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Bitcoin finding its feet at first Silicon Valley conference
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on May 18, 2013
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Yahoo calls press conference amid Tumblr acquisition rumors
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on May 18, 2013
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Yahoo has called a mystery press event in New York City on Monday afternoon, hot on the heels of rumors that it plans to buy Tumblr for US$ 1 billion.
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NeuroGaming Conference Profiles the Rise of Brain-Computer Interfaces
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on May 14, 2013
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kkleiner writes “The first NeuroGaming Conference and Expo took place at the beginning of May to showcase the convergent technologies that are paving the way toward gaming with your mind. Tech news has been dominated with stories about Google Glass and the Oculus Rift, which was on display for attendees to test out. Other technologies that utilize EEG are opening up possibilities of a controller-free gaming experience into virtual realities with unlimited potential. ‘Deeper questions surrounding the morality of neurogames will be sure to stir debate. As virtual reality technology inches closer to lifelike resolution, should gamers simulate themselves as characters engaged in acts of violence or criminal activity? It’s unpredictable what these games could uncover about the user as neurogames gain insight into a users’ psyche and how they respond to stimuli at a subconscious level. For instance, a game could uncover how its user particularly enjoys shooting at civilians in gameplay. Games might even become expert at diagnosing psychiatric disorders. As computers become exponentially more powerful, game resolution could fully mimic our ever-present reality.’”
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BlackBerry CEO unveils new, low-priced Q5 before full house at Jam conference
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on May 14, 2013
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Visualized: A walk through the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo
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on April 22, 2013
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We didn’t find much in the way of news at the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo here in NYC (and, we’re sad to say, our press badges were just old-fashioned 2D printed), but there was plenty to look at, thankfully. Between the slew of business and consumer devices and the boatload of printed objects, the event was part business conference, part art show. And while the real star was the still-fresh world of desktop home printers, plenty of companies brought out their big-gun industrial devices (including at least one really sweet giant 3D scanner). Peep the gallery below to check out some of the eye candy from the event.
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Andreessen, Schroepfer, Others Rally For More Women In CS At She++ Conference
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on April 21, 2013
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Marc Andreessen and Mike Schroepfer delivered keynote addresses today at the she++ conference, sharing their thoughts on women in technology and growing the pool of talented engineers.
“If we’re building technology that the whole population uses, then we should have people of all backgrounds building that technology so that they build it for the audience that is themselves,” he told me.
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Planetary Defense Conference to meet (no word from Justice League)
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on April 15, 2013
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TJX Hacker Gives Keynote At ‘Offensive’ Security Conference
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on April 13, 2013
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An anonymous reader writes “Two hundred hackers from around the world gathered at a Miami Beach hotel Thursday and Friday for the Infiltrate Security conference, which focuses on systems hacking from the ‘offensive’ perspective (with slides) . In a keynote address, Stephen Watt, who served two years in prison for writing the software used by his friend Alberto Gonzalez to steal millions of credit card numbers from TJX, Hannaford and other retailers, acknowledges he was a ‘black hat’ but denies that he was directly involved in TJX or any other specific job. Watt says his TCP sniffer logged critical data from a specified range of ports, which was then encrypted and uploaded to a remote server. Brad ‘RenderMan’ Haines gave a presentation on vulnerabilities of the Air Traffic Control system, including the FAA’s ‘NextGen’ system which apparently carries forward the same weakness of unencrypted, unauthenticated location data passed between airplanes and control towers. Regarding the recent potential exploits publicized by Spanish researcher Hugo Teso, Haines says he pointed out similar to the FAA and its Canadian counterpart a year ago, but received only perfunctory response.”
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Indies the Biggest Stars At Game Developers Conference
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on April 1, 2013
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RougeFemme writes “Indies beat out mainstream studios for most of the Game Developers Choice Awards. FTL: Faster Than Light, an independent game financed by a Kickstarter campaign, won the award for Best Debut. Because of the growing success of the indies, Eric Zimmerman, game designer and instructor at the NYU Game Center, is canceling the Game Design Challenge that he’s held at the conference for the last 10 years. ‘The idea of doing strange, bizarre, experimental games is no longer strange, bizarre or experimental.’”
