Month: February 2013

Business

Sony posts a net loss of $115 million for Q3, stays on track for full-year operating profit HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler Still-in-turnaround-mode Sony has reported its earnings for the October to December period, and has recorded a net loss of about 10.8 billion yen ($115 million). It did however improve its revenue to $21 billion as the yen weakened, despite slower sales of items like HDTVs and Blu-ray players. Key for Sony is that it managed an operating profit for the quarter of 46.4 billion yen ($496 million) and remains on…

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England to mandate dog microchips by 2016

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As reported on Engadget. By Zach Honig Thinking about injecting an identification chip in your pooch? If you live in the southern part of the UK, you won’t have a choice. Come 2016, English authorities will require all of the country’s pups to have embedded microchips, so they can be returned to their owners if ever they run astray. The United Kingdom’s Environment Department says some 60 percent of the country’s 8 million dogs already have the…

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Microsoft rumored to be taking a ‘meaningful look’ at Office for Linux

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr  Open source obsessive Michael Larabel says he has it on good authority that Microsoft is considering a native version of Office for Linux. Specifically, the company is taking a “meaningful look” at the idea, now that Linux is showing signs of becoming more of a player in the OS stakes. The information came to Larabel from an unnamed source during the Free Open-Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, and this…

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Business Mobile

ComScore: iPhone up to 36 percent of US phone share in December, Android stayed put Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas There’s been indications that Apple staged something of a comeback in the US during the fourth quarter, owing partly to an iPhone 5-related spike. ComScore’ssmartphone share data for December appears to bear that out. It estimates that the Apple claimed a 36.3 percent slice of the American market in the last month of 2012: that’s a noticeable boost from 35 percent in November, and two points up since the iPhone 5’s September arrival. Android…

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Here’s What An American High Speed Rail Network Could Look Like

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Alex Davies High speed rail is moving forward in California, but progress is pretty stagnant around the rest of the country. Still, there are a lot of proposals out there, and when placed on one map, they form an impressive rail network. This map was put together by California Rail Map, led by Alfred Twu, which combined existing proposals from high speed rail advocacy groups around the US. The US High…

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Education Tech

MIT’s Free Creative Learning Class Teaches You How to Learn Almost Anything

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Whether you need to learn a new skill or language to advance your career, or you just want to learn something new and broaden your horizons, lifelong learning is important. Still, picking up new things can be difficult, and the free Learning Creative Learning course from the MIT Media Lab aims to teach you techniques to easily pick up something new whenever you want to. The course starts on…

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Culture

The Winter Bloom Desktop

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry We’ve seen some great OS X desktops featuring GeekTool, but you don’t need it to tweak your Mac’s desktop into something that’s even cleaner, or at least a little more personal. That’s what reader DJDC did with this great-looking Snow Leopard desktop. No fancy Geeklets, just a clean, consistent look and a wallpaper that brings it all together. Want your Mac to look the same way DJDC’s does? Well, one thing…

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How to Track the Emails You Send (and Avoid Being Tracked Yourself)

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Whitson Gordon Ever wish you could find out whether someone actually opened that email you sent, or whether they just ignored and trashed it? A service called Bananatag can tell you—but if you find that a little creepy, we’ve got the lowdown on how to protect yourself too. How Bananatag Works Think of Bananatag like iMessage or BBM for your email: when you send someone a message, you can track it…

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Navy’s First 4G Network Will Head Out to Sea in March

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As reported on Wired. BY SPENCER ACKERMAN For the first time, sailors and Marines are about to bring a 4G LTE network onto two ships, giving communications experts like Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Lakisha Johnson, above, a new means of sharing data, voice and text at sea. Photo: U.S. Navy   For the first time, a sailor or Marine on board a ship out to sea can actually use his or her cellphone for something…

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Culture

Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER A UPP soldier reacts to the distant sound of a gunshot by taking out his gun in the Sao Carlos shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March 7, 2012.   When a city is chosen to host a major global event like the Olympics, officials go into high gear to ensure their metropolitan area is ready for the world’s eyes. In addition to building enormous amounts of infrastructure there’s…

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