Innovative watchmaker Greubel Forsey produces a double-tourbillon stunner in a crystal case. Published July 1, 2016.
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Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
04 July 2016
Greubel Forsey, The $1.3 Million Watch (video)
The $1.3 Million Watch:
Innovative watchmaker Greubel Forsey produces a double-tourbillon stunner in a crystal case. Published July 1, 2016.
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Innovative watchmaker Greubel Forsey produces a double-tourbillon stunner in a crystal case. Published July 1, 2016.
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19 October 2015
Why Nike Is Betting Big on 3D Printing (video)
Why Nike Is Betting Big on 3D Printing (video above) - Nike CEO Mark Parker discusses the company's innovation and foray into 3D printing. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets" October 14, 2015.
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26 May 2014
Windows 8 is a Failure, Surface is a Failure, Time to Kill Both
Microsoft has been busy compounding its mistakes --
It's Time to Kill Surface | stratechery by Ben Thompson: "....Windows 8 is a failure, rendering reason 1 moot. In fact, from what I understand the Windows group is laser-focused on simply making Windows acceptable to their enterprise base, which has been very vocal in their displeasure.... When you consider the original goals, none of which have been met, and the original dangers, all of which have come to pass, the only conclusion is that Surface is a failure...." (read more at the link above)
What Microsoft gets wrong about the tablet-laptop redundancy | Ars Technica: ".... like with all of the convertible laptop-tablets that have come before, we won't be surprised if this pitch's initial effect doesn't play out to a grand success."
TelexFree Bankruptcy, What Comes Next? (video above)
Trouble at TelexFree: What Comes Next? - Spreecast: "TelexFree LLC, a Massachusetts Internet calling service provider, stands accused of operating one of the largest pyramid schemes in history. The company, now in bankruptcy, is facing civil fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and its owners have been criminally charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. What path will the company’s bankruptcy likely follow, and what are the consequences for investors located around the word? Two lawyers who have been closely following the case join The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Corrigan to discuss."
New success in protecting customer rights unsealed today - Microsoft on the Issues - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: "Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft On Thursday, a federal court in Seattle unsealed documents related to an FBI National Security Letter that Microsoft successfully challenged in court late last year. This marks an important and successful step to protect Microsoft's enterprise customers regarding government surveillance.... "
Google Close To Snapping Up Satellite Startup Skybox Imaging For $1B+, Say Sources | TechCrunch: "Google is closing in on a deal for Skybox Imaging, a satellite company that specialises in recording very detailed landscape pictures and video, TechCrunch has heard from three different sources."
Book review: ‘Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong,’ by Robert Bryce - Books - The Boston Globe: "...A fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, Bryce delights in mocking the pessimists of the past and the present, with their anxieties over the prospects of environmental collapse and resource depletion, and deploys plenty of hard data to support his sunny view of the future. The reason for his confidence is summed up in his title. For the past two centuries, people have produced the necessities of life in far greater abundance and much higher quality because we’ve gotten so good at making things smaller, faster, lighter, denser, and cheaper... The “denser” bit might seem obscure, but it’s a crucial ingredient in Bryce’s formula. The Industrial Revolution, and all the marvels that have followed from it, were made possible by “dense” energy sources that deliver a lot of power relative to their weight...."
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It's Time to Kill Surface | stratechery by Ben Thompson: "....Windows 8 is a failure, rendering reason 1 moot. In fact, from what I understand the Windows group is laser-focused on simply making Windows acceptable to their enterprise base, which has been very vocal in their displeasure.... When you consider the original goals, none of which have been met, and the original dangers, all of which have come to pass, the only conclusion is that Surface is a failure...." (read more at the link above)
What Microsoft gets wrong about the tablet-laptop redundancy | Ars Technica: ".... like with all of the convertible laptop-tablets that have come before, we won't be surprised if this pitch's initial effect doesn't play out to a grand success."
TelexFree Bankruptcy, What Comes Next? (video above)
Trouble at TelexFree: What Comes Next? - Spreecast: "TelexFree LLC, a Massachusetts Internet calling service provider, stands accused of operating one of the largest pyramid schemes in history. The company, now in bankruptcy, is facing civil fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and its owners have been criminally charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. What path will the company’s bankruptcy likely follow, and what are the consequences for investors located around the word? Two lawyers who have been closely following the case join The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Corrigan to discuss."
New success in protecting customer rights unsealed today - Microsoft on the Issues - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: "Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft On Thursday, a federal court in Seattle unsealed documents related to an FBI National Security Letter that Microsoft successfully challenged in court late last year. This marks an important and successful step to protect Microsoft's enterprise customers regarding government surveillance.... "
Google Close To Snapping Up Satellite Startup Skybox Imaging For $1B+, Say Sources | TechCrunch: "Google is closing in on a deal for Skybox Imaging, a satellite company that specialises in recording very detailed landscape pictures and video, TechCrunch has heard from three different sources."
