A man shows a Sony Smart Watch II at a Sony event
ahead of the IFA, one of the world's largest trade fairs for consumer
electronics and electrical home appliances in Berlin, Wednesday, Sept.
4, 2013.
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Monday, 9 September 2013
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Facebook adds 60 new ‘frictionless’ sharing apps to timelines
Facebook is adding a bevy of new applications to let users share everything from photos of what they cooked for dinner, to details on what they are wearing, to what concert they scored tickets to.
The world's largest online social network unveiled more than 60 new apps Wednesday that let users share the tiniest details of their lives on their Facebook profiles, now known as their Timeline.
Facebook users can already share the music they are listening...
Friday, 23 December 2011
Ten things you should know about the Ice Cream Sandwich OS
Ice Cream Sandwich is the fourth incarnation of Google’s Android operating system (OS) for smartphones and tablets – the successor to previous versions Gingerbread and Honeycomb (a tablet-only version)This increasingly nippy time of year seems an odd choice to be discussing ice cream sandwiches – unless said confection is the latest in a tasty-sounding software series from Google.
Ice Cream Sandwich is the fourth incarnation of Google’s Android...
Atom-smasher shut down for two months
The world's largest atom-smasher has been shut down for two months following a helium leak, just 10 days after it was switched on amid great fanfare to probe the secrets of the universe.“There has been an incident in a test. One section of the machine will have to be repaired,” James Gillies, a spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), said Monday.CERN said in a statement that a fault occurred Friday afternoon, resulting...
NASA spots Earth’s twin (or closest match yet) outside solar system
Bill Borucki, Kepler principal Investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center, speaks during a news conference about the newly discovered planet Kepler-22b on Monday in in Moffett Field, Calif.A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, expect for one hitch. It’s a bit too big.
The planet is smack in the middle of what astronomers call the Goldilocks zone,...
Yahoo to weigh deals for Asian assets
The "Yahoo" sign, which overlooks the I-80 freeway from 6th St. is dismantled,2011 in downtown San Francisco.Yahoo Inc.is discussing a plan to slash its stakes in China’s Alibaba Group and a Japanese affiliate in a complex deal worth roughly $17-billion (U.S.), sources familiar with the matter said.
The deal – the latest proposals put forth in recent months to resuscitate the once high-flying Internet company – is expected to be considered by Yahoo’s...
China passes U.S. as top patent filer in 2011
Published applications from China’s patent office have risen by an average of 16.7 per cent annually from 171,000 in 2006 to nearly 314,000 in 2010, data from Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index showed. Workers are seen inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province in this May 26, 2010 file photo.China became the world’s top patent filer in 2011, surpassing the United States and Japan as it steps...
