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Microsoft posts $21.46 billion revenue for Q2 2013, Windows division up despite PC decline

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft’s Q2 2013 earnings report is in, and the company is announcing revenue of $21.46 billion — just a 2.7 percent increase from the same period last year. Earnings per share for the quarter were $0.76 and Microsoft recorded $6.38 billion net income. While PC sales are slowing down, Microsoft’s Windows division posted revenue of $5.88 billion, a 24 percent increase from the prior year thanks to the…

Art

Mind-bending GIFs push the limits of art and processors

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Nowadays, the word “GIF” has become all but synonymous with the frivolous and whimsical, but Croatian Paolo Čerić is proving that there’s more to the medium than just cats and LOLs. Čerić, 22, is currently studying at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, where he experiments with new ways to create art from code. His animations, published to his Patakk Tumblr, are equal parts mesmerizing and…

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Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution

By admin | January 25, 2013January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Verge Staff The new Google way is weird, but it’s working By Dieter Bohn and Ellis Hamburger Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps. Great design is not something anybody has traditionally expected from Google. Infamously, the company used to focus on A/B testing tiny, incremental changes like 41 different shades of blue for links instead of trusting…

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Verizon Said To Be Getting A Flagship Nokia Windows Phone (Codenamed “Laser”) Of Its Own

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO Don’t get me wrong, HTC’s Windows Phone 8X is great and all, but the rest of Verizon Wireless’ Windows Phone lineup (think the Nokia Lumia 822 and Samsung’s ATIV Odyssey) is a bit lacking in the oomph department. If a new report from The Verge’s Tom Warrenholds true though, that may not be the case for too much longer. According to sources within Verizon, the carrier is gearing up to…

Business

Another Potential Suitor For RIM As Lenovo Ponders An Acquisition

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Research In Motion is once again the target of a rumored acquisition. Lenovo’s CFO Wang Wai Ming said in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that the Beijing company is eying the BlackBerry maker as a potential acquisition target or strategic alliance partner. The news comes less than a week after RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told German newspaper Die Welt that RIM is still undergoing a strategic…

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“League Of Legends,” The Most-Played PC Game In The World, Runs On The Same Open Hardware As Facebook

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS League of Legends is the most-played, multi-player PC game in the world, with gamers logging nearly 1.3 billion hours of play time. The Riot Games title has more hours logged than World of Warcraft and Minecraft. With that kind of scale, Riot Games faced some challenges that any company experiences when they have that kind of load in its data center. Electricity costs, server capacity and a host of other issues emerged. Riot Games saw in…

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University of Michigan makes silicon from liquid metal, aims for low-cost chips Alt

By admin | January 25, 2013January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. by Jon Fingas Forming silicon normally requires extreme temperatures of more than 2,000F, with the expensive energy to match. The University of Michigan has developed a technique involving liquid metal that could shed most of the heat — and cost. By coating a liquid gallium electrode with silicon tetrachloride, researchers can generate pure silicon crystals through the gallium’s electrons at a comparatively cool 180F. While the crystals are currently small, bigger examples are at least…

Business Cloud Culture

Amazon’s Cloud Drive Photos for Android gets auto-save feature, additional functionality Mobile

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez Despite being a little too busy scooping up companies and striking new streaming deals, Amazon hasn’t exactly been overlooking its set of mobile and desktop applications. Most recently, the online retail behemoth announced a refresh was on hand for Cloud Drive Photos on Android, providing users of said app with an auto-save option that, as you likely guessed, allows pics to be automatically uploaded to ones cloud account — this, according to Amazon, was “the most…

Apple

Apple drops supplier over underage labor violations, hails ‘high compliance’ with reducing excessive work hours

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith Apple’s latest Supplier Responsibility Report has just been published, detailing 393 audits focused on the plants and suppliers that help make all that hardware. The audit number is a 72 percent increase in what it covered in its last annual report, whileApple was also quick to highlight its contracting companies’ high compliance (92 percent) with a maximum 60-hour work week. Senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams told Reuters that underage workers and limiting working hours…

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