Day: January 30, 2014

Entertainment

Angry Nerd: Calm Down, Dorks. Disney Will Not Ruin Star Wars

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRIS BAKER Need Text Will Disney Ruin Star Wars? Some internet geeks are up in arms about Disney buying the Star Wars IP from George Lucas. Angry Nerd advises them to chill out. Are they worried that Disney will add annoying cutesy characters to boost kid appeal, or reduce the movies to fodder for endless spinoff shows and cartoons and merchandise? WELL THAT ALREADY HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO, YOU SCRUFFY-LOOKING NERF…

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Application

With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water

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As reported on The Verge. By Dieter Bohn This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it’s much more than just a news reading app — it’s a complete reimagining of Facebook itself. Once you’ve used it, you may never want to open the standard Facebook app again. Although it doesn’t replicate every feature of Facebook’s main app, it has enough to fill the majority of what people use it…

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Culture Tech

Welcome To The French Tech Ecosystem

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Romain Dillet   This is the story of a city that keeps reinventing itself. Over the past three weeks, I’ve been walking around Paris to meet with the brightest minds of a tech ecosystem in the making. My experience is as personal as it is relevant about what makes a startup ecosystem work, and why Europe is the next frontier.   When I first decided that I wanted to move to…

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Business Cloud

Amazon might launch Kindle-powered checkout system and cloud-based payment service

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As reported on Engadget. BY MARIELLA MOON Amazon might still be working away on its far-out delivery drone project, but it’s also reportedly cooking up something else, admittedly a little tamer, too: a Kindle checkout system and a P2P payment service. Yes, the former’s exactly what it sounds like — a Kindle tablet equipped with proprietary software and a credit card reader (like Square), at least according to the Wall Street Journal. Amazon supposedly acquired GoPago (a mobile payment platform for…

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Hardware Dev

Dell’s new Android HDMI dongle turns screens into virtualized desktop computers for $130

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As reported on Engadget. BY MICHAEL GORMAN Dell’s betting that a bunch of businesspeople want to be able to carry their work computer around in their pocket. Not literally, of course, but with the release of the company’s $130 dollar Wyse Cloud Connect dongle (formerly known as Project Ophelia), you can do just that. It connects to any TV or display with an HDMI or MHL port, and hooks up to mice and keyboards via Bluetooth or mini-USB. There’s also…

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