Google Chrome remote desktop app

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggMm8PVVKmh4R7Hw9hDZNCDjEms8_l05hMovsG6_YlhB42YgQWAYxGQW99VimI-fn-7-5Zr1GcK0MZCN3drj8vL_aoCMEOWOo4whDY0FmmdE6ngozT_ktTg34SP_h5t8F-cVYl1pqoGqM/s1600/google_chrome_header_contentfullwidth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggMm8PVVKmh4R7Hw9hDZNCDjEms8_l05hMovsG6_YlhB42YgQWAYxGQW99VimI-fn-7-5Zr1GcK0MZCN3drj8vL_aoCMEOWOo4whDY0FmmdE6ngozT_ktTg34SP_h5t8F-cVYl1pqoGqM/s1600/google_chrome_header_contentfullwidth.jpg" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google added a remote desktop extension to its Chrome web store a while back, but its getting more useful with the release of Chrome Remote Desktop for Android. This app works like any number of other remote access solutions, except with much less setup and a fairly basic feature set.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To enable remote access through Chrome, you need to add the extension on a computer and enable remote access. You don't have to actually keep a browser window open, but a process will run in the background. A PIN code is used to secure your computer, but you also need to be logged into the correct Google account in the Android app.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cursor is controlled by dragging anywhere on the screen. If you're zoomed in, the view slides with the cursor when it nears the edge of the screen. The zoom level can also be changed with the usual multitouch gestures. There's no direct tapping interaction with Chrome Remote Desktop—you're always relying on the cursor. As such, Windows 8 moders apps can be a bit tedious.</span></div> <span style="border: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2014/04/17/google-chrome-remote-desktop-app-lets-you-control-your-pc-with-your-smartphone/#ixzz2z8Ub9YMg</span></span>

Google Chrome remote desktop app

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 750, GTX 750 Ti Specs, Benchmarks

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijt30fBldbTKl2L4UOaNfwOd48Vmzw6XbDEjCHcQbU1vLUPY1mRsAwEqSPqYQPYq55dDTksY2DYugWDEER-fyJdUoST5qQv4cry6M49pPylWslyVcuYsxpXZYgsHO-GY6hbdFoOZ8MWdw/s1600/nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-gtx-750-ti-leaked-images-588x372.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijt30fBldbTKl2L4UOaNfwOd48Vmzw6XbDEjCHcQbU1vLUPY1mRsAwEqSPqYQPYq55dDTksY2DYugWDEER-fyJdUoST5qQv4cry6M49pPylWslyVcuYsxpXZYgsHO-GY6hbdFoOZ8MWdw/s1600/nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-gtx-750-ti-leaked-images-588x372.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Nvidia GeForce GTX 750, GTX 750</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Over the past couple weeks, we’ve been </span><a href="http://www.custompcreview.com/news/rumor-nvidia-launching-maxwell-based-gtx-750-ti-february-18/19873/" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Rumor: Nvidia Launching Maxwell Based GTX 750 Ti February 18">hearing rumors</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> about the possibility of a brand new mid-range Nvidia GPU based on the upcoming Maxwell architecture coming sometime this month, and according to some of the latest screenshots released by UK Gaming Computer, it seems like the rumors may not just be simple rumor after all.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="nvidia-gpu-z-geforce-gtx-750-gtx-750-ti-leaked-images" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20048" height="349" src="http://www.custompcreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nvidia-gpu-z-geforce-gtx-750-gtx-750-ti-leaked-images.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 228, 228); height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; transition: all 0.7s ease;" width="588" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Above we have two GPU-Z screenshots of the rumored Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 and the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. According to the screenshots, both GPUs will be using the upcoming GM107 GPU core, which is expected to be based off the Maxwell architecture (hence the M in the GM107). Previously it was thought that Nvidia could be moving to the 20nm process with the GTX 750/GTX 750 Ti first since it would be easier to do so with a smaller die, but according to the leaked screenshots it seems like Nvidia may be sticking with the 28nm architecture at least for the time being.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">As far as specs go, the GeForce GTX 750 will be rocking 768 CUDA cores, 64 TMUs, and 16 ROPs paired with 1GB of GDDR5 on a 128-bit memory interface. The bigger brother, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti on the other hand will be rocking 960 CUDA cores, 80 TMUs, and 16 ROPs paired with 2GB of GDDR5 on a 128-bit memory interface. Looking at these specs we’re definitely dealing with low/mid-range hardware here especially with the 128-bit memory interface really keeping performance limited.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Additionally, both GPUs will not use any sort of external PCIe power so it’ll be bus powered only. Given that the PCIe bus is only rated for a maximum of 75w, the upcoming GPUs will practically be sipping power. One of the major things Nvidia wanted to focus on with Maxwell is power efficiency and if Nvidia is able to improve the GTX 750/GTX 750 Ti’s performance over its 600 series counterparts while using significantly lower power, that’d be a win especially as Nvidia begins</span><a href="http://www.custompcreview.com/articles/gtc-2013-nvidia-logan-parker-next-generation-tegra-architectures/17703/" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">further integrating</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> their technologies into upcoming Logan and Parker Tegra architectures down the line.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="3d-mark-11-nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-leaked-benchmarks" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-20049" height="263" src="http://www.custompcreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/3d-mark-11-nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-leaked-benchmarks-294x194.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 228, 228); height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; transition: all 0.7s ease;" width="400" /><img alt="3d-mark-11-nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-ti-leaked-benchmarks" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-20050" height="239" src="http://www.custompcreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/3d-mark-11-nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-ti-leaked-benchmarks-294x176.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 228, 228); height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; transition: all 0.7s ease;" width="400" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">In addition to the preliminary GPU-Z screenshots, a couple preliminary 3D Mark 11 benchmarks were leaked as well. The GeForce GTX 750 scored 5250 points in 3D Mark 11 using the performance preset and the GeForce GTX 750 Ti scored 5963 points using the performance preset. That said, both these cards are overclocked from the factory and they’re using pre-release drivers so it’s difficult to say what actual performance is going to look like once the cards actually ship. These are decent numbers for a PCIe bus only powered GPU, but they’re not enthusiast class parts that’s for sure.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Currently the rumored release dates for these cards is the 18th of this month and prices are currently unknown at this time. Given that it appears that the cards leaked were factory overclocked, it’s likely that Nvidia partners will have custom GTX 750′s and GTX 750 Ti’s available out of the gate. More information as it becomes available.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.ukgamingcomputers.co.uk/nvidia-gtx-750-750-ti-benchmarks-a-51.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">UK Gaming Computer</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> via </span><a href="http://videocardz.com/49498/nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-gtx-750-ti-preview-leaks" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Videocardz.com</a></span>