Book review: ‘Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong,’ by Robert Bryce - Books - The Boston Globe: "...A fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, Bryce delights in mocking the pessimists of the past and the present, with their anxieties over the prospects of environmental collapse and resource depletion, and deploys plenty of hard data to support his sunny view of the future. The reason for his confidence is summed up in his title. For the past two centuries, people have produced the necessities of life in far greater abundance and much higher quality because we’ve gotten so good at making things smaller, faster, lighter, denser, and cheaper... The “denser” bit might seem obscure, but it’s a crucial ingredient in Bryce’s formula. The Industrial Revolution, and all the marvels that have followed from it, were made possible by “dense” energy sources that deliver a lot of power relative to their weight...."
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18 January 2014
Walter Isaacson on Apple, China Mobile, Innovation and Google (video)
Google steals innovation crown from Apple: Isaacson: This is a big deal, says Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute, discussing Apple's deal with China Mobile and Tim Cook's next disruptive move. He still needs to bring out the "holy cow" product. Also Isaacson discusses Google's acquisition of Nest and weighs in on why the greatest innovations right now are coming from Google.
Obama calls for significant changes in NSA practices--
Views under the Palm | johnmpoole.com: Obama's best speech ever because of Snowden's NSA disclosures - Now it comes down to execution and follow-up. There are a lot of details to fill in. The "devil is in the details."
China reveals COS: a government-approved operating system designed to break the monopoly of foreign software: "...Ironically, all the COS variants -- in the form of phones, tablets, PCs and set-top boxes -- shown in the promo video after the break are very Android-like, and some of those features, like multitasking, content streaming and remote desktop, are nothing new. Even the HTC One and Butterfly S we saw looked like they were still carrying Sense 5. But hey, maybe such a close relationship with the Chinese government is just what HTC needs for its recovery this year."
Network Neutrality: 10 Reasons You Should Care About It: "Although concern over network neutrality has been around for years, it's one of the least-understood aspects of the Internet industry. The term, tossed around in congressional hearings and on tech blogs, is hardly understood by average consumers, who naturally expect that they will have unfettered access to Web content at reasonable cost. But if the FCC doesn't find a way to legally sustain the network neutrality concept, Web users may find that they will be paying whatever the market will bear for Web content. And if ISPs attempt to increase the cost for service providers to access the Web, it's entirely possible those end users will get hit by those very same providers with higher access fees. This slide show covers what network neutrality is and why it matters ...." (more at link above)
Google developing smart contact lens
Network Neutrality: 10 Reasons You Should Care About It: "Although concern over network neutrality has been around for years, it's one of the least-understood aspects of the Internet industry. The term, tossed around in congressional hearings and on tech blogs, is hardly understood by average consumers, who naturally expect that they will have unfettered access to Web content at reasonable cost. But if the FCC doesn't find a way to legally sustain the network neutrality concept, Web users may find that they will be paying whatever the market will bear for Web content. And if ISPs attempt to increase the cost for service providers to access the Web, it's entirely possible those end users will get hit by those very same providers with higher access fees. This slide show covers what network neutrality is and why it matters ...." (more at link above)
Google developing smart contact lens
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Google's vision for wearable technology took another ambitious leap forward Thursday when the world's largest Internet search ...
ABC News
Ticket for wearing Google Glass tossed out of court
San Jose Mercury News
SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego traffic court threw out a citation Thursday against a woman who authorities said was driving while wearing the Google ...
ZDNet
Google steps up fight against 'bad' ad barrage
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Google yanked 59% more "bad" advertisements from its online systems last year as the world's largest Internet search provider ...
Apple's Cook Tells China Mobile Customers 'Great Things' Coming
Bloomberg
The Apple Inc. iPhone 5c showing iOS 7, a new version of Apple's mobile ...About 40 percent of all devices using Google Inc.'s Android operating ...
CNBC.com
Apple, e-books monitor told to start fresh with soured relationship
San Jose Mercury News
NEW YORK -- A judge on Thursday urged Apple (AAPL) to reboot its relationship with a monitor appointed to analyze its antitrust prevention practices, ...
Zee News
Amazon, GoDaddy Popular Choices for Malware Hosting
PC Magazine
Criminals are also hiding their malicious activities behind the reputations of major hosting providers such as Amazon, GoDaddy and Google. In fact, of ...
The Guardian
Google buying Nest prompts more privacy fears: #tellusatoday
USA TODAY
Google announced Monday that it is buying Nest, a company that makes smart thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion. Comments from ...
ITworld.com
Microsoft Open Technologies expands presence to China
Wall Street Journal
16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. (MS Open Tech), a subsidiary ofMicrosoft Corp. dedicated to bridging Microsoft and ...
Google's Earnings Preview: Focus on Revenue Growth From Ad ...
Forbes
350px-Googlelogo Google is set to release its Q4 2013 earnings and full year results on Tuesday, January 21. During the past year, Google's Google's ...
Droid Report
Microsoft to employ Halo voice actress for Siri rival, report says
CNET
Jen Taylor, who played the role of AI character Cortana in the Halo video game series, will reportedly be the voice for Microsoft's personal assistant, ...
NDTV
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google's vision for wearable technology took another ambitious leap forward Thursday when the world's largest Internet search ...
ABC News
Ticket for wearing Google Glass tossed out of court
San Jose Mercury News
SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego traffic court threw out a citation Thursday against a woman who authorities said was driving while wearing the Google ...
ZDNet
Google steps up fight against 'bad' ad barrage
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Google yanked 59% more "bad" advertisements from its online systems last year as the world's largest Internet search provider ...
