Welcome to NewsDesk on SiliconANGLE TV for Tuesday June 11, 2013 here’s your SiliconANGLE daily round-up.

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• Walmart Labs Buys Inkiru – A Funny Name for Serious Analytics

Walmart Labs buys data analytics and predictive intelligence startup Inkiru; Inkiru’s platform is an active learning system that combines predictive intelligence, data abalytics and a decision engine to influence and determine customer interactions. Benefits to using Inkiru include being able to reduce fraud, improve customer segmentation and targeting; A Walmart labs post commented on the acquisition, saying ,  “Walmart’s data scientists will now be able to work with big data directly and create impact faster than ever before.”

• Tablet Nation

A third (34%) of American adults ages 18 and older own a tablet computer; almost twice as many as the 18% who owned a tablet a year ago; demographics most likely to own tablets: households earning at least $75,000 per year (56%), compared with lower income brackets, Adults ages 35-44, College graduates; Unlike smartphones, which are most popular with younger adults ages 18-34, we see the highest rates of tablet ownership among adults in their late thirties and early forties.

• Comcast boosts its smart home Services

Comcast has launched some new energy-focused services to its digital home product Xfinity Home; Xfinity Home now includes a smart thermostat service called EcoSaver and last week Comcast announced that it plans to sell remote-controlled, efficient light bulbs through Xfinity Home, too; Comcast’s new EcoSaver smart thermostat service is powered by Bay Area startup EcoFactor; Customers who sign up for the thermostat service get one of the Xfinity connected thermostats and the EcoFactor software learns the home’s heating and cooling patterns and incrementally shaves off energy consumption; For Comcast’s connected lighting service, the cable company is working with lighting company Osram Sylvania to launch LED light bulbs that can be controlled remotely.

Comcast says that the light bulbs could save customers 83 percent on their energy bill and could last 17.5 times longer than the traditional incandescent bulbs; Comcast’s Xfinity Home products are using the cable company’s broadband network reach, and home WiFi to connect home devices — like these new light bulbs and thermostats — to the cloud; Customers will probably buy the services because they want the home automation aspect (in addition to connected video security services, and door and window lock monitoring services) and as a byproduct they’ll be reducing their energy consumption, too.

• Gorilla Glass jumps from smartphones to smart cars

Corning’s Gorilla Glass might be key to quiet, fuel-efficient cars; could replace some of the standard glass on car windows, according to company Senior VP Jeffrey Evenson; Speaking at MIT Technology Review’s Mobile Summit, Evenson says Gorilla Glass will reduce a vehicle’s weight and lower its center of mass. Theoretically, that means you could get better gas mileage than you would with a ride outfitted with run-of-the-mill glass. In addition, the material also acts as a noise filter, making car cabins quieter; Evenson didn’t name a particular client, but he expects at least one high-end auto maker to start selling them within the next year

• LG brings Ubitus’ GameNow cloud gaming to Smart TVs in the US

The cloud gaming portal streams a mix of mostly console-grade titles, such as Devil May Cry 4 and Dead Rising 2; it also includes free trials and support for a handful of gamepads. A free beta is available now, and the two companies are shooting for a full-fledged launch sometime in the “near future.”

• How much of your work email is really personal? Your boss can find out

Website-backup service Dropmysite launches new tool for firms to track employee email usage;  Singapore-based website and email back-up company Dropmysite, which is known best for its largest service Dropmyemail, is opening its latest product exclusively to Dropmyemail Business customers for free.; The tool, called “Email Insights”, will allow managers to identify all employees’ contacts, sieve out corporate communications versus personal emails, measure how much email has been sent and received to gauge the effectiveness of communication, and filter through emails to find specific conversations;

In other words, employees should be afraid (or rather, much more careful) – as anything they use their work email accounts for could get recorded and sent to their managers.;  The aim of this tool is to prevent incidents such as leaking of official information or loss of records. Peter Yu, the publicist for Dropmysite, says the administrators can only monitor official emails and can’t access personal emails at all.; “The only relevance to personal emails is when an employee is sending numerous emails to his, her or other private addresses which is a sign of possible data leakage,” he says. Dropmysite adds that it is further developing algorithms to sort through emails that can predict fraud, spot data leakage, employee dissatisfaction, unauthorized access and more.

• Who’s got the best-looking iOS apps?

This year’s Apple Design Award winning apps include Evernote, Yahoo Weather, and Letterpress; Apple Design Award ceremony, showcasing apps which it feels offer the best in iOS; Since 1996, developers have been recognized for finding creative uses of Apple’s platforms. This year’s winners include Evernote, Yahoo Weather, Letterpress, Badlands, Finish, Mosaic.io, and others.; Released last November, Evernote 5 gives the digital notebook application a refreshed look, a new left navigation panel, and more. When made available to the public, the app gave users access to more than 100 new features.; Yahoo weather: This mobile app offers beautiful photos to match the user’s location, time of day, and the current weather conditions. It also includes an interactive radar, satellite, heat, and wind maps, along with sunrise and sunset times.; An addictive game for some, Letterpress is an app that allows players to find words, steal tiles, and color the board.