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HTC exec confirms that a wearable device is on the way

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY25TsEN1yo84CNYFamVl35n0lD6vR8v1sqpZ1rQBkQs5MfXFhh7i7oandmzB-QDph9sonFzSvHCLsV3IKu3hqyulO3VEix_4gZKfmygzTv2WkV5098LlXHGMMzYKMV9yFHJMiJBs7E7Q/s1600/gsmarena_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>HTC </i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY25TsEN1yo84CNYFamVl35n0lD6vR8v1sqpZ1rQBkQs5MfXFhh7i7oandmzB-QDph9sonFzSvHCLsV3IKu3hqyulO3VEix_4gZKfmygzTv2WkV5098LlXHGMMzYKMV9yFHJMiJBs7E7Q/s1600/gsmarena_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">According to the executive, the company has been looking at the now fashionable category of wearable devices for quite some time.</span><span id="more-61836" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> Battery technology and LCD light problems have been the biggest issues during the upcoming product’s development.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Furthermore, the CFO of HTC Chang Chialin expressed optimism about the company’s outlook for 2014. The company plans to significantly revamp its marketing in order to turn around its fortunes. The execs admitted that HTC’s efforts in the area have been “not very good”.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Finally, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Bloomberg</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> confirmed that a replacement of the HTC One is on the way. Alleged photos of the device appeared on a </span><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_m8_shows_its_face_in_newly_leaked_live_photos-news-7749.php" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">couple</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> of </span><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_m8_first_live_picture_is_here_has_two_rear_cameras-news-7739.php" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">occasions</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> today. </span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Source :<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-05/htc-sees-new-devices-and-fresh-marketing-push-driving-turnaround.html" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> | Via </span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5384284/htc-wearable-device-coming-this-year" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Verge</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span></span>

HTC exec confirms that a wearable device is on the way

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HTC : smart marketing for salvation

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsYYtohb7Ska115YqOnozgxaCF7K4HKoJfmNwC2cm6G1SIUd1mlzUPyKTGlLe3tkBj7W6UZKsiv5Z23bMaplj5xGtRLjrZft9sRTEFM7TObuYxryMCs7OuhEqPQvDhfvh1Kx9ujhRv2k/s1600/htc-logo-quietly-brilliant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsYYtohb7Ska115YqOnozgxaCF7K4HKoJfmNwC2cm6G1SIUd1mlzUPyKTGlLe3tkBj7W6UZKsiv5Z23bMaplj5xGtRLjrZft9sRTEFM7TObuYxryMCs7OuhEqPQvDhfvh1Kx9ujhRv2k/s1600/htc-logo-quietly-brilliant.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">HTC</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HTC is a company that's in trouble, both at home in Taiwan and in the US. Despite that, the company seems quite positive that it will be able to recover this year and it is laying it all on smartwatches, the next HTC One, and a renewed marketing effort.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although HTC has never truly disappeared from the market or from consumer's consciousness, it has been losing ground, and losing fast. While it remained at fifth spot in comScore's recent market share figures, it has dropped out of the top five smartphone shipments based on IDC's report. Pair that with losing patent lawsuits to Nokia left and right as well as legal issues with former executives on its home front, the embattled company can really use a breather.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That reprieve might come soon, at least according to CFO Chang Chialin, who is projecting a rather positive outlook for 2014. That hope might come from the company's new devices, one of which is, unsurprisingly, a smartwatch. According to HTC Chairman Cher Wang, the company has already been investigating smartwatches and other wearables in years past, but were mostly foiled by battery and display technologies of that period. Now it seems that HTC has found solutions around those and is likely to out its first ever smartwatch soon. The company is also hoping that the upcoming successor to the HTC One will also enjoy a period of success and popularity that the current flagship experienced.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But HTC believes it has another ace up its sleeve to bring it out of the darkness. Chairman Wang said that the company will be renewing its marketing efforts this year. This statement may come as a bit of a surprise, considering how HTC's aggressive marketing push last year, which saw the hiring of Robert Downey Jr., didn't really seem to make waves in the market. HTC isn't disclosing details about its marketing budget, though it's hard to imagine it would come close to how much Samsung is infamously spending for the same purpose. But as Wang said, it's not the size of the budget that matters but how you spend every bit of it. //<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-05/htc-sees-new-devices-and-fresh-marketing-push-driving-turnaround.html">Bloomberg</a></span>

HTC : smart marketing for salvation

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Lenovo : Google buys 5.94% stake

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-R-BzpmKyyTONHwX1KVd3nkal6UUnr6ajXpXGTBjjM2LxZ-lPX6x0ITHVVXfzeHyrnSi3Z0dtKKZ8G04THrVzRjbagbQNUiRWazdhraNyQy0AZQkL5TpdCumxUl4hp9BaAkmfJVr1tw/s1600/google.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-R-BzpmKyyTONHwX1KVd3nkal6UUnr6ajXpXGTBjjM2LxZ-lPX6x0ITHVVXfzeHyrnSi3Z0dtKKZ8G04THrVzRjbagbQNUiRWazdhraNyQy0AZQkL5TpdCumxUl4hp9BaAkmfJVr1tw/s1600/google.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Google has bought a 5.94 per cent stake in Lenovo for $US750 million ($A839.30 million) while also agreeing to sell handset maker Motorola to the Chinese technology giant.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The US internet firm acquired 618.3 million shares in the PC maker at $1.213 each when Lenovo bought Motorola for $US2.91 billion last Thursday, according to Dow Jones Newswires.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The deal provides Lenovo with footholds in smartphone and tablet markets where it is eager to gain traction.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">It also came just a week after the Chinese firm said it will buy IBM's low-end server business for $US2.3 billion, giving it a platform to compete in that sector with US giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard.</span></h3>

Lenovo : Google buys 5.94% stake

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Facebook Look Back videos can now be edited

