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| info source: kantarworldpanel.com (site link infra) |
BlackBerry may be gone even sooner than previously thought--Kantar Worldpanel report (pdf) on US smartphone sales shows dismal results for BlackBerry: less than 1% of all smartphone sales for the 3 months ending May, 2013 (compared with 4.6% of all smartphone sales for the same period a year ago).
Forbes
According to a recent industry report from Kantar Worldpanel, BlackBerry's (NYSE:BBRY) share of the smart phone market in the United States has all but disappeared. According to the research firm, during the three months ending May 2012, the ...
Microsoft Sues US Customs for Failed Google Phone Ban
Bloomberg
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) accused U.S. Customs officials of refusing to follow a trade agency's order to block imports of phones made by Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit in a lawsuit that seeks to alter how such cases are handled. The U.S. ...
Hulu's Owners Said to Discuss Sale of Stake to Time Warner Cable
Bloomberg
Owners of Hulu LLC are continuing talks to sell a stake in the video-streaming service to Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) after canceling an auction of the entire business, said three people with knowledge of the situation. A deal could be reached within two ...
9 Percent of Americans Have Used Cell Phones During Sex
PC Magazine
The latest Mobile Consumer Habits study, released Thursday, sounds vaguely reminiscent of the sordid pages of last month's Cosmopolitan magazine: According to the report, smartphone usage is so prevalent in Americans' daily lives that nearly one in 10 ...
Apple and Samsung set to continue their duopoly in 2014
CNET (blog)
So it's clear, barring unforeseen circumstances and any gross inaccuracy in Gartner's estimates, that Android will be the statistical leader, with 42 percent of the 1.9 billion mobile phones sold next year running some flavor of the Google-inspired ...
eBay Is Latest To Join 3D Printing Craze With New App For Customizable Goods ...
TechCrunch
Ebay is hopping on the 3D printing bandwagon. This morning, the company announced the debut of a new iPhone application called eBay Exact which allows users to browse and buy customizable print-on-demand merchandise from three top 3D printing ...
Should I ditch Android for Nokia's Lumia 1020?
CNET (blog)
In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon answers a reader who wants to know if he should consider dumping Android for the super-duper camera on the Nokia Lumia 1020....
Nintendo 3DS Update Includes 4 New StreetPass Games
PC Magazine
North American Nintendo 3DS owners can now download the refreshed StreetPass Mii Plaza application, with touch-screen controls, a new layout, and four new games for purchase. The update also includes new expressions and greeting options for ...
Predatory lionfish now a confirmed invader in the deep Atlantic
Christian Science Monitor
An expedition down to the Atlantic depths has confirmed for the first time that the lionfish, an invasive species, is living there. The expedition verifies anecdotal evidence that the predatory animal is eluding eradication and imperiling native fish. Skip to next ...
Mobile App Update Bonanza
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
Chrome, Facebook, Vine and other popular apps for Android and iOS platforms got significant updates this week. 9 Android Apps To Improve Security, Privacy.
The week in Tech: 5 must-know things
USA TODAY
Julia Ryan, USA TODAY 3:37 p.m. EDT July 12, 2013. Here's what you need to know about the week in Tech. iPhone 5. A T-Mobile connected iPhone 5.Rockstar Games releases 'Grand Theft Auto' trailer ...
Is Apple the ultimate villain in the e-book price fixing scandal?
Digital Trends
This past week a judge finally ruled on the e-books price fixing case the U.S. Department of Justice brought against Apple. Though all the other parties involved – the five publishers Apple colluded with, according to the suit – settled long ago, Apple chose to ...
International wildlife sting finds most success in Texas
Houston Chronicle
Texas led the nation in a recent undercover operation to stop illegal wildlife trafficking online. Operation Wild Web, a coordinated undercover operation conducted simultaneously by Texas game wardens, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, other agencies and ...
Market For Spy-Proof Messaging Heats Up
TechCrunch
Now that the 4th Amendment is no longer a guarantee against broad government spying, the floodgates have opened for tech companies to give users their privacy back. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde's text-messaging app Heml.is already reached its ...
More than 275000 Pebble smartwatches have been ordered, CEO says
TechSpot
Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky recently took to the company's Kickstarter page to issue an update to backers with regards to how the device is doing in the marketplace and lay out a plan for the next 12 months seeing as there haven't been any updates in quite ...
After chip benchmark revised, Samsung and ARM gain on Intel
CNET
A widely-used processor benchmark has been revised, allowing an ARM-based Samsung processor to gain on an Intel x86 chip. Questions were raised about benchmarks ...
New bill would protect Apollo landing sites
NBCNews.com
The Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act would establish a National Historical Park on the moon, and protect areas where Apollo missions left footprints, or equipment....
Falling Electric Car Prices Are Saving — Or Destroying — the EV Market
TIME
Ford is the latest automaker to drop prices on its electric cars, slicing $4,000 off the 2014 Focus EV. The move will undoubtedly succeed in getting more drivers to take a second look at the car. But how long can Ford—and other automakers slashing EV ...
Kindle rival the Nook stumbles, but what is the next chapter for e-readers?
The Guardian
The abrupt resignation this week of William Lynch, the 43-year-old Barnes & Noble chief executive, was only the latest in a catalogue of troubles at one of the US's biggest book chains. If this were a business whodunnit, nobody could fail to spot the culprit: ...
Glass Sponges Invade Antarctica Rapidly After Ice Shelf Collapse (VIDEO)
PlanetSave.com
With the relatively recent breakup and collapse of the Larsen A ice shelf in the western Weddell Sea in Antarctica very large changes have occurred to to the communities of life living on the sea bed below. In particular, the area has been rapidly colonized by ...
