- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from VentureBeat
Guest: Father of advertising David Olgivy said every advertiser should have to read Claude C. Hopkin’s book, Scientific Advertising, seven times before being allowed to work in the field. The same holds true for developers. Scientific ad... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderYahoo may be in talks to acquire Foursquare for "around $900 million," according to a report by Tech Crunch's Ingrid Lunden and Jordan Crook. According to Lunden's sources, the deal between Yahoo and Foursquare "is done," but the f...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsThe antitrust charges against Google bring back memories of the years when the EU relentlessly pursued Microsoft.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesA new kind of antenna could deliver excellent service without making the plane itself less efficient. The post This Flat Antenna Could Finally Give Us Good Plane Wi-Fi appeared first on WIRED .
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Geeky-GadgetsThe Samsung Galaxy S6 And Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones went on sale last week, both handset come with Android Lollipop in the form of Android 5.0.2. Now according to a recent report Samsung are working on the Android 5.1 Lollipop update fo...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CNET NewsYour latest Instagram snaps will now appear in your Tinder profile, giving you even more chances for a right-swipe from Mr or Miss Right.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Latest NewsNo Qwerty required - BlackBerry's latest smartphone is a touchscreen only device aimed at young execs.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsThe rollout is expected to be complete by the end of May, at which point all businesses using Lync Online will be transitioned over to Skype for Business.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from GizmodoThere’s just nothing quite like the sound and feel of typing away on a keyboard with genuine mechanical switches under each key. But while most mechanical keyboards are giant and designed to permanently live on your desk, the TEX Yoda ha...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes: There has been a lot of interest in the activities of the Church of Scientology recently, especially since the release of Alex Gibney's documentary Going Clear. A petition against tax-exempt status for Sciento...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesInstead of building big, monolithic applications, developers are increasingly stitching apps together using small chunks of open source software. The post Small Packages of Code Are the Biggest Thing in App-Making appeared first on WIRED .
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from GizmodoWow. That's pretty much the only word one could ever possibly use to describe Comicave Studios' new quarter-scale Iron Man Hulkbuster figure. Not only does the highly-detailed four-foot tall suit light up, it also features extensive arti...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from PCWorldWhen the first Ubuntu phone launched, it was only available via limited-time “flash sales.” If you missed them, rejoice! You can now purchase an Ubuntu phone like you would any other product—if you live in the European Union, at least. T...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Digital TrendsEarlier this month, Samsung dedicated a team of 200 employees to working on displays exclusively for Apple. The team is producing iPad and MacBook displays currently, but could receive orders for Apple Watch and iPhone screens in the fut...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderJust like her father, former Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Oscar-nominated producer Megan Ellison is turning out to be quite the real estate mogul . According to Variety , she recently paid $5.25 million for a five-bedroom home in the Mount ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Geek.comThursday, April 16th could be the day we get a first look at Kylo Ren from the front.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsCupertino purchased the Israeli manufacturer for about $20 million, according to reports.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from PCWorldMillions of air passengers could be at risk if more isn’t done to prevent hackers targeting aircraft and air traffic control systems, the U.S. government said on Tuesday. The warning was the conclusion of a 56-page report published by th...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TheNextWeb.comSwipe-heavy hook-up app Tinder is rolling out a new update that integrates Instagram, so you can be judgemental with more than a few Facebook pictures and likes to go on. Hooking Tinder up with Instagram will display your most recent 34 ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesYou could almost consider Photochromia the modern, sweat-proof follow-up to the Hypercolor shirt. The post Clothes That Reveal Their Hidden Patterns in UV Light appeared first on WIRED .
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TechCrunchTinder has today released an update that integrates directly with Instagram, letting users scroll through the Instagram profiles of their potential matches directly from within the app itself. The app also now supports common conne...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TechmemeLizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal : In-store analytics vendor RetailNext raises $125M Series E, mostly from existing investors — RetailNext Bags $125 Million for International Expansion, Acquisitions … Actin...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesUnfriended , opening Friday, is the highest-profile entry yet in horror's newest subgenre. The post Horror’s Newest Haunted House Is Your Social Media Feed appeared first on WIRED .