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLwDmwp9JaFrsSjZzmY8NRC8DkzJFtSyU7bU3NjKC_h3IQ9WSR-IsApMT1Fx2TGafBIowHUgX-h-awrwUmGNHWSnxx97TDaePQaC6A1gzoSRSPRpEmn8oPn2WwsK7GNunycLhUL6Tzw4/s1600/facebook_look_back_edit_option_ndtv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLwDmwp9JaFrsSjZzmY8NRC8DkzJFtSyU7bU3NjKC_h3IQ9WSR-IsApMT1Fx2TGafBIowHUgX-h-awrwUmGNHWSnxx97TDaePQaC6A1gzoSRSPRpEmn8oPn2WwsK7GNunycLhUL6Tzw4/s1600/facebook_look_back_edit_option_ndtv.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Facebook Look Back videos</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook, after rolling-out the Look Back feature to mark the 10-year anniversary of the social network, has now released tools that will allow users to edit their Look Back videos in case they are dissatisfied with them.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The editing tool for Look Back allows users to choose alternative photos and clips to put in the video, eliminating those unwanted posts that Facebook's algorithm chose for them.</span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">The Look Back video editing feature seems to have rolled out to most users, with the 'Edit' option clearly visible to us (see above), right next to the 'Share Your Movie' button.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">News of the edit option being in the offing had been reported on Wednesday by Techcrunch, and </span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/dont-like-your-facebook-look-back-youll-be-able-to-edit-it-soon/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" target="_blank">Facebook had confirmed</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;"> the feature will soon arrive for the users, failing to give any particular time-slot. "We will be launching an Edit feature soon that will allow people to change moments in their movies or update the ones they shared. I don't have exact timing at the moment, but this will enable people to remove a post from the movie that was pre-selected and change it to a different one."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">The Look Back video initiative is very much like the </span>Year in Review compilations<span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;"> Facebook has offered at the end of the year, but this time, it's in video form, and </span>highlights the biggest events from the user's entire time on the social network<span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">The social networking giant says "this is a small gesture to thank the over one billion people who are on Facebook by providing a unique way to look back at some of their biggest moments."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">You can access the experience by going to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lookback" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/lookback</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;"> while being logged into your Facebook account. //<a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networking/news/facebook-look-back-videos-can-soon-be-edited-by-users-480447"> </a></span><i style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networking/news/facebook-look-back-videos-can-soon-be-edited-by-users-480447">NDTV Gadgets</a></i></span>

Facebook Look Back videos can now be edited

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Google unveils corporate videoconferencing product

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSFbNacjVWBVm_76aUGM4IyHuzEfZWtTGYrmPqEzF9ih7sDDiUjWplCS1aw_brN6n4zN__OSZN_-t-xFNlRC4DioAmu6v9U__wqi9ZsCfHSW7V4EZKelXBC94BEt6kzDrVSA7gznAMwU/s1600/chromebox-videoconferencing-070213.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSFbNacjVWBVm_76aUGM4IyHuzEfZWtTGYrmPqEzF9ih7sDDiUjWplCS1aw_brN6n4zN__OSZN_-t-xFNlRC4DioAmu6v9U__wqi9ZsCfHSW7V4EZKelXBC94BEt6kzDrVSA7gznAMwU/s1600/chromebox-videoconferencing-070213.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Chromebox</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google unveiled a videoconferencing system for businesses on Thursday, the Internet search company's latest effort generate revenue from corporate customers.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google said it was partnering with Asus, Hewlett-Packard and Dell to offer a specialised version of its Chromebox PC that comes with videoconferencing gear, including a video camera and speakers.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first Chromebox for meetings to be available is made by Asus and goes on sale in the US on Thursday for $999, Google said. Customers can also pay a $250 annual service and management fee, though the first year is included in the product's sales price. // <a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/chromebox-for-meetings-google-unveils-corporate-videoconferencing-product/450439-11.html">ibnlive.in.com</a></span></div>

Google unveils corporate videoconferencing product

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10 Things Facebook Changed in 10 Years