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Microsoft to host BUILD dev conference on Apple’s home ground
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on March 27, 2013
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its BUILD 2013 developers conference will be held June 26-28 on Apple’s home turf, San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
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Microsoft Announces The Dates For Its Next Build Developer Conference: June 26-28 In San Francisco
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on March 26, 2013
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Build is Microsoft’s developer conference for its Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Server and Azure platforms and the company just announced that Build 2013 will take place June 26-28 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Registration will open next week, Tuesday, April 2 at 9am PT and early bird pricing for the first 500 registrants starts at $ 1,595. As Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President and Chief Evangelist, notes in today’s announcement, “it’s been a while since our last developer event in the Bay Area.” The last Build, which happened last October, right after the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 launch, took place in Redmond, where the company put up a massive tent on its sprawling campus to host a few thousand developers. Build 2011 was held in Anaheim California. Guggenheimer, of course, didn’t reveal anything about the company’s plans for Build besides saying that Microsoft will “hare updates and talk about what’s next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio and more. Build is the path to creating and implementing your great ideas, and then differentiating them in the market.” Blue Earlier today, however, Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, publicly acknowledged that “product leaders across Microsoft are working together on plans to advance our devices and services, a set of plans referred to internally as ‘Blue.’” This, as far as I can see, marks the first time the company has publicly acknowledged this project and chances are we will hear quite a bit more about it come June 26. As is tradition at Microsoft now, Shaw also took a less than subtle swipe at Google in an earlier post today. “While some folks were out doing ‘spring cleaning,’ we used the opportunity to look back a bit at what has happened in the past season, and to look ahead at what we have coming,” wrote in post that recapped some of Microsoft’s product releases over the last year.
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ASUS posts MWC highlights, relive the weirdest press conference in recent memory
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on February 25, 2013
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Man, oh man, ASUS certainly didn’t disappoint with the verbally confusing back to back launch of the new PadFone Infinity and FonePad, but the real star of this morning’s Mobile World Congress was sheer insanity, outdoing even that bizarre Columbus video from last week. What happens when you let the Magicians Guild run your show? A smattering of confused applause from an audience wondering if they hadn’t partied a little too hard while out on the town in Barcelona the night before. The video’s after the break. Come for the gadgets and stay for the mind-boggling strangeness of it all.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, ASUS
Solid-State Sequencer Debuts at Genome Conference
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on February 23, 2013
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Nabsys’s technology could provide the positional accuracy missing from current DNA sequencing methods.
Nabsys, a DNA technology startup, showed off today its solid-state gene sequencing machine at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference in Marco Island, Florida. The company says that later this year it will begin selling its machine, which will allow researchers to determine the structural organization of long stretches of DNA. This differs from most existing sequencing methods, which read DNA in short snippets that are later stitched together by software. The new system will, at first, complement existing methods, but it could eventually offer cheaper and faster sequencing than other approaches.
Why Did Tim Cook Talk At The Goldman Sachs Conference Anyway?
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on February 13, 2013
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Editor’s note: Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.
There is just NO good reason Tim Cook should be speaking at a Goldman Conference. Goldman employees use BlackBerrys not for any great reason. They hide their iPhones and iPads at home. The great Goldman Sachs firewall is not Apple’s friend.
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Sony CES press conference: heavy on 4K TVs, OLED, plus an actual phone!
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on January 8, 2013
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Sony has wrapped up the last major press conference of the 2013 consumer electronics show with a bang, namely smaller 4K TVs, a 4K video distribution system, and one of the only smartphones of CES. [Read more]
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Wireless trade group CTIA to drop one conference
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on January 2, 2013
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The group says it will move away from two shows a year to instead focus on a single “super show” in the fall starting in 2014. [Read more]
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Boring Conference Still Vows: We Will Not Rock You
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on December 2, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “The Boring 2012 Conference, the celebration of unexciting things served with dry British humor, now belongs to the wastepaper basket of history. Correspondents at the third annual London conference report that speakers covered a range of such dull topics as supermarket self-service checkouts; a photographic survey of results produced by breakfast toasters; a web site tracking the physical heights of celebrities; and the use of Google Maps to the chart the location of IBM cash registers around London.” Funny thing is, the talks described actually sound fascinating.
