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Yahoo axing seven more apps and services as part of streamlining effort

Posted by on April 21, 2013 No comments

Get ready to say goodbye to another another batch of Yahoo products at the end of this month. As the company continues to streamline and focus its services, March 31st will be the last day of stand-alone existence for Upcoming, Yahoo Deals, Yahoo Kids, Yahoo SMS Alerts, Yahoo Mail and Messages for feature phones. Noting an aim to slim down to roughly 15 offerings from 75, as The Register points out, this follows a few weeks after the company nixed other services like its BlackBerry app. Additionally, if you’ve been hanging onto the old version of Yahoo! mail, you’ll have no choice but to switch to the new version by June 3rd. Yahoo! There’s not word on what we can expect next, although EVP of Platforms Jay Rossiter notes that cuts like these are needed so it can focus on the likes of its new Mail and Weather apps. You’ll find the details for each cut at the source link.

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Google Play to display tablet-optimized screenshots, once developers do their part

Posted by on April 17, 2013 No comments

DNP Google now allowing developers to add tabletfriendly screenshots to their app listings

Tired of accidentally downloading apps to your Android tablet that look best on a smartphone? If so, it appears that Google has heard your cries. The company recently updated its developer console to accept app screenshots that are specific to 7-inch and 10-inch tablets. While it’s not the most monumental change, once developers fulfill their end of the bargain, you’ll be treated to UI images that best suit your device. Until then, you’ll still have to endure a few more games of app roulette.

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Mozilla introduces JavaScript API as part of common payments interface

Posted by on April 5, 2013 No comments

Mozilla plans to introduce a common API to make online paymentsA easy and secureA on Firefox OS devices.
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Switched On: Higher stakes, higher ground for crowdfunding, part 2

Posted by on April 1, 2013 No comments

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

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Last week’s Switched On discussed the issues around crowdfunding liability, offering examples of some recent tech projects that delivered late or inconsistently, and explaining the justification for sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo denying accountability. Given this, there are a few options in how consumers choose to engage with crowdfunding sites.

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Switched On: Higher stakes, higher ground for crowdfunding, part 1

Posted by on March 24, 2013 No comments

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

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The power of crowdfunding is that, by aggregating relatively modest donations from what is often hundreds or even thousands of backers, consumers can help artists and inventors turn ideas or concepts into reality. The Pebble smartwatch that set the record for funds raised on Kickstarter was noteworthy for breaking the $ 10 million barrier. That money, though, came from nearly 69,000 backers.

Today, the two biggest crowdfunding destinations, Indiegogo and Kickstarter, offer different approaches to what gets presented on their sites. Indiegogo is a completely open site; there is virtually no screening of projects. Kickstarter, on the other hand, is a curated site. Projects must meet a range of criteria. As co-founder Yancey Strickler recently explained at Engadget Expand, the roots of Kickstarter were in the funding of creative and social pursuits. Kickstarter has been a haven for artists such as photographers looking to create a photo book or musicians seeking to cut a first album or create a music video.

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Google smartwatch may be next part of wearable computer family

Posted by on March 23, 2013 No comments

Move over Glass. Google is also reportedly working on an Android-based ‘smartwatch.’
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The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 4: Are We Our Own Worst Enemies?

Posted by on March 23, 2013 No comments

female roundtableWelcome back for the last segment of our roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.

We concluded the series with a discussion about how women can be our own worst enemies when supporting each other in the workplace. Sandberg writes in the last chapter of the book, “It is the painful truth that one of the obstacles to more women gaining power has sometimes been women already in power.”
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Backed Or Whacked: Baubles For Your Bike – Part I

Posted by on March 17, 2013 No comments

Backed or Whacked logoEditor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals.