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH45JkKzQA3w4w_fq4sFRBYbYsyEXwF9KHLKXsBdCYF_ES81GMgtofj-8BbbKUCJzcYCwJ6iyFNlx_BHpUYG-YaI1vBPd_W7R0GlXGI1wffD5akf6zDlFZ3Srw27Dj6xg4HAXxEYRRunk/s1600/facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH45JkKzQA3w4w_fq4sFRBYbYsyEXwF9KHLKXsBdCYF_ES81GMgtofj-8BbbKUCJzcYCwJ6iyFNlx_BHpUYG-YaI1vBPd_W7R0GlXGI1wffD5akf6zDlFZ3Srw27Dj6xg4HAXxEYRRunk/s1600/facebook.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember920" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here’s 10 (of course) ways Facebook has changed our lives.</span></div> <div class="ember-view ad-location" id="ember925" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="ad-content" data-bindattr-27="27" id="moceanTop-tech-social-media-n21721-ember925" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1rem; text-align: center;"> <div class="ember-view" id="ember972" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember926" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">1. Facebook took the toil out of stalking</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Prior to Facebook, ex-friends and lovers had to work hard in order to reinsert themselves into the lives of their unsuspecting prey. The “phone books” of our forefathers were no match for changed names or cross-country moves. All it takes is a wistful thought on Facebook to lead effortlessly to a friend request and a reopened past – even if the recipient prefers it vacuum-sealed.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember927" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> </div> <figure class="ember-view image spanFull" id="ember930" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;"><div class="stack-l-figure-container-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Duane Hoffman/msnbc file" class="ember-view" height="700" id="ember973" src="http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_06/162491/facebook_4_ca3170fe0b0f1cef4345f52e4439338c.nbcnews-ux-640-700.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 596.421875px;" title="" width="640" /></span><small class="stack-credit-art-figcaption" style="bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5rem; opacity: 0.6; position: absolute; right: 8px; text-shadow: black 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">DUANE HOFFMAN/MSNBC FILE</span></small></div> </figure><div class="ember-view" id="ember931" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">2. Facebook made botched IPOs cool</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Featuring a bungled rollout matched only by HealthCare.gov, Facebook’s $104 billion IPO is the third biggest in IPO history, and <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/fury-over-facebook-ipo-grows-lawsuits-mount-150039330.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">arguably the most notorious</a>. It’s also the role model for Twitter, Snapchat and every other tech startup with public-trading aspirations.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember932" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Never mind Facebook’s $38 share price, which tanked for months after the company’s NASDAQ debut on May 18, 2012. Forget the ongoing federal investigations and lawsuits accusing the IPO team of secretly axing the earnings forecast. Would-be dotcom billionaires admire Facebook’s refusal to sell out, preferring to go public (despite a weak mobile plan).</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember933" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The social network’s once accursed stock hitting an all-time high of $61 in January has done wonders for bad memories, as does the $3 billion it plunked in Zuckerberg’s pocket, boosting the hoodie-wearing CEO’s estimated worth to $29.7 billion.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember934" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What’s not to emulate?</span></div> <div class="ember-view ad-location" id="ember939" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="ad-content" data-bindattr-28="28" id="moceanTop-tech-social-media-n21721-ember939" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1rem; text-align: center;"> <div class="ember-view" id="ember977" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember940" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">3. Facebook made us OK with the NSA</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Private companies don't usually break down doors and drag people off to camps. Governments have and still do, and they do it based on meticulously maintained, detailed records.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember941" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nevertheless, companies that literally <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34825225/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/#.UvEEJj1dWbN" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">bank on our personal info</a> (by selling it to advertisers) also inure Americans to their continuing loss of privacy. As Edward Snowden, Europe and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_card_(France)" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">history</a> know, that rarely turns out well. And yet, here’s, Facebook, with its early privacy abuses, anti-privacy default settings and a CEO who until recently described anonymity as a “lack of integrity.”</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember942" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The world’s largest social network is arguably also the biggest influence in our laissez-faire attitude towards surveillance in the United States: What’s the big deal? We’ve already willingly sacrificed our privacy to Facebook.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember943" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> </div> <figure class="ember-view image spanFull" id="ember944" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;"><div class="stack-l-figure-container-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Duane Hoffman/msnbc file" class="ember-view" height="480" id="ember978" src="http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_06/162321/duanehoffman_5f9c884ae7278c73d6f5970788fa2043.nbcnews-ux-640-480.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 596.421875px;" title="" width="640" /></span><small class="stack-credit-art-figcaption" style="bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5rem; opacity: 0.6; position: absolute; right: 8px; text-shadow: black 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">DUANE HOFFMAN/MSNBC FILE</span></small></div> </figure><div class="ember-view" id="ember945" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">4. Facebook messed up our love lives</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />From obsessing over every aspect of your BF or GF’s Facebook profile and what it means for your relationship, to posting passive-aggressive status updates when your interpretation turns negative, all this easily-accessed info would throw off anyone’s pitch. If we scrutinized our lover’s friends as potential romantic rivals IRL the way many do on Facebook, restraining orders would be the closest thing we’d get to a valentine, and plenty of ‘em.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember946" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">5. Facebook welcomed us to the new age of underemployment</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Facebook isn’t the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/201331116423560886.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">only high-income, under-employing company</a> in the U.S. these days, but it’s one we patronize daily and it's one of the most ubiquitous.</span></div> <div class="ember-view ad-location" id="ember951" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="ad-content" data-bindattr-29="29" id="moceanTop-tech-social-media-n21721-ember951" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1rem; text-align: center;"> <div class="ember-view" id="ember982" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember952" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Take General Motors. With its $55 billion market cap, its 212,000 employees, the company pumps billions of dollars into the U.S. economy every year. It supports whole cities.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember953" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then there’s Facebook, which has a $100 billion market cap — nearly double that of GM — yet employs fewer than 6,000 people.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember954" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shareholders might argue that Facebook doesn’t need more workers, but shareholders would be wrong … at least according to panicked users who try to reach Facebook’s customer service department. Facebook — a $100 billion company — doesn’t even have a customer service phone number.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember955" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> </div> <figure class="ember-view image spanFull" id="ember956" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;"><div class="stack-l-figure-container-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Duane Hoffman/msnbc file" class="ember-view" height="700" id="ember983" src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_06/162331/facebook_9_302c3a7422a176c8d2d586d6988453b7.nbcnews-ux-640-700.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 596.421875px;" title="" width="640" /></span><small class="stack-credit-art-figcaption" style="bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5rem; opacity: 0.6; position: absolute; right: 8px; text-shadow: black 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">DUANE HOFFMAN/MSNBC FILE</span></small></div> </figure><div class="ember-view" id="ember957" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">6. Facebook built the virtual town square of the 21st century</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Did <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Facebook turn your grandma</a>, cousin or mom into the town crier, blasting views and posting inane news? “Obama this! Dog abuse that! You won’t believe how many Upworthy links are junkin’ up your Newsfeed!” Or maybe that’s you …</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember958" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This new kind of community where people share views with family members, as well as close friends they only know from Facebook, is as real as any offline. People not on Facebook are cut off from society. Anyway, for all the obnoxious posts that offend delicate sensibilities or get someone “Facebook fired,” there’s plenty that’s positive. Post about your beloved dog or cat crossing the Rainbow Bridge, and see how fast your "community" comes running.</span></div> <div class="ember-view ad-location" id="ember963" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="ad-content" data-bindattr-30="30" id="moceanTop-tech-social-media-n21721-ember963" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1rem; text-align: center;"> <div class="ember-view" id="ember987" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember964" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">7. Facebook saved us from the Internet</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Cyberspace offers endless resources for email, instant messaging, sharing our personal news, photos or locations and catching up on curated news. But why go out when the ever-expanding Facebook hegemony offers all of that, as well as your friends, in one convenient location. Like AOL of olden days, Facebook is your Internet portal — but with a better business plan. Plus, mobile!</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember965" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> </div> <figure class="ember-view image spanFull" id="ember966" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;"><div class="stack-l-figure-container-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Duane Hoffman/msnbc file" class="ember-view" height="700" id="ember988" src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_06/162456/facebook8_bc5cf677f2aed0f52a3b8638c52ddc1e.nbcnews-ux-640-700.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 596.421875px;" title="" width="640" /></span><small class="stack-credit-art-figcaption" style="bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5rem; opacity: 0.6; position: absolute; right: 8px; text-shadow: black 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">DUANE HOFFMAN/MSNBC FILE</span></small></div> </figure><div class="ember-view" id="ember967" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">8. Facebook changed the way we grieve</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As a new company originally limited to college students only slightly younger than its founders, Facebook didn’t launch with a plan around what to do when customers die. Once membership hit critical mass, and users inevitably did too, survivors were confronted with abandoned profiles and eerie Facebook reminders of their (now-deceased) friend. Eventually, loved ones were allowed to “memorialize” profiles, but many take comfort in posting messages there, regularly addressing the deceased on these living, virtual shrines.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember968" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">9. Facebook aided in disaster relief</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When an earthquake decimated Haiti's capital in 2012, a spontaneous rescue center arose on Facebook, with users posting Haiti-related updates at a rate of 1,500 per minute. Facebook now serves as a valuable platform for rescue agencies following disasters. Last week, SnowedOutAtlanta, a Facebook group that has attracted more than 46,000 members in 24 hours,reportedly connected wannabe Samaritans with more than 400 snowbound travelers trapped on Atlanta’s highways.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember969" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10. Facebook stole hours and hours of our lives that we’re never, ever getting back. // <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/it-or-not-10-things-facebook-changed-10-years-n21721">NBC News.com</a></span></strong></div>

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What Exactly Is Its CDN Strategy?

