In my travels, I’ve reviewed for those who want to sketch, write, or paint on their devices. But I’ve never really played around with styluses on the Windows and Android side of the aisle—unless you count a very brief stint with a Wacom-enabled tablet when I was in high school. So I was naturally curious when the N-Trig DuoSense Pen 2 came across my desk. The company advertises the pen as a pressure-sensitive drawing tool, packaged with certain laptop and tablet systems running Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Android (Ice Cream Sandwich). It offers 256 levels of pressure sensitivity in compatible applications, a hover mode, and programmable buttons. In form factor, the pen reminds me very much of a Wacom stylus: slim, black, and tipped with a small plastic nib. In addition, it’s run on an AAAA battery. N-Trig paired my review unit with a 7-inch HTC Evo running Ice Cream Sandwich. So, how does it compare to Wacom styluses and iPad offerings? Read on to find out.
So far, Intel's Clover Trail+ Atom processor has only found a design win or two within Asian smartphones. But if ABI Research's report is accurate, smartphone makers and consumers alike should start clamoring for it. In tests comparing almost all of the latest smartphone application processors, Intel's Atom Z2580 chip based on the Clover Trail+ architecture delivered comparable performance to the Samsung Exynos Octa and the Qualcomm APQ8064T. But Intel's chip also consumed 60 percent of the current of the Exynos Octa, and less than half (47 percent) of the current of the Qualcomm chip. (The Octa chip is found within European versions of the Samsung Galaxy S4, while the Qualcomm chip is used in the U.S. version.) ABI Research's report measured the current draw, where current times voltage equals power. But the assumption is that the operating voltages are comparable. In short, Intel's Atom offers the same performance but with a much lower power draw than competing chips, ensuring longer battery life and significantly undercutting the ARM proposition its chips offer much longer battery life than traditional X86 chips. If the ABI report is true, then Intel stands a good chance of cutting into the traditional smartphone market. In fact, James Mielke, vice president of engineering at ABI, told PCWorld that his firms' tests show that as the ARM providers increased the performance of their chips, the current drain scaled up as well, reducing battery life. This would imply as ARM's licensees scale up the clock speeds of their chips to meet the increasing demands of apps and other phone software, the battery life of those phones could dip as well.
Microsoft’s TechEd North America conference, which was held this week in New Orleans, provided a first glimpse of the architecture that Microsoft shops should use to manage employee personal devices for work duties, an emerging IT trend called bring your own device (BYOD). “We’ve built a solution to manage your devices where they live,” said Brad Anderson, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows Server and System Center, during the keynote at TechEd. System administrators will “get a consistent experience to manage PCs and devices in one console, one set of capabilities, and not separate infrastructures.” By the end of this year, organizations will be able to use a set of Microsoft products to permit their workers to use their personal devices—including non-Windows mobile devices such as Apple iOS-based iPhone and iPads and Android devices—to access company applications, data and other resources. Company administrators can apply full management policies to these devices, at least in how these devices interact with the organization’s resources. “If you have a Windows PC, you can join it to the domain and control it in a pretty deep way,” said Andrew Conway, a Microsoft director of product marketing, in a follow-up interview. “But as we move to this new paradigm of people using different mobile devices, we’re bringing a lot of new capabilities not only against Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8, but also against iOS and Android.”
Recently I spent a full week in a hotel, where I grudgingly paid for Wi-Fi so I could get some work done. Unfortunately, it was a per-device purchase: Only my laptop could get online. If I wanted Internet access on my phone (which had a weak indoor signal) and tablet (Wi-Fi only), I'd have to pay again. And again. Hey, wait a minute, doesn't Windows let you set up a Wi-Fi hotspot to share its connection with other devices? It did, in Windows 7; it doesn't in Windows 8. Actually, the capability is still there, but enabling it requires some serious command-line tinkering. , a free utility that adds Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities to Windows 8. It works, but with a few important caveats. First, be really careful during setup. The price of "free" here is that the installer comes packed with junkware. It's easy enough to bypass if you pay attention, but potentially troublesome if you don't.