Apple's Cook Tells China Mobile Customers 'Great Things' Coming
Bloomberg
The Apple Inc. iPhone 5c showing iOS 7, a new version of Apple's mobile ...About 40 percent of all devices using Google Inc.'s Android operating ...
CNBC.com
Apple, e-books monitor told to start fresh with soured relationship
San Jose Mercury News
NEW YORK -- A judge on Thursday urged Apple (AAPL) to reboot its relationship with a monitor appointed to analyze its antitrust prevention practices, ...
Zee News
Amazon, GoDaddy Popular Choices for Malware Hosting
PC Magazine
Criminals are also hiding their malicious activities behind the reputations of major hosting providers such as Amazon, GoDaddy and Google. In fact, of ...
The Guardian
Google buying Nest prompts more privacy fears: #tellusatoday
USA TODAY
Google announced Monday that it is buying Nest, a company that makes smart thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion. Comments from ...
ITworld.com
Microsoft Open Technologies expands presence to China
Wall Street Journal
16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. (MS Open Tech), a subsidiary ofMicrosoft Corp. dedicated to bridging Microsoft and ...
Google's Earnings Preview: Focus on Revenue Growth From Ad ...
Forbes
350px-Googlelogo Google is set to release its Q4 2013 earnings and full year results on Tuesday, January 21. During the past year, Google's Google's ...
Droid Report
Microsoft to employ Halo voice actress for Siri rival, report says
CNET
Jen Taylor, who played the role of AI character Cortana in the Halo video game series, will reportedly be the voice for Microsoft's personal assistant, ...
NDTV
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26 January 2013
Apple TV would give investors an important signal on future innovation
Apple TV would give investors an 'important signal' on future innovation
NBCNews.com
Skittish investors sent Apple stock down 12 percent Thursday, one day after the computer giant's quarterly revenue came in below estimates, and some analysts worried that weaker demand for its products was an indication that the company's innovative ...
Shrinking proton: Particle is smaller than thought
NBCNews.com
This laser apparatus, used in 2010 to measure the size of the proton, found that the particle's radius is about 4 percent smaller than previously thought. By Jesse Emspak Contributor. updated 1/24/2013 6:59:20 PM ET 2013-01-24T23:59:20. Print; Font: +; -...
NBCNews.com
Guyana vows to protect jaguars as the cats are a near-threatened species
Fox News
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator in the Americas but is vulnerable due to expanded agriculture and mining that carves ...
Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones becomes illegal Saturday
CNET
The feds mandate fidelity between carriers and users: New rule under DMCA outlaws unlocking new handsets without carrier permission. Eric Mack. by Eric Mack. January 25, 2013 4:57 AM PST Follow @ericcmack. The U.S. federal government says that ...
NASA agrees to join Europe's Euclid dark-energy mission
NBCNews.com
An artist's conception shows the Euclid space telescope with a "cosmic web" of dark matter in the background. The European Space Agency and NASA are due to launch the spacecraft in 2020. By Mike Wall. updated 1/24/2013...
Nokia's Windows Phone royalties to exceed $1bn per year in future
ZDNet
Summary: After enjoying Microsoft's financial support through the transition to Windows Phone, it's time for Nokia to pay. Liam Tung. By Liam Tung for Norse Code ...
Facebook DIES ON THE VINE hours after Twitter tie-in
Register
Twitter's public spat with Facebook continued on Thursday when Mark Zuckerberg's free content ad network appeared to have cut off access to video-sharing app Vine's "find people" function - which allowed Viners to ferret out their Facebook mates.
Microsoft's Skype pressured to offer privacy reports
BBC News
Microsoft is under fresh pressure to disclose information about how confidential its Skype user data is. Reporters Without Borders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 43 other campaign groups have signed a letter asking the firm to reveal details about ...
OUYA tweaks pre-launch hardware
SlashGear
A big gaming company like Microsoft couldn't be bested for controller polish by a tiny, Kickstart-funded startup, right? Wrong, says OUYA, which has been detailing the tweaks made to its wireless control pads after developer feedback on the palm-sized ...
Backdoor root login found in Barracuda gear - and Barracuda is OK with this
Register
Multiple Barracuda Networks products feature an undocumented backdoor, leaving widely deployed data centre kit vulnerable to hijacking. Privileged user accounts were found in various Barracuda appliances, including its flagship Spam and Virus Firewall, ...
UK, International Galaxy S2 Users Get Jelly Bean Update
Tom's Hardware Guide
They say good things come to those who wait, and Galaxy S2 users have been waiting quite a while for Jelly Bean. However, the wait is officially over. Know Your Mobile reports that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has just started rolling out to unlocked Samsung ...
Lenovo considers bid for RIM
TG Daily
Lenovo may be considering a takeover of Research in Motion, in an attempt to expand out of its core PC business and into mobile. In an interview with Bloomberg, Lenovo's chief financial officer Wong Wai Ming, conceded that competition from tablets was ...
TG Daily
AT&T posts loss; 8.6M iPhones activated
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- AT&T Inc. reported a net loss for the fourth quarter, with adjusted results largely in line with Wall Street's estimates. The carrier activated 8.6 million iPhones in the quarter. For the period ended Dec. 31, AT&T (US:t) said net ...
