The device has also popped up on Nokia’s Web site, though the company has not given its name just yet. [Read more]
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Nokia Lumia 928 outed in Vanity Fair ad
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on May 7, 2013
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Google kicks off 2013 Science Fair, seeks projects to change the world
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on February 1, 2013
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LinkedIn Competitor XING Buys Glassdoor-like Startup Kununu For $12.3M, But Will It Fair Well?
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on January 9, 2013
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The German market for startups never ceases to amaze me. While many European startups struggle with either internal markets that are too small or international markets that are pretty daunting, the German eco-system rattles along pretty well, given that with Germany, Austria and Switzerland you have a potential market of about 100 million German-speaking consumers. Thus it is that a small startup like kununu – a German-based equivalent of Glassdoor, the employer reviewing service – can exit relatively easily to a larger player like XING, a LinkedIn-like company that managed to float on the German exchange some years ago. The acquision is for up to €9.4 million ($ 12.3 million). At 3 million page impressions per month, kununu is not exactly that big – but crucially, it’s big in the German market. XING is paying out €3.6 million, with an additional sweetener of €5.8 million based on performance to 2015. Founders Martin and Mark Poreda and all 30 staff are staying on.
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Young genius: Winners of 2012 Google Science Fair announced
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on July 24, 2012
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Google science fair entrants focus on health, environment
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on July 24, 2012
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Only 15 teenagers remain from the hundreds of entries from around the world that Google received for its second annual global since fair.
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Australia To Review Copyright Fair Use
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on July 3, 2012
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New submitter freddienumber13 writes “The Australian Government has announced a review of the copyright act to look at the provisions of fair use and exceptions with a view towards considering whether or not the law has kept pace with technology and thus if further provisions are required to ensure the act remains relevant and effective.”
Don’t hold your breath; the committee has until November 30th, 2013 to create their report. Maybe Australians will see their Fair Use rights expanded in a time when it’s in fashion to expand copyright protections.
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Jury begins deliberations after Oracle, Google attorneys debate fair use
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on May 1, 2012
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The jury began its deliberations Monday in the copyright phase of Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android.
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New York’s Chinatown Fair arcade presses start to continue
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on March 18, 2012
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Live in New York? Miss the familiar sound of a quarter dropping into an arcade slot? If so, then news that the Chinatown Fair arcade could be re-opening will definitely give you a power-up. It turns out that film maker Kurt Vincent headed down to the disused locale to shoot its vacant halls, only to bump into the new shuffling in some new games. Sadly there’s sparse little other info about how or when we might see the flicker of screens lighting up the walls once more, but at least you can beat that OutRun top score in safety.
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Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn
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on February 14, 2012
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redletterdave writes “Apple announced on Monday that the Fair Labor Association has begun inspecting Foxconn’s Chinese factories, upon Apple’s request. Apple said that Auret van Heerden, the president of the FLA, is leading a group of labor rights experts in the first round of inspections at the sprawling plant in Shenzhen, China, more informally known as
‘Foxconn City.’ The FLA’s independent assessment — completely supplementary to Apple’s own auditing practices — will involve interviewing thousands of Foxconn employees about the working and living conditions, including working hours, compensation, managerial issues, and health and safety conditions. Foxconn has ‘pledged full cooperation with the FLA,’ and will reportedly allow unrestricted access to all of their operations. The investigative team will report their findings in early March on the FLA’s website. Apple’s other suppliers, including Quanta and Pegatron, will be inspected later this spring. By the time summer rolls around, the FLA hopes to have covered 90 percent of facilities where Apple products are built and assembled.”
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Yo-Yo Factory brings Hyper Scanner yo-yo gaming to Toy Fair, we go hands-on
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on February 13, 2012
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We’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard of Hyper Scanner. The carnival style arcade game is apparently all the rage in Japan, though. Kids line up to battle it for king of the yo-yo hill. Yo-Yo Factory came out to Toy Fair to show off its customizable yo-yo system, designed for the serious aficionado. Everything from the weight, to the bearings, to the colors can be tailored to your taste and to greatly improve the performance for particular tasks. The Hyper Scanner measures how fast the toy spins in RPMs and rates your performance — not unlike a high striker. Brand manager and member of the development team Ben McPhee demoed how much better his company’s products are over a standard yo-yo by ratcheting it up to near 7,000RPM. This Engadget editor was also given a chance to prove his yo-yo mettle, but couldn’t break the 3,000 mark. Of course, the game has plenty of blinking lights and loud noises to entice you to play — including repeatedly shouting “hyper” at you in a thick Japanese accent. Check out the video after the break to see it in action.
