopping season.
That's according to HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang, who confirmed to CNET that the company was working on a smartwatch and that it would be ready for the holiday season.

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WhatsApp Plans Voice App for Devices From IPhone to Android

WhatsApp Inc., the instant-messaging service being bought by Facebook Inc.(FB:US) for $19 billion, plans to add a voice function in the second quarter in a bid to make its application more attractive.

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Facebook, Ericsson partner on innovation lab to expand Internet reach

Ericsson will open an "innovation lab" on the Facebook campus to help with the development of apps and services on mobile networks.

Hacker Square at Facebook's Menlo Park campus.

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NASA says Muslims Banned From Mars

Space enthusiasts have been chatting for over a year now about the news of Mars One and how nearly anyone can sign up for a one-way trip to Mars in the near future. It can be a difficult decision for some—a chance to start over, the opportunity to be among the first to populate another planet and to possibly live on forever in Martian history. But many others see it as a dangerous trip, one akin to suicide for those who choose to go. That is why according to NASA, Muslim clerics from the United Arab Emirates have banned practicing Muslims from traveling to Mars.

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Why the Android-powered Nokia X is great for Microsoft

There are few better ways to prove your impartiality than by letting marquee partner Nokia run a rival platform.

The new Nokia X.

You would think Nokia's first Android smartphone would make for the start of a tense relationship with soon-to-be parent Microsoft.

Well, you'd be wrong.

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