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Big Ten Network carriage agreements may be motivating conference expansion
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on November 22, 2012
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It’s no secret that college football is big business and that a major contributing factor is revenue from television. The influential reach of that revenue is a hot debate in organizations that are supposed to put more ideal values above capitalistic ones — the two are not always at odds, though. So when a collegiate organization like the Big Ten Conference is motivated to expand, most would like to think it’s a school’s academic, or even athletic, merits that put said institution at the top of the want list. However, Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports believes the reason the Big Ten courted the University of Maryland and Rutgers University really just comes down to finding a way to sell an additional 14.6 million residents the Big Ten Network. The economics of sports networks on cable television is well documented — the majority pay so that the vocal minority may watch — but sculpting an amateur sports league to ensure your cable TV channel gets carriage in America’s largest media markets might be a new twist.
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2010′s GSA conference scandal hits SC12
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on November 14, 2012
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GSA excesses at a Las Vegas conference two year’s ago prompted a cutback in U.S. government travel budgets — and that means fewer federal researchers at this year’s supercomputing conference.
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Panasonic releases the Toughbook SX2, a laptop that’ll take no prisoners at the quarterly conference
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on October 11, 2012
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If you’re in the market for a laptop that won’t buckle if you start flinging it across the room, Ballmer-style, then Panasonic’s “business ruggedized” Toughbook SX2 might be for you. Resembling one of the company’s Let’s Note units, the 12.1-inch unit boasts of a difficult-to-believe 14.5 hours of battery life, a slim yet sturdy magnesium alloy body and a 3.3 GHz Intel Core i5-3320M Turbo-boosted CPU. It’ll arrive later this month, with the base model making a $ 2,649 sized hole in your company’s procurement budget — and if you’d like to know more, there’s the obligatory hairy-chested press release after the break.
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Hack in the Box kicks off jam-packed security conference
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on October 8, 2012
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Hack in the Box will host its 10th security conference this week in Kuala Lumpur featuring an all-star cast of hacking luminaries and a cutting-edge program.
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GigaOm’s Structure Europe Conference Will Dive Deep Into The Cloud
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on October 2, 2012
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We don’t often try to get the word out about conferences put on by other blogs here at TechCrunch, but we’re about to. Because reasons. Namely: 1) We, as TechCrunch, will probably never ever ever, ever ever host a European cloud-computing conference and someone sure as heck needs to. 2) The folks at Gigaom are our friends, particularly founder, thought leader and king of the kind of industry analysis that I personally wish I could do more of, Om Malik.
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Apple Q4 Financial Results And Conference Call Coming October 25
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on October 2, 2012
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Apple is holding its fourth quarter conference call on October 25, according to an announcement from the company. The call will take place at 2:00 P.M. PT/5:00 P.M. ET, and should provide another early glimpse into how the iPhone 5 is doing since the quarter ended in September.
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At BlackBerry Conference, App Developers Stand by RIM
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on September 27, 2012
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The device maker has struggled while Apple and Android phones have thrived, but app developers say the company’s audience is still big enough to matter.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has lost a lot of ground in the smartphone market, but at the company’s annual conference for application developers on Tuesday in San Jose, California, it was clear that one of its most important constituencies is sticking by the company, at least for now.
Watch now: Amazon’s Kindle press conference ready to be relived
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on September 6, 2012
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Sometimes it’s hard to keep abreast of the dizzying product announcements that flutter out at press events. Sometimes you just wish you’d actually been there. In that event, Amazon’s now offering up video of its entire Kindle conference from today. So, you can relive the excitement and confusion surrounding the Kindle Fire HDs and Kindle Paperwhite from the screen of your choice. Head to the source below for a download now or keep checking the company’s YouTube page for the full Bezos-packed play-by-play.
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Watch now: Amazon’s Kindle press conference ready to be relived originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Microsoft and Nokia to hold press conference on Sept. 5
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on August 15, 2012
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Microsoft and Nokia will hold a press conference in three weeks, an event that will likely center around Windows Phone 8, the next version of Microsoft's OS for mobile devices.
