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WikiLeaks Debacle Raises Questions about Amazon and the Need for an Open Cloud
GigaOM is running a politically topical story right now about how Amazon’s actions in the WikiLeaks case have darkened the lining of the cloud-storage industry. In the wake of the release of a stack of highly charged secret diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks gained international attention and criticism. Their website, and the public copies of the documents ...
Nokia Cuts Jobs, Delays Roll Out of E7 Smartphone
Nokia has cut 800 jobs in its home market of Finland, possibly paring down for a leaner economy and has also refocused their future attentions on developing Symbian OS for their upcoming phones. The job cuts come along with 1,800 global layoffs announced in October; and we’re still waiting to see what Jerri DeVard does ...
Analyst at Caris & Co. Believes Kinect Isn’t Done Yet
We’ve seen the Kinect become part of a colossal ascendance for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft as it managed to move 2.5 million units over the period of its first 15 days (and the Christmas holiday isn’t even upon us yet.) Analyst Sandeep Aggarwal from Cairs & Co. believes that the astronomical sales of the ...
Bing Updates Travel Booking Search
Microsoft has updated its Google-competitor search engine, Bing, to make it easier for users to access travel data. Users will be able to type in the cities they’re looking for and what they want to book and go from there. Tired of filling out forms when booking flights online? With improvements to natural language search ...
Fortumo In-App Payments Now Available Offline, Android Developers Get it Free
Mobile payments provider, Fortumo, better known for powering in-app payments for Rovio’s Angry Birds “Bad Piggy Bank”, now provides offline in-app payments on Android phones. They have developed a protocol that allows them to use SMS messaging and the billing system of the carrier in order to make the payment when a data connection isn’t ...
Xbox 360 Accounted For More than 40 Percent of Sales in November
It is well known by now that after Microsoft released the Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 during November that they managed to move 2.5 million units in just 15 days. It also turns out, for the same month, that the Xbox 360 managed a massively popular showing and took the cake of the console ...
Kinect and RC Car, Xbox Peripheral One Step Closer to Driving Itself to the Store
And the hacks keep coming. The ever-versatile Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 continues to wow everyone after the drivers were cracked and ported to Linux. Now, we’ve seen almost everything. Michael Schweitzer and Michael Himmelsbach at the University of Bundeswehr Munich have combined an XPS laptop with the Kinect sensor and a RC car ...
Kinect Finally Brings Us Minority Report
Well, it’s finally happened. I’ve been repeating this one ever since I saw the first shadow puppet-show done with the Kinect camera, but the technology displayed on Minority Report’s gesture-based user interface has always been coming to mind with each new development. Now, student-hackers at MIT have finally brought this one into reality. The video-game ...
Warner Bros. Changes Tack on Internet Piracy, Seeks to Make More Customers
Copyright infringement has actually been a mainstay of all media ever since the concept of copyright was introduced—way back about the time of the printing press. Now, people only notice because large media corporations have been painting giant bulls-eyes on their very own customer base for trading in their content (copying it) without permission. This ...
Generation Mobile Forum on Teens and Technology Being Held by the FCC in Washington, D.C.
Mobile devices have become ubiquitous across every aspect of American society; they are so prevalent that the now-cliché commercial vision of a family sitting down for dinner with at least one teen texting on their phone is not uncommon. The Federal Communications Commission has announced this week their plans to hold a forum at a ...