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Tech hotshots: The rise of the dataviz expert

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:14:25 GMT

A picture's worth a million data points. That's the mantra, anyway, in business analytics these days.

Microsoft boosts Japan Azure offering, adds data centers in two regions

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:02:53 GMT

Microsoft will boost its Azure cloud offering in Japan, adding two domestic data centers to speed response times and improve reliability in the face of natural disasters.

Adobe continues social push, acquires mobile app agency

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:21 GMT

Adobe has acquired Thumb Labs, a small mobile app agency, as part of its broader push to give its new cloud-enabled software offerings a more social flavor.

Electricity's in the air: Powermat ties the knot with PowerKiss

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:08:26 GMT

Powermat Technologies has announced an agreement to merge with its European counterpart, PowerKiss, in a deal that will make what once was two disparate wireless power specifications coming together under ...

Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets to go on sale in 170 countries on June 13

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:05:58 GMT

Amazon.com is expanding the distribution of its tablets in a big way with the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 now available for preorder in over 170 countries, and its Appstore open in nearly 200 ...

Google engineer bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers, discloses Windows zero-day

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:47:16 GMT

A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash ...

Lenovo's net profit up 90 percent, smartphone shipments soar

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:22:38 GMT

PC sales in China and high growth in smartphones shipments helped boost Lenovo's net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter by 90 percent year-over-year.

French police end missing persons searches, suggest using Facebook instead

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:13:03 GMT

The latest victim of disruption by Internet technologies is a veteran of World War I: the missing persons search.

SoftBank said to be in talks with US to allay national security fears

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:55:17 GMT

The U.S. government is in negotiations with SoftBank for greater control over equipment purchases by Sprint Nextel and the selection of one of the Japanese company's nominee to the U.S. carrier's board, ...

Lenovo's net profit up 90 percent, smartphone shipments soar

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:59:21 GMT

PC sales in China and high growth in smartphones shipments helped boost Lenovo's net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter by 90 percent year-over-year.

Samsung sells over 10 million Galaxy S4 smartphones in first month

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:10:05 GMT

Samsung Electronics has reported global channel sales of over 10 million units of the Galaxy S4 in less than a month after its global launch.

Ericsson makes bus windows part of a Wi-Fi network

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:48:41 GMT

Ericsson may have a contender for oddest networking product if it commercializes the wireless bus windows it demonstrated at this week's CTIA Wireless trade show.

Windows 8.1 laptops with AMD's new chips to support wireless display

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:08:24 GMT

Advanced Micro Devices hopes to regain share in the PC processor market with its upcoming chips based on the Jaguar core, which will bring console-like gaming and wireless displays to laptops with Windows ...

HP $399 touchscreen laptop breaks price barrier

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:08:21 GMT

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new wave of Envy and Pavilion thin and light laptops, including an 11.6-inch touchscreen model priced aggressively at US$399.

HP's Envy Rove 20-inch 'tablet' tackles Windows 8 desktop PC woes

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:08:19 GMT

Windows 8 has not found wide adoption among desktop users, so HP has announced a new portable all-in-one and lowered the price of touch PCs so users can take advantage of the operating system.

AMD willing to embrace Android

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:08:16 GMT

Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcoming tablet and laptop chips.

Penguin settles with US states in e-book price-fixing lawsuit

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:02:31 GMT

Penguin has settled with U.S. states in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit, leaving only Apple now in the fray.

Messaging application Line flags sensitive phrases in China

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:31:28 GMT

A mechanical engineering student in Taiwan has found the messaging application called Line warns and stops users in China from sending certain politically sensitive keywords.

3D-printed pizza may be delivered soon, thanks to NASA

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:51:19 GMT

NASA recently approved a $125,000 grant for a six-month project to develop 3D-printed food, and the first edible prototype may be pizza, Quartz reports.

Facebook now lets you broadcast your bad taste in Pandora stations

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:43:35 GMT

If you listen to a song on the Internet and no one else knows about it, does it make a sound

GeoGuessr lets you get lost in a foreign country without leaving home

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:41:04 GMT

Unless you're in a movie, the chances of you suddenly waking up one day in a random part of the world are fairly low. But if you want to live out your fantasy of being completely and abruptly lost, GeoGuessr ...

Google improves desktop voice search in new Chrome update

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:38:35 GMT

Google's latest Chrome build allows desktop users to interact with its iconic search engine simply by having a conversation.

How Apple's offshore tax mess could impact your business

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:35:25 GMT

Apple, that darling of the tech world, has been in the news this week, not because of any new hardware it's releasing, but because of the way it's been handling its foreign earnings.

Web suffered 9000 service outages in last five months

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:34:40 GMT

Seeing a "404 error" or the Twitter "Fail Whale" can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service outages, though, occur on the Internet on a daily basis, as the latest numbers from Outage Analyzer ...

Google launching new fund for later-stage tech investments

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:00:27 GMT

Due to an editing error, the story "Google launching new fund for later-stage tech investments," which ran Wednesday, misstated the amount invested by Google Ventures. The figure referred only to investments ...