Sources close to to acquisition talks between Yahoo and Tumblr say the blogging platform feels that Yahoo’s $ 1.1 billion offer as “too low” and view it as “only a first offer”. Yahoo may have to significantly increase the offer to close the deal. An acquisition by some tech giant is likely in the cards for Tumblr, though, as sources say the company only has a couple of months of cash runway left.
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Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”
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on May 18, 2013
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Carl Icahn and Southeastern Propose Alternative Offer To Michael Dell’s Buyout
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on May 10, 2013
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Dell shareholders Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have teamed up to propose an alternative offer to founder Michael Dell’s $ 24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal.
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Coursera To Offer K-12 Teacher Development Courses
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on May 1, 2013
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An anonymous reader writes “Coursera on Wednesday announced it has partnered with 12 top professional development programs and schools of education to open up training and development courses to teachers worldwide. The massive open online course (MOOC) provider is expanding beyond university courses by offering 28 teaching courses for free, with more to come. It’s worth noting that this is the first time Coursera is partnering with non-degree-bearing institutions. It’s also Coursera’s first foray into early childhood and K-12-level education. The company clearly sees this as a necessary step if it wants to go beyond just students and address the other side of the expensive education equation.”
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Keyboard App Swype Could Soon Offer Slang That Varies by City
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on April 26, 2013
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Keyboard app Swype could soon get hyper-local dialects that automatically change depending on which city you are in.
How would you like it if you could turn on your smartphone in San Francisco and get a different set of local slang loaded into the dictionary behind its keyboard than when you are in Seattle?
Windows 8.1 Start button may not offer actual Start menu
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on April 22, 2013
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The much-rumored Start button may simply lead users back to the Start screen, sources tell The Verge. [Read more]
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Multifunctional Drugs May Offer Better-Than-Additive Effects
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on April 22, 2013
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A startup called Catabasis is developing drugs that hit diseases at multiple targets.
Sometimes a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The startup Catabasis Pharmaceuticals is hoping that will hold true for the multifunctional drugs it’s developing.
Blackstone abandons offer for Dell
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on April 19, 2013
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Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than a month after the private-equity fund manager said it was planning to top an offer from founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners, according to news reports.
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Reports: Blackstone abandons offer for Dell
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on April 19, 2013
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Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than a month after the private-equity fund manager said it was planning to top an offer from founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners, according to news reports.
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MetroPCS encourages shareholders to vote for amended T-Mobile offer
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on April 15, 2013
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MetroPCS is once again encouraging its investors to vote in favor of its upcoming merger with T-Mobile, especially now that Deutsche Telekom has improved its offer terms. The improved terms reduces the amount of debt the merged companies would have to pay back by $ 3.8 billion. It also reduces the debt’s interest rate by 0.5%.
Real Racing 3 update to offer new cars, new events, and iCloud support
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on April 8, 2013
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Firemonkey and Electronic Arts have announced an update to Real Racing 3 that will hot iOS and Android soon. There’s going to be new cars, new events, iCloud saving functionality, and a new “Hunter” game mode. Plus, there’s going to be “many extra features and tweaks” coming to the new racing game. No release date
Twitter reportedly to offer Vevo content via its music app
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on March 30, 2013
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It has been rumored for a couple weeks now that Twitter will be releasing its own music app using technology from its not-too-long-ago acquired We Are Hunted. While it has already been said that SoundCloud and iTunes will be integrated into the service, the folks over at AllThingsD are now reporting that a Twitter and
T-Mobile prepped to offer unlimited, no contract plans — and the iPhone
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on March 26, 2013
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T-Mobile USA hopes to rock the wireless industry today with detailed plans to sell the iPhone and other phones on an unsubsidized basis with no-contract, unlimited data plans.
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Next Mass Effect to offer a fresh experience
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on March 24, 2013
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Fans of the Mass Effect franchise will be very happy to hear that Bioware is currently getting ready to develop the next Mass Effect game. Casey Hudson, the Executive Producer at Bioware, stated that the game developer is planning on bringing a “fresh and new” experience to the series. He says that the game will
The Weekly Good: ProBueno Lets You Offer Up Your Talents And Skills For Good
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on March 11, 2013
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Imagine that you’re a pretty good drummer, you’re in a band, and you’d like to give lessons. You could charge for these lessons, of course, but you’re really into helping out charities. A site called ProBueno is a marketplace to shop your talents in exchange for charitable donations. When you think about it, all this really is is technology-empowered volunteering.