Don't clone a Neanderthal baby
CNN
Editor's note: Arthur Caplan is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty professor and director of the Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center. (CNN) -- So now we know -- there won't be a Neanderthal moving into your ...
DNA Could Become the Next Big Data Warehouse
TechNewsWorld
Scientists have stored some Shakespearean sonnets and part of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech by encoding them in DNA -- a process that could preserve those famous words for millennia. The team at the European Bioinformatics Institute ...
Samsung profits jump 76pc as it sells one in three smartphones
Telegraph.co.uk
The rapid growth stands in stark contrast to rival Apple, which saw sales stagnate, and underscores the scale of the challenge facing the Californian iPad and iPhone-maker. Samsung, which overtook Apple as the top smartphone producer last year, said that ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Twitter must unmask racist French twits or face $1300-a-DAY fine
Register
Twitter has been ordered by a tribunal in France to name the anonymous twits who tweeted anti-Semitic bile. The social network was sued by the Union of French Jewish Students to make it to reveal the identities of those behind the vile messages, which ...
Why Microsoft's Earnings Report Doesn't Reveal How Windows 8 Is Doing
ReadWriteWeb
Like on Facebook. Share on: Why Microsoft's Earnings Report Doesn't Reveal How Windows 8 Is Doing. Microsoft reported an unexpected boost in both profits and revenue within its Windows division for the fourth quarter - but little of that had to do with.
ReadWriteWeb
Dung beetles navigate by the stars
The Guardian
The humble dung beetle is the first insect known to navigate by the stars. Like sailors of old and Saharan nomads, it can orientate itself by watching the sky. On clear nights, a myriad of stars shine over the deserts and savannahs of Africa where the dung ...
Amazon: IVONA bevy of 'all natural' blabber babes to beat Siri
Register
Amazon bought text-to-speech company IVONA systems on Wednesday, the online book-floggers have announced. The acquisition fuelled rumours that Amazon, the quietest member of The Gang of Four, is planning a rival to Apple's talking assistant Siri.
NAB, Wireless Offer Alternative TV Band Plan
TV News Check
The NAB, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Intel and Qualcomm ask the commission to adopt a "core set of band plan principles" that, in essence, outline how wireless and broadcast are going to co-exist in the post-auction world. The joint proposal offers an ...
Giant Squid Emerges from the Deep to Appear on Your Screen
Science World Report
(Photo : NHK) The giant squid was spotted at a depth of 630 meters using a submersible in July, some 15 km east of Chichi island in the north Pacific Ocean. It's the modern day kraken, the horror that appeared in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and tried to ...
Science World Report
German Court Stays Samsung versus Apple Smartphone Patent Case
NASDAQ
MANNHEIM, Germany--A German court Friday stayed a decision on a lawsuit in which Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.SE) accuses Apple Inc. ( AAPL ) of allegedly infringing a patent related to the third-generation mobile telecommunications standard.
U-verse service restored after outages, AT&T says
Tulsa World
new partner American Airlines CEO Tom Horton: His move to Embraer planes represents a break from sister carrier American Eagle. By Staff and Wire reports. Published: 1/25/2013 2:05 AM Last Modified: 1/25/2013 2:05 AM ...
NASA Testing Vintage Engine From Apollo 11 Rocket
ABC News
Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things eventually come back around. At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond. Young engineers who ...
ABC News
Lookout for your smartphone
Examiner.com
Curiosity is a trait that all humans share. And while it may not end up killing us, as it is said to have done with the cat, it can certainly cause ...
Examiner.com
FaceWash Makes Sure Your Facebook Profile Is Clean and Interview-Ready
Lifehacker
FaceWash Makes Sure Your Facebook Profile Is Clean and Interview-Ready If the prospect of going back over years of Facebook posts to determine whether some of them should be hidden or photos untagged is daunting, webapp FaceWash can help.
Toyota Will Debut New Full-Size Tundra Pickup at Chicago Auto Show
Complex.com (blog)
The Toyota Tundra, as much as we like it, has remained unchanged since 2007. Since that time, the big truck hasn't frightened the Big Three of Detroit with sales numbers, and as such its getting a new look. Toyota has announced that the redesigned 2014 ...
Complex.com (blog)
Sony Entertainment Network Online Store for games, movies and more heads to ...
SlashGear
Sony Network Entertainment International and Sony Computer Entertainment America announced a new online store this week. The online store has launched in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. The store will allow PlayStation Network and ...
SlashGear
Big Data “Hype” Coming To An End
DABCC.com
Gartner says that the so-called 'hype' over Big Data is reaching its peak, and that the idea will soon descend into a 'trough of disillusionment'. Thousands of businesses have already begun exploring ways in which Big Data can be used to provide them with ...
Pulsar shows puzzling behavior
TG Daily
Astronomers are baffled by the discovery of a pulsar - a tiny spinning stars, heavier than the sun and smaller than a city - that emits different types of radiation at different times. In just a few seconds, PSR B0943+10 can damp down its radio waves, while at the ...
TG Daily
How wolves evolved into man's best friend
The Week Magazine
Believe it or not, this little bundle of canine joy is actually a descendant of the big bad wolf. ...