Back in January, Backed or Whacked looked at three crowdfunding projects that were aimed at getting novel takes on bicycles off the ground, or at least on the ground. But not every crowdfunded bicycle project involves reinventing the wheels. In fact, bike accessories have been such a popular target for crowdfunding efforts that they’re fertile ground for a two-part look, this first oneof which covers smaller clip-on and snap-on accessories. Feel free to ascribe them symbolically to each wheel as you see fit.
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Google Glass user interface demo filmed at SXSW [part 2]

Posted by on March 12, 2013 No comments

As the first edition so foretold, so too is there a second piece of this puzzle: Google’s Project Glass appears to have been shown at South by Southwest this past week in at least one well-attended keynote. While we’d seen some relatively blurry looks at this particular showing late last week, this week we’re seeing

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Google Glass Part 2 will have dual-eye displays

Posted by on February 25, 2013 No comments

The U.S. Patent & Trade Office has just released a Google patent application under the serial number 206338. The patent was filed back in Q3 2011 and it contains details of Google’s development of the next Project Glass. The document is titled “Google Project Glass Part 2″ and it shows that the newer version of

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Microsoft focuses on mobile, pilots solar-powered broadband as part of Africa initiative

Posted by on February 5, 2013 No comments

Microsoft is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations, as part of a long-term strategy to spread mobile telephony and Internet connectivity in Africa.
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RadioShack and Target part ways, end Target Mobile on April 8

Posted by on January 15, 2013 No comments

The days of being able to waltz into a Target and buy a smartphone with contract are nearing their end. RadioShack announced earlier today that it and Target reached an agreement to end their partnership, and that on April 8 Target Mobile will be no more. The reason for the dissolved partnership is cited as

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Ultra HD TVs stole the show at CES 2013, but they’re just part of the puzzle

Posted by on January 12, 2013 No comments

Ultra HD TVs stole the show at CES 2013, but it's just the first piece of the puzzle

Even before this year’s CES kicked off, we knew Ultra High-Definition was going to dominate the show. Then from the first press conference to the last, 3,840 × 2,160 resolution displays were a center piece of almost every major manufacturer’s announcements. Leading up to the show, the CEA’s board decided against using “4K” to market these 8-megapixel (1080p is two megapixels) displays, instead choosing Ultra High-Definition or Ultra HD. Of course not everyone followed along, in fact Sony was first to market in the US, late last year, with its “4K Ultra HD TV.” The display is only one piece of the puzzle and plenty of questions remain, however. Like, “Where’s the content?” and “Will I have to replace all my other home theater gear?” Questions aside, Ultra HD TVs are here and more are coming, so click through for these answers and to discover the slate of new Ultra HD TVs for 2013.

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Windows laptop sales sink — but that’s just part of the problem

Posted by on January 6, 2013 No comments

Windows 8 laptop sales are hardly on fire. Maybe the absence of the dirt-cheap netbook has something to do with that. [Read more]


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Switched On: The 2012 Switchies, Part 2

Posted by on December 31, 2012 No comments

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

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The last Switched On covered some of the major Switchie awards for the year, but there are many other products to recognize:

The “Category’s Meow” Award for Best New Category Creation goes to Supermechanical’s TWINE, a small blue box that can relay information about its environment via WiFi to a website. Its fellow Kickstarter project Ninja Blocks followed suit with a more proactive two-way link to pick up an Honorable Mention.

The “Mulligans Do” Award for Best Product Revamp goes to the Apple iPod family. After a bit of staidness in the venerable iPod nano, Apple came back with larger screens and slender profiles on both the iPod nano and iPod touch. Honorable mentions go to the Kindle family of e- readers, particularly the Kindle Paperwhite, and the Samsung Galaxy S line of smartphones from Samsung, which took a huge leap forward with the Galaxy S III.

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Switched On: The 2012 Switchies, Part 1

Posted by on December 24, 2012 No comments

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

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It’s that special time of year between the holiday sales and the pre-CES hype that presents an opportunity to consider some of the most innovative devices of the year. Switched On is proud to present the Saluting Wares Improving Technology’s Contribution to Humanity awards, also known as The Switchies. This year marks the seventh annual Switchies, which are decided based on a rigorous examination of the opinion of me, and do not reflect the opinion of Engadget or its editors. For that latter honor, nominees will need to win an Engadget Award.

This week’s Switched On will cover many of the major award categories while next week’s will cover some of the more obscure ones. Let’s roll out the red carpet then.

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How Obama Used Big Data to Rally Voters, Part 2

Posted by on December 17, 2012 No comments

Part 2: How President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters.