Ballmer's New Strategy 'One Microsoft' to focus on Devices and Services
Portada-online.com
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer sent a letter , under the title "One Microsoft", to employees on Tuesday and followed up with a conference call together with CFO Amy Hood later that week on Thursday afternoon. Ballmer characterized the new strategy as a ...
Google's $500 million Moto X phone gambit to make Motorola cool again
Stabley Times
Moto X is the first phone Motorola has launched worth paying attention to in several years, and Google wants to make sure you pay attention by spending $500 million on marketing the new Android based smartphone. But the real challenge isn't about raising ...
MoDaCo. ROM Allows You to Switch Between Sense and Stock Android on the ...
unwir3d.com
MoDaCo. ROM Allows You to Switch Between Sense and Stock Android on the HTC One. By Sammy Snyder - Published July 13th 2013 - 14:35. Tagged: Android • HTC One • MoDaCo.Switch • News. There is already a stock Android 4.2.2 ROM for the HTC ...
At Sun Valley, Google Executives Give a Shout Out for Apple
Wall Street Journal
Nikesh Arora, chief business officer of Google, left, Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, center, and Salar Kamangar, chief of YouTube, speak to reporters at the Allen & Co. conference Thursday. Bloomberg News. By William Launder. While speculation swirls at ...
Hubble Discovers Mysterious Blue Planet that Rains Glass
Cleveland Leader
63 light years away from Earth lies a deep blue colored planet that astronomers have dubbed HD 189733b. It looks very similar to our own planet from a far, but a closer look reveals some significant differences. First discovered in 2005, HD 189733b ...
Technology & Retail Obsolescence | The Big Picture
By Barry Ritholtz
I forgot to publish my Bloomberg appearance this past week -- here are two of the segments, mostly on retail and obsolescence: Fusion IQ CEO Barry Ritholtz.
The Big Picture
HoopTube: New video technology boon to KU men's basketball ...
By Jesse Newell
“Synergy” in this case refers to “Synergy Sports Technology,” a video and analytics tool that started its rise in college basketball about five years ago. The service, for which KU and most other Div. I schools pay thousands of dollars each year, ...
KUsports.com stories
NASA says new technology could help buildings survive ...It could have the ability to keep aircraft, ships and oil platforms steady during high winds, waves and other weather events - anywhere where fluids and structures coexist."
Real-Time News from Huntsville
Stories from Around the Web - Technology Review
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MITTechnology Review.
Web - MIT Technology Review
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MITTechnology Review.
Web - MIT Technology Review
NASA 3D-prints and fires rocket engine component - Gizmag
By David Szondy
The purpose of the tests was to study the ability of the current state of technology to design, manufacture and test a critical rocket engine part using 3D printing. The tests did not involve the manufacture and firing of a complete liquid rocket ...
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
By David Szondy
The purpose of the tests was to study the ability of the current state of technology to design, manufacture and test a critical rocket engine part using 3D printing. The tests did not involve the manufacture and firing of a complete liquid rocket ...
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Regional academic, manufacturing leaders applaud Regents
By News Bureau
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a trio of new and collaborative engineering technology degrees July 12 designed to make a high-demand field more easily accessible to students in the New ...
UW Oshkosh Today
Difficult to ban porn sites: Centre to Supreme Court - Tech2 - Games
In response to a Supreme Court notice, the central government has expressed its inability to block all international pornographic websites in India owing to technological and legal constraints. . . .
India's Technology News, Analysis,...
Behind the technology of fireworks - CBS News
The world of explosive pyrotechnics is more technology-driven than ever, so what exactly goes into lighting up the night sky?
www.cbsnews.com/.../behind-the-technology-of-fireworks/
Technology Workers Are Young (Really Young) - NYTimes.com
In case you could not figure it out from the cubicle dogs and Nerf guns, a vast number of the workers in the technology industry are young and male. How young ...
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.../technology-workers-are-young-reall...
Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance - Technology Review
Improved technology enabled the NSA's mass surveillance programs. Future improvements will make collecting data on citizens easier and easier.
www.technologyreview.com/.../technology-not-law-limits-mas...
US government agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses
. . . . PCs, printers, keyboards, cameras, and mice destroyed in gross overreaction. . . .
arstechnica.com/.../us-agency-baffled-by-modern-technology-...
ObamaCare Gets Price-Comparison Technology On Oct 1 ...
President Obama just held a blindingly fast press conference on open government, which probably left most citizens scratching their heads in confusion over on..
techcrunch.com/.../obamacare-gets-price-comparison-technolo...
Small Business Owners Share Technology Tips - Business Insider
These nominees for Small Business Person of the Year give their best tech advice for other small businesses.
www.businessinsider.com/small-business-owners-share-technol...
Estonia's technology cluster: Not only Skype | The Economist
IT TAKES just five minutes to register a firm in Estonia, says Mihkel Tikk, the head of the country's online portal, a one-stop-shop for e-government services....
www.economist.com/blogs/.../07/estonias-technology-cluster
Incredible Technology: How to See a Black Hole | Event Horizon ...
The Event Horizon Telescope, an ambitious international project coordinating telescopes around the world, aims to directly image the immediate environment of ...
www.space.com/21866-black-hole-event-horizon-telescope-te...
Insight: Apple controversy lays bare complex Irish tax web
Reuters
That nexus, which has created over 100,000 jobs for Ireland, was laid bare when the U.S. Senate revealed that technology giant Apple had paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits channeled through the country. Ireland, which ...
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