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Apple’s low royalty rate offer for streaming music has record labels grumbling
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on March 8, 2013
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It’s no secret that Apple has been looking into launching its own music streaming service. Yesterday, we reported that Apple’s Tim Cook and Eddy Cue had met up with Beats’ CEO Jimmy Iovine to discuss Project Daisy, a music service the latter company has planned, including its business model and planned rollout. Now the tech
Facebook to offer free/discounted data for Messenger
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on February 25, 2013
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Facebook is working together with 18 carriers throughout 14 countries to bring free or discounted data for Facebook’s messaging services. The free/discounted data will be available for Messenger on Android, Messenger on iOS, and Facebook for Every Phone within the next few months. This will allow people to save money on their current messaging plans,
Huawei to offer budget-friendly 4Afrika Windows Phone handset in Africa
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on February 5, 2013
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Microsoft has announced a partnership with Huawei, a Chinese manufacturer known for its lower-end smartphones, to produce a budget-friendly Windows Phone handset for Africa called 4Afrika. The smartphone will only cost $ 150, and will be launched in seven countries, with more to follow. The handset will be first introduced in Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Abidjan, Ivory
Udacity, San Jose State University offer online classes for credit
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on January 30, 2013
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In June 2012, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown called Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun asking for help. The result? San Jose State Plus, online courses for academic credit. [Read more]
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Nokia to offer paid upgrade to Lumia-only music service
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on January 28, 2013
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Music+ service will offer unlimited downloads and skips, as well as higher quality streams for about $ 3.99 a month. [Read more]
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Universities to offer free online courses with credit, let us try before we learn
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on January 24, 2013
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It’s not really practical to give universities a meaningful test drive. Not without ample amounts of money and time to throw at a practice semester, at least. It’s about to become comparatively trivial. Arizona State, the University of Cincinnati and 38 other institutions are teaming up with Academic Partnerships to offer the first course from certain online degrees for free — and, more importantly, to make it count as credit. Money only matters to participants (and Academic Partnerships) if they move on to the full program. Prospective students will have to wait until the spring to sign up for what’s ultimately a freemium education, but patience could be a virtue if it means understanding the workload before committing to what may be years of higher learning.
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Megaupload successor to offer 50GB free storage
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on January 20, 2013
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Kim Dotcom, creator of Megaupload, plans to launch a new file-sharing site under the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz and will offer 50GB of free storage to all members.
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United becomes first US airline to offer overseas WiFi with satellite-equipped 747
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on January 15, 2013
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Lufthansa’s been pulling (relatively) speedy Ku-band satellite internet from the heavens for a bit over two years, but now trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific WiFi has finally made its way to a US-based carrier. United, the first US airline to fly the Dreamliner, announced today that a Boeing 747-400 is currently flying around the globe with a constant connection, letting passengers hop online during any portion of the flight — taxi, takeoff and landing being are a few obvious exceptions, but there’s no requirement that the aircraft operate within range of air-to-ground transmitters, a la Gogo.
The installed equipment, manufactured by Panasonic, will provide two tiers of service: Standard, which will range in price from $ 4 to $ 15, and a speedier Accelerated flavor, with pricing between $ 6 and $ 20. The service, which has also been installed on a pair of regional Airbus A319s, isn’t as speedy as ViaSat’s future Ka-band offering, but it’s a step above what’s currently on board. United also announced plans to bring WiFi to its A320, along with Boeing 737, 757, 767, 777 and 787 aircraft — the airline expects installation to be completed on 300 planes by the end of this year. Still missing on many United flights, however, are power jacks — it’s difficult to take advantage of in-flight WiFi if your laptop is dead.
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Ubuntu to Offer Smartphone Operating Software
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on January 5, 2013
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Samsung And DoCoMo Reportedly Team Up To Offer Tizen Smartphones In 2013
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on December 31, 2012
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Samsung and Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile communication company, are joining forces to develop Tizen, an open source OS that supporters hope will cut into the 90% marketshare held by Google and Apple. The smartphones may be on the market by next year, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun. DoCoMo is the only firm among Japan’s three top mobile operators that does not sell iPhones, which has caused it to lose a substantial amount of subscribers over the last four years.
