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Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, today announced the upcoming limited preview of its China Region for the AWS cloud computing platform. This will be the fourth AWS Region in Asia Pacific and the tenth Region globally. In the limited preview, which will be deployed in early 2014, a select
Samsung recently debuted an official gamepad for its flagship lineup of Galaxy smartphones and tablets. Designed to work with with screens ranging from 4 to 6.3 inches, the GamePad will initially be available in Europe before hitting other markets. People have been playing games on their smartphones
Heard of Gauri Nanda? Yes, the brain behind the Clocky alarm clock that loves to be on motion. Nanda is now all set to give you a technology to send messages through smart toys to your kids. The product designer Gauri Nanda, 34, is best known for waking up adults, and now she is giving […]
China Mobile has pulled the lever on its 4G network today, the first in China, bringing speedy mobile Internet options to its 760 million customers and upping its appeal to those using other operators. China Mobile’s (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941) big 4G turn-on, which is happening across China today, was sup
Klarna, the Stockholm-based online payments company has bought Germany’s SOFORT for $150 million. With the acquisition, Klarna becomes one of the largest independent payments service in Europe. The company offers payment solutions for a wide range of online storefronts across Europe and did $200 mil
Spurred by the impending expiration of a federal tax credit that could be worth $780 million,Cape Wind, the long-sought giant wind farm off the Massachusetts coast, is apparently now under construction. It’s the first major offshore wind farm to begin construction in the United States, but its long-
Flipkart’s payment solutions subsidiary, Flipkart Payment Gateway Services, has launched the customer version of its payment gateway PayZippy. This service will allow online consumers to store their card information and use it for making online payments on merchant sites. Consumers will then n
In what could be construed as Amazon Web Services’ answer to big data, the cloud giant has pushed its new Kinesis product out into full availability. Kinesis pricing is set up on a “pay-as-you” go scale, starting at $0.015 at an hourly shard rate of one megabyte per second of data.
A team of engineers has designed a smartphone accessory and app that allows users to monitor their own blood cholesterol levels. Think of it as a sort of cholesterol selfi, or maybe a healthie? New tech being developed at Cornell University aims to bring cholesterol testing to smartphonesto make the
In a bid to increase consumer electronics sales in the U.S., Sony replaced Sony Electronics President Phil Molyneux with Michael Fasulo, who has been with the company since 1984. Molyneux, also the current COO of SEL, will become a non-executive Chairman. Sony Corporation announced today that Phil M
Nature has always proved to be quite the inspiration when it comes to modern day technology. A bunch of researchers over at Purdue University have recently discovered what could very well be the next big super-material, and for all you know, it might even be a carrot. The same tiny cellulose crystal
Apple has updated the iBookstore with the ability to gift iBooks on OS X and iOS. As with the App Store, simply click the down arrow next to the price of the book to select “Gift This Book” from the contextual menu. On iOS, you just tap the Share button to bring up the share sheet which