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How Obama Used Big Data to Rally Voters, Part 1

Posted by on December 16, 2012 No comments

Part 1: How President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters.

Two years after Barack Obama’s election as president, Democrats suffered their worst defeat in decades. The congressional majorities that had given Obama his legislative successes, reforming the health-insurance and financial markets, were swept away in the midterm elections; control of the House flipped and the Democrats’ lead in the Senate shrank to an ungovernably slim margin. Pundits struggled to explain the rise of the Tea Party. Voters’ disappointment with the Obama agenda was evident as independents broke right and Democrats stayed home. In 2010, the Democratic National Committee failed its first test of the Obama era: it had not kept the Obama coalition together.







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‘Bigfoot’ is part human, DNA study claims

Posted by on November 27, 2012 No comments

Genetic testing confirms the legendary Bigfoot is a human relative that arose some 15,000 years ago — at least according to a press release issued by a company called DNA Diagnostics detailing supposed work by a Texas veterinarian.




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Yammer already part of Microsoft’s software development process

Posted by on November 13, 2012 No comments

Microsoft has started to adopt some key software development practices from Yammer, the ESN (enterprise social networking) vendor it acquired several months ago.
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Part Incubator, Workspace & Code School, Galvanize Wants To Turn Denver Into A Startup Hub; Uber, Forkly & More Already On Board

Posted by on November 11, 2012 No comments

reno6kx5e1wbhnonfmgu (1)It’s not quite as cool as working next to other startups on a boat in international waters, but when it comes to appealing settings in which to build a business, the Rocky Mountains aren’t half bad. Founded in Boulder in 2006, TechStars and other startup networks/accelerators like it have been on a mission to turn the Rockies — and the cities that lie in their shadows — into vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems. At least in Colorado.

The latest initiative is Galvanize, a 30,000-square-foot workspace for digital startups that recently opened in downtown Denver. While most of Colorado’s entrepreneurial energy emanates from Boulder, the Galvanize founders are on a mission to bring Denver into the conversation by creating a shared workspace that will accommodate over 300 individuals and approximately 60 to 70 startups once it’s fully operational.
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AMD shutters key Linux support lab in Germany as part of company-wide layoffs

Posted by on November 9, 2012 No comments

AMD shutters Linux support lab as part of companywide layoffs

The pain from recently announced job cuts by AMD could ripple out to the Linux community, as the chipmaker has shut down a small but important Linux OS research facility in Dresden, Germany. The center housed 25 employees who helped port AMD technology like PowerNow over to new Linux distros, and according to The H, many engineers who submitted major processor and chipset revisions for the OS would be pink slipped. The closure won’t affect GPU and APU development, according to the source, but it’s not yet known exactly who will pick up the slack from the former Dresden team — though the research center in Austin Texas is reported to be a likely bet.

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The Best Part About Google+ Hangouts Is That The Technology Itself Completely Disappears

Posted by on November 1, 2012 No comments

01One of the underlying features launched originally with the Google+ project was its video conferencing platform, Hangouts. It’s been a success from the perspective of user adoption and also grabbed a partnership for Google with the NFL. Video is an extremely tough space to tackle, just ask companies like Skype, Airtime and countless others. Nailing an intimate experience that supports two ore more people in a video conference is no small feat, but Google knocked it out of the park with Hangouts.
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Part hurricane, part nor’easter and all trouble: That’s what threatens 60 million Americans

Posted by on October 28, 2012 No comments

The storm that is threatening 60 million Americans in the eastern third of the nation in just a couple of days with high winds, drenching rains, extreme tides, flooding and probably snow is much…




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Marissa Mayer’s First M&A Deal: Yahoo Acquires Stamped As Part Of Major Mobile Push

Posted by on October 25, 2012 No comments

Screen Shot 2012-10-25 at 10.34.27 AMYahoo has bought Stamped, the New York City-based startup that built an app to let people record and share recommendations of their favorite things with friends. The pricetag is in the double digit millions, a nice return for investors who pitched $ 3 million into the startup.
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HTC and NASA to send Nexus One into space in 2013 as part of PhoneSat program