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TechmemeFinancial Times : BlaBlaCar buys ride-sharing competitors - German Carpooling.com and Hungarian AutoHop, combined company will have 20M users across 18 markets — BlaBlaCar buys ride-sharing competitors to lock in Europ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TechCrunchFleep, the team messaging app built and backed by a number of ex-Skype engineers, is another step further in its mission to help wean you off email. Read More
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TechCrunchTo encourage greater diversity amongst its developer community, Apple announced it’s increasing the number of WWDC scholarships this year which provide students and developers the opportunity to attend Apple’s Worldwide...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Forbes - TechMy informal survey of about 230 college students suggests that two of them are eager to buy the Apple Watch -- to me it's a swap of $349 and $17,000 in exchange for days of struggling to make a clunky-looking wrist appendage work right w...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from PCWorldMost tools in the booming field of analytics rely on quantitative data. Analytics tends to work best with large numbers of numerical data points; smaller data sets and those where the data isn’t easily quantified can present problems. It...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesInvisible, Inc. , a new tactical espionage game from Klei Entertainment, is officially launching on May 12, 2015. The post Don’t Starve’s Developer Has a Stealthy New Game appeared first on WIRED .
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TheNextWeb.comRomy Misra is currently the Sr. Director of Product at Visually. In the past she was responsible for building and scaling the operations and analytics teams. There are a lot of non-traditional structures coming up in management in Silico...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TheNextWeb.comTaking on-demand services and laziness to a whole new level, a London based robotics company has created a robot for your kitchen that will cook you dinner from scratch. The robotic chef is the brainchild of Moley Robotics and will be re...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TechCrunchAcorns, the micro-investment app that sets up a portfolio for you by collecting your spare change, has today announced the close of a $23 million Series C financing, led by Greycroft Ventures and e.Ventures, with participation from...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Geek.comIt turns out blogging your rage isn't conducive to other endeavors.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CNET Reviews - Most Recent ReviewsThe new, boldly-colored Windows phone has an 8-megapixel camera and goes on sale in May.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Forbes - TechWhen Intel introduced its TXT technology last year, there was plenty of interest in how third-party vendors would use it. TXT is an interesting technology that allows chip-level security. In Intel's parlance, TXT (which stands for Truste...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from PCWorldTelecommunications equipment maker Oki Electric Industry has developed sound technology that can zero in on a speaker while disregarding ambient noise. The signal-processing technology uses two microphone arrays and can isolate speakers ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Top Tech NewsApple's new Photos app for Mac computers makes it easy to organize and edit your pictures. The app, which replaces iPhoto, bundles professional-level tools into one free consumer package.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderLocated near Phoenix, the city of Peoria has a lot to offer, with hiking trails, lakes, parks, a vibrant arts scene, and historic buildings. But Peoria also has something entrepreneurs really need: BioAccel , a nonprofit business acceler...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TechCrunchWe’ve still got a few spots left for startups to display in Startup Alley alongside dozens of other budding startups at Disrupt New York 2015, so if you haven’t snagged your tickets for the show, now is the time to act....
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from GizmodoIt makes perfect sense. The sensors that capture images for a digital camera and the sensors that convert light into electricity for a solar cell rely on the same technology. So why not build a device with a sensor that does both, and cr...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Slashdotastroengine writes: A new study carried out by the ESO's Very Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that dark matter may well interact with itself — a discovery that, at first glanc...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Top Tech NewsLast month, Microsoft released a technical preview of Skype for Business, which it touts as a replacement for Lync, its old business-centric video chat app. Now, Skype for Business is ready for a full roll out.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Digital TrendsJaguar has not ruled out developing a small, entry-level hatchback to take on the Audi A3. If built, the yet-unnamed compact will ride on a new front-wheel drive platform and it could get a hybrid drivetrain. The post Jaguar says an entr...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderA number of the world's biggest brands are about to be punished by Google's latest update to its search results algorithm — unless they quickly make their sites more mobile-friendly. Google announced in February it is making changes to i...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from PCWorldNetflix is making its shows more accessible for the blind. The company recently announced plans to add audio descriptions (also known as video descriptions) to its original television series. The first title to get the new accessibility ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderApple on Tuesday announced that its annual developer conference , WWDC, would take place June 8-12. The artwork for the announcement suggests Apple will be releasing a major overhaul to Apple TV. "I usually don't play the 'let's read int...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from PCWorldA program that pays researchers for information on software vulnerabilities, the Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) , will now also reward those who develop tools and techniques to spot bugs. The idea is to expand the range of tools organizations...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from TheNextWeb.comHuawei has announced the newest flagship to join its smartphone range today in the form of the Ascend P8, a successor to 2014’s P7 device. The handset keeps the same solid metal chassis as previous models. The company said it has a “comp...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EngadgetAiAiAi makes headphones (mostly). Historically, the Danish company has struck a good balance between understated cool, and audio quality (for the price of admission). The popular TMA-1 series spawned a few variations aimed at different u...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderAdultery is big business for the tech world. In fact, the extra-marital-affairs dating website Ashley Madison is reportedly making so much money that it is looking to launch an IPO in London so it can raise £135 million ($200 milli...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All StoriesLast month we shared news of Coppertino's upcoming VOX Music Player for iOS and its new LOOP music locker, and some MacRumors readers helped beta test the new products. As of today, Coppertino is launching the new LOOP music storage serv...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Google Blog
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from UK Tech - The Huffington PostA new study has shown that a third of younger people are actually leaving Facebook because their parents have joined the social network. It turns out that just as parents are starting to get the hang of 'traditional' forms of social medi...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Cloud Services WorldEuropean organisations have an average of 511 cloud apps; an average which rises to 730 at a global level.
