February 7, 2013 - TekDefender

Everyone Is Going Nuts Over A ‘Leaked’ Video Of A Secret Google Product – But It’s Probably A Publicity Stunt

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on Businessinsider.com by Nicholas Carlson Here’s a really neat commercial for a Google product that hasn’t been release yet. Cool, right? Problem is: it’s probably not real. It’s the product of a marketing firm called Slinky.Me, and as ComputerWorld points out, Slinky.me has a history of making fake Google commercials. It’s pretty obviously a way for Slinky.Me to get everyone’s attention for the kind of excitement its work it can do. It worked!

Environmental

The Most Common Places Heat Is Escaping From Your House

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on LifeHacker. by Whitson Gordon The Most Common Places Heat Is Escaping From Your House Heat is one of the biggest expenses in your energy bill, so keeping heat from escaping is one of the best ways to save money every month. The Washington Post shows us the most common places heat escapes. We’ve shared a lot of winterizing tips before, but the Post’s infographic is really useful in finding out which spots are the most important. For…

Art

‘Super Stylish Slope Device’ Combines Tank, Van and DJ Booth

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC View as gallery View as gallery It took four years, €60,000 – that’s $81,150 here in the States – and more welding than the San Francisco Bay Bridge retrofit, but Bernd Berger and his crew created the ultimate snowbound DJ party rig. They describe it as the “super stylisches pistengerät,” which roughly translates to “super stylish slope device” – a name so stereotypically Austrian that we can’t help but love…

Culture

Flying-Car Photos Imagine the Future We Were All Promised

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER The flying car is a symbol of fantastical, futuristic optimism colliding with reality. It’s shorthand for our inability to predict the future and our simultaneous refusal to stop, even in the face of our incompetence. We dream about driving flying cars in childhood and never outgrow the fantasy of their existence no matter how well we understand the obstacles. That’s why French photographer Renaud Marion‘s series Air Drive is spreading fast…

Games

ANTICHAMBER REVIEW: MOBIUS TRIP

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on Polygon. By Griffin McElroy Antichamber requires a great deal of intellect, patience and perception to conquer, all of which could be safely considered “serious” traits in the context of game design. It is a game that is serious and academic in the grand tradition of all good, atmospheric puzzle games — but whether developer Alexander Bruce meant to or not, Antichamber is also a very, very playful game. People love getting tricked, so long…

Story

Privacy invasion or webcam art? ‘Screening Reality’ walks a fine line

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. By Amar Toor Pierre Derks’ latest video installation sits at the nexus of voyeurism, media, and reality 1 inShare Deep in the heart of Europe sits a massive display full of live camera feeds from all over the world. Visitors drop by to peer in on unsuspecting strangers, staring blankly at scenes both intimate and banal — sleeping babies, pedestrians, empty storefronts. A computer silently churns nearby, bringing up new video streams…

Business

Dell’s downward spiral: 10 years of failed consumer devices

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Nilay Patel Things haven’t gone so well since the Dell Dude split It’s no secret why Dell’s struggling so badly it just took a $2b loan from Microsoft and bought itself back from shareholders to become a private company: after more than a decade of effort, the company never figured out what consumers actually want beyond low prices, or why they might want it. You might laugh, but it’s true — a look…

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Microsoft attacks Gmail in revived ‘Scroogled’ campaign

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon So you thought that Microsoft was done lambasting Google with its “Scroogled” ad campaign? Surprise, the company is back with a new “seven figure” offensive, railing against Google’s practice of serving ads based on the body text of your Gmail messages. Under the tagline “Think Google respects your privacy? Think again,”Microsoft explains how its own Outlook.com “prioritizes privacy,” while Google “goes through your personal email” to sell ads. THIS…

Application Business

Evernote, Now With Its First COO, Takes Its Premium Evernote Business App To 26 New Markets

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN Evernote, the popular personal information and productivity app, is taking another step today in building out its premium service offerings: its enterprise app, Evernote Business, which formally launched in seven markets inDecember 2012, has now been switched on throughout the European Union, Norway and Iceland, with Australia and New Zealand coming online next week. In keeping with the company’s growth, it has also now appointed its very first chief operating officer,…

Business Mobile

ABI: Windows Phone To End 2013 With 45M Handsets In Play, BlackBerry 10 Close To 20M — Out Of 1.4BN Global Smartphone Total

By admin | February 7, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS The Android + iPhone duopoly in the smartphone space will ease up slightly this year, according to a marketshare forecast by ABI Research. The analyst predicts Google’s platform will take a 57 per cent share of the global smartphone pie, while Apple’s iOS will cut itself about a fifth (21 per cent) — giving the two rival platforms a 78 per cent chunk of the market. (In Q4 last year the…

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