Friday's Top 50 Technology News & Stories
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Don Clark / Wall Street Journal : Vidyo raises $20M Series E to bring video apps to Internet of Things, total funding now $139M — Vidyo Raises Still More Money for Video Ambitions — Vidyo CEO Ofer Sha...
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Sapphire is the birthstone of September, the traditional gift on your 45th wedding anniversary and a material associated with both luxury and ruggedness. It can be found in opulent products like jewelry, camera lenses and fancy watches. ...
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It's been a long, hard road for all the amazing volcanos around the world. But only two countries could make it to the final round. This year, the Volcano World Cup champion is going to be either Chile or the USA. Vote now!
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grahamsaa writes: Like many others in IT, I sometimes have to do server maintenance at unfortunate times. 6AM is the norm for us, but in some cases we're expected to do it as early as 2AM, which isn't exactly optimal. I understand that c...
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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired InMage, a business continuity service that helps enterprises migrate their data between public and private clouds, replicate their on-premise assets in the cloud and recover their data...
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Kif Leswing / Gigaom : Samsung's new Exynos processor includes an LTE radio for the first time — If you pick up a high-end Samsung smartphone, like the Galaxy S5, it will be running a Qualcomm processor, despite Samsun...
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Apple has faced a fair amount of state-sponsored criticism in China, a market where the prevailing powers have a stated goal of promoting more home-grown network and IT solutions. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple’s ...
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(Reuters) - Trading in shares of Cynk Technology Corp was suspended Friday in the loosely regulated over-the-counter market, amid concerns about possible market manipulation after a 24,000-percent surge in the stock price in the last month.
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Besides Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, most artists produce songs of around the same length: about three minutes. The reason for this is historical and yet, with better technology, the average length of a song has changed over time.
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For open science to work, scientists need better incentives to review each other's work.
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Haptic feedback coming to future Apple devices and more potential iWatch delays.
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Personal computers, long an ailing member of the larger technology market had a strong second quarter. After consistent quarters of decline, the worldwide PC market was either up 0.1%, or down a modest 1.7% in the period, according...
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A collection of interesting design, data and interactive links.
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg : SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd., in exchange for an agreemen...
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There are good cameras that look cute, take passable pictures and don't cost an arm and a leg. And then there are incredible cameras that can really do it all, but come along with comparatively astronomical price tags. The Sony RX100 is ...
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US President Barack Obama has extended the so-called QuickPay initiative to the private sector with "SupplierPay," and Apple (among others) has come on board. SupplierPay requires companies to pay their suppliers within 15 days of receiv...
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A pair of suspect rumors regarding Apple's next-generation devices made their way to the internet Friday, as one British academic claimed he had been contacted by the iPhone maker about sapphire displays while Chinese media rebuffed repo...
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A report from CoinDesk shows increased quarterly investment from venture capitalists -- and that's not including this week's $20 million announcement from Xapo.
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Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal : Apple, Coca-Cola, others join SupplierPay, a White House effort to speed payments to small businesses — Apple, Coca-Cola Among Firms Signed on to White House Plan for Small Sup...
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angry tapir writes: Amazon.com has asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for permission to test drones outdoors for use in its Prime Air package delivery service. In the run up to launching the service, which aims to deliver pac...
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Loverly, the one-stop online shop for brides planning a wedding, has made an investment in their editorial content with the launch of a brand new content hub on the website and mobile app. For the past 6 months or so, Loverly has b...
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web : Digg revives News.me as Digg Deeper, revealing the best links your friends are sharing on Twitter — Digg today announced Digg Deeper, a new feature that shows you what links your frien...
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Heart-rate monitoring chest straps won't be with us for much longer, as wrist-worn devices are offering optical sensors that do exactly the same job. PulseOn is the latest, and having spun out of Nokia back in 2012, is now offering its f...
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Have you heard Cynk Technologies? Its stock has defied gravity in recent weeks, despite having no assets or revenue. Trading is halted Friday.
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A changing of keys and tempo, at PonoMusic, the venture founded on the premise of a high-fidelity digital music service and music-playing device. Neil Young, the iconic musician who founded Pono and saw it raise over $6.2 million o...