Recent numbers by a market research firm appear to show that Android users than iOS users spend. That discrepancy largely has to do with how the two ecosystems have developed, noted Mary Ellen Gordon, director of industry insights and analysis for the research firm, Flurry. Flurry analyzed four years worth of its own data to understand who is ahead in which contests, discuss the apparent strengths and weaknesses of the competitors, and consider the implications for the overall mobile ecosystem, according to the company’s blog. Up to the introduction of the newer Samsung Galaxy S models, Android buyers were purchasing their phones for different reasons than iPhone users, she explained.
Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the on emails, searches, Skype calls, and other electronic communications used by Americans for the last several years, via a program known as PRISM. According to the reports, the Web’s largest names—AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Skype, PalTalk, Yahoo, and YouTube—participated, perhaps unwittingly. (Dropbox will reportedly be added as well.) The report claims that the National Security Agency had “direct access” to servers owned by those companies. Most, if not all, of those companies have denied participating in PRISM, although it’s unclear whether they were unaware of the NSA’s spying, or simply turned a blind eye. According to the data covered included: “email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats, file transfers, social networking details, and more.” If nothing else, however, the PRISM disclosure is worrying and deeply shocking. If the report is accurate, the government may simply listen in on virtually any electronic communication you’ve made, in the interests of national security. Is this something that should be encouraged to fight domestic terrorism, or is this sort of government intrusion something that should be deeply distrusted? For the purposes of this story, we’re going to err on the side of the latter; whether you take advantage of our advice is up to you.
Just think for a moment how many devices and operating systems you use in a day. Now you may jump from a Windows PC to a Mac (or vice versa). Or use an iPhone or Blackberry? Or maybe you use an Android or Kindle Fire? The fact is that with so many systems, being able to do quick efficient no-fuss file conversions to suit the platform you are on has become an absolute-must. This is why Adapter should be on your shortlist of apps to install on your system. , and it comes in PC and Mac editions. The interface of the PC version I tested is straightforward and intuitive, and adding files is as simple as drag-and-drop with your mouse. There are no long complicated user manuals to memorize, no complicated audio codecs to install, no screen resolutions to remember in advance. Adapter is a good example of software that allows you to just add the source file and click the button to go. The software has numerous different functions. It can handle video (including DVD files and Flash), images (including animated GIFs) and audio (including iPhone ringtones). It can even convert files for games consoles such as the Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo Wii. To begin, just choose your format at the top (video, audio, image) then either press the "add" button or drag the file into the main area with your mouse, and drop. Then in the top toolbar, choose the file format you want to convert to, check that the other options are as you want them. You can more or less keep them as they are, with the possible exception of the output directory. I wouldn't recommend fiddling with the default settings unless you know what you are doing. Then press the "start" button and wait for the file to be converted. On the whole, Adapter converts files really fast, unless of course you are converting a huge video file which will take slightly longer. But if you are converting say an MP3 file or a YouTube video, then it doesn't take very long at all.
Buffeted by concerns about the economy and IT spending, tech stocks have gone on a roller coaster ride lately, but on the whole they’ve managed to hang on to gains they made earlier in the quarter. The Nasdaq Computer Index, which tracks more than 390 tech-related stocks on the exchange, was up about 1 percent in midday trading Friday, on a generally up day for markets. That brought it up to its level of a month earlier, after 30 days of ups and downs. The Nasdaq Computer Index is on track to close Friday up about 7 percent for the year. In midday trading, major indexes looked good Friday on news from the U.S. Department of Labor that the U.S. added 175,000 jobs in May. Although the unemployment rate increased slightly to 7.6 percent, market observers looked at the news was looked with favor. The general consensus seems to be that the numbers were good enough to show that businesses are hiring, but not so good that it would cause the U.S. Federal Reserve bank to stop its “quantitative easing” program of buying up securities in order to prop up markets.
A conservative activist has filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. National Security Agency after news reports that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of a large number of Verizon Communications customers. A British newspaper ,the Guardian, reported Wednesday that the NSA, with authorization from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, of a large number of Verizon customers. and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation also have access to servers at Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other major providers of Internet services, collecting audio, video, email and other content for surveillance. Some of the companies denied that the NSA and FBI have access to their servers. .
