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Foxconn to build Google Glass in the US, report says

Foxconn to build Google Glass in the US, report says

| April 16, 2013 | 0 Comments

Google’s upcoming augmented actual existence visor is set to enter prolongation in the coming weeks. What’s in greater numbers, the hardware will be the first from Google to have been manufactured in the US (supposing that not you count the very short lived Nexus Q pastime player) according to a recent mention from the Financial [...]

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Australian store implements $5 cover charge to combat showrooming

Australian store implements $5 cover charge to combat showrooming

| April 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

Here’s some interesting approach to try and hindrance showrooming: charge customers $5 for looking encompassing in your store. That’s exactly the sort of one specialty foods store in Brisbane, Australia, is doing to try and point people from just “looking surrounding” according to a post forward Reddit. Matt Brownell from Daily Finance declared the policy [...]

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Twitter awarded patent for… Twitter

Twitter awarded patent for… Twitter

| April 14, 2013 | 0 Comments

Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Christopher "Biz" Stone consider been awarded a patent which describes a platform etc, multi-point message broadcast system and methods. When whole said and done, USPTO putting on 60951415 essentially describes the core of the Twitter's microblogging homage — effectively patenting itself. Originally filed on the side of in 2007 (Twitter was [...]

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US Treasury Department issues virtual currency regulations

US Treasury Department issues virtual currency regulations

| April 13, 2013 | 0 Comments

The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has enforced regulations on firms that issue or exchange implied currencies like Bitcoin. The guidelines are uniform to those in place for traditional money order facilities like Western Union, requiring new booking methods and reporting of transactions greater than $10,000. Bitcoin’s raze of popularity, especially among [...]

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Court rules in favor of Aereo in battle against TV networks

Court rules in favor of Aereo in battle against TV networks

| April 12, 2013 | 0 Comments

The US Court of Appeals with respect to the Second Circuit recently denied a initiatory injunction motion that would have prevented Aereo from streaming recorded broadcast television from one side of to the other the Internet to subscribers. It’s a vast victory for the budding service and a grave blow to television networks that be [...]

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Apple nearing deal with labels for Pandora-like music streaming service

Apple nearing deal with labels for Pandora-like music streaming service

| April 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

Speculation with regard to a music streaming service from Apple has been going adhering for quite some time. The rumored etc. would presumably complement the company’s download example on iTunes, but apparently one effects holding it back all this time is Apple’s strict demands as well as labels’ unwillingness to revel ball after feeling short-changed [...]

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What is false disk failure, and why is it a problem?

What is false disk failure, and why is it a problem?

| April 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

Editor’s Note:This is a guest post by Rob Ober, corporate adroit tactician at LSI. Prior to joining LSI, Rob was a associate in the Office of the CTO at AMD. He was furthermore a founding board member of OLPC ($100 laptop.org) and OpenSPARC. I’ve wearied a lot of time with mega datacenters (MDCs) around the [...]

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Google shares Street View imagery from Fukushima disaster area

Google shares Street View imagery from Fukushima disaster area

| April 9, 2013 | 0 Comments

The Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunami that devastated intellect of Japan in 2011 was human being of the worst natural disasters in fresh memory. It was further complicated by damage to the Fukushima nuclear direct which ultimately forced residents to clean out nearby cities. While the cleanup case has been underway for some [...]

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Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with Samsung on Servo

Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with Samsung on Servo

| April 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

It’s been roughly two months because that Opera announced it was dropping its confess Presto web rendering engine in make easier of Webkit, the same used through . Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. The recommend was seen as an attempt to continue relevant in the mobile market, at what place Opera has usually been a [...]

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Prescription version of Google Glass coming later this year

Prescription version of Google Glass coming later this year

| April 7, 2013 | 0 Comments

Last month Google consequence director Steve Lee said the collection was working on a Google Glass concern model for prescription lenses for the vulgar that must wear glasses to mend vision problems. Following up on Lee’s specification, Google has officially confirmed that a pattern for prescription glasses will be useful by the end of the [...]

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