On Feb. 2-3, 2013, Decoded Fashion produced the world’s first Fashion Hackathon, presented by Condé Nast – a competition in which 550 top engineers, graphic designers and entrepreneurs had only 24 hours to create an app ...
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HTC showed off some capabilities of its new premium HTC One Android handset at a ritzy Australian launch in Sydney last night. You could be mistaken for thinking the silver version of the One was an Apple device: its thin ...
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The fanfare entrance into the market of smartphones is hardly breaking news, but eyebrow-raising figures show how Germany is next up for the app-fed mobile data revolution. After a 7.8 percent fall in mobile phone sales overall in 2011, ...
Silent Circle, a startup company that provides encrypted mobile communication services, released a new version of its Silent Text app for iOS that allows users to exchange encrypted files at the push of a button. The files can be set to ...
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Samsung has announced a new service that will make searching for movies and shows easier on TV, smartphones and tablets. The service, called TV Discovery, will aggregate program listings from broadcast TV, video-on-demand services and ...
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IBM is making a renewed push into the burgeoning market for all things mobile, saying it can help its corporate customers grow revenue and become more competitive through mobile app development. The effort pulls together a raft of IBM ...
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Gas prices may be rising, federal sequestration looming, and perhaps another meteor will strike. Bad things are happening, but not so much to Software as a Service providers. A recent Gartner report showed that even in the poorest ...
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Seven years after the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony has disclosed details about its new PlayStation 4 gaming console, which it said will be out by the end of this year. Sony introduced its latest console at an event in New York City ...
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Google has launched fee-based support services for customers of its cloud platform and infrastructure products, like App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage and Big Query. Google, often criticized over the years for having weak ...
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PayPal is set to launch a chip-and-pin-based mobile payment service in the UK later this year, the firm has revealed, ahead of showcasing the technology at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This statement comes after the eBay-owned ...
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BBC CTO John Linwood has stated that the BBC feeds into Apple on its products and services – including the iPhone and iPad – though he admitted that he is unsure as to how much weight the organisation places on his views. In ...
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A recent Gartner report showed that even in the poorest segments of the SaaS market, the annual growth rate is at 11 percent. The reasons IT executives are turning to the cloud-based technologies can be seen in the decisions being made at ...
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Design sketches and details of the Opel Adam Rocks have been revealed ahead of the concept’s unveiling at next month’s 2013 Geneva motor show. Inspired by parkour athletes, Opel says the pint-sized Adam Rocks urban crossover ...
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The Internet is crawling with cat videos but it's a video of a Canadian brown bear that's lumbering up YouTube's most-watched list. It's a clever way to get viewers—more than 13 million so far—to watch an ad for a washing ...
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At Sony's PlayStation press conference in New York yesterday, it became official: the next-gen PlayStation 4 gaming console is arriving for the 2013 holiday season. Sony's event was more of a teaser than an unveiling, though: The company ...
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