LinkedIn has been busy lately, issuing a number of updates and new features to its platform. Last month, the social network announced the "Professional Portfolio," which lets you like you can on Facebook and Twitter. In the last few weeks, LinkedIn has released more new features: ) Here's what you need to know to take advantage of the new features. "Most Internet accounts that become compromised are illegitimately accessed from a new or unknown computer or device," says Vincente Silveira, director at LinkedIn. "Two-step verification helps address this problem by requiring you to type a numeric code when logging in from an unrecognized device for the first time."
A newly discovered Trojan program exploits previously unknown flaws in Android and borrows techniques from Windows malware in order to evade detection and achieve persistence on infected devices. Security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab named the new malicious application Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a and labeled it the most sophisticated Android Trojan program to date. The malware is designed to send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers and allows attackers to execute rogue commands on infected devices by opening a remote shell. Attackers can use the malware to steal any kind of data stored on compromised devices or to download additional malicious applications that can be installed locally or distributed to other devices over Bluetooth. .
Privacy groups and some lawmakers are in an uproar after news reports this week that the U.S. National Security Agency is conducting broad surveillance of the nation’s residents. British newspaper the Guardian reported Thursday that the NSA, with authorization from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, of a large number of Verizon customers. Later that day, the Guardian and the Washington Post and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation also have access to servers at Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other major providers of Internet services, collecting audio, video, email and other content for surveillance. Some of the companies denied that the NSA and FBI have access to their servers. Meanwhile, the that the NSA is also collecting customer records from AT&T, Sprint Nextel and credit-card companies.
"Oh, come on!" my wife cried in exasperation. "Can't these people drive?!" She was sitting at the helm of an 18-wheeler DAF truck carrying a load of construction gear from Zurich to Munich, trying to find the right moment to drive into busy intersection while morning commuters kept driving in, not slowing down to let her enter.I was in my usual spot, the passenger seat, taking notes and occasionally honking the truck's massive air horn to no noticeable effect. Finally, my wife decided to take matters into her own hands, simply driving into the intersection and giving a few commuters a good scare. Nobody was hurt, because this all happened in a computer game. That's the power of a good simulator: the responsibility you're given feels real, but not too scary. And just like real life, simulators are very diverse: Whether you enjoy being a mayor, a space combat pilot, a truck driver, or a civilian pilot, you can find at least one simulator in which to live out your fantasy.
The U.S. government said late Thursday that it is authorized to collect intelligence information of non-U.S. persons located outside the country, in the wake of news reports on the government’s surveillance programs. The two newspaper reports refer to the collection of communications under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is designed “to facilitate the acquisition of foreign intelligence information concerning non-U.S. persons located outside the United States,” said James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, in a . The section cannot be used to intentionally target any U.S. citizen, any other U.S. person, or anyone located within the country, he added. There are court approved procedures to minimize the acquisition, retention and dissemination of incidentally acquired information about U.S. persons, Clapper said. The U.S. National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have real-time access to servers of Internet services companies like Google and Facebook to collect content for surveillance, the Washington Post and the Guardian .
Showing off its optical networking prowess, ZTE has completed a test that managed speeds at 400Gbps over a distance of more than 5,000 kilometers, or about 3,100 miles. The growth of data volumes and speeds in both fixed and wireless networks have consequences for all parts of operator networks, including long distance links that are used to connect cities, countries and continents. For users to get the most out their mobile or fiber broadband subscriptions, networks have to keep up. While a growing number of operators are upgrading to 100Gbps-links, vendors such as ZTE are preparing for the next step. The company’s 400Gbps test was conducted on a WDM (Wavelength-Division Multiplexing) system using single-mode fiber, which is what is currently used for data transmissions over long distances, said Magnus Isaksson, ZTE CTO in the Nordic countries. Today, fiber networks use either single-mode or multi-mode cables. The latter allows vendors to build cheaper equipment, but isn’t very good at transporting data over long distances, according to Isaksson.