Posted by on October 10, 2012 No comments

HTC, NASA to launch Nexus One into space in 2013 as part of PhoneSat program

Okay, this definitely won’t be the first time HTC’s own Nexus handset will be experiencing a trip that most of us won’t ever have the chance to replicate. But in 2013 the Nexus One will travel deeper into the void than it’s ever been before. As it was in 2010, the upcoming Nexus One launch plan is also part of NASA’s nano-satellite-building program (aka PhoneSat) and, according to HTC, this will mark the culmination of years of intensive testing — which consisted of putting the former Android flagship through thermal-vacuum chambers, extreme vibration tests and high-altitude balloon flights. The Taiwanese phone maker didn’t specify when exactly the Nexus One’s out-of-this-world adventure will take place, but we do know the newfangled One X+ is already being touted as a potential candidate to climb aboard a Jupiter-bound spaceship in the coming future.

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Arrington Cam Outtake: A Part Of Him You’ve Never Seen

Posted by on September 20, 2012 No comments

Arrington Cam Outtake_ A Part Of Him You’ve Never Seen | TechCrunchCan somebody please tell this guy that he doesn’t work here anymore?
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Music Memories Stored In Different Part of Brain Than Other Memories

Posted by on August 23, 2012 No comments



An anonymous reader writes “Scientists have long believed that the ability to learn and appreciate music was stored in a different part of the brain than other types of memories. Now, researchers in Berlin think that they have concluded that theory. Dr. Christoph J. Ploner, Carson Finke, and Nazli Esfahani at the Department of Neurology at the Virchow campus in Berlin, Germany have examined a man who has lost all of his memories but has retained his ability to remember and learn songs.”

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MetroPCS reveals Samsung Galaxy S III as part of fall lineup

Posted by on August 21, 2012 No comments

MetroPCS reveals Samsung Galaxy S III as part of fall lineup

Turns out the LG Motion 4G wasn’t all that MetroPCS had up its sleeve for reveal today, as the prepaid carrier separately let its new fall lineup slip, and wouldn’t you know it, among those devices is the Samsung Galaxy S III. Joining the superphone will be a smaller Sammy smartphone, and like the LG Connect 4G, it’ll support VoLTE — curious that the carrier isn’t touting the feature for the Galaxy S III, don’t you think? ZTE will also be making another go at MetroPCS, as an Android handset with a 4.3-inch screen is now in the cards, but other relevant specs remain sorely absent. Rounding out the lineup will be an import from Coolpad, which is said to wield a 4-inch screen and will retail for $ 149. According to Phone Scoop, we may see this one make an official debut later this week. Naturally, none of these slabs carry the same clout as the Galaxy S III, and if you’d like to get a bit more familiar with the soon-to-be premiere smartphone at MetroPCS, be sure to check out PC Magazine below, which managed to score a hands-on with the latest version of Samsung’s finest.

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Home networking explained, part 2: Optimizing your Wi-Fi network

Posted by on August 18, 2012 No comments

CNET editor Dong Ngo answers questions about how to optimize a home Wi-Fi network.
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A Conversation with Rob Malda – Part Three; the Finale (Video)

Posted by on August 14, 2012 No comments



Part Two ran last Thursday. Part One ran last Wednesday. This is all a lead-up to Slashdot’s Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday, this October. (Cue music: Fatboy Slim’s Slash Dot Dash.) In this final part of The Conversation with Rob Malda, he talks a bit about what he’s working on at The Washington Post, and leaves us waiting with bated breath for more information about projects he’s not allowed to tell us about. Yet. So obviously, we’ll want to get back with CmdrTaco before too long for an update. Meanwhile, please get ready for the Slashdot 15th Anniversary Celebration, which is sure to be at least as glorious as you would expect from Slashdot.

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Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture?

Posted by on August 13, 2012 No comments



owenferguson writes “Valerie Aurora, Linux kernel file systems expert, takes DEFCON to task for poor sexual harassment policing. A nice followup piece to the recent Readercon fiasco.”

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Oops! American Express Never Agreed To Be Part Of Google’s Big Wallet Upgrade (Update: Google Responds)

Posted by on August 3, 2012 No comments

allcardwallet2Google announced a substantial update to its Wallet mobile payment service the other day, but it turns out the company may have been overstating things a bit.

