Buyology Author Martin Lindstrom on Alipay, Global Retailing (video)

Will Alipay Revolutionize America?: Video - Bloomberg:
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“Buyology” Author Martin Lindstrom discusses the impact Alipay will have on global retailing. Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal also speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg Nov.28)


The Westside Story
Report: Sony Prepping E Ink Watch
PC Magazine
Details are scant on Sony's FES Watch, but it sure looks like a novel offering....


kjrh.com
Recalls this week: battery packs, doors
Charlotte Observer
A line of battery packs used to charge electronic devices are being recalled this week because they can overheat and cause a fire....


Daily Digest
Roku, Chromecast Or Fire TV: Which Streaming Stick Is Right For You?
Forbes
If you're looking to add streaming capability to your TV without taking up extra shelf space, a streaming stick can be a good—and less expensive—alternative to the standard set-top box . Roku, Google GOOGL +0.27%, and now Amazon all make sticks that let ...


ZDNet
Sony Pictures corporate files stolen and released in cyberattack
ZDNet
Sony has quite the history with hacking and cyberattacks affecting its networks, and now a subsidiary of the company is coping with intrusion on internal networks. Sony Pictures Entertainment, the television and movie arm of the tech giant, was hijacked this ...


ZDNet
Two-thirds of iPhone and iPad users now running iOS 8.0/8.1
ZDNet
It's been slow progress, but figures released by Apple show that iOS 8.0/8.1 usage has finally hit the 60 percent mark. See also: Compared to iOS, Android Lollipop adoption rates suck. Data released by Apple shows that almost two thirds of users accessing ...


Firstpost
How the Samsung Galaxy Note got its pen in CNET UK podcast 412
CNET
The Samsung Galaxy Note almost came with a toothpick, we're going back to "Jurassic World", and BT has its sights on O2 -- or maybe EE...


NDTV
Google Play Deals Include Nexus 9, Smartwatches
PC Magazine
On Black Friday through Cyber Monday, get Google Play credit and some extra discounts on Nexus 9 and Chromecast. 0shares. Hands On With the Google Nexus 9. Big box retailers aren't the only ones offering Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. On the ...


Christian Science Monitor
Windows 10 Consumer Preview May Come In January
Tom's Hardware
Just days after Microsoft indicated that no more builds of Windows 10 will be pushed off to Insiders this year, unnamed sources are now talking about a large-scale event that will take place in January. This event will happen later in the month and will reveal ...


Mobile Burn
Tutorial: Google Play Store and All Apps on Your Windows PC
Mobile Burn
Some recent all-in-one PCs (we're thinking the HP Slate 21) came with Android instead of Windows and the truth is Android is not robust enough as a full machine OS. Of course, some laptops come with both Windows and Android, but these hybrids have ...

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Myo Armband, The Future of Gesture Control (video)

Thalmic Labs' Myo armband turns electrical impulses in your muscles into commands for your electronics. Switch songs on Sonos or change slides in PowerPoint just by wiggling your fingers. Sam Grobart reports for Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead: 2015 " series. (Source: Bloomberg 11/11)

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CNET
With its first Lumia, Microsoft aims low
CNET
That is, it's not exactly a flagship phone intended to go after the high-end likes of theApple iPhone, Google's Nexus 6 or Samsung's Galaxy line.

New York Times
Yahoo Buys Digital Ad Service BrightRoll for $640M
ABC News
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer ... Meanwhile, ad revenue at Google andFacebook has been steadily rising by 20 percent or more in ...
Yahoo to Buy Ad Platform for $640 Million - Wall Street Journal
Yahoo bets big on video with $640 million BrightRoll acquisition - Fortune


Wall Street Journal
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China
Wall Street Journal
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China ... Chairman Jack Ma said at The Wall Street Journal's WSJD technology conference last ...
Jack Ma Will Take Alipay Public, Bullish On Apple Pay Partnership - Forbes


NPR (blog)
Facebook Friends Ebola Relief, Google Searches For Donations
NPR (blog)
If you're one of the billions of people who use Facebook and Google on a daily basis, you may have noticed some new messaging coming from the ...

