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Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell discusses his takeaway from the the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2015) held in Las Vegas. He speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Windows Disappearing, Microsoft Platforms Nowhere at CES

"There's no way to sugarcoat this. Windows 8 has set back Microsoft, and Windows, by years, and possibly for good"--Paul Thurrott, Jan. 11, 2013

Goodbye Windows? --

Closing Windows: Microsoft and its platforms are nowhere to be found at CES | The Verge: "With a lack of new products and no presence on the floor, Microsoft and its platforms are almost nowhere to be seen. Microsoft wasn’t officially at CES last year either, but Steve Ballmer ran on stage with Qualcomm, and Microsoft joined the Samsung press event to demonstrate an impressive Illumiroom concept. This year the company has barely involved itself with CES: Microsoft executives like Julie Larson-Green and Terry Myerson are in Las Vegas, but the show itself has been dominated by sensors and devices that are optimized for iOS and Android, with few Windows and Windows Phone apps to be seen."

Apple did not violate Google patent, says US appeals court

Reuters
The ITC ruled in April 2013 that Apple did not violate any of the six. ... Googleacquired the patents in the case - and the lawsuit - when it purchased ...

Headlines & Global News

Why Apple Is Losing Ground To The Samsung Brand

Forbes
On the upside for Apple, it scores higher for people with salaries of over $50,000. But separate studies show that both Samsung and Microsoft are ...

Windows IT Pro

Google Maps Apologizes for Hitler Square Gaffe

Voice of America
Google apologized today for a glaring mistake on its Google Maps service which identified Berlin's Theodor-Heuss-Platz by its Nazi-era name, ...

Times of India

Microsoft Partners In Uproar Over Cloud Sales Commission Cuts

CRN
Microsoft is preparing to slash the fees partners get from its Online Services Advisor Incentives program, and many ... The fee cuts mean partners will have less incentive to tout Microsoft cloud services over Google's, the source said.

Apple, Amazon among decliners as techs weaken

MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The tech sector weakened along with the broader market following what was seen as a disappointing report on ...

Amazon makes it easier to submit mobile apps with new developer ...

Computerworld
IDG News Service - Amazon.com opened a new portal that aims to help ... In the last 10 months it has made its competitor to the Google Play Store ...

Google to bundle Chromecast with Moto X purchase

USA TODAY
At $35, the Chromecast is currently listed as the most popular media streamer on Amazon ahead of devices like the PlayStation 4, Roku and Apple TV.

Hot Hardware

Google And Intel, Welcome To The New American Conglomerate

Forbes
... on more or less any sector and win (Amazon is the original new American conglomerate). ... By way of contrast to Intel and Google, Apple hired the CEOs of Yves St Laurent and of ... Message toMicrosoft – one CEO is not enough.

Apple Patent Application Reveals Optical Image Stabilization Tech ...

The Mac Observer
Complimenting yesterday's report that Apple may keep the 8-megapixel image sensor for the next iPhone's camera and instead focus on image ...

The Mac Observer

Microsoft Surface 2 LTE, Surface 3 details purportedly revealed on ...

NDTV
Some details about the anticipated Microsoft Surface 3 tablet have seemingly been revealed in a series of tweets. The tweets were written by someone ...

NDTV

Is Windows Update Broken? 5 Broken Updates Microsoft Released ...

Chris Hoffman
Quality control seems to be suffering as Microsoft scrambles to update their ... On December 10, 2013, Microsoft released a firmware update for their ... Affected users had to Google up the problem and manually uninstall the update.
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Mobile biggies conspicuous by absence at CES

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Dropped call: Mobile biggies conspicuous by absence at CES
CNET
Many of the big names in wireless continue to shy away from the Consumer Electronics Show, or limit their presence. That leaves an opening for the second-tier players. Roger Cheng. by Roger Cheng January 6, 2013 4:00 AM PST Follow @RogerWCheng ...

Telecoms giant Verizon is conquering America - the world should take note
Telegraph.co.uk
The speech that Lowell McAdam delivers in Las Vegas on Tuesday will not steal the headlines. As the international consumer electronics industry gathers for its annual jamboree in America's “Sin City”, there will be a scramble to hear from Google, Facebook, ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Feathered dinosaur used displays to attract mates
TG Daily
Some feathered dinosaurs may have used their tail feathers in a similar way to today's turkeys and peacocks, in displays to attract a mate. Scientists at the University of Alberta believe they have found the first evidence that the 'Similicaudiptery', a bird-like...

TG Daily

iPhone Mini -- Could This Be Apple's Next Big Thing?
Forbes
Rumors are circulating that Apple plans to counter Samsung's ever-increasing control over the smartphone market by releasing a petite version of the iPhone, dubbed by pundits the iPhone mini. Could a 'Honey I shrunk the iPhone' version of the smartphone ...

Corning Gorilla Glass 3 expected at CES 2013

TG Daily
Corning's stalwart Gorilla Glass has been used to cover sensitive LCD smartphone and tablet displays for quite some time now. Unsurprisingly, Corning will be making an appearance at CES 2013 this week where it is slated to shocase an upgraded version ...

Samsung reveals new home theater gear ahead of CES 2013
Digital Trends
Samsung's new digital audio line-up is armed to the teeth with all kinds of fancy tech. Samsung coolly disclosed details on the highlights of its home theater line-up for 2013 last night. The company is laying claim to introducing the world's first sound bar ...

Best Google Bug Ever Adds 'Praise The iPad' To Text-To-Speech Commands ...
Huffington Post
In a hilarious quirk that may have gone almost undetected for months, Google's text-to-speech engine often ends sentences with the peculiar phrase “he now praises the iPad." According to TechCrunch, the bug appears in Google Now as well as in Google ...

