Month: April 2013

Culture

Drugs, porn, and counterfeits: the market for illegal goods is booming online

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries New stores are launching every month to serve the internet’s illicit underground economy   In the beginning of February a remorseful Paul Leslie Howard, 32, stood in front of a judge in Melbourne and pleaded guilty to charges of selling meth, LSD, amphetamines, and pot, as well as importing distribution-level quantities of MDMA and cocaine. Howard, a heavyset man who worked the door at night clubs, seemed genuinely…

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Business Cloud

Kloudless Launches Service That Uses Connectors To Move Files Between Different Cloud Services

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Kloudless launched at Disrupt NY 2013 today with its service for moving data from email to different cloud platforms through connectors which act like pipes that flow between the different services. The service offers a plugin that the user installs in Outlook or as an extension through their web browser to use in Gmail or other apps, said CEO Eliot Sun. Kloudless does not store any data, nor files, the service…

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Application Cloud Culture Microsoft

Microsoft Launches Preview Of Skype For Outlook.com

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Microsoft has announced that it is launching a preview of Skype for Outlook.com starting in the UK. The service will be made available in the U.S. and Germany in the coming weeks before it is rolled out to the rest of the world. With the rollout of Skype for Web, the VoIP service joins Microsoft’s suite of online tools, including SkyDrive. Since its launch six months ago, Outlook.com, meant to replace the Hotmail…

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Application iPhone

AppArchitect Lets Anyone Build iOS Apps, No Coding Or Templates Necessary

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK Easy app creation, outside of the land of Ruby and Python, has become a huge phenomenon in the last year. And the latest company to join the fold,AppArchitect, is launching straight from our Disrupt NY stage. AppArchitect lets you build custom iPhone and iPad apps using a simple drag-and-drop interface. That’s right — you need zero coding experience to build your own iPhone app. It’s a brand new world.…

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Business Retail Sales

Best Buy will sell its half of European arm to Carphone Warehouse for $775 million

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler As Best Buy attempts a return to financial well-being, it’s decided to sell the 50 percent share it still owns in Best Buy Europe to fellow joint venture partner Carphone Warehouse. The price is set at about 500 million GBP ($775 million, mostly in cash) and is expected to close by June. Best Buy paid $2.15 billion for its share of the business back in 2008 and the first branded store opened…

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Google

Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint

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As reported on Engadget. By Tim Stevens You might be inclined to think that airport security is not the best place to wear Google Glass. You’d probably be right, but given the amount that I travel it was pretty-well inevitable that I’d cross through some security checkpoint before the course of this testing would be through. MORE INFO Living with Google Glass, Day One: The Reveal Living with Google Glass, Day Two: Around the House I’m…

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History Internet

CERN celebrates 20 years of a free, open web by restoring world’s first website

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As reported on Engadget. By James Trew The web as we know it was famously invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working atCERN, but it wasn’t until a few years later — 1993 to be precise — that it’d truly be set free. On April 30 of that year, Berners-Lee’s then employer would make the technology behind the WWW available license free, bundling a basic browser and some key chunks of code into the deal. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of…

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Trends TV

Nielsen preparing ‘Digital Program Ratings’ pilot program to track streaming viewers HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler According to the Wall Street Journal, Nielsen’s TV ratings are about to get some company, with a system that covers internet watchers. A “Nielsen Digital Program Ratings” pilot program will debut with participation from NBC, Fox, ABC, Univision, Discovery and A&E, tracking the viewership of streaming video they post on their websites. AOL (parent company of Engadget) is also reported to be participating, as the networks compare the data to their internal statistics…

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Photography

Ghostly Plane Wrecks Found in Remote, Exotic Locations

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER West Sahara Canada Canada Canada Mexico Australia USA Canada Bobsleigh track from the 1984 Winter Games in modern day Bosnia-Herzegonina. From the series Olympic Spirit. Croatia. Yugoslavian military airplane storage. From the series R.I.P Australia. From the series Last Exit. Romania. From the series God’s Debris. View as gallery   Dietmar Eckell has traveled the world in pursuit of ruin. His portfolio is filled with mystifyingly beautiful pictures of abandoned buildings, forgotten military sites…

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Military

US Navy experimenting with drones and blimps to fight Caribbean drug smugglers

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster In the wake of budget cuts, the US Navy is turning to older technology in the war on drugs. As the Associated Press reports, last week the Navy began testing two new tools to monitor and capture drug smugglers in the Caribbean: the blimp-like aerostat, which has previously been used for surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan as well tomonitor the US-Mexico border, and a drone that’s launched from the deck of a…

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