How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service
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on December 30, 2012
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alexander_686 writes “Bloomberg is running a series of articles from Susan Crawford about the stagnation of internet access in the U.S., and why consumers in America pay more for slower service. Quoting: ‘The two kinds of Internet-access carriers, wired and wireless, have found they can operate without competing with each other. The cable industry and AT&T-Verizon have divided up the world much as Comcast and Time Warner did; only instead of, “You take Philadelphia, I’ll take Minneapolis,” it’s, “You take wired, I’ll take wireless.” At the end of 2011, the two industries even agreed to market each other’s services.’ I am a free market type of guy. I do recognize the abuse that can come from natural monopolies that utilities tend to have, but I have never considered this type of collusion before. To fix the situation, Crawford recommends that the U.S. ‘move to a utility model, based on the assumption that all Americans require fiber-optic Internet access at reasonable prices.’”
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Leap Wireless and MetroPCS offer mobile phone financing
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on December 14, 2012
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Contract free wireless carriers are the way to go for many people around the world for a number of reasons. Traditionally one of the biggest drawbacks of going with a contract free wireless provider such as Leap Wireless or MetroPCS has been the fact that having no contract means you have to pay a large
Seattle partners with Gigabit Squared to offer gigabit Internet
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on December 14, 2012
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Seattle’s Mayor Mike McGinn has announced that the Emerald City will be getting its own gigabit Internet connection in the relatively near future. This comes after an agreement with the University of Washington and Gigabit Squared. Also in the pipeline is a plan for adding a city wireless Internet network, which would come after the
U.K. Universities Forge Open Online Courses Alliance: FutureLearn Consortium Will Offer Uni-Branded MOOCs Starting Next Year
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on December 14, 2012
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A group of U.K. universities are pooling their resources to get into the brave new world of MOOCs. What are MOOCs? The short answer is ‘massive open online courses’ — typically free, online and open to anyone who wants to participate. The 12 U.K. universities are forming a new company to offer MOOCs next year, under the FutureLearn Ltd brand name.
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Sony and Box extend BFF status, offer 50GB free storage to Xperia owners through 2013
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on December 8, 2012
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When Sony and Box came together last year to offer Xperia owners a tantalizing deal of 50GB of free storage for life, the promotion was only set to run for a year. Now that shopping season is upon us once more, however, the holiday spirit must’ve moved them to extend the partnership for yet another year — that, or Sony needs any edge it can to move those Xperia devices to consumer hands. Just as with the prior promo, Xperia and Sony tablet users can snag 50 gigs of cloud storage completely gratis just by signing up or tapping into existing Box accounts on their devices before December 31st 2013. However, do note that the offer doesn’t extend to the Xperia X10 mini, the X10 mini pro and anything that has firmware older than Android 2.1. Now that Sony has this going for two years straight, maybe they should extend this to a lifetime scenario, or as long as Box sticks around to offer up that sweet storage in the sky.
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T-Mobile to end subsidies, offer only full-priced phones and value plans in 2013
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on December 6, 2012
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Earlier today, T-Mobile announced that it will be offering Apple products starting in 2013, but another thing that the carrier is introducing in 2013 is the death of subsidized devices, and the introduction of only cheap value plans. This means you’ll have to pay full price for a handset, but the plans themselves will be
Company May Offer Private Expeditions to the Moon
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on December 6, 2012
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Staples to offer in-store 3D printing on demand
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on November 30, 2012
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The office supply chain is getting set to upgrade its 2-D print services to add another dimension. [Read more]
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Staples To Offer 3D Printing Services
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on November 30, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Mcor and Staples announced today a deal in which Mcor will supply their paper-based 3D printers to Staples Copy Centers worldwide. Staples customers will be able to upload their 3D model and pick up the printed object at their local copy center. The rollout starts in The Netherlands and Belgium in 1Q 2013 and then opens up in other countries.”
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Staples to offer ‘Easy 3D’ printing service, put an end to hackneyed hockey masks
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on November 29, 2012
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Just one more robbery and then we can happily retire. But there’s this nagging feeling that our criminal swan song should be more than just another Class B felony — it should be art. That’s why we’re heading over to Staples to collect a 3D printed mask that, for once, reflects how we actually feel inside. It’s easily done: you upload your design files and Staples prints them out using a full-color 506dpi Mcor IRIS printer, ready for you to collect in-store or have delivered. The service will handle 3D architectural designs, maps, medical models, replica weapons and anything else that can be made with fragments of paper arranged in 0.1mm layers up to a maximum height of six inches. The only downside is that the service — which is due to start early next year — will initially only be available in Belgium and the Netherlands. But they have banks too, right?