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FCC Tariff Changes Mean No More Free Conference Calls
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on July 21, 2012
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kgeiger writes “The FCC is changing the call termination tariffs that subsidized rural wireline service and coincidentally free conference calls. Free conference call services had located their dial-in centers in rural areas to scoop up FCC tariffs from its Universal Service Fund. USF monies will go to broadband deployment instead. Be prepared to put more nickels in the box.” On the other hand, maybe ad-driven Internet services (whether free or “freemium”) will step in to the free-conference gap with some good-enough options, as they have for many other services, like email and faxing.
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Meetupcall Launches As A Painless Way To Host A Conference Call
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on July 16, 2012
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I consider myself a member of the ‘Skype-generation’: I’ve never had to organise a traditional conference call in my life, although like other TechCrunch writers, I’ve had to join a few. Hosting one is a pain, apparently, as you have to juggle things like participant and leader PINs, country-specific dial-in numbers, and sending out the invites themselves.
Meetupcall, which today sees its official (re)launch, aims to address this to become the “simplest and quickest way” to host and join a conference call. Its headline feature is the ability to arrange a conference in seconds, simply by adding an appointment to your calendar app, after which Meetupcall takes care of the rest.
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CERN Higgs boson conference video goes live
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on July 5, 2012
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Miss the CERN Higgs boson press conference earlier, and confused about what exactly all this particle magic is about? The teams responsible for apparently spotting the errant subatomic minx have released a video of the conference following the big reveal, going into greater detail of the findings and trying to put them into better context
Live from Microsoft’s mystery press conference in Los Angeles!
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on June 18, 2012
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When Microsoft calls a last-minute press conference to make a “major” announcement, there’s only one sensible thing to do: pack your bags, fly to Los Angeles and get ready to hear what Ballmer & Co. have to say. With no hints whatsoever (not even a cheekily worded invitation!), we’ve nothing but speculation and rumors to guide us as we head into this news conference. Will we hear about Win8 tablets — specifically, a Kindle Fire competitor running Windows RT? Or maybe today’s news elaborates on Xbox Music? All we know is that it won’t have anything to do with Windows Phone, seeing as how Microsoft is holding another press event just two days from now where it’s promised to give us a sneak peek at Apollo. Oh-so mysterious of Redmond, and all the more reason for us to host a liveblog. The doors here open at 3:30pm local time, so stay tuned as we bring you up-to-the-minute coverage on Microsoft’s big reveal.
June 18, 2012 6:30 PM EDT
Live from Microsoft’s mystery press conference in Los Angeles! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony lets games do the talking during press conference
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on June 5, 2012
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Exclusives for PlayStation 3, PSN, Vita, and Move highlight the Sony presser.
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Live blog: Nintendo’s E3 2012 press conference
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on June 4, 2012
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Join us Tuesday, June 5, for coverage of Nintendo’s press conference, live from E3.
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Nintendo’s pre-E3 press conference video is now available — relive the magic again and again
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on June 3, 2012
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Did you miss any of the magic that was the Nintendo pre-E3 press event? Great news: it’s now online in pre-recorded form, so you can watch it to your heart’s content. Using the Wii U controller as a TV remote? The Wii U Pro Controller? The unveiling of the Miiverse? It’s all there, friends. Experience the magic after the break.
Nintendo’s pre-E3 press conference video is now available — relive the magic again and again originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Live blog: Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference
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on June 2, 2012
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Coming Monday, June 4, our live coverage of Microsoft’s E3 announcements.
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Live blog: Sony’s E3 2012 press conference
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on June 2, 2012
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Look here Monday, June 4, for live coverage of Sony’s E3 2012 announcements.
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Tim Cook takes center stage at All Things D conference
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on May 29, 2012
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F50: A Different Kind Of Tech Conference
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on May 29, 2012
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Faster than you can say “Can I borrow your copy of ‘How To Win Friends And Influence People,’” it’s tech conference season again. There hasn’t been a week during the month of May where I haven’t attended a tech conference or traveled to something tech conference-related. And judging by Techmeme’s events calendar the state of affairs only gets worse as we get deeper into summer.