- BlackBerry Leap pre-order begins in UK; Specs & Pricing Details After getting better response globally for its last smartphone Z3, BlackBerry is all set to start selling a new one, named BlackBerry Leap. As expected, the device is u...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Times of India Tech: Latest IT, telecom, Internet, BPO news and updatesNokia said it has agreed to buy Alcatel-Lucent in an all-share transaction that values the smaller French rival at 15.6 billion euros ($16.58 billion).
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager will make a statement around noon (6.00 a.m. ET) on Wednesday after the weekly meeting of the EU's executive, the European Commission said.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Phys.org: Technology NewsNo doubt you've run across your share of PDF documents in your work and personal life. Adobe's Portable Document Format has become a common way to publish newsletters, instruction manuals and even tax forms. Creating your own PDF documen...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Times of India Tech: Latest IT, telecom, Internet, BPO news and updatesAn Apple iPad which belonged to Pope Francis fetched $30,500 at auction, with proceeds going to a school for the poor in Uruguay.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Reuters: Technology News(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co has created a standalone team of about 200 employees to work exclusively on making screens for rival smartphone maker Apple Inc's products, Bloomberg reported, citing people with direct knowledge of the...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All StoriesSamsung has created a standalone team of about 200 employees working exclusively on displays for Apple products, according to Bloomberg Business . The report claims the secretive team was formed on April 1 to build screens for iPads and ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Technology - chicagotribune.comAt least eight people, including a 15-year-old, were wounded during separate shootings since Tuesday morning in the city, according to police.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Times of India Tech: Latest IT, telecom, Internet, BPO news and updatesIntel said its profits edged higher in the first quarter, as gains in its data center operations help offset weakness in the personal computer market.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from ABC News: TechnologyNokia confirms acquisition of French telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Glide, the app that lets users send live video messages, today becomes the first to bring the feature to Apple Watch. With an update to Glide’s iOS app, users of Apple Watch will be able to receive live videos messages right on their wri... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Cloud Services WorldScalable solution simplifies information management and adds value to IT investments.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsBEIJING (Reuters) - JD.com Inc, China's No. 2 e-commerce player, on Wednesday launched its JD Worldwide cross-border online shopping platform, a challenger to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Tmall Global service.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from - Gadgets & Tech RSS FeedFans and electric heaters have long been symbols of discomfort — the whirring and flapping fans of a too-hot summer’s day, or the electrified orange glow and slight burnt smell of cold winters.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Ferrari probably doesn't have a problem selling its line of supercars. But when you're one of the premier automakers in the world, you want to make sure your customers have a magical experience when they enter the showroom. The new Augme...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All StoriesApple will award up to 350 students and developers belonging to select STEM organizations that promote diversity with scholarships to attend its recently announced Worldwide Developers Conference next June 8 to 12 in San Francisco, as sp...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Times of India Tech: Latest IT, telecom, Internet, BPO news and updatesThe battle for net neutrality - the principle that all traffic travelling across the Internet should be treated equally at all stages - isn't over. There's good news, for example, ecommerce bluechip Flipkart publicly changing its stand o...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from eWeek - RSS FeedsKey features include the ability to view the status of endpoints in real-time and the ability to manage the settings from a single Web console.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Google Blog
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from ABC News: TechnologyTechBits: Analyzing medical data, breaking smartphones, fighting Internet rules
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from News & FeaturesFinnish telecoms vendor agrees to purchase French firm for $16.6bn in stock