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWkk-wgzPoXMdNbKmh-ncXCNE42cgOhPJkySqgPdlOIBt99VIlwQtQCLhH4dvOINpH2P2FlPnebZ3w5kJFz5EIdg7QqkY1w27sTj-1G6-NsB0FtVK-rwL1t813gZM4t1MilxVH_LsEsdw/s1600/Apple.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apple</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWkk-wgzPoXMdNbKmh-ncXCNE42cgOhPJkySqgPdlOIBt99VIlwQtQCLhH4dvOINpH2P2FlPnebZ3w5kJFz5EIdg7QqkY1w27sTj-1G6-NsB0FtVK-rwL1t813gZM4t1MilxVH_LsEsdw/s1600/Apple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Apple </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;"> is a major customer for numerous companies, and losing its business could be disastrous for some. Take, for example, Akamai Technologies</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">, which declined more than 3% on Monday after reports that Apple may one day stop being a customer. The company is scheduled to release its next earnings report on Wednesday.</span></span><br /> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: white;">How Apple affects Akamai</span></h2> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Akamai Technologies  provides Apple ’s content delivery network (CDN), helping boost Apple’s bandwidth for things like iTunes and software downloads. In other words, if Apple builds its own CDN, it might not have use for Akamai’s network any longer. After all, Netflix,  once relied on Akamai for its content delivery needs, but the company no is now able to deliver approximately 70% of its content in the U.S., according to network researchers from DeepField. The result was lower costs in content delivery—a goal Apple could be aiming for as well.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: white;">However, <a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2014/02/03/akamai-apple-cdn-threat-not-imminent-not-large-says-wells-fargo/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Barron’s</a> reports that analyst <span class="TipRanksAnalyst TipRanksAnalystPurple ConfirmedTipRanksAnalyst" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;">Gray Powell</span> of Wells Fargo came to Akamai Technologies ’s defense, saying that we simply don’t know enough about Apple’s CDN strategy. He called the risk to Akamai “fairly minimal” and says that if it does have an impact, it won’t be any time soon. Atlantic ACM VP Aaron Blazar also noted that this process of shifting away from Akami could take “several years.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Powell notes that recently the two companies negotiated a three-year contract, and Akamai Technologies  does see a reduction in revenue from Apple in the near term. However, he said even if Apple  does move all of its CDN traffic away from Akamai, the full impact of this wouldn’t happen until 2015, and even then, he said the impact would be relatively small.” </span></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Apple works behind the scenes to build a CDN</span></h2> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: white;">The decline in shares of Akamai Technologies  came after <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304851104579361201655365302" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported on Monday that Apple  has been quietly building its own Internet infrastructure, or CDN. The report indicates that Apple may want more control over how its online offerings are distributed and the quality of those offerings while also preparing for even more traffic. And if Apple is planning to see even more traffic, then it could be preparing for a move even further into television, just as analysts have been saying for years. In fact, experts say that the company’s recent moves mimic those of Netflix, which abandoned Akamai.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Apple  has found itself in need of more and more online delivery over the last several years as its iCloud and iTunes see more and more usage. The App Store also adds to the company’s needs in this area, but if it is indeed planning to <a href="http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/11/apple-inc-aapl-itv-to-release-2014/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">launch an iTV</a>, as so many analysts expect, then its needs will increase even further.// <a href="http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/02/apple-inc-aapl-cdn-strategy/">Valuewalk</a></span></div>

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Samsung : Galaxy SV launch date

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuITz3pkJhetJiy-ZjJ726Qyz1VoNAPgU0h8KVy_h2mvXKrNpRA3Ev88vElfYGwB2yT0LYUG9892mbPL-CA6cAQOr5H7xZSrBVuS-Peu44AcA5BjJ5lCH8FDUbHtvdvY2cHi8HBlUel88/s1600/samsung.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuITz3pkJhetJiy-ZjJ726Qyz1VoNAPgU0h8KVy_h2mvXKrNpRA3Ev88vElfYGwB2yT0LYUG9892mbPL-CA6cAQOr5H7xZSrBVuS-Peu44AcA5BjJ5lCH8FDUbHtvdvY2cHi8HBlUel88/s1600/samsung.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Galaxy SV launch date</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The South Korean company has sent out invitations to a February 24 event in Barcelona.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Samsung looks set to be taking the wraps off its latest flagship smartphone on the first night of this year's Mobile World Congress. The special event is scheduled to kick off at 8pm CET and will be streamed live on Youtube.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although the company's existing premium handset, the Galaxy SIV, is one of the most popular in the world in terms of sales, it hasn't had quite the consumer impact that Samsung had hoped.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Indeed, in a recent interview with Bloomberg, Samsung executive Lee Young Hee accepted that the SIV wasn't as big a hit as it could have been because it wasn't sufficiently different from the handset it replaced and that the company wouldn't be making the same mistake again.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"For the S5, we will go back to the basics. Mostly, it's about the display and the feel of the cover," she said.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then there's the latest iPhone which, thanks to its 64-bit processor, separate chip dedicated to fitness and motion tracking, plus its fingerprint scanner, has yet again set a new smartphone benchmark.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This means that Samsung has a lot of ground to make up and that the Galaxy SV will be more than just an incremental improvement over the SIV.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to noted analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, the new phone will push screen resolution and size up another notch. It is expected to have a 5.2-inch 565 ppi display and a 16-megapixel rear-facing camera.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The processor and RAM will also be beefed up but Samsung isn't yet ready to go to 64-bit. However, like Apple, it will be incorporating a fingerprint scanner into the device.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One potentially groundbreaking feature could be 3D gesture recognition, meaning that an owner could wave in the phone's general direction in order to control it, rather than having to physically make contact with the screen. // <a href="http://www.mysinchew.com/node/95629?tid=179">My Sinchew</a></span></div>

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iOS : Google Maps Will Alert You to Faster Routes

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYcSPc51fJlymbIWzMkwZ33BG9wX67F1cdU6-lvnp1bqDUjdSA_AfB1mN8vWE8ZibWgPnmJP9viYEN5mlLotpGRWjG9gTX0BvkaB-Xiu5j_vk1ftht6_zRNKsdWY85L1Y9NiF8Mi03ZbQ/s1600/google-maps-reroute.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYcSPc51fJlymbIWzMkwZ33BG9wX67F1cdU6-lvnp1bqDUjdSA_AfB1mN8vWE8ZibWgPnmJP9viYEN5mlLotpGRWjG9gTX0BvkaB-Xiu5j_vk1ftht6_zRNKsdWY85L1Y9NiF8Mi03ZbQ/s1600/google-maps-reroute.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Google Maps</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We can pretty much all agree that being stuck in traffic sucks, right? Well, we have some good news. Google wants to help you outsmart gridlock, and save some time on the roads with a useful new Maps feature for iOS.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Web giant this week rolled out an update to <a data-ls-seen="1" href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id585027354" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maps for iOS</a>, which will give you more information about traffic right when you need it, allowing you to avoid a dreaded bumper-to-bumper situation. When you're in Navigation mode, the app will now alert you when a faster route to your destination is available.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The app may tell you, for instance, that there's traffic up ahead, and you can save 10 minutes by taking a different way. From there, you'll have the option to reroute, or you can select "no, thanks" to continue on your potentially not-so-merry way.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The feature is, of course, only available in areas where navigation is supported. The update brings the iOS version of the app up to speed with its Android equivalent, which received the same feature last month.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The latest feature comes after Google back in August added real-time incident reports from its newly acquired crowd-sourced traffic app Waze to its Maps apps. This means that when Waze users report accidents, construction, road closures, and other incidents, the information now appears in the Google Maps apps for Android and iOS. // <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430316,00.asp">PCMag</a></span></div>

