SimPrints, Finger Scanner, Revolutionizing Health Care (video)

British chip designer ARM Holdings is best known for supplying processors to mobile giants like Apple. Now the company has thrown its weight behind a tiny Cambridge-based startup named SimPrints it claims is on the brink of revolutionizing the delivery of health care in the developing world. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie reports.(Source: Bloomberg 11/13)


NPR (blog)
Google's Android Lollipop Wants To Change The Way We Use Our Phones
NPR (blog)
Yearly system updates are a part of the modern smartphone experience, and like clockwork Apple and Google typically issue them every fall.


Financial Post
Fun Number: Apple Is Now Worth More Than The Entire Russian Stock Market
Forbes
However, this isn't so much a story about how wonderfully Apple is doing (the ... The UStechnology giant's market capitalisation has overtaken the ...


TechCrunch (blog)
Why Did Google Decide To Split Inbox From Gmail?
TechCrunch (blog)
Editor's note: Marat Ryndin is a UX/visual designer, writer and app/tech/soccer/music junkie. He worked for Google and various startups and climbed ...


USA TODAY
Amazon boosts its eReader lineup with fantastic Voyage
USA TODAY
Though there's still a little competition between Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and a couple of others, the recipe for a solid eReader is well-established: ...


The Daily Star
Technofile: My computer choked on Apple's Yosemite
The Post-Standard - syracuse.com
When I installed the new operating system, which Apple calls Yosemite, my ... Like that old version of Microsoft, you're pushing software out the door ...


New York Times
Google to Quadruple Computer Science Prize Winnings to $1 Million
New York Times
The move can be seen as another sign of the boom times in technology. ... For Google, being the deep-pocketed benefactor of the Turing Award is ...


ValueWalk
After Three Weeks, Apple Pay Is Already Transforming How We Buy Things
Gizmodo
For years, tech companies like Google and Softcard (formerly known as ... Now thatApple Pay has graced millions of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus ...


Telegraph.co.uk
Flubit wants to be the next Amazon... of Amazon
Telegraph.co.uk
As the Christmas season picks up now that the previous commercial festivals of Halloween and Bonfire Night are behind us, 2014 is set to be another ...

The 12 Worst Apple Products Of All Time
Apple is known for the hit products it has released in the last decade: the iPod, the ...

Facebook reportedly wants to be your office's social network
A report from Financial Times today indicates that Facebook is working on a new service called “Facebook at Work” that aims to get a piece of the ...

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FWD.us hopes for legislative immigration reform crushed

'Now, as hope for an overhaul fades, the group must reconcile Silicon Valley's high-flying ambition with the sobering lessons of Washington. 'In Silicon Valley if you don't like the taxi industry, you start Uber, you go around it,' said FWD.us President Joe Green, who helped establish the group alongside Facebook's Zuckerberg, his former college roommate. 'With politics you have to work through it, and doing that can be very challenging.'' http://politico.pro/1kxKenG 

MEXICO CITY: Fight to end telecom monopolies may be in trouble - Economy & Banking - MiamiHerald.com: "... While Slim’s Telcel will be forced to share its network infrastructure with other operators, and not charge them for calls to its own clients, the framework bill would let it enter the broadcast market after two years. Televisa, for its part, will be forced to publish its advertising rates and apply them to all customers, but it may be allowed to capture a significant portion of the market for wireless services. “At the end of the day, we thought the state was going to adequately regulate Carlos Slim and Televisa. But we see that the law ends up offering them privileges,” Denise Dresser, a columnist and commentator, told MVS Radio. In September, the Pena Nieto administration is to auction off the rights to launch two new television networks. Televisa must provide access to the winners of the two new networks on its cable and satellite systems...."

Google's Street View maps world's largest cruise ship
USA TODAY
Cruisers can now explore Royal Caribbean's 5,400-passenger Allure of the Seas onGoogle's Street View. It's the first time the panoramic-view ...

Google Fiber is coming to Overland Park, Kan.
CNNMoney
The city of Overland Park, Kan., approved an agreement Monday night to bring in GoogleFiber, following the lead of several other cities in the Kansas ...

Does Facebook break up marriages?
MarketWatch
A growing body of research links increased use of Facebook to marital discord. The latest of these studies, published in the July 2014 ...

Facebook Mood Experiment Draws FTC Complaint
InformationWeek
Electronic Privacy Information Center files a complaint against Facebook alleging that its news feed experiment deceived users and violated a 2012 ...

Google's Growing Silence on Saving Open Internet Leaves Fight to Startups
Bloomberg
Google and Facebook are “quiet and they're not spending much” to ensure Internet ... group also include EBay Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Yahoo! Inc.

Microsoft's Windows to aid PC market revival in 2015
PCWorld
Microsoft's Windows OS could play a crucial rule in returning worldwide PC shipments to ... Microsoft could release a new OS sometime next year, which could supplant ...Apple's iOS will receive a boost from the new iPhone due later this year, and the ... How to train Google Now to show you better cards.