The Week Magazine
Intel to leave desktop motherboard business by 2016
ZDNet
Summary: More evidence that the desktop's days are numbered, as Intel says it will exit the desktop motherboard business to focus on all-in-ones, NUCs and tablets. ...
Addicted to Facebook? Study shows users are lonelier
Fox News
It turns out that as many as one in every three people who use social media like Facebook experience feelings of jealousy and envy after spending time on these sites, according to a new study. Related: Addicted to the Internet? With the growing use of social ...
Apple's Record iPhone, iPad Sales; Facebook App Tops Google; AT&T U-verse ...
PC Magazine
Topping tech headlines on Wednesday, Apple revealed in its fourth-quarter earnings report that it sold a record 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPads during the quarter. During a conference call with analysts, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company had ...
Gozi Trojan Prosecutions Mark Rare Victory Against Bank Cyber-Fraud
eWeek
U.S. law enforcement announce the indictment of three people accused of creating and using the Gozi trojan to steal money from banks, sending a message to cyber-criminals. The arrest of three men in the United States, Romania and Latvia for the creation ...
eWeek
Mac Sales Dip Amidst iMac Constraints, iPad Cannibalization
PC Magazine
Mac sales dipped slightly in the fourth quarter, and while Apple CEO Tim Cook attributed part of the drop to iPad cannibalization, supply constraints with the iMac also played a big role, he said. Apple sold 4.1 million Macs during the quarter, which was down ...
Anonymous Hacker Gets 18 Months for PayPal, MasterCard Attacks
PC Magazine
A hacker associated with the Anonymous collective has been sentenced to 18 months in a British jail for his role in attacks on the websites of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and several companies. As reported by the BBC, 22-year-old Christopher Weatherhead ...
BMW and Toyota to jointly develop a mid-size sports car
CarWale (blog)
BMW and Toyota have furthered their agreement of jointly developing green technologies. New agreements were signed yesterday, and the research into next-gen batteries for cars now encompasses the lithium-air kind as well. They also hope to complete ...
CarWale (blog)
Apple Reports Record iPhone, iPad Sales
InformationWeek
Sales of Apple's iOS devices soared while Mac computers dropped precipitously in fourth quarter of 2012. Wall Street disappointed with the results. Start The Discussion · Tweet; Mail Mail; Print Print · Eric Zeman | January 24, 2013 11:18 AM. Apple iTunes 11: ...
Pope blesses Twitter, Facebook to spread Church teachings
CNET
Pope Benedict XIV urges Catholics to go forth on social networks and multiply the church's messages of faith. Steven Musil. by Steven Musil. January 24, 2013 5:25 PM PST Follow @stevenmusil. The pope endorses online social networking as a means for ...
Temple Run 2 comes to Android, Kindle devices
Los Angeles Times
"Temple Run 2," the sequel to the wildly popular mobile game, is now available for Android and Kindle devices. The app hit the Google Play store and Amazon.com Appstore early Thursday morning. Just like the original "Temple Run," the new game is also ...
Internet Explorer ad tugs at heartstrings of Gen-Y users
PCWorld
Whether you love or hate Internet Explorer, you've got to admit that some of its ads are pretty good. Microsoft's latest IE ad, dubbed “Child of the 90s,” tries to appeal to people who remember the web browser at its worst. The video shows snapshots of passing ...
Wii U: new Zelda and Mario games announced. Is it enough?
The Guardian (blog)
In case you missed it, Nintendo did one of its regular 'Direct' online presentations yesterday. Once again the company's president Satoru Iwata stood in front of a white background looking friendly yet somehow also faintly Orwellian – and once again he ...
The Guardian (blog)
Google Is Building An Experimental Wireless Network Perfect For High-Density ...
TechCrunch
When Google experiments, it can have earth-changing consequences. That might be the case with its latest project: the building of a wireless network on-campus at its Mountain View headquarters, reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
NASA Telescope Spots Solar Braids
Voice of America
Five or 10 minutes is not a long time when it comes to a NASA mission, but it was long enough for NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, telescope to capture the sharpest images ever taken of the sun's scorching atmosphere. The sun's surface is ...
Voice of America
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NBCNews.com
Skittish investors sent Apple stock down 12 percent Thursday, one day after the computer giant's quarterly revenue came in below estimates, and some analysts worried that weaker demand for its products was an indication that the company's innovative ...
Shrinking proton: Particle is smaller than thought
NBCNews.com
This laser apparatus, used in 2010 to measure the size of the proton, found that the particle's radius is about 4 percent smaller than previously thought. By Jesse Emspak Contributor. updated 1/24/2013 6:59:20 PM ET 2013-01-24T23:59:20. Print; Font: +; -...
NBCNews.com
Guyana vows to protect jaguars as the cats are a near-threatened species
Fox News
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator in the Americas but is vulnerable due to expanded agriculture and mining that carves ...
Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones becomes illegal Saturday
CNET
The feds mandate fidelity between carriers and users: New rule under DMCA outlaws unlocking new handsets without carrier permission. Eric Mack. by Eric Mack. January 25, 2013 4:57 AM PST Follow @ericcmack. The U.S. federal government says that ...
NASA agrees to join Europe's Euclid dark-energy mission
NBCNews.com
An artist's conception shows the Euclid space telescope with a "cosmic web" of dark matter in the background. The European Space Agency and NASA are due to launch the spacecraft in 2020. By Mike Wall. updated 1/24/2013...