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlyK2wNb1w5l0Wkzg-MdWlv-OLYf5B5UC5EcsL9YLOB1hhO-iEprwkNhGbz7vk3f0FXzddxPDrlAy0w_-qZRNHcmSgfisCiZ-pChob-YAs5uTMvd6dIWBrCpq2R_8KufY83Ke_Gnl7_Q/s1600/Microsoft.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlyK2wNb1w5l0Wkzg-MdWlv-OLYf5B5UC5EcsL9YLOB1hhO-iEprwkNhGbz7vk3f0FXzddxPDrlAy0w_-qZRNHcmSgfisCiZ-pChob-YAs5uTMvd6dIWBrCpq2R_8KufY83Ke_Gnl7_Q/s1600/Microsoft.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Microsoft</span></i></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft has invested $US15 million ($16.7 million) in Foursquare Labs, forging a partnership that will help Windows-powered phones offer location-based restaurant and entertainment suggestions to their owners.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The investment, confirmed in an interview by Foursquare chief executive Dennis Crowley, is part of a funding round from late last year that valued New York-based Foursquare at more than $US600 million, people with knowledge of the terms said in December. It comes as Microsoft announced <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/microsoft-names-satya-nadella-new-ceo-as-bill-gates-steps-down-as-chairman-20140204-hvb6d.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a new CEO and chairman</a> effective immediately.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft is adding features to its Windows Phone software in an effort to compete with Apple's iPhone and Google's Android software, which together dominate the smartphone market. Location data from Foursquare will appear in a voice-activated assistant, code-named Cortana, that has yet to be released and will go up against Apple's Siri technology, according to a person with knowledge of the plans.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This is huge validation for the stuff we've been working so hard on," Crowley said. "It's one of the leaders in the space we work in looking at us and saying we can really help power the next generation of devices."</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Foursquare, which has struggled to generate sales in almost five years on the market, will get a new stream of data licensing revenue from the partnership, Crowley said. Foursquare's valuation has been stagnant since 2011.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft and American Express were both vying for a stake in Foursquare last year. Microsoft has been courting start-ups to add features to its phones and tablets, which lag behind Apple and Android in the number of applications available to users.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cortana, named for the artificially intelligent character in Microsoft's popular Halo video game series, is scheduled to be part of the Windows Phone 8.1 release, to be shown within several months, according to a person familiar with the project and Foursquare agreement, who asked not to be identified because details haven't been made public.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As part of the deal, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will gain access to more of Foursquare's data than the company makes available publicly and to other partners. That data would allow Microsoft, with a user's permission, to push out tips, suggestions and discounts tied to a person's location, said Zig Serafin, a vice-president in Microsoft's Bing search unit.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We're building some contextually aware experiences to power some upcoming products in Windows Phone," Serafin said. "This will be for anywhere you get a Bing-powered experience." // <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/it-pro/business-it/microsoft-buys-167m-stake-in-foursquare-20140205-hvbaa.html">brisbanetimes</a></span></div>

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Microsoft : Satya Nadella is named chief executive

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkn7XHKUrIx9PThMZZrkTKRS7K4UlmyBQvwwDA20iHRMUaEs25cTT8chKXq0GYSEprI2RqXwC1AoicTwtmiuNSwOnUIIj6dB_mp303yIL0GEH00hpQ_oc7yo9FiSdJtDwk_VzWIHliGY/s1600/Bill-Gates_2771615b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkn7XHKUrIx9PThMZZrkTKRS7K4UlmyBQvwwDA20iHRMUaEs25cTT8chKXq0GYSEprI2RqXwC1AoicTwtmiuNSwOnUIIj6dB_mp303yIL0GEH00hpQ_oc7yo9FiSdJtDwk_VzWIHliGY/s1600/Bill-Gates_2771615b.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h1 itemprop="headline name" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: start;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Bill Gates</span></i></h1> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="firstPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> <div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bill Gates has quit as Microsoft chairman to take up a new role as technology adviser in a management shake-up that will see Satya Nadella become chief executive.</span></div> </div> <div class="secondPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> <div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The announcement ends a long search for a new chief after Steve Ballmer announced his intention to retire in August.</span></div> </div> <div class="thirdPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> <div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr Nadella is only the third chief executive in Microsoft's 39-year history, following co-founder Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.</span></div> </div> <div class="fourthPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> <div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella,” said Bill Gates in a statement. “Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product innovation and growth.” // <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/10616998/Bill-Gates-quits-as-Microsoft-chairman-and-Satya-Nadella-is-named-chief-executive.html">Telegraph</a></span></div> </div>

Microsoft : Satya Nadella is named chief executive

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Google apologizes for naming Berlin 'Adolf-Hitler-Platz' on map

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEZwkzqtVovt_ZrhCDsku-yMv25DbtSn-Da9X0gkMf9cwZT6S-8QW1waB0mT93dB3Ohj7R4VLj-6Je3BgyXfakKhJILclu9b2C5kexTpveNDULr3TXaPkUnZ7ONYZr6fgrieNcFReew64/s1600/google-data_center-google_glass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEZwkzqtVovt_ZrhCDsku-yMv25DbtSn-Da9X0gkMf9cwZT6S-8QW1waB0mT93dB3Ohj7R4VLj-6Je3BgyXfakKhJILclu9b2C5kexTpveNDULr3TXaPkUnZ7ONYZr6fgrieNcFReew64/s1600/google-data_center-google_glass.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Google</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google has reportedly apologized for accidentally naming a Berlin intersection as 'Adolf-Hitler-Platz' on its mapping service.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google spokeswoman Lena Wagner said that the company quickly took down the erroneous name and renamed the intersection with its proper name, Theodor-Heuss-Platz, named after West Germany's first post-World War II president.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to Fox News, the search giant said that it wasn't clear how the error occurred on Google Maps but apologised for the mistake.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The report said that a lot of streets and squares were named after Hitler during his 1933-1945 dictatorship, and the Berlin intersection sits on what the Nazis envisioned as the capital's main east-west axis for a redesign of the city that was never completed.</span></div>