Microsoft warns of pending support deadlines for Windows 7, Office 2010 SP1, Windows Server ...
ZDNet
As the second half 2014 rolls in, Microsoft is stepping up its warnings for approaching support deadlines for some of its key products, including ...

Google Rates Internet Service Providers' Video Streaming Quality
Voice of America
WASHINGTON —. Google Inc. is rating Internet service providers' video streaming quality on a new website, the latest development in the fight ...

Facebook Moves Ahead In Beijing, Line Blocked
Forbes
China is extremely wary of offshore-based SNS like Facebook, Line and ... Yahoo's(Nasdaq: YHOO) photo-sharing Flickr service, and Microsoft's ...

Facebook Tries Being A TV Channel With New Mobile Video Player | TechCrunch
By Josh Constine
If you watch one of a friend's videos, Facebook will now try to get you to watch more with a new carousel of suggested videos that appears after you ...
TechCrunch » Mobile

Apple Shares 'Pride' Video Featuring Preparation for San Francisco Pride Parade - Mac Rumors
By Juli Clover
Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the event and walked alongside Apple's ... Apple has now posted a new video of the event on its YouTube channel, .... Korean Government Orders Apple and Google to Change 'No-Refund' App ... Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for iPad Now Available · Clear for ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Official Gmail Blog: Thirteen new languages for Gmail
By The Gmail Team
News, tips and tricks from Google's Gmail team and friends. ... Posted by Ian Hill, Senior Project Manager, Google Localization Email is a universal ...
Gmail Blog

From Android Auto to OnLive: how video is becoming the secret glue of connected devices — Tech News and Analysis: "In this move towards virtualization, video streams have become the secret glue that connects screens and devices without the need for complicated, platform-specific implementations. And the upside of rendering video instead of code could be that devices have to be replaced less often while getting more frequent updates."

36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines Successfully Fired Up by Private Team - Scientific American: "An old NASA spacecraft under the control of a private team fired its thrusters yesterday (July 2) for the first time in a generation. NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe (ISEE-3), which the agency retired in 1997, performed the maneuver in preparation for a larger trajectory correction next week. The spacecraft hadn't fired its engines since 1987, ISEE-3 Reboot Project team members said. It took several attempts and days to perform the roll maneuver because ISEE-3 was not responding to test commands. But this time, controllers got in touch. They increased the roll rate from 19.16 revolutions per minute to 19.76 RPM, putting it within mission specifications for trajectory corrections...."

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Gmail is the most secure web email service

Gmail, the best email service on the web, just got better and more secure --

Gmail now always uses an HTTPS connection and encrypts all messages moving internally on Google’s servers - The Next Web: "Google today announced it has made security improvements to Gmail to further protect users’ emails from snooping. Gmail now always uses an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email, and encrypts all messages moving internally on Google’s servers...."

Also this - Tips to help you customize your Gmail experience

Alibaba Sinks $215 Million Into Messaging App Tango, Valuing It At More Than $1 Billion: "...The company is spending $215 million for a minority stake in the messaging and free-calling app Tango, the startup revealed today...."

Google Chromecast review: simple, fast internet TV | Technology | theguardian.com: "...The Chromecast does what it claims to do very well and makes streaming video from Netflix and YouTube very easy indeed using a smartphone, tablet or computer as a wireless remote. The problem is that Chromecast doesn’t do a lot more than that. It lacks a lot of the streaming services that competitors offer, but it promises to do a lot more in the future with rapid automatic updates in the background. Chromecast is certainly an experiment for Google, and has the potential to be a one-stop streaming shop controlled easily from the sofa via a myriad of devices...."

Why I'm quitting Microsoft Office forever | The Cheapskate - CNET News: "It's not just about the money. Well, okay, it's mostly about the money, but there are other reasons I'm bidding goodbye to Microsoft's not-so-sweet suite."

How Apple and Amazon Changed Retail Forever
Motley Fool
While that may not have been his initial goal in launching Amazon, his visions have always been big, and disrupting businesses from Barnes & Noble ...

Could Amazon and Google be the competition the game industry needs?
BGR
“Microsoft has already established a dominant position in the living room: the ... “Now,Amazon and Google are looking for a way of leap-frogging their big ... Between Google's acquisition of Green Throttle Games and reports of ... Here's how to give your Android phone a huge speed boost, just like Apple ...

Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro Ad Trashes Apple, Microsoft, Amazon
TechnoBuffalo
Samsung's at it again, but this time it's not only trashing Apple but Microsoft andAmazon, too. The company recently published its latest ...

Amazon easing into $1B sideline business: ad sales [The Seattle Times :: ]
Businessweek
March 20--In a little more than a decade, Google has upended the ... Amazon has another advantage over Google, Facebook , Microsoft and other ...

Acer Iconia W4 Tablet Review
TechSpot
But as Google, Apple and Amazon entered the small tablet space, and Microsoft finally optimized Windows 8.1 for the form factor, the perception of ...