Nokia's Windows Phone royalties to exceed $1bn per year in future
ZDNet
Summary: After enjoying Microsoft's financial support through the transition to Windows Phone, it's time for Nokia to pay. Liam Tung. By Liam Tung for Norse Code ...
Facebook DIES ON THE VINE hours after Twitter tie-in
Register
Twitter's public spat with Facebook continued on Thursday when Mark Zuckerberg's free content ad network appeared to have cut off access to video-sharing app Vine's "find people" function - which allowed Viners to ferret out their Facebook mates.
Microsoft's Skype pressured to offer privacy reports
BBC News
Microsoft is under fresh pressure to disclose information about how confidential its Skype user data is. Reporters Without Borders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 43 other campaign groups have signed a letter asking the firm to reveal details about ...
OUYA tweaks pre-launch hardware
SlashGear
A big gaming company like Microsoft couldn't be bested for controller polish by a tiny, Kickstart-funded startup, right? Wrong, says OUYA, which has been detailing the tweaks made to its wireless control pads after developer feedback on the palm-sized ...
Backdoor root login found in Barracuda gear - and Barracuda is OK with this
Register
Multiple Barracuda Networks products feature an undocumented backdoor, leaving widely deployed data centre kit vulnerable to hijacking. Privileged user accounts were found in various Barracuda appliances, including its flagship Spam and Virus Firewall, ...
UK, International Galaxy S2 Users Get Jelly Bean Update
Tom's Hardware Guide
They say good things come to those who wait, and Galaxy S2 users have been waiting quite a while for Jelly Bean. However, the wait is officially over. Know Your Mobile reports that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has just started rolling out to unlocked Samsung ...
Lenovo considers bid for RIM
TG Daily
Lenovo may be considering a takeover of Research in Motion, in an attempt to expand out of its core PC business and into mobile. In an interview with Bloomberg, Lenovo's chief financial officer Wong Wai Ming, conceded that competition from tablets was ...
TG Daily
AT&T posts loss; 8.6M iPhones activated
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- AT&T Inc. reported a net loss for the fourth quarter, with adjusted results largely in line with Wall Street's estimates. The carrier activated 8.6 million iPhones in the quarter. For the period ended Dec. 31, AT&T (US:t) said net ...
Don't clone a Neanderthal baby
CNN
Editor's note: Arthur Caplan is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty professor and director of the Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center. (CNN) -- So now we know -- there won't be a Neanderthal moving into your ...
DNA Could Become the Next Big Data Warehouse
TechNewsWorld
Scientists have stored some Shakespearean sonnets and part of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech by encoding them in DNA -- a process that could preserve those famous words for millennia. The team at the European Bioinformatics Institute ...
Samsung profits jump 76pc as it sells one in three smartphones
Telegraph.co.uk
The rapid growth stands in stark contrast to rival Apple, which saw sales stagnate, and underscores the scale of the challenge facing the Californian iPad and iPhone-maker. Samsung, which overtook Apple as the top smartphone producer last year, said that ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Twitter must unmask racist French twits or face $1300-a-DAY fine
Register
Twitter has been ordered by a tribunal in France to name the anonymous twits who tweeted anti-Semitic bile. The social network was sued by the Union of French Jewish Students to make it to reveal the identities of those behind the vile messages, which ...
Why Microsoft's Earnings Report Doesn't Reveal How Windows 8 Is Doing
ReadWriteWeb
Like on Facebook. Share on: Why Microsoft's Earnings Report Doesn't Reveal How Windows 8 Is Doing. Microsoft reported an unexpected boost in both profits and revenue within its Windows division for the fourth quarter - but little of that had to do with.
ReadWriteWeb
Dung beetles navigate by the stars
The Guardian
The humble dung beetle is the first insect known to navigate by the stars. Like sailors of old and Saharan nomads, it can orientate itself by watching the sky. On clear nights, a myriad of stars shine over the deserts and savannahs of Africa where the dung ...
Amazon: IVONA bevy of 'all natural' blabber babes to beat Siri
Register
Amazon bought text-to-speech company IVONA systems on Wednesday, the online book-floggers have announced. The acquisition fuelled rumours that Amazon, the quietest member of The Gang of Four, is planning a rival to Apple's talking assistant Siri.
NAB, Wireless Offer Alternative TV Band Plan
TV News Check
The NAB, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Intel and Qualcomm ask the commission to adopt a "core set of band plan principles" that, in essence, outline how wireless and broadcast are going to co-exist in the post-auction world. The joint proposal offers an ...
Giant Squid Emerges from the Deep to Appear on Your Screen
Science World Report
(Photo : NHK) The giant squid was spotted at a depth of 630 meters using a submersible in July, some 15 km east of Chichi island in the north Pacific Ocean. It's the modern day kraken, the horror that appeared in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and tried to ...
Science World Report
German Court Stays Samsung versus Apple Smartphone Patent Case
NASDAQ
MANNHEIM, Germany--A German court Friday stayed a decision on a lawsuit in which Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.SE) accuses Apple Inc. ( AAPL ) of allegedly infringing a patent related to the third-generation mobile telecommunications standard.