Nigel Farndale on the week's television: Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon (Sunday, BBC Two) was a measured and dignified biopic that did justice to its self-effacing and enigmatic subject. It gave you a glimpse of what it was like for Armstrong, who died last year, to go from being an ordinary ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone 5 Sale Tactics by Walmart Has Best Buy Steaming
PFhub
news Consumers may have benefited from some holiday shopping season price wars, but some retailers—such as Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) and Toys 'R Us Inc.—are accusing Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (NYSE:WMT) of unethical advertising practices which ...

PFhub

EXCLUSIVE: Scientists reach temperatures below absolute zero, universe ...
Science Recorder
Scientists have made a startling achievement long thought to be impossible: a negative absolute temperature. Using a reversed magnetic field on a laser-stabilized lattice of super-cooled potassium atoms, physicists at the Ludwig-Maximilians University ...

Science Recorder

Christmas Bird Counts bring interesting observations
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
blue jay View full size For whatever reason, blue jay numbers were down during the Christmas Count. Courtesy of Pennsylvania Game Commission | JOE KOSACK. In the annual three-week period during which the National Audubon Society held Christmas ...

NASA seeking to lease or sell space shuttle-related facilities
Knoxville News Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. — Does anyone need a 15,000-foot landing strip? How about a place to assemble rocket ships? Or a parachute-packing plant? An array of aerospace tracking antennas? A launchpad? Make us an offer, says NASA, which is quietly holding a ...

Google TV still has top partners, despite poor sales
Tapscape
Google are preparing a top line of partners to release new Google TV's, including some new arrivals that will be showing their very first Google TV at CES in the coming weeks. Asus are the newest arrival to start making TV's for Google. For years, Asus were a ...

Dealer's Suit against Tesla Motors Discharged by Judge in MA Court
Nitrobahn
The makers of Model S cars, Tesla Motors have won its latest battle against auto dealers and their associations that want to avert the upstart electric car company from opening its own stores. The Palo Alto Company won dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the ...

Nitrobahn

E3 Countdown clock starts- Microsoft
Solar Panels News
Microsoft has recently announced that with this New Year they will have a special thing at the E3, leading to confusion if the announcement will be related to Xbox 720. Microsoft's previously launched Xbox 360 was one of the favorites and is very popular ...

2013 Fiat 500e Receives 116 MPGe And 87 Mile Range
Nitrobahn
Even though Fiat was a bit reluctant to enter into the world of electric vehicles, it has captured the stage and is already making news about the EPA ratings of its new 500e electric subcompact. According to Fiat, the subcompact 500e's range is much better...

Nitrobahn

Sun Eruption As Big As 20 Earths Captured on Video by NASA
Vibe
A New Year's Eve sun eruption lasted four hours and blasted a wave of super-hot plasma into space equal in size to 20 Earths. NASA captured the whole thing on video via their Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a spacecraft launched in 2010 to monitor the ...

Low-priced laptops keep Windows 8 PC sales struggling
Gant Daily
Redmond, WA, United States (4E) – The absence of netbooks have apparently affected Windows 8 PC sales. The latest offering by Microsoft has struggled in sales because consumers are still looking for low cost units. The NPD Group concluded on Friday ...

Sprint Will Offer No-Contract Wireless Service Starting 1/25
Hot Hardware
Sprint's network is used by a wide variety of MVNOs across America, but perhaps there's something to be said about keeping the Sprint branding. Reportedly, the carrier will launch its own Sprint-branded prepaid service starting on 1/25, which will bring a ...

Hot Hardware

Is Apple the Next Nintendo?
Motley Fool
I'm about to compare Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) with Nintendo (NASDAQOTH: NTDOY ) , and it's not going to be pretty. See, I'm not going to pit the world's most valuable tech company against the gaming giant in its prime. That would be too easy. I'm matching ...

China's anti-satellite weapon a "trump card" against US
Economic Times
BEIJING: Amid reports that China is gearing up to conduct one more anti-satellite weapons test (ASAT) putting US Global Positioning System (GPS) at risk, Chinese state media today asserted that Beijing had the right to carry out the test as it is a "trump card" ...

Google 'alternative' for tablet users is here
Times of India
SAN FRANCISCO: The makers of Blekko believe they've built a great alternative to Google, but they're also realistic. They know their two-year-old internet search engine won't ever supplant Google as the most popular place to search on laptop and desktop...

Times of India

Amazon cuts price of Kindle Fire HD 8.9 $50 for students with Prime membership
ZDNet
Summary: The first Kindle sale of the year drops the price of Amazon's largest tablet to $249 if you're a student and a Prime member. Sean Portnoy. By Sean Portnoy for Laptops & Desktops | January 5, 2013 -- 20:39 GMT (12:39 PST). Follow @teklust ...

Library Of Congress Twitter Archive Reaches 170 Million Messages
RedOrbit
Less than 24 months after first announcing their plans to compile an archive of Twitter posts, the Library of Congress has collected more than 170 billion messages comprised of 140 characters or less, the institution announced on Friday. The archive, which ...

Galaxy S IV takes bite out of Apple
Herald Sun
THE latest version of Samsung's popular Galaxy S mobile phone has been unofficially unveiled. One online image shows the new gadget sporting a 12.7cm display and a new design with no buttons on the case. According to the SamMobile website, the ...

2013 Detroit Auto Show: 2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class Coupe And Cabriolet ...
Daily auto news
Having survived yet another apocalypse, we turn our attention to the 2013 Detroit Auto Show where Mercedes promises us some good things, like the 2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class Coupe and Cabriolet. This news comes after we have been shown the 2014 ...

