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Oyster has already established a compelling elevator pitch: “Netflix for books.” Pay a monthly fee, get access to an unlimited number of 100,000 titles available in Oyster’s app. The app is beautifully designed and certainly rivals that of Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iBooks version. But whether its
It’s too bad for Samsung this time because Sony has revealed its latest version of the SmartWatch. Samsung was just a few hours late when it announced its new Samsung Galaxy Gear. All of these announcements were done during the IFA launch in Berlin this second week of September 2013. The Sony SmartW
Everybody’s been waiting for the smartwatch revolution to begin, and for major companies (other than Sony) to unveil their long-awaited offerings in this new era of mobility. Samsung announced this week their Galaxy Gear smartwatch. Qualcomm also announced a smartwatch called the Toq. Press an
December 2011, a month before the criminal proceeding against Megaupload became public, Kim Dotcom first revealed his plans to launch a new service to transform the music business. At the time the project was called Megabox and the similarly named .com domain was seized by the U.S. Government. Howev
The phone would be free, no wireless contract necessary, and sold on Amazon.com or through wireless carriers, according to unnamed sources. Amazon is going to give away its long-rumored smartphone for free, according to a report from former Wall Street Journal reporters Amir Efrati and Jessica E. Le
Yahoo said Friday that it has received 12,444 requests for data from the U.S. government so far this year that covers the accounts of 40,322 users overall. In its first government transparency report, the Web giant said it rejected just 2 percent of those federal government requests. Yahoo released
A university graduate says he was left humiliated after being asked to dance to a Daft Punk song during a job interview at an electronics superstore. Alan Bacon, 21, thought working at Currys in Cardiff would be ideal given his love of cameras, and he spent a week preparing for the interview. But in
Elon Musk, the world’s busiest rich dude/mad scientist, has just posted a video showing off the Iron Man-inspired 3D modeling setup he tweeted about last week. Because people don’t compare him to Tony Stark* enough, right? By combining the gesture-sensing Leap Motion controller with an array of diff
Automattic was replacing the web server software that underpins its popular WordPress blogging platform, and things weren’t going well. This was 2008, and the company was intent on moving WordPress to software in line with its open source philosophy. The world’s best-known web server, Apache, was th
Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links. The breakthrough required Intel to fit lasers and other optical components onto silicon chips, which usually deal only with electronic signals. T
US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden. Th
The reporting on these documents was done jointly by The Guardian, the NY Times and Pro Publica. However, the NY Times coverage has one interesting tidbit: Intelligence officials asked The Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new
