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Smartphone video of boxing clash lands blow to copyright
May 06, 2015 (AFP)
The boxing match billed as the fight of the century is over, but the battle over smartphone video streaming of the Las Vegas showdown is just beginning. Revelat...
IBM, Facebook team up on analytics, advertising
May 06, 2015 (AFP)
IBM and Facebook announced Wednesday they would collaborate with marketers to develop better online advertising targeted to specific customers. The companies sa...
Ephemeral emails: Startup shows off self-destructing messages
May 06, 2015 (AFP)
A startup company wants to make your emails vanish forever -- but in a good way. The firm, Confidential CC, has created an application that lets people send sel...
$100 million for startup to 'reimagine education'
May 05, 2015 (AFP)
Tech industry leaders including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg have raised $100 million for an education initiative aimed at "reimagining" schools from the elementa...
The trillion-frame-per-second camera
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
When a crystal lattice is excited by a laser pulse, waves of jostling atoms can travel through the material at close to one sixth the speed of light, or approxi...
Facebook opens Internet.org after neutrality flap
May 04, 2015 (AFP)
Facebook said Monday it was opening up Internet.org, which provides connectivity to people in developing nations, to outside applications following a controvers...
Americans stream away in shifting TV landscape
May 03, 2015 (AFP)
Streaming television is now mainstream, although it has not caused many people to "cut the cord" for traditional pay TV. Not yet, anyway. More than half of Amer...
Windows that act like an LCD Screen
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
The secret desire of urban daydreamers staring out their office windows at the sad brick walls of the building opposite them may soon be answered thanks to tran...
Tablet sales continue to slump
Apr 30, 2015 (AFP)
Figures released on Thursday by International Data Corporation showed that the global tablet market continued to slump in the recently ended quarter. Shipments ...
News industry turning mobile: study
Apr 29, 2015 (AFP)
The news industry is struggling with a shift to mobile, getting scant revenues as more readers turn to smartphones and tablets for information, a research repor...
Norway blazes global path from FM to digital-only radio
Apr 29, 2015 (AFP)
Norway is tuning out FM radio for good, and becoming the world's first country to put a date on the switchover to digital-only transmissions. With digital promi...
Twitter shares dive as earnings miss markw/lll
Apr 28, 2015 (AFP)
Twitter shares plunged Tuesday after an earnings report fell short of market expectations, despite a jump in the number of active monthly users above 300 millio...
Apple profit soars on iPhone, China sales
Apr 27, 2015 (AFP)
Apple on Monday reported a sharp rise in its quarterly profit, lifted by robust sales of its iPhones and a jump in revenue from China. The California tech giant...
OSU innovation boosts Wi-Fi bandwidth tenfold
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology that can increase the bandwidth of WiFi systems by 10 times, using LED lights to transmit ...
Whiteboards of the future: New electronic paper could make inexpensive electronic displays
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays l...
Apple Watch begins global launch -- quietly
Apr 24, 2015 (AFP)
The Apple Watch debuted in selected global markets Friday with sales limited to clients who had pre-ordered online, making the launch a relatively low-key affai...
10 years later, YouTube is a hit but faces challenges
Apr 23, 2015 (AFP)
Ten years after its launch, YouTube has become a household name for online video but faces an array of rivals in the market and lingering questions about its bu...
Chinese smartwatch makers say clock ticking for Apple
Apr 23, 2015 (AFP)
The Apple Watch goes on sale on Friday but Chinese factories are already churning out cheaper alternatives, to the delight of local consumers. "Our product has ...
Microsoft to launch first flagship store outside US in Sydney
Apr 21, 2015 (AFP)
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will open its first flagship store outside the United States in Sydney, as the technology giant expands its physical footprint to t...
Google security chief looks for balance with privacy
Apr 18, 2015 (AFP)
Google has a new sheriff keeping watch over the wilds of the Internet. Austrian-born Gerhard Eschelbeck has ranged the British city of Oxford; cavorted at notor...
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