Toshiba to Introduce Glassless 3-D TV Next Week
The wait is almost over for those who feel kind of odd sitting around the house with ‘special’ sunglasses on just to enjoy their 3-D tvs. Toshiba is rumored to be unveiling a 3-D TV next Monday that...
View ArticleGoogle Engineer Creates Facebook Block For Chrome
On the heels of yet another Facebook privacy hiccup earlier this week, a Google engineer has released a Chrome extension designed to prevent Facebook from tracking users who visit Web sites that use...
View ArticleYahoo Tests Major Mail Overhaul
Yahoo will unveil today a test version of a major upgrade of its Mail service, whose user engagement has been eroding, much to the detriment of the company’s overall usage. Called simply Yahoo Mail...
View ArticleBlekko.com Launches New Search Engine
Blekko, a new search engine that attempts to use human input to refine search results, launched a public beta on today. The Blekko.com site uses what the site calls “slashtags”: a curated list of sites...
View ArticleVoIP Is An Ideal Platform For Controlling Botnets
Botnets and their masters can communicate with one other by calling into the same VoIP conference call and exchanging data using touch tones, researchers demonstrated at Defcon. This gives the...
View ArticleIBM Beefs Up Connections Social Networking App
IBM is unveiling a new version of its Connections enterprise social networking (ESN) software, which businesses use to give their employees social media capabilities adapted for workplace...
View ArticleGoogle Acquires Instagram’s Rival
Google Inc said it purchased Instagram rival Nik Software, which makes award-winning photo editing application Snapseed, for an undisclosed amount. Google and Facebook Inc are locked in a battle for...
View ArticleUsers Asked To Pay To Send Messages To Facebook’s Zuckerberg
Want to send a message directly to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg? You might have to pay $100, if you don’t want it to end up in his spam folder. If you’re not already friends with Zuckerberg on the...
View ArticleInternet Traffic Slowed By Cyber Attack On Spam Blocker
One of the largest ever cyber attacks is slowing global internet services and the disruption may worsen, experts said on Wednesday, after an organization blocking “spam” content became a target....
View ArticleFacebook Unveils Video For Instagram
Facebook Inc introduced video for its popular photo sharing application Instagram in an attempt to match up with rival Twitter. The world’s No. 1 social network said on Thursday its more than 130...
View ArticleSharp Debuts 7-inch Next-generation MEMS Display
Sharp on Monday unveiled its latest prototypes of a new kind of display screen that it says brings several advantages over today’s liquid crystal display (LCD) screens. The screens, called...
View ArticleInstagram To Start Displaying Ads
Ads are coming to Instagram in the next couple of months, according to the photo- and video-sharing app maker. In the beginning, users in the U.S. may see an occasional ad in their feeds, the company...
View ArticleSamsung Announces New Galaxy K Phone With 20.7 Megapixel Camera
Expanding on last year’s device, Samsung’s new Galaxy K zoom sports a more powerful 20.7 megapixel camera and comes with a special alarm to aid users in snapping timed selfies. Like its predecessor,...
View ArticleSharp To Manufacture Low-power Mobile Displays
Sharp has targeted 2017 for mass production of a new display it says will reduce power consumption in mobile phones and tablets. The MEMS-IGZO display, being developed under a 2012 tie-up with Qualcomm...
View ArticleIBM, Twitter Teaming Up On Data Analytics
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) on Wednesday announced a collaboration with Twitter to aid in business decisions using data collected from tweets worldwide. IBM will help businesses predict...
View ArticleFacebook To Widen Safety Check Tool Feature
Facebook’s Safety Check tool to alert friends and family about their safety was activated for the first time after the terror attack in Paris on Friday, with a large number of users reporting they had...
View ArticleWill Facebook Go Open-Source
Nvidia released its end-to-end hyperscale data centre platform last month claiming that it will let web services companies accelerate their machine learning workloads and power advanced artificial...
View ArticleFacebook Pivots Towards Snapchat Users With Masquerade Technologies Purchase
Facebook is ramping up its Snapchat rivalry with the acquisition of a mobile face-swapping app. Masquerade Technologies, a start-up also known as MSQRD, lets users add special effects to faces in...
View ArticleHalf Of Web Traffic Is Bot Generated, Says Recent Report
Nearly half of all Web traffic comes from bots and crawlers, and that’s costing companies lots of money. That’s one finding from a report released by DeviceAtlas, which makes software to help companies...
View ArticleTwitter Moves Further Into Video With New ‘Watch Mode’ Feature
Twitter is looking to compete even more with Facebook. The platform is moving into video in a major way with 140-second clips in both Twitter proper and Vine, a new video section called Watch Mode, and...
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