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Google promises fair licensing after closing Motorola acquisition
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on February 8, 2012
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Google out with letter promising fair licensing treatment for Motorola patents
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Romney Invokes Fair Use In Dispute With NBC Over Campaign Ad
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on January 29, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Mitt Romney’s campaign is airing an ad that is basically 30 seconds lifted from an NBC News broadcast and NBC is trying to stop them from using the ad. I found it interesting that the Romney campaign is invoking fair use to defend the ad. Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said ‘we believe it falls within fair use. We didn’t take the entire broadcast; we just took the first 30 seconds.’”
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Google Science Fair Back For 2nd Year
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on January 12, 2012
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alphadogg writes “Google, joining forces with CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American, has announced the 2012 Google Science Fair, an online competition open to 13-to-18-year-olds around the world. Prizes include a $ 50,000 college scholarship, a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands and more. Judges include Google VP and Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf, CERN Director Steve Myers, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and others.”
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Google Takes Annual Science Fair Global With Support For Submissions In 13 Languages
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on January 12, 2012
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Last year, in its first year, the Google Science Fair became the largest online science fair in the world with over 7,500 entries from more than 90 countries. Google Science Fair, which is in partnership with CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American, is open to students around the world who are between the ages of 13-18. Today, Google is announcing the second annual Science Fair, with an emphasis on making the contest even more global.
Similar to last year, contestants can build and submit a project (via photos and videos), a hypothesis, as well as written observations online using Google Sites Either individually or in teams of three. This year however, Google will be accepting submissions in 13 languages (compared to English-only last year).
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iPhone Siri vs. Windows Phone TellMe in fair comparison video
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on December 3, 2011
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Apple’s Siri voice-driven intelligent assistant app called Siri faces off with Microsoft’s similarly capable Windows Phone TellMe app in a new YouTube video that claims to be a more fair comparison of the two. A video had previously compared Siri and TellMe but had mainly featured commands that TellMe does not yet understand. The first [...]
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Galaxy Tab ban: ‘Not terribly fair to Samsung’
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on November 25, 2011
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A judge in Australia questions the temporary injunction banning sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the runup to a full patent case between Samsung and Apple.
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A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California
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on November 12, 2011
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dcblogs writes “Indian and U.S. companies are holding a job fair at the San Jose Convention Center this weekend for jobs in India. The job fair is aimed at Indian workers in the U.S., but anyone with an interest in working overseas can attend. India is pitched as a ‘sea of opportunity’ in a PowerPoint presentation about the job fair. That’s in contrast to another slide that makes the obvious point that the U.S. has ‘barely recovered from a downturn,’ with ‘signs that it’s headed for another.’”
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Looking for work? Here’s a job fair touting tech openings in India
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on November 12, 2011
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U.S. companies have been hiring workers from India for years, especially graduates of U.S. universities. But Indian companies, as well as American firms operating in India, are now trying to convince some of them to return to India.
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Judge Rules Twitter Data Fair Game In Wikileaks Investigation
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on November 10, 2011
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Wired reports that “The Justice Department is entitled to records of the Twitter accounts used by three current and former WikiLeaks associates, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dealing a victory to prosecutors in a routine records demand that turned into a fierce court battle over online privacy and free speech. … The Justice Department has been seeking the Twitter records under 18 USC 2703(d), a 1994 amendment to the Stored Communications Act that allows law enforcement access to non-content internet records, such as transaction information, without demonstrating the ‘probable cause’ needed for a full-blown search warrant.”
Jacob Appelbaum, one of the three, was also detained on his re-entry to the U.S. last August (as well as on numerous other occasions) and had his email records seized as well. The others are Birgitta Jonsdottir (a member of Iceland’s parliament) and Dutch businessman Rop Gonggrijp.
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A startup tech job fair with beer, music, 80 employers
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on November 9, 2011
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When Frank Sinatra sang ‘If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere’ about New York, he wasn’t singing about startup tech businesses. Those startups are most associated with Silicon Valley, not Manhattan.
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5 Toys for Big Boys: Best in Show From the World’s Largest Weapons Fair
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on September 23, 2011
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