Sierra Wireless’ latest embedded wireless module connects cars to Verizon’s LTE network, underlining growing interest in the 4G technology while also highlighting its current drawbacks. There is growing demand for the integration of 4G LTE technology into vehicles, according to Sierra. LTE’s higher bandwidth and lower latency helps improve the performance of navigation and location-based services. In addition, passengers can use the superior wireless connection for watching movies or playing games, Sierra said on Thursday. The AirPrime AR7550 module has been approved for Verizon’s network and small volumes are available to equipment manufacturers for testing and development. The choice to develop a module customized for Verizon’s network highlights the fragmented nature of LTE spectrum, which forces car makers and consumers to make choices that will affect the whole lifetime of the vehicle.
After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com's China business has finally brought the company's Kindle tablet and Kindle e-reader to the country. On Friday, both the in the country. The Kindle Fire HD starts at 1499 yuan (US$242) for the 16GB version model, while the Kindle Paperwhite is available for 849 yuan ($137) The company brought the products to China after releasing of its Kindle software to the country in the prior months. In May, Amazon updated its mobile app store to include Chinese language support, and last December it launched its local Kindle e-book service. Before the Kindle's official launch in China, local consumers in the country were already buying Kindle e-readers from overseas markets, said Mark Natkin, managing director for Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting.
Though Computex happens across the Pacific Ocean from the United States, it’s a great show for PC lovers to keep an eye on. During the annual trade show in Taiwan, PC makers such as Acer and Asus keep it real by trotting out their latest laptops, tablets, and hybrids—many of which will be available soon. Here’s a roundup of our favorite gadgets from Computex 2013.
World Wide Maze turns your phone into a controller for a novel game that can incorporate your favorite website. After you pair your phone and computer via the browser, you pick a website. The site then transforms into a 3D maze that you navigate with a ball by tilting your phone. Some websites can take a while to process in the game, so make sure to try a simple site first.
Global sales of external server storage have dropped for the first time since 2009, according to data from research firm IDC. IDC said that first-quarter sales fell in developed markets, causing an overall decline of 0.9 percent year on year in worldwide external server storage revenue. Revenue during the first quarter of 2013 came to US$5.91 billion, down from $5.97 billion a year earlier. The firm said that total server storage sales for the quarter, including the smaller market for storage components located inside server cabinets, slipped 3.2 percent year on year. IDC said the quarterly figures got a boost from emerging markets, but that wasn't enough for overall growth. Some major providers have also been hit by declining server sales and are in the midst of transitioning their product ranges. The demand for large storage has exploded in recent years along with the rise of server-based or cloud computing, but per-bit prices have fallen as technology improves. IDC noted that the total server storage capacity shipped during the quarter totaled 7.8 exabytes (7.8 million terabytes), a 26.4 percent gain from the first quarter of 2012.
New Windows PCs have always been the main attraction at Computex, the annual trade show in Taipei. But notable on the show floor this year is the growing presence of Google’s Android OS, which is creeping into more and more tablets, televisions, set-top boxes and even PCs. There’s no big company promoting Android here—Google doesn’t attend, and there are no keynotes or press conferences dedicated to it—so its prevalence can be easily missed. But walking the show floor shows that vendors are increasingly adopting the open-source OS for a wide variety of products, including digital video recorders, media players and USB sticks that turn TVs into connected Android computers. The benefits of Android aren’t hard to see: it can be free to use, it’s more open than Windows because it’s open source, and it’s seen by some as the operating system of the moment, according to companies using it at the show. “Everyone is using Android phones and Android pads. This is the mainstream,” said Debbie Lai, a sales manager with Honeywld Technology. Her Taiwan-based company plans to launch Android set-top boxes that will bring the OS to TVs, allowing users to surf the Web and use Android apps on their televisions. There’s also a small army of Taiwanese and Chinese manufacturers that are turning to Android to build tablets, many of them low-cost products that will be sold in emerging markets like China, India and Brazil. One of them is Onyx Technology, which is making tablets that will be sold for about $100. The products are on sale now in the Middle East under the brand name Innovel, said Larry Lee, a sales manager.
A top Intel executive said the power and performance battle with ARM is over, because Intel’s upcoming chips based on its Silvermont architecture are ahead on key metrics required to deliver strong performance and battery life on smartphones and tablets. Intel’s upcoming mobile chips based on the Silvermont are better at power and performance than ARM’s fastest Cortex-A15 chips, said Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, in an interview at the Computex trade show this week. “Cortex-A15 is not even close to Silvermont. They are higher power and much behind us on performance which means they are on the wrong scale,” Perlmutter said. over Intel, saying its processors are a generation ahead on performance and power draw. ARM made comments about processor superiority when it introduced the new Cortex-A12 processors targeted at smartphones and tablets from $200 to $350.