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Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : Salesforce Buys Big Data Startup RelateIQ For Up To $390M — The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can't beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com's...
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Betaworks-owned Digg.com expanded its product lineup today with the launch of a new service – well, technically, an older service that’s been retooled and rebranded – called “Digg Deeper.” While Digg.c...
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Chinese media, which tend to toe the government line, have already cast aspersions on Microsoft's Windows 8, IBM's servers and pretty much the entire U.S. tech industry.
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On Nikola Tesla's 158th birthday, it was the effort to build a museum in the influential scientist's honor that got the gift.
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FTC says Amazon is illegally charging parents for millions in purchases by their kids. Richard Quest has more.
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The stock deal values newcomer RelateIQ at about $390 million and continues Salesforce.com's push to acquire technologies, rivals and customer lists.
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You had to feel sorry for the home team when host country Brazil got trounced 7-1 by Germany in their World Cup semifinal game on Tuesday.
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The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can’t beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com’s $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data fro...
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It’s shameful, but virtually every unposed photo of me taken in the past few years features me looking at a smartphone, tablet or laptop. I’m not alone – the smartphone is having a devastating effect on face-to-face communication across ...
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Looks like Science Inc. is getting more serious about mobile development — the startup studio is announcing that it has acquired an eight-person company based in Yerevan, Armenia called Inlight. That company developed the iOS...
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You have what you think is a cool idea, but you aren't sure if you can convince investors about the sales potential of, say, a tiny monitor strapped to your face, or a watch that is also a computer. Besides, who are "investors" and how d...
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Dave Hamilton of Mac Observer talked this week with Alf Watt, former Apple engineer and creator of iStumbler WiFI utility, on the latest Mac Geek Gab podcast. The conversation focused on ways you can improve your WiFi connection in your ...
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KentuckyFC writes: On 13 March 1989, a powerful geomagnetic storm severely disrupted the Hydro-Québec high-voltage grid triggering numerous circuit breakers and blacking out much of eastern Canada and the northeastern U.S. Since the...
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(Reuters) - Spain's Telefonica SA is in talks to sell its stake in Telecom Italia in a move that could ease regulatory pressure in Brazil's wireless market, Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Friday.
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Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal : China's state broadcaster calls iPhone's location tracking a “national security concern” — China Labels iPhone a Security Threat — BEIJING—China's inf...
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Digg today announced Digg Deeper, a new feature that shows you what links your friends are sharing on social networks in real-time. You can get this list in three different places: on the Digg homepage, as real-time email alerts, and as ...
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Mathilde Collin is the CEO and co-founder of Frontapp. About six weeks ago, I was sitting in front of my computer waiting for one email. Not just any email. The email. We had just flown from Paris to Mountain View for our 10-minute inter...
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Y Combinator-backed Amplitude, a startup taking on big-name analytics providers like Mixpanel, Kontagent, Localytics and others, has raised $1.975 million in seed funding from a number of investors, including SV Angel, Charlie Chee...
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A new letter from Amazon to the FAA reveals new details about "Prime Air," the program that Amazon says could deliver 86 percent of its packages in the future.
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Samsung's Tizen mobile OS already powers a pair of smartwatches, but what about those smartphones we've been promised for so long? Well the company's first consumer-ready Tizen phone -- the Samsung Z -- was supposed to make its official ...
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An anonymous reader writes: The Mississippi child, who was born with HIV passed from her mother, received HIV treatment for 18 months after her birth. In the course of over two years after the treatment, her blood indicated no trace of t...
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Promising smartwatches overshadowed by price and battery life, but still a big step in the right direction Continue reading...
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The intrepid researchers at MIT never fail to impress, and a new system they’ve designed that uses fleets of drones to automatically light a shoot for photographers is no exception. The prototype of the system will be on disp...
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Doug Levy is a staff copywriter and editor for the Shutterstock blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Late last year, Abel Tesfaye, better known to his many fans as The ...
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David Cohen / AllFacebook : Facebook Updates Desktop App Ads To Allow For Direct Sales Of Virtual Goods — Developers with games that use virtual goods can now sell those virtual goods directly via ads in Facebook's New...
