"Line" news, interviews, and features

News about Line

• Line aims lightweight chat app at developing countries

  Line Lite is under 1MB and doesn't have audio and video, but it reflects the company's strategy

• In Japan, Uber dons white gloves to battle an elegant rival

  A small group of foreign and domestic firms is trying to improve on Japanese taxi services

• Bruised by past mistakes, tech firms brace for 'leap second'

  Adding a 61st second has caused problems in the past, and some want to do away with it

• Line launches paid music streaming service in Japan

  The messaging app is available from US$2.43 per month for students

• FTC targets group that sends out millions of robocalls a day

  FTC and 10 state attorneys general settle with vacation services group that made massive robocall across the country.

• Messaging app Line buys Microsoft's MixRadio music-streaming app

  Microsoft says that Line gives MixRadio 'an excellent platform for expansion'

Features about Line

• The BYOD debate is not over

  Given the imminent demise of phone subsidies and other factors, BYOD may well undergo a rebirth.

• Everyone bets on bigger iPhone for '14

  Logic demands Apple super-size the iPhone screen, but Cupertino doesn't always play rational

• The worst tech predictions of 2013 -- and two that hit the mark

  From the social network in business to the 'success' of the Chromebook to the launch of iTV, the pundits got it wrong, wrong, wrong

• New storage technologies to deal with the data deluge

  As enterprise storage demands escalate, disk densities continue to rise. But the real magic is in software, where speed and size come together.