BBC News
Facebook new Messenger service reaches 500 million users
BBC News
Social networking giant Facebook said its new messaging service now has more than 500 million users worldwide. ... In April, Facebook had told users that they would need to download a ... said Jack Kent, senior mobile analyst at the IHS Technology consultancy.... 

Reuters
Apple must face US lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages
Reuters
"Apple takes customer satisfaction extremely seriously, but the law does not provide a remedy when, as here, technology simply does not function as ...

BBC News
Google to lease former Nasa airfield for space research
BBC News
Google latest "moonshot" is an apt one - it is investing in a Nasa-owned ... company has acquired firms working on satellite technology and robotics.

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Apple Spaceship, Drone Flyover, iCloud Security (videos)

Apple's 'Spaceship' Campus Captured by Drone Camera: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- A Bay Area photographer used his DJI Phantom 2 Quadcopter with Zenmuse H3-3D 3- Axis Gimbal for GoPro Video Camera to take aerial footage of Apple's new corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif. on Aug. 24. The campus is still under construction. (Source: Bloomberg)

Apple Says iCloud Not Breached for Hacked Celebrity Photos: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Apple said its iCloud service wasn’t breached by hackers who posted nude pictures of celebrities. The celebrity accounts were “compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that is all too common on the Internet,” the company said in a statement. Julie Hyman has more on "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)
Apple Denies iCloud Breach
Wall Street Journal
Apple says its investigation indicated certain celebrity online photo ... to its competitors, famously lampooning the security measures in Microsoft Corp.
Nude celebs on iCloud? The timing for Apple Inc. couldn't be worse. - Fortune
Apple: It's not the cloud's fault - Politico
Apple: nude photos leak not linked to systems breach - USA TODAY

Apple Is Totally Screwed
Michael Arrington
Even if Apple fixes the problem, or has fixed the problem with the patch they just ....

Apple denies iCloud/Find my iPhone breach, says 'very targeted attack'
Mark Gurman
Apple is presenting this as a very targeted username, password, and ... Nor did we hear “outraged” from Microsoft, Google, Samsung, HTC, or any ...

Will Alibaba Cripple Google Wallet And Others? - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: "The race to make our wallets electronic, once led by Google, has many participants with competing versions of the concept. Over the holiday weekend, however, e-commerce giant Alibaba (Pending:BABA) announced via its blog that it plans to revolutionize electronic payments through its Alipay Wallet app and in partnership with smartphone maker Huawei."

Drone Developers Consider Obstacles That Cannot Be Flown Around - NYTimes.com: ".... Of course, the Federal Aviation Administration controls the skies in the United States, and it would have to sign off on any kind of drone management system. An F.A.A. spokesman said the agency expected to publish a proposed rule for small unmanned aircraft (less than 55 pounds) this year. The F.A.A. prohibition on commercial drone use has not stopped photographers. Indeed, a video of the damage created by the recent earthquake in Napa, Calif., shot by a camera attached to a drone, was widely circulated over the Internet last week. And hobbyists do not need F.A.A. permission, so long as they don’t endanger other “aircraft or people or property.”..."

Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7
Juli Clover
Apple today released a new version of OS X Yosemite to developers, two weeks after releasing the sixth Developer Preview and three months after ...

If Anyone Can Get Delivery Drones Legalized, It's Google
Meg Neal
The FAA told me that Google hasn't requested permission yet, but it has hired a lobbyist firm (the same asAmazon's, in fact) to influence policymakers ...

Microsoft Might Be About To Make A Giant Move Into Android Phone Software
James Cook
...However, if the Cyanogen operating system is better than Android — and if it came preloaded on a decent phone — it might take off. Every single Android app works on Cyanogen, so Cyanogen users can get the best of both open-source worlds....

Google rebrands its enterprise business services as Google for Work
Roberto Baldwin
Google rebrands its enterprise business services as Google for Work ... Obviously, Google's biggest competitor in this market is AWS (Amazon Web ...

Insert Citations in Multiple Formats Easily with Google Docs
Patrick Allan
Google Docs is a great free writing tool with a ton of great hidden features, including the research tool. You can save yourself some time and use the ...

'Google Enterprise' As The Far More Approachable 'Google For Work'
Jillian D'Onfro
Google Just Rebranded 'Google Enterprise' As The Far More Approachable 'Google .... 

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