Day: April 10, 2013

Legal

Police raid Samsung office over alleged LG OLED technology theft

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford Samsung Display’s offices in Asan, South Korea have been searched by police investigating the possible theft of OLED TV technology. A Samsung spokesperson told Bloomberg that the police were looking for evidence that people connected with LG had leaked secret OLED data to its great rival. “We have no reason to steal other companies’ technology, as we have the world’s best OLED technology,” said another spokesperson for Samsung. LG, meanwhile,…

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Military News

Leaked documents show the extent of America’s drone war

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Top-secret documents acquired by McClatchy have revealed the extent of US drone usage. Despite previous claims that drones were used for “targeted strikes against specific al-Qaeda terrorists,” it’s now clear that the unmanned aircraft are being used far more widely. According to McClatchy‘s Jonathan Landay, at least 265 of the 482 people the CIA killed over a 12-month period ending in September 2011 were assessed to be “unknown extremists;” a far cry…

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News Random

Vudu Headquarters Robbed, Hard Drives With Private Customer Data Stolen

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK There’s been a break-in! And this time, it’s a physical, real-world break-in — not the digital variety we’ve grown so accustomed to hearing about lately. Vudu, the video streaming service acquired by Walmart in 2010, has just sent an email to customers letting them know of a break-in that occurred in their Santa Clara, CA office on March 24th. While it appears that credit card info is mostly safe…

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Mobile News

An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Facebook Phone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MG SIEGLER “This is not a Facebook Phone.” Yeah, whatever. The HTC First is the first phone that has Facebook partnering up with an OEM to bake an Android pie with Facebook Home filling, so I’m calling it the Facebook Phone. There will be more. This is just the first. And guess what? It’s really good. Sitting through the Facebook Home announcement last week, before I got a chance to play…

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Application Entertainment TV

Adobe Launches Primetime To Facilitate TV Everywhere Services, Signs Up Comcast & NBC Sports As Customers

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER Adobe has changed the way it sells technology used to enable high-quality streaming services from TV networks and other video providers. With the launch of Adobe Primetime — previously know as Project Primetime — the technology company is providing a suite of tools for video delivery. And it has signed up a couple of big new clients for the suite of products. Over the last year, Adobe has been…

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Google

Google Street View Hyperlapse Is An Experimental New Way Of Wandering The World

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Google Street View is maybe one of the most interesting and under appreciated technical developments of the past decade, but it’s all a little static when viewed through standard channels like Google Maps on the desktop or on a mobile device. A new project from Toronto UX design firmTeehan+Lax, which operates a Labs unit to explore its more playful side, threads together Street View imagery to create time-lapse animations…

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Business Legal

Japanese mobile boss claims he’s already patented the tech inside Google Glass Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr Patent filings, we don’t take so seriously. One of Japan’s richest men, with the potential to call on an army of lawyers to defend what he claims is his invention, we probably ought to. Masayoshi Son, the billionaire (and philanthropic) CEO of SoftBank, has given a two-hour speech to his shareholders about his technological predictions for the next 30 years, and about halfway through he describes a familiar idea: augmented…

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Hardware Dev Mobile

ZTE Geek unveiled with 2GHz Intel Clover Trail+ and a terrible name (video) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lai Oh ZTE you cheeky monkey. Towards the end of day one at IDF in Beijing, we stumbled upon this awkwardly titled Android Jelly Bean phone that is the Geek at ZTE’s booth. Needless to say, this is yet another phone powered by an Intel processor — a 2GHz Clover Trail+ Atom to be exact, which is what Lenovo’s K900 also has. The rest of the device isn’t too shabby, either: you get a…

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