Salesforce.com has hired a key former Oracle executive Keith Block as its president and vice chairman. He will lead the enterprise cloud computing company’s global sales, customer support and consulting services businesses, and has also been appointed to the company’s board. Block, who was executive vice president of Oracle’s North America sales and consulting, decided to quit the company to pursue other opportunities, Oracle said in a regulatory filing in June last year. There that he had been axed because of critical remarks he made about his superior, co-president Mark Hurd, and other aspects of Oracle’s business. The instant-message remarks emerged in court filings in a lawsuit between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle.
For the last several years, the National Security Agency has been reportedly spying on the searches, emails, and file transfers of Americans using a program called PRISM—which tapped directly into the servers used by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others. made by Americans. . The list of companies that the paper alleges participated in the PRISM program reads like a Who’s Who of Silicon Valley: in 2007, the document alleges, Microsoft was the first to participate. Yahoo joined in 2008. Others followed in quick succession: Google in 2009, then AOL, Apple, Facebook, PalTalk, Skype, and YouTube in October 2012.
Did you ever have one of those days where you were so busy from 9 to 5 that the day just blew by? But at quitting time, you looked back and realized nothing really got done? That's the dilemma that multitasking has long presented to the individual. But now it seems that employers are driving their employees crazy as well—causing them to hate coming to work—thanks to the hefty demands of multitasking, according to Maura Thomas, a productivity guru who runs the website . In a blog post for Texas Enterprise, Thomas talks about , as in having control over how you do your work. Control is eroded in a number of ways, often by micromanaging and domineering bosses who dictate every facet of how a job is to be done. But an over-reliance on technology can also erode control. Distractions caused by over-multitasking and by bombarding staff with emails cause them to lose focus on their work. This erodes that sense of control that evolves into decreased job satisfaction.
. app noticed is a bit like winning the lottery. Productivity and enterprise-oriented apps are rarely, if ever, at the top of the most downloaded apps, and they have a hard time gaining attention through the traditional app distribution model. One of Box's greatest strengths is its platform-agnostic ecosystem that provides the same type of seamless integration and syncing that its customers would experience if they remained inside the Microsoft, or Apple, or Google ecosystems. But Box works across a broader spectrum of platforms and devices, so its cusomters are never painted into a corner. Box developed Box $rev to serve as a showcase for third-party apps that integrate with and enhance Box, making it easier for Box customers to find valuable tools. Chris Yeh, Box's VP of Platform, explained that the $rev name is a sort of inside joke for developers—it's intended to mimic a PHP variable.
indicates it will be a laid-back month for IT admins—with one significant exception. Microsoft has five security bulletins scheduled for next week. It’s the fewest bulletins for a single month so far this year, so IT admins are getting a bit of a break from the normally hectic pace of patch implementation. On top of that, of the five bulletins only one is rated as Critical, while the other four are merely Important. , points out that 2013 is eight bulletins ahead of last year at the halfway point. He also notes, however, that there has been the exact same number of Critical bulletins thus far, with 16. The biggest priority for June will be Bulletin 1: a cumulative update for Internet Explorer—addressing 19 of the 23 issues fixed by Microsoft for Patch Tuesday.
George Takei says he gets a lot of help with his Facebook page, prompting surprised fans to say, "oh myyy."
Space is no longer the final frontier for Justin Bieber, after it's been revealed that he's booked himself a seat on a private Virgin Galactic space flight.
Boeing, SpaceX and the Sierra Nevada Corporation have all announced significant milestones with their respective manned spacecraft programs aimed at reestablishing the United States' capability of sending astronauts into orbit.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA -- Google opened its first data center in The Dalles, Oregon, seven years ago. Since then, the company has spent billions rolling out new state-of-the art server farms on four continents. It's been an incredible building binge, and the company has no idea when it's going to stop.According to the guy who's ...