Google apologizes for naming Berlin 'Adolf-Hitler-Platz' on map

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CES 2014: Tablets roundup

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmswDPVGhESlRHsWgoOks8prL0onkZhN0Drku-Z0hS8-HjAUn8c5mnf_eksdsehVN7Dch3fL37ty9Cvq7SnveD5uKC7_pL25l_1gglRr_oWrJK_yOredbKB2qnq4VTjvmC5Ti2txpBNP8/s1600/panasonic-toughpad-ap-ces-635x475.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">CES 2014</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Asus</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> at </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">CES 2014</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> revealed a chain of new tablets, out of which one was its first ever 'quad-mode' convertible tablet - </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Transformer Book Duet (TD300)</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">. The Transformer Book TD300 boasts of a dual OS, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and Windows 8.1 OS, and can switch between the two within four seconds. The 13-inch hybrid is backed by an Intel 'Haswell' Core i7 processor and is claimed to run twice as fast as other tablets with ARM processors.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Taiwanese firm also unveiled two new smartphone-tablet hybrids - Asus PadFone mini and Asus PadFone X with 4-inch and 5-inch displays respectively. While the PadFone mini fits into a 7-inch tablet dock, the PadFone X fits in a 9-inch tablet dock. The PadFone mini introduced in CES 2014 should not be mistaken for Asus PadFone mini 4.3, which was revealed last year. Not many details have been revealed for the Asus PadFone X. However, the device is confirmed to run on the latest Android 4.4 Kitkat OS.</span></span></div> <span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Asus-PadFone mini-CES-2014-635.jpg" class="mt-image-center" src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/Asus-PadFone%20mini-CES-2014-635.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: none; text-align: center;" width="635" /></span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Asus additionally launched its Windows 8.1-based VivoTab Note 8 tablet targeted for professionals and students alike. The selling point for the VivoTab Note 8 is the Wacom Digitizer Stylus seated at the bottom of the tablet in a neat holder. The stylus offers over 1000 levels of pressure sensitivity to provide a natural writing and drawing experience at a high speed, accuracy and responsiveness. The company has not detailed any information about the pricing or the availability.</span></span></div> <span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="asus-vivotab-note-8.jpg" class="mt-image-center" src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/asus-vivotab-note-8.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: none; text-align: center;" width="635" /></span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Micromax, the popular Indian mobile and tablet brand, started its CES 2014 campaign with the unveiling of the Canvas LapTab tablet. The Micromax Canvas LapTab tablet, like the Asus Transformer Book Duet TD300, sports an Android Jelly Bean and Windows 8.1 dual-boot functionality, however, the precise Android version has not yet been revealed. The company has not revealed the pricing details of the Canvas LapTab tablet but said the tablet device will go on sale in early February via e-commerce portals and retail stores across India. The company has also introduced a wireless keyboard cum protector sleeve for the tablet.</span></div> <span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Micromax_Canvas_LapTab.jpg" class="mt-image-center" src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/Micromax_Canvas_LapTab.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: none; text-align: center;" width="635" /></span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At CES, Samsung unveiled four tablets in its new Galaxy NotePRO and Galaxy TabPRO line-ups, all of which run Android 4.4 KitKat out-of-the-box. These are, the Galaxy NotePRO (12.2-inch), Galaxy TabPRO 12.2-inch, Galaxy TabPRO 10.1-inch and Galaxy TabPRO 8.4-inch. Samsung did not revealed the pricing for the Galaxy NotePRO and TabPRO tablets line, but did say the four newly launched Samsung tablets will be available starting from Q1, 2014.</span></span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="samsung-galaxy-notepro-ces-launch-635.jpg" class="mt-image-center" src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/samsung-galaxy-notepro-ces-launch-635.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: none; text-align: center;" width="635" /></span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Acer announced two new tablets ahead of CES 2014, the Iconia A1-830 and the Iconia B1-720 with 7.9-inch and 7-inch screens respectively. Running on Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean, the Iconia A1-830 is the more premium of the two tablets, with a 7.9-inch IPS display (768x1024 pixel), and an aluminium back on offer. The Iconia B1-720 costs $129.99 (roughly Rs. 8,000) and will hit North America later in January 2014, alongside an optional protective case. The tablet will run Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean out-of the-box and features a 7-inch OGS (One Glass Solution) with no details on resolution.</span></span></div> <span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Acer-Iconia-B1-720-635.jpg" class="mt-image-center" height="348" src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/Acer-Iconia-B1-720-635.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: none; text-align: center;" width="635" /></span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Panasonic, expanding its Toughpad range of tablets, launched the Toughpad FZ-M1 tablet at CES 2014. The rugged tablet, unlike previous iterations, is targeted at the enterprise segment. The Panasonic Toughpad FZ-M1 will be available in early spring 2014, although there is no word yet on specific market rollout. Based on Windows 8.1 Pro (64-bit), the tablet comes with a 7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1200x800 pixels with glove touch technology and comes with an optional stylus support.</span></div> <span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="panasonic-toughpad-fzm1-ces-launch-635.jpg" class="mt-image-center" src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/panasonic-toughpad-fzm1-ces-launch-635.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: none; text-align: center;" width="635" /></span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Xolo at CES 2014 also introduced its first Windows-based tablet, dubbed Xolo Win with 10.1-inch display. The company notes that the Windows 8 certified Xolo Win tablet will reach India by the end of January, though it has not revealed the pricing of the tablet. Further, Xolo claims that its first Windows tablet is targeted at the youth segment, along with working professionals.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alcatel has launched two new budget tablets, One Touch Pop 7 and One Touch 8 running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean at the CES 2014. The One Touch Pop 7 features a 7-inch TFT display and is backed by a 1.3GHz dual-core MediaTek MT8312 processor along with Mali 400 GPU and 1GB of RAM. The Alcatel One Touch Pop 8 tablet comes with an 8-inch 1280x800 pixels resolution. It is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor (unspecified chipset) with 1GB of RAM.</span></div> <span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="alcatel-one-touch-pop-8-ces-launch-635.jpg" class="mt-image-center" height="358" src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/alcatel-one-touch-pop-8-ces-launch-635.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: none; text-align: center;" width="635" /></span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kid-safe tablets and smartphones are hitting the market, giving parents more control over how the mobile devices are used. Hollywood studio DreamWorks has joined the move, introducing itsDreamTab at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in partnership with California-based manufacturer Fuhu. The new device will be up against competition - including from French-based Kurio, which has its own tablets on display at the huge Las Vegas show, and is also introducing a kid-safe smartphone. Fuhu already makes a tablet designed for kids called Nabi, but will expand its footprint with DreamWorks, teaming up with the animators behind films like Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon.</span></span></div> <span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="xo-2-laptop-ces-635x475.jpg" class="mt-image-center" src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/xo-2-laptop-ces-635x475.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: none; text-align: center;" width="635" /></span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a project supported by One Laptop per Child Association (OLPCA) and OLPC Foundation (OLPCF), has introduced a couple of tablets for children at CES 2014. The tablets,OLPC XO-2 and XO-10, have almost the similar hardware specifications with some tweaks in the operating systems. OLPC's XO-2 tablet costs $149 (roughly Rs. 9,200) with its availability dates kept undisclosed by the firm. The tablet operates on the much popular Android platform. The XO-10 tablet is understood to set back a customer by $199 (roughly Rs. 12,300) and runs on a heavily modified version of Android 4.4 Kitkat OS //<a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tablets/features/ces-2014-tablets-roundup-469579"> </a></span><i style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tablets/features/ces-2014-tablets-roundup-469579">NDTV Gadgets</a></i></span></div>