Waterlogged meteorite may answer 3 questions about life on Mars
The Space Reporter
It's likely one of the most important discoveries in recent years and astronomers are just beginning to understand the potential findings from a rare Martian meteorite recovered in Western Morocco. Astronomers say the Mars meteorite — dubbed “Black Beauty” ...

The Space Reporter

Rumor: Apple May Release iPhone Mini in 2014
Tom's Hardware Guide
Apple may be forced to release an iPhone Mini for the prepaid market to better compete with Samsung. The latest Apple rumor to appear just days after the New Year is the possibility of an iPhone Mini, an idea that has been around since the launch on the ...

Samsung unveils NX300 - 3D-capable 20MP mirror less camera
PC-Tablet
Samsung has started what has been described as the integration of its devices particularly its cameras with its smartphones. Samsung has announced its NX300 which happens to be its upgraded version of NX series of APS-C mirror less cameras. The latest ...

PC-Tablet

Google's Dan Morrill reveals rejected Android mascot designs
The Drum
Google executive Dan Morrill has unveiled some of his early concept illustrations for the Android logo. He showcased the four colourful robots, dubbed 'Dandroids', on his Google+ account. They were rejected back in 2007 in favour of the now iconic ...

Samsung, LG Hit with US$35 Million Anti-trust Fine in China
Arirang News
Samsung and LG have been hit with an anti-trust fine in China for fixing the prices of their flat-panel screens. China's National Development and Reform Commission said Friday that it had fined Samsung Display a little over 16-million dollars and LG Display ...

Sony Planning Virtual MSO Service?
Capsule Computers
With the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starting up in a few days, rumours have begun to swirl of a major play coming from Sony: a virtual MSO service. An MSO, or Multiple Service Operator, is basically akin to a cable provider. And according to ...

Capsule Computers

Microsoft's Windows 8 bags $617 Million Defence Deal- GOOG, NSIT, MSFT ...
US Daily Stock
In a major announcement a three-year agreement has been signed by the world's major software maker wrapping up 1.5 million of the part of Pentagon's computers. The deal includes installation of Windows 8 OS for US Army, Air Force as well as the Defence...

US Daily Stock

Leap Motion In Asus Deal
iProgrammer
The Leap, a tiny low cost device, that lets users control a PC using hand gestures is going to be bundled with Asus laptops and desktops. The Leap Motion device offers many of the abilities of depth cameras such as the Kinect but it is small, cheap and ...
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Nvidia previews own Tegra 4 gaming device

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Nvidia previews own gaming device, shows off Tegra 4
Reuters
By Noel Randewich. LAS VEGAS | Mon Jan 7, 2013 7:01pm EST. LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Nvidia offered a sneak preview of a hand-held gaming device, powered by its latest "Tegra 4" processor, that it hopes will help it go up against Sony Corp, Microsoft ...

Broadcom chip ushers in H.265 and UltraHD video
CNET
The H.265 video standard, aka HEVC or MPEG-5, squeezes more pixels over a network connection to support new high-resolution 4K TVs. Broadcom's chip supports both and is due to arrive in volume next year. Stephen Shankland. by Stephen Shankland ...

Best Buy, Wal-Mart bring disc-to-digital conversion home
Reuters
By Dhanya Skariachan. NEW YORK | Mon Jan 7, 2013 4:00pm EST. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retailers Best Buy Co Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc are enhancing their video streaming services to let customers convert previously purchased physical DVDs into ...

Poll shows support for separating the two northern runways at LAX
Los Angeles Times
A controversial proposal to separate the two northern runways at Los Angeles International Airport is strongly supported by likely voters in Los Angeles and the City Council district that contains LAX, according to a new public opinion poll. The survey released ...

AT&T sold 10m smartphones in Q4, beats 2011 record
ZDNet
Summary: The cellular giant sells a record number of smartphones during the lucrative fourth quarter, powered by increased demand in Android and Apple devices. Zack Whittaker. By Zack Whittaker for Between the Lines | January 8, 2013 -- 13:50 GMT ...

New 27-inch iMacs won't ship until next month
CNET
Apple's latest estimate points to a wait time of three to four weeks, meaning new buyers will have to hang on until February. Lance Whitney. by Lance Whitney. January 8, 2013 5:51 AM PST Follow @lancewhit. (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) ...

Lexus unveils car that anticipates road danger
NBCNews.com
It can spot a potential problem 500 feet away and tell the difference between a red and green light. It can anticipate a corner even before the driver turns the steering wheel. It's designed to prevent a crash but can also make it easier to survive a collision even ...

CES news barely nudges tech stocks
USA TODAY
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs speaks during the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show. (Photo: Julie Jacobson, AP). Tags. 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Monday was a busy day for the International Consumer Electronics Show, as several ...

How long will Twitter allow users like AP to sell their own ads?
paidContent.org
The Associated Press is running sponsored tweets as part of a deal with Samsung during the Consumer Electronics Show. While this is allowed under Twitter's rules, it also clearly threatens the network's future as an advertising medium. How long will it allow ...

paidContent.org

3D Systems' Outsized Machine Does Multicolor Prints as Big as Your Head
Wired
3D Systems, the industrial 3-D printing giant, is expanding its desktop line of printers with the oversized, multicolor-printing CubeX printers. The printers, announced today at CES, promise an oversized print platform that can output objects up to 10.8″ x ...

Wired

Trakdot Luggage Tracker is LoJack for your checked baggage
Digital Trends
If you're someone who worries about airlines misplacing your luggage on long journeys, a new device might make your life a little more stress-free. Once packed with the rest of your luggage, the Trakdot Luggage Tracker will tell your phone exactly where it is ...