U-verse service restored after outages, AT&T says
Tulsa World
new partner American Airlines CEO Tom Horton: His move to Embraer planes represents a break from sister carrier American Eagle. By Staff and Wire reports. Published: 1/25/2013 2:05 AM Last Modified: 1/25/2013 2:05 AM ...
NASA Testing Vintage Engine From Apollo 11 Rocket
ABC News
Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things eventually come back around. At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond. Young engineers who ...
ABC News
Lookout for your smartphone
Examiner.com
Curiosity is a trait that all humans share. And while it may not end up killing us, as it is said to have done with the cat, it can certainly cause ...
Examiner.com
FaceWash Makes Sure Your Facebook Profile Is Clean and Interview-Ready
Lifehacker
FaceWash Makes Sure Your Facebook Profile Is Clean and Interview-Ready If the prospect of going back over years of Facebook posts to determine whether some of them should be hidden or photos untagged is daunting, webapp FaceWash can help.
Toyota Will Debut New Full-Size Tundra Pickup at Chicago Auto Show
Complex.com (blog)
The Toyota Tundra, as much as we like it, has remained unchanged since 2007. Since that time, the big truck hasn't frightened the Big Three of Detroit with sales numbers, and as such its getting a new look. Toyota has announced that the redesigned 2014 ...
Complex.com (blog)
Sony Entertainment Network Online Store for games, movies and more heads to ...
SlashGear
Sony Network Entertainment International and Sony Computer Entertainment America announced a new online store this week. The online store has launched in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. The store will allow PlayStation Network and ...
SlashGear
Big Data “Hype” Coming To An End
DABCC.com
Gartner says that the so-called 'hype' over Big Data is reaching its peak, and that the idea will soon descend into a 'trough of disillusionment'. Thousands of businesses have already begun exploring ways in which Big Data can be used to provide them with ...
Pulsar shows puzzling behavior
TG Daily
Astronomers are baffled by the discovery of a pulsar - a tiny spinning stars, heavier than the sun and smaller than a city - that emits different types of radiation at different times. In just a few seconds, PSR B0943+10 can damp down its radio waves, while at the ...
TG Daily
How wolves evolved into man's best friend
The Week Magazine
Believe it or not, this little bundle of canine joy is actually a descendant of the big bad wolf. ...
The Week Magazine
Intel to leave desktop motherboard business by 2016
ZDNet
Summary: More evidence that the desktop's days are numbered, as Intel says it will exit the desktop motherboard business to focus on all-in-ones, NUCs and tablets. ...
Addicted to Facebook? Study shows users are lonelier
Fox News
It turns out that as many as one in every three people who use social media like Facebook experience feelings of jealousy and envy after spending time on these sites, according to a new study. Related: Addicted to the Internet? With the growing use of social ...
Apple's Record iPhone, iPad Sales; Facebook App Tops Google; AT&T U-verse ...
PC Magazine
Topping tech headlines on Wednesday, Apple revealed in its fourth-quarter earnings report that it sold a record 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPads during the quarter. During a conference call with analysts, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company had ...
Gozi Trojan Prosecutions Mark Rare Victory Against Bank Cyber-Fraud
eWeek
U.S. law enforcement announce the indictment of three people accused of creating and using the Gozi trojan to steal money from banks, sending a message to cyber-criminals. The arrest of three men in the United States, Romania and Latvia for the creation ...
eWeek
Mac Sales Dip Amidst iMac Constraints, iPad Cannibalization
PC Magazine
Mac sales dipped slightly in the fourth quarter, and while Apple CEO Tim Cook attributed part of the drop to iPad cannibalization, supply constraints with the iMac also played a big role, he said. Apple sold 4.1 million Macs during the quarter, which was down ...
Anonymous Hacker Gets 18 Months for PayPal, MasterCard Attacks
PC Magazine
A hacker associated with the Anonymous collective has been sentenced to 18 months in a British jail for his role in attacks on the websites of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and several companies. As reported by the BBC, 22-year-old Christopher Weatherhead ...
BMW and Toyota to jointly develop a mid-size sports car
CarWale (blog)
BMW and Toyota have furthered their agreement of jointly developing green technologies. New agreements were signed yesterday, and the research into next-gen batteries for cars now encompasses the lithium-air kind as well. They also hope to complete ...
CarWale (blog)
Apple Reports Record iPhone, iPad Sales
InformationWeek
Sales of Apple's iOS devices soared while Mac computers dropped precipitously in fourth quarter of 2012. Wall Street disappointed with the results. Start The Discussion · Tweet; Mail Mail; Print Print · Eric Zeman | January 24, 2013 11:18 AM. Apple iTunes 11: ...
Pope blesses Twitter, Facebook to spread Church teachings
CNET
Pope Benedict XIV urges Catholics to go forth on social networks and multiply the church's messages of faith. Steven Musil. by Steven Musil. January 24, 2013 5:25 PM PST Follow @stevenmusil. The pope endorses online social networking as a means for ...
Temple Run 2 comes to Android, Kindle devices
Los Angeles Times
"Temple Run 2," the sequel to the wildly popular mobile game, is now available for Android and Kindle devices. The app hit the Google Play store and Amazon.com Appstore early Thursday morning. Just like the original "Temple Run," the new game is also ...