The mushroom clouds produced by more than 500 nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have had a silver lining, after all. More than 50 years later, scientists have found a way to use radioactive carbon isotopes released into the atmosphere by nuclear testing to settle a long-standing debate in neuroscience: Does the adult human brain produce new neurons?
These magical computers we use to make movies, write music, and document every scrap of our lives -- they're not magical enough. These are the things that need fixing in OS X.
More genetic data is available than ever before to help build evolutionary trees, but scientists are finding that different genes even in the same organism can tell conflicting stories.
Countless designers say Lego bricks played a big part of their artistic development and brag about the impressive buildings they constructed as kids, but Danish architect Bjarke Ingels gets to make that childhood dream a reality. The Lego group commissioned the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) to create a The Lego House, an experience center near their Billund, Denmark headquarters that will serve as a museum, store, and gathering point for Brickheads from around the world.
Dollar Shave Club's newest product willl put CEO Michael Dubin's salesmanship to its most serious smell test. "One Wipe Charlies" are Dollar Shave's attempt to disrupt the bathroom in a whole new way.
Technology ? which mirrors and magnifies the good, bad, and ugly ? has become the latest and most divisive actor (along with religion and politics) in the sex trafficking landscape. Tech may seem like a neutral player in a fractious field, but it?s not.
Saturday marks the 230th anniversary of the famed Laki eruption in Iceland. One of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history, it had a profound impact on people living in the Northern Hemisphere for years afterward. In honor of this anniversary, Wired Science blogger Erik Klemetti offers a brief primer on the eruption, its importance, and global impact.
Facebook will now retrofit social features onto every ad.
A technique called quantum cryptography can, in principle, allow you to encrypt a message in such a way that it would never be read by anyone whose eyes it isn?t for. But in recent years, methods that were once thought to be fundamentally unbreakable have been shown to be anything but. Because of machine errors or other quirks, even quantum cryptography has its limits.
Liz and Kyle von Hasslen started Sugar Lab last fall to build these confectionery creations, modeled in 3-D and printed via an extruder.
We do not have many films on which to judge Joss Whedon as a filmmaker. Much Ado About Nothing, which opens in theaters today, is technically his third film, but is in some ways our first opportunity to truly judge Whedon's abilities as a director of cinema.
As the possibility space of the big-budget videogame industry gets smaller and smaller, is there really any use hoping for surprises anymore?
What do you do if you want to drink a single glass of wine but not throw away the other 4/5 of the bottle? You turn to a wine preservation system.
New York City is such a sensory overload, it's easy to miss the details -- like the graphical symphony of typography that's playing under your visual field. Nyctype.com aims to bring that symphony to the surface by capturing all the different typefaces that plaster the walls of New York City in an Instagram hashtag.
Your private conversations aren't that private.
NOVI, Michigan ? Distracted driving kills more than 3,000 people each year in the United States, a figure that represents about 10 percent of all traffic fatalities. How many of those people die because they were fiddling with their phones or navigating their navigation systems isn't clear, but no matter. The feds say they've got ...
The NSA and FBI directly tapped central servers belonging to nine U.S. internet firms, in order to get a constant feed of audio, video, photos, emails and documents as well as connection logs, according to a new report.
Microsoft will allow players to trade in Xbox One games at retailers without anyone having to pay an extra fee, but third parties can "opt out."
While the feds are required to disclose the number of orders they apply for and receive, they aren?t required to say how many people are targeted in each order. So a single order issued to Verizon Business Solutions in April covered metadata for every phone call made by every customer.
In a new whitepaper released today Google reveals how searches for movie trailers can help more accurately predict their opening weekend box office revenue.
Verizon responded to allegations that the telecom was served with a top-secret court order demanding it provide the FBI and the NSA with customer call records continuously, and in bulk, saying it respects "customers' privacy" but must comply with the law.
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Newly discovered dance repertoires in the superb lyrebird bird may be the most sophisticated in the avian world.
Vitsoe redesigned some of the details for the 620's re-release, which coincided with this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City.
If you believe that the referral and sale of everything from getting your teeth fixed to washing your car moves online, then it follows that some company is going to become the Amazon of local online services. Today, ClubLocal is planting a flag as the would-be Amazon of home services.