Philips unveils sound bar with wireless detachable speakers for true 5.1 sound ...
SlashGear
Phillips has unveiled what it claims to be the world's first sound bar with detachable side speakers for true 5.1 surround sound at CES 2013. The speaker system is called the Philips Fidelio Soundbar HTL9100. The sound bar features detachable wireless side...

SlashGear

Apple Developing Low-Cost iPhone for Emerging Markets in 2013
The Mac Observer
A new year brings a new batch of low-cost iPhone rumors. News Tuesday from DigiTimes claims that Apple will introduce a low-cost iPhone for emerging markets in the second half of 2013, according to sources in the supply chain. News of a low-cost iPhone ...

The Mac Observer

Monster MVP Carbon headset hands-on
SlashGear
Today at CES, Monster announced a partnership with EA Sports and revealed the MVP Carbon headset. We ended up getting our hands on the new product at Monster's booth at Pepcom, and got a close up look of the new design. The headset features 5.1...

SlashGear

With Fitbit Flex You Never Stop Monitoring Your Fitness
Mashable
Fitbit has moved past the clip-on fitness tracker. At CES 2013 the company announced its Fitbit Flex — a wearable wristband with Bluetooth 4.0 that keeps track of your workouts and sleep cycle. The slim wristband will track your steps, distance, calories ...

Pantech Announces Discover: 4.8-inch Android Smartphone
Tom's Hardware Guide
The 4.8-inch 720p HD display is accompanied by a 12.6-megapixel camera, as well as 4G LTE compatibility. It's powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 Pro processor. Other features include NFC (near-field communication) and ...

Shutterfly buys ThisLife in an attempt to create the perfect photo service
VentureBeat
Launched in 2010, ThisLife is a service you can use to upload, organize, and share images online. With the purchase, Shutterfly is attempting to create an end-to-end solution for users hoping to not only store their photos but to print them out as well. Of course ...

VentureBeat

America's 11th largest tech company (It's Apple's iPad)
Fortune (blog)
iPad-mini-black FORTUNE -- Just how lucrative has Apple's iPad become? Let's put it this way: if the tablet were spun off into a standalone business, it would be the 11th largest U.S. tech company. According to a recent report from Bernstein Research analyst ...

Fortune (blog)

Sling Launches Second Screen And Media Syncing Capabilities With New ...
TechCrunch
It's been about five years since Echostar acquired Sling Media, but the company — which revolutionized place-shifting technology that allows users to stream live TV anywhere, on PCs, mobile devices, and tablets — continues to innovate. The latest ...

Milky Way May Contain 100 Billion Planets
Scientific American
Milky Way May Contain 100 Billion Planets. Based on exoplanet observations made using the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers estimate that our galaxy's ratio of stars-to-planets is at least one-to-one.  ...

Time Warner providing 300 channels for Roku
Business First of Columbus
Time Warner Cable will provide 300 channels to Roku in a partnership with the online video streaming company- Time Warner Cable Inc. will supply online video streaming ...

For NASA, not flying into space means it has too much space
Houston Chronicle (blog)
A science blog with Eric Berger. For NASA, not flying into space means it has too much space. Tuesday, January 8, 2013.  Just before Christmas I had an opportunity to visit with Ellen Ochoa in her corner office ...

Houston Chronicle (blog)

Targus Touch Pen Enables Touch Input on Non-Touchscreen Laptops
TIME
With the Touch Pen for Windows 8, Targus has found a way to welcome old laptops to the touchscreen party. The pen enables touch input on Windows 8 laptops that don't have touchscreens. Users must clip a small receiver to the side of the laptop, then ...

Windows 8 sales: Intel confirms hurry-up-and-wait scenario
ZDNet
Summary: The fourth-generation Intel Core processor was developed specifically for ultrabooks and promises big advances in the second half of 2013. Apologies to anyone who has already bought a Windows 8 ultrabook. Larry Dignan. By Larry Dignan for ...

ZDNet

40 Billion Apps Served...And My Wife Still Can't Find The Right Fitness App
MediaPost Communications
Typically, Apple was not especially visible this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as rivals like Samsung and a host of smartphone and tablet makers nudged each other for space on the streams of tech blog reporting. But the company shot ...

Asus Qube arrives at CES with cube interface
Mobile Magazine
Thanks to various leaks, today's announcement of the Asus Qube Google TV device might not have been the surprise they were looking for, but the home-media system is interesting nonetheless. Earlier this week it was thought that the Asus Qube could join...

Mobile Magazine

“Emergency Phone” charges from single AA battery
WTVR
Las Vegas, NV (WTVR) – Among the high tech TV's, video game systems and tablet computers being unveiled at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a decidedly low-tech gadget is gaining a lot of attention. The newest version of the ...

Samsung's Smart Cameras Enable One-Step Sharing
GeekSugar.com
Cameras aren't as simple as "point and click" anymore, according to Samsung's updated Smart Cameras with integrated WiFi, touch-type, and editing tools. Smart Camera 2.0 will run on Samsung's new WB250F/WB200F (14.2 MP, 18x zoom), WB800F (16.3 ...

CES 2013 video: Sony combines high-end TV tech in a 4K OLED TV
ConsumerReports.org (blog)
At CES this week, some companies are showing both OLED and Ultra HD TVs. Sony, though, upped the ante at its CES press conference by combining both technologies in a prototype 56-inch 4K OLED TV. Sony, which shipped an 84-inch 4K TV late last ...

