Mellisa Tolentino
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Worried Nest will sell your data? Try these 3 smart thermostat alternatives
It’s not new that Google has acquired Nest for $3.2 billion – in cash. This is great news for the Nest team, but what does the acquisition mean for consumers? Will Google dare to help itself to all of Nest’s power consumption data? Nest addressed this privacy concern in a blog post, stating that, “We ...
Matt Mullenweg finally old enough to run Automattic as CEO : Focus on new products
Automattic, the company behind the blogging tool WordPress.com, is undergoing some major changes in its leadership, but no one’s leaving the company. In a blog post, Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s founder, announced that he will be replacing Toni Schneider as the company’s CEO. Though changeovers like this often means the other party is leaving, Mullenweg stated ...
New solutions for SmartHome surveillance + tunes
This week’s SmartHome roundup features a connected camera to keep an eye on everything, a voice controlled thermostat, and a little gadget that let’s you stream music throughout your house. simplicam ArcSoft introduced a new surveillance device at CES 2014. Called simplicam, the little device allows you to monitor your home through your Android ...
BlackBerry sticks to its guns: Its QWERTY keyboards are going nowhere
BlackBerry had high hopes for 2013. The company started the year with the launch of the BlackBerry Z10, its first fully touchscreen smartphone, followed by the appointment of Alicia Keys as its global creative director, and officially changing its name from Research in Motion to BlackBerry. Everyone thought it was the year BlackBerry would finally ...
Microsoft Threshold coming in April 2015, Windows 8.1 dubbed as the new Vista
Recent reports showed that the PC business has seen its worst quarter ever, with sales falling by 10 percent. The main reason behind this is that consumers are now more interested in purchasing smartphones and tablets, rather than buying new PCs. As smartphones and tablets continue to encroach on the PC market, Microsoft finds itself ...
SmartWorld Weekly: Big Internet of Things @ #CES2014
This week’s SmartWorld Series features new gadgets, partnerships and software in the Internet of things announced at CES 2014. If you missed this week’s SmartWorld Series, here’s your chance to catch up on the exciting developments happening in the connected world. Each week, we round up the best of apps and services for health and ...
Can’t trust Snapchat? Here’s 3 alternatives
Self-destructing messages sounds like something from a Mission Impossible flick. But the technology for eliminating your paper trails is no longer reserved for CIA agents. Now it’s teenagers looking to lose their digital “paper trails,” reacting to the social confines of growing up in the fishbowl era where every text message can one day become an ...
Gmail and Google+ integrated further: Now anyone can send you spam
Google has found yet another way to shove its Google+ social network down people’s throats with recent changes made to Gmail. In a blog post, Google addresses the presumed many who forget they don’t have the email address of an intended recipient. With the new changes, Gmail users can send those emails provided both parties ...
Snapchat almost apologizes, sort of
The Snapchat team has finally apologized for the breach that happened last December. Well, the team said sorry for the inconvenience at least, but it kept schtum about its lax security measures. Here’s an excerpt from the company’s blog: “Our team continues to make improvements to the Snapchat service to prevent future attempts to abuse ...
3 dream features for Galaxy S5
Samsung EVP for mobile business Lee Young Hee confirmed that the Galaxy S5 will be arriving during the first quarter of 2014, probably in April. Lee mentioned that the company is looking into iris scanning, but is not sure whether the feature will be introduced in the Galaxy S5. Aside from this, there have been ...