Posts in February 2014

The long-rumored Amazon streaming box would compete with Apple TV, BlackBerry gets hip with stickers, and TicketLeap puts a new twist on the selfie. [Read more]






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The company behind the popular TV set-top box is thinking about an initial public offering, Bloomberg reports. [Read more]






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Google Fiber and the Kansas City experience The Oregonian Portland Mayor Charlie Hales announced Wednesday that Portland and five other metro-area cities are on a short list being considered for Google Fiber, an internet and TV service promoted to be 100 times faster than basic broadband connections. At the ... Google, Comcast, FCC Changing The Face Of San Antonio BroadbandTexas Public Radio Google Fiber Plans Expansion To 34 New Cities (Including Salt Lake)Forbes Google begins process to expand Fiber in 2015Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine Washington Post (blog) -Entrepreneur -Latin Post all 500 news articles

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Google spreading Fiber fingers to more cities USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO - Google unveiled big expansion plans for its fast Fiber Internet service on Wednesday, stepping up pressure on incumbent cable and Internet providers such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T. Google, the world's largest Internet search ... Google out to spread its super-fast Internet serviceAFP Google Plans Fiber Expansion and Looks to 34 Potential CitiesBloomberg Google Explores Super-Speed Internet In Nine More Major CitiesWired San Jose Mercury News -FierceTelecom -WSOC Charlotte all 202 news articles

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Ultra-fast Google Fiber seeks to expand in 9 metro areas, including San Jose San Jose Mercury News MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Google is inviting San Jose and 33 other cities around the country to begin talks on joining the gigabit-speed home Internet service known as Google Fiber, in a move that promises lightning-fast downloads to millions of consumers while ... Google spreading Fiber fingers to more citiesUSA TODAY Google Fiber may be coming to city near youCNN Google Looking at Brookhaven for Super-Fast InternetPatch.com BGR -WSOC Charlotte all 170 news articles

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The profile for Apple's senior VP of design, Jonathan Ive, briefly disappeared from the company's executive bios webpage earlier on Monday, reports note. The page has since returned without changes, making it unclear why it was pulled in the first place. Even while it was gone from the official list, a direct link to the profile continued to work....






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Apple has won rights to a US patent on a biometric headphone system. The technology would track factors like temperature, heart rate, and/or perspiration, using embedded sensors. The sensors could be embedded into the rim of a speaker, or broken out into other components, such as ear clips or inline remotes. Apple also suggests integrating one or more accelerometers for tracking movement, in the latter case recording multiple axes....






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Samsung's upcoming flagship device, the Galaxy S5, will indeed ship with a fingerprint sensor, reports Samsung-focused blog SamMobile. Contrary to earlier reports which hinted at a fingerprint sensor embedded into the display, however, this latest report claims the Galaxy S5 will adopt Apple's model by integrating the sensor into the home button.

Samsung Galaxy S5 render with Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S3 from Move Player
Samsung's fingerprint sensor reportedly is activated using a swiping motion that scans the finger from base to tip, which differs from Apple's motionless scan.

The sensor itself works in a swipe manner, which means that you would need to swipe the entire pad of your finger, from base to tip, across the home key to register your fingerprint properly. Also, you would need to keep your finger flat against the home key and swipe at a moderate speed or else it won't recognise your fingerprint. The fingerprint sensor is sensitive to moisture, as well.

Samsung supposedly has added support for the scanning technology to various parts of the operating system, enabling users to secure files, widgets and apps using the scanning technology. Similar to iOS 7, Samsung will allow users to -- For more information read the original article here.

Customer data from popular crowd-funding site Kickstarter, famous for helping launch the Ouya and Pebble smart watch, has been taken by hackers, the company has revealed. Usernames, e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords of a number of accounts were accessed in the intrusion, though the company stresses in a blog post that payment information, such as partial credit card numbers, were not taken in the attack....






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Apple's interest in vehicle and medical integration for its products is well-known, but a new report from the San Francisco Chronicle claims some new details on both fronts, including word that Apple may have explored a potential purchase of electric car manufacturer Tesla last year.

The specific claim that Apple was considering a purchase of Tesla seems to be primarily speculation, but the report notes that Apple's head of acquisitions Adrian Perica met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk early last year. According to the report's source, Apple CEO Tim Cook was probably also involved in the meeting.

In October 2013, German investment banking analyst Adnaan Ahmad created a media stir when he wrote an "open letter" to Apple CEO Tim Cook and board director Al Gore, urging the company to acquire Tesla. [...]

Six months before Ahmad's letter, Musk met with Perica and probably Cook at Apple headquarters, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect business relationships. While a megadeal has yet to emerge (for all of its cash, Apple still plays hardball on valuation), such a high-level meeting between the two Silicon Valley giants involving their top dealmakers suggests Apple was -- For more information read the original article here.