Internet Explorer ad tugs at heartstrings of Gen-Y users
PCWorld
Whether you love or hate Internet Explorer, you've got to admit that some of its ads are pretty good. Microsoft's latest IE ad, dubbed “Child of the 90s,” tries to appeal to people who remember the web browser at its worst. The video shows snapshots of passing ...
Wii U: new Zelda and Mario games announced. Is it enough?
The Guardian (blog)
In case you missed it, Nintendo did one of its regular 'Direct' online presentations yesterday. Once again the company's president Satoru Iwata stood in front of a white background looking friendly yet somehow also faintly Orwellian – and once again he ...
The Guardian (blog)
Google Is Building An Experimental Wireless Network Perfect For High-Density ...
TechCrunch
When Google experiments, it can have earth-changing consequences. That might be the case with its latest project: the building of a wireless network on-campus at its Mountain View headquarters, reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
NASA Telescope Spots Solar Braids
Voice of America
Five or 10 minutes is not a long time when it comes to a NASA mission, but it was long enough for NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, telescope to capture the sharpest images ever taken of the sun's scorching atmosphere. The sun's surface is ...
Voice of America
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America's most influential tech innovators
MarketWatch 's Christopher Noble and Dan Gallagher talk about America's most influential tech innovators from this year's 'Power 30,' MarketWatch's annual list of the players shaping economic currents around the world.http://on.wsj.com/T6AVCo
By Bobbie Johnson
From London's expanding Tech City to the more bucolic Silicon Glen, and from Tallinn, Estonia, to Berlin, here's our guide to European's hottest tech hubs (listed in alphabetical order). We'll be talking more about Europe's tech scene at Structure: Europe, our cloud-computing conference in ... Greentechnology is an increasing specialty here, along with healthcare, and smart materials. Major funding sources. Much of the region's access to cash comes through corporate investment or ...
GigaOM
Kodak's Missed Opportunities - Technology Review: " The wheels of fate that led the photography company into Chapter 11 began spinning in 1975. . . No one is really surprised that Eastman Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. What might surprise some people, though, is that the digital camera, the device that led to the company's undoing, was invented at Kodak in 1975. Here is a 2005 piece that includes an interview with the engineer behind it. We also explored Kodak's spiral last month in our Business Impact package on Disruptive Innovation. Some charts in that piece really stood out to me, and are reprinted below. These show how quickly Kodak's business fell apart, and how big of an opportunity it missed. . . . "
Death is the default for startups, and your little idea means nothing
Memeburn
By Matthew Buckland: Publisher Death is the default for startups, reckons Amazon Web Services Technology Evangelist Simone Brunozzi. Apart from having a really cool Twitter handle @Simon, Brunozzi has founded a few startups himself, so speaks with some ...
The Worst Apple Rumors of 2012: Apple Televisions, Huge iPhones And More ...
Huffington Post
The Internet practically overflows with rumors about Apple. Rumors about the next iPhone, the next iPad, the next iPod, the next iMac; whispers of an iTV, or an iCar, an iRoboticHorse; gossip about upcoming software features, and hardware features and ...
Google, Apple show off technology in holiday ads
PCWorld
Technology giants Google and Apple shared some holiday cheer and a little self-promotion online in the form of ads recently posted on YouTube. GoogleMobile's ad -- a cheesy production that has garnered more than 125,000 views -- stars the little green ...
Apple v. Samsung: Who's been editing the judge's Wikipedia entry?
Fortune (blog)
He or she also edited tech specs in the entry for the Nexus 10 -- a joint Samsung-Google (GOOG) project -- and sprinkled disparagements in the entry forApple's A6 processor. But the world's largest crowd-sourced encyclopedia is nothing if not ...
Fortune (blog)
Apple's Merry Christmas message from the fiscal cliff
Fortune (blog)
FORTUNE -- More than one TV viewer tuning in to CNN Friday morning for House Speaker John Boehner's grim press conference was surprised to see it punctuated with a new, cheery, Christmas-themed Apple (AAPL) ad. The spot, which has since gone into ...
Tech giant Microsoft faces fragile period
The Seattle Times
Apple, Google and other competitors have leaped ahead as the computing world changed from standard PCs to iPods, iPhones, the android operating system and the cloud. Then there was The Article. In August, Kurt Eichenwald, a former business reporter ...
Google Music UK: everything you need to know
TechRadar UK
Music on Google Play service has been live in the UK since November 2012, when we finally got a chance to use it after the Americans had very kindly spent the best part of a year beta testing it for us. ... install Google's Music Manager tool to kick ...
Amazon To Rival Netflix And Hulu With Original Programming
Seeking Alpha
That brings me to Amazon (AMZN). When you think of who might be second in this space,Amazon's Prime gets a lot of votes. With Prime, subscribers pay a flat yearly rate, $79, but get tons of benefits. They get access to Prime Instant Video, which has ...
Google working on an 'X phone' and 'X tablet' to take on rivals Apple and Samsung
Daily Mail
Google and Microsoft are both power-hungry cannibals without any ethics. Keep your distance with them and their associates. - Prof. Hudson McLean , London, 23/12/2012 11:15 =============You forgot Apple, one of the biggest power-hungry cannibals,...
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