According a post on Google’s Commerce blog, the service now plays well with all major credit card types, but a representative from American Express pointed out that the statement wasn’t entirely accurate. Users are free to load American Express cards into the Google Wallet app and use them for in-store purchases, but American Express never officially signed off on that deal.
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Jeff Bezos, A Blonde, And A Book Walk Into A Bar (Part I)

Posted by on July 29, 2012 No comments

Screen shot 2012-07-29 at 6.12.53 AMWhile I find technology and innovation in technology to be intellectually fascinating and fun to read about, in my personal life, I am what product managers disdainfully refer to as “The Last Adopter.” I’ve spent the last 9 years living in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco as an outlier so extreme, I still yearn for the return of The Pony Express because I love hand-written letters almost as much as I love ponies.

I am not a journalist, a professional writer, or even a blogger. So: if you’re looking for breaking news you can impress your boss with, let me save you some time. Set this aside, read every other article on this site, and return to this when you’ve just finished your fifth coffee, find yourself staring into space, and absentmindedly wonder what the Kardashians are up to today. This is not hard-hitting journalism folks.

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Nokia closes Finnish plant as part of restructuring effort

Posted by on July 29, 2012 No comments

Cash-strapped Finnish cellphone maker Nokia has decided to close its Salo handset factory plant in Finland as part of its restructuring effort that was announced by the company in June. The news comes right after we heard that Nokia was dropping its Meltemi platform project in an effort to cut costs, and also right after

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Vizio meets the MacBook: Part 2

Posted by on July 29, 2012 No comments

Vizio’s ultrabook-style 14- and 15-inch laptops are stunning in some ways but less impressive in others.
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Microsoft overhauls printing: Aims to ditch ‘pray’ part

Posted by on July 26, 2012 No comments

Windows 8 promises to make the printing experience a whole lot easier. That, of course, remains to be seen.
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Google Quietly Acq-hires Part Of Design Firm Cuban Council For Google+

Posted by on July 17, 2012 No comments

Screen shot 2012-07-17 at 3.58.36 PMIn the midst of today’s news whirl, this tidbit slipped through the cracks; Part of the design team Cuban Council has apparently been acq-hired by Google, according to a note on their blog. Google has also confirmed the mini-acquisition in an email to TechCrunch.

“We’re very excited to share that some folks on our team will be joining Google to focus on design aspects of Google+,” reads the Cuban Council blog, titled “A New Voyage,” ”Having worked closely with a variety of Google product teams since 2005, we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to focus our creative efforts within the organization.”

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IKEA wants to sell you a TV that’s part of the furniture

Posted by on June 17, 2012 No comments

The Uppleva has no cables. It’s just a TV that’s build into, or rather onto the cabinet on which it stands. But is the TV any good? Might it be an idea for Apple to follow? Surely furniture design is not beyond Cupertino.
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Verizon launching shared data plans June 28; part of voice, text sharing plans

Posted by on June 12, 2012 No comments

After years of study, Verizon Wireless Tuesday unveiled a shared data plan that works across 10 Verizon devices.
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Diablo III Review Part I: Your Quest Begins

Posted by on May 27, 2012 No comments

Over the next week we’ll be reviewing Diablo III in a series of posts which explore the basics of the game from an outsider’s perspective. This first review shows what its like to play Diablo III from the beginning having only a rudimentary knowledge of what Diablo I and II were like and how the

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Facebook Acq-Hires Part Of Design Firm Bolt | Peters To Beef Up User Research Team

Posted by on May 25, 2012 No comments

Bolt | Peters Acqhired by FacebookKnowing how users react to Facebook’s product changes is crucial to the site making the right moves, so today it closed an acq-hire of part of design research firm Bolt | Peters — specifically its leading man CEO Nate Bolt and several other employees from the six person consultancy. Those coming over will be joining Facebook’s design team that’s headed by Kate Aronowitz.

Bolt | Peters started 10 years ago and specialized in recruiting actual visitors to a website through its tool Ethnio and then observing their usage remotely so it could deliver insights on what to improve to their clients, which numbered over 90. Bolt | Peters will shut down on June 22nd, and has already spun out its Ethnio real-time research service.