CES 2014: Tablets roundup

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Alleged Dropbox Hack Is A Hoax, Website Is Back Up

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLB_Ce32VUcvKzM7HwXiBeTAPeZkhEFiHUe_o8voUrpo8Ve5DYd492d5jZFLDymIcOicqhsmKH5HF2ZT3nQG0FLuUNS3B8BmEqQCGQIEmH0nX9Cpk51oi3DjgHbdxT3Bhp1rZZMDza4c/s1600/dropbox.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dropbox</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLB_Ce32VUcvKzM7HwXiBeTAPeZkhEFiHUe_o8voUrpo8Ve5DYd492d5jZFLDymIcOicqhsmKH5HF2ZT3nQG0FLuUNS3B8BmEqQCGQIEmH0nX9Cpk51oi3DjgHbdxT3Bhp1rZZMDza4c/s1600/dropbox.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The alleged hack against Dropbox is <del style="box-sizing: border-box;">looking more like</del> is an elaborate hoax, timed perfectly with the website’s incidental outage. As security researcher Wesley Mcgrew <a href="https://twitter.com/McGrewSecurity/status/421845860616376320" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">points out</a></em>,<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">the emails supposedly stolen from Dropbox have been found elsewhere on the web and a<a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonPriest" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">known</a> Anonymous Twitter account is officially denying their involvement. Moreover, it seems the group claiming credit <a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonPriest/status/421857754920148993" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">may incur the wrath of Anonymous</a>, because they said the attack was in the name of fallen internet activist, Aaron Swartz. </em></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dropbox sent us this updated response, confirming the hoax:</span></em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Dropbox site is back up.</span></em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In regards to claims of “leaked user information” – this is a hoax. This is not Dropbox data. The list was published 12/9/13 at: <a href="http://pastebin.com/64PAAV1c" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://pastebin.com/64PAAV1c</a></span></em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today’s outage was caused during internal maintenance, and was not caused by external factors. We apologize for any inconvenience.”</span></em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our original story below:</span></em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Popular backup service Dropbox is offline and the hacktivist contingent, Anonymous, is claiming credit. “BREAKING NEWS: We have just compromised the @Dropbox Website<a href="http://bit.ly/1cMlbvt" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://bit.ly/1cMlbvt</a> #hacked #compromised,” tweeted an alleged Anonymous Twitter account.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dropbox seems to be denying their website was hacked: “We are aware of an issue currently affecting the Dropbox site. We have identified the cause, which was the result of an issue that arose during routine internal maintenance, and are working to fix this as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience,” went a company blog post. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Update: Dropbox and has called us and is explicitly denying they have been hacked</em>] //<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/dropbox-offline-hacker-group-claims-credit/"> <i>TechCrunch</i></a></span></div>

Alleged Dropbox Hack Is A Hoax, Website Is Back Up

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CES : Valve Announce 13 Steam Machine Partners

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gJRc2QBQjYK8IcZhDM-DmifANJNpDXXXAVzkuGzRpgJefUmlBgMV849AKpd-EQ5pcxkOGPBmNpW61vnAM9-0ZnojolxCnFrlFn9j-6daRKEjkU_gUP8F3AGO9FHDSiH2k_HcX7EedNs/s1600/Cyberpower-Steambox-300x244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gJRc2QBQjYK8IcZhDM-DmifANJNpDXXXAVzkuGzRpgJefUmlBgMV849AKpd-EQ5pcxkOGPBmNpW61vnAM9-0ZnojolxCnFrlFn9j-6daRKEjkU_gUP8F3AGO9FHDSiH2k_HcX7EedNs/s1600/Cyberpower-Steambox-300x244.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">CyberPowerPC</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only a few companies have previously announced Steam Machines, but Valve’s CES announcement brings a number of well-known vendors to the platform, including Alienware and Gigabyte, and several companies outside the US – bound to please those who felt left out by Valve’s US-only Steam Machine beta. The 13 companies are (with prices if available):</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alienware</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alternate ($1,339)</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">CyberPowerPC ($499)</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Digital Storm ($2,584)</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gigabyte</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Falcon Northwest ($1,799 – $6,000)</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">iBuyPower ($499)</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Materiel.net ($1,098)</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Origin PC</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Scan Computers ($1,090)</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Webhallen ($1,499)</span></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Zotac ($599)</span></span></li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A number of vendors – like iBuyPower and Digital Storm – have already outlined a number of SteamOS devices available to purchase soon. Valve have not announced any release dates at this time, deferring to manufacturers. Gabe Newell has also stated that manufacturers will be able to make their own Steam Controllers, helping to diversify the Steam hardware ecosystem. </span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/6/5280256/cyberpowerpc-steam-machine-will-compete-with-consoles-at-499" style="-webkit-transition: color 250ms ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CyberPowerPC</a> have announced their own <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$499</span> Steam Machine with an AMD processor, Radeon graphics, 8GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, and the Steam Controller. A <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$699</span> <a href="http://www.hardware-360.com/cyberpowerpc-shows-off-steam-box-gaming-system-at-ces/" style="-webkit-transition: color 250ms ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">configuration</a> comes with an Intel processor and Nvidia graphics instead. Unlike the dual-boot Bolt II, CyberPowerPC’s pricing is <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">far</em> more competitive with the latest-gen consoles – $499 for the Xbox One and $399.99 for the PS4.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the high end of the scale are the Steam Machines on offer by Falcon Northwest, which will range from $1,799 to $6,000 with Nvidia GTX Titan graphics, 8–16GB of RAM, and up to 6TB of storage.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maingear have also <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/maingear-spark/" style="-webkit-transition: color 250ms ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">announced</a> their Steam Machine “Spark” featuring an AMD A8 5575M processor, Radeon R9 mobile graphics, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Sadly, no word on price at this time.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/valve-announce-12-steam-machines-partners-ces">OMG Ubuntu</a></span></i></div>

CES : Valve Announce 13 Steam Machine Partners

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