Sprint's HTC One E8 officially gets with the Lollipop program and more

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Sprint's HTC One E8 officially gets with the Lollipop program
LG G4 headed for Verizon on June 4, official render suggests
Deal alert starting May 23: 64 GB Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge at 32 GB prices
Smart Grids 101: Connectivity of the Future
Asus ZenWatch scores timely Android Wear 5.1.1 update
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Sprint's HTC One E8 officially gets with the Lollipop program

While nowhere near as handsome as its aluminum unibody M8 kin, the plastic-made HTC One E8 probably deserved more media attention and software love than it recently got. Admit it, you barely remembered the 5-inch 1,080p device when its international Lollipop promotion finally began last month.

Now, it's time for the 2014 "affordable flagship" to jump from Android 4.4 to 5.0…

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LG G4 headed for Verizon on June 4, official render suggests

LG G4 Verizon

While T-Mobile chose to directly concede LG G4's highly anticipated commercial launch date on the network, then got cold feet, suggesting the timeline isn't entirely worked out yet, Verizon goes a more devious route to tease the 5.5-inch Android's arrival. If you look closely on the leather-backed phone's pre-registration Big Red web page, you can more »

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Deal alert starting May 23: 64 GB Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge at 32 GB prices

Samsung came so close to Android smartphone perfection with the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. So, so close! Just an extra microSD card slot, plus waterproof exterior, and the two would have reached otherworldly virtue.

While the latter deficiency can be tackled at the microscopic cost of a $20 full-body rugged case from Supcase, the former is a…

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Smart Grids 101: Connectivity of the Future

The Obama administration has included $3.5 billion in grid modernization in its budget for the 2016 fiscal year. On top of that, the smart grid IT market is expected to double by 2024 and the future for implementation of smart grid technology is all but certain, with cities like Austin, Chicago and Sacramento leading the way.

Here's a bit more about smart grids and how they could improve life as we know it:

Smart Technologies – A Brief History

The formal move toward an intelligent grid started in 2002, when the Electric Power Research Institute proposed a research project called IntelliGrid. Eighteen months later, IntelliGrid Architecture was born and the first smart grid architecture was available for power distribution.

The focus of the new architecture was on the following four areas:

Home Area Networks (HAN)
Network-side applications, including reactive power control
"The future is now" utility functions such as solar photovoltaic power…

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Asus ZenWatch scores timely Android Wear 5.1.1 update

Although it's more or less meant to be the wrist-worn equivalent of Google's smartphone and tablet-dedicated OS, Android Wear wasn't drastically altered when it moved up to version 5.0, but it's now in the process of a few important changes with build 5.1.