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29 November 2014

Will HP Enterprise Survive, or Is It Too Late? (video)

HP’s Fourth-Quarter Sales Miss Estimates Ahead of Split: Video - Bloomberg:
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Hewlett-Packard reported fiscal fourth-quarter sales that fell short of analysts’ estimates, hurt by an accelerating shift to cloud computing and a tepid personal-computer market. Bloomberg Intelligence's Anand Srinivasan takes a look at the numbers on "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg - 11/25)


New York Times

EU Parliament Passes Measure to Break Up Google in Symbolic Vote
New York Times
A breakup of Google in Europe will almost certainly not happen, legal .... Google in Europe are major American technology companies like Microsoft ...
Europe has good reasons to fear Google - The Verge


Wall Street Journal

New Facebook Rules Will Sting Entrepreneurs
Wall Street Journal
Chrisy Bossie built a $100,000-a-year gemstone e-commerce business by sharing information about her products on her company's Facebook page ...



New York Post

Apple Watch and iPhone will tether closer than expected
New York Post
Apple fans are still a good six months away from testing the gadget maker's new smartwatch, but details are ticking out — thanks to the geeks building ...


TIME

Why You Shouldn't Shop at Walmart or Amazon on Saturday
TIME
Local mom-and-pop stores are trying to make a strong sales pitch to holiday shoppers, while getting squeezed by big box Goliaths on one side and ...


Business Insider

A Cashier At The Whole Foods I Just Went To Says No One Uses Apple Pay
Business Insider
A couple of weeks after Apple Pay launched, payments expert Mike Dudas estimated thatApple Pay already accounted for 1% of all Whole Foods ...

The Switchboard: EU passes symbolic measure calling for break-up of Google
Washington Post (blog)
E.U. parliament passes measure to break up Google in symbolic vote. "Europe's resentment of the Americantechnology giant Google reached a new ...


Gigaom

How Amazon Echo could answer the call of greatness
Gigaom
Of course, Amazon ould implement voiceprint technology as its answer to Touch ID. The company has been stepping up its efforts in voice search, ...

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16 November 2014

Amazon Web Services, Tech Behind NASA and Netflix (video)

Amazon Web Services: The Tech Behind NASA and Netflix: Video - Bloomberg:
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon Web Services makes companies more competitive. He speaks with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson on "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)


New York Times

Facebook Will Curtail Unpaid Ads by Brands
New York Times
Facebook has accumulated one of the biggest vaults of consumer data in the world. It dominates social media advertising the way Google dominates ...
Your Facebook News Feed is about to have fewer ads - CNET


New York Times

Apple Pay Gives Glimpse of Mainstream Appeal for Mobile Payments
New York Times
And even some of Apple's competitors, like Google and Softcard, say Apple has helped ...Apple Pay Rival MCX Open to Other Technology OCT.



TechCrunch (blog)

As Developers Depart, Google Glass Is Ready To Become This Era's Segway
TechCrunch (blog)
Admittedly, Facebook and OpenTable are among the larger developers ... thing for Googleto do now would be to release the underlying technology ...



Sci-Tech Today

Is Amazon Echo the next big thing?
Standard-Examiner
It's not often that I'm intrigued with a new tech gadget, but Amazon's Echo, ... The gadget arrived on Amazon's website with no fanfare. ... Leslie Meredith has been writing about and reviewing personal technology for the past six ...



TechNewsWorld

Amazon's Echo: A Play For The Smart Home, A Hot Holiday Gift, Or Another Money Losing Gadget?
Forbes
All I could see was Amazon pitting itself, again, against big players in the electronic industry – like Apple, Google and Microsoft, who already have ...



Business Insider

Here's How To Figure Out Everything Google Knows About You
Business Insider
When you use Google, you are making a deal. You get to use Gmail and search and YouTube and Google Maps for free and in exchange, you agree ...



The Columbian

Why the Amazon–Hachette Deal Is Likely Good for Writers and Publishers
The New Yorker
The end of the months-long impasse between Amazon and Hachette over ... It is believed that Amazon, which has typically favored keeping e-book prices ... San Francisco and is a business and technology correspondent for the site.



Forbes

Apple Loop: iPad Sales Crashing, Why Apple Is So Addictive, iPhone Demand High
Forbes
Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week's Apple Loop covers lead times and demands for the new iPhones, projected ...

The desperate struggle at the heart of the brutal Apple supply chain | Technology | The Guardian: ".... Though it doesn’t actually own any factories, Apple pours gigantic amounts of money - about $12.5bn in the past four quarters - into “plant, property and equipment”, the majority equipping its suppliers to make its products. (It is spending about $3bn - nearly as much as chipmaker Intel, though far less than Samsung Electronics, which has factories making screens, hard drives, and memory chips as well as phones, tablets and computers. Apple can make or break a supplier -The reality is that Apple, as the most valuable company on Earth by market capitalisation, now has the power to make or break a company through its supplier relationships (unlike Jobs’s pique, which had minimal effect on ATI). Being known as a supplier to it has definite value, one company - which is listed in Apple’s top 200 list - told the Guardian: “The value lies in the fact that Apple is recognised as having a high-quality build spec, so a relationship reflects well on that supplier’s products,” an executive said...."