Library of Congress digs into 170 billion tweets
CNN
(CNN) -- An effort by the Library of Congress to archive Twitter posts has amassed more than 170 billion tweets, which the library is now seeking to make available to researchers and other interested parties. Created in 1800, the Library of Congress serves as ...

Xperia Z: The smartphone you can take into the shower
Telegraph.co.uk
In addition to a battery 'stamina mode', which Sony claims will double battery life, and 'one-touch' connectivity that links to the phone to a hifi, say, with one tap, the Xperia Z is also water resistant and dust-proof. The water resistance means that the phone, ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Will Smart Fork Stop Stupid Eating?
KMBZ
HAPILABS(LAS VEGAS) -- At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a company is betting its new fork will be the latest weapon in the battle of the bulge. HAPILABS' HAPIfork is designed to monitor a user's meal times and eating habits, vibrating ...

AT&T Launching Its Own $5/Month Streaming Subscription Service
/FILM (blog)
The already crowded field of streaming services will have to make room for one more. AT&T announced at CES this week that it too would be diving into the fray with AT&T U-verse Screen Pack, an digital on-demand option that will allow subscribers to stream ...

Sony's bullish on camcorders
CNET
LAS VEGAS--If the company's CES announcements are anything to go by, Sony doesn't seem to have gotten the message that camcorders are dying. While Canon has cut back its consumer and midrange line to about four products, Sony has introduced 10 ...

The First Shift: Fiat 500e electric car scores best-in-class ratings
National Post
Fiat 500e most electric-efficient car you can buy As a way to compare electric vehicles against gas-fueled car, the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has come up with its Miles Per Gallon Equivalent (MPGe) rating system, which figures how...

National Post

Qualcomm's New Wireless Technology Can Fill Crucial Need
PC Magazine
Can Qualcomm Atheros' StreamBoost be a Wi-Fi performance savior or is it just more hype? Samara Lynn By Samara Lynn. January 7, 2013 09:53am EST; Comments. Google 0; Share 0; Tweet 0; Submit 0; Share 0; Pin It 0; Email Print. 802.11ac Wi-Fi ...

Google's Schmidt Kicks Off Trip to North Korea
PC Magazine
Eric Schmidt's controversial trip to North Korea began today, with the Google executive chairman receiving a private tour of the Asian nation with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Richardson and Schmidt are on a "private humanitarian mission" in ...

244 million years ago, monsters ruled the seas where Nevada now sits
NBCNews.com
By Alan Boyle. Follow @b0yle. A fossil skeleton found in central Nevada's desert years ago has been identified as belonging to a 30-foot-long sea monster that ruled beneath the waves 244 million years ago. The ferociousness of the creature's teeth suggests ...

NBCNews.com

Exclusive: US nuclear lab removes Chinese tech over security fears
Reuters
By Steve Stecklow. LONDON | Mon Jan 7, 2013 3:32pm EST. LONDON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components ...

CES 2013: Ford Adding Rhapsody Music Service to 1 Million Cars
PC Magazine
Ford Motor Co. has teamed up with Rhapsody to bring the on-demand music service to more than 1 million Ford and Lincoln vehicles, the companies announced today. The service, introduced at CES in Las Vegas, is now available in cars and trucks ...

Consumer Reports Is No Fan Of iPhone 5
Forbes
Over the last several months, I have been arguing the case that the long-term risks in Apple stock are rising. I have advanced two main arguments. First, competitors have caught up with Apple for all practical purposes. Second, Apple is failing to innovate at ...

Mars rover gives its first brushoff
NBCNews.com (blog)
By Alan Boyle. Follow @b0yle. NASA's Curiosity rover used the wire-bristle brush on the end of its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time over the weekend, to sweep the dust off a patch of rock wide enough to put a soda can on. Sunday's use of the motorized ...

Bacteria tweaked to make fuel from sunlight
Wired.co.uk
The cyanobacteria are naturally capable of photosynthesis, meaning they have an inherent ability to fix carbon from carbon dioxide into useful hydrocarbons. By adding new chemical pathways the chemists at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis)...

Wired.co.uk

Supreme Court lets embryonic stem cell research go forward
NBCNews.com (blog)
By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News. The Supreme Court refused to step into the emotionally charged debate over embryonic stem cell research Monday, declining to hear a case that sought to stop government funding on ethical grounds.

Bone Conduction Headphones By Panasonic Bring Sound To Your Skull
Huffington Post
LAS VEGAS (AP) — People who don't want to disturb sleeping family members could use a new product from Panasonic that doesn't need speakers or even your own ears: wireless bone-conduction headphones. The headphones connect to a TV via the ...

Star Trek Was a Lie: Space Travel Actually Sucks, Say Scientists
Manolith
Hurtling through the vast expanse of outers space on a mission to Mars seems exciting, until you try the real-time simulator. Ask the six would-be cosmonauts who spent a full 17 months cooped up in Mars500, a low-tech simulation built on an industrial ...

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Best Tablets and Smartphones - CES Day One

CES Day One: Best Tablets
InformationWeek
Hardware makers announced a slew of new tablets at CES 2012 Monday. Here's a look at the most interesting choices, including Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Despite the market's tepid response to Android tablets in 2011, ...

5 Hottest Smartphones: CES Day One
InformationWeek
Smartphone makers announced more than a dozen new phones at CES on Monday, including many models with LTE 4G. Here's a look at the sleekest devices. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek The number of new smartphones that hit the stage Monday at CES 2012 in ...

Oracle Makes Big Data Appliance Move With Cloudera
InformationWeek
By partnering with Hadoop software and support provider Cloudera, Oracle gets a fast start in the big data market. By Doug Henschen InformationWeek If anyone doubted Oracle's seriousness about competing in the big data arena, those doubts should be ...