Between Disrupt NYC last week, D10 tomorrow, NY Founders and Le Web London in June, Allen & Co, Sun Valley in July, the CrunchUp in August and TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in September, the tech community is pretty much spending the next couple of months checking in and out of airports on Foursquare, Path, Instagram or whatever their social/mobile/local drug of choice currently is.
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Spike TV confirms live Nintendo press conference broadcast
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on May 22, 2012
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Nintendo will allow Spike TV’s cameras into its E3 press conference next month. The cable network has confirmed that it will carry the presentation, in its entirety with no commercial interruption on June 5 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. MTV2 will simulcast the event. Spike and MTV2 join G4 in tapping into what could be
Nintendo E3 press conference gets confirmed
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on May 2, 2012
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After Sony and Microsoft have already confirmed their spot on the E3 press conference calendar, Nintendo has finally begun sending out invitations for its large-scale media event. Just like last year, the company will give its remarks at 12:00 noon Eastern Time on June 5, literally right before the E3 show floor doors open. It
Security, privacy ideas emerge at Demo Spring conference
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on April 20, 2012
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The cool new Internet ideas of yesteryear often create the headaches of today, and some startups at the Demo conference are starting to try to solve those problems.
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Microsoft E3 press conference to be held first
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on April 17, 2012
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It’s less than two months before the biggest event in gaming happens in Los Angeles. E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, will bring in lots of news and video game goodness from June 5 to June 7, but we all know that it’s the day before, when most of the major companies hold their high-octane media
Zoho Debuts New Android, iOS Apps At Zoholics User Conference
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on March 26, 2012
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The team behind web-based productivity suite Zoho is in the middle of hosting their Zoholics user conference in San Francisco, and in between all the panels and presentations, they’ve taken the opportunity to talk a bit about their plans in the mobile space.
“Mobile is going to be one of the most important focus areas for the company this year,” said Zoho evangelist Raju Vegesna. Their approach, it would seem, is to further expand their presence in the mobile space, and they’ve already begun by pulling back the curtains on a handful of new mobile apps.
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Apple conference call to be held concerning excess cash
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on March 19, 2012
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Here are the Launch Conference winners
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on March 10, 2012
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Space Monkey gets a running start in its attack on DropBox, and more down-to-earth startups win awards, too.
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AllTuition is the star pupil at Launch conference
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on March 7, 2012
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AllTuition, which launched a college financial-aid application service, won an informal vote among a high-powered panel of judges at the Launch conference on Wednesday.
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CITE Conference to tackle BYOD issues
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on March 5, 2012
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Bring-your-own-device policies are forcing companies to confront a myriad of IT challenges related to support architecture, security policies and mobile platforms. Dealing with those challenges is topic No. 1 at this week’s CITE Conference.
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Why is the EFF at the RSA Security Conference? (Video)
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on March 2, 2012
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Timothy asked Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) International Outreach Coordinator Maira Sutton that very question. Watch the video for her answer. It turns out that the EFF has lots of friends among RSA (“the most comprehensive forum in information security”) attendees, and has some very good reasons to be there, in the midst of companies and government agencies that Timothy thinks might not only violate your privacy once in a while, but (gasp!) might even enjoy it.
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RSA Conference: Symantec inaugurates O3 cloud-based single sign-on service
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on February 28, 2012
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At the RSA Conference Tuesday, Symantec announced general availability of its O3 cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) and authentication service, which adheres to a concept company CEO Enrique Salem outlined exactly a year ago at RSA 2011. Symantec also provided detail on future capabilities the O3 cloud service will have for data-loss prevention and encryption.
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RSA Conference 2012: Former NSA director says secure clouds can’t come fast enough
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on February 28, 2012
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Michael McConnell, former director of the National Security Agency, urged the audience of 1,200 security experts to do what they can to help build trusted cloud computing systems.
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RSA Conference 2012: Stress and burnout in infosec careers
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on February 28, 2012
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Career stress and burnout is as common among information security professionals as it is among professionals in other high-stress fields, such as medicine or law. But finding support and information on dealing with info sec career burnout is difficult because resources and knowledge are scant.
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