Amazon Smartphone Rumors Point To Project Tango: Kindle Phone Projected For Summer ...
International Business Times
Google's Project Tango phone will utilize new cameras and sensors to map indoor spaces, whereas the rumored Amazon Smartphone will use six ...

iPad leads surge of branded tablet shipments in 2014
TabTimes
Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Lenovo, Amazon, and others are among the big brand tablet makers expected to see an uptick in sales in 2014. Not all of ...

We've been waiting months. Where are AWS WorkSpaces and Microsoft Project Mohoro?
Brian Madden (blog)
VMware's DaaS product team must be high-fiving each other like the just landed on the Moon. Not only did they beat Amazon Web Services and ...

New dinosaur called the Chicken From Hell
Washington Post
Scientists have discovered a freakish, birdlike species of dinosaur — 11 feet long, 500 pounds, with a beak, no teeth, a bony crest atop its head, murderous claws, prize-fighter arms, spindly legs, a thin tail and feathers sprouting all over the place. Officially, it's ...

Flappy Bird to return, says creator
BBC News
Addictive mobile game Flappy Bird will return to Apple's app store, creator Dong Nguyen has confirmed - although he declined to give a specific date. On Twitter, a fan had asked if he was going to put the game back in the app store. "Yes. But not soon," Mr ...

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Why Microsoft is spooked by Chromebooks

The Verge asks the question: Why is Microsoft scared of Chromebooks? | The Verge: "... Something has Redmond spooked ..."

Short answer: Chromebooks are easy to use, update themselves without hassle, are more secure and cost less than Windows PCs,  and with plenty of Google storage and Google Apps which can be used offline -- who needs Microsoft Windows or Office?

Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android - NYTimes.com: "Google executives acknowledge that robotic vision is a “moonshot.” But it appears to be more realistic than Amazon’s proposed drone delivery service, which Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, revealed in a television interview the evening before one of the biggest online shopping days of the year."

The Beginning of the End for Microsoft's claims against Android manufacturers -- expect further appeals and litigation, but Samsung and HTC and other Android manufacturers are surely paying attention --
German Patent Ruling Threatens Microsoft's Windows Phone Earnings From Android - Forbes: ".... we don’t really have a German or UK or whatever patent system any more, we have a European Union one. So this German case doesn’t apply just to Germany, it applies right across the EU. Even if the US decision doesn’t go the same way, if Microsoft does lose the FAT patent in this one case then it will lose it right across 500 million rich world people. And while Microsoft is certainly large enough to survive such a loss it would still hurt."

Google Online Security Blog: Internet-wide efforts to fight email phishing are working: " 91.4% of the authenticated non-spam emails sent to Gmail users come from senders that have adopted one or more of the following email authentication standards: DKIM (DomainKey Identified Email) or SPF (Sender Policy Framework)."

Apple Can Only Increase Its Buyback Program By $5 To $10 Billion ...

Forbes
Moody's issued an announcement on Thursday essentially warning Apple Apple and ... I have developed a Google Google Doc (available via this link) with how ...

Why US apple farmers actually want Chinese apple imports

Christian Science Monitor
China has its sights set on exporting its fruit to the United States. And that's OK with growers in Washington, who harvest the bulk of America'sapple crop.

Christian Science Monitor

Microsoft CEO Watch: Mulally Staying at Ford

Top Tech News
The current CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, is stepping down later next year, and one of the top replacement candidates had been Ford CEO Alan Mulally ...

Microsoft warning on security updates

HispanicBusiness.com
MANAMA : With 22 per cent of personal computers in the country still running the Windows XP operating system, many Bahrain enterprises are vulnerable to ...

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite features, price tag, and specs review

PRPick.com
Kindle Paperwhite is reportedly proving hit with customers and Amazondoesn't look like if it going to lose it e-readers anytime soon since it is busy building a ...

PRPick.com

Microsoft's Xbox One May Be Losing The Console War Due To ...

Forbes
Working in this industry, I tend to make predictions quite a bit. Usually they pan out, like the bad feeling I had that the Wii U was going to bomb for Nintendo ...

Microsoft leads disruption of largest infected global PC network in its ...

Daily Mail
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it had disrupted the largest network of ...Microsoft said the botnet had been costing advertisers on Bing, Google Inc and Yahoo ...

Jagran Post

Google: We're Winning Against Phishing and Spam Emails

Mashable
Google can't say "mission accomplished" just yet, but the search giant made it clear that the Internet is winning its decade-old war against phishing and spam ...

Zee News

T-Mobile Slowly Rolls Out Bonded (aka Faster) LTE Network

PC Magazine
Fwoomph. That's the sound of your T-Mobile connection going into turbo mode, similar to the same effect that happens when Doc Brown gets the car to 1.21 gigawatts (at least, we only hope it's that cool). According to AllThingsD, T-Mobile has flipped the ...

Microsoft: Is Alan Mulally Really Not The Guy?

ValueWalk
Will Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) be able to bring over Ford CEO Alan Mulally? All hope may not ... What kind of CEO does Microsoft's board want? The team at ...

ValueWalk

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