Nokia, Microsoft Take Wraps Off Windows Phone for AT&T
BusinessWeek
By Douglas MacMillan, Dina Bass and Scott Moritz Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj and Microsoft Corp. introduced their first high-speed Windows Phone for AT&T Inc. at the Consumer Electronics Show, aiming to help both suppliers stage a comeback in the ...

Hands On With the Motorola Droid 4 and Droid RAZR MAXX
PCWorld
By Armando Rodriguez, PCWorld Jan 10, 2012 7:45 AM I managed to get some alone time with Motorola's latest Android offerings while attending the Digital Experience event at CES: The Droid 4 and the Droid RAZR MAXX. Both Droids feature dual-core ...

Apple's Tim Cook: Highest Paid CEO of 2011?
PC Magazine
By Leslie Horn Apple chief Tim Cook might be the highest paid CEO in the US in 2011, according to a proxy statement Apple filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday. The Associated Press is reporting that Cook's total pay package ...

Samsung confident of outselling Nokia in 2012
Reuters
By Miyoung Kim and Tarmo Virki | LAS VEGAS/HELSINKI (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS) said it is confident it will become the world's largest cellphone maker in 2012, ending Nokia's (NOK1V.HE) 14-year reign in the mobile handset market. ...

Ford Fusion Gets Plug-In Hybrid Version
PC Magazine
By Andrew Webster With an electric version of the Focus on the way, Ford is looking to make the rest of its line-up a little greener as well, announcing that the Fusion sedan will be available in a plug-in hybrid model. Dubbed the Fusion Energi, ...

Russia's space chief says failures may be sabotage
The Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — Some of the recent failures of Russian satellites may have been the result of sabotage by foreign forces, the nation's space chief said. Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin stopped short of accusing any country of disabling Russian ...

HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook Sports Glass Components
eWeek
The Envy 14 Spectre features several lightweight glass components, Intel Core processors and HP wireless audio. Hewlett-Packard is bringing a new level of manufacturing sophistication to the increasingly competitive ultrabook space with the release of ...

"Enable 3G" toggle may make a return in iOS 5.1
Ars Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Published January 10, 2012 9:32 AM The ability to toggle between 3G and EDGE could be making a comeback for iPhone users in the next update to iOS 5. Apple released the third beta of iOS 5.1 to registered developers late on Monday, ...

Ars Technica

Refrigerator can check freshness of your food
msnbc.com
By Suzanne Choney No more sniff test needed of some borderline items in your fridge: LG, which has led the way in smart fridges (including those with Internet access), unveiled "Smart Manager" Monday, which lets the fridge tell you when something ...

Sony shows off radical new 'Crystal' LED TV
msnbc.com
By Wilson Rothman There are LCD TVs that are called "LED TVs" because they use light-emitting diodes to back light the LCD screen. But at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony has revealed a TV that uses an array of tiny LEDs to create the ...

Cerevo LiveShell livestreams Contour+ wearable camera
SlashGear
Wearable camera company Contour and live-streaming firm Cerevo have partnered to create the Cerevo LiveShell, a real-time video broadcasting adapter for the Contour+ camera. Hooking up via HDMI, the LiveShell can stream up to 480p video – the Contour+ ...

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3-D TV or Myspace TV?
EE Times
LAS VEGAS -- Let's face it. Consumers have been lukewarm toward 3-D TVs in the past two years. Even some of us in the media who used to be hungry for 3-D are no longer drooling. But never mind that. All the major TV companies, ranging from Samsung and ...

EE Times

Skyrim demoed on Transformer Prime with Splashtop
SlashGear
Without so much of a hitch in the graphics, NVIDIA showed off the Transformer Prime running the app Splashtop, it running a desktop through its display and, believe it or not, the massively popular game Skyrim. Splashtop will certainly gain a whole lot ...

Detroit Motor Show 2012: hybrid supercars on show
Telegraph.co.uk
Andrew English considers two new hybrid sports car from Honda and Lexus at the Detroit Motor Show. Is this what Honda's new NSX will look like? Photo: ANDREW ENGLISH By Andrew English You wait all day for a sporty hybrid super coupé and then two come ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Detroit Motor Show 2012: Porsche 911 Cabriolet
Telegraph.co.uk
By Andrew English Hot on the heels of the launch of the new Porsche 911 Carrera coupé comes the Cabriolet, which will of course be closely followed by the 4x4 and the GT models. The new Porsche 911 Cabriolet, which makes its debut at the Detroit Motor ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Hands-On With the Sony Xperia Ion
PCWorld
By Ginny Mies, PCWorld Jan 10, 2012 5:45 AM The Sony Xperia Ion, announced Monday, has some pretty drool-worthy specs. Not only does it hook into AT&T's LTE 4G network, but it has a 4.6-inch display, HDMI-out with a TV launcher interface, ...

Tortoise species thought to be extinct still lives, genetic analysis reveals
Yale Environment 360
By Bill Hathaway Dozens of giant tortoises of a species believed extinct for 150 years may still be living at a remote location in the Galápagos Islands, a genetic analysis conducted by Yale University researchers reveals. The analysis, published Jan. ...

Yale Environment 360

Study Shows Telomere Length in Early Life Can Predict Lifespan
Genetic Engineering News
Researchers working with zebra finches at the University of Glasgow report that a good indicator of how long individuals will live can be obtained from early in life using the length of telomeres. Their paper appears online this week in PNAS. ...

