Day: February 20, 2014

Google

Google tells Glass users not to be ‘Glassholes’

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch There’s been plenty of fierce debate around Google Glass and general etiquette for using the device, and now Google is finally stepping in with its own take. The company has posted a list of do’s and don’ts for participants in its Explorer program. “Our Glass Explorer community, which consists of people from all walks of life, actively participates in shaping the future of Glass,” Google says. But these suggestions don’t…

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Apple Automotive

Apple And Tesla Had A Spring Fling

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Barto Reports are out today in The San Francisco Chronicle, and just about every other techpublication, that Apple could be in preliminary talks to buy electric automobile manufacturer Tesla. With the mobile phone and tablet markets becoming increasingly competitive, Apple is interested in expanding to other markets to increase growth. But would Apple want to buy a company valued at $25 billion at closing? With nearly $160 billion in cash, money probably wouldn’t be the primary…

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Apple Business

Apple Patents iPad Smart Magnets For Attaching Controllers, Cameras, Other iPads And More

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington A new Apple patent application published by the USPTO today describes a magnetic connector not unlike the one used to attach Smart Covers to the current iPad, but designed to be far more flexible with a variety of possible accessory combinations. It’s a smart connector system that could recognize the attached peripheral and change functionality accordingly. The types of peripherals described in the patent are many and varied, and include things…

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Application Microsoft

Microsoft rebrands Office Web Apps as Office Online because it’s an online version of Office

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As reported on Engadget. BY JAMIE RIGG Use Office Web Apps much? Us neither, which is probably why Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs felt it needed a makeover. Following SkyDrive’s recent rebrand to OneDrive, Office Web Apps has received similar treatment, and now asks you to call it Office Online. Microsoft hopes this new title more accurately reflects what Web Apps was/is: an online version of Word, Powerpoint, Excel and others, free to SkyDriveOneDrive users. Furthermore, Office Online is now located…

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Application Entertainment

Make the world your instrument with Mogees and a smartphone (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA It’s been awhile since we heard from the Mogees camp, but the device has finally hit Kickstarter. As a refresher, Mogees is a musical tool that uses a special mic to pick up surface vibrations and translate them into sounds via a mobile app. It’s sensitive enough to register everything from light finger drags on glass and coins moving around on a table, it comes in Android and iOS flavors…

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