Month: March 2013

Application Cloud Culture Google

Google Starts Testing Google Shopping Express In SF, With Free Delivery At Target, Walgreens, Staples And More

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEXIA TSOTSIS Google is finally opening up its Google Shopping Express service to the public today, with the same day delivery service being made available as a test to select users in San Francisco and the Peninsula from San Mateo to San Jose. Participating retailers include, as we’ve previously reported: Target, Walgreens, Staples, American Eagle, Toys“R”Us/Babies“R”Us, Office Depot, San Francisco’s Blue Bottle Coffee, Raley’s Nob Hill Foods, and Palo Alto Toy & Sport. Our original…

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Business Education

AlumniFunder Launches A Crowdfunding Platform Where Alumni Can Back Student Entrepreneurs

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON AlumniFunder launched in beta this week with a simple mission: Help create a deeper relationship between current students and alumni, while supporting collegiate entrepreneurship and creativity. To do that, AlumniFunder wants to give alumni a platform by which they can invest in innovative projects created by students at their alma mater. Whether it be for a new science lab, natural language processing research or a documentary film, the startup also…

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Government Internet

Three Men Arrested For Attempting To Cut Undersea Internet Cable In Egypt

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS Egyptian authorities arrested three men off the coast of Alexandria for attempting to sever an undersea Internet cable. The SEA-ME-WE 4 main line was part of a cable network that spanned the Mediterranean and connects Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe and has 39 landing points, including Alexandria. Seacom, a cable operator, said that the attacks reduced network speed in Egypt. The line belonged to Telecom Egypt.…

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Business Culture

Reuters: Wal-Mart looking into crowd-sourcing online delivery

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Walmart is considering the slightly insane sounding idea of using its in-store customers to deliver online orders to help it compete with bricks and mortar-less competitors like Amazon, according to Reuters. The big box outfit currently ships internet purchases from just 25 of its stores using the likes of FedEx to handle delivery, but plans to drastically increase that number going forward. In theory, customers could sign up for the chore and…

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Business Mobile

BlackBerry makes $94 million on revenue of $2.7 billion, ships 1 million BB10 devices in 2013 Q4 Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper This isn’t quite the BlackBerry earnings story you’re waiting for — after all, the US figures covering the success (or otherwise) of the Z10 won’t arrive until the next quarter. Instead, we’re looking at the company’s results from the end of the fiscal year to March 2nd, which shows that the smartphone maker made $94 million in GAAP income on revenues of $2.7 billion — in contrast with the $125 million net loss it made…

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Story

Scary Video Shows American Fans Getting Pelted With Projectiles At The USA-Mexico Soccer Game

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Tony Manfred The US tied Mexico 0-0 at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City last night. It was only the second time the US team won a point in the notoriously hostile Azteca, and Mexico was rightfully upset about it. Some brave (crazy?) American fans trekked to Mexico City to watch the game. They sat in a section guarded by riot police, but that didn’t stop Mexican fans from lobbing beer…

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Culture Games

EA announces ‘Battlefield 4’ with a 17-minute gameplay trailer

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes The next entry in Electronic Arts’ visually stunning Battlefield series is set to be released this fall for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. EA DICE announced Battlefield 4alongside a 17-minute trailer that opens on a couple of soldiers listening to Bonnie Tyler’s power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” and proceeds to showcase the cinematic setpiece moments that titles like Battlefield 3 and the Modern Warfare series have come to be known for. The first person…

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Mobile

BlackBerry’s Android Bet Is Paying Off

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS BlackBerry’s App World now touts 100,000 BB10 applications. An impressive number for a platform just months old. But out of those 100,000 applications, roughly 20% are Android apps, simply ported over rather than being coded specifically for BlackBerry 10. This is a win for BlackBerry. It’s a big win. Android or native, it shows that BlackBerry is successfully pulling developers into its fold. Even without the Android apps, App World still…

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Business

Fingerprints Instead Of Credit Cards? YC-Backed PayTango Aims To Make Payments Work Through Biometrics

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As reported on TechCrunch. by KIM-MAI CUTLER As a mechanism for payment, the credit card remains just as hardy as ever. It has so far defied the threat of mobile phones, and less plausibly, QR codes, among many other forms of payment. One YC-backed startup is betting that fingerprints and other forms of biometric identification may be the payment method of the future though. Called PayTango, they’re partnering with local universities to offer a quick and easy…

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Military

Operational F-35B fighter jet’s first vertical landing was years, billions in the making (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program has been a political whipping boy seemingly forever, but a production VTOL ‘B’-variant of the pricey supersonic jet finally did what it was made for: a vertical landing. That happened nearly three years to the day after the estimated $304 million (each!) jet’s first mid-air hover test, at which point the Pentagon pegged the cost at $83 million. Inflation aside, the US Marine’s variant seemed to make a…

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