Facebook tests product changes more frequently than nearly any service. Bringing in Nate Bolt and some of his teammates will help it understand exactly how users feel about changes and avoid blunders like Beacon.
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Mathematics of Eternity Prove The Universe Must Have Had A Beginning — Part II

Posted by on April 27, 2012 No comments

Heavyweight cosmologists are battling it out over whether the universe had a beginning. And despite appearances, they may actually agree







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Switched On: When the smartphone giveth, Part 2

Posted by on April 22, 2012 No comments

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

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In case you missed it, Part I of this article can be found here

Last week’s Switched On discussed the Slacker Portable, Sony eMarker and TrafficGauge, three dedicated devices that didn’t make it but saw their functionality ultimately realized via smartphones. But there have been other idea for which the idea ultimately proved popular as smartphone bits rather than separately packaged atoms.

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Sony Confirms 10,000 Jobs To Go As Part Of Its Big ‘One Sony’ Reorganization

Posted by on April 12, 2012 No comments

6_sony_logo_wSo the reports have proven to be true: Sony has now officially said that it will be reducing its headcount by 10,000 people worldwide, some six percent of its workforce, as the struggling electronics giant reorganizes under new management and its new “One Sony” plan.

Sony says the employee reductions will be made over the course of this fiscal year, and will also include some employees leaving the company through sale and transfer. Meanwhile, the organizational restructuring will see Sony strengthen its focus on the core units of digital imaging, gaming and mobile; attempt to turn around its ailing TV business and expand in emerging markets. Altogether Sony estimates that the restructuring will cost it ¥75 billion ($ 926 million).
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HTC One S vs iPhone 4S Hands-on Part 1

Posted by on April 8, 2012 No comments

This week we’ve had ample time to show you everything there is to know about the Android-based HTC One series in the HTC One X and the unit we’re looking at today vs the iPhone 4S: the HTC One S. The HTC One S is much more comparable to the iPhone 4S than the X

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The Interesting Part About Amazon’s In-App Payments Beta Is That Developers Have Pricing Control

Posted by on April 4, 2012 No comments

images-screenshots-captures-amazon-appstore-logo-21032011_00B4000000001978The most interesting part of Amazon’s move to provide an in-app payments flow is that they’re ceding pricing control to mobile developers.

Amazon has been testing a new in-app payments system with several top-tier mobile developers for several months. It’s a big deal because there has been a huge shift over the last 18 months toward giving away apps for free instead of selling them for a dollar or more. This move would bring Amazon’s Android appstore closer to parity with Google and Apple’s stores for developers.

But the part worth noting isn’t that Amazon will offer an in-app purchases flow. It’s obvious that they would do that, given their experience in online payments and commerce and need to compete with Google’s app store. The part worth pointing out is that Amazon is letting developers set their own prices for virtual currency and digital content. That’s a departure from the strategy the e-commerce giant tried to pursue last year with mobile developers.
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Bringing broadband to the boonies, part 2: DSL’s dark side

Posted by on March 27, 2012 No comments

In most places with stoplights and supermarkets, DSL is a completely viable and affordable broadband option. But miles of new DSL line in Crave writer Eric Mack’s little New Mexico mountain town may never be utilized.
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Huawei hardware won’t be part of National Broadband Network, says Australia

Posted by on March 26, 2012 No comments
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Huawei just can’t catch a break — first the US blocks it from being a part of its first responder wireless network, and now, Australia is following suit. According to the Australian Financial Review, the Shenzhen-based outfit has been barred from tendering contracts for the country’s A$ 43 billion National Broadband Network on the advice of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization. Alexander Downer, of Huawei’s Australian board directors, called the situation “ridiculous,” postulating that “the whole concept of Huawei being involved in cyber-warfare is based on the company being Chinese.” This isn’t the first time Huawei has had to combat suspicions of espionage, last year the outfit assured the US government that a “thorough investigation will prove that Huawei is a normal commercial institution and nothing more.” Cheer up, Huawei, the smartphone market still loves you.

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