Blu-ray grows, but DVD sales slide
Tucson Citizen
by Mike Snider on Jan. 09, 2012, under USA Today News Sales of movies on Blu-ray discs and films delivered digitally and on demand rose in 2011, but not enough to make up the gap in falling DVD sales. Consumers spent $18 billion buying and renting ...

New viper snake species found
BBC News
A new species of brightly coloured snake has been found in a remote area of Tanzania in East Africa. The striking black-and-yellow snake measures 60 cm (2.1 ft) and has horn-like scales above its eyes. The newly discovered snake, named Matilda's horned...

BBC News

"OnLive Desktop" Brings No-Compromise Windows Apps to iPad
MarketWatch (press release)
PALO ALTO, CA, Jan 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of instant-action cloud computing, announced that it is bringing the first no-compromise Windows desktop to iPad(R) through its free OnLive(TM) Desktop app, ...

Analogix Slim Port technology lets you connect your phone to your TV via its microUSB port...
By Michael Gorman
Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best ones, and Analogix Slim Port technology certainly qualifies as both. It's a cabling solution that allows.
Engadget

Social Media Strategy & Tactics for Technology Marketers
By Ashley Zeckman
As a B2B organization with a focus on technology, you may believe that you are facing additional obstacles that your B2C counterparts are not. Many of.
Online Marketing Blog

InfoWorld names PhoneGap 2012 Technology of the ... - Adobe Blogs
By John Nack
Today Adobe's open-source HTML5 app platform, PhoneGap, was named a 2012 Technology of the Year Award recipient by IDG's InfoWorld Test Center: Selected by editors and reviewers from the InfoWorld Test Center, the annual awards ...
Adobe Blogs

peHUB » Investcorp Technology Partners Backs Thought Equity
By Clancy Nolan
Investcorp Technology Partners has acquired a â œsignificant minority stakeâ in Thought Equity Motion, a Denver-based provider of cloud-based video management and footage licensing services. Investcorp Technology Partners invested ...
PE Hub News: Buyout Deals

RIM's spectacular technology demise | TechRepublic
By Patrick Gray
Find out why Patrick Gray thinks RIM is fighting a losing battle, as related to tablets and IT in general, and what we can learn from its struggle.
on TechRepublic

Stereotype Debunked: Women Buy More Technology ... - Mashable
By Samantha Murphy
Women are more likely than men to purchase tablets, laptops and smartphones, according to a new study.
Mashable » Mobile

EpicMix adds social media to RFID technology for ski trips | Tnooz
By Kevin May
Interesting enhancements to the EpicMix platform launched to pretty wide acclaim in 2010 - skiers can now share the entire experience on their social networks with a swish of an RFID tag.
Tnooz

Surveillance Technology Firms Face Reputation Issues Along With a ...
By David Bartlett
Governments are snapping up advanced monitoring and tracking systems to boost domestic law enforcement and counter the threat of terrorism, even as more and more private businesses are using the technology to manage and protect ...
BulletProof

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CES chief muses on what to expect this year

CES chief muses on what to expect this year
CNET
by Larry Magid January 4, 2012 6:34 AM PST Follow @larrymagid Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro talks big numbers when he describes this year's Consumer Electronics Show, which takes over Las Vegas next week. He is expecting more than ...

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Samsung Unveils New Speaker Docks, Home Theater Systems
PC Magazine
By Will Greenwald CES doesn't kick off until next week, but Samsung is already getting the announcements started with its new home theater products. The company just unveiled several new speaker docks and sound systems, ranging from 7.1-channel home ...

Velocity Micro to Debut HD-Compatible Pocket Projector at CES
PC Magazine
By Tony Hoffman Among the products that Velocity Micro will be showing off at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the Shine, a pocket projector that can connect to a variety of HD sources. Designed to quickly and easily allow consumers to share ...

HP Goes Big With Omni27 PC
PC Magazine
By Joel Santo Domingo Today, in advance of next week's CES show, HP introduced a new large-screen member of its Omni all-in-one PC line. The Omni27 is built around a 27-inch LCD screen with full HD resolution. Since it's part of the Omni line, ...

Bits of Russia space probe set to fall Jan. 15
USA TODAY
MOSCOW (AP) – Fragments of a failed Russian space probe are now expected to fall to Earth on Jan. 15, officials said Wednesday. AP The Zenit-2SB rocket with the Phobos-Ground probe blasts off Nov. 9 at the Cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan. ...

USA TODAY

IBM Acquiring Software Testing Vendor Green Hat
PCWorld
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, the company announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not ...

Dakar Rally: Rider Found Unconscious in Sand Dunes of Western Argentina
Fox News
This year's Dakar Rally takes competitors from the Argentine port city of Mar de Plata all the way to Lima, Peru. The 2012 Dakar Rally almost claimed its fourth life on Tuesday after a French motorcyclist was found unconscious in a section of remote ...

Microsoft Sues UK Retailer Comet for Selling Counterfeit CDs
BusinessWeek
By Kit Chellel Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. sued Kesa Electricals Plc's Comet unit for allegedly selling more than 94000 counterfeit disks. Comet made fake versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP recovery CDs at a factory in Hampshire, ...

MetroPCS to offer live local TV on its smartphones
CNET
by Roger Cheng January 4, 2012 7:02 AM PST Follow @RogerWCheng MetroPCS said today it was partnering with a consortium of broadcasters to bring live local television to its wireless customers later this year. The prepaid mobile service provider is ...

Roku Expands Beyond Internet Video-Streaming Boxes
ABC News
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Roku is thinking outside its set-top box in an attempt to bring more Internet video to flat-panel televisions. The new approach will rely on a finger-sized device that won't require extra cords or separate remote ...

