Month: June 2014

Application

Skype 5.0 For iPhone Brings All New Look And Big Performance ImprovementsSkype 5.0 For iPhone Brings All New Look And Big Performance Improvements

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington Microsoft’s Skype client for iPhone has been looking a little long in the tooth; the version that has been in the store until today is essentially still the same client they launched back in 2010, albeit replete with incremental updates along the way. Not so with the new Skype version 5.0, which is redesigned from the ground up, with major changes to the interface and navigation, and big improvements to…

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Business Legal

Intel forced to pay record $1.4 billion fine for unfair sales tactics

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT The European Union’s second-highest court has upheld a $1.4 billion fine levied against Intel for anti-competitive practices against chip foe AMD. In the original decision, way back in 2009, the European Commission found that Intel harmed its rival and consumers by giving unlawful rebates to retailers and PC makers like HP, Dell and Lenovo. Intel thenappealed, saying the commission “ignore(d) the reality of a highly competitive microprocessor marketplace.” But the Luxembourg General…

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Google Space

Google reportedly wants in on Virgin Galactic’s space business

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN Fresh from its $500 million acquisition of satellite imaging specialist Skybox, Google appears to be ready to make another space-related investment. Sky News reports that the search giant is in advanced talks to take a minority stake in Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic business with a view to getting its internet satellite project off the ground. Google may invest around $30 million into the company, which is set to begin commercial flights to space later this year, forming a…

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Culture Internet

Your survival guide for an internet blackout

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom What do you do when the network goes out? How do you build a network that survives when the rest of the web goes down? It’s a strange question, but one with a surprisingly concrete answer. You can find the networks in Athens, Berlin, and Red Hook, Brooklyn — small-scale traffic webs that let computers connect peer-to-peer without going through the larger web. It’s called a mesh network,…

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Automotive Business Culture

Big money, fast cars, and a Nyan Cat: this is the Gumball 3000

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Ziegler A notorious road rally drops by NYC on the way to Ibiza “Rev it!” screams a man in the crowd. He gets his wish: a McLaren MP4-12C, covered from nose to tail in fluorescent livery, blips its throttle to the delight of a few hundred people gathered in New York City’s historic South Street Seaport. I came here to get a glimpse of the Gumball 3000, an annual…

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Business Culture

Comcast Is Turning The US Into Its Own Private Hotspot

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As reported on TechCrunch. by John Biggs On paper it looks like a win-win: in the past few days, Comcast is quietly turning on public hotspots in its customers’ routers, essentially turning private homes into public hotspots. Comcast customers get free Wi-Fi wherever there is a Comcast box and the company gets to build out a private network to compete with telecoms. Win-win. Fifty thousand users with Arris Touchstone Telephony Wireless Gateway Modems – essentially basic modems that cable…

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Government Microsoft Politics

Microsoft resists US government demand to seize offshore emails

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT Microsoft has filed a court challenge to a US government demand that it hand over emails from its data center in Ireland. That appears to be the first time a US corporation has opposed such an order, and Microsoft has been backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and an amicus brief from Verizon. The US prosecutor heading the drug case in question said that if the objection succeeds, tech companies like Microsoft…

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Business Entertainment

Amazon stops taking DVD pre-orders in price row with Warner

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN Amazon’s quest for better deals and cheaper prices has seen it squeeze publishers, but it isn’t limiting itself to just books. The New York Times reports that the retailer is refusing to list DVD pre-orders for upcoming launch of many Warner Home Video movies. We’re not talking small releases either: The Lego Movie, 300: Rise of an Empire and Winter’s Tale are just three titles launching in the coming days that Amazon lists but isn’t allowing customers to…

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Entertainment Film

Millennium Falcon appears to take shape in new ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ spy shots

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes We knew that Han and the rest of the classic Star Wars crew were returning for Episode VII, and now it appears that Han’s ship of choice is coming along for the ride too. TMZ has new photos of a huge prop under construction, and by all means it looks just like the Millennium Falcon. It’s still far from complete — so we can’t say definitively that this is it — but it looks like a…

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Google

Google Plans To Launch An Easy-To-Use Chrome Plug-In For Email Encryption Soon

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Frederic Lardinois Google today announced that it will soon release a Chrome plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption for web-based email services. The plug-in is based on the OpenPGP email encryption standard. Google’s plan here is to make encryption easy enough to use to become widespread among mainstream users. Right now, unless you are fairly technical and can get extensions likeMailvelope to work for you, using Gmail — or any other popular email service — with…

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