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsHAMBURG (Reuters) - Panasonic Avionics says it will need to double the rate at which it installs Wi-Fi systems on aircraft to catch up with skyrocketing demand from airlines to keep passengers connected above the clouds.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Cloud Services WorldApprenda provider of enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) has announced that Alex Pinchev cloud industry veteran and former President of Global Sales Services and Field Marketing for Red Hat has joined Apprendaandrsquo;s board of dire...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsLONDON (Reuters) - Less than half of company boards have the necessary skills to manage the rising threat of cyber attacks, a survey of global investors showed, with four of five respondents suggesting they might blacklist businesses tha...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Technology - chicagotribune.comA 3-year-old boy was injured when a vehicle struck him Tuesday evening on the Southwest Side.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Phys.org: Technology NewsThe same Internet access now available on most commercial flights makes it possible for hackers to bring down a plane, a government watchdog warned Tuesday.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)AiAiAi makes headphones (mostly). Historically, the Danish company has struck a good balance between understated cool, and audio quality (for the price of admission). The popular TMA-1 series spawned a few variations aimed at different u...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Georgian chess champion Gaioz Nigalidze has been kicked out and banned from the Dubai Open Chess Tournament after he was caught cheating. What exactly did he do, you ask? Well, he got help from a chess app running on an iPod touch. His o...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from News & FeaturesSearch giant could face legal action, fines up to $6.6bn
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Cloud Services WorldComputer Application Services (CAS) a leading supplier of IT services to public and private sector organisations has appointed cloud computing managed hosting and colocation expert Pulsant as its preferred hosting partner for its Workpro...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Mophie’s Juice Packs are unqualified success stories. After debuting the first Juice Pack in late 2007, Mophie became synonymous with “iPhone battery cases,” and enjoyed years of popularity despite increasing competitio... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Cloud Services WorldEuropean Bioinformatics Institute deploys Delphix Data as a Service to support research.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from eWeek - RSS FeedsA total of 1,830 small businesses sold in the first quarter, continuing a two-year trend of very robust activity in the business-for-sale market.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)BlackBerry isn't the smartphone powerhouse it used to be. Android and iOS are slowly eroding what's left of its market share, but the company isn't giving up just yet. Its latest effort is the Leap, an all-touch smartphone (sorry, keyboa...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Cloud Services WorldDen Braven the specialized market leader in among others the production of high quality ISO-certified materials for the building sector has chosen Proact as its new partner for managing their backup and fall-back environment.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Can't say we saw this coming, but Segway has just been fully acquired by a Chinese company called Ninebot, which also specializes in self-balancing human transporters. The irony here is that Segway actually accused its then competitor of...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Apple has told Re/code that it is increasing the number of scholarship places offered at this year’s WWDC from 200 to 350 as part of its work to create greater diversity amongst developers. Those selected get a free ticket to the d... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from News & FeaturesISACA survey shows less than half of IT managers believe their security teams can tackle complex threats
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Cloud Services WorldThe MEF and TM Forum have entered a landmark collaboration program to accelerate the shift to dynamic and assured connectivity services orchestrated over more automated interconnected networks. To do this they are leveraging their respec...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Times of India Tech: Latest IT, telecom, Internet, BPO news and updatesSamsung has created a standalone team of about 200 employees to work exclusively on making screens for Apple's products, Bloomberg reported.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - New Enterprise Associates has raised $2.8 billion for its 15th fund while Menlo Ventures has raised $400 million for its 12th, the venture-capital firms announced Wednesday.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
A chess Grandmaster has been banned from the Dubai Open Chess Tournament after being caught using an iPhone running a chess app, reports Dubai Chess. Gaioz Nigalidze, winner of the Georgian championship in 2013 and 2014, used a smart pho... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukPresident of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures Ze Frank sees clips as ‘a fantastic way to build affinity with shows and characters’ before spawning movie projects There is much more to BuzzFeed than shareable listicles and quizzes, according to Z...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Times of India Tech: Latest IT, telecom, Internet, BPO news and updatesFinland's Nokia has confirmed it had started a strategic review of its map business, HERE, after announcing a takeover of network equipment rival Alcatel-Lucent.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Phys.org: Technology NewsThe US military is well equipped to defend the country against cyberattacks but is not yet ready to wage digital warfare, a senior defense official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: TechnologyThe European Union has been looking into whether Google favors its own products in online searches. EU officials have filed a complaint against Google. The tech giant has not yet formally responded.
