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Social Commerce / Photo Sharing Network Lockerz Launching Ador, A New Fashion Site

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN Looks like Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, may be moving on to yet another chapter in its life. After laying off 30% of its Seattle HQ staff,closing down its San Diego office, andshutting down its Plixi photo sharing APIearlier this year, the company is now launching a new fashion site, Ador. A tipster tells us that Lockerz is shutting down altogether and relaunching, but as of right now, the…

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Traveling Abroad? EatWith Wants To Help You Break Bread With The Locals In Their Own Homes

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK Nothing makes traveling to a new land more amazing than befriending a local or two. Meet the right person — someone outgoing, with knowledge of the locale — and it’s like punching in a cheat code. You’ll do better things, see better places, all while avoiding the generic tourist junk. But finding that person can be hard. EatWith, a company presenting at Disrupt NY today, wants to make it easier.…

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Overheating HTC Evo Shift Burns Owner

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS A Columbus, Ohio woman found that her HTC Evo Shift had branded her after overheating while it was under her waistband. The woman, Jennifer Grago, reported that she was using the phone’s FM radio while she did yard work. “I didn’t have pockets so I just put the phone in the band of my sweats. Seemed like an alright option… I felt my phone getting warm so I moved…

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Hardware Dev

OmniVision OV2724 should lead to super-small, 1080p60 front phone cameras

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas When most front-facing mobile cameras are shoehorned in between a myriad of sensors, they seldom have the breathing room they’d need for truly noteworthy performance. OmniVision can’t quite defy physics, but its new OV2724 sensor could challenge at least a few of our common assumptions. The OV2722 successor stuffs 1080p imaging into the company’s smallest chip of the kind, at 5mm by 5mm by 3.5mm — ideally, leading to full HD front…

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Samsung announces NX2000 Smart camera: 20.3MP, NFC, WiFi, 3.7-inch touchscreen, $650 with a 20-50mm

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As reported on Engadget. By Joe Pollicino If you’ve been torn between Samsung’s NX300 and NX1000 mirrorless cameras, you should know the company has officially split the difference with its new NX2000. While it likely won’t sway NEX-3N lovers away from Sony, the $650 NX2000 is a Benjamin more than Sammy’s lower-end NX1000 and packs the same 3D-capable DRIMe IV processor and NFC functionality as the pricier NX300 — not to mention the 20.3-megapixel APC-S sensor seen across the line. The differentiating…

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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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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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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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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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