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Newly Developed RNA-Based Vaccine Could Offer Lifelong Protection From the Flu
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on November 27, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “A new experimental flu vaccine made out of messenger RNA that may work for life is now being developed. German researchers said on Sunday that the vaccine, made of the genetic material that controls the production of proteins, protected animals against influenza and, unlike traditional vaccines, it may work for life and can potentially be manufactured quickly enough to stop a pandemic (abstract).”
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HP may offer free analytics service with Autonomy technology
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on November 22, 2012
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While it continues to wrestle with an accounting scandal at its Autonomy business unit, Hewlett-Packard has revealed it may use some of the company's technology to offer a free online analytics service.
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AT&T to offer Asus Windows RT tablet with LTE for $499
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on November 14, 2012
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AT&T will start offering the first Windows RT tablet with LTE capabilities on Friday with prices beginning at US$ 499, the U.S. wireless carrier said on Tuesday.
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Intel, HP offer fastest ever chips for high-end servers
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on November 10, 2012
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Zazzle Partners with Dodocase To Offer An iPad Case That’s Sturdy, Old-Fashioned — And Customizable
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on November 10, 2012
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Custom product company Zazzle just announced that it’s teaming up with Dodocase, the manufacturer behind what we’ve described as “one of TechCrunch’s favorite iPad cases.”
When I met with Zazzle’s co-founder and Chief Product Officer Jeff Beaver a few months ago, he told me that one of the company’s goals is to partner with local manufacturers. Zazzle is based in the Bay Area (Redwood City, to be precise), and it says that each case produced through this partnership will be “handcrafted in San Francisco.” The company is offering Dodocase iPad cases in the style of hardcover books and iPhone 5 wallets. As with any other product offered on Zazzle, you can customize the cases with your own images and text.
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Nissan and Sony to offer second season of Nissan GT Academy
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on October 30, 2012
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The first season of Nissan GT Academy has completed and Nissan and Sony have announced that they have teamed up to bring a second season of Nissan GT Academy competition to the US. The Nissan GT Academy is a competition that takes participants who win online races in a Grand Turismo special series and pits
1080p smartphone displays offer no visual difference over 720p
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on October 19, 2012
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As smartphone screens get bigger, so do the resolutions. We’re already seeing “phablets” like Samsung’s new Galaxy Note II with a huge 5.5-inch display, and HTC’s recently-announced J Butterfly has a 5-inch display with a 1080p resolution. However, higher resolutions don’t always mean a clearer image. Clarity on a smartphone display can only get so
Distimo Launches Daily App Leaderboard & AppIQ Service To Offer Competitive Data On App Downloads, Revenue, Rankings & More
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on October 18, 2012
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App store analytics firm Distimo is rebranding its cross-platform app tracking service known as Distimo Monitor to Distimo Analytics today, and is adding a new data service for mobile app developers and investors called AppIQ. While the main analytics offering will allow developers to track their own apps for free, AppIQ will provide additional competitive information on a subscription basis. This includes the ability to track and compare app downloads with competitors, tools to analyze revenues (including in-app purchases) among competing apps, and a Leaderboard which shows the daily rankings of all applications.
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Dell will still offer Windows 7 after Windows 8 launch
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on October 13, 2012
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Dell will continue offering Windows 7 even after the release of Windows 8 at the end of October, the company said.
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SAP to offer containment software for smartphone and tablet security
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on October 11, 2012
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Enterprise software maker SAP plans to ship software that separates business data from personal information on smartphones and tablets.
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The ultimate dead spot? QR codes on headstones offer a digital legacy
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on October 7, 2012
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New York auction to offer 125 meteorites for sale
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on September 26, 2012
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Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software
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on September 23, 2012
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WebMink writes “With an impending deadline for America’s schools to satisfy new federal reporting requirements on academic achievement, a new alliance of state educators is creating a system of open source software to help schools gather and submit the data that the rules require. To get the whole thing started, the Gates Foundation and Carnegie are funding two $ 75,000 awards for the open source developers who create the in-school software. The winners could also become the linchpins of a new industry in academic software.”
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Yahoo’s free phone offer snubs RIM’s BlackBerry
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on September 17, 2012
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Marissa Mayer offers all employees the hottest handsets — including an unreleased Windows Phone 8 Nokia phone — but leaves Research In Motion off the list.
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