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11 November 2014

Real Virtual Reality, Hyve 3D Real-Life Holodeck, No Oculus Rift Needed (video)

Hyve 3D Real-Life Holodeck: No Oculus Rift Needed: Video - Bloomberg:
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Remember the holodeck on "Star Trek: The Next Generation?" With no Oculus Rift or other headset required, Hyve 3D aims to bring virtual reality into rooms using projectors, motion sensors, and wraparound screens. Sam Grobart reports for Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead: 2015" series. (Source: Bloomberg 11/10)

Obama Calls for Strict Net Neutrality Policy - NYTimes.com"President Obama on Monday put the full weight of his administration behind an open and free Internet, calling for a strict policy of so-called net neutrality and formally opposing deals in which content providers like Netflix would pay huge sums to broadband companies for faster access to their customers."


CNN

Is it time for a new Google mission statement?
CNN
Back in 1999, Google came up with "ten things we know to be true" that ... Rather than a public service, Google is -- with Apple -- the most successful ...


San Jose Mercury News

Apple Security Bypass Can Turn Good Apps Into Data Thieves, Claims FireEye
Forbes
... iOS defences on non-jailbroken iPhones is the holy grail for anyone wanting to hack iDevices. Today, security ...
Apple iOS bug makes devices vulnerable to attack: experts - Reuters
Apple iOS Bug Makes Most Devices Vulnerable To Attack, Researchers Say - Huffington Post


TechCrunch (blog)

Here's What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Thinks Apple And Google Do Best
TechCrunch (blog)
When I think about what Apple does, what Google does and what Microsoft does, therein lies perhaps the simplest answer to why these three ...


The Atlantic

How Numbers on Facebook Change Behavior
The Atlantic
A "like" on Facebook is a treat. You get a little red pop-up on your notifications icon, you see the little box on the lower-left corner of your screen ...


TechCrunch (blog)

Microsoft Office Apps Skyrocket To The Top Of The App Store Following Pricing Changes
TechCrunch (blog)
The apps have shot up to the top of Apple's App Store after last week's ... That gave competitors like Apple and Google room to establish footholds of ...


New York Times

Apple releases new fix for lost iMessage texts
USA TODAY
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Apple has a released a new fix to its iMessage app that's supposed to solve a problem that has long irked cellphone users who ...
Apple finally delivers online iMessage tool for resolving SMS routing bugs - Pocketnow
How to deregister your phone number from iMessage and get your texts back - Gigaom


AppAdvice

iPad is Apple's unanswered revolution
The Verge
Google released the unsatisfying Nexus 9, which had posed the biggest threat of dethroning the iPad, and Microsoft made its Office suite of apps ...


New York Times

For Bono and U2, Apple iTunes Partnership Finally Hits a Wrong Note
New York Times
As a mushroom cloud of discontent erupted, Bono engaged in what sounded like contrition in a video posted on the band's Facebook page as part of a ...

Facebook successfully makes over a half-billion people download Messenger app
Over 500 million people have now downloaded the standalone Facebook Messenger app ...

Amazon's Echo Video Gets Drowned Out by Parody
The video for Amazon's Echo speaker gets parodied on YouTube with a ... A slew of hilarious parodies have turned the Siri and Google Now-like ...


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08 November 2014

Apple Sapphire Partner Accuses Apple of Bait-and-Switch

TECH NEWS:

Wall Street Journal

Apple Accused of 'Bait and Switch'
Wall Street Journal
Apple sapphire partner GT Advanced accuses the iPhone maker of a “bait-and-switch” strategy. Above, the new Apple Watch, which is expected to use ...In a motion seeking to keep Mr. Squiller’s declaration under seal, Apple said the filing was intended to “vilify Apple and portray Apple as a coercive bully.” Apple said Mr. Squiller’s statements were untrue and defamatory...


New York Times

Microsoft, Changing Tack, Makes Office Suite Free on Mobile
New York Times
SEATTLE — Few golden geese in technology have survived as long as Office ...Microsoft's Band contains a display that shows text messages from a cellphone,Facebook alerts and ... A version of Microsoft Excel for the iPad. ... And the company's about-face comes after rivals like Apple and Google and ...
Microsoft Office Offers Free Content Creation And Editing For iOS And Android Apps - Forbes
Microsoft Office gives away apps for iPhone, iPad - CBS News
Microsoft Word mobile app shoots to tops of Apple's charts - CNET


The Fuse Joplin

Apple Pay Vs. Google Wallet: A Digital Wallet Guide
Hartford Courant
What's in your digital wallet, Apple Pay or Google Wallet? ... code readers instead of NFC chip technology favored by Apple Pay and Google Wallet.


CNET

First Microsoft Lumia phone to be revealed next week
CNET
"Microsoft is delivering the power of everyday mobile technology to ... In comparison,Google's Android OS runs on nearly 85 percent of mobile devices ...


TechCrunch (blog)

Unfollow Your Most Annoying Facebook Friends And Pages With “News Feed Settings”
TechCrunch (blog)
Face it. You've accepted friend requests from some weirdos and over-sharers. Luckily, today Facebook's launched a News Feed Settings tool that ...


MIT Technology Review

Google Wants to Store Your Genome
MIT Technology Review
“The opportunity is how to apply breakthroughs in data technology to help with this transition.” ... “Google or Amazon is a back end. They are saying ...


Mashable

Amazon Echo is another step toward commoditizing your personal life
Mashable
The 4-minute video introducing Amazon's Echo seems at first like a parody or a glimpse into some dystopian vision of the near-future. The premise: A ...


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