January 13: the start of an iPhone 4S feeding frenzy in China
Ars Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Published January 4, 2012 9:45 AM Chinese customers will soon be able to buy the iPhone 4S without having to import the device from elsewhere, as Apple announced on Wednesday that it would launch the iPhone 4S there and 21 other ...

Verizon CEO cancels keynote appearance at CES
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Verizon Communications Chief Executive Lowell McAdam has canceled his scheduled appearance on a keynote panel at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. A company spokesman cited on Tuesday a scheduling change as the reason ...

Google adds IBM patents as it looks to future
BBC News
Google has gained hundreds of patents from IBM as it continues its intellectual property spending spree. It has acquired 187 patents and 36 applications, adding to the 1000 it purchased from IBM last summer. The latest patents include a system for ...

BBC News

Germans increase office efficiency with 'cloud ceiling'
Register
By Lewis Page • Get more from this author So you thought you had deployed every form of office technology that could possibly increase the productivity of your company's cripplingly expensive salaried employees? You were wrong. ...

'Lost World' of Sea Creatures Discovered Near Antarctica
Fox News
By Stephanie Pappas OXFORD, England – A "lost world" of sea creatures was discovered near Antarctica, British scientists announced Wednesday. Scientists doing their first exploring of deep-sea vents in the Antarctic said it was unlike anything found...

Fox News

Study finds that Russian Quasicrystals may have come from space
SlashGear
Back in the 1980′s, a scientist named Daniel Schechtman was the first to describe a quasicrystal and won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery. Some looked on the idea of the quasicrystals as impossible at the time they were first described. ...

SlashGear

Apple set to announce likely its best quarter ever on January 24
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff Apple on Wednesday confirmed that it will report its fiscal first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, Jan. 24, when it will reveal the results of the iPhone 4S launch and holiday shopping season. Officials at Apple already projected ...

TiVo shares rise on news of patent settlement
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO) saw its shares rise on Wednesday after announcing that it settled its patent dispute with AT&T (NYSE:T), in a deal valued at $215 million. Shares of the company spiked over 13 percent in after-hours trading on Tuesday, ...

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Passing observation leads to unintentional bee discovery
KGO-TV
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Some of humankind's most significant discoveries have been by accident. Tuesday, San Francisco State announced another unexpected finding. It has taken two years work, and may answer a pressing question: Why are all those ...

KGO-TV

One in 40 get a Kindle for Christmas
Telegraph.co.uk
The Kindle was one of the most popular Christmas presents in the UK as one in 40 adults were given an e-reader over the festive season, new figures show. By James Hall, Consumer Affairs Editor A total of 1.33 million e-readers were sold over Christmas,...

Telegraph.co.uk

Daily Report: Teachers Resist Rules on Classroom Tech
New York Times (blog)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES | January 4, 2012, 9:49 am Matt Richtel writes in Wednesday's New York Times about the conflict over Idaho's plan to require students to take online courses and to issue them laptops or tablets. While teachers say they are in ...

New York Times (blog)

CES Preview: Ultrabooks to Dominate the PC Landscape
Wired News
By Christina Bonnington The Toshiba Portege Z835 made its debut to the ultrabook sphere in 2011. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired At last year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you couldn't throw your schwag bag across the show floor without...

Wired News

HP Unveils Consumer PCs and Display Ahead of CES
PCWorld (blog)
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday launched the company's first 27-inch all-in-one PC, its most powerful HP Pavilion PC to date, and a monitor that connects to and charges some of its laptops using USB. ...

Dow Stock 2012 best performance going to AT&T
Phones Review
When it comes to best performance one doesn't instinctively think of AT&T, but apparently the USA's number two carrier is exceeding in one area and can apparently lay claim to their stock ranking amongst the best performers in the 2012 Dow stocks ...

Phones Review

A year in technology
With the calender having rolled over into another year, it's an ideal time to take a look back at some of the most significant and far-reaching br...
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

Five IBM innovations that will shape future technology
With technology closing digital divide among global communities, there are strong indications based on International Business Machine's (IBM) predictions that the year 2012 will open a new vista in thetechnology industry as smart machines, ...
Vanguard News

Learning Technology Trends To Watch In 2012: The eLearning Coach
By Connie Malamed
As the technologies of the 21st century evolve and mature, we become the beneficiaries of exciting approaches to learning experience design. The convergence of informal and social media learning combined with the explosion of smart ...
The eLearning Coach

Will Griffith leaves Technology Crossover Ventures - The Term ...
By Dan Primack
Will Griffith is no longer with Technology Crossover Ventures, the late-stage venture capital firm he joined back in 2000, Fortune has learned. He had been a general partner since 2003. Griffith focused on wireless, infrastructure and Internet ...
Fortune Finance: Hedge Funds,...

Technology and Snowsports Converge in South Lake Tahoe for ...
By Dan Giesin
Snowcial, a gabfest that combines social media and outdoor winter recreation, makes its annual appearance in South Lake Tahoe in mid-January.
7x7 - Insider's Guide to the...

What are the biggest technology trends for 2012? — Tech News and ...
By Edit Staff
Intel is asking YOU – what do you think will be the biggest technology trends for 2012?
GigaOM

Future of Technology - Australia's hybrid shark reveals evolution in ...
By John Roach
Hybrid sharks have been discovered swimming in the waters off Australia's east coast.
Newsvine - Future of Technology...

In the Classroom: Technology, Teaching, and Policy Makers ...
By medinger
I've been involved in the educational use of technology since the 70s when I got my first master's inTechnology in Education and was dealing with main frame computers and folk who